Abdur Rahman ibn Yusuf Mangera – Allah is Looking after You [Hikam 162]
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It said that the truthful Wali, truthful Friend of Allah,
he may not have any value according to people, they may not
see him as anything. There's actually a really interesting
Hadith to that effect. Aruba ash Atha houbara not true the middle
of web low Oksana and hola hola Bara hadith of Muslim if I
remember correctly, there are certain people who are in a
disheveled state. If they come to your door, you throw them away,
you repel them.
But they're so close to Allah in what they do is that if they swore
an oath, Allah would fulfill that oath for them. If they just said,
Well Allah, He is going to rain today, Allah will cause the rain
to come forward, that they're so close to Allah, they don't control
Allah. It's just that Allah loves them a lot. So a while he doesn't
have to be recognized and loved by everybody. You have to remember
that that's not a sign of Wilaya that everybody starts loving me
and honoring me.
Remember prophets went through a lot of troubles indeed.
They went through a lot of struggles.
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Hamdulillah we can reconvene our lessons on the Hinata Illa Ellis
canneries, Kitab al Hickam The Book of Wisdom, we're on page 108,
it's wisdom number 162.
So what he's going to say in this one is that whenever a person
wants to gain a proper relationship and a close
relationship with Allah subhanaw taala, not just this casual
relationship, that as a Muslim, I pray five times a day, and I try
to do my best but really somebody who genuinely wants to get onto
the path of Allah subhanho wa taala, so that he can love Allah
more. And he can gain Allah subhanho wa Taala as love and
closeness and he generally wants to just really become focused on
Allah subhanho wa taala, then there's usually a procedure for
that. And the procedure for that is that we need to block out
whatever is distracting us from Allah subhanho wa taala.
What blocks us, what distracts us from Allah subhanho wa Taala
pretty much everything else around us. Everything around us, is a
distraction. It doesn't have to be a distraction, but it's easily
becomes a distraction.
Now, everything around us is for us to use. Allah subhanaw taala
has made whatever is around us in the earth, for us to use and to
sustain ourselves within to go through this life with in terms of
eating, drinking, wearing, living and so on. However, those things
should not become a distraction, they just the utility, they just
an implement, they just things as a means. But they become a
distraction very easily because they become our focus. So they
become the biggest obstacles in our path to Allah subhanaw taala
which means that if somebody wants to reach Allah subhanaw taala
these things have to become diminished in their sight, we're
still going to use them. We still maybe, you know, we're still going
to do a lot of the things that we've been doing, but suddenly,
they no longer matter too much. What really matters is Allah
because that's become a more major concern. So while we still need to
use everything is going to have to diminish in our site to such a
degree that we don't we won't care about it anymore.
Caring about it, not caring about it doesn't mean that we abandoned
because you can't abandon it. You can't abandon food. We're not even
allowed to fast for 24 hours. We only allowed to fast from dawn to
sunset. There is no virtue in delaying your Iftar after maghrib
I can do another half an hour has nothing to do with Islam.
So you're not even allowed to stay hungry for 24 hours on end for no
reason. Right? Well as a worship because it's not a worship, our
worship is defined.
But Allah subhanaw taala still doesn't want our heart to be
connected to that. So this is what he's gonna say and look at how
beautiful he says he beautifully says this He says Rajeev natural
hulky lamb novela he Lake. How do we do this though? So that's what
he's saying. How do we it's so difficult, isn't it because
everything around us in terms of the world is we can see is we can
feel it. We can taste it. We can touch it. We can experience it
makes us excited. Gives us exhilaration and pleasure. But how
does how does one replace that with Allah subhanaw taala who we
cannot see
We can't see Allah subhanaw taala that makes it that much more
difficult but that's the challenge of this world so he says, Lee of
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he like simple two lines make mankind's looking at you disappear
by being content with Allah was looking at you. Somebody praises
you somebody is focused on you somebody's giving you a gift
somebody says a Salam to you somebody praises you, somebody
does something good for you. Somebody honors you. Okay, great.
But no, all of that. The only way you can overcome that and not let
that get to you
is to understand that there's somebody much more important that
I can get this from and who's willing to give it to me, which is
Allah subhanaw taala so make mankind's looking at you
disappear.
By being content with Allah was looking at you. Then he says slip
away from people's approach to you by contemplating Allah's approach
to you.
Now, what does that even mean? Like Allah looking at us Allah's
approach to us? We're full of ignorance. We don't even know what
that means. Right? Like, what do you mean by that? We completely
understand when people are focused on us and they're praising us and
you've got a fan base as everybody wants a fan base today, right? So
easy to get a fan base. So then they praise you they say
something's here you did this. So well. You did that. So well Masha
Allah, this is so great, whatever. What does it mean that Allah is
Allah's approach to you, Allah has attention to you, Allah is looking
at you. That's what we're going to try to understand Inshallah, that
if we can understand that that will show that will hopefully make
matters easy for us. So
firstly, the way to figure this out is that anybody and everybody
besides Allah subhanho wa taala, that does anything for you saying
anything to you. They're really compared to Allah. They're
nothing.
Like it's nothing
in terms of its value of what you're going to get for it or from
it. It's absolutely nothing compared to what Allah subhanaw
taala can give you
the real existence, and the one that only one that really matters
is the one. Allah subhanho wa Taala nobody else really matters.
Now I know shaytaan returning you but what about this perspective
and that listen to the whole story, then inshallah it fits in
place, right.
So he said, basically, the existence of everything else is
just like something in the wind, it's just going to be blown from
here and they could be here today. And tomorrow, they're going to
knock you down.
Today, they praise you tomorrow, they're gonna knock you down.
Today, they love you. Tomorrow, they're gonna hate you.
Right, you do something by mistake, you do something that
they disagree with, they're gonna hate you, too.
So they just like Phil Hawa, they just like in the wind, it changes
every day. How can we learn in a house or it's just like, literally
like the shadows of people, shadows of objects, they keep
moving, as the day moves as the sun moves,
either for Testa, Hulan, digital che and if you were to really
investigate the value of that thing, in terms of the reality of
your long life in the hereafter, it's going to you're going to find
it nothing. So that's why just totally become oblivious. Don't
give it value anymore. Acknowledge it, you can acknowledge it, you
can say thanks, you can say all of these things, but it should not
get to your heart to make you who you are. It should not affect you.
So totally blindsided that thing.
But you need a replacement. Humans need replacement human humans need
a point of focus. Humans need love, human need focus, they need
somebody to focus on them. So that's why if you can't replace it
with Allah, then you got to replace it with another creation.
There's only one way to do that which is he says, You need to
suffice with the fact that Allah is looking at you. Allah is
focused on you. Allah is nurturing you has any anything like is Allah
really looking at me?
I mean, why are you in this world? How did you get here?
Why are you even a human being? Why are you even existence? Did
you have to be existed? Did somebody particularly design you?
Or call for you? Yes, parents want children. All right. But at the
end of the day was ALLAH that chose us it could I could have we
could have had a totally different congregation here. No drama, no
Badrul Islam, no, no, nobody else and you would have been, you know
50 Different people here.
Did we have to be here?
No, we're not necessary. We're just possible beings. We just
option Allah created us and hamdulillah thanks to him,
then he's made you muslim.
He's giving you everything that you have. So Allah is not watching
you. I think you just kind of said, Look, just create these
people and just give them what they want. No, everything that we
do, everything that happens to us, that we do ourselves. Allah knows
everything of that and allows that to happen. Has any nothing special
happened to you in your life? Where you got something without
expecting it? Who does that come from? Oh, that was my friend, he
thought but who put it into his heart? Why does he do that all the
time? No, then it won't be a surprise in it. It won't be
unusual there.
So you think Allah is not looking at you, Allah is not focused on
you. It's just we're so deceived, because we can't see him. And
we're focused and distracted by other things. So suffice with the
fact that Allah is watching you, then you don't have to worry about
anybody else watching you. Because in reality, there's no nobody else
is watching you. This really matters in the long shots.
Short game maybe, but not in terms of the long game of the hereafter.
Now, yes, people might come to you. And if you're like a popular
kind of guy and you've got something to offer, then people
will be revering you honoring you, and saying good things about you
and praising you all of that fine, that makes it even more difficult.
I mean, if nobody cares about you, then you might be a bit easier,
right. But if people actually care about you, then it probably
becomes a bit more difficult. But even then, even then, he says,
focus on the fact that Allah is witnessing you. Allah is absolute
witness and nothing eludes him.
So then he says, Look at it this way that all of this is just
fancy, all of this is just a mirror image. Whereas Allah
subhanaw taala and looking at you as a proper knowledge, so know
that for sure. And there's no fakeness in that. There's no
artificial aspect of that.
So then he says, the way you will figure this out is that the closer
that you can then focus on Allah, and get closer to Allah, that is
how much distant you will actually become from people.
This is what you call a zero sum game, the more of this will be the
less of that. And the less of this will be more of that. The more you
get into people, the further you're going to move from Allah
subhanaw taala because you just distracted, you're taking it too
seriously the people and the more you can focus on Allah subhanho wa
Taala then you'll see that you can get more away from the people. And
he then there's a hadith which is quoted It's a well known Hadith
most of you have probably heard it. It's a hadith that the Prophet
saw some said to a young man at the time, I believe, no, I
personally, Allah Juana is still in his early teens, you know, late
childhood actually. The Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam said,
for the La Jolla, half of you be mindful of Allah and Allah will be
mindful of you.
For the law means you protect every aspect related to Allah, so
be mindful of Allah, and Allah will be mindful of you.
There's absolute reciprocation from Allah with others, you might
do something and if they're in a good mood or they're focused on
they're not too busy, they'll reciprocate, if they grow, they
have gratitude, with Allah subhanho wa taala. He always
reciprocates is nobody who's asked Allah for guidance and Allah has
not guided them.
Even non Muslims, this is why I tell them was since you want to be
guided, ask Allah for true guidance. Ask God for true
guidance, and He'll guide you.
And if you're a person who you know, is a believer already, and
you just finding it difficult, well call out to Allah start off
with that da, start off with calling him and evoking you see
that it'll become easier. But shaytan will actually put us off
even asking him we'll have a desire, we'll have a dream. We'll
have a fancy in our mind, this ambition but we never actually
ask. You ask Allah subhanaw taala and you'll see that it will
happen. So that's why he says Be mindful of Allah, Allah will be
mindful of you. Be mindful of Allah and you will find him in
front of you, meaning you will find Him wherever you need him.
Then he says when you ask, ask of Allah, not of somebody else,
you're asking of Allah. And when you seek assistance, seek
assistance from Allah. And then the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa
sallam mentioned this overarching rule and system of this world,
which is he says that and know that if the entire nation,
basically all of humanity, all of the Ummah
If they were to gather together all collaborate together, to try
to benefit you in some way that
benefit you in some way, they can only benefit you as much as Allah
wants you to benefits, whatever is written for you to benefits.
That's every single human being together, forget the one
individual who loves you or to people that praise you or your
2000 fan base, or 20,000, or 100,000, or whatever it may be, to
make a difference. They can't benefit you, except with what
Allah has already decreed for you. And likewise, if they were to all
come together in the opposite way to actually harm you in some way
to harm you in some way. They can't except with whatever Allah
has already decreed for that, for it to harm you. Because he says
the pens have been, have dried and the scrolls have been have been
rolled up, which means that whatever has been decreed has
already been decreed that's that's going to happen.
So that essentially tells us that you focus on Allah, Allah will
reciprocate. But he wants to see that coming from you first. Just
imagine that look, yes Alhamdulillah all of these people
are there but I really need to focus on Allah because ultimately
Allah is the one who's getting these guys to probably honor me
anyway. So what why should I focus on them focus on Allah. And I'll
be I'll be thanking Allah subhanaw taala
shakable has been one of the righteous people of the past he
said, Look,
I used to be enough for NFC NFC, I'm, I've become hopeless of
myself benefiting myself.
Like I can't even benefit myself
fully because I don't have full control, right? To give everything
to myself that I want. So I've become hopeless of even myself
benefiting myself. So forgive Allah as BNF e de la,
sol, some me I love myself, I have control over myself. And I can't
even fully benefit myself. So how can I expect somebody else to
benefit me?
Because they have their own needs, right? They're separate, they have
their own selfishness, as good as they are. They've got their own
needs out there. Right so they can't fully be in it and I'm fully
focused on myself and I can't even fully benefit myself so how can I
get benefit from somebody else except what Allah wants?
Okay, if Allah or a Jew, he says What a joke to La honey lady, and
ajeeb I make dua for others I've got hoping Allah to benefit
others. Like you know, when somebody tells you make dua for
me, I've got this issue. May Allah make it easy for you? May Allah
bless you. May Allah give you a good child, may Allah give you a
good job, may Allah remove this difficulty for you. I do make dua
to Allah subhanho wa Taala for others, I've got hoping Allah for
others, I'm not making fake dollars, am I? I'm making the dua
to Allah not just to make them feel good.
Hopefully, you know, I'm like, Yeah, Allah can do this for you. I
can't, I can't help your mom who has cancer. Right? And you're
struggling with that. But I can definitely pray for you and I can
know that Allah can cure her and can ease her suffering. So he says
that I, if I can be hopeful in Allah for others, then forgive
Allah or Julene FC, why can I be hopeful in Allah for myself?
Why is it that he gives others but he can't give me Well, I better
ask for it. They say that, what is a wali of Allah, you know the word
the word of Allah, the friend of Allah, what exactly defines a way
of Allah is said is very simple.
And the medina literally the foundation of our leader, the
secret of a leader, if you want to become overly of Allah is Al
Aktiva. A biller is basically on sufficing with Allah in everything
is to go to Allah think of Allah rely on Allah in anything and
everything I know. That's just
a very big idea said in a few words, right. But uh, Willie is
just somebody who's fully self sufficed with Allah subhanho wa
taala. Well, can it be real me he who's totally content on the fact
that Allah knows what's going on with me?
I leave it to him.
Well, Tina, be sure who the he and he's just focused on the fact that
Allah is watching. And Allah is a witness to him.
And Allah says in surah, two Tala in the Quran woman yet our call
Allah Allah He for who has
whoever does rely on Allah, Allah is sufficient for him.
Let's put it this way. Allah is sufficient for you as much as you
rely on him
might say, Well, I did try to rely on him but only this much
happened. Well, maybe your reliance needs to be a bit more
where you need to really fully single mindedly in a tunnel vision
to a focus on Allah subhanaw taala then he will fully suffice. Last
time we suffice you 25% Or maybe 50% Well, he can do 100% If you
fully focus on it
In the workload is all levels, right? The workload which is
reliant on Allah is on levels, the workload if you have your mind
still on somebody else while you're saying to Allah, I'm only
relying on you that's not full workload.
You can ask others but you're fully the only Allah can do this.
I am asking you because that's the worldly way of doing it. But
ultimately, only Allah can do this. He can only make this
successful. You can try to help me. But success can only be from
Allah subhanaw taala. Another verse in Surah Zoomer verse 36. At
least Allah will be careful in Abd Allah Himself is asking, like,
Isn't Allah sufficient for his slaves?
I mean, just the if you want to understand this, look at the lives
of the prophets. See simple Sierra of the Prophet sallallahu. So we
need to read the Sierra over and over again or listen to it,
because it just shows us how Allah acts with his creation. How the
Prophet saw some is full of our Coronavirus Hello some is fully
satisfied and is fully sufficed by Allah subhanho wa Taala against
every odd there is like more odds than we can face. Allah gives him
success. Right? Whether that's in Belgium, or in the hunt, duck, or
in taboo,
or whatever it is, and in the hunt, duck in the eyes up with the
biggest army that had ever congregated, pretty much
everybody, all of these warring factions that fought against one
another, they decided to come together. It was the biggest army
that they've ever seen in Arabia for that Battle of the Trench. And
Allah subhanho wa Taala got them off without even a battle because
the winds blew.
And they just tore up their tents and everything and they decided to
go after few days.
Allah has everything under his control.
So all of these things, they show that Allah is definitely
sufficient. Another versatile ADEQ lm yiadom be an Allah Allah Yara,
totally know that Allah is watching. Allah sees everything
Allah is Seeing. And then our MC Phoebe Rob, because who are other
cliche in Cadiz? Surah to full sealant. So isn't it sufficient as
Allah being your Lord, that He
is witness upon everything?
So the way it works for us is not that Allah subhanaw taala has just
put multiple things in motion. And then he's delegated the tasks to
the angels. And he just sits there and waits for angels to come and
report to him. No, Allah, while there is a system in place, Allah
is still aware of everything that's going on.
Like how can you multitask like that?
Like we can only focus on one or two things, you know, we'd lose
it. He is multitasking with literally infinite number of
things. And it's like who do who have the who will who will ally
you loving
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vumat. Allah knows everything.
The seed in the darkness, the insect in your back garden, the
multiple insects throughout the world, every leaf that is
dropping, whether that be an autumn or otherwise, he knows it.
Now, the practical aspect, right? Is this doesn't mean you start
shaming people, you start criticizing them, you start
telling them you're nothing. That's not the point. It's not
about rudeness. It's not about arrogance. It's just that in the
hearts, it starts to focus on Allah, Ron, you're still dealing,
you're still saying salam, you're still accepting and giving gifts,
you're still assisting one another. That's the situation of
the world because that has to happen, right? You can't live
alone, you collaborate with people, but everything, Allah is
behind everything, that focus becomes the norm that focus
becomes our data becomes our focus. So he says, what's going to
happen is that in the beginning, it's going to be where you
eventually you're not going to feel good. having a chat with
people, you know, before you really enjoy doing that, you're
not going to enjoy that anymore, as much. There will be that kind
of a change where you won't be looking out for that anymore. You
will do it for the necessity, but you're not going to enjoy those
chats anymore. You're gonna get off Facebook, unless you go to
business and you have to be on there. You're gonna get off
Twitter and all of this other junk. You're going to be off
ticked off. Right? That has to be the Savonarola that has to be the
first of this because that's all creation. That's creation 10.0.
Right? Proper, distracting. So that is going to all become
diminished. Right? All of that waste of time is going to become
diminished. You're going to run away from them. I don't want that
anymore. I can see through it now. I can see through how artificial
and how waste of time that is. And you're going to think I just want
to be with Allah because that's where I get the benefit from
You've got let's just say you've got multiple investments, little
investment here, some are doing good, some are doing okay, some
are doing bad, right? You got multiple, it's not because you
want to need to diversify your portfolio. And suddenly, you find
this one investment that is absolutely lucrative 10 15%, every
six months, the others are giving you 2% 5% 3%, up and down, this
one is giving you 10 15%, and you're getting the returns.
What are you going to do?
I think I'm going to pull out from all the others, I'm just focused
on this one that
you don't care about what the where the others are anymore. This
is where you're getting the benefit from.
That that's what this is. That's how this needs to be.
Although here, you have to be careful, because even that
investment might be too good to be true. And then you might
lose everything because it's the dunya at the end of the day Allah
protects. So you're saying that that's what you have to become
singularly focused on Allah subhanho wa taala. And you have to
work with a pure heart.
Until when you get fully convinced when your Yaqeen grows, do you
have to force yourself first to focus on Allah. And slowly,
slowly, our conviction will grow. And we'll start seeing Allah's
attention on us. That will strengthen slowly, slowly, and
that will then allow us to, it'll be much easier to focus away from
the brief, it was difficult, because we still focused right.
And it's difficult to get away from distraction. But slowly,
slowly, that's what's going to happen. And
suddenly, no Abdullah to study one of the people who had reached
a good status in this regard, he said,
No servant, no, sir, no person can get to the actual reality of this
and do this properly. Until he acquires one of two, one of two
characteristics.
Number one, people dropped from his eyes drop. That doesn't mean
you start hating people, in the sense that you start denigrating
them and humiliating them and looking down upon it. No. It's
just that they don't become your main point of focus, you're still
polite, and you still fulfill their rights. But your focus is
not that things come from people they come from Allah subhanaw
taala.
So eventually, what you you're in this world, walking around,
eating, talking Lixing with people but it's only you and Allah.
Because everything around you comes from Allah. So when you look
at somebody, you just remember reminded of Allah.
For example, use of Allah when he sees the beauty of what was an
zuleikha He just remembers Allah because Allah is the One who gave
you the beauty.
Now, if we could do that, there'd be no fitna left for us, right?
Because your, your eyes fall on something. And you just remember
Allah that well, oh, yeah, wonderful, but Allah is our
Creator, and Allah is only to look there, or enjoy this, it'll just
become easier. And he sees nothing but himself and Allah because
everything just reminds him of Allah, that ultimately, then he's
not going to be fearful of anyone. And he can't have hope in anybody
because he knows that ultimately, only Allah that can cause them to
benefit you or harm you. So it's like, I'm not scared. Because if
Allah wants me to hunger, I can't help it anyway. And if Allah wants
me to benefit, then it's going to come so I can't have that hope
from you. Though, if I think you're the one I can talk to you
about it. But ultimately, even when I asked you to help me out,
it's Allah subhanho wa Taala that my focus is on that is Allah. But
obviously Allah doesn't really just sit here and wait because
Allah wants us in this world to focus to to, to to adopt the
means.
So adopting the means is fine, as long as the focus is on Allah,
there's nothing wrong with that, because that's what we have to do.
Can't just see and say that I got no food in the house, and I'm just
gonna, yes, if I don't have any money, and I'm struggling, it's
like, oh, Allah, only you can feed me right now. Right? Because I
don't have any money. I can't even go and earn, I'm stuck. But when
you can go and do something, you're still asking Allah but you
were required to go and make an effort to earn something and buy
some food or cook something. And eventually you're not, you're also
not going to worry about how people see you.
That doesn't mean that you're stuck. You're just you're going to
be unkept. Now, you're not going to have a bath and you're going to
look disheveled that it doesn't mean that it just means that you
still do what is required of a decent believer to do to groom
yourself and then the promises and did that. But you don't you're not
doing it for others anymore.
Now this whole world we live in where we're dressed for others and
everything is for others.
Is make life easy. All the makeup companies will close there'll be
one less customer
now to drive that point home he says look Think about it this way
he says it LM Anna riddle hulky Viola to the rock.
If you want to get 100% satisfaction from people in the
sense that you want to please everybody if you're one of those
stars are so careful about I want to do these dude in a sometimes
read about these influences. I want to do this for my fans. What
do you mean, you live for your fans? What's your problem, man?
You're living for your fans for everything you do. It's only about
how my fans will take it. It is just so stupid. Right? What a
life, you're a prisoner, you're captivated. You know, you're a
captive of your fans. They control what you say you only do what they
want to hear. And they want to see Allah protects us.
And you know, if you could say there wasn't like 20 stars out
there, it's fine. Everybody is a star today everybody wants to
become a star, or make their children a star.
So he says that no, that complete satisfaction from people is an
objective that can't be achieved.
Just ponder the story of Luqman Ali Salam Lookman and his service
and his and his son.
You'll get an understanding that it's too difficult or in probably
impossible to gain full satisfaction from people. You want
to do a wedding and you want to have the best options in there so
that people are gonna like say, Oh, you overdid that
is going to be a complaint about excess or something. You can't get
that balance rates, right? It's very difficult. And then he says,
Well, if that's the case, right? If you if you agree with that, he
says Well, hello nurseryman Tada burmilla UTRA that the most
ignorant person is the one that's the most foolish one is the one
who tries to get something that can't be achieved. So why are you
trying to achieve it?
Another person said, What have I got to do with people?
Like why should I be focused on people and again, this is not in a
way to denigrate them right? Why should I be so focused on people
and look at this is amazing stories, as he says, going to be
about Naomi What the I was alone in my mother's stomach. I started
on my journey alone in my mother's stomach. There's nobody else there
unless you had a twin, but you can't really help one another
you're still alone. Right? Well, how does toilet dunya Wow, he came
out into the world alone, Nemo to work, the I was nourished alone,
right? We're not going to cover you and eventually I'm going to
enter into my grave alone. You might be in a mass grave, get
Allah protect, but still, it's alone. Everybody's dealt with in
that world alone, right? The angel comes to not as a collective
questioning, right for everybody in
Guardians of Peace, but it's every individual as they die. Allah make
it easy when those Lydd I'm going to be questioned singly and
individually, whenever I see carbery Men carbery work the also
going to be resurrected alone as well. When you have somebody I'm
going to be accounted take an account of and recommend the
hereafter alone as well. For either the hunter gender, the hull
to worry and eventually if I get into paradise, I'm going to go
along
everybody to that for their own right, I'm gonna go alone. We're
in the hull to narrow the hull to worthy if I go into hellfire, I'm
also going to go alone. So then, for free, how the * out in line
for me I had in all of these
instances, nobody's been able to benefit me, family we're in. So
what have I got to do with people at the end of the day?
He's saying that to dis basically what he's saying. I mean, of
course, there's benefit coming from people to one another, we
collaborate, we contribute to one another, but he's saying that in
terms of the real, it's all from Allah subhanho wa taala. So let us
not become focused on this as our ultimate goal in life.
It said that the truthful, worldly, truthful Friend of Allah,
he may not have any value according to people, they may not
see him as anything. There's actually a really interesting
Hadith to that effect. Reuber a Shatha Obara mud through the
middle of Werb low Oksana Adela, Hilah Abara Hadith Muslim, if I
remember correctly, there are certain people who are in a
disheveled state. If they come to your door, you throw them away,
you you repel them.
But they're so close to Allah in what they do is that if they swore
an oath, Allah would fulfill that oath for them. If they just said
Wallah, he is going to rain today, Allah will cause the rain to come
forward, that they're so close to Allah, they don't control Allah.
It's just that Allah loves them a lot. So, uh, well, he doesn't have
to be recognized and loved by everybody. You have to remember
that that's not a sign of Wilaya that everybody starts loving me
and honoring me
Remember, Prophets went through a lot of troubles in they,
they went through a lot of struggles.
So he says that every time in fact, a lot of the time what
happens in the beginning is that when your status becomes high in
the state of Allah, people start hating you, people start going
against you. That's a part of the test that Do you are you really
going to stick with Allah and go through these troubles? There's a
number of people I've dealt with, that I've spoken to in the last
few weeks, where
they said that when they started practicing, a number of
opposition's started coming upon them, a number of difficulties
started coming.
And basically, that could happen for a face because Allah wants to
test your adherence, and your obedience, that yeah, I'm willing
to, in the thick of thin of things, I'm still willing to stay
with Allah subhanaw taala I've taken this choice. I'm gonna start
praying, going to start covering, I'm going to start becoming
religious, right, despite what my family everybody says, right?
There will be multiple factors of why people might come against you
first. But ultimately, we need to be satisfied that we will Allah
subhanaw taala we're doing it for the sake of Allah subhana wa Tada.
So now, I'll just read to you what Sheikh Abdullah gonna go he
summarizes, from this wisdom with basically what we have read today,
he says, the pleasure and displeasure of people become
irrelevant to him. He has no care for either reaction,
in the sense that that is not the biggest thing in his life. He's
not going to be bad, he's still going to be a good guy. But that's
not what bothers him the most. Since the gaze of Divine Mercy. I
mean, this is not like somebody who says, Look, I don't care about
you, I don't care what you think of me. He's not a person who goes
around doing that.
Right, this should not be misunderstood. He has no care for
either reaction, since the gaze of the Divine Mercy is perpetually on
him. He's oblivious to the attention. Others according he
doesn't care about all of the other smaller investments. Now,
he's got the big one. Right. He's very lucrative. He's got a very
lucrative investment. That's where it's all benefiting from. to him.
It is now irrelevant whether people honor or dishonor him, or
whether they respect to despise him. His heart attaches no
importance to the attention on the country, he contemplates the
divine attention that is on him at all times. 24/7. Considering it an
invaluable treasure, being in possession of this great treasure,
he can never truly divert his attention to others. It is simple
to understand that if a man is under the care and protection of
the sovereign, the ruler, a kind of, you know, a very wealthy
person who caters for all of his requirements Majan you've got
somebody that's patronizing you that takes care of all of your
needs, then this person will have no care of attention for others
who might be giving you a little gift here once in a while or
assisting you once in a while will be available for you. This guy's
always there for me, so why should I focus on anybody else's human
nature?
The gaze of the ruler of rulers is with us at every moment of our
life. Every minute he shows us a variety of bounties. Therefore, to
avert our gaze from him, would make us from the ungrateful. We've
been very ungrateful by focusing on others only to start with, in
consequence of such ingratitude, the punishment of such behavior,
what is the punishment of it should be the snatching away from
all of all of our bounties? Allah shouldn't actually give us
anything because there was so focused away from him, but he
doesn't because he's too, too clever and too beautiful to
patients. Right? Yet because of his boundless mercy, He overlooks
our ingratitude, and we make just one small move towards him, and
his willingness to give us everything.
May Allah subhanaw taala make this journey easy for us? May Allah
allow us to suffice with his attention and attention on him?
And may Allah subhanaw taala allow, make this easy for us to do
that one hamdu Lillahi Rabbil Alameen
Allah himanta Salam Inca Salam Barkly Adelgid every Coronavirus,
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couldn't even avoid me. Oh Allah we asked you for your special
mercies we asked you for your assistance. Oh Allah turn us away
from all of this distraction we have in this world. We are living
in the most distracted times here Allah and know what we have done
wrong for us being here but Allah you have placed us here so Allah
we ask you, that you make this easy for us just as you just as
all of these distractions are available in this world of Allah,
nothing is beyond your power of Allah you can make this easy for
us to be able to focus on what is truly beneficial for us for this
world and the hereafter project us our children and our project knees
and everybody from all of these distractions and make us
productive individuals and accept us for the service of your deen
and make us close to you and love you and make
As beloved Have you built your beloved Subhana rahbek robola Is
that your mIRC phone or salmonella mustering 100?
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 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, just like a law here in Santa
Monica when I have to live record.
The point of a lecture is to encourage people to act to get
further and 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 the Islamic essentials
certificate which you take 20 Short modules and at the end of
that insha Allah you will have gotten the basics of most of the
most important topics in Islam and you will 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 as local law here in Santa Monica
when I have to live record