Abdur Rahman ibn Yusuf Mangera – An Introduction to the Book of Wisdoms Published White Thread Press
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doc, Julia Gillard, who I'm gonna word was salatu salam ala. So you
will have evil Mustafa SallAllahu Taala are they he worried he will
be he will Baraka was seldom at the Sleeman
Cathedral on Eli Yomi. Dean bird. There's a history to this book,
which if we understand it in sha Allah that will help us to
understand the significance of this work, especially in the
English language.
It starts off in the 13th century.
So we're speaking about 13th century Gregorian. That would mean
about 700 years ago.
In Alexandria, there was a person whose name was Mohammed Abdullah
Mohammed Abdullah Otto Allah al Eskandari, Muhammad Abdul Mohammed
Ignatov Illa al Eskandari. Now one thing that you will find very
interesting is that his name is Ahmed and his father's name is
Mohammed. And that is by no way a misnomer you have if you look at
many of the famous scholars
you will find that the names of Muhammad Muhammad he was such a
popular name and today mashallah is still a popular name. So, his
name is Ahmed his father's name is Mohammed Abdullah artha alert,
which is what he is more famously known as Edna otter. Illa are
thought our thought means the gift of Allah, Allah Allah, the son of
the gift of Allah, if not Allah, Allah, Allah is secondary, and
Eskandari because he is from Alexandria. Alexandria is
Iskandariyah. Alexandria is a very beautiful city, northern tip of
Egypt on the Mediterranean has a beautiful Cornish. It's kind of an
elongated city, but lengthwise, right across across the Cornish
and it's kind of very interesting city. And on the one edge of it,
there's a cluster of several masajid there's a cluster actually
have several massaging of one of those missing. It's the Mercy
complex. It's called the Mercy complex. And will ibis and mercy
Rahim Allah was the Sheikh of Ignatov. Allah Allah Eskandari. So
even Arthur in this country is born in Alexandria, middle of the
13th century. This was the time in Egypt. This was the time in Egypt
of high, impressive artistic and architectural development. That
was the time that was one of the high peaks of the Islamic
civilization, especially in Egypt, because you had the mom look, this
was Mom, look, Egypt, the mom looks we're ruling Egypt and
SubhanAllah. Even if you go today, to Egypt, and you go behind Jamal
Azhar and you go behind Jamel Hussein on the opposite side,
you'll actually come across numerous complexes that are very
old, seven 800 years old, and they are quite amazing. And Cairo,
Cairo is a very interesting place for that because it has about 10
different dynasties all the way from the fair, the Pharaonic
remnants to the mom Luke's to
the fourth teammates.
Muhammad Ali Bhatia, Arthur Manny's, and the two lunettes
Omron NASA, the alums messages, you've got numerous dynasties it's
quite an amazing city, may Allah subhanaw taala, bring some
stability and Nora and Iman into the area. So Egypt in general was
enjoying a height of artistic expression, both in poetry and in
architecture, and also in beautiful writing. So you can see
it's a time when when people who have artistic talent are able to
then really contribute. Today, unfortunately, we're in a time
where it's kind of a defensive mode. Because we're constantly
being attacked, we're constantly having to be risk to respond, as
opposed to actually contribute and produce. And people are asking why
Muslims producing anything today. Right? But may Allah subhanaw
taala give us that glorious time again. He eventually he moved down
to Alexandria, and he died in Alexandria in 709 Hijiri, which is
for I mean, right now we're in the 1400s. So we're talking about
exactly halfway between us and Rasulullah sallallahu, some time,
approximately 700 years ago, which is 1309. He is buried in Karratha,
which is in Cairo. He's buried there. He's a Maliki scholar. So
he was a Maliki 40. And he taught at in Cairo at the other
university,
and around 674, which is equal to 1276. That's when he became a
spiritual disciple of Avila, bustle mercy, this great Sufi
scholar who's in Alexandria, who is actually the disciple who
himself is the disciple of abolhassan Assuredly. So these
are, this is the line of Shalini scholars and SubhanAllah. The
shadowy is classically have produced some of the greatest
works that we know of today. So one is the Hickam of him
Hola casita Buda of, of boo City. He's a shoddily as well, the De La
Ilaha hieratic Julie that's a Shafi work and you have a number
of other great pieces of work that the chandeliers have mashallah
bequeath to the ummah. And today we're enjoying those works. And
they've basically stood the test of time. And they've been
celebrated generation after generation. So he was established
by herbal ibis and mercy as a chef in his own right. So he received
kala for the clearcut, as they call it, before a blockbuster
mercy passed away. This was about 12 years after their first
meeting. So in 12 years, he got he received discipleship, or you can
say, a healer for rather now
she Zakaria Candela who's got a really long introduction to its
commentary that we're speaking about today, right? This this work
today is actually a commentary of, if not, I thought it was original
Hichem, which are very short sayings. They're very short
statements of wisdom. So chef has a career he writes that
when, if not utter Illa, took this took his work to his shake and
showed it to him. Now remember, this is a student going to his
shake and saying, This is what I've written, the shake is
supposed to be a greater master in the path of the soul off. But this
is what he shakes that he said, My son in this treaty is you have
discharged the aims of all friends and even more by the friends, what
he's speaking about that Bob is speaking about, the men of Allah,
the people of the path, the Sufis, the Olia that their secrets you
have, you have gathered all of them here. In fact, you've
surpassed them gone beyond that. And subhanAllah. If you look at
this work today, it's amazing at different levels. I'll see how
much we can cover of that a bit later on.
This book was then accepted pretty much by the elite and others and
numerous commentaries. Now if you look in history, to tell how
greater book is generally you look at what kind of work has then be
done on that. On that book. Numerous commentaries were written
by some of the really famous scholars. So for example, Sheikh
Mohammed zaru, who's considered one of the great Olia Allah, some
beautiful works and writings that he has. He wrote three
commentaries ignore our Jeeva wrote another great commentary on
the Hichem besides this, there's ignore above the run these
commentary or run the he was a Andalusi. And scholar, Rhonda is
in Andalusi is just to the it's just to the west of Granada and
Cordoba, south of kotoba, above Malaga, and Marbella. That's where
Rhonda is today. It's a kind of a hill town, of course, doesn't have
the former glory that it had in those days, but it had some great
scholars that came out of Ronda in southern Spain, and they called
Rudy, so I will ignore above the Rooney he wrote one of the great
commentaries. Personally, I believe that this commentary here,
the author definitely took from ignorance about the Rooney's work.
From my comparison in a few places, a number of other
commentaries were written, and
if not, I thought Allah in those days they used to do a lot of
dictation as opposed to writing something directly sometimes, so
if not, I thought Allah He dictated this work to one of the
great scholars of Shafi Fick. If you if you know the great scholars
of Shafi if you have ducky Adina suit Sookie that W Deena Suki, who
died in 756 Hijiri. He is a distinguished Shafi biographer,
historian, and a Shafi jurist. So if not artha Allah, He dictated
this work directly to this particular great scholar, the
later shadowy master, which I spoke about earlier, Sheikh
Mohammed the rook, Sheikh Hamza rook, he received five of the
different works of Abner artha Illa, through another famous Shafi
historian, and a hadith scholar, Hadith master, and I'm sure many
of the other ma will will recognize his name, none other
than shamsudeen Zahawi, who died in 902, Hijri 1497.
The success of this work is actually the captivating language
of the author, the way he makes his point and I will provide you a
few examples in sha Allah, the way he makes his point, you know, that
he knows what he's speaking about. His experience comes through, and
then his beautiful way and efficient way, effective way,
eloquent way of putting this together to make it so convincing.
So the very short phrases, but when you hear them, they actually
stay in your mind because they just have such an appeal to the
heart. So a very interesting story is actually related about the
acceptance of this individual. Many of the older MA and others
would have
heard about a great Hanafi Hanafi jurists of Alexandria and Egypt in
particular Hanafi is earlier on in Egypt or anomalies. Egypt was
classically a Shafi is Shafi country, a Shafi area Imam Taha,
he was an anomaly either, because he became a Hanafi after having
been Shafi even though his mother was a student student of Imam
Shafi and so was his uncle. So it's kind of a very interesting
and another one a bit later on. The most, one of the most famous
scholars to come after Imam to Hawaii in terms of being Hanafi
from Egypt is none other than Kemal YBNL. Hamam, a commentator
of the great book of jurisprudence, the hedaya of
Marinoni. Many of you may have heard about that. So
YBNL Humam, he was in Alexandria, he visited the sorry he was in
Cairo and he visited the graveyard in which Ignatov Illa Alexandria
is buried. So as he's going past his grave, he was reciting Surah
Surah Hood from the Quran. And he reached the verse yo, Maya Tila
Tequila Munificent. Ellerbee, isn't it? For me in whom Shaka
Jung was our Eid as he read this verse, so he's reading as he's
going through his reading. And when he got to the grave, that's
what he recited. This was the verse which is that the day when
no knifes no body, no person, no soul will be able to speak except
with Li from ALLAH SubhanA wa Tada from inhome. Chaka Yun was our
Eid, and among them will be the unfortunate ones, the wretched
ones, and also the fortunate ones. So among them will be those who
had success and there will be those who haven't had success. As
soon as he read that verse. He heard if not, I thought it was
voice coming from the grave and this is in his biographies. He
heard he says, Oh, come on, this is what he heard. Oh, Kamal, among
us are no unfortunate ones. Among Us are no unfortunate ones. So in
this graveyard in this area, there are no unfortunate ones. So then
ignore ignore Humam at his before his death, he instructed that he
should be buried in that graveyard. I mean, I wouldn't mind
being buried there either. Subhanallah because if you have
something of that nature, that's quite amazing. What happens then
later on, because we only have a short time I want to go through
the history of this book quickly, because this particular edition,
it has at least four or five different scholars who have
contributed to this particular piece of work. So if not, Allah is
who writes about 260 Something aphorisms is 260 statements.
aphorisms wisdoms. Now, a bit later, some 100 years later on in
about nine hundreds. You have another scholar in the Indian
subcontinent, who later moved to Makkah Makara Rama, his name was
Sheikh Ali Al Mottaki 16th century. He is the great author of
the consoler Amal, the great Hadith encyclopedic collection, he
decided, and he, although he was from the Chishti school before,
but he became an actual, he became sure that he afterwards he took
the shot that he thought he got when he went to the high domain,
what he did was, he found the great benefit of this work of
Ignatov Allah. But what he noticed was that if you read the original
HECM in the original order, we don't generally see a cohesive
order in terms of progression or movement. Although the shadow
Denise would argue, and I've had this discussion with one of the
shadow that is after I showed him this work, he said, Well, that's
that is the secret way that they will take somebody and advance
them in the path of the soul Wolf, through the way Ignatov Allah has
has ordered his HECM however, shake it and rudaki decided that
to make it more useful. Let's take all of the Hichem subject wise
categorize them under different topics. So he had he, he he
organized it under 30 different chapters on sincerity, on prayer,
on poverty, and so on and so forth, on asceticism, so all of
those that were everything related to solid, he would put under one
chapter, everything related to poverty under another chapter,
everything related to this ostentation, showing off under
another chapter. What that does now is that it makes it very easy
for a person to read all the wisdoms that relate to that
particular topic together. So this took place around the 16th
century.
So that's, that's about 400 years ago, then what happens is, let's,
let's move on now to India about 100 years ago. So we have a
particular individuals who's extremely famous, because he,
although he was not a full fledged, official, formal scholar,
he becomes you can say, the, the spiritual master, the spiritual
guide of some of the greatest of the scholars of the time, and
during that particular decade, or those decades, and this is none
other than a person from Tana bone, whose name was hi
am Doug Allah, hygiene MDOT Allah, He instructed. He instructed one
of his students, Maulana Khalid Mohammed Sana and booty who died
in 1927, which is 1346 Hijiri. He told him that you take this Sheikh
Ali alutech His work, He saw the benefit of it and he said I want
you to translate this into Urdu. So Sherif Ali, Sheikh, Mala Helene
Ramadan and booty based on this instruction from his Sheikh.
Although although he received his Khilafah later from Mala Rashid
Ahmed can go he though he started off with hygiene dot Allah.
Initially, he translated it and he called it mom on Neerim it's mom
on Neeraj. So you have the Hichem then you have Ali Al Mata Ki is
ordering chapter isolation which was which is called the weebill
HECM and Nigel atom fit feet, we will take them so a Nigel atom,
you have the Hichem then you have a Nigel atom, then you have the
auto translation of that of that chapter arised order, which is
called a tomato Neerim.
Now, it's an order and believe me if you pick up this book, whether
in English or whether in Urdu and you are in Arabic for that matter
and you read it, it is of a very high level.
Some of them are dealing on a very high level. So what I mean by that
is what more than 100 Muhammad Salam booty, then he saw that
people were finding it hard to understand the beauty of this work
because of the high level aim of the author. He told his students
and this is where Sheikh Abdullah can go. He comes in Sheikh
Abdullah Congo, he relatively unknown, relatively unknown. He
was a student of Maulana Zecharia Sheikh Zakaria Rahmatullah Leah's
father, Maulana Yahia, Mala Yahia took him under special
instruction, Sheikh Abdullah Ganga he, and people would know from
reading the RBT, or Shakespeare era Macaulay that he, his father
was extremely academic in his approach, very pedantic, very
particular. And he used to really make you study well and you know,
people would know that from Shakespeare, Korea, so Sheikh
Abdullah Ganga he was one of his students of that nature. Later on
more than a Shefali THON we none other than Hakeem Aloma needed a
teacher in Tana Bowen for his mother. So, so he asked Maulana
Yahia Can you send me somebody that you think is competent to
teach you? He sent him Sheikh Abdullah gangi. So Sheikh Abdullah
gonna go he went there. And subhanAllah he did a wonderful
job. Later, he moved to Sahara and pool and became a teacher in the
world famous mother had a room the second mothers are in the
subcontinent. After after the island they opened.
So he became a teacher there. And he also became a disciple of
Madonna, kalila Mazzara and booty, Mala calidad Sonam booty is the
one who translated the Hichem it mama Neerim. He told his students
that look, people are finding it hard to understand this, can you
write a commentary on it, he must have had great confidence in his
student to have told him to write this because believe me, when I
read a few of the more advanced ones in advanced Hichem in here,
they are extremely advanced, you have to be on an advanced level of
spirituality to be able to grasp those particular ones. So you must
have had a lot of confidence in Sheikh Abdullah GUI to have told
him to write the commentary, Sheikh Abdullah Ganga he wrote the
commentary, and he called it a Komodo Shem. So you have this now
series of names, you have the HECM of hypnotic Illa that it starts
with, you have alien rudaki, who brings it together and chapter
raises them under subjects, which is called a natural atom, you then
have a translation in Urdu, which is called a tomato Nam. And then
after that you have a commentary in order to call Mr. Shem.
So that's how this, this this work started. Now,
it's
my my interaction with this book, because this is probably one of
the greatest books that we've probably worked on, in terms of
the nature of the work. I mean, there's rosaries, beta two hedaya,
which is a very similar level. But this one is quite amazing. It's
more popular than even as early as be deitel hedaya.
My history with this book was that when I was studying in darkroom,
Barry, I was once moved in to this particular room, which was the
room in which the phone used to be so after the office closed in
those days, after the main office of the madrasa closed, all phones
would be diverted to this room and we had to man this phone, and it
was a big responsibility. And I was it was a two person room. And
I was moved in with Maulana Zakaria, who's now in Manasa,
Korea, Patel, who is actually in Canada right now. He's a relative
of mine as well. He was much more advanced than me both in studies
and in everything else. And
our principal has a mala use of Matala sub he was
is the one who put him there. And then he told me to go and stay in
that room as well. Now what was very, very interesting about the
room aside from the responsibility of the telephone, was that it had
a library in there, a small, smallish kind of library, which
was as a mono user matalas personal library. This was his
library because that area of the mothers are those few rooms used
to be his house right in the beginning, that's where he used to
reside. So even though he moved out later, the his he'd kept the
library there. So we had to look after his books. And
Molly Yusuf used to keep telling mana use of Dharma baraka to him
used to keep telling mom as a courier, about certain books, and
I used to, at that time, I was kind of just starting off,
learning what to do, et cetera. I probably finished his class. And I
think I would starting in the animal class, instead, look at
these books and saying, one day, I'm going to read these books, you
know, because they're right next to your bed, you know, they
probably topple and submerge you if that ever happened and
Hamdulillah I didn't, but it was kind of interesting. But there
were two books in there that were really you can say special because
monozukuri I was told to read them. He was on an advanced level.
So he was told to read them by Manas has a mani sub sub, which
was a shadow MOOC, a shadow MOOC. And Mr. Sheehan acknowledged shame
is this work and in shadow Moloch is its is its partner work, these
two are considered to be two of the high level books in the later
Chishti tariqa of the subcontinent. So these are if you
become high in the Chishti tariqa. When I mean high, I mean high, I
don't mean that high, right? This is the real high anyway. So you
would have to read these two books to really understand the advanced
levels of the path. Now, if some of this is going over your head,
don't worry about it. It is it is a very it is a very specialized
topic. But I'm trying to make it as simple for you as possible. So
those were the two books. And so it stuck in my mind that those
were very important books. Later on. I was in America. And I got
news from a one of the brothers that I knew in England, that he is
working on producing a modern, edited translation of this work.
So it was this company that was set up in Bradford called SAGE
trail press. And although this book had been translated in South
Africa many, many years ago by the magician, Allah ma, the
translation wasn't all that great, it was decent. But for the modern
world, it needed to be really advanced, something that would be
fit the quality and the content of the work itself. So they decided
to, to have it edited and produced a really high level edited
edition. So they found they found the translation one of the best
translations that have been produced of the HECM in English is
by Victor Danner. Victor Dona his translation, if I read it out to
you, it's absolutely beautiful. He's, he's matched, he's tried to
match in English eloquence and effectiveness, the same as if not
a thought Allah has done in Arabic, so it's very effective.
And you see a massive difference between this and any other
addition.
Now the commentary had to be edited. So they found an
individual up north, who's in Bradford today, Andrew Bousso
Ibrahim Andrew Ibrahim Bousso, who mashallah did such a great editing
work of the commentary that he matched
Victor danas translation in the actual wisdoms, he matched that
English that level on that height of language in the commentary. So
the commentary he produced that a very edited to a very high level,
the commentary is really needed to understand this. So they worked on
this for a year or two years or something. And then I got the sad
I received the sad news that they decided to stop working on it for
whatever reason, they did a lot of the work, maybe 80% 90% of the
work and then they said that's it, we're not going to do this book
anymore. And my heart just fell I said no, this book needs to come
out. So I said let me buy this project of you. So whatever
they've spent, etcetera, their costs etc. and purchased it took
it on the way through press. But then it took us about seven to
nine years to finally produce this book after huge rigorous editing
and revision process and to really get it up to the way that it
should do in terms of its design, the choice of cover, color, paper,
you know, and so on because we really wanted this to be one of
the masterpieces because it's such a great work and it can inshallah
benefit so many so many people but it took us about eight to nine
years to do this finally came out this last Ramadan in 2014, you
know, this, it's taken a very, very, very, very long time.
Now, he's obviously writing this up
apologetically for the people of the path in that time, Sufism was
not a problem. Today people are scared about Sufism. There's a
there's a public there's a bookseller in America who said to
me, he said, Don't put Sufi in your name because you know the
truth is published Sufi studies of Hadith Maha Shiva, the tanneries
book, some of you may be aware of it. So he said it we find it
difficult to sell books when it has Sufi on it. Because there's
such a propaganda against Sufism, because there are exotic versions
of or manifestations of Sufism out there that give Sufism a bad name,
look in any field is going to be degenerated forms of the there's
going to be degenerated forms, it's just Sufism is more prone to
abuse, as opposed to jurisprudence, or as opposed to
Tafseer for that matter, even tough, serious prone. I mean,
you've got feminist writing Tafseer today, saying that all the
men who written Tafseer beforehand, they've all been
biased against women. So now we shouldn't read any male, written
C's, which are pretty much all of CS written of the past, right, and
we need to have a new set of skills. So everything is open to
abuse. Now, because you've got some exotic Sufis that do some
strange things here and there. Everybody's painted with the same
brush, brush, however, in his time, and for basically 1200
years, 1300 years, except the last until the early part of the last
century, and only now Alhamdulillah things are picking
up again. Right? There's there's never been a problem. It was, in
fact, Sufism was popular. In some countries, it's still popular
today, here, people ask you, what Madhava your brother? Right
Hanafi, Shafi, Salafi, humbly whatever, you know, whatever you
are, right.
I'm saying that as those selfies a month because it is a month, it's
a fifth month, by the way, right? That's my research. Selfie ism is
a fifth malherbe. Right? And I say this very clearly, because it is
it's nothing other than the GLEDE of another set of scholars. It's
nothing different than that, right? And there's nothing you
know, if the if they clear about that, then that's fine. Anyway, to
move on. If you go to Turkey today, they actually still ask
you, which might happen, which tariqa Are you? So now
he is writing this unapologetically about this, about
the soul because you know, it was a need of the time And subhanAllah
there were people who
really appreciated this work, as I said, Now, just to finish off, I'm
just going to quote a few of these passages just to give you an
understanding of what this book is about.
So it starts off with some things that are easy to manage, that are
at the you know, at a basic level that everybody will understand. So
for example, he says
enmu in Karana Tula Shia falak, were Illa Firelake. Now, you will
probably appreciate this more if you understand Arabic, but because
of the dentist translation, it does make it easy. He says,
if fear is united with the knowledge, then it is for you. If
not, then it is against you.
So you can have all the knowledge of the deen that you want. But if
you don't have fear in your heart of Allah, then you will even
misuse and abuse that knowledge that you have and cut corners and
give wrong fatwas or accept wrong fatwas and mislead people. But if
you have fear So fear is extremely important. So that's the kind of a
general wisdom that he is providing for knowledge. Another
one is, it gets a bit more complex but it's still for the most part
manageable for most people and he speaks at different levels. Now
listen to this carefully he says.
This is the aphorism number 13 in his original collection,
but it's on page 95 here if anybody has this edition, it says
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so he's speaking on many different levels. But let's see, how can the
heart be illumined?
While the forms of creatures are reflected in its mirror?
How can the hearts be illumined? When the forms of creatures are
illumined? In its mirror?
reflected in its mirror? How can the heart be illuminated by the
nature of Allah? If the reflections in our heart is for
property is for a car is for a particular individual? Or is for
something else of the dunya that we love and that's consumed our
hearts. Then how can the news of Allah subhanho wa Taala into our
hearts? Then he says or how can it journey to Allah while shackled by
its passions? If our desires of the world is so strong for good
clothing branded, you know, it has to be branded for the next phone
or for whatever it may be. So we are basically shackled and
fettered and chained down by the showerheads, they won't allow us
to get close to Allah in the spiritual path. So that's what he
says. Then he says, or how can it desire and Subhanallah this one is
frightening, because he says, how can it desire to enter the
Presence of Allah while it has not yet purified itself of the stain
of its forgetfulness? What that means is in our Masjid today,
we've dedicated at we've dedicated our places of prayer as a masjid.
The only thing that tells us that a place is a masjid is the fact
that we've designated it as such, we generally put a merabh up there
a pulpit, and it has mats that face the Qibla. That's what it is.
Now, anybody who sees that, and if they unclean, they're going to
feel that I can't go into this place. Women with menstruation
will not be able to go in a masjid. Likewise, men who are in a
seminary defiled state, they're not allowed to go into a masjid,
somebody who's come in really dirty, smelly, sweaty, you're
gonna say, Brother, you know, this is not the place for you, you
know, let's get washed up because we're told to avoid. Now that's
the place we've designated. And we have this law that we apply to
ourselves. Can you imagine the court of Allah subhanaw taala? How
are our hearts which are dirty for forgetfulness, in pure which are
submerged in their darkness of sins? How are they going to find a
place in this pure code of Allah subhanaw taala. If unclean people
impure people are not allowed to come into the masjid in this
world, so look where he takes us from and look where he is taking
us to? That's that's the secret of this work. It's the beauty in
which he discusses these things. And then finally, he says, which
is on a very high level, he says, Oh, how can it understand the
subtle points of mysteries, while it has not yet repented of its
offenses? That's on a very high sort of level? How can it
understand the higher realms of the secrets that Allah subhanaw
taala would open up to them and give them the Hakka it and the
realities of things if a person has not repented of its offenses?
One of my most famous quotes from this book is this, which has so
much hope. But it does it in a way that you can't abuse the hope that
he gives you.
Listen to this carefully. He says lots of irata either Cabela Adela,
who?
What are Kabira Eva Jaha fabuleux. That's it. Loss of the euro is a
call for glue or glue, wala kabhi, Rota, Eva Jaha glue, there is no
minus sin, there is no minus sin when his justice confronts you.
And there is no major sin when his grace confronts you now just think
over that for a while. It's self explanatory, but it just needs a
bit of thought. Basically, what he's saying is, if Allah subhanaw
taala starts to deal with us with justice, for everything we've done
wrong, whether it'd be minor or major, then does it matter that
it's minor, because when it's about justice, then he has the
right to punish us even for minor sins, then we can't just pass off
sins, oh, that's just recruitin Z, that's just the minor sin says
just a minor problem. So when it comes to justice, than even a
minus sin would become a major sin. When you look at it from that
perspective, however, a person has committed many major sins, they're
worried now. So then he says, There is no major sin, when his
grace confronts you. So, if he is going to deal with us with His
grace, because of a simple single deed that he may have liked of us,
which we tried and we had all sincerity, then even our major
sins will suddenly become nothing, because His grace is not to be
diminished and not to be considered small. It will overcome
any major sin. Just two more he says. either work or I mean
gamble. Fella Yeah, can suburban Lea Seco Minho, Solon estate karma
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erotic.
He says when you commit a sin, let it not be a reason for your
despairing of attaining to righteousness before your Lord,
for that might be the last decreed for you.
Now what that means is something very simple. He says that you know
many of us we have a sin that we commit over and over. We do over
over and over but we go back to committing it. Eventually what
shaytaan puts in our mind is that there's no point making Toba
because you've done it so many times and you've still committed
the sin and you've reneged on your on your on your repentance, so
then he gives hope and he says that when you do commit a sin
again
Don't let that be a reason for your despairing that you will
never attain is the karma that you will never become strong and and
steadfast because this sin that you've just committed. If you make
Toba now, it may be the last one that you'll ever commit in your
life.
So he's giving us hope. And the commentary will just explain that
we don't have much time. That's why I'm not reading much of the
commentary. And the final one that I want to, I want to quote to you
is, this is on a higher level. See, what this book will do is it
will first just reveal the realities of the past to us and
the realities of our relationship with Allah subhanaw taala then it
will open up better ways of worshipping Allah subhanaw taala.
So it will refine our worship. Now this one is extremely refining. It
changes your perspective about why you should be worshiping Allah
subhanaw taala. And what you think when you worship Allah subhanaw
taala he says, law talks a little bit a was an anomaly in Leicester
law. HuFa Elan, your criminal Jessa illa Allah La Marie and Ken
Allahu Karbolyn. Do not seek recompense for a deed whose dua
was not you.
Do not look for reward for a deed whose dua was not you in reality,
it suffices you as recompense for the deed that he accepts it. Now,
what is he saying that he's saying here so this is the commentary, it
should be understood that Allah is the true DOER of all actions. The
fact that you are here today, the fact that you can follow your deen
and make Salah and another person cannot that's from Allah. It's no
accomplishment on our part, we should just take that out of our
mind. Generally, if we've been able to wake up for tahajud one
night, or we've been to an Islamic program, you don't we've never
been, we think, Wow, man, I did a lot today. This is telling you,
Allah did it. So get it right. And you know what, if you start if we
start thinking that Allah is behind everything, then he will do
much more for us because we would have understood the reality. So
this is the kind of reality he takes us to. So he says, It should
be understood that Allah is the true DOER of all actions.
Therefore in worship, the servants gaze should be on Allah Most High,
not on himself. He should understand that Allah Most High
has created the act of worship in him. And that is Allah's favor.
Since the servant is not the creator of his good deeds, it is
highly improper for him to design a compensation thing, I want
gender to this.
I want Jana you didn't even do it. Allah made you do it. So why are
you asking for Jana? Of course, Allah that says excuse he's going
to make us do an act and give us Janet for it anyway, for anybody
he loves is going to give him Janet, so don't worry about that.
Don't, don't, don't get deceived by that fact, is just the point of
just to refine our understanding of it. So then he says, Therefore,
if a servant has only the pursuit of reward,
or some kind of reward, then sincerity, full sincerity will be
negated. You won't have full sincerity. In fact, the servant
deserves to be apprehended on this fact, and punished for it.
Sincerity is that I do something for Allah, just to make him happy.
Because I'm his servant. He gave me this world. And he told me what
to do. And that's what I want to do. And that's all I'm required to
do. And of course, we know from Allah's promises that He will give
us great rewards. So Halas let's not focus on that. Let's focus on
the sincerity. And that's why he says in another place at MaryLu
Soren Soren that actions are merely just forms, they're just
external forms. What makes them real, what makes them accepted is
the fact that you have a class in those actions and a feeling and a
concentration and a devotion in those actions. So may Allah
subhanaw taala give us a Tofik May Allah subhanaw taala bring us
closer to Him and give us a better understanding of him and a
worshipping Him and may Allah refer refine our worship Him while
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