Abdur Rahman ibn Yusuf Mangera – Are You a Hidden Show Off [Hikam 160]
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The importance of showing one's behavior and intentions for Allah's], [The speakers discuss the three types of RIA (interesting, painful, andine conversational) that will affect our behavior and behavior will affect others. They also discuss the challenges of being known and the importance of showing respect and admiration. The transcript describes a man who tried to come out slowly every season and eventually fell out slowly every season. The speakers also discuss the importance of honoring people for their accomplishments and deeds, with others serving them. They stress the need for people to practice the Islam culture and learn to read books and learn about the subjects of Islam.
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Now he says that he's going to identify for us Subhan Allah, this
was the path he's going to identify for us. How to tell
whether we have RIA or not. So how many of us here do something?
Some worship? I mean, we all do worship, we just prayed ourselves,
right? Hamdulillah. But how many of us go beyond worship and do
something for the community? Whether it's teaching,
volunteering, something over and beyond the obligations? How many
of us do that here?
I mean, I can see that there's a lot of people who do that. Right.
You teach you guys volunteer? Right? Come on, tell me who else
does stuff.
Say you do some activity. Active work, is why you do some active
work. Marlon has any Monday.
I don't know what he does, but whatever he does, I like set.
Right? There's our two big brothers here. So there might be a
month in here somewhere. Right? These are all things that we do.
In addition, how can we tell if what we're doing that extra part
is purely for the sake of Allah or not? Or whether we are showing off
subtly even 10% or 5% or whatever it is.
Is we learn here Rahmanir Rahim Al hamdu lillah wa Salatu was Salam
ala Sayidina Muhammad wa ala alihi wa sahbihi ash Marina My
dear brothers, your sisters dear, dear friends, we are moving along
with the aphorisms of Abner artha Illa al Eskandari. Rahima hula.
If not, I thought of Alexandria. That's what Al Eskandari means.
And we are on page 107. And it happens to be
the aphorism is 160 number 160. This is where he says rubover da
RIA why they come in Hato lions rule halco Lake.
Sometimes ostentation, this desire to show off and be known and be
heard, penetrates you in such a way that no one notices it.
So on the face of it, it seems like you are totally moralists and
sincere. You're totally committed with your single mind and focus.
But only Allah subhanaw taala knows that in the heart, you're
actually doing it to show up anyway.
You secretly are looking for admiration.
Maybe it's because you're a teacher. Maybe you're doing some
other good job. Maybe you're a volunteer, maybe you're a
committee member, maybe your relief worker, maybe you're an
imam. Maybe you're a scholar. Maybe you just helping out people,
whatever it is. So Allah subhanaw taala wants everything for him.
And one of the last things that you can literally take out of your
heart one of the last blameworthy traits that you can get rid of, is
to do something with absolute
sincerity for Allah with no other desire at all.
And we'll see that today. I learned a lot today when I was
preparing for this.
And subhanAllah it's
Allah reward the people Allah reward the scholars who have
talked about this so that we can save ourselves before it's too
late. So firstly, the word he uses ostentation RIA in Arabic Ria.
That means ostentation, which means the desire to attract
attention for something
that should have been for Allah. If you're trying to attract
worldly attention for something worldly for a worldly purpose,
that will be okay.
So RIA is to do with religious things that you're hoping for
reward from Allah.
Right? Whether you're helping out a group of brothers playing
football for the sake of Allah,
playing football for the sake of Allah, sorry. I mean, if you've
got like a little volunteer group, that you're bringing the Muslim
children together so that they can do a sports together, they can
stay out of some other mess and so on. I mean, you want to do that
for Allah, right? It's football. I mean, football is not necessarily
haram if you do it rightly anyway. But you know what to say it could
be in anything where you're supposed to do it for the sake of
Allah, the intention is supposed to be for Allah. But then what
he's gonna tell us about today is how even the most subtle ways how
you can spoil that intention, and it was an eye opener, it was an
absolute eye opener.
So number one, he says, let's define Ria, for you. It's
tolerable mensline The nurse
to seek a position
among people that they're going to think I'm very religious
For that I go out for 40 days all the time I do my three days every
month I'm very regular. I'm an old Sati right which means an old
worker or
I'm a hygiene now. I've done 20 hedge and 15 cameras and I managed
to go over actually twice a year mashallah I go to Andhra in
Ramadan every year mashallah
what cause do daddy Kobe Amylin solder him you're? Now there's
nothing wrong with wanting a position among people for pious
reasons that's fine but this reason is that you're trying to do
this with a good deed a good deed is supposed to be for Allah. So
why are you asking people for that certain kind of radical animal via
Hera Lynas. Now whether that is an action that you're doing openly
to, to actually show people so you're blatant about it. Right?
That look how much work I've done. You put it all over social media,
right? What wholehearted which is usually the dominant way of doing
things anyway and showing off Oh huffy and an Whom are you actually
not showing them? So how can that be ostentation if you're not
showing them if you're not doing anything? And showing it to them?
But your focus is still them? How you will understand this one's a
bit more complicated. So then he says in that case, this one will
be the subtle one, the city subtle showing off, how does that become
showing off we'll see.
And he said that that is usually where, when you're trying to hide
it, the Ria and showing off can still shaytaan will still bring it
into you're going to be attacked from all sides. Shaken was still
trying to bring it into you from where you won't even understand if
you don't know where he usually can be attacked from where the
loopholes are. So that's why I said this is an eye opener for me
as well today.
This one to protect your yourself from the second one is much more
difficult, because
there is a more subtle encroachment in that one.
In fact, the Hadith says that that one is more concealed and more
subtle than
the walking of an ant. Like you can't hear the footsteps of an
ant.
Some of the people who finally had made it and recognized Allah
subhanaw taala reached their goal they used to say that he had to
feasibility RIA even called BB Cooley Halo it in, I literally
tried every trick, every strategy to remove showing off from my
heart, from a girl to whom in Jihad and had
never been in high school, let alone know, every time I tried to
remove it from one side, I discovered it's coming from this
perspective, I would get rid of fear and then it will just rise
somewhere else.
It's like one of those games, you know, you click down here and
something else over you have to kind of click them all down, until
you finally get it may Allah make it easy for us. Another scholar
said that mean other media in general artha Wellman was daughter
our nominal health, very generalized idea. But think about
it. He said that one of the biggest types of showing off is
when you actually see that anything that you get, or anything
that is withheld from you, or that harm and benefits is all coming
from a creation and not far from Allah.
That means that because most of our actions, most of what we do in
life is to get a benefit, or to repair the harm
or to achieve something or to not want something and if we think
that that's going to come from people, rather than from Allah, we
don't think about Allah then that in itself is leading to RIA
itself. Now, they mentioned that there are three types of RIA there
are three types of this showing off ostentation.
It's interesting. The first one is
well what he says is that there's three types and each of them is
going to affect your dean somehow is going to affect your religious
practice somehow the other some of them are just worse than others so
but they all three of them will will effect now think about this
the first one he said which is the biggest one is where you literally
with your good deed, you just doing it to show people I just
want them to see how religious I am, how good I am, how brave I am
or whatever it is in you know in something that requires bravery,
how much I spend in the path of Allah, something like that. This
is such a major problem that
if there was nobody to watch you or to show it to then you wouldn't
even do it. That's how bad this one is that you literally Allah is
not even in is not even a focus here. You're literally doing it
because people are watching. If they're not watching you wouldn't
even do it.
So you only do thicker because people are gonna watch you do
thicker
They want you to do otherwise you won't do it yourself. There is no
connection between you and Allah for any other deed for that
matter.
One is
you do it
to get praise, so it's not that bad that you only do it for people
but this one is you do it with whatever other intention, whether
Allah is part of the intention or not.
But your real reason is that I'm going to be praised, I can become
a praiseworthy person, I can get more likes,
right? Or something like that. Or people will trust me more, they
might give me more loans. They might invite me to the house, you
get praise. And yeah, that's what you do it for. So these two you
can definitely understand that problematic now the third one look
at look at this third one and see if it's, if you can, if we can
recognize it, I definitely recognize this one. Is you
actually doing it for Allah. So this one is when you actually
start doing it purely for Allah not purely but you're definitely
doing for Allah. So you do have a line your mind, Oh Allah, I'm
doing this for you.
But then this ties into some of the other lessons we've had before
but your intention from your action then is that you get reward
from Allah.
Like what's wrong with that?
That you get reward from Allah, and that he doesn't punish you.
He says that still Rhea they're still doing it for the wrong
reason. Because you're not doing it for Allah Himself. You're doing
it because selfish reasons of no punishment, and Paradise.
He said, has a no J, you don't mean YG? This is actually from one
perspective. It's actually a good one. Right? This particular
categoria is not too bad in the sense like it's a good one. In one
sense. My Loulan been watching but remember, every one of these
three, he said are going to affect your deen somehow. So it's still a
weakness, it's still a cause of problem and defect. Right?
According to the people who are Alia, for them this is real.
Like this is pure Yeah, they're gonna say you're still not there
yet. But for a majority of Muslims, this is a class
relatively speaking, this is his last Mashallah. Right? At least
you're not doing it for somebody else. Still, you've got to work
harder. That's what he's saying. You can start off there you have
to start somewhere right? We can start off there. Now it gets a bit
it gets even more sophisticated in Mashallah.
That's why, you know, in the verse in Surah, to falter, firsthand,
ALLAH SubhanA wa Tada says, well, Amarillo saw the whole your
Pharaoh, the good deed, the righteous deed is what Allah
raises. Meaning that's the only one that will really ascend. And
the good deed here refers to the one that's absolutely pure, pure,
because he says was Sally mineralia Eva Hirano Abelton.
That's the one that is totally free of any kind of showing off,
outwardly or inwardly in any way whatsoever.
In the sense that the person who's doing it is not looking for a
worldly benefit, nor for even after worldly benefits, you know,
Paradise or *, he's not worried about that.
Now remember, anybody who's doing it purely for the sake of Allah,
that person is not going to go to hellfire. Anyway, so you want to
avoid going to hellfire, and you want to want to go to Jannah? Not
by looking for those two things. But by seeking Allah, and it'll
take you there anyway. That's the clever way to do it, where you get
the best of all worlds.
Now, he says that he's going to identify for us Subhan Allah, this
was the path he's going to identify for us. How to tell
whether we have RIA or not. So how many of us here do something?
Some worship? I mean, we all do worship, we just prayed ourselves,
right. Hamdulillah. But how many of us go beyond worship and do
something for the community? Whether it's teaching,
volunteering, something over and beyond the obligations? How many
of us do that here?
I mean, I can see that there's a lot of people who do that. Right.
You teach you guys volunteer? Right? Come on, tell me who else
does stuff.
Say you do some activity. Active work, is why you do some active
work. Marlon has any Monday.
I don't know what he does, but whatever he does a lot except,
right. There's our two big brothers here. So there might be a
month in here somewhere. Right? These are all things that we do in
addition, how can we tell if what we're doing that extra part
is purely for the sake of Allah or not? Or whether we are showing off
subtly even 10% or 5% or whatever it is. So these are the signs he
says one of the signs is
that if you're, if you are very active when it's with
When you're with people, and you're really active in what you
do, but you kind of lazy and laid back when people aren't there to
look at it,
or you do a job very well when it's with people, but you don't do
it too well, when you're not with people, or you do it well for
outside, but inside your house, you really messed up with your
family, right? Something like that, then you probably do it for
sure, then that probably that is a sign.
The number two
this is gets more subtle. He says, while you're doing it outwardly,
you're showing it for ALLAH SubhanA wa Tada. But with your
heart, what you really want is that people respect you
to gain respect among people. Okay, not just that.
You then want people to fulfill your needs to assist you to help
you. Maybe to open doors for you carry your shopping to bring you
shopping to give you gifts. And it all adds to that. And then if
somebody
does something
that you think that you are entitled to from them, because of
your position,
you would actually feel really bad if they had any shortcomings in
that regard. Like if they were supposed to let you because you're
an Imam, you're the scholar, you're the speaker. So they should
have let me go first, they should have opened the door for me.
They should have respected me the way they addressed me. Right.
And you feel really bad if they don't do that.
Now, so I'm thinking about my position. And these are definitely
thoughts that you go through. Because, you know, we're reactive
to, we're reactive, you know, we react to how people relate to us.
Or, for example, let's just say it's you and somebody else in a
similar position. And they get respected more, they get shown
more attention. And you feel bad about that. Such that there'll be
people who will actually if they don't get their way of what they
expect because they have a turban on and you know or something like
that.
Then they will actually complain that Why aren't you looking after
my rights?
There was one person who is known that whenever he went to a masjid,
right,
he was a shake of some sorts.
If the Imam of the local Masjid did not make him lead the prayer
he
that would be a problem. Now there's so many times we go to
pray, they don't even know you're a scholar Come on. And even if
they do, why did the Imam is more rightful. Even if he is your
student, he's more rightful.
The Imam is rightful. He's got more right to leave the prayer.
Some of these students would come along and they'd probably tell the
Imam our Sheikh is here, can you lead the prayer and Imams like
look, committee is going to beat me up? Right? Because they don't
allow us to do it because we don't know who's going to lead or not.
And there will be a big issue. Of course not most most people don't
do that kind of I'm just saying goes to an extreme level where you
want your right because you think you hold a position Come on, man,
your position should be with Allah and not with other people. It's a
very humbling thing to be honest, that where you go and you know,
you might be respected in one area, because people know you go
to an area, nobody knows you, like Alhamdulillah sometimes, you know
what, it's, while there's perks in being known, but believe me there
are there are definitely a lot of challenges to be known.
Right? There are a lot of challenges to being known as like,
Man, I don't want to be known any more than this because it becomes
a big responsibility. You have to behave, you have to be very
careful. Otherwise, people, the same people that put you up,
they're gonna knock you out as well. Right? wherever they are.
That's why that's a little help us. Allah protects us, Allah
villas. In fact, he says that some of these people will
warn people who don't show them the respect, they think they
deserve, that you're going to be punished by Allah.
Sometimes the sheikh might not do it himself, but one of his
one of his students are one of the people with his entourage. If you
don't do that, that's what's going to happen.
Now, we don't have to look at just from a sheiks perspective, because
there's few of this I mean, we have to look at it from just our
own perspective, right? of whatever work we do.
So then he's saying that look, if anybody who wants to be seriously
on the path of Allah, Who Wants to Be a Good Sufi wants to be a woody
of Allah in the pure sense of it, if he finds that he's got any of
these in him,
any of these signs in him,
then know that he's a show off? At some level, he's a show off. Even
though this is not something he'll ever reveal to anybody that I feel
like this is between you and Allah, you should know that that's
why I will boycott acidic Rhodiola and others whenever somebody would
pray
use them for something I mean the DUA was Allah make me
as good or better than what you're saying because I'm actually not
like that as well but mashallah, thanks for the dry. I wish I can
become like that
it's related from earlier the Allahu Anhu. That he says that
Allah subhana wa Tada will say to those on the path of Allah, those
who are trying to get close to Allah on the day of judgment, He
will say to them,
Allahu Akbar
once you those that when used to go to a store to buy something
that would less than the price for you, or maybe I'm giving to you
for free.
And so Hanalei, you know, when you know, when you become a bit known
that people out of respect, they'll do that for you? Or
Marshall monitors here, or this guy does a lot of volunteering.
Let's give him something. And yes, you might think this is a perk of
the job. And Michelle is baraka of the, of the work I'm doing. Now,
you can think that if you'd like, Yes, this is just baraka of that
is not about me. A lot of people start thinking it's them. This is
purely baraka of that, but that's not what I'm doing it for.
So Allah will say to them, didn't you get discount in prices?
Didn't people rush to make salaam to you and greet you? Didn't
people fulfill whatever needs you had? Meaning you've already got
your reward. That's what you want it, you got it.
There's no reward here for you know, Allah save us.
La ilaha illa Allah. In another one of those narrations from him,
it says La Agerola. Ko, you don't get a reward here. Callisto fatum,
Would you welcome you've already fully received the reward you
actually wanted and intended in the world. You already got it. You
already enjoyed it.
Abdullah Al Mubarak, he's got this. He relates from one of the
earlier of the past called why people don't wanna pay
for the Allahu, and he says that there was a guy, a worshiper, not
necessarily an island, but somebody who's really pious and
does a lot of worship.
He once said to his companions, that
we stay, we have stayed away, like our effort has been to stay away
from money, and even from children, and so on, because we
don't want to become arrogant and tyrannical. So we've tried to cut
everything out of our life and just focus on Allah. Right? To do
that.
However, I'm worried that we are more prone to being affected were
more prone to being affected by some kind of arrogance and tyranny
and so on, then, those people who have money and how they, how they
may be affected by they may be prone to something like that, I
feel that we're more prone to it than people with money, meaning he
knows his really sensitive position, because you get a lot of
benefits through this. So you're worried that you're going to be
challenged in this regard. And while you're trying to stay away
from that, you actually you're going to fall into the same thing
because of that, because shaytan is there to do that as well.
So then
he says, Look, when one of us
encounter somebody,
he wants to be respected.
Right, once you get respected a few times, you want to be
respected everywhere, it kind of feels very bad that if you're
respected somewhere, then you go somewhere else, you're not
respected, like you get used to it. Right. So then
when one of us goes and meet somebody, they want to be
respected.
Because of his position in the Diem, his volunteering work or
whatever it is, whenever he asked for a need, he likes that somebody
is going to fulfill the need for them.
Because again, because of his Deen, right.
Whenever he purchases something, he would like it that the guy
gives him a discount, or maybe even for free again because of my
Deen that you should be respecting the deen. That's why maybe in your
Joomla Bionz will tell people that you get a lot of Baraka if you
give the Mallanna sub, you know, a discount, or you go to restaurants
or send some food to his house. Not saying that but
for Bella Daddy can medical now the king of that time the ruler of
that time this reached him. So I don't know. He got a whole
entourage his entourage together his whole delegation together. And
he went and suddenly that whole area filled up with people to see
who this guy was. Right.
Now this particular righteous person, he says, what's going on?
All this sea of people have suddenly come because of what I
said. Because everything you say something like that. It just
sounds it just makes you look really really pious right and he
was
Think it sincerely. And now everybody's there to come and see
who this guy is.
So then somebody told him that oh, the, the ruler, he's actually come
to see who you are, he wants to see who this special video of
Allah is. So then
he quickly said to one of his, one of his students, he said, Bring me
some foods.
So he brought some vegetables, and some oil, Zaid
and some other root vegetables or whatever it was.
And what he started doing was that he started stuffing his mouth with
this food in this really uncouth way, I would say,
like in this really kind of wild Behati, you know,
Bedouin way?
Why did he do that? Well, Kulu Aklan and Ethan, not in a
civilized way. But he started doing that purposely. So, so the
ruler, eventually, he wants to come and meet him. He says, Where
is where is this shake of yours? So they said, here he is. What
this guy?
So they said,
they said to him, like, How are you sir? Well, I'm just like
everybody else.
I'm just like everybody else, you know, I don't know what's special
about me. That was to just walk them from this is like how far he
went. To not get the respect that a lot of people now people do a
few things nowadays. And then they want to put a satellite satellite
up in the sky to make a star for themselves.
before their time they want to star in the space for them on
Hollywood Boulevard.
You know, they have stars names. I've been there in Hollywood, I
used to live in California to want to star in the sky. Right.
Another version said that the king asked him like how are you? So he
said I'm fine. So then the
the rule asked him
the king actually remarked that this guy that there's nothing
special about this guy, look at the way he's eating. So then he
turned away. And that's when this righteous person said
Alhamdulillah hymnody
Surah Africa catch 21 Deliver them
all praises to Allah Who who's turned your attention away from me
while you see me in this bad state, and you're critical of me
as much better for me because once the ruler would have seen me in a
good state, he would have started showering his all of his you know,
generosity and everything would have become much more difficult.
So alhamdulillah managed to get rid of this
severe measures Subhanallah
This is the kind of reaction at this level that our big people our
really great people try to avoid it. And these to actually consider
them from basically being bad people if they had any of this
notion in them. It's related from for Dane, ignore era The Allahu
Anhu he said that he used to say that you know what, if you guys
want to see a show off, then just look at this guy.
This is the show. Like they used to actually be very suspicious on
themselves and try to minimize any of this feeling that people have
once medicareblue dinar another one of our great only of the past
he heard a woman saying to him
she actually blades, right, maybe we need a few more Yeah, Maura in
Oh, show of like, imagine somebody comes out like a woman comes to
like, show off.
So then he said to her,
Oh, so and so.
Hamdulillah you didn't tell how many races that you've actually
found the name that all the people in Bosler had forgotten about me.
Like you've discovered the last name that I ever have. So it's
like he played along with it. Because you saying yeah, thank you
very much for that, to put me back in my place.
I mean, this doesn't mean that you go around and act like total
idiots. That doesn't mean that it's just as a large, right? It's
talking about as a cure and as a safeguard
number of other stories that are related. Now the point is that,
you know, you might be able to avoid when you know clearly I'm
doing it for people that that one is blatant, you know you're doing
wrong, right? But it's very, very difficult. They say that you know,
you can get you can find if you're a jealous person, you can discover
much more easily if you're a stingy person, you can definitely
understand if you're an angry person where you got to wish
desire all of those things are much more clear to see. But the
thing which is the most difficult to see because we love ourselves
more than anyone else, is when we showing off
Yeah blatant showing off, you could see that but when it's
subtle showing off, like, did we, I mean, I learned a lot of ways of
showing off that I might even be doing or I might have actually
considered or have enjoyed, right? That I didn't know that that was,
you know, purely that I mean, had ideas I think and notions, but
this makes it very clear.
So, he says, Only the people who are true recognizes of Allah who
truly recognized the greatness of Allah subhanaw taala, in its true
position, those who really have to hate property, who really have
declared the Oneness of Allah and believing that fully, only they
will understand this because Allah subhanaw taala has, you know,
eventually purified them, of even the subtle seeds and the subtle
small amounts of shake. And they just don't care about people
anymore, in the sense that they don't care what people are gonna
say anymore about them, they're doing it purely for the sake of
Allah subhanaw taala because Allah has given their hearts Yaqeen
Allah has given their hearts the full conviction and recognition of
Allah subhanho wa Taala position. So they don't, they don't worry
about getting things from people anymore, because they focus is
only getting things from Allah subhanaw taala they don't, they
don't care about harm, because they no harm can only come from
Allah. So even though somebody's out to harm them, that's fine.
They focus in on Allah, Allah, you repel the harm, Allah only you can
repel the harm,
these people's actions is going to be pure, even if they're doing it
openly now. So there will be some people who do things open, you
don't even have to hide it. But they're doing it purely for the
sake of Allah, purely for the sake of Allah.
Anybody who doesn't get this, who doesn't prepare for this, and
who's constantly looking at what people are going to say what
people are going to do. And that's where he thinks he's gonna get his
benefit, and he's gonna repel the harm, then he's most likely he is
a one who shank off with his deeds, even if he worships Allah
subhanho wa taala.
At the height of a mountain,
away from everybody, he's doing worship totally alone. But he
knows that people know that there's this guy, this hermit, who
lives on top of that mountain.
Right or in the middle of wants to park.
Right? He doesn't want anybody meet him. But he knows that people
know about that.
There's a story that's there's a story that's told about this guy
who was like that he used to worship in a tower, totally cut
away from everyone.
There was once a year that he used to come out.
And that's the day slowly, slowly every year or every season or
whatever it was that people would gather for to get a glimpse of him
the hero, the star has come out, you only come out once a year.
So the ruler or somebody was trying to figure out if this guy
is really worthless or not. So he was wondering, so you had a
discussion with a weenie of Allah or something like I can't remember
the exact details of the story. They said that, look, let's test
it. And the way to test him. Is that a next day that he's going to
come out, you know, the next time that he is his day for coming on
the balcony. Right? What we'll do is I want you as the ruler to
basically put roadblocks up so that nobody within eyesight can
get close and stop. Everybody. People are going to come but just
stop everybody so that he won't be able to see anybody that's come
from his balcony to see who's come to watch him.
So they did that. He came out he saw nobody. he shrieked and fell
down dead.
Right? That basically, the moral of the story is that this guy was
doing it for people, even though he hardly used to come out. That's
how dangerous this stuff is. It's scary it that's how dangerous it
is. And what makes it worse the progress Olson said in the year
zero RIA is Shere Khan, even the most subtle amount of showing off
is a form of Shake, shake, because you're coming you're just putting
somebody else with Allah of what something is was offered to Allah,
you're doing it for somebody else. But it's the one of the most
difficult things to get rid of.
So I guess this is a good start that at least we know what it is.
And we know its various different manifestations and the various
different loopholes. And its various different entry points may
Allah subhanaw taala allow us to be protected because only Allah
can actually protect us.
This is what should have the login go. He says in his explanations,
he says ostentation is to render an act of worship or some other
virtuous deed with the motive of creating an impression on others
in order that they consider one a pious and saintly person.
If a person commences an act of worship, in the presence of
people, or in the absence of people who later arrive, with the
sole desire to create the impression of piety, then such
such as performing the ritual prayer in a beautiful manner,
which is not one's normal practice, when he sees people then
this servant has committed an act of ostentation, which is clear
At almost anyone I mean anybody would know that. Sometimes,
however, a person renders an act in private, yet, not withstanding
this privacy, ostentation still can enter his heart even though
nobody's watching him. Like you think that people will eventually
find out if they find out then they'll think this is just really
crazy.
Really crazy. This kind of ostentation is very subtle. The
sign of this type of ostentation is a man's desire to be honored
when he finally meets others, that he be appointed to a position of
prominence and leadership, with others serving him. When he is
honored he becomes elated. When such honor is not forthcoming from
people, he is stung with surprise. This attitude indicates that the
person's efforts and deeds are motivated by the desire for name
and fame and to gain service from people.
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Yes. We are happy we are Salam. Yeah. Latif. Yeah, then God will
be chrome Yeah, Allah have mercy on us. Yeah, Allah have mercy on
our apostates and our weak states of Allah. What can we offer you?
Oh Allah, we are supposed to be your servants. But Allah we don't
act like your servants. Oh Allah we act so independently in this
world of Allah we act as if we have all the power in our hands of
Allah just because you have given us capability to do certain
things. And you've given us good health and you've given us some
wealth of Allah, we think we can do whatever we want and it makes
us forget you, oh, Allah don't make what all the blessings you
have given us. Don't make it a source of burden for us. Don't
make it a source of arrogance or Allah do not make it a source of
showing off. Oh Allah allow us to be focused on you. Oh Allah, it is
difficult and we know it's difficult. Oh Allah bless this
author, and bless all of those who have assisted in allowing us to
understand this. Oh Allah. All thanks to you that you have given
us an understanding of this now allow us to practice this and
purify ourselves from all forms of haram in our life, all forms of
wrongdoings in our life. All forms of doubtful things in our life of
Allah suffice us with the halal away from the Haram and make us
independent of all but you allow us to have pure Tawheed and pure
Oneness of Allah allow us to love your messenger Muhammad sallallahu
alayhi wa sallam and to love all of his sunnah and to be like him,
Oh Allah. Allow him to be our ultimate guide. Allow him to
become a reality in our lives. Allow your love to be the guiding
factor for everything that we do, that we only do things out of love
for you. Oh Allah, we don't do it for any other reason. Oh Allah
remove everything else in our sights of Allah only you should be
in our sights of Allah make your obedience, beloved in our hearts,
and your disobedience hated in our hearts. And oh Allah.
It is difficult. We wake up in the morning with good intentions, but
by the evening we have failed, we have we we make a resolve in the
evening but by the morning we have failed and we have stumbled and we
have done wrong and we have gone far. Oh Allah, allow us to be
close or like accept us or Allah allow us to be close to you both
in this world and especially in the hereafter. Oh Allah allow us
to come to your to your house of Allah take us to your house, allow
us to fulfill the hunch of Allah those who have already gone make
the journey easy for them and an accepted one. Those who are going
oh Allah accepted and facilitated for them. Oh Allah take all of us
and Allah allow us all to go. And oh Allah allow us to fulfill the
rights fulfill your rights and the rights of your message of a hammer
sort of lives and, and the rights of others whose rights we owe to
who resides we owe them our Allah. If we have debts allow them to be
fulfilled and repaid our life we've done any aggression against
anybody allow us to be freed from that aggression. Oh Allah grant us
humility in our heart. Grants are sincerity in our hearts. Oh Allah
grant us generosity in our hearts, grant us. Love and affection and
understanding, love grant us self selflessness, and oh Allah allow
us empathy, allow us to want to do things for people and for
ourselves, Oh Allah, do not allow us to forget ourselves. Do not
allow us to forget ourselves, oh Allah bless us, our children, our
progenies until the day of judgment and the whole Muslim
Ummah and remove the oppression from those who are oppressed,
remove the oppression from those who are oppressed. And Allah all
of the confusions out there about what a human being is and what how
human beings are supposed to be. And all of the new types of
confusions which are coming about and the various different
challenges that are coming about
In the various different forms of artificial intelligence and
various different things that nobody knows it's going to Allah,
grant us a true light and understanding and protect us from
it's, oh Allah grant us our protection of Allah grant us our
protection and allow the insomnia and humanity to come back in the
human being. Oh Allah, allow our compass to become straight again.
Oh Allah, remove the chaos of Allah we are Hi Iran of Allah we
we are bewildered in this time where the fitness come one over
the other. Just like we're in the middle of a tumultuous ocean. We
don't know which way to go sometimes. So Allah guide us right
to Allah guide us right now Allah make us of those who are
permanently doing your remembrance who are constantly thanking you.
The the vicar is constantly in our hearts and on our tongue. And O
Allah, O Allah, we ask that you send your abundant blessings and
our messenger Muhammad sallallahu alayhi wa salam in granting his
company the hereafter. Subhana Allah will be caught up in is that
the IMEI of the phone was salam, Al Marcelino Al Hamdulillah.
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 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'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