Abdur Rahman ibn Yusuf Mangera – Balancing the Intellect and Wealth
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do not stretch out your hand to take from creatures unless you see
that the giver among them is your Lord.
If such as your case, then take what knowledge says is suitable
for you.
Do not stretch out your hand to take from creatures unless you see
that the giver among them is your Lord. If such as your case, then
take what knowledge says is suitable for you.
So this is again, in the same kind of direction that we've been
discussing, which is that a person
constantly thinks of Allah subhanaw taala to be involved in
everything that we do. It's that realisation that Allah subhanaw
taala is the one who is behind everything that we do.
One of the most prominent situations where this can be very
difficult to deal with
is the situation when you see something coming from someone
else.
Human beings are very in tune with their senses. This is what gives
them assurance. Generally speaking, knowledge of something
is not as powerful as seeing something, seeing something
increases and emphasizes the knowledge that you have about
something. Thus you move from what they call it LM Eliakim the
knowledge of some kind of certainty to when you see it, it
becomes annually again, it becomes the eye of certainty when you
actually see it. And if you experience something, then it
becomes Hochuli again. So generally speaking, a person can
be very diluted in this kind of situation. Because when you're
seeing something come from someone, and then for you to
believe and know inside that is actually coming from someone else.
That requires a bit of training, it requires a bit of somersaulting
in your mind getting things right, because humans right from the
beginning, where there's there's something that has to be learned.
That's why immersion is acquired. There's a natural basis of faith,
which helps a person in that direction, makes it easy for him
to recognize Allah subhanaw taala because it's just such a reality.
But at the end of the day, Iman is something acquired. That's why
yes, we're born in Muslim households, Muslims who are born
in Muslim households, they born in Muslim households, but when they
do become of discerning age, and when they do become of a
reflective stage, they do have to think of these things for
themselves and personalize it. To such a degree that most people's
Iman in that situation then becomes their own. Because the
people they follow to become a Muslim, which is generally their
parents. If, for example, their parents did leave the faith, they
would still stay Muslim. Because now although they took it through
this blind following as such in the beginning, they then will
personalize it and make it their own.
That's how human beings are generally when it comes to Allah
subhanaw taala. So
generally, for example,
somebody asked a question the other day that
why would when you can't see Allah subhana wa Tada, you can't see
paradise and * the hereafter, such important beliefs and tenets
of faith in our religion. You can't do without them. Our basis
of faith depends on them.
Don't mean a billion will occur.
Jonathan Jahannam Paradise and * being reality?
How can you be obliged to believe in them when you don't see them?
And you're not going to see them until it's too late to believe?
Well, the whole thing is that the reason is that the human beings
generally if you look at the overwhelming majority of human
beings, in fact, every human being there are so many things that we
believe purely based on information.
There's so many things we believe in the existence of cities is a
that we haven't visited is a very
simple example of that. But most of us everyone this is a human
reality is a human function to believe in things that you don't
see. Only then when you see some things and they reassure your your
belief.
Then a question that arises is that if somebody has questions
about faith, should they ask them or not?
Should they ask them or not?
Well, there's two levels of this. One is that I'm going in a bit of
a different direction. But I think this is important to clarify. One
is that if it's something that's bothering you, that's causing
issues with your faith, it's actually bothering you, Allah
prohibits. But if that is the case, then is necessary to find
out. So amo honey vs in is alphacool Akbar that if you ever
come across some kind of do bat some kind of dubiousness or doubt
or wavering in terms of any issue of Islamic belief that is causing
you some kind of friction in your mind, then it's necessary for you
to ask somebody and get a response. If you can't find
somebody quickly enough, then for the time being until you can find
somebody the hook them and the command is that you entertain in
your mind that I believe in this, whatever Allah
would like me to believe. I believe in whatever Allah subhanaw
taala has made a reality in this case. So that's a kind of a vague
Hold on, kind of patchwork job we do in the beginning until we
become
too.
So that's what that's what's important, right?
If it's a question just
that occurs in the mind, it doesn't cause you any wavering,
but you just like to know, for example, Why are women considered
in the Hadith to be innocuous or to Lucky?
Right, why are they considered to be deficient in the intellect when
we see that if you put men and women together, generally
nowadays, you see that women are excelling, in terms of their hard
work and
understanding their mental acumen. It's all there. So what's going
on? So that's the you're not you're not questioning the Hadith,
you just want to know its reason.
So there's nothing wrong with those kinds of questions. As long
as you're not you don't become a high skeptic.
There are some high skeptic it's skepticism is a disease, where
they don't believe in anything unless you provide absolute proof.
And in many things, there is no absolute proof, for example, they
will even question their own ancestry.
How would you prove that you came from your mother and father?
Right, okay, you got a birth certificate. Anybody could have
made that up a skeptic is the way anybody could have you could
anybody could make things up? You know, the registrar might be your
friend, he may have made you a certificate.
Somebody may go beyond that and say, Well, this is what I saw. But
how do you know that you're still the same person? You want swapped?
That DNA? DNA is not 100%. So how do you reassure such a person? So
high skeptic can never be reassured. Then you've got the
agnostics who believe in?
I don't know yet. We need to still look. We need to still inquire
inquiry is not ended yet? Well, there's been many centuries, since
humanity has been looking for the ultimate reality.
So any of those theories of the past? They're not good enough yet.
If millions of years of inquiry has not produced anything, what do
we expect in the next 1000 years to produce? So agnostics just say
we need to keep looking, they're different from atheists. Atheists
are denial completely. agnostics as a way we're not sure. Love the
idea. That's what they call them love the year.
So that's, I mean, agnostics. Okay, they've taken a To be
honest, I have more respect for an agnostic in in just the technical
sense of it, right? Because at least I've made a decision about
something. These guys have not made a decision. And the fact is
that if humanity had just been 100 years than 100 years old, then
that's understandable that we haven't really had enough time.
But humanity is 1000s of years old. And there's been many ideas,
it's been chronicled and recorded, and everything else of that
nature. So then why doesn't a person take one of those ideas?
Right? Why take it as a,
as a professional kind of ideology, that I'm not going to
accept anything, I still have to find things that's preventing you
from taking something even though one of those things may appeal to
you. For example, one atheist came to us when you had an open day and
he says that I really want to believe in God, but I just can't.
The reason is that his intellectual framework is
prohibiting him.
He has, you know, when you grow up, you may have received some
kind of atheistic intellectual framework that just causes you to
deny it because that's your intellectual framework. Anything
we see outside we process it according to our intellectual
framework. That's why
A the natural faith is very importantly helps us to process
process things with the right filters. So this guy he's inside
is wanting to believe Allah. But for some reason, his intellectual
framework is prohibiting or is limiting Him, it can't get it,
because it keeps denying things according to his intellectual
framework. We process everything according to the way we see
things.
Allahu Akbar. So
if you have a question
and you just want a clear answer, and you have a source, and we
should, we should have clear answers. And the proof of this is
in Ibrahim Ali salaams interaction with Allah subhanaw taala.
He says
Ibrahim Ali Salam says in the Quran
areni kafer dahil moto. I want you to show me Allah, how you
resurrect the dead, how you bring them back to life. So Allah
subhanaw taala asks him,
William Duchman, don't you believe
God will kill the ultimate in Nickleby. It's only to satisfy my
heart further give it more contentment. So that kind of
inquiry is allowed, as long as it doesn't become your sole bread of
your life. That's all you're doing. Because then eventually
shaytan can use that it's a bit precarious. She don't can use that
to create if you don't get the right answers, it could. But if
your faith is firm, and there are certain things that you want to
know about, then that's completely fine. That gives you a better
understanding of your faith. So it just depends on how you are and
what I've what I've noticed is that there are fitna for all of us
in our different situations, some people are more intellectual
minded, so they have a more lot more intellectual inquiry, they
keep thinking about these things, some people can't be bothered,
that's the last thing on their mind. They're fitna is the dunya.
You know, the the intellectual mind wandering, sometimes they
don't care about the dunya, as much as they just about learning
things. That's their fitness, sometimes the shaitaan will use it
in different direction. shaytaan uses their ankle, because the
three faculties of the human being Arkell. Intellect, which generally
associates with knowledge, right? Number two is anger.
The faculty of anger, which
anger not in the literal sense of getting angry and red in the face,
but this ability within a person to stand up and do something,
right, which is manifested in anger in an extreme sense, but in
a moderate sense, it allows a person to just get up and do the
right thing. Because if a person doesn't have it at all, or has
very less of it, then it's going to lead to cowardice, where
they're going to be so laid back, they don't care about anything.
That's a that's a shortcoming in that regard. So that's the faculty
of anger, then you got the faculty of shower of desire, again, you
need to have enough to be able to fulfill the rights of those who
Allah has told us fulfill the rights of our stomach and the
rights of husband and wife rights. If somebody doesn't have it, and
it's shortcoming in that regard, then again, they're not going to
be able to fulfill the rights of their spouse, for example, take
that to an extreme in any sense. And you see, all of these, we are
deviances, that you get sexual deviances. So everybody has a
challenge with one or more of these, this is where our challenge
generally comes. So generally, our challenge is going to do with
these three things.
One or more of these things, some people will just be purely an
intellectual challenge.
Again, asking too many questions. And sometimes that could take a
person to wavery.
The challenge of too much eating and just indulgence in stomach and
shouts, other types of
fulfillments of that nature, temptations. So sometimes a person
has in in all of them, you know, so these are our challenges,
basically, that we have.
The way of moderation of all of these things is to have some kind
of
resilience of the heart because all of these things are to do with
the faculties and not with the heart, but the impact on the
heart. So if on the other hand, we're not strengthening the heart
against these,
then it's a massive problem. There are many intellectual people that
I have seen who when they've not had a backing of spirituality,
then they will lose out. Yet there are numerous other people and the
rook is one of them. If not a Jeeva many of our other Mommy look
at the mental acumen of people like monocalcium Nanotyrannus,
Shefali autonomy, for example, like achieve phenomenal human
beings just from an intellectual perspective.
Shalini Allah,
and
these people could have been anywhere, they could have
succeeded in anything that they did, because they just, but
because of that heart, with the vicar of Allah and the spiritual
mentoring, that is what's benefited them, because that keeps
you right. Because the heart is, all of these external things will
attack the heart, all of these external things will impact the
heart and eventually, the heart will just become too weak, and it
will just follow along in that. But if the heart is strong, and
even though you're getting some harm, and we need the heart to be
strong these days, because we are, in this day and age being
constantly attacked by various different ideologies, in order and
there's no way we can avoid it, because we live in the midst of
it. Every newspaper article, every media story that you see is going
to be based on that,
you know, with the sexual deviance that are out there, and everything
else that's out there, it just constantly challenges you. It
constantly challenges you and a many, many people are losing
themselves in this regard. Because the man is not strong enough. And
the man is strengthened by the remembrance of Allah subhanaw
taala and more learning by knowledge, and people are devoid
because our occupation is the dunya people are going to work
this many hours a day, then they're coming in watching news
that's impacting their Iman, they're just about praying, if
they're lucky, many Muslims don't pray. So they're not even praying.
Some do pray. They're the really lucky ones. The people who get to
pray five times a day, whether or other or whatever it is, they're
the lucky ones. How many Muslims pray today? I mean, I don't want
to sound very pessimistic. But think about it. So if somebody was
not praying, or just about praying, or just praying Friday
prayers, or whatever it is, has no form of Islamic input, Islamic
gurus or anything of that nature.
Where are they getting enough to be able to sustain themselves in
this world, the only thing again, they're working, so their love of
money is increasing. They just in this toil of life. And on top of
that the knowledge system is all coming from the media, because
they're just watching news and movies, and things of that nature.
That's their pastime. So how do you expect that person to be
it's a bleak, it's very bleak. If we're not in that kind of system,
we should be thankful to Allah subhanaw taala. Like if we have
some concern, just concern itself is a massive network of Allah.
People don't have any concern, they're happy with this if they
just want more and more of this life,
telling me how many people you know, who do not listen to an
Islamic lecture for the whole year. They might just get one on
Eid, if they're lucky, if they don't just aim to get there right
for the solid time.
How many people are like that? How many people do you know that work
with you never get an Islamic lecture. And if they do get to
Joomla I mean, not every Joomla lecture unfortunately is very
inspiring.
Right? That's another thing that's another thing. So
can you see the problem which is on our hands
and then you then you wonder why our doors aren't accepted or the
OMA doesn't get much and we're suffering because this is what
globalization has done.
This is what globalization has done. Then after that.
We were in hudge. So you know, we have we're in the European camps.
Now every camp is different in hudge every camp is different
hedge, you get what you pay for, meaning you get what your group
pays for.
And our groups they say you're gonna get this and you're gonna
get that this is the selling point. You've got camps in Minar.
Close to shaytaan to further away from Shaytaan. Being closer
shaytaan means it's less of a walk. Right?
And you're further agenda. The European camps are about 50
minutes away as a walk right? There are good few miles away.
Then in those camps as well. You've got those that give you
mattresses and sheets and pillows,
an air cooling system, food,
some of them have buffet food, more exquisite food, some have
basic handout, food in just trays or whatever plates or whatever.
Some don't have anything you take your own. They might just provide
a carpet. You You have to input your sleeping bag, bring it on
your on somebody's own mattress or whatever food you have to buy
outside, and so on. So So there's all of this all of this stuff.
Now, the one we had a provides you a nice, really thick mattress that
turns into a seat. It gives you a
pillow and a sheet and
decent food. It's okay, right? decent food.
And space you get is just the space of one mattress. That's all
you get, you get nothing beyond that there's no, you have to put
everything up to pretty solid. That's how it is.
So some of these brothers, remember a lot of the people I'm
going with is their hedge for the first time, and maybe the only
time right? Some of them come from this category of people that I'm
speaking about. Right? The mashallah they've had the Tofik,
and they've just come for hedge.
Some of them they will come back to Heathrow Airport, and the jobs
go off.
You know, there's always going to be one of them every year that I
see a jobs go off. Soon as you get to London Airport, because the
fitna takes you again, I told him this, I said, when you right now
we've been with Muslims, right. And it's been such a wonderful
atmosphere as soon as you land, in fact, from the airline, you know,
from the aeroplane, but as soon as you land, you'll just suddenly
start feeling this freedom. And shaytaan will.
And it was exactly that most people are handler they, but it
happens. Anyway.
Some of these brothers, they went out on the streets, in Mina, after
the first day we got there. And they saw all of these people in
the sun. And it was very hot this year. 42 degrees we're talking
about, meaning it was so hot this year that it was 34 when you can
nighttime and you can generally sleep every I've slept that I've
been this year, I couldn't it was like a sauna, you were just
sweating like crazy. You just about fell asleep and you woke up
with sweat, it was just very difficult to see. That's how hot
it was this year. So they saw all of these people, lots of people on
the street, no food access, and they're literally on the streets
on cardboards or whatever. Sometimes they've got maybe a
makeshift shade pull over them or whatever the case is. And they
started feeling very guilty in our tents. So I heard this for more
than one of them. Now it spurred them to do a few good things.
Number one, we generally waste a lot of food in these places, a lot
of food is wasted. So alhamdulillah what they started
doing, we made an announcement that any extra food put in the
area. So that if you wanted to if anybody wants to take more food,
you can take and get all his breakfast items, and people just
have them laying all over the place. hamdulillah all of that. So
then they used to collect all the foods after after lunch or
whatever, and go and give it to these people. But they were
feeling guilty of being here.
Of being in the tent, look at them. Look where we are. Now this
wasn't the best of what you have out there. A friend of mine who
works with another group of America that cost $20,000 A
package 20 to $24,000 a package which we're talking about
13 to 15,000 pounds a package right there in MENA you get
two to three person a cabin, so it's not a tent, it's like a
proper closed, buffet meals.
Wi Fi Okay, understand Wi Fi. Understand Wi Fi right, there were
other groups that had Wi Fi as well and you can have it on your
phone anyway. Satellite TV, in Mina, you can't stay away for just
that. I can understand his bad enough having it in the hotels in
Macau. Carmen Madina Munawwara. But then too, although to be
honest, most people, they just keep the Haram on the haram.
That's what I've seen. So at least they know how many people know how
long, understandable, but to have it in minute as well. And
you know, that's going really crazy. I can understand having
something to make, this is where I was coming to. So these people
started feeling guilty.
Now, I didn't want that to spoil their hedge because shaytaan in
halftime comes in various different ways. Number one, he
doesn't let you go. If you do manage to overcome that. There's
so many people who have delayed for years and years and years and
years. And then they go in the old and they suffer. They should go
with the young. So they've gone finally, now shaytaan comes in all
forms. One of the biggest ways if you've gone with your spouse is
generally going to have an argument about something.
He just causes some kind of issues, and it spoils your Hutch.
It's really bad because of the cases that came to me about this
right? To such a degree one woman one woman took me to the site at
Heathrow Airport when we were getting our bags. And she had
asked me a few questions during the Hajj as well. And she goes my
husband, this is what he did this time. The other nice thing. Thank
you, we should just separate and I'm like, you know, this is not
the time to discuss this. Right? You've just come back from hij I
was thinking just come but I said this because you know you can get
drawn into so this is not the time to discuss this. Right.
So shaytaan causes a lot of these frictions so now this is another
idea in fact another thing shaytaan causing a few days
beforehand he'll make you do think you have to do a lot of worship
getting the most out of HUD I'm gonna do 10 Throw offs and things
like that and then you are not taught by lunchtime so in order
for you can't send them a you become be Mario's you're sleeping
And to be honest, it's, I used to feel like that, because we have
Madina Munawwara I stayed there, we generally stayed there for days
or eight days. So I stayed Alhamdulillah, eight days because
I had to deal with two different groups. Then when we get to
Makkah, we have two days before hutch, and then I have one day
after Hajj, and I'm thinking I need to maximize this time, in
order for us to get from Isiah to the Harlem and Harlem is really
difficult these days, because of the work that's going on. It's,
you don't even know where to go, what not to do. And that crowds
and it's this, it takes a lot out of you. So I used to feel really
guilty, that I can't go and do $10 a day, whatever. But then he said
relax, before hedge, go and do something. But relax, don't overdo
it. Because your main MCSA of your journey is hedge your Arafa your
must deliver your Nahariya you know all of these things to really
get the most out of those special promotions that are taking place
on that day. So I'm just trying to tell you how Satan comes to the
* in these different ways.
The third way is this people are acting acting all guilty about
this, that we're enjoying ourselves. And, you know, whereas
we're not really when they first came into there, they you know,
when you first come into your tent for the first time, you feel
really like a fish out of water. You feel homesick, right? Because
in Morocco, Morocco, Namibia, you got nice hotels and whatever. Now
you come to a space of like a grave, literally, and you've got a
haram on. So you can't even have your normal accessories and things
of that nature. So you feel really out of place. And that really is a
struggle in the beginning, right? And then suddenly, you start
seeing this as a luxury and you're guilty about this luxury. So then
I had to explain it the three thoughts about it. You had to
explain that. Look, if we were if you swapped your place with those
people, what would happen? They would most likely because they
haven't dealt with this kind of luxury, right? If they're willing
to go and spend their day outside no shade, they're probably used to
that.
I'm not saying the derogatory is and they probably use it
otherwise, why would somebody go and do that? Yes, there's a few of
them will be so desperate for a hedge. Most of these people will
be probably be illegal anyway, down there. Right? There shouldn't
be there. Because they have they're supposed to have camps for
every place and if you can pay for it. So either these guys are very
poor, or they are illegal and they've just slipped in their
workers from Saudi Arabia, you know, the older workers that
they've got from around, they're not allowed to come in until
except every five years they smuggle themselves in and they've
just found a place. Nobody's gonna ask them there. Right. They keep
moving them out. They just go to another place. If they were in
here, they probably suffer because of indulgence of the luxury that
we if we went out there, we will probably run away. Our hygiene
would be messed up. We couldn't stand the heat.
Where we've only got this place according to our status is what
we're used to. If you put yourself down into this is hygiene is not
supposed to be an extra Mujahidin, there's already enough effort in
the rights that are legislated upon. You don't make an extra
Mujahidin mess your hijab by going and sleeping on the streets, if
you're used to sleeping on the street is a whole different story
for you. So Allah has given us according to our status, and
there's no reason to feel guilty, you do sugar of what you have,
when you look at them, you must do sugar of what you have, but you
must also not start indulging in what you have and is not a place
to indulge anyway.
Yes, if you went beyond your means and you had you know, like these
extra packages that gave you order these extra things which were
which were contrary to the hudge then that would be wrong. But
otherwise you only have what you have.
And
there was one of our recent scholars Mufti Rashid luthi
honoree, these were the days when he didn't have too many luxury
hotels or on mcomber karma, and Madina Munawwara, you had the
small ones, there were a few one or two Hilton's one of these big
hotels or whatever, very few. Now, that is the norm around. But
before that wasn't the case, about 20 years ago, 25 years ago, used
to be the small, small hotels, he used to insist on paying huge
amounts of money to stay in one of those luxury five star hotels, and
he's got in his biography, it's there. The reason is, I then don't
have to worry about anything, I can then go and spend my time in
the home and come back and be you know, it, everything is the way I
want it. So his reason for taking those was not for the luxury, but
was for the convenience of being because those were the closest
hotels that I have in those days. Right? They were the closest and
they had the less problem of, of people you have to get through.
And it gave you access to these things and it just gave you ease
and comfort. So if you're doing it for that reason, then there's
absolutely nothing wrong with it and you've got the ability to do
it, then there's nothing wrong with it and you mustn't feel
guilty about it.
We're just not used to it. We're just not used
to being in the sun and during that worship, why add that extra
layer? So I said thank Allah for what you have, and don't feel
guilty, then I explain some situations then everybody has a
different situation. I may have given you this example before when
I was studying in India,
I once had, I was there with my wife and with Ava, and he was only
less than a year old and right. So
we're just about a year old or something. How old are you?
Okay.
Anyway, so I went to do a bit of shopping that I was a student,
supporting myself, so I had only a bit of money anyway. And most of
our money I would like to spend on books. So I went out wants to buy
a bit of shopping for the home because you know, we had rented a
home there. I spent 200 rupees in about 10 minutes to shops, I
think. I took this Indian student along with me not a up student but
a student from Gujarat, Gujarat, the students are supposed to be a
bit more well off than the up ones. Right? Good job is a more
prosperous state than up right in general. So I took him along, I
went and bought this a few things. 200 rupees is about two to three
pounds, maybe that time was about three pounds. Now it's two pounds
worth about three pounds of shopping added. Here, you go to a
normal shop, you can't buy anything for three pounds. Your
normal shop is going to be between 40 pounds and 100 pounds. go to
Costco up you don't come back with less than 100 pounds of shopping,
right? That's the norm these days, right? But now it's a three pound
I spent
the next day or the day after
he was on his show. And he came to me he says up in a boat full
hijiki
you wasted so much money.
I was just thinking Subhanallah How is that possible? I think when
did I do that? Because I was not a extravagant spender. Especially
when those days in India, I would take the bus I had a bike. Right?
Because I had a certain amount of money that had to last the whole
year, right with the family. And most of our money would be spent
in going to visit orlimar or buying books or something like
that. So I wasn't going on eating in fancy places and all or none of
that. It wasn't like that. There are some students who do that from
the UK right? I wasn't doing that. So when he said that I just
couldn't understand why then I really goes up near those who
wrote via credit card data this minute candor.
Right, I was well, then I realized afterwards that their stipend for
the month was 40 rupees for one month was 40 rupees.
There were people among them who I found out they they they've never
eaten chicken for years. They come from Bihar and other places. They
don't see chicken, what they cook for them there is you know, your
dolls and things like that. And the only meat they get is Buffalo
meats, these old buffaloes, they cooked for them, they don't get
chicken, one of them only got to taste milk because he was BMR he
was sick. And that's why he had to buy some milk. So you got students
like that who are studying and I just suddenly spent five months of
his salary, his stipend in 10 minutes.
It's like for example, you know, you make 2000 pounds a month for
example. And you see some guy coming from Qatar, Oman or or
Emirates or whatever and blowing 100,000 pound in one night in a in
a hotel or in a casino and you think what, uh oh, that's
definitely you know, do you understand? Is that kind of a
comparison?
So was I doing Fazal hace? Was I wasting my money? Was I being
extravagant? Can I live like them? I can't, if I tried to live like
them that would add an additional layer. I wasn't there to do it. I
was there to study if I tried to also do that and like live on the
basic doll and whatever, which I can probably do now. But you know,
it's impossible. Do you understand it just no way you can do that.
So be thankful for what you have. Just don't indulge in it and don't
be extravagant in it and don't use it in the Haram don't allow the
musty of the pizza to you know, don't allow the mischief of the
money that you have to overtake you. That's the essentially the
thing. So what is the
the conclusion of all of this?
If you're getting what's according to your level,
then do shucker for what you have when you see the lower don't feel
guilty in the grand scheme of things though.
In the grand scheme of things, what is the preferred route?
What is the Sunnah of Rasulullah saw no Rasul allah sallallahu
Sallam is to make do with little
Allah Houma. Sure enough, he Zimra tilma Sirkin. This was his dua,
Allah Who mucha Kuta early Allah Who Majid al Risca Ali Mohammed in
Kuta Oh Allah make the sustenance of the prophets Allah some just
enough to strengthen your back to keep your straight. That's what
his dua was for himself and his family. That was his
his dua, he had expensive things which he gave away. Because one
thing is for sure. One thing is for sure indulgence, not indulge
us as much as you like, get the best things as much as you like,
have lots of money as you like. But you will be questioned more
as you have in this world, the more you have, the more, the more
boxes, you have to fill on your tax form. Likewise, in the
Hereafter, there's going to be more questioning, and there's no
doubt about that, unless you've got some really good acts, that
give you a special VIP ticket without questioning into Jannah.
Otherwise, if you've got a lot, then try to get a VIP ticket as
well.
Otherwise, if you've just got a lot, and that's all you're doing,
then there's going to be more questioning the person who's poor,
who doesn't have much he's going to have less questioning.
Right, he's going to have less questioning. So yes, questioning
is going to come. So if you do have, then do something to get a
special ticket to Jana, special favor with Allah subhanaw taala
special bonus, and keep the heart strong so that all of this extra
does not overcome us. This is the whole point of the Dhikr of Allah.
And having a background. If you look around you, if you look
around you there are many intellectual individuals out there
in the Muslim community. They've gone astray.
Even if they are Allah ma sometimes or scholars or studied,
they sometimes go too much into liberalism, because they don't
have a backing of a source that helps them and support them. They
don't have a backing of Vicodin remembrance, Vicodin remembrance
is so important because it makes you conscious, it makes you
conscious of, I've got to stand in front of Allah, I have to be
careful.
I have to be careful with what I do.
So thank Allah for what you have. And try to garner as much favors
with Allah subhanaw taala as possible.
I don't even know how possible that is. Because the problem with
having too much substance is that it has this propensity to take us
away. So it's like where we're really struggling with that. But
there have been success in the past with great Allah ma who had,
who had a lot and still survived. Right. And you know, this is
through solder cart and through assistance of others and through
dhikr of Allah and remembrance and things of that nature.
So this idea of how shaytaan comes into Texas in different ways in
different forms, just to then spoil a major worship.
Because Hajj is probably the most effective, fast worship you can
have in the world.
To get you closer to Allah, it's probably the fastest in most
effective routes. That hardly fails. It fails with a few people
because they just just not into it, they will go there and start
complaining about everything. And that just messes everything up.
There are things to complain about.
There's no doubt there are things to complain about.
I'm glad the thing with cheesed me off was right at the end.
Because you know you're on the Hajj terminal. And they've got
gates, each gate has three flights associated to it. And you have to
get there six to eight hours before.
To get into that gate. After you do the initial get into the after
you get after they let you check in first they make you sit in this
really hot place where there's no AC or anything. Okay,
understandable, then they let you check in, then you go into the
hole, and then you get into your gate area. To get into that gate
area. There's 1000 people waiting to get in because you got three
flights, train people have three flights trying to get in, and
they've only got one security. One. Would you call it
X ray, and one belt. And everybody has to be checked for whatever
reason. Right? So it takes one by one one by one 1000 people how
many hours is that going to take so you just literally just
standing you can't even sit because you move along every few
seconds every few minutes. So it's just there are some crazy things
on there. But the way I we started discussing and I told the brothers
I said you know enough of our sins haven't been purified yet. So this
is the last part of it. Because it makes you do sober. Otherwise you
get angry.
So it's all about the subject just take it as a way to purify your
sins. But Hajj is the most effective way that I've seen for
for a five day, Quick Fit. You know, there's the 10 days that
they got which is very beneficial sitting in a masjid for 10 days
with a sheet that's very beneficial. But this one is even
more because you're in the Presence of Allah subhanaw taala
in the most holy holy places. It's just amazing. Makes you change.
Allah subhanaw taala give us the Tofik
alojamento Salam salam to Bharatiya Diljit early with the
Quran Allah homea how you as a human medical history Subhan Allah
He 90 Allah Allah herb, Allah Hamas and
Your Sunday mind so you didn't know Mohamed Wilder early See you
then and we're having to do a vertical Salam. O Allah, O Allah,
we are Your servants of Allah we are your sinful servants Oh Allah
we have committed many excesses Oh ALLAH but at the end of the day we
are Your servants and nobody else's servants of Allah when we
pray, we pray to you, we bow down in front of you, we say Subhan
Allah, Allah, we glorify you as our Lord. Oh Allah we ask that you
assist us and help us You forgive us O Allah grant us forgiveness O
Allah grant us forgiveness of Allah grant us forgiveness of
Allah grant us forgiveness of Allah grant us pardon Oh ALLAH
overlook our sins and have your mercy upon us. Oh Allah have your
mercy upon us. Yeah, or hamara he mean Yeah, or hamara he mean,
treat us with Your Mercy of Allah, your mercy, rivers of Your mercy
are constantly flowing of Allah we ask for even a simple drop of that
Mercy of Allah, it's enough to suffice us. Allah keep our hearts
attached to you. Our lucky bow consciousness upon you of Allah
keep our consciousness with you. Oh Allah, this world is very
attractive. It's very distracting. Oh Allah, Oh Allah, we are
indulgent in it. Oh Allah we think about the dunya 24 hours of Allah.
Allah Allah we're constantly behind the dunya of Allah allow
our hearts to stay firm. On your deen of Allah Our allow our hearts
to stay firm when your deen to stay firm when you're the
O Allah, we ask You for tofi to do many, many good deeds of Allah to
not be embroiled in the world in such a way that we have no time
for anything else. Oh Allah give us the Tofig to make our Salah at
some time of Allah to really establish our prayer the way the
way you want them to be of Allah O Allah do not make them just a form
but grant them a spirit and a rule of Allah grant our prayers life of
Allah grant our hearts life of Allah grant our hearts life and a
soul of Allah We beseech you, we beseech you, O Allah, we are tired
of
fighting against the shaitan we make Toba in the nights and we
break it in the morning. Oh Allah. We make Toba in the morning and we
break it by night. Oh Allah. Even when a child is tired of walking
he asked his parents to pick him up in the chair and the child is
picked up by his parents. Oh Allah we asked you to take us in your
refuge now. Oh Allah we asked to take you in our refuge of Allah we
ask you to take you in your refuge. Have Allah to grant us
protection from the shaytaan O Allah O Allah. There are many
evils out there we're bombarded by them day in and day out. There are
many distractions for us. There are many temptations for us. Oh
Allah, we ask that You grant us the understanding the true
understanding of things you show us the truth is the truth and
allow us to follow it and show us the wrong as the wrong and allow
us to abstain from it. Our Allah blessed us with beneficial
knowledge of Allah blessed us with beneficial knowledge of Allah
fulfill our permissible needs of Allah fulfill our permissible
needs of Allah protect us from all forms of distraction and the
mischief of the money that you have given us. of Allah, we seek
protection, we seek forgiveness, we seek forgiveness from all of
those sins we've committed using the very money that you bestowed
upon us. The very health that you gave us. Oh Allah, we asked you
forgiveness from this of Allah you gave it to us and we use it to
aggress against you. Oh Allah, Oh Allah forgive us for this
blasphemy. Forgive us for this tyranny of Allah forgive us for
this sin. Forgive us for the success of Allah Our life is full
of excesses of Allah, our life is full of excesses, our Allah Oh
Allah protect us and help us have compassion upon us. Have mercy
upon us. Oh Allah make this a blessed gathering of Allah. Do not
let any of us return except forgiven. Except inspired, except
with your mercy of Allah grant us all your mercy, oh Allah grant us
all your mercy, grant us all your mercy and all of those who have
died in these calamities we've had Oh Allah, make them make them make
them a man grant them blessing Oh Allah grant them blessing grant
them closest to you grant them sure has shahada Oh Allah grant
them shahada, Allah grant them Shahada. Oh Allah allow us to
perform your pilgrimage of Allah in a pristine state. And O Allah,
O Allah, allow us to go back over and over again to your blessed
house, and in the presence of your messenger Muhammad sallallahu
alayhi wa sallam, and to take from the bounties that are available
there, from the Rama that descend upon the descend upon these places
of Allah. Oh Allah do not deprive us of these mercies of Allah do
not deprive us of these mercies of Allah except to whatever dollars
have been made in order for this year for all of us. Oh Allah
accept all of the beneficial doors that will be beneficial for us,
accepted for us despite the fact that we were not there with our
physical bodies. Maybe we may have been there in with our hearts. Oh
Allah Oh Allah we ask you protection from all of the things
that have been sought protection refuge from Allah, Allah bless us.
Oh Allah grant is still fake.
allow us to see the right as the right and to follow it. Oh Allah
bless us in our lives. Bless us in our businesses blessings in our in
our homes of Allah, Allah Allah, protect us, protect us from all of
the fitness out there protect our children from all of the fitness
out there Subhanallah decarbonize your seafood was salam and Allah
mursaleen Al hamdu Lillahi Rabbil Alameen