Abdur Rahman ibn Yusuf Mangera – Bangalore Tour 2018 Manifestations of Faith (Iman)
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The speakers discuss the importance of belief in one's own beliefs and fasting for achieving good health outcomes. They stress the need for individuals to be patient and diligent in their daily activities to achieve their goals. The importance of faith in protecting one's spiritual health and avoiding sin is also discussed. The conversation touches on the negative impact of post modernism on society and the value of belief and the importance of belief in society. The segment also touches on the history of the Middle East, the creation of the city of Baghdad, and the use of water in people's behavior. The segment ends with a story about a woman named Haroon Rasheed who bought a mansion and sold it for one of the price.
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So just quickly, I want to explain what it means to be a believer.
Because we as Muslims, the word Muslim,
there's another word more men, more men and Muslim. These are two
Arabic words. Most times they use interchangeably you can say he's a
modern, she's Mina. She's a Muslim, you could say either.
But strictly speaking, there's a difference between them
linguistically. And technically maltman is the one who has inner
belief. There's a hadith in which the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa
sallam was asked by the angel Jibreel famous for these cheap
ideas of God is a very famous man email and we asked what is email
your
email is what makes you men? What men is the one with iman. Okay,
bit of linguistics lesson today.
So Mothman is the one so the promise of awesome answer is that
you believe in Allah the last day, the prophets, the divine books,
and you believe in the decree, predestination, the good and bad.
If you see all of these are to do with insight, belief.
Then he asked the question, man, Islam, we are similar. What is
Islam? If this is Iman, then what is Islam? The answer he probably
someone Larson gave was Islam is that You declare openly that God
is one. Muhammad is Allah's Messenger, sallallahu alayhi
salam, and that you do salaat and fasting and Zeca and hij, if
you're able to all of these are external acts, they're practical
acts eemaan was all about internal beliefs. And Islam is about
external acts. Of course, as a Muslim, we need to because you
can't have Islam without EMA. And you can't have Eman without Islam.
Okay, now, what does it mean it to say I'm a believer, or I am a
movement? And I have Iman, what does it mean? So there are huge
books written on kita with the book of iman, which tells you
everything about Iman. I'm not going to do the whole book today.
I just want to bring maybe five quick Hadith to show what it means
to be a movement a believer. What is the what is supposed to be the
benefit of being a Muslim? How are we supposed to act as not many as
Muslim? Muslim in Khomeini plurals of Mormon and Muslim? Okay.
If I was to ask you, like, if I was to ask you, and you were to
give an answer to me, just think in your own mind, what is Iman to
you?
Most of you, I will say, See, I believe the statistics what I've
been told,
if I if somebody is to ask you, why you are Mothman? And what does
it mean that you're a movement or a Muslim? How will you answer
right, some of you may say oh, that means I must pray, I must
cover I must do this, then everybody will have a various
different some of these things will be correct. Obviously.
I want to try to give you the essence of being a believer what
it means straight from the words of the prophets of Allah values.
So the first thing
is,
there's a hadith which is sahih narrated by the authentic
collections Behati, Muslim etcetera. The Prophet sallallahu
sallam said, I German the nominal movement in America will put a
local level higher.
What an astonishing state, it is for a believer meaning the
believer, man or woman is in a very wonderful state.
Because for in America, low height, everything for them can
lead to goodness. What does that mean?
Any state they're in, it can lead to goodness and excellence, then
the promise was explained. He said, if they are afflicted with
some difficulty, for example,
I pray that you're successful in your exams, whether they're
tomorrow or some other day. But sometimes if you've worked very
hard, and you don't get the grade you want, you feel bad.
Or you want to get married to someone and somebody else gets
married to them. That really hurts.
Or anything else for that matter, anything else? setbacks in life
calamities, you may be become ill or sick. God forbid, you may
somebody may be involved in an accident.
Probably satellites themselves if a calamity reaches you difficulty
Hachi reaches you and you are patients. That that is good for
you.
The calamity wasn't good. But then he became good because you
patiently persevered.
You dealt with it in the right way, you did not freak out and
pull out your hair and, and go crazy. Because there's not it's
not worth doing that night. It doesn't make you a better rather
contain and deal with it. That's what the professor was saying and
you get rewarded. One of the greatest rewards in Islam is
vocations. That's why even fasting has the greatest reward that is no
stipulated reward. Allah says, fasting is for me, I will directly
give a reward for as much as I want. Because fasting is patients.
Fasting is nothing but patients patients from eating, drinking,
and sexual *. That's what fasting is to abstain
fasting, meaning patients means to abstain to withhold to control
yourself.
Then the process of allowing some said,
if something good comes to the video, because life is about good
or bad, there'll be some difficulties. But then there'll be
some prosperities you got good marks in your exam, you got a new
set of clothing, you got a new phone, which are banned here. You
can't bring them inside, right but you got a new phone which are big
fitna which are big problem, right? But you get excited when
you get a new iPhone. Right? There's an excitement there, even
though it's so harmful, right? Unless you're very careful about
the way you use it. So if you have some kind of
some kind of bounty, some kind of favor, then you have to do sugar.
So
I just sat inside the office and they gave some me time, it was
new. And I thought it was nice. So I said, Thank you, Allah.
Simple as that. It's just to train yourself to thank Allah for every
small thing that happens. Anything good happens, you do you thank
Allah.
The benefit of that is Allah says in the Quran, Allah and Shackleton
as even if you give thanks, we will increase you. If you get a
new dress, new clothing, new shoes, new house, whatever, and
you thank Allah, Allah will give you more. There's only a benefit
for us. This is all part of movement. This is all part of
being a movement. Once we were in an interfaith program, there was
about five, six of us, myself, a Christian woman, and maybe a man
somebody to three other people. And we all said that everyone
should bring something from their faith tradition, present a verse
or something. This is the Hadith I presented. I'm not sure there was
one woman, that Christian woman she was just until the end, she
was like, This is so wonderful. This encapsulates the way to live
your life. If you follow this honey, you will never be upsetting
this one. You even if you're upset, you do suffer, it will come
up to be good for you. Because someone raises your site in Allah,
and in the modern grocery user with every summer and difficulty
comes ease afterwards. So that's the first Hadith general principle
of life. Number two.
What else does it mean to be more mean? So another Hadith? The
Prophet sallallahu sallam said, niacin is Zanni he has Neva
Hormozgan What are your struggle homogeneous shop? Well, what me
what i Yesterday Peter yesterday for whom Okay?
When a person phony case, commits unlawful *, right young
people, older people can't control themselves and they don't do it in
the lawful way they do unlawful sexual *. When they do
that. He can't be a movement. He's not a movement at that time, when
somebody drinks wine, because that's prohibited in Islam, or any
intoxicants, then they're not remotely. They can't be a believer
that like that. And number three, if anybody steals that he's not a
believer while he steals. What does that mean? One meaning could
be that a movement can't do these things. Because if they do these
things, they can't be a moment. But we don't take this hadith
literally. There are many Muslims, unfortunately, who do still drink
and for decades, as long as they believe they're still believers,
at least at some level, but they don't have complete perfection of
faith. There's another Hadith which explains this. It says that
when a person commits Zina, the faith, Iman comes out and hovers
above the head like a cloud.
Somebody he'll explain this as that the Imam is so powerful that
when a person does something wrong, maybe there's punishment
coming down from Allah. So the Imam goes on top and protects
them.
This is the value of our faith that it protects us. But you can't
rely on that all the time. But oh, my human would protect me
Keep doing zener stealing, drinking, because eventually one
day that you might want to go and never come back, God forbid.
But these are ways, but this is another expression of faith. Faith
is that you do suffer, you do sugar.
Thanks, patients and thanks, you avoid harms and wrongs. And then
number three
these things were so far very personal. The first one was very
psychological. The second one was avoiding sins. Now the third one
is inter social.
The Prophet sallallahu sallam said, Now you may know Aluko
Hattah you see Hema you hate bullying, FC,
la yoke middle, none of you can be true believers or perfect
believers, unless you love for your brother when you love for
yourself. Now why does it say Brother? Does that mean you
shouldn't love for your sister or your face? Or
is it just brothers and sisters as well?
The prophets Allah is speaking to men. So that's why he addressed
the men in this context. But otherwise, women absolutely it's
the same thing. You can't be a true believer unless you love for
your brother or sister. What you love for yourself. What is this
teaching us is teaching us that we need to be selfless, not selfish.
We need to be generous, not greedy. We need to be loving, not
full of enmity if your classmate comes with a new nice dress,
right? Or a nice handbag,
right, Louis Vuitton?
Have you heard of that name?
I'm sure you're not.
So
you get so jealous
that there's a drink on the table and the bag is there. So you, you
drop it.
Because you don't have one, she does have one. That's jealousy.
That's not being a believer. That's not being a moment.
A moment means you must love for the other one you love for
yourself.
Some scholars have said, what this means is that you must love for
your sister or brother to be better than you.
How would you understand that from this?
Because most people like to be better than us. If I like that for
myself, then I must like for my brother or sister to be better
than me then. I know sometimes that causes a conflict in
perception or a paradox. But the idea is that this idea is supposed
to moderate our evil traits in our hearts. And it is to give rise to
love and compromise and empathy and generosity and all the other
places where we did so can you see now how we're building the picture
of a true
we're all movement. We all believe that those who have Islam, those
who believe it, but are we doing all of these things? Because
that's what a true believer is supposed to write the next day
through
the prophets of Allah some said, again, the word is that same word
lie you'll double LogMeIn mean Giuffre noir hidden Marathi.
A movement is not stung from the same hole twice. What does that
mean?
A movement is not stem from the same hole twice. So for example,
if you're going on a hike, or you're somewhere and there's a
hole, it basically means that what you may you may sit near there,
you may look inside and a snake or scorpion or something and evil,
something that lives in there will bite you. But you cannot make that
mistake twice. One time you will be forgiven. But the second time
this is wrong, are you are you too gullible? Don't be so innocent,
and naive, that people will deceive you. So the whole means
people deceiving you. Okay, one time you may be deceived by
someone. But you can't let yourself be deceived twice or
more. Because a Minister must be smart
is supposed to be smart. So it's part of iman to be smart. Now,
it's possible sometimes to be honorable, that you let yourself
be deceived. Because you don't want to upset somebody that's
different. But you can't let take people take advantage of you for
the wrong reason.
That's not that being a moment doesn't mean you need to be so
laid back, that you people walk all over you. That's not what it
means. You need to be honorable and dignified, and smart and
clever. Sometimes I used to sell books to someone.
And a friend of mine used to also sell books to them.
We both used to sell to one person, one particular person
businessman, and he was a very rough businessman, very
unscrupulous businessman. So, he used to
he used to always drive a very hard bargain and
He used to criticize the books and everything. And
he wouldn't pay on time. So once I called my friend because I would
have to call this person so many times, where's the money? Are you
paying maybe? One day my friend said, I talked to my friend said,
Has he paid you? He said he hasn't paid. I said, Are you? When do you
think he will pay you? He says, I don't care anymore. He says that,
to keep chasing him takes more time and is less useful now than
for me to sit and say subhanallah Hamdulillah. I get more rewarding
this. This is obviously as Tawakoni and Allah, that's why
he's saying this. But sometimes you have to do that. Otherwise,
sometimes you have to leave a case, leave an argument, the
professor Lawson said, if you leave an argument, even though
you're wrong, you get you still get a house in the outskirts of
paradise. Even if you're wrong and you leave an argument. Most people
argue in it.
Know this if you're wrong.
The whole bottom even if you're wrong, and you leave an argument
is giving incentive, because most people arguing they're wrong
anyway. So he's giving an incentive that stop arguing even
if you're wrong, right. I don't know how people are going to
listen to this. But you know, that's the idea. And if you're
correct, and you leave an argument then you get a place in the high
part of gentlemen.
So this is all part of being a moment. Okay. Now, two more Hadith
quickly. There's a hadith narrated by Abdullah he knew Amerindian
prosody Allah one with the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam said
that by the one in whose hand is my life.
The example of a movement. The example of a believer is like the
example of a honeybee.
Example of a honeybee now honey bees you shouldn't kill them.
Right, because 50% of the honeybees of the US have been have
died. And honey bees actually provide pollination. I mean, you
guys have studied, right, this kind of stuff. So yesterday, there
was a bee inside the house and I said, don't kill it, just get it
out. Just don't kill it. Because you don't want to kill these wasps
are a different story. Right? They're crazy. Honey bees perform
a very good, very good task in our ecosystem. It's very important. So
the professor lost him said the Mothman is like a honeybee. And
then he described it he says, it eats that which is pure, the
nectar. It's a pure nectar, it doesn't go to the dirt like flies,
flies will find dirt. But the honeybee looks for the pure
nectar. And then it also discharges and produces that which
is pure, which is honey.
It eats that which is pure ingested and also discharges it
and produces that which is pure, will either work hard
for them to walk out the taxi. And when it does alight onto the
flower, it doesn't break the flower, it doesn't spoil the
flowers. You know, the stems where the where the nectar is, in the
flower, it's a very delicate is the small. You've seen it I don't
know what you call them. Somebody gave you the name yesterday, you
put on a stigma.
Right? So they're very, very delicate, but the pea comes in
hovers around and it takes and it doesn't spoil anything. A Mothman
is also supposed to be like that. A mop Minister wants to be a cold
breeze that comes into the room. Not that when a moment comes in
and people think oh no, you know,
this is suck.
But when a moment comes in Al Hamdulillah this is good. Now this
is going to be good. You know there's going to be really that's
how a real believer should be. I know this sounds really high and
really difficult. But if you know about this and you're trying to be
like that Allah can make us like that. The final hadith is the
Prophet sallallahu sallam said that
there are 77 branches of iman.
To be a movement is like a tree. The trunk is email and the
branches, other manifestations expressions of faith. highest one
is to say La ilaha illa. ALLAH, Rasool Allah and the lowest one is
to move something that is harmful from the street.
If we when we're walking and we see something harmful, and we
don't move it, then what is the state of our email?
We can't even be bothered.
Generally, Bangalore is by clean anyway, from what I've seen,
compared to other cities in India, right?
Not as clean as a country maybe but he's clean up. So when you see
something that's wrong, you just move it away. That's part of
movement.
And if we don't do that, then that means we can weakness in our
branches. But then the province of Assam said I'll hire who made an
email.
Hire is from EMA what is higher mean?
Higher is a very difficult word to translate into English. I don't
know about Hindi because I don't know Hindi too much or Sanskrit.
For that matter, but it's a very complex concepts. And certain
languages don't have a comprehensive terms. Sometimes
they say shyness, or shyness is a natural thing and higher doesn't
mean that natural shyness. If somebody is very shy and they
don't want to speak and are introverted, that doesn't mean
they've got fed up. That has nothing to do with religion.
That's just the natural stuff.
Some people are very overt, very extroverted. Now KR means that for
the sake of Allah when it's right to express yourself, you do, but
when it's wrong to express yourself, then you don't let's
hire Imani not high up quickly. So natural hair natural shyness is
different to Imani Hale, and Imani here is another translation, this
is modesty, not complete, but it works sometimes not the one that
says bashfulness. And that is basically that we want to stay in
the way Allah has told us to me. So for example, for me higher
would be that I don't speak in vulgar language, I don't reveal
the parts of my body that I'm not supposed to reveal, right. I don't
do things that are repugnant and ugly. Likewise, for women, they
have their own ways where they must dress in a particular way.
They must act in a particular way, they must speak in a meeting all
of these things, this is all part of our higher. So a moment is in
their social interaction in their personal psychology, in their
personal behavior, in their outlook of life. Also in the
method of dress and behavior, they have to have modesty and higher
otherwise they are missing out.
Otherwise, they're not acting as a true believer and they're not
benefiting from the great potential of true belief
in mind is a very valuable thing. In the modern age with the
onslaught of post modernism, liberalism, secularism, feminism,
to a certain degree, some parts of feminism are good, some part of
his extreme and harmful, right because they create an imbalance
in society. But some point of feminism is good, because
unfortunately, in some cases, women have been subjugated on
unjustifiably, in many cases, so to get the rights that women
should be in certain cultures, whether that be Muslim, Hindu or
other cultures, right, that's understandable. But then sometimes
it's just one over the limits. And it goes crazy. Just like with
everything, there's extremes in everything. So
in light of all of that people forget about EMA, they don't see
the value of EMA.
They don't see the value of EMA and being a movement, even though
they may have been born. And so this gets complicated. The thing
is that remember, we don't live just to this world we live for the
hereafter, there's a hereafter that we're going to go to whether
we like it or not, that's our belief. For that, that's the
tickets, the valuable thing which will take us and benefit us in the
hereafter. The golden ticket is Iman, so it must be valued. There
was one big scholar of the past whose name is Sophia and authority
are very big, smaller around the
late 200 injuries, right about 179 HD or something after the loss.
He wants to see him crying and somebody asked him Are you crying
for why you waiting for? He said, because
I have not. He picked up a piece of a grain small seed and he said
I have not disobeyed Allah even this much.
Now when I read that, I think like what's your problem? Why are you
why are you worried for I should be worried? I've got more problems
than this. He said
that yes, I have not disobeyed Allah even this much all my life.
But I don't know that if by the time I die, I still have my faith.
That's what I'm worried about that will my Eman continues until I die
because if I die without you mind, this is our belief that the
hereafter then is a different story. Because we believe in a
paradise as
paradise and * have been created by Allah to give the full
reward or the full punishment for those who are good or bad in this
world. We ask Allah to make us all good. And forgive us our
wrongdoings. There's a famous leader of the one of the previous
great empires of the Muslim World War Two was the opposites. Harun
Rashid is right he was a great his wife is named Zubaydah. She was a
wonderful woman. She was actually the daughter of one of the earlier
studies, one very powerful colleague called WeChat. For a
monsoon, we actually established and founded the city of Baghdad.
So he was very powerful. This was his daughter, but she was very
righteous. With her money, her inheritance money, that time in
around. Mina was 35 artifacts. There was no water source. So when
people used to go for pilgrimage for hydro hombre, they used to
find it very difficult because there's no water. So she built one
of those special aqueduct canals to deliver the water from the
hills. to That is cool
On the Zubaydah canal, you can still see remnants of it. She did
many other things, that shows that even women, you know, when they
have influence or money they can do a lot is no difference, you
know, they shouldn't feel they can't, they should be able to.
In fact, let me tell you something.
One
person I know in England, she's a woman.
And I'm gonna see if there's anybody more qualified than her in
this room.
Right? If there's any more, I have never seen somebody more qualified
than so far.
Right?
Okay, she's got a PhD. Right? There's others who may have PhDs.
She's a half of the Quran.
Okay, a lot of us drop out now.
And she's argument as well. She's not hips. She finished, I think
when she was nine, right? She's my teacher's daughter.
And then she did Alima for five, six years. She finished that, then
she did a PhD.
Is there anybody here who is more qualified than both? Islamically
and
secular from the secular education system?
No, but you can do it. That's what I'm saying. Is it you can do that.
So
it's just, you see, there's people with potential men and women.
Just don't waste your potential in doing their own thing, radical
weird things, crazy things. Don't do those. Do things with a lot of
thoughts. So you can actually contribute to humanity in general,
and not be seen as people like Kim Kardashian.
I mean, who would want to be like that?
No qualification, nothing, just the way she looks. And she flaunt
that mix becomes a millionaire. That is easy money. But what you
get from that, these are just people who have some beauty so
then they put themselves on Instagram and Facebook and then do
crazy things, just to attract likes, and then they monetize this
and they make money out of this and it's just the wrong way to go.
You need to have substance and with your substance you study
well, you gain a good education, you then use it while keeping the
laws of modesty higher. Imagine being a true Mormon. And you want
to you want to you want to contribute to society each other.
So going back to the story.
The beta and homeownership they're walking on the seashore on the
river, river edge. And there was a wise man called balloon famous
story right balloon. He used to do some strange things, but knew he
was making sandcastles mansions out of sand. So Haroon Rasheed, he
went there and he said, What are you doing? He says, I'm making
mansions of paradise and I'm selling them for one dinar each is
very cheap. One dinar for mentioning paradise. So how do
Rashid said forget it he just carried on but Zubaydah thought
okay, let me give him a dinner on bio. Compassionate women have
compassion in their hearts. Men like us we're not as
compassionate. That's why women have the children men don't
because there's just a natural fit rot and nature that Allah has
created each one to complement one another. Right? Women can cry more
easily. Men can't. So crying easily just don't cry for the
wrong thing. But when is the right thing you should feel good you can
cry. Right?
So she bought one and then they carried on they went home that
night Haroon Rashid sees a dream. And he is taken for a tour of
paradox. And he says I mentioned and it has made us mnemonics.
He's not allowed to even go inside. When he wakes up. He
realizes that somebody Allah is telling him something.
So tomorrow he says, I must go and buy a mansion. So he goes and he
says, Behold, they're making lunches. He says, Can I buy some
lunches? I want to buy two three maybe? He says today what is worth
the price of your home Kingdom
says Why did the price increase yesterday was one dinner and today
increasing the price? He said something very interesting. He
said yesterday it was Iman believed and today it's Iman of
the seen yesterday you are you had to make the purchase based on the
unseen which was taking a gamble. Right? But today you know what
you're gonna get so now it becomes more expensive. Iman is like this,
we're taking we're doing this for the unseen a Lavina you may do not
believe as Allah mentioned beginning of certificado beginning
of the Quran, we're doing this for the unseen, we ask Allah subhana
wa Taala that this cohesive system is wonderful, consistent system of
iman that we have right that we can understand it properly and we
can put it into our lives and become true representatives and
thus inshallah gain success in this world and in the hereafter.
So I
reach Allah subhanho wa Taala that Allah blesses you with the best of
this world and the hereafter and removes the harms and difficulties
from your path and grants us for gender to feel those will make us
truly