Abdur Rahman ibn Yusuf Mangera – BEING AMONGST THE ULUL ALBAB
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Warahmatullahi Wabarakatuh to all of you.
You've been sitting here for a very, very long time and you still
got to sit here for a bit longer, but Allah subhanho wa Taala reward
you for your patience, give you steadfastness in your city, make
it comfortable for you. And
everything that you may have left behind every activity or
any responsibility that you had or something else that you should
have been doing but you've sacrificed it to come here to
listen to all of these inspirational speakers. I'm just a
messenger. So may Allah subhanaw taala give you so much Baraka in
your time, all of us so much Baraka in our time that we're able
to finish those things off that we could have been doing today, good
things that we could have been doing today. May Allah give us
bollock in our time so that we can finish those things off quickly as
well.
There's a hadith of Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa salam in
which he mentioned that anybody who recites the Quran and he
recites so much Quran, that it occupies him from even making dua
to Allah subhanaw taala. So everybody else is making dua to
Allah subhanho wa Taala and his love for the Quran is such that he
just continues to read and read read the Quran. The hadith
mentioned so soon allah sallallahu alayhi wa sallam said Allah will
give him the best of what he will give to anybody else who's asking.
So he doesn't even have to ask ALLAH SubhanA wa Tala Allah will
give him the best of what everybody else is asking ALLAH
SubhanA wa Taala and Allah knows what is the best for us even more
than what we can ask for he knows what's better for us. So I pray
that Allah subhanahu wa taala give us the best for sitting here for
so many hours and accept the sacrifice.
What I'm supposed to be speaking about today is the oluwo.
Now this is something if you recite the Quran you'll hear it
1415 times in the Quran, Allah subhanho wa Taala speaks about the
Quran.
It can be translated in a number of ways hold on above the people
of reason. The people of intellect, the people have told
you this mic doesn't like me.
Allah subhanho wa Taala in the Quran numerous times uses this
word in nama Yatta that Kuru Alba,
only the people of understanding the people with reason. The people
with intellect, prudence, a pure mind, pure insight, intuition.
Only those people will take a lesson will take heed, will
reflect and do something that is to their benefit. Many of us pass
by verses of the Quran and we don't do anything about it.
Sometimes they touch us, these verses they affect us. That's if
we even read it with the meaning. One of the problems is that the
majority of us sitting here have who are from the Indo Pak,
subcontinent, India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, or anybody
essentially, who doesn't understand Arabic, right, which
includes our Moroccan brothers here, who, who are those that
don't understand Arabic, so we're all in the same boat here. When we
read the Quran, we don't understand it, which is really a
sad, sad fact. It's really sad.
And I think we need to do something about it. If you don't
have the time to learn Arabic, then at least what you can do is
to take a translation or a commentary of the Quran and read
some of them what normally what I say what I normally encourage
people to do is that if you're reciting
if you're reciting
Getting Quran for
an hour a day, let's just say that that is your lever that is your
regimen a day, you're reciting Quran for an hour, what I suggest
is that you continue reading that for 50% of that time recite the
Quran, recite, just reading, right like you do in Ramadan, you just
read, you just read, you know, try to finish the Quran so many times
in a year, but for 25% of the time, try to memorize something.
So for 25%, which will mean 15 minutes, try to memorize
something, try to remember is anything that you've memorized
before and you forgotten. So if you knew your scene before you
knew what you knew, and Maya alone will try to remember is that now,
don't be deceived. Every letter that you read, even if it's the
same idea and verse that you're reading over and over again, you
will be getting the equivalent reward to reading other verses
just throughout. Because it's in the Quran, Allah subhanaw taala
rewards by letters 10 per letter. So if you're saying, well, lady,
they'll show one lady, they'll show one lady, the other show, you
will be rewarded for every single letter you read, even though it's
the same idea that you're repeating over and over again,
there'll be an additional benefit to this, which is that this will
become recorded in your brain in your mind, so that you can
actually recall it and don't need to have the most half in the Quran
in front of you in the future to recite it from. So that's the
additional benefit. So you will not get any less benefit or reward
in trying to memorize in fact, you'll get more because you've
probably read faster, the more you read it and repeat it and then
you'll memorize it. And that is how much higher you will get into
paradise as well as the the famous Hadith mentions read and climb and
ascend and your last place your place that your destination is
where you will end your reading. And believe me, every one of us
can do something at least recently a large sort of VR scene sort of
doubled as soon as the last many of the shooters at the at the end
of the Quran. Right. So that was the other 25%. Now you have
another 25% of time, that 25% We take to ponder.
So the last 25% of our time, 15 minutes from the one hour, take a
tough see a good translation and just ponder over what you read.
Just ponder over what you read FLIR to the Brunel Quran,
don't they ponder over the Quran.
That is extremely important. Now.
Hulu means those who possess al BB is the plural of loop. Loop means
the most clarified part of something, the essence of
something. So for example, you have the loop the actual wheat
kernel inside, after you remove the skin and the shaft, then you
have what's inside that's called the loop. Likewise, with our
brain, the various different things that we do with our brain,
our intellect, our reason, our heart, all of this is included,
because according to Islamic scholars, and according to the
Islamic world view, an understanding of the physical and
physiological makeup of the human being and the cardiac
understanding of the heart, the heart is
the hearts is the origin of the alcohol and the intellect and it
goes through the brain. So it's not just the brain, but it's the
heart as well.
It's the heart as well. So now, we'll l Bob, the people with the
pure heart. So look, according to for example, what Elaine explains,
he says, it's the pure or the choices, the best part of
something, the understanding the intellect, the intelligence. Now
think about this. Another thing that he says is that
the loop part of the heart, and a person's understanding is called
that because it is the best part of him, and it is pure from lust
and foul imaginations. So now we need to think to ourselves, that
what kind of heart do we have? What kind of an understanding and
reason do we have? Is it pure? Or is it adulterated with thoughts?
Are they?
Is it a receptacle of evil thoughts that come into it? See,
there's a difference between just being very smart, very clever,
very quick. For example,
it's related about one of the sheiks of us Hara he wants went to
this.
He wants went to this conference with some Christians and Jews, so
it's probably some kind of interfaith conference. It took a
very long time for him to get there. Sheikh Al Azhar This is one
of the high positions is two positions in Egypt when you have
the Sheikh of Azhar.
Who is you can say the rector of the
university and the other one is the Mufti of Egypt. So these are
the two prominent positions that have been historically there. So
the sheikh, who has heard of his time is a very intellectual
individual, as well. So he went to this conference. And when he got
there, somebody offered him a glass of water because it was
really hot. And he just got there after a very long traffic and time
and so on. So he took that glass, short, small glass, you know, and
just got it down in one sip. So immediately there was a Christian
man, there was one of the Christian representatives there.
He said to him, I thought, you people your sunnah, right of your
Prophet Muhammad sallallahu alayhi wa sallam is that you should drink
in three gulps in three sips and not in one, one sip. So he knew a
bit about Islam.
So the Sheikh, he was very quick, he said, Yeah, don't worry about
I'm gonna have two more cups.
Right? Now, that's, that's what you call being witty, is not about
Islamic, it's just being witty. Alright. And then after that the
person wants you to challenge him. He says Oh, so you guys say that
everything is in the Quran? And he said, The Sheikh said yes, of
course everything is in the Quran. He said, Okay, fine. Now he
started getting a bit upset. Absurd. A bit ridiculous. Is it
okay, you know, this pot here, which has the bread in it? How
many slices are in there? What does your Quran say about that? Is
this okay? The Sheikh said, Can you give me a phone, please. So
they found one of the hotel phones. And he called up the
kitchen and he said can I have? Can you get me the cook, please?
So he said to the cook, you know, there's the bread basket that
you've served there. How many pieces of bread are in there? He
says, Okay, there's this many slices. So then he turned around
to the other person to the representative and he said, Oh,
there's this many slices. He said no, I wanted an answer from the
Quran. He says I did give you an answer from the Quran. Allah
subhanho wa Taala says, First Allah decree in contributor, the
moon
as the people of knowledge, if you don't know,
to the most knowledgeable person about these rotis these
chimpanzees is the cook so I asked him
and then the person said
Is my name in the Quran? He's What's your name? He said, My name
is cook.
And the cook cook, right? Something like that? He said, Yes,
absolutely. It's in the Quran. And he read the verse
for either our OT gelatin.
In fact, do you mean how are they? What are roku?
This isn't Sora tomorrow, when
one day will happen this they will waiting the insalata and the booty
came.
And they were really hungry. They were really in a dire state so
many of the Sahaba they went so Allah subhanho wa Taala revealed
his Ouattara, Coca Cola EMA and they left you standing. Tara COO,
Tanaka. He said yes there. So the person then became silent. How
many more things is he going to do? That's being witty? Now
clearly this man, the shake of us, there was no doubt.
Also a person of intellect understanding in all the senses of
that word, right, bro from a worldly sense. And the real okra,
we sense that matters. And that's when it gets most beautiful. When
you have somebody who's really understanding of everything that
is that is when it gets most beautiful. Otherwise, it's not
about smartness. It doesn't matter where you are, whether you're at
UCL or kings, whether you're at Imperial College, whether you are
at
Metropolitan University, East London University, or whatever
they're called, it doesn't matter. So us or wherever you are, it
doesn't matter. If Allah subhanaw taala wants to give that
understanding and that reason to somebody, then it does not require
that kind of wittiness. Because this kind of intellect, above the
loop that is required for the hereafter is something different.
It's the ability according to many of them with the city. And when
they do Tafseer of this verse, the ability to distinguish in the good
and the bad. You see, we know that when we sit down in a gathering,
we're going to hear good things, pure things, we're going to hear
redundant things, we're going to hear futile things we're going to
hear maybe even haram things, immoral things, the ability for
you not to be influenced by the bad and the corrupt, regardless of
where you are, and to be influenced only by the good and
the pure, and then to convey from there the good and to abstain from
conveying the evil. That is just one aspect of being oil Bob and
understanding. Can you distinguish between good and bad between what
you see and what you do not see. I'll give you an example. You're
watching TV. Right? I'm not encouraging it. It's just
unfortunately, something that many many people do. You're watching
TV, and in most programs, films, videos, movies, us.
serials, whatever. There's always an element of romance. So that
there is a guy who's trying to go off to someone else, or a girl
who's trying to go after someone else. Now you get so involved in
this, you get, we become so involved in this, that
let's just say that there's a case where somebody is trying to get
this girl. But this girl is trying to get this guy. And finally they
like in the room, they just about to do it. What does your heart say
at that point in mind, at that point of time? What does your
heart do? That is the question to us.
Forget about prohibiting the wrong. We get so involved. We like
Yeah, go on, get it, go go for it.
That is really sad. You know if that is our case, and if that's
how we're feeling and you know what, like, many women get very
emotional about this, like, oh, you know, if you get emotional
like that, you're like, Oh, so sweet. You know, and that kind of
stuff.
Seriously, we have to question our iman, we have to question our
iman, because there's the hadith is very clear. It says when you
see something wrong, you should stop it with your hands. If you
can't stop it with your hands, then you stop it with your tongue.
And if you can't do that, where you're gonna go and stop these
movies with your hand on your tongue, right, the minimum that
you must do is at least to think bad of it. So really, we must be
thinking No, no, no, you shouldn't be doing that. Haram. Right. So
otherwise, and the prophets of Allah, who then said with Erica,
our full Eman, the state where you can at least just think bad about
it. That is the weakest state of Eman. I don't want to make any
judgments about our iman. I don't want to make any judgment
judgments about anybody's Iman. That's a dangerous thing to do.
But it is something that we all need to introspect, reflect about.
Abu Hanifa Rahim Allah mo Hanifa Rahim Allah, He wants, with his
with his students, they were going to the masjid. And they came
across that they were going past a river or a stream or something.
And they found this young boy, a young boy SubhanAllah. And what
was interesting is he was there making wudu number one is a
younger young boy making wudu
that this will be made will do in those days. Right? He made will do
and he was weeping. He was weeping really intensely. So that immobile
Hanifa he stopped because this was like, Why is he crying for his
making? wudu and he's crying. So he's not just sitting kind of on
the side and crying, but he's sitting there crying like that. So
why is he crying?
So you might want Hanifa he went up to him and he said to him, why
are you crying for? So he said, Danny was shutting me. Leave me,
you know, leave me to it. You can understand the intelligence. Just
leave me to it. I don't want to respond. It's my problem. That
knee was shut me leave me with my state.
So then, in Abu Hanifa, insisted he wanted to find out he was
curious, why is he crying for what's the problem? Maybe he could
help him. So he persisted on him. And finally he said, The this
young kid he said, I've just read in the Quran, Allah subhanho wa
Taala says in Surah, two Tarim Allah subhanho wa Taala says, taco
Now let the Roku do Hana. So well. Hey Jarrah.
Fanta coonara Letty Fanta, Canara, Letty Waku, Han NASA. Well, hey,
Java, for that little caffeine.
Beware of the fire, be fearful of the fire, that
such a Fire whose fuel are people and stones, what kind of a fire is
that? It wants. It doesn't. It doesn't work with anything but
stones and people which has been prepared for the disbelievers. And
that is making me cry.
young kid, effected by that verse, we are 3040. And we're not
affected by that.
We can't think about that, that we're also going to meet the same
fate. We're also going to have to go over this hellfire and maybe
enter into it. May Allah give us the insights. May Allah give us
the basura to think of these things. So him Abu Hanifa tried to
calm him down. He tried to console him. He said,
Yeah, Bonilla, Mozilla zawiera. My son, you're still young.
Why are you so worried? It's surprising. See a 910 year old kid
crying like that over a verse. Where would you see that? He said,
Oh, my son, you're still young. You're still young.
And this verse doesn't apply to you. The only time the only way he
could have said this to him is if he was not even an adolescent yet
if he was not valid, because if he was 1516 years old, then obviously
this verse applies because now you're McAuliffe you are
responsible. Everything we do is being counted against us or for
US. So he must have been very young, that proves that he was
very young.
He said, You're still young. And this verse doesn't apply to law
into Macaulay. It doesn't apply to you.
You know what the look at the thought of this child Subhan
Allah, may Allah give us such thoughts. Look at the insight of
this child all above at a young age. He says, But isn't it that
when we make a fire, that we put the small sticks in first,
and then you put the big logs in.
So he's, for him, it's like, I'm going to be also a fuel for the
fire small, and the small ones, we're going to be thrown in there
first.
There is what you call people who a touches, what kind of an
upbringing must this child have had, may Allah give us all the
parents among us, may Allah give us the ability to bring up our
children so that they can think along these lines along these
lines, then they will help us Inshallah, to get to the
Hereafter. And it will help, because then we won't have to deal
with it when they grow older that they thinking in a different way.
So,
L BB does not refer to witness, it refers to an understanding that
you can see the truth from the wrong truth from falsehood, you
can see what is beneficial for you from what is not beneficial for
you. You know, there are so many kids that you know, when you see a
gang of
youth, young adults that are doing haram things, engaged in wrong
things, whether it be drugs, or whether it be just walking the
streets looking for somebody to attack, or whatever the case is,
if you study any group, you will always notice that there'll be one
leader among those.
The others are very simplistic minded. They just want to belong
because they've had some problems in their life. They've got issues,
they've got maybe nobody else to look up to, or to relate to, to
sympathize with a shoulder to cry on. So this is the way they get
negative negative attraction. They're looking for negative
attention, this is what they do. I want to be bad, so that people at
least look at me some way. If they're not, if I can't do
anything good, and I'm never good, then at least they can be I can be
bad about it. And people will look at me, right? And I'm used to
being told off anyway, I'm used to being told off. So that doesn't
make a difference. And it just gets worse and worse. A friend of
mine works in a prison, Imam chaplain in a prison. And it was
quite one thing which had been which had had in my mind for a
very long time, and he confirmed it. He he works in a prison where
light offenders come in not murderers and stuff, right? So
these are not the worst of the worst. And in a prison of maybe
800 to 1000 people he says about 200 a Muslim. Right, so that's
20%. That's 20%, which is sad already. Right? He said, I said
what was the one thing that really like shocked you or that really
resonated with you that really made you understand something he
says that there was one guy he was in there for stealing.
We're kind of shoplifting, stealing, pickpocketing, those
kinds of things. So I asked him how he came to that. And what
touched me was that he blamed his mother.
What touched you though, what touch the Imam, the chaplain, my
friend was the fact that this man was blaming his mother? Not
because she was overly strict. Most of us have a problem with our
parents, because they're too strict. Where did you go? Make
sure you're back on time? Make sure you're there? Where are you
constantly calling on the phone? Make sure you take your phone,
make sure I know where you are, who you're going with.
And all the rest of it. That's what we consider bad. Right?
That's what we consider bad in a bother irritation. Right? Like,
what's wrong with you guys? That's what we think. Now for him. It was
a different story. He said that I'm blaming my mother. Because
what happened, this is where it started from, we would go to
somebody's house. And I'm sure this has happened with all of us.
You go to somebody's house as a like a full four year old three
year old kid, you like a toy that their kid has. So you pick it up?
And you want to walk out with it when you go home? Because you've
been playing with it and you make it yours. You know, kids, what do
they understand? This is mine. This is Oh no, it's all mine.
Right? That's the way they deal with it. So he's wanted to walk
out with it. Now what we normally tell our children what your
parents our parents told us is no, no, no, you can't do that. It's
not yours. It's his. What generally will happen then, is
that the host family, the one you're going to visit? They'll say
No, it's okay. Then let them take it. It's just a small toy. It's
alright. We'll get another one. Don't make him cry. They say what
are these things? I insist No, you put it back. It's a bad habit. At
the end of the day. You can't just pick things whenever you want.
Tomorrow, I won't be there is to see it. Right? His mommy. His mom
wasn't really active. A single mother that was
Other problems, a single mother, that was the other problem? May
Allah help the single mothers out there? Because really, we should
make dua for them. Right? And may Allah give them him to do the job
that they're required to do May Allah subhanaw taala, find them a
suitable partner and give them lots of human strength, because
such women generally get into depression sometimes. And then the
children really have a major problem. So he said, My mother
never said anything, she would just let me take it. So, you know,
initially, it was a little car, small car, whatever, and then
eventually became something big, and the family out of
embarrassment, then, I mean, I want to take your DS list. Right
now the family, imagine if a kid came to your house with his mom,
and he was going to take your, your DS, right? Or some toy like
that, that you really would PSDs whatever, right? Something that
you like, your computer, right? And
what are you going to say?
What would you say to them?
So slowly, slowly, I started taking things and then I started
taking things sort of secretly, then I started pickpocketing, then
I had a sister who was much younger than me. And when she grew
up old enough to go to school, and for me to take her, that was the
worst day of my life. Because I would pick pocket on the way to
school from these local shops. And now I have to look after my
sister, she's going to find out she's going to tell my mom, right,
but then I go over my sister. And I used to tell her to wait. And I
would say when you see me running, you run as well.
Right? So this is how she may have, I don't know if she knew or
not. But eventually, one day he got
caught. He got caught in a mall.
And that's how he ended up in prison. And now he's sitting
there, thinking over it, he couldn't stop. He'd become like a
crypto maniac. In a sense. A crypto maniacs are those people
who have this urge to steal, even though they don't need the
product, it becomes a habit and addiction as such, essentially,
that's maybe where he had reached. But he was blaming everything on
his mother. Because it was at that level, that it came that it
started and it continued on for a festive now, we don't have much
time, I want to just relate to us a very
inspirational interaction and exchange that took place between
two very prominent individuals. Right, both of these we can learn
from and in sha Allah we can really learn from because there's
many things that we can relate to in this story in sha Allah. This
story is about
a man who is considered the great irony of Madina Munawwara he was a
tabby he had sat in the company of many, many Sahaba many companions.
So he lived in Madina Munawwara his name was Salama Abner Dena,
Saddam Ignalina, his his, his his title was a boy has an outage
which means the lame one he had a problem with his with his leg. And
so he was one of the greatest of the Obama and so hurt the
aesthetics of Madina Munawwara
so while he was in Madina, Munawwara Celine Sulaiman did not
Abdulmalik the point yet, leader the Omiya. Sold Van Cleef.
He decided in the 90 in the year 97 Hijiri. Just before the
millennium, he decided to come and to for Umrah or Hajj and then he
came to
the holy lands, the sacred prisons. And then when he got to
Madina, Munawwara they set up camp, the Royal camp was set up.
So all of the important and distinguished people of Madina
Munawwara came to visit him. This is what you do this is the King Is
Here you go and visit all especially with the distinguished
people they came to visit him and welcome him. When Abdullah wants
to lay man if not Abdulmalik finish now this is one of the most
powerful men of the time. Right. The Omegas are extremely powerful,
very indulgent. So a man in comparison to the others was
generally seem to be better. He was the one that preceded Omar
Abdulaziz. He was the one whose children were too young to become
the next Helene. So when he was about to die, he tried to they
tried to dress his children up to make them look older, so that they
could be sworn in as the next Khalifa. But it didn't work. And
he had a very pious individual as his counselor next to him, and
he's whispering in his ear, your cousin on would have not done it.
So he said, Okay, fine, was one of the best things that he did.
Although generally speaking, he was better off than some of the
others while he didn't have the money than the others. So, when he
came, after he finished greeting and meeting everybody, he said to
some of his close ministers, he says, you know, the huts, they
become rusty, they become problematic. And sometimes you
need somebody from time to time to give them nasiha to remind them of
the Hereafter so that they become purified. See
This is a key speaking. This is a Hanif who's got everything at his
disposal. His heart is soft and he realizes I've got a problem in my
heart. Allah give us that kind of thought for our heart as well. And
I'm sure he has because that's why we're here in sha Allah. May Allah
subhanho wa Taala beautify our hearts with the words of his and
with the words of His Messenger, sallallahu alayhi salam and
illuminated with his nor so he says,
Is there anybody here that can come and speak to me that can like
really speak to me? So they said, Yes, of course there is.
They said, he said, Isn't there anybody who's met the sahaba? They
must be people who are the most dignified, the most appropriate
for this kind of a task. Who will come and give me some Naziha said
yes. I mean, what meaning there is, there's a who has an outage,
he so who is who has an outage, he said, Oh, he's they said selama
ignore dinner. He's the island of Madina Munawwara He's the great
scholar.
He's one of the tambourine. He's met with many, many of the Sahaba
call him, but be nice when you call him don't summon him like the
Kings calling you. Be nice to him when you summon him bring him
nicely. He had a job. He had a, you know, he wanted to make him a
request. So he had to be nice to him.
When they came to him, they greeted him. And they call them so
he came when he came to the modulus of the king of the Hanif,
the king welcomed him. And then he said to him, Look at what he says
to him. You've never met this guy before. And you say to him, man,
what's wrong with you? Why don't you ever come to meet me? Why are
you staying away from it? You've never met somebody before. But
you're like so free with them. You're saying what's your problem?
And why don't you come and visit me? And you're like, I don't even
know you? Right. So
Mahathir Jaffa has him What is this estrangement? Why are you
staying away? Oh boo housing. So right from the beginning now, you
should ponder over who has hymns words, because they will inshallah
purify our hearts. He said, What are you Jaffa? In? raita? Mini
Amirul Momineen. What kind of estrangement? What kind of
aversion? Have you noticed from you? I didn't avoid you. What kind
of avoidance Did you see of me? Oh, Ameerul Momineen is that
Zabadani whoo hoo, nurse when um, doesn't need all of these
important and dignified people of the area? distinguishment they all
visited me you didn't visit me.
So this is his response. He did like, okay, you know, he said in
Hakuna Jaffa oberheiden mirdif.
You can only avoid somebody after you know them. Otherwise, it's not
avoidance. Right. If we knew each other we met before then then you
could say that one Tama are often The Cobbler, cobbler Leone,
whether an array took you would never even knew about me before
this day, and I've never seen you before. So for a huge effort in
waka Amenia. So what kind of avoidance has occurred on from me?
So the Khalifa said, Now the Khalifa he wants, he wants him to
benefit. So he turns around to everybody. Now, I'm sure there's
people among the ministers and everything. We're like, hey,
what's, where's this going to? Right? We need to just step in,
because that's what you have, the more Hadith and the Hadith
himself, right. So he turned around the Hadith turned around to
his companions. And he said, he's absolutely right in his excuse,
he's absolutely right. And the Khalifa is wrong. The hadith is
wrong. And then he turned around to Abu has him and
he turned around to him. And he said
there's some issues in my heart,
which I would like to disclose to you. I'd like to ask you about
consult you with Hardy Amirul mumineen Walla Walla Mustang. No
problem. mentioned them Amirul Momineen. She's polite, Allah,
Allah will help us. So the Khalifa said, Oh, Abu has the first
question.
Malena Nacra who remotes
we should think about this? Do we dislike death?
Meaning, have we even thought about death to dislike it? That's
the question we should be asking ourselves seriously. That's the
question I've asked myself. Can I say I dislike death? I haven't
even thought about it.
How can I say I dislike it.
The only person that can be talking about dislike is at least
if they've gotten to the stage where they've realized I'm going
to die. They've understood their mortality. But I'm like everybody
else has died before me. I'm also going to die.
So clearly, the Khalifa was at the level he says mana necro whole
note. Why is it that we dislike death? Look at the answer. He said
the Amarna dunya and
it's because we have inhabited
we have
I've done up our dunya rubner hiragana. And we have made
desolate,
our hereafter. We haven't worked on our hereafter. We haven't put
any money in our hereafter. We've done this house of the house in
Bangladesh, the house in India there's we haven't done anything
we just got a piece of land if even that
for NACA, huge mineral Omar, el haram. Hence we dislike to go from
a nice built up area to a place which is desolate. For example, a
friend of mine went to Mauritania to study. And he said we have to
live in tents, big big insects, basic basic foods. Not many people
are able to study there. You're able to study in a nice building,
nice cozy rooms,
all amenities, warm water, etc. This is worse than this. We've got
the by virtue of the fact that we are believers, we have a piece of
land that has been given to us in paradise.
Every one of us was a believer has a piece of land in paradise. It is
up to us to make it up. We're not in the hierarchy and we're Hora
Suha, its crops. The way you build it up, is by your Subhan Allah Al
Hamdulillah, Allahu Akbar, your afghan hamdulillah Allah has given
us a piece of land to go to the land is there, but what kind of a
land is it going to be? That is why he said we it's a desolate
place. We haven't seen anything for it. That's why we dislike to
go from this world. It's cozy. Why should we go?
So doctor, you said you told the absolute truth he understood. This
was coming from above.
And then he said, Yeah, about housing.
What are we going to have? I'm concerned, what will be upon me.
What is going to be our state in front of Allah subhanaw taala
tomorrow.
So look at what Abu has him says fearless,
above. Understanding, perfect insight. He says, real armor Allah
Allah Kitab Allah azza wa jal.
Take your actions that you've done, put them in front of the
book of Allah, judge them in front of the book of Allah.
And you will find out what your what your situation is what's
going to happen tomorrow. Let us do that. Our actions put them in
front of the book of Allah are we have the mercy
for the mercy.
So abou has the Halevi says what Aner IG, IG do who vikita Billa
where which verse Exactly? Are you speaking about? Where will I find
this in the in the book of Allah? So immediately, Abraham says you
will find it where Allah subhanaw taala says, in the raw Fe Noreen
we're in for Jada fija he, the very the pious righteous ones will
be in bounties will be in bliss and the wrongdoers the sinners
privileges. Transfer transgressors, thy will be in the
burning fire.
So the Khalifa says, Where is the Mercy of Allah then for Aina
Rahmatullah? If that is the case then what about the Mercy of Allah
we've always been told about the Mercy of Allah. So where's the
Mercy of Allah then? So about has himself in Naramata Allah He
Kariba mineral, Marcin? Allah subhanaw taala says in the Quran,
the valley the Mercy of Allah is the well nine were close to the
people who do good. So if you do good, Allah's Mercy is with you.
Then the Khalifa says later, Shadi Kayfun, could do more Allah Allah
Allah azza wa jal Lucha and
how is our approach going to be towards Allah? subhanho wa Taala
tomorrow, our confrontation with Allah subhanaw taala How would it
be tomorrow? And what hasn't been explained? He says Amal Morrison.
As far as the doer of good furcal Ha, EB yuck, yuck, yuck, the more
either.
Then, if it's a good person, it will be like that, man. Have you
ever been on a trip for three, four weeks and you've eventually
been tired out and now you just can't wait to get back home. And
then you come to Heathrow on a seven hour flight. And then
there's traffic in London, which is always the case. That's one of
the worst parts about my journey. Right? takes you two hours to get
home and you just can't wait. You just can't wait. And when you
eventually get home, how good do you feel? How good do you feel?
Right? How could you feel?
So he says it's like the person who is absent who's coming back to
his family. That is how you will feel in front of Allah subhanho wa
Taala and may Allah subhanaw taala make us of those as though we're
going
Back to Allah subhanho wa Taala what Amala musi furcal Abdul
Harun, and as far as the bad person is concerned, then he is
going to be like the one who
is like the runaway slave who is now being caught. And he's being
forced and dragged back to his master. How does he feel at that
point for buckle Khalifa had he been washed the buco. This is when
the club began to cry in front of everybody. This is what I call a
man. This is what I call a man despite whoever he was. He's in
front of. I mean, he's in front of all of his busiest one of his
companions, and he's starting to cry in front of them until his
sobbing his wailing, his lamenting, became loud and
intense. May Allah give us the Tofik to even cry in private.
Forget about in public. May Allah give us a trophy to put our hands
up and cry even in private, just within ourselves and when we know
for ourselves and nobody else is watching.
And then he said about his key fella nicely. How can we now
rectify ourself, which is the way to reform?
He has ready answers and perfect answers to their own uncommon
Kabbalah. What are the Hello hon Maru, you will abandon all forms
of arrogance.
All that you have to You're arrogant. Abandon all arrogance,
and embellish yourself, beautify yourself with what with decency,
chivalry, generosity, being a decent man, when you deal with
people. That's how you will rectify yourself. So any of us
walk around as though we're it? As we say in England, right, we walk
around, even our gait is such you can just start with some people
anything here man, I used to do this before, right? This is the
way they work. They've got this special kind of gate the way they
work this thing that it's, I don't know, maybe that attracts more
women.
It may just make them look bad or good or you know, wicked. I don't
know, whatever the or what's the other one? It's
and these these terms, they change every sick.
That wasn't something that I used to use when I was young here.
Wicked I remember, but now it's sick. I mean, come on, can you
find something better? It's like trying to find the worst word to
for good. Because it's not really good. It's what you make is good.
And it's an it's actually the perfect word reading. Because it
is really sick. You just think it's good?
May Allah give us still?
So decency?
Avoid arrogance. Then the Khalifa said, Now the Khalifa is thinking,
Well, you know, where am I pitfalls? What are my problems is
okay, this work now? I've got lots of work. I mean, domains were
known for the intelligence. They were known for the intelligence
Abbasids in some cases, were not that far behind as well. On one
occasion, on a day, you know, they had the royal possession. You know
what time they made each slot after maghrib.
It took the whole day.
So there's been some crazy thing that has happened in history.
Right?
He said must subito Illa Takala he fee. What is the way to have taqwa
and the fear of Allah with regards to the wealth that we have? Who
has him said, as long as you take it with its rights, as long as
you're not confiscating, you know, undue right from others, serving
somebody else's wealth, as long as you're taking with it's right, and
then you're distributing it in the right way. You're spending it in
the right way in its rightful place. And as long as you are,
as long as you are fair, and just when you treat people, then that
is how you deal with your wealth. That's the hook of the wealth.
Then the Khalifa says, Oh, who has him? Who is then the best of
people who are after Lunas who's the best of people. He says Gulu
old Maru at what to call the people who have decency and
chivalry and generosity and Taqwa they're the best of people. He
then asked him a number of other questions, I want to get to the
end. So I'm going to quickly just mentioned them that he says what
are the little Coulier about has him? What is the most just speech?
What is the most just statement first statement that you can make?
This is what he says Calima to help in your Kulu ha Ulmer or in
the media half?
The statement of truth that a person says and makes in front of
the one who He's fearful of, meaning, you're speaking truth in
front of the one that can do something bad to you, the leader,
the king, whatever, it is absolutely fearless, right? We're
in the money or jus, and to tell the truth in front of the one who
you have some expectations from because if you tell them sometimes
the truth and they won't help you out, you have expectations from
them. He's got it all figured out.
I see these are there was another man. There was another great
scholar of Damascus is, is to deal with no Abdus Salam. He had given
this fatwa against some of the very prominent individuals in the
ministry. So one day they would he and he would not recant that
fatwa. He would not take that fatwa back even though the king of
Egypt it was sorry, was Egypt. Even though the king told him to
recanted every he will, he refused, and his Fatah was the
fatwa. So one day one of them decided that look, I'm just gonna
finish him off. So he came and he knocked on the door and he had a
sword in his hands. So the son of SAPA Abdus Salam Rahim, Allah, he
went to open the door, and he saw the state and he says, Call your
father. So he was obviously fearful, he will call his father
the father just went out. And as soon as he went out, and this
minister saw him, his hands began to tremble and the sword fell
down. So what are you going to do with us now? Right? He says, I'm
going to do exactly what my fat wise. He says, Okay? Please deal
with us with some compassion. That's it come to kill him. And
now this is this was response, the father
said to the sun or the sun setting once you afraid I thought it was
your last day. He says, No. Your father is not going to be blessed
with having shahada here.
He's not going to be blessed with having shahada here like this.
Going back to Abu has him.
Then he asked him, What is the fastest dua to be accepted?
So he said the DUA that a good person makes for other good
people. They do ask for the fastest to be accepted because
Allah recognizes them. Amanda Halawa he mentioned, don't ask
anybody for a loan, because as the Arabic proverb says, According to
me, Corrado muhabba, the debt the loan is the scissor is the scissor
for love, because eventually something goes wrong. And if you
have to ask somebody, they doesn't say ask your family members, it
says, Ask a pious man. Ask a righteous person with Taqwa. Why?
Because if he has, he will give you if he doesn't, he'll make dua
for you, at least. So and he won't tell everybody about you. And if
you can't repay him on time, then he will obviously not bother you
too much because he will recognize that it's sooner to give time to
people.
That's the benefit of dealing with people of Taqwa. Then who has him.
He asks him
Wilma, after Rosada, what is the best time of sadaqa he says
the best sadaqa is of the one who has the least who's in trouble
themselves. It's a small amount they're able to give because they
have very little themselves. And he goes and puts it into the hands
of a poor person who's in need, without following it up with any
kind of harm, or any kind of reminder. Remember, I gave you
I've been spending on your view and giving you suck. I've been
telling people to spend on you all this time. You need to do this for
me. Right? None of that kind of attitude.
Then the Khalifa said who is the most intelligent of people,
smartest people who has him. So this is what he said. Rajon
lafora, before Atilla he's the one who is successful by being
obedient to Allah subhanaw taala. He then acts on it, and then he
tells he, he, he, he gives that to others as well. That is the most
that is the most intelligent person. Then the Khalifa said from
an openness, who is the most foolish of people. So he said, No,
this one is important. Roger lOn. In South Omaha Sahibi. Warsaw
Hibou violin Phurba Hirata who be duniya
Subhan. Allah. You know, when I said when you see a group of
people on the street doing wrong, what you generally see is one
leader, the others are just follow us. And this is exactly what he's
saying. The most foolish and stupid and the most idiots of
people is the one who is pulled by the desire of his companion, who
is driven not by his own desire that okay, you've got some
fulfillment is your desire is a desire of your friend, what you
perceive as your friend, his friend is an oppressor. He's a
wrongdoer. Hence, this person sells his akhira for somebody
else's dunya
think over that. We're selling our our hero for somebody else's dunya
here. What kind of a deal is that?
Then the Khalifa said, Now Khalifa finished his questions. He said to
him, about hasm
Why don't you join me? Come along with me. Stay in my company. I can
benefit from you like this. And you can also benefit from your
spend on you. Essentially, that's what he's saying.
I
mean, never yeah Ameerul Momineen No way. Khalifa says wedding the
why not? What's What's so bad about that? Why not actia an akuna
la comme cleeland
Akshaya and arcana in a clean and for you the panula who did fall
hayati? Wonderful mama mammoths, yeah Allah.
He said, My fear is if I stayed with you, I would start becoming
inclined to your ways, because you generally take on whoever you sit
with, you take on their attitude, I will become inclined to you even
slightly, and then Allah subhanaw taala will start to give me double
of the benefits of this world, and then give me the double problem at
death.
Look how clear he is no ulterior motive except Allah subhanaw taala
then the Khalifa says, Fine.
Fine.
What do you need? Tell me what you need and I'll fulfill it for you.
And who has him remain silent? He didn't answer. The Khalifa
persisted. No, you need to tell me I need to do something for you. He
said
whatever it is, I'll do for you.
He says I've got one. The need I have is that you deliver me from
the Hellfire certificate of freedom from the hellfire and
entry into paradise ticket to paradise. Khalifa said there is
something I can't do. That is something is not within my bounds.
Oh, Apple has him. So Apple has him says muddiman herget ncwa
Meaning I have no other need except that I have no other need
except that now you understand who the Alibaba If Allah doesn't give
us that level we pray he does. But at least he extended our level to
something higher than where we are. And we get closer to this.
And then
housing. He said Khalifa said, Oh boy has it make dua for me. You
know, we tell people auditorally about has make dua for me.
Immediately. He started making the DUA now listen to this dua until
now the ministers have been all watching, not saying anything, not
maybe even understanding. But the Khalifa knew what was going on. He
said
this is the dua he made. He said
Allahumma incarna AB Dukkha Sulayman mean Olia ik for your
Sidhu. Illa Hydra dunya Well,
we're in Can I mean either? Firstly, what were the llama
Taheebo Tada. Kind of boldness. He said, Oh Allah.
Oh Allah.
If your servants Sulayman Sunni man is from your wellies, your
close ones, your friends, then make the best of this world and
the hereafter Good for him. And if he's from your enemies, then guide
him and reform him towards the way that you love and that you're
satisfied with that is when somebody from one of his ministers
he got up and he said bit summer colds bit some are called Monza
the hull data I mean, since the time you've come to speak to a
middle remote meaning this is so bad things that you've been saying
to him all of these insults and everything that you've been saying
to him, just just two more minutes, we'll finish this
quickly. Then after that.
He said to me, he said he said you've made the Khalifa of the
Muslims and you've made him one of the enemies of Allah. Is that what
you're saying? That he's one of the enemies of Allah, you would
look how much you're irritating him? Who has him said no bit sama
quilter. And you're the one who's saying the bad things here. You're
the one who's saying the wrong things. Because Allah subhanho wa
Taala has taken a covenant with their own Ummah, that they must
say the truth wherever they are, they must say the truth, because
Allah subhanaw taala says, led to by union know who will lead to a
union, no willingness, you will attract to Guna, you will make it
very clearly you will explain it clearly and you will not hide the
truth. That's what Allah has told us to do. And that's exactly what
we're doing. And then he turned to the Khalifa. And he said, Yeah,
Ameerul Momineen. Those people who have passed before us, they used
to have among them, they used to be they used to have goodness
among them. And the reason is that their owner ma used to benefit
there used to benefit the whole of the whole of our never used to go
to the whole of I used to like to go to the aroma to benefit from
them. Right. But then after that a certain group of people from the
lowly class, they began to study the knowledge and then they had
selfish motives. So what they started doing is they started to
go to the doors of the kings and the leaders and the beliefs and
they started to tell them what they wanted to hear, not what they
should have heard. And because of that, the Obama the Obama became
downtrodden and humiliated and the Khalifa they stopped the coalition
leaders, they stopped benefiting from the Obama. So what are you
saying to me? And then after that, the Khalif said he's right, give
me some more and I see her docking is enjoying this, the Khalifa is
just enjoying is that give me some more advice. And then, because he
said that I have not seen wisdom closer to anybody else's tongue
than your tongue. Right and
And then he said
this is what the response was. He said, If you are a person who is
going to fulfill whatever you heard, then whatever I've said,
it's sufficient for you. Otherwise, essentially, I am just
otherwise it's like I am firing. I'm trying to fire an arrow from a
bow that doesn't have a string, or whatever. I've told you this
sufficient in there. Anyway, after that, he went away. He went away.
And then behind him, the Khalif sent this big bag of goodies, you
know, gold, silver, whatever it was, who has him? He? He said, I
don't even want it for you. Oh, holy, how can I want it for
myself? Right. And then after that, when he when they were
insisting he said he said that oh Ameerul Momineen if these dinars
are for my meeting with you, then the whole thing has been a joke.
The whole thing has been a joke. I don't want anything to do this
because I think this is more haram for me than eating swine. When I
don't have any food and about about today, Allah subhanaw taala
give us some insight Allah allow us to recognize and learn from
this. Allah make us of the old album JazakAllah heroine for our
patients may Allah gift for our sacrifice working with that one