Abdur Rahman ibn Yusuf Mangera – Curing Foolishness
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Bismillah al Rahman al Rahim Al hamdu Lillahi wa Salatu was Salam
ala cu Mursaleen. While he was Safi or Baraka was seldom at the
Sleeman cathedral Ilario Mateen, Amma died.
What I'm going to speak about is probably going to be quite
unusual.
Generally, people are used to listening to bands straightforward
talk, some encouragement towards something. What I'm trying to do
is to tackle topics that are generally not spoken about
individual topics that are generally not focused on
specifically. So there's two short topics that I would like to go
through today. One of them is foolishness.
And the other one is sloth and spiritual idleness. But don't get
too
frightened with the, with the titles, they just very simple
things that
many of us either have some experience with,
can maybe assist somebody else with Insha Allah, the first one
we're going to be speaking about is foolishness.
Foolishness in Arabic is called suffer,
suffer, Sophie is a foolish person.
One is, you know, we use this as
we use it to criticize somebody, don't be foolish. Don't be silly.
Now, when children are acting foolish, they just growing up
digital learning, they can act foolish. And generally we use this
that is foolish is being foolish, don't be foolish, don't mess
around. But that's just part of growing up. The problem is when
adults do this.
Now, why do they do it is the issue the way we're going to be
discussing this through Illumina, hello is a treatment of the
subject. He talks about he defines it. Foolishness is essentially
weakness of the intellect, in other words, is a type of a type
of stupidity or idiocy.
It's generally beneficial to find what the opposite of something is,
and then things become very distinct and clear. The opposite
of it is rushed aptitude to understand what you're doing and
to do everything in a purposeful way
to do things in a thought outweigh,
which is the strength of intellect.
Allah subhanho wa Taala says, Allah discusses fools in the
Quran,
Allah sufa wala to super her, and widecombe
do not give the fools their wealth that is entrusted to you,
especially if they are
either that you're holding it for some reason you were made may be
the person to look after their wealth, for inheritance, wealth or
something else. So Allah subhanaw taala speaks around because Allah
wants to take care of everybody, even the foolish person, they
can't be trusted. So Allah says, have somebody that can look after
them, that can administrate their affairs for them. This gives us
the Sharia view in these things. It tells us how Islam thinks about
everybody, ALLAH SubhanA wa Tada is thinking about every single one
of his creation, he creates everybody in different ways with
different challenges. So give not fools their wealth that is
entrusted to you, because they may wasted away. Then Allah says, when
you perceive from them intelligence, then hand over to
them their wealth, once you've understood that they've now
understood that people are not going to take him for a ride.
People are not going to swindle them and deceive them. Because
foolish people, especially if they've got money, they do get
deceived. People use them. Come on, let's go out to eat.
Come on, do this. Take us on a holiday. And the Okay, okay, yes,
I'll do it. For whatever reason, they'll do it. Just we don't see
this too much. But this is a fact.
Most foolishness is of course, he's going to be natural. It's not
something you purposely do. Right? So that's important to understand.
When somebody is foolish, a lot of the time it's natural. It's a
natural challenge.
However,
the problems with it, it can be curbed as to a certain degree, and
this is what we're trying to understand here.
Sometimes you can add to it.
Things that make it worse, meaning that foolishness can be exploited,
that people then go into a wasteful extravagance especially
if they've got wealth for money. I mean, children who are finished
like this who are not careful then people rob them people take them
for a right now, adults that shouldn't happen with them. So
wasteful extravagance that
could take place, meaning
if somebody if a foolish person has gained possession of wealth
without working and exertion,
then that's going to be really, really detrimental, such as, and
this is really sad, such as the children of leaders.
I mean, this Allah, Allah, Allah was speaking about in his time
judges, prominent people, basically, political figures, and
famous people, if they have children who have not been
nurtured properly, they've just been nurtured by nannies. And the
parents have been too concerned about their own life and their own
selfish motives. And they've left their children to be brought up in
a mansion somewhere or in a palace somewhere
with everything at their disposal, and they've got lots of money, and
they're foolish, they don't know how to be.
They don't know how to be considerate about their wealth.
For indeed, if one does not exert oneself to earn a silver coin, if
you don't exert yourself to earn a pound or $1, then spending it is
very easy.
I mean, I've got lots of it's a bank, but it's an endless
checkbook. Here, son, this is wherever you want to go. This taxi
account is yours, you can take it anywhere you want.
And what his friend is going to do, call your taxi, call your
driver, call, this is a credit card as well. This is your nice
platinum, American, you know, spend whatever you want with it
will come home late at night. We'll see you later.
Another causative factor is company that incites to spending
and discourages saving. Now, this is not something that will just
happen to a foolish person. This can happen to any of us, if we
leave if we live among spendthrift people, where they always just
spending spending spending. And because Allah has given them
disposable wealth, even if they don't own any wealth, you can
spend on credit cards these days, it's so easy to buy these days. So
if a person is incited to spending, and discouraged from
saving, the very economy that we live in, unfortunately, its entire
health is measured by their spending power, how much of people
spent on the high street, at Christmas, Black Friday, and so on
and so forth. That's what they look at how healthy community is
by how much people spend, not how much you save.
That's why the statistic from, you know, from some years ago, that
each person in America, whether they had their own debt or not,
whether they were in debt or not, if you took the national debt, and
you split it among everybody in America, it was averaged out to
everybody would be at $70,000 in debt. That was the average, even
if the you are not in debt, but the whole country's debt would be
that much. We are living in debt, essentially. It's just I think,
because we have a lot of political power. And many of the
institutions and the politics of the world is in the hands.
That's why we're able to survive, otherwise, we're, it's a bubble.
It's essentially that's what we're living in. And that's why we as
individuals need to be very considerable what we really have
and what we don't have, and we need to be careful about this.
Just now, Saudi has just spent so many billions to Trump prediction
money for the next so many years. It's just crazy stuff. They've got
two assets, they've got the hot domain.
And they've got Aramco and they want to sell part of the Iran
cough.
Okay, maybe it's de facto owned by somebody else anyway, but now it'd
be really owned by somebody else, or at least a part of it.
This is the world we live in. You might be wondering why, how, and
you feel so much grief about this, but it's dunya it's money. What's
the big deal?
The end of the day?
Just depends on how you look at it. We've got other we've got
other challenges, the more these attacks take place. I mean, I was
in Georgia when I heard this I was just a Hola Hola, como la bella
said, it's just going to make things worse for Muslims. I don't
understand why people don't understand these things. Like what
are they achieving through this? It's only going to make it worse.
It's just hamdulillah there seems to be some tolerance within the
community at large that the backlash isn't as bad as it could
be.
May Allah help me Allah assist.
I mean, it makes us feel bad. I remember 911 I was in I was in the
monument that I was in. I moved to America in 2000 as an Imam, and in
2001 it took place I still remember that morning a friend of
Mine was an imam in another town San Jose called muses. Do you know
what happened? I said, I just came back from Virgil.
And you felt it feels really bad. But life has to continue. And the
one thing that keeps us going, if we didn't have Allah, we'd be very
depressed. If you didn't have Allah that this is all in the
hands of Allah subhanho wa taala. At the end of the day, this is the
time to actually get back to Allah.
It's really a time to remove the sloth, the discussion that we're
going to have, it's a time that all is lost unless you're rid of
Allah subhanaw taala What else do we have? What else do we have for
ourselves? The wealth, the security, it can disappear and
vanish. In an instance, certain situations can be created.
And it could become such that tomorrow we, Allah preserve us,
Allah preserve, Allah help us. But don't rely on these things. Don't
rely on these things. This is the dunya that dunya is it as a world.
The dunya is essentially going to end and everything in the dunya is
that's its very nature. Some things just end after a longer
time than other things. Some things end shorter. We ask Allah
for earthier, we ask Allah for our view, we ask Allah for wellbeing,
ridding oneself of just purely natural foolishness is very
difficult. It has to be just managed, you know, when cancer
has, they say you have to do palliative care, you have to make
the best of the situation. Because natural foolishness is very
difficult to tame because it's a natural challenge. Natural
foolishness reading oneself is very difficult, which is why the
shadow the law giver, Allah subhanaw taala prohibits giving
them their wealth and commands that may be restricted from trade,
as most jurists deemed it mandatory to financially restrict
the wasteful fool, despite the fact that it can contradicts his
very humanity and effectively conjoins him to animals and
inanimate beings. What is that saying here, as a human being
whatever you want to do as an autonomous, independent human
human being, you should be able to do what you want.
But then the Sharia has said that if there's a foolish person, you
can sometimes put a bar on them from doing certain trade for their
own good.
I don't think we have anything like this in this country, right?
Anybody can do whatever they want, and just spend, but in the Sharia,
they can actually do this for certain people, if it becomes
properly established. One person used to get deceived all the time
is to go to the market, and people used to know Him. So they know his
his situation. So they used to call him
this watch, charge more money. And he used to poor guys to buy it,
whatever it was example, he told him probably salary. So instead of
Ulsan told him, whenever you go and do a trade, you have to say la
de la Veta. No deception. That is an agreement in your transaction
that's part of your transaction is a condition. I'm doing this trade
with you, I'm buying this iPad from you, these dates from you,
whatever it is, but lucky labutta, if I find out later, somebody told
me you just got conned, this is over the market value, then I can
come and return this merchandise.
So surely, it takes care of people like that.
Saying that if it can be treated, then its treatment entails barring
them from bad company because the bad company will exploit such
people urging the person to sit with intelligent and wise people
because the benefit of that can rub off. And from that experience,
a person who can become better good company is so valuable. It's
so valuable. It's even underscored here.
Algerie society it benefits even this case. So a person who is like
that if they are put into an environment of decent people, then
inshallah they will come out much more decent than they would be if
they were among people who are exploiting them. May Allah give us
the Tofik maybe this is not very useful for all of us because
unhandled law most of us are not foolish. But if we know somebody
and just to understand how the shady is taking care of everybody,
it's important to understand this