Abdur Rahman ibn Yusuf Mangera – Dealing the Rat Race of this World
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Bismillah Rahman and Rahim Al Hamdulillah. Al Hamdulillah Hamden
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head Buddha Buddha, and we are the Jalla Jalla who are on the novella
who are Salatu was Salam ala say you did heavy will Mustafa
SallAllahu Derrida are they he was, he was me. He was seldom at
the Sleeman Kathira you lie to me Dean unmarried.
Call Allah with the baraka with the other for the Quran emoji they
will for Cardinal Hamid wallow in Al Quran, Manu what taka would
love for him Baraka Tim, in a summer you will art Allah subhanho
wa Taala says in the Quran, that if the people of the vicinity if
the people of the inhabitation of that particular area. If they were
to believe and
observe taqwa and God fairness, then we would open up for them.
The Baraka that we would open up for them the blessings from the
heavens and from the earth. We have the depiction of the last
person out of hellfire coming into Jannah into paradise.
We ask Allah subhanahu wa taala to grant us all gender, and gender
till fifth dose, and hopefully we're not that last person out of
paradise. Even though being the last person out of paradise is
probably also worth it is definitely worth it rather than a
life in hellfire.
However, we want to aspire to gender, we want to aspire to
gender fulfill those, which is the highest levels of paradise. And
there's absolutely nothing wrong with aspiring to that there's
nothing wrong with aspiring to that. In fact, if we don't aspire
to that, then that's our own shortcoming and our own weakness
and our own loss. So we need to be aspiring to the highest level. And
people who aspire and who have high him and high aspiration, then
they get somewhere because if we don't have an aspiration, we think
that we're just by default, just because of the fact that we've
read the creme de la ilaha illallah we don't make much effort
in preserving that Kadima, La ilaha illa Allah, then we're going
to gender just like that, then that's a false way of thinking.
Because there is no guarantee this life of ours and this Deen of
ours, our faith is actually between hope and despair. Our fate
is in between hope and despair. So nobody can guarantee themselves
Jana and nobody can feel that they're definitely doomed to
hellfire. There's always a possibility that somebody changed
because of other influences and external factors and through the
will of Allah subhanahu wa Tada. So nobody should exalt in the fact
that they are pious or righteous at this time because being pious
and righteous and being practicing doesn't mean that you doesn't mean
that that single person is accepted by Allah subhanahu wa
Tada at their deathbed, because the real time when things matter
as Allah subhanaw taala, as mentioned on the tongue of His
Messenger, sallallahu alayhi wa sallam that interval armored will
bill Hawa team, that actions are according to their endings. So
during this life, there's many, many different things that happen.
And they obviously signal an end, there's no doubt about that
somebody who stayed good in their life, they're not necessarily
going to become evil. At the end, though, it's a possibility.
However, likewise, or likewise, rather, you have people who have
been evil all of their life, they can become good. And that's a
possibility as well. And the good thing is that that's a greater
possibility than a good person becoming bad at the end, as the
Prophet sallallaahu mentioned, that sometimes you've got a very
short distance between themselves and hellfire left and and
suddenly, it changes because Allah has decreed otherwise. And this
wasn't suddenly becomes a good person enters into paradise. And
likewise, the opposite has happened. And we have, we have
some stories in that regard as well. But mostly, if you've done
good in this life, and if we've been good and obedient in this
life, then generally, that's going to be a very good sign that we can
only get better. But what we must not do is start to become
stagnant. And think that this is enough. You know, if I'm doing
this many prayers a day, then I can't increase this is all I can
do, because that's how busy I am. Because I can't put anything into
anything else into what we're doing. Now there's two things that
I want to speak about today, which is about the concepts of baraka
and kathira. In Arabic, you've got the concept of Gotra, which means
abundance, which means to have lots of greater, quantitatively
speaking to have lots and to be in abundance. That's kufra. Then you
have baraka and Baraka means the blessing. Blessing means you could
have a little but it goes further. It has a greater satisfaction rate
than something that is in abundance and doesn't have a
satisfaction rate. So you've got these two really interesting terms
in Arabic Guevara and Baraka, which in English you could say
abundance and blessing if were to explain it that way. What I mean
by that is let's just say there's a person who has mashallah lots of
Wealth. There's a person, a family who has lots of wealth, both the
husband and wife and the children have at their disposal, they can
go shopping wherever they go and mashallah they can spend, they
have a lot of spending power, a lot of disposable income they can
buy as they want. So they've got a lot of wealth, they've got a lot
of expendable income. Number two, they've got mashallah some for
some people Qatar is in having a lot of children, regardless of
what it is having lots of children, that's a Katra. And
that's abundance for them. For others, they want a long life,
they just want to be in this world for for a long life. They're
mashallah alive until 8090 95, maybe even 100 that go through
there. However, what really matters, whether a person has gone
through, or the opposite, which has been, which is to have less,
or just to have enough, the main thing in all of these is that
regardless of gift or gift, or, or to have just enough, or whatever
it is, if Baraka is not there, then discover is going to be a
source of disaster for the person, generally speaking, because when
you don't have Baraka in anything, and you don't have blessing in
anything, then it's not satisfactory, when great
translation or an way of understanding Baraka is to is
satisfaction, does it satisfy you, I've got his bottle of water here.
Now, there are many types of bottles of bottled water that you
can buy. Some of them, they don't taste nice, there's maybe just,
you know, the company's supposed to be famous or whatever, but it
doesn't taste as nice. Everybody has their preference. Some people
like Highland springs, some people like a veal, some people like
different ones, it just depends on what people like. So sometimes you
could be you know, you could have a crate of water somebody brings
you, you're really thirsty, but you don't like that water. Because
it doesn't satisfy you what is a really good example, sometimes
people are giving you Coke, they are giving you other drinks, but
it's not satisfying you you need just simple cool water. That's all
that's going to do. Now the fact that water has bought okay, it's a
natural thing, water has generally you know, more natural Baraka than
anything else anyway. However,
the point the point that it is satisfactory, something is
satisfactory, it makes you feel good, it makes you feel satisfied
quenched, then that is what you can see as a manifestation of
Baraka that's, that's very important to understand. So a
person who has lots of children, you know, got a big family,
they've got a big house, they've got, you know, lots of cars at
their disposal, a woman's got lots of dresses, you know, because I'm
sort of talking to the sisters to personalize it for the sisters, a
lot of dresses, a lot of shoes, etc, etc. You've got lots of
ability in this regard. That's what you call kufra. Have you got
Baraka though? That's the question Is there Baraka in your life?
That's what we need to think about. So today, many people are
under this delusion, and it's a very easy delusion to have because
Allah subhanaw taala himself says in the Quran, Al her como taka for
having abundance has made you has made you negligent, has made you
think away from Allah subhanahu wa Tada that that is what the problem
is here. That's what abundance does to a person but today many
people think that having lots of something will give you
satisfaction it will make you happy so having more wealth,
having more children, more property, more things at your
disposal, more clothing to wear having a new burqa to wear for
every program, you know for every new celebration you go to every
new event and occasion that you take part in to have something new
for that a new scarf and etc etc. That this is what's going to give
you satisfaction. It does give you a satisfaction but it's not
sufficient it's it dies very quickly. It's only for that moment
that is the problem with no Baraka it gives you a parent satisfaction
but eventually you lose it
there are people can you think of this there are people who lie on
the ground or on a sofa and they can go to sleep and have a more
peaceful sleep than a person who has invested 234 1000 pounds in
you know in the best of beds that are around so for example you know
they've tried beds with 10,000 springs and that wasn't good
enough so then they tried you know 15,000 20,000 30,000 springs and
eventually it just eventually it's all a gimmick anyway, they've
tried those with springs and memory foam then they've gone and
tried you know the memory foam they've tried to get the best
memory foam the softer one the harder one you know there's you go
into a shop like dreams for example. And you see so many
different types of beds you don't even know where to start or where
to end and what's really, you know, they invite you to sleep on
there for a while they invite you to take it home for three months
and and try it out. There's people who cannot find the right bed to
sleep on. They just have an issue they can't get to sleep at night,
despite the fact that they've got the ability to go on by any bed
out there. They've got the ability and yet there's other people who
can just sleep on you know on a little rug on the floor and they
have a good sleep Subhanallah
there's the you know that there's there's these things of
effect. So the fact is that if and we're not talking about poor and
rich here, we're not talking about poor and rich here, although
generally the person with abundance is going to be
understood to be wealthy and rich, right, and the person who can
sleep on a floor or outside under a tree is going to be considered
poor, because generally, that's what they do. But that's not what
I'm speaking about here. I'm generally talking about the person
who's able to sleep, whether that person is generally a poor person,
or otherwise, you're not on anything, and enjoy their sleep,
then a person who has to get the best of beds and still can't find
the right bed to sleep on, then what is the point of that? Where
is the satisfaction, what has all the abundance done for us, then
you've got,
you've got other people who
have simple food, they rely on simple food, they get meat once in
a while they have basic food met a single dish or whatever, but
they're healthy, they're satisfied, the food keeps them
going. It doesn't give them sickness, it doesn't give them
illness, they remain healthy, they're able to get up, they stay
fresh and vibrant. Yet you've got other people, mashallah who have
an abundance of foods, if you open their refrigerators, if you open
their freezers, if you open their cupboards, you've got abundant
amount of foods, they can go and order what they like, they can
have what they like. But then, despite having all of that they
can go to the best restaurants, they can go and eat in the best
places they can make, they can eat the food of the best chefs around
the world. They literally take, take journeys and travel, they
traveled to go and get the best of foods. However, the problem is
that that food, sometimes it doesn't satisfy them, most of what
they eat just doesn't satisfy them anymore. They just have to keep
looking. Then they criticize that restaurant, they criticize that
food, they criticize that food, generally, it's good for a lot of
other people, but because they've, there's no Baraka. Now you might
think that this is extreme, refined taste, and sometimes is
the you know, there could be some delusion in that regard. Despite
all of that, you've got people who have you know, who eat all of
these types of food, they've got access to the best foods in the
world. But the problem is, they have to keep going to the doctor.
They've constantly got indigestion problems, they've got stomach
ulcers, you know, they've got, they've got other problems,
they've got throat problems, they've got diabetes, they've got
high blood pressure, they've got, you know, salt issues, they've got
lots of issues yet they can eat as much as they want, they've got
ability to do that. And there's another person who eats most
simplest things. And there's nothing, you know, it doesn't that
nothing bothers them. They stay vibrant and healthy. So one day is
baraka. There's another the other side, there's no Baraka, but
there's kufra and abundance. So we must make this distinction between
the two. Let's just say that a person makes
20,000 a year,
right, let's just say a person is working, it makes 20,000 a year,
let's just say we have one of the sisters who are working, you know,
you've got a number of sisters that are working, they're making,
you know, 20,000 a year, what's going to happen is that you've got
this concept. And this the same with men, they want to make
25,000, they want that promotion so that they can make 25,000, they
want to get that other job so that they can make 25,000 or even
30,000. Now, when they start making 25,000 and be okay very for
a year or two, then they want to make 30,000 They want to make the
next the next level up eventually, where is that going to stop? You
know, when are we going to say I have enough, because that's what
it is, the more we, the more we indulge ourselves, the more it's
the more it's going to ask for the more it's going to ask for it's
never going to be enough. Because generally what we've seen, I mean,
this is quite quite obvious that if you have less, you're our
ability to spend and think of what things to spend on is going to be
very limited. Because if we're only making 20 20,000, and there's
somebody showing us that they're going holidays twice a year that
are costing them, you know, 10,000 each time,
we're just not going to be able to do that, you know, we make 20,000
a year, how can we take two holidays that are worth 20,000?
It's just it's just not possible? Right? It's just not possible. So
our scope of adventure, our scope of choice is going to be very
limited. Now the more we get, our choice is not going to stay
restricted. This is the way the human works. So when a person
makes 30,000 Now that 10,000 holiday is going to seem within
one's reach. So they're going to want to do that. So now that's
10,000 gone, you had a you've had you've had a holiday now, but then
the more that the richer person becomes it's not just about
holidays, lots of other things to get a better phone to get a better
car, get better clothing. Now that I was shopping in Primark, now I
can start shopping in in, you know British Home Stores or Debenhams.
Then I can start shopping on you know, region streets and Bond
Street and you know, and so this is how people are these people,
they won't be seen there in Primark. There are people out
there who will never be seen dead in Primark. They just don't want
to be there. Right? So people this is standards we're speaking about
here, the more ink
Have you have, the more income that we get and receive, we're
going to feel that we can do much more with it, then along with that
comes the hot arms as well. Because the more you have, because
you have disposable income, you actually feel freer with it. So
you'll want to go and even spend it in things that are not so
appropriate, you know, to go here or there or the other or to buy
something that's not right, or, or whatever. So there's, there's this
20,000 is not going to be enough, you want 25 or 30.
And then our in our scope of 110 desire will increase. So at the
end of the day, we're still wanting more things, which is a
very private, personal, psychological thing, and yet we
have more money coming in. But where's that money going to, then
the more things that we have in our life, that is how much we're
going to have to manage those things. That's another thing that
happens, we're gonna have to manage those things. You can't
just have lots of money and spend and then there's no consequence of
that. Sometimes things don't go right, let's say you've got a
holiday somewhere. And the villa that you booked did not come out,
right, or you had some problems with your fares, you got there and
somebody had made a mistake, or something like that, you may end
up paying more, you may you may not get what you want, then you
have to chase them for your refund. Similar with phones, your
phone has got messed up, I called a friend the other day, I know
he's got a lot of money, right, but the phone is not going
through. Finally, after trying to get him for the whole day. Then I
missed them emailed him and I got a response that my phone's messed
up. So now you're out of a phone, because the new phone that you're
you've got just just didn't work properly. So then you have to send
it back in, you know, to get to get it sorted out, or something
like that. So having lots doesn't necessarily mean it brings up more
management as well. There's a lot more things that you have to think
about. There's a woman who came to a sheikh to speak to him, and she
was crying like it was the end of the world. So he spoke to her says
like, what's the problem? How can I help? And what can I do for you?
So she explained her story in great detail. She says, look, I've
got a beautiful husband, right, who loves me a lot. And he does
everything for me, he cares for me, he loves me, we don't have
children, but we're fine with that. You know, we don't have
children, but we're fine with that. And he's got lots of money.
He's owner of a big company, we have servants in the house, I
don't really have to even do much, you know, I don't have to cook
much or I don't have to clean etc. Everything he pays for he pays all
the bills. He he's got, you know, the cars at our disposal, we can
use I've got the you know, nice car, etc. I've got all of this. So
then why are you crying like this? What's the problem? You know,
what's the issue with you? Why why is it? You know, why does it make
you cry so much says Well, the problem is that he only gives me
he only gives me 5000 To spend a month.
Now that is over and above all the other costs. He buys her clothes
for her. He buys you know, he buys everything, you know when they go
out shopping, but she's got 5000 just to spend on her own if she
wants, you know, on additional clothes or whatever, right? So and
that's not enough, she says she says that's not enough. And I just
feel I'm restricted. I feel I can't do what my friends are
doing. Because you know, once you get to that level, you have
friends on that level, a friend of mine told me that, you know, he is
in America, he is in one of the cities there. So once there was
this trend that picked up among the women that one of the one of
the women, one of the mothers, they got her husband bought her a
car in a wealthy doctor's wife, she she got a car, a nice
Mercedes, what do you call those M classes? Right? Those, those kind
of SUV kind of thing that they saved, they start another you
know, that was idea. So when she got it, all the other vice wanted
it, they all started making demands to the husband that we
want that car as well. So sometimes it's a demand kind of
thing. So likewise here as well, oh, that That woman's got it, or
she's got it or whatever I wanted as well. Likewise, the men do the
same thing. You know, see, they see somebody with a good phone,
they want the same kind of phone, they see somebody with a car, I
think I can get that car as well. You know, it's like that the guy
is good for a holiday, I can go as well. You know, sometimes people
go for ombre just because it's a holiday sometimes. Just it's a
place for holiday. It's unfortunately it's becoming like
that. So now
she's complaining to the sheikh, and she's saying that this is my
problem, you know, it's just not enough for me and I need more
money, but he's not gonna give me any more money. That's my that's
my monthly stipend. So she's crying like she's the most
deprived person in the world. And you know, there's nobody who is
more, who's the who's who's got more grief than her in the world.
So the shake, he was very honest with me, he said, Look,
you are never going to be satisfied. Because the way that
you're trying to gain satisfaction because he immediately understood
that she's not satisfied. Because if somebody's complaining that
they get 5000 a month and that's not enough, then that means
they're not satisfied with that wealth. That's It's simple as
that. So he decided that
her problem is satisfaction and he
Also notice that she's not a very religious person either. She's a
Muslim, but she's not very religious. And that's probably one
of the also one of the reasons here because religion will help
you be satisfied with what you have. Because one of the concepts
of satisfaction in Islam is called Karna. And contentment. And this
is mentioned in the Hadith, often, that a person should be satisfied
with what Allah has given them. So if Allah has given you a lot, you
should be satisfied with that. And you should help others with what
you have. If your Allah has given you less. Again, you can still be
satisfied with that as well. So he said that the way you're looking
for satisfaction, you're never gonna get that satisfaction.
And you're looking in the wrong direction. It's not the way it's
the wrong place to look for satisfaction. Because even if your
husband gave you 10,000, you need to give you 15,000 or even 20,000
a month is still not going to be sufficient for you. Because you
seem to be a spendthrift, you seem to be somebody who just likes to
indulge with what they have. So you're just going to become
constantly spending. So you're not going to be much that will come
out of that, instead of that, what I would suggest to you so he
explained, he says what I would suggest to you is that start
focusing on Allah subhanaw taala. Because in this world, we've not
come in this world, just by accident, we've come here because
of a reason. And we believe in our Creator As believers, we believe
in our Creator, and that he does things for us. And he's told us
that we you can only become good people, sorry, I've created you
here for for obedience. And that's what a good person in this world
does. So if you start worshiping Me and you start focusing on that,
you will be given satisfaction. That's why Allah subhanaw taala
says in the verse, which I read right at the beginning, that if
the people of the area if the people of that vicinity, and that
locality if they believed and had Taqwa we would open up for them
the bar cut from the heavens and from the earth. So from the
produce that they get everything from underneath, they will be
given blessing and Baraka in that. And from above in the heavens.
That's where we get our produce from, we get it from,
from the water that comes from the heavens. And then in Islam we have
another concept that will come from above is also the showering
down of the brackets of the blessings as well. And we will get
it from it. We'll get it from the earth. This is what you will get.
So make Toba repent to Allah subhanho wa Taala a sincere Toba
maker a sincere Toba and start praying your Salah on time, start
focusing on Allah subhanahu wa taala. Start making dua to Allah
subhanho wa taala. And then you will see that you will gain much
more satisfaction. You will have more happiness in your life
because Allah will make you happy. He makes people happy who worship
Him, because that's his responsibility to make people his
Olia his his close ones. So then she went away. She made Toba
there, she made Toba. And then after that, she went away a few
months later, she calls the Sheikh and she says I have I want to
really, really thank you. Because now I still get, I still get the
5000. But about two and a half 1000 is more than enough for me
now for what I needed to spend too. It's enough for me for what I
needed to spend on it's more than enough for me. And now I'm
mashallah praying on time, you know, I've added all of these a
brother to my life, and it's going really good because I feel a lot
more satisfied, I feel a lot more happy. I just feel like I've got a
lot more blessing and Baraka in the house. And now, you know, I've
started covering up as well and everything and the rest of the
money that I saved from that now I'm able to make sadaqa with that,
it's enough and it makes me feel really good, it actually makes me
feel really good that I can spend two, two and a half 1000 You know,
I've sponsored a number of your teams, orphans, and so on. And
it's just makes me so much more happy. Subhanallah that's modern
research shows that spending on somebody else makes you more happy
than spending on oneself. Of course, we have to spend on
oneself, but extra we spend on others, he actually makes you
happy that you're bringing happiness to somebody's life,
Subhan Allah, it just makes you a lot more happy. There's a number
of things like this, that we when Allah subhanaw taala gives Baraka,
then you will feel a lot better. Sometimes you go out to eat, and
you just feel like it's been a big waste of money, yet other people
have been to the same place and it's fine. Sometimes you open up a
fruit, and it gives you satisfaction other times it
doesn't. The concept of Baraka that's very important for us to
understand blessing in things is what we want to look for that we
want to ask Allah subhanaw taala and the more we ask Allah subhanaw
taala that is when he will give us that's why when people think
today, politicians think that they have more of a following than that
is a good thing for them, you know, that is when they're going
to be satisfied. People in business, they think that if
they're able to produce more startup new factories, and you
know, get two or three branches, etc, then that's going to make
them satisfied. It may make them satisfied for a short while, but
when you've got three shops as opposed to one store and you've
got three, then there's going to be that much more headache. You
have to you have to focus on the different things that may happen
on three things. So at the end of the day, it's what to give
For take, it's all a give or take. And the most satisfied person is
the one that Allah subhanaw taala makes satisfied, that is the most
satisfied person if a person has been given children that are
obedient, and that are doing the right thing. For example, the dua
of Rasulullah sallallahu Allah He was actually it's in the Quran
Robina habla and I mean, as far as you know, with the Riyadh Kurata
Aryan, which are unknown in Latakia Eema, which means that
give us of our children and our spouses, those that will cool our
eyes, gladden our eyes, they can't be any bigger Subhanallah they
can't be anything bigger than that. Because our spouses and our
children are the closest people to us in our family. If they can be
the coolness of our eyes and get along with us, then we may be
suffering, but at least they are happy and they're satisfied.
Together with us that what what better, can you what better can
you ask for? If you've got a business that's going well, but
you come back home to horror? You come back home to people who don't
you know, people who who are not getting along, people who are not
satisfied, then what's the point? What's the point of all of that?
The point is that we are satisfied with Allah subhanho wa taala. I'll
give you another example of this. The Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa
sallam said Latin who will bake a letter called Mullah eager to be
eaten fie his surah.
Angels do not enter into homes in which there are animate forms.
This is what the orlimar have explained. It animate forms, you
know, like, basically, forms of humans or animals or something. So
a friend of mine, this is a true story, a friend of mine, a Syrian
individual living in America. When he was there, he told me that
after I'd mentioned this hadith once he says, you know,
subhanAllah, let me tell you an example. My personal experience
with this, he said that, for my children, we had so many would you
call it stuffed toys all around the house in all of these
different stuff, toys, and pictures and things like that it
was just all over the house, you know, generally, there's certain
houses that you go to, they just have toys all over the place, we
had all over, but we just didn't have any satisfaction, we had a
lot of misery in the holes, there was just problems and so on, his
wife was very ill, and so on so forth, as well. He said that I
came across a hadith of this nature. So what I did was I tried
to take everything out and put it into one room. I tried to take
everything out and put it into one room. And so at least we had, you
know, two or three rules of the house that when our free of this
stuff, and I restricted one was very difficult for me to get rid
of everything, you know, because the kids really wanted this stuff.
So when I did that, we could feel that something had just opened up
for us, we could just feel more blessing, we could just feel more
satisfaction, we could just feel more baraka and light because now
the angels are coming in, because the Prophet salallahu Salam
himself,
the there were cases when the angels did not come into the
house, because, for example, I shudder the alarm had put up a, a
kind of a, a sheet on the wall or somewhere on which there was a
picture of something. So that restricted the angels from coming
of course the Angel of Death is going to come wherever. But so
when you look at when you look at these commands of Islam, the
orders of Islam the injunctions within Islam, there's a Baraka in
following them. Sometimes you understand sometimes we don't,
unless the difficulty, but trying our best is going to get us there,
trying our best is going to get us there. So a person who is
satisfied the person who is satisfied with these laws of
Islam, they're going to always gain Baraka. Because what we want
to do is we want to please Allah subhanahu wa Tada and if we please
Allah subhanaw taala, then we've got nothing to worry about. If
Allah just makes it easy for us, then we got nothing to worry
about. So we ask Allah subhanho wa Taala to bless us in all of these
things that he has given us, and to make us content to give us
Ghana, as a prophet of Allah. Some said that the one who has been
given Kana and sufficient food to keep him going, then that person
is has Baraka, that person is successful. That person has Glad
Tidings Subhanallah that's, that's the whole point of this. If we
have kana in this world, then we will gain more in Jannah. That is
why people like Abu Bakr Siddiq are the Allahu Anhu.
They refuse to drink sweetened water, just because he felt that
he is taking all of the good things of Jana that are promised
to him of Jana in this world. Of course, this is a very high level
for us to aspire to, which is very difficult for most of us. But at
least we can try to curb ourselves from the excessive desires that we
have that just because the first thing I would like to tell us to
stop doing is if somebody else has got something that doesn't mean
that we need to have it. And I'll tell you some examples. Just
because somebody else is going for a holiday doesn't mean we have to
go as well. You're happy. Don't make yourself unhappy just by
thinking how it's going to be
In India or Spain, or Portugal or, or Dubai, or wherever it is, so
they've been there doesn't mean that you have to also go there.
Right? If you want to go there for yourself, go there for yourself.
But don't go just because somebody else is going. Weddings is another
thing, it's wedding season is coming, just don't do something
because it's going to look good. And it's going to look as as good
as somebody else. Because somebody else did that. That's not what
we're doing it for. If you're doing something, because you want
to match up to somebody else, there's no satisfaction in that.
It's just a competition. And why the competition, you're not going
to win a prize afterwards. And any praise you're going to get is
going to be short lived, nobody's going to remember you're waiting
for the rest of their life. You know, nobody's going to remember
your wedding for the rest of their life. Unless you do something
really weird,
then people will remember it. But you don't want to be remembered
for for things like this. So just because somebody else did a
wedding of this nature, and they had this type of thing, and they
had this type of food or whatever, doesn't mean you have to do it. If
that's something you liked. And you you felt people would enjoy
that, that and you've got the ability to cater for that, then go
ahead and do it. That's different. Don't do things just because
somebody else, somebody else has gone and got a certain type of car
or certain type of dress or whatever. So just to compete, you
do that, then that's totally wrong as well. Handbags is a big thing.
You know, because even those who are fully covered, the one thing
that they can show off with is a handbag. There was this study
about Arab women in places like Saudi Arabia, etcetera, where they
were full niqab. Now, when you do that you can't really show much,
right? Then it comes into basically the cut of the of the
burqa, you know, of the Juba, or whatever it is. But the biggest
thing that any of those people can, you know, Nickleby women can
actually display our bags. So then they go into bags, so they will
spend more money on their bag than they burqa, they'll spend 500 on a
bag, and the burqa will be worth like 5060 pounds, right? So what's
the point of that just to copy somebody, at the end of the day,
it's all what goes on in your heart. Nobody demands that you
have these things. And even if they do, so what, as long as
you're satisfied within yourself, that I want to be reasonable, I
want to be sensible, and I want to do what's good for me, then that
will be sufficient for you. I want to do what I think is good. That's
the main thing, let's not be overcome by what others tell us to
do. And then we'll be inshallah satisfied. May Allah subhanho wa
Taala give us the Tofik May Allah subhanho wa Taala grant a soldier
nettleford dose, may Allah subhanaw taala allow us to take
Ebro from those Hadith, which would speak about that. And I just
want to mention one last thing, that the last person out of Jannah
it's mentioned in the Hadith, that he gets 10 times the amount of
this world, that Allah subhanaw taala when he tells him that, you
know, desire, desire, desire, and then he desires certain things,
and Allah reminds of other things. And then in one Hadith, he
mentions that then Allah says, Okay, I'll give you all of that.
And I'll give you, I'll give you a double that, I'll give you that
under like amount, and then he gets 10 times that amount of this
world and he thinks Allah is joking with him. So he says to
Allah subhanaw taala that, are you joking with me what I'm terrible
at I mean, right, that you're, you're terrible. I mean, and
you're mocking me? And Allah Subhanallah says, No, I'm not
mocking you. Right? So he actually thought Allah subhanaw taala is
mocking me that how can Allah subhanaw taala give him so much.
So now what you've got is, you've got the last person out of
hellfire, who's going to be probably the biggest sinner that
this world has ever seen. who's never done a good deed? You just
had La ilaha illAllah. That's it. He goes into Jamaica 10 times that
amount. Imagine everybody else.
Now, how can somebody get 10 times out of this world? Imagine how
many people are going to go into Jannah? How are they going to get
more than, you know, 10 times or more of the size of this world?
Well, the reason is that Allah subhanaw taala has a lot of real
estate up there. Because what it is, is that the strongest opinion
about where Jana is located is that Jana is located on the
seventh heaven and the seventh heaven. And what it also says is
that between there are 100 degrees of Jana 100 levels of Jana, and
between every two degrees of Jana, it's in this world, it's like the
earth under under sky. So can you see the distance between the our
Earth where we stand and the sky that is the size, the height of
one level of gender and there's 100 levels like that. So if that's
this height, then imagine the width and the breadth and the
length of this gender of these of these levels of Jannah then it
says that the topmost gender is genital filled dose, right which
is what we're inshallah aspiring for. Genital for DOS, its roof
which is the penthouse. I mean, the agenda for those is the
penthouse. The roof of it, is the Throne of Allah subhana wa Tada.
So
Above that is the Throne of Allah subhanho wa Taala which forms the,
the roof of the highest Jana genital filled dose. What this
what the Hadith mentions about the size of the arch of Allah subhanaw
taala compared to this dunya is that the kursi, which is the foot
pedestal of the Arsh is like
a ring, sorry, the Earth is like a ring, this entire universe is like
a ring thrown into the middle of a desert, that desert is that kursi
and the earth is like that ring. Can you imagine the size. So you
can imagine then the size of the brush, if that's the size of the
brush.
And that is what is the roof of genital fear DOS, that it tells us
that there's a lot of space up there.
There's a lot of space up there. The other thing is that you know,
we live in Hackney, right working class people, our rooms are kind
of small compared to bigger houses, when you get these bigger
mansions and so on. The thing is that they're not one thing about
big houses is that they're not going to have small rooms, the
bigger you get, the bigger the rooms are. Right because that's a
feature of, of wealth of having something more. So
if Jannah is supposed to be the best of the best, and it's
supposed to be something that Allah has taken care of every
aspect of it that even the rugs and the things that you'll be
sitting on. You know the the reclining couches that you'll be
sitting on generally you know when you've got a really nice sofa at
home, and you have to tilt it over to get something from underneath.
The cloth underneath is just basic. It just normal lining
cloth. They don't put expensive things there that is all nicely
designed and everything because nobody looks there. But Allah
subhanaw taala says in the Quran
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the even the underside of it, even the inside of it, that is not
going to be seen even that is fully detailed. That is fully
detailed. So like, you know, you have some jackets and so on, but
even the inside is detailed, you know that they've actually spent
time on doing that as well. So that is what Jana is all about. It
is special, but the one thing that we have to work hard to get it is
to have contentment in this world and to spend time focusing on
Allah subhanaw taala having timeout to remember him and glad
tidings are for those who are given that time in this world and
may Allah subhanaw taala accept us all for that. May Allah grant us
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