Abdur Rahman ibn Yusuf Mangera – Don’t Go From Creature to Creature [Hikam 42]
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The segment discusses various aspects of Islam, including driving luxury cars, shavons, and the use of shavons to cover actions. It emphasizes the importance of not traveling and respecting people's privacy, while also highlighting the need for strong faith in oneself and not leaving oneself attached. The segment also emphasizes the importance of finding one's dream fruit and finding spiritual help in achieving Islam's goal of empowering people with mental health issues.
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Subhanallah I remember once one
big shake saying that there's various ways of drunk driving
luxury cars. One is you steal them
that's not a really good idea but that's an option.
Another one is I guess you try to find a rich friend and he lets you
drive it. Number three, you work hard and then you buy one
and number four, you just give everything up focus on Allah and
then somebody will drive you around.
In one of those, all of that is dinner.
Every single one of them is done. Yeah, just some are better than
others. Some are worse than others. It's not a lie you're
looking for you're looking that oh, that shake he gets driven
around in these luxury cars. I want to get that as well.
Subhanallah Can you see how that's just the near the end of the day?
But it's in the guise of the Dean it looks like religion it looks as
a better option. You know Subhanallah this is just
absolutely so true. Shavon is there to to deceive the knifes is
there because the nerves loves these kinds of things.
You only reach Allah when these things if they come great if they
don't come absolutely no problem. If come you appreciate it if they
don't come you feel nothing. You see somebody else with it.
Mashallah. I don't really I don't need to need it. If it comes
Alhamdulillah Allah gave me this to sit in
Bismillah R Rahman r Rahim.
Masha Allah in this blessing sequence, we move on hamdu Lillahi
Rabbil Alameen wa salatu salam ala Sayidina Muhammad whiner if you
will stop me Ah, Marian Amma Barrett with these blessings,
atheris aphorisms we move on today. The one which was supposed
to be today was number 20 on page 99, but that's a bit advanced. And
I'm going to miss that out for now come back to it later. Once we
building once we built up our understanding of this
sophisticated system of
the spirituality and understanding Allah subhanaw taala that one's a
bit complicated. So I'm going to move on to the next one which
mashallah is going to really reveal to us some really
interesting details about something very important. So
that's on page 100. And that's number 42.
So this is what if not authority law says it's a bit of a longer
one, let Tarhan mean Conan Conan for the cone ca Hema Raha
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Hobbico moonda wonder Illa Allah He sallallahu alayhi wa sallam
from incarnate Hijra to who Illa Allah He was solely for Hegira to
who Illa Allah He was SULI woman Gannett Hijra to who? Illa Illa
dunya you'll see her or him rotten yet as a way to her for Hijra to
who Ilana Hazara la
fhem Cola who already has Salatu was Salam wa Malhotra llama in
Canada. Herman was salam. This is an interesting one. It's one of
the few where he actually quotes the full Hadith.
And
this is what he says, see if you can make out what he's talking
about. He says, travel not meaning don't travel, from creature to
creature, from one creation of Allah to another creation,
thinking you're getting somewhere,
is basically saying that don't go from what you think is a creation
of Allah, a despicable acts aspect of the world. So I'm going to go
to something else, but then, and you think that's praiseworthy, but
it actually ends up being just another creation of Allah. So
you've gone from one creation to creation. So what he's saying is
go to the Creator.
So that's what he's saying. So he says, otherwise, you will be like
a donkey at the mill.
The donkey of the mill, the donkey hasn't gone to purchase anything
at the mill, what we're talking about is not an electronic mill.
We're talking about the original Mills, right where it was this big
stones, and there was a rod that came out of that that was
pushed around by a donkey. So a lot of people say that. I then
took a 360 turn. When you do a 360 turn, you get back to the same
place. So you don't want to do 360s You want to do a 180 turn.
You know, when somebody wants to change their life. Do you just say
that? Oh, he went and did a one 360s Did you end up at the same
place? You want to do 180 If you're really in a bad place, you
want to be in a good place you'd rather be 180 but any
Really, what he's saying here is otherwise you will be like a
donkey at the mill roundabout he turns. But his goal is the same as
his departure. So he's going miles and miles and miles, but he's
still ending up at the same place. So that's what we're doing. You're
spinning the wheel, the same old rat race, you're going from one
place to the next, but you're not getting any closer, rather go from
creatures to the Creator.
And then the verse of the Quran and that the final end is unto thy
Lord, consider the prophets Allah Larson's word.
Thereafter, he whose flight is for God and His messy meaning he whose
emigration This is the famous Hadith of the hijra, the
migration. So Allah the Prophet sallallahu sallam said that,
therefore he whose emigration or flight is for Allah and His
Messenger, then his flight is truly for Allah and His messenger.
If you are going to, for example, today, you could say that if
you're going to Arabia, but karma karma Madina, Munawwara, you're
taking a flight, what he means by flight is just flight fleeing from
one place to the next. That's migration, right? So but we can
literally take it as a flight today, right? An airline flight,
if you're going there purely for the sake of Allah and His
Messenger,
then his flight is for Allah and His messenger. And he was flight
is for worldly gain. You want to go and do some business there. You
want to meet up with people. You want to go there to show people
that you go home, but also you're really pious gay,
or for a marriage with a woman, because in the migration, there
was one man who migrated to Medina, because the woman that he
wanted to marry went there. So that's why he did it. So he
doesn't get the reward for the migration does he, which is
essentially, you get a reward for going from a bad place to a good
place, you actually get reward for doing that. Like if you move
somewhere for that, where you just literally literally leave a place
for a while to go somewhere else. So for example, if you go to stay
in a masjid for a few days, because you want to protect
yourself, whether that being heroes of the league, or whatever,
or you want to go to a conference that is going to get you close to
Allah, that's a mini migration, it's not the same as the original
one. But it's a mini migration, because you're trying to go from a
bad place, or not so good place to a better place for the sake of
Allah. As long as your intention is correct, then his flight is for
that which he flees to. So the author then says, understand His
words upon him be peace, and ponder this matter if you can, and
peace on to you as well. So this is rather different from the other
ones, it seems like he's ending the chapter, which he does with
this one. So now what is he speaking about? So the big theme
here is creation and creator. And this is going to be very eye
opening in sha Allah. So he says, when you're trying to when when
you get inspired to move to Allah subhanaw taala there's a lot of
things on the way that seem like they're close to Allah, so then
you go there.
So your ultimate destination, Allah subhanaw taala. But in the
way, there's lots of things that beckon to you,
expressing themselves as a better option than where you were. But
he's saying that that's still not the ultimate option. Your ultimate
option is Allah because everything in between anything, but Allah is
going to be creation as well. So you're going from one creation to
the next, it might be a better creation, but it's still creation
of Allah subhanaw taala you'd be shocked what he's talking about,
though.
So he's saying that at the end of the day, going from one place
traveling from the one creation to the other is that you're trying to
go from other than Allah to other than Allah, that is like somebody
who abstains from the dunya says, I want to cut myself on dunya. So
I'm not going to indulge as much as I used to. And I want to turn
to Allah subhanaw taala. But what's his purpose for doing that?
What he wants to do is correct, but what's the purpose for which
he wants to abandon the dunya and he wants to be connected to Allah.
Why because mashallah, he's heard a story of the Olia and how Allah
blesses them so much, and how Allah gifts them so much, and
bestows on them so much. So that's why he wants to do that.
So he's gone from one creation to the next. That's not Allah, that's
something else that you're looking for. So he says, he cuts away from
the world. He but the benefit he wants is that he wants calmness.
He wants tranquility in his life, because the world when you get
obsessed with the world, you get busy. Right? You get immersed in
it. And when you hear about the people of Allah, they were
relaxed. So that's what you're looking for. You're looking for
the relaxation in this world. I mean, it's not a bad thing if
that's what you want. But if you want Allah then that needs to be a
highly we don't mean that these are bad ideas in themselves.
The definitely better than
spinning the wheel every day in the same way for sure. But that's
not really the end goal. That's still the second step. The final
step is not that that is not your final step. So what you don't
want, so all he's looking for is to be relaxed and
the dunya to come to him. What do you mean the dunya to come to you?
Why would the dunya come to you? Because he's heard the Hadith, the
following Hadith, men in Qatar, Illa Allah, whoever cuts away from
everything and focuses on Allah Kapha who could Luma una, Allah
will suffice him have every burden. Allah will make everything
easy for you, your usual burdens of the day in your life, they will
be taken care of, whereas aka whom in hatred is Him, and He will
provide him from where he never imagined. That's what he wants.
See, it's, it's like it's engaged in of Allah, but that's not what
you want. You will have to want Allah will give you all of that,
but that's not what you should be looking for, should be looking for
Allah. Then he's heard another Hadith. Mankind Atilla Hera to
Miyata whoever his intention is the hereafter. Jama Allahu Allah,
He, Amara, Allah will consolidate all these matters for him, things
will just become easier to deal with.
Because the other one is that whoever wants Whoever makes this
dunya his objective, he's just going to go from one deed to the
next one action to the next and he's just going to get confused,
and are going to be busy and engrossed. So this is the opposite
of that whoever makes akhira the hereafter his intention, then
Allah subhanho wa Taala will consolidate his matters
altogether, where Gerald Hina who he called me, he, and Allah will
enrich his heart, so you won't feel the need for the dunya what
utter to dunya we're here Sahil, that dunya will then come to Him
in humility in submission. How much do you want of me?
So he thought of that that's really attractive, isn't it? You
get it for free. Here you have to toil for it. There you get it for
free.
Subhanallah I remember once one
big shake saying that there's various ways of driving long
driving luxury cars. One is you steal them.
That's not a really good idea, but that's an option.
Another one is, I guess you try to find a rich friend and he lets you
drive it. Number three, you work hard, and then you buy one
and number four, you just give everything up focus on Allah and
then somebody will drive you around.
In one of those, all of the is dunya every single one of them is
doing Yeah, just some are better than others. Some are worse than
others. It's not a lie you're looking for you're looking that.
Oh, that shake he gets driven around in these luxury cars. I
want to get that as well. Subhanallah Can you see how that's
just dunya at the end of the day, but it's in the guise of the deen
It's looks like religion it looks as a better option. You know
Subhanallah this is just absolutely so true. Shaytan is
there to do to deceive the knifes is there because the nerves loves
these kinds of things.
You only reach Allah when these things if they come great if they
don't come absolutely no problem. If come you appreciate it, if they
don't come you feel nothing. You see somebody else with it.
Mashallah. I don't really I don't need to need it. If it comes
Alhamdulillah Allah gave me this to sit in.
So with all of that you learn, you're like, Oh, that's a really
good outcome. I don't mind doing that. That's just creation of
Allah subhanaw taala.
Or another option is that you see that the Olia they are well
respected people. Just mashallah really respect and honor them. So
a person avoid start avoiding the dunya because he's looking for
special position. You want people to turn towards you. You want
honor. You want to cause Haber and or in people's hearts. You want
them to respect you.
Or you abstain from the world, because you're looking for
miracles to happen to you. You know, you hear about certain
earlier that they can do some unusual things. So you want to
start doing some unusual things.
Or you do this because then you want those palaces and big houses
and big assets and things like that, to come to you. He says all
of this at the end of the day is Rahila and Ben Cohn illogical.
This is just the journey from one creation to another creation
because all of that is a creation of Allah.
So then that's when he strikes the example to really drive the point
home and it's a wonderful example he says Famitsu garima Tahuna
His example is like that donkey of the mill, who's employed just to
go round and round and round all day.
You see to Leila when the hand goes night and day travels around,
but he's still in the same place.
He ends up and he's in the same place. You're good No, no Katara
massage at the mattala. But he thinks he's
gotten somewhere thinks that he's actually accomplished something
for himself. No, maybe for the Miller Yes, but not for himself.
What Mirza Illa nutzern Mata when the only thing that you get out of
that is that he gets tired, this poor donkey gets tired.
Sheikh Hassan says, Stand by the one door, not so that multiple
doors open to you for you. And then multiple doors will open for
you.
What an amazing statement that is standard that one door not so that
other doors open for you. But then they will open for you that that's
not your objective.
Go and submit yourself to that one master. Not so that others
will bow down in front of you. But then they will.
They will submit to you because ALLAH SubhanA wa Taala says, We're
immune. Shane in
Danna Hawza. You know,
Allah has the treasures of everything. There's nothing except
that ALLAH has its treasures Allah has its abundant supply and
everything related to it. So, or people who are a person who is
serious ly looking for Allah subhanaw taala, your focus, your
aspiration should only be for the majestic Lord.
So go from viewing all of these creative things towards just being
witnessing towards just witnessing the great Lord of yours.
Go from all of these things when you're looking for evidences, to
prove this and to convince you and to make you certain to getting to
the level where you can actually experience Allah subhanaw taala
you don't need evidence anymore. You're just so at an experiential
level that you don't have to worry about anything.
And that is what Allah says what Annette Isla Robbie Kalamunda to
Allah is your final and anyway, whether you like it, no, we're
gonna eventually end it. You may as well end
with him in the world so that it's easier in the hereafter.
Allah make it easy. Don't go from one creation to the next. Because
all you're doing is that you're just sacrificing one love of the
heart for another love of that soul. So this is something you
know, okay, I don't want this. But then you want that one because
it's just in a better base.
Of course, you can use this as a stepping stone. But again, you
have to remember that's not my objective. Because if you think
that's your objective, that's what the objective of the Olia is, that
that's what they wanted. No. Again, that's just another fitna
on the road.
And then he says that what a beautiful example he gives meaning
a pinata like gives me the donkey could have used the horse could
mean
could have used another animal could have used the human being
going around. Why does he use a donkey? Because the donkey still
doesn't get it does he?
Because the donkey is the donkey. It's I mean, it's a it's a
creation of Allah. But you know, a donkey is dumb. That you don't
Allah belladati He will kill the family here. A donkey is known to
be a donkey. That just as it all is in it, I mean, the donkey might
be actually superior to us if we don't die as believers anyway. So
I want to just say that but just to strike that example I you know,
I put down the donkey but I don't mean to, because really, I have
respect for the donkey. I have respect for every animal. What
Allah created as a creation of a lion that sense right? They all
they also the purpose that they know they for that as their
creation of Allah I respected Of course, then you have some bad
animals and so on, and there's a purpose for each of them.
Otherwise, I can't consider myself stronger. Really. Because only if
we die as a believer, then insha Allah We're better than that
donkey or that dog. Otherwise the dog doesn't go to hellfire. We
will if we mess up. So how can you think yourself better in that
sense? So don't just go to another creation make you they all
creation just like you, but go to the Creator because to Allah ends
everything. And usually there's two ways multiple ways for to get
from creation to Allah subhanho wa Taala directly. The first one is
knowledge. If you didn't know this, a lot of people don't know
this. They think that's it. That's my objective and handy life become
like that.
But when you know
All knowledge is everything when you know, then you can aspire,
when you don't know you don't know. You know, like we've had the
discourse in the last few sessions where it's talking about the level
of class and sincerity. That one is where
you just think that you're doing it for the reward. And that's a
great thing and it is a great thing. But then you realize that
there's a level above that which is that you're not doing it for
the reward, you're actually doing it for Allah himself. So he
doesn't the reward ultimately doesn't matter even though you're
definitely going to get it.
But if you'd never know about that, and you just focused on
reward your life that's shortcoming
are you to blame? Well, you should know more about it is the
knowledge is important. The Prophet saw some said it multiple
times, he said that your actions are not going to take you to
paradise. Shouldn't that tell you something, but I'm doing one of
these actions. And I think they're going to take me to paradise. The
president. No, it's Allah's grace that is going to take you to
paradise. sahih hadith is telling you that, of course, the action is
what gets you the grace of Allah. He's just trying to say do the
action, but don't rely on the action, rely on the Grace of Allah
make him happy.
So there's multiple things Number one, I believe is knowledge, you
have to analyze giving us this knowledge. And we thank Allah for
that because otherwise we wouldn't have known Allah reward the
author, Allah reward all of those who have allowed this to happen.
Number two, focus entirely on a live edge. I mean, it takes time
to cut away from every invisible attachments to too many things.
Literally, we have attachments of millions of things in this world,
like everything from our bedding, when we get up in the morning, to
the water that we use to the hot water that we use, right to the
toothbrush, to the food we have for breakfast, to the car, our
clothing, we have attachment to all of these things. And we're
gonna have to have some kind of association with them. We just
have to turn that association into an ultimate reality, which is that
we're doing everything for Allah subhanaw taala. So turn and focus
your aspiration away from all of these things. Until eventually,
Allah can look into your heart and not find any love in the accepting
or anything for his sake. Ultimately, that's what you want
to do. I know that's going to be a journey. But it's not impossible.
In sha Allah, it's not impossible. Nothing is impossible for Allah.
It starts off with knowledge, then it starts off with Dora and
aspiration. Number two, he says you must constantly turn to Allah.
You must constantly resort to Allah, you must constantly take
refuge in Allah, you must constantly
know that is only Allah who can help you and seek assistance from
er Ghana Buddha, er, gana Stein. Once you've said I worship you,
then for you is who I seek assistance from you is whom I seek
assistance. You say that every day in solid, right? That's our dua
every day. And then you rely on him. So firstly, as he says, you
turn to Him in everything you seek assistance from him, you really
rely upon him. And you just submit to Him in everything he sends to
you. La ilaha illa Allah Now, look, look, this is shakable
Hussen Shadie. He says, there's four things if anybody has these
four things, people will be in need of you, people will turn to
you.
Number one, if you become independent from everything, which
means that you don't really you don't express your need for
anything, you get your necessities, no doubt, but you're
not greedy for anything.
Right?
You will get anything. That's if you have that. Number two, you
have love for Allah. Number three, you feel enriched only by Allah.
Which basically means that
you think that anything you need only can come from Allah subhanaw
taala. So he's not only enriched because he's the valley and Mohini
nobody else and you have sick. You're absolutely truthful. You
have conviction in Allah, you're truthful in your servitude, and
you're absolutely convinced with regards to all Allah subhanho wa
Taala as lordly commands,
then people are going to be in need of you.
But that's not why you're getting.
woman asked and women, Allah He hookman they call me you know,
who better is their judge? You know, for the people who,
especially for the people who have belief in conviction, Allah
subhanaw taala
if not, I thought he uses that hadith and the famous hadith of
Nia. So he says that, look at what Allah subhanaw taala is saying
that anybody who's going to migrate because you know, in those
days migration was a big thing here today, it's easier for us to
migrate from this country than it was for them to migrate. Do you
know why?
At least the majority if not everybody sitting here
wasn't their forefather was not here probably over 100 years ago.
This is a new place.
ask those people whose families have been there for hundreds of
years.
The grandfather, their their father was the grandfather, great
grandfather, everybody was there, the whole family's there. And they
have to leave that place as much more tough than us
as much more tougher than us, because that's your heritage.
That's all, you know, you hardly know anything else. And you have
to go leaving all that behind. That's much more tough than us
moving from one place to the next, believe me,
Allah give us stability, but still, so it was a big deal. And
it had to be a big reward that Allah gave for it. So people
wanted to do it. And they want to do it purely because it's a
massive undertaking. You don't want to mess that intention up.
Otherwise, you've done all of that toil, you've deprived yourself,
you've literally sacrificed everything behind for them for
something else, that you're only going to get in this world and
you're not going to get the benefits on the it wasn't worth
it. That's why this hadith is such a landmark narration that it
starts off everything, your intention is what's important. So
then he says that if your intention is for Allah, His
Messenger, then that is your intention, you know what your
intention is, don't cry in the hereafter when you don't get
something if your intention was to please somebody or acquire
something, or be called X, Y, and Zed, it's not easy to leave your
family home, it's not easy to leave your heritage. So there's
multiple types of there's multiple types of migration that you can
do. That's the big one. But to go from a place of disobedience,
where you just got bad company, you're part of a drug dealing, you
know, system, there's no way you can get out of that. I mean, I've
talked to drug dealers, they can't get out of that. If they stay in
that same area, they got too many, too many associates who are who've
got something for them or against them.
You just can't get out of that. There's so many people they go to,
they go to jail, come back, they go back into the same thing. They
have to go somewhere else. That's just an example. That's just an
example. your circle of friends are
unless you're a leader, and you can change the people around you.
Most people aren't your circle of friends are your doom them if
they're bad. So that's why you have to go from that place of
disobedience to a place of obedience. And you go from a place
of made, they may not be bad but people just heedless in your area.
Go get associate nowadays is easier because you can get hooked
online with the right kind of people. Otherwise, if you're just
going to hang around people who are heedless, all they're worrying
about, you know, is
I don't know renovating the house, you know, decorating something or
going out to eat or going to another party or going to another,
you know, holiday or whatever. That heedlessness that's just he
that's just its competition. That's what it is. You need to go
to a place that is full of wake up people who are awakened conscious,
then you start getting conscious it humans love to copy others and
they learn from others.
La ilaha illa Allah you need to go from just forms to the real spirit
to look for that spirit.
And your purpose in all of that should be that ultimately you want
Allah subhanaw taala you want to gain the recognition you want to
know your Lord, before you will have to face him in the hereafter
to know his kindness and so on. Then eventually, if that's your
case, then inshallah Allah subhanho wa Taala will get you
there, according to your Allah says, I am with my seven however
he thinks of me. very pertinent narration there. Otherwise you
will get what you want. Maybe you will be you will be successful in
getting in the dunya what you want, but then that's just the
benefit of that is restricted to this world. 50 6070 years, maybe
you really enjoy it, maybe. But what are you going to do in the
hereafter for eternity afterwards? If what you did in this world
doesn't accomplish both of these things. So be smart, do things
that get you comfort in this world, but mainly in the
hereafter. So that's why he says For he gelato who Isla Maha Jara
LA, his migration is flight is for whatever he has migrated towards.
So check yourself out, look into your heart, introspect yourself
and check your enough's and see that Do you have anything in there
that you're still focusing on something else? You still have
love for other things? I guess we probably do. Because we've got
multiple times with multiple things in this world in sha Allah,
slowly, slowly, we can cut those ties and tie them with Allah. And
then those same things, maybe unless they're bad and evil
things. We can be tied with those things for the right reason. Allah
is not telling you to become a loner. Allah is not telling you to
become some kind of elite sob as you know, religious kind of snob
or something. No, that's not how you're supposed to be. It's just
that you're supposed to interact with everything for the sake of
Allah rather than for your own sake. And you only do that and the
reason for that is very simple. Allah subhanaw taala is very
guarding Lee jealous. Very protect
tively jealous. Meaning if you're going to claim to be his, then he
doesn't want you messing around with anybody else, just like
humans are but Allah is extreme, and he has the right to be because
he gives everything. So he's very guardedly
envious and it's just a difficult word to translate winner because
of the you. That's the word in Arabic. Is he Allah subhanho wa
Taala is just so independent, you mess around and you bring somebody
else into the picture. Allah doesn't want to know. Unless you
come back to him that he's, he's there again for you.
So Allah doesn't love it when anybody seeks out anything other
than Allah when he's saying that he's looking for Allah. If you're
saying you're looking for somebody who has no problem.
That doesn't mean it's a good thing. But it's just that at least
you're not trying to deceive Allah, because Allah can't be
deceived.
So that's why somebody puts this in a poem in Arabic he says in to
read Watson for Motueka shorten.
Lionel will be Solomon. Fee he fought the law.
He says, If you want to get to us to reach us to attain us, then
your death is necessary. Meaning your death from everything else is
necessary. Nobody can reach who has some access with somebody
else.
That's why one of the Shijo whose name is Shefali Yazidi. He says
Rahim Allah says that in order to win 34 Hello, hello, and Fusa
caminhada la ra Khaled actually unfussy and Phu Kham minha de la
ilaha illa mille Mallacoota. If you want to recognize whether your
knifes has traveled from its love of worldly, you know, obsessions
towards the higher world, or that you haven't traveled. Then, just
after you think you've gotten somewhere like, you know, you've
made an effort and then you think you've gotten somewhere now what
you do is, what are those past desires you had or past
indulgences, you had put them in front of you? How do you feel? Do
you still want them?
If you do it means you haven't really gone anywhere.
Meaning you know, they're yours. And if you're like, No, I don't
want to, I don't care about them. Genuinely, I don't care about
them.
Then, then you're getting somewhere. So he says that if you
find that you eventually don't crave for them anymore for step
zero. So now, you can seek Glad Tidings Faqad Raha that Urwa hukum
Ihlara mil medicals, then that means your souls have truly
traveled now and gone from these immersions into these oceans of
the world to the higher oceans.
And he says if you still find that you still have some intention,
just put some more effort in
make an effort to distract yourself and go and then when you
truly find the sweetness, Halawa, Iman, then after that all of these
things will reign. Sounds very far fetched. Sounds very difficult
actually. But slowly, slowly, is what does it and again, it starts
with knowledge. When it starts with effort, then Insha Allah,
Allah subhanho wa Taala accept our efforts from us. I'm going to read
to you what Sheikh Abdullah gringo he sums it up as the true goal of
the seeker of Allah is Allah himself. The Seekers gaze must be
focused on his master in everything. The purpose of all the
acts of worship, invocation, doors and efforts is the diversion of
the seekers gaze from all things beside Allah, so that the heart
heart becomes absorbed in the invocation of Allah Himself.
Although the seekers goal of reward lofty ranks and acquisition
of spiritual pleasure is lawful. That's okay. He's not saying
that's haram for you to become like the weenie of Allah at least,
as better than where you are, for sure. Don't get that wrong. You
can't jump. Usually, you could maybe, but just don't think that's
your last goal. That's a stepping stone only. That's not where you
want to end. So he said it is lawful. However, he has not yet
attained the true rank of a completely spiritual, complete
spiritual aspirant, because he is still not totally focused on his
Lord. Yet if he abandons everything and fixes his spiritual
gaze on Allah Most Thai, then this will be the goal that he attains,
Allah will give it to you, Allah is not going to let you out in the
cold. Allah is some that you call him Tim he, he listens, unlike
other people that if they just selfish or they don't care,
they're not going to look at you they might, you know, if you
really get them convinced Allah subhanaw taala is very easy to
convince, as long as we show sincerity, if a man of the world
abandons the world, engrossing himself in a variety of spiritual
efforts to convey to others that he is a man of piety and a saint.
He has in fact abandoned one object of creation, to involve
himself in just another one. In other words, he has abandoned
wealth for the sake of name and fame. Instead, it is clear that
those whose acclaim he seeks
All creation, or all creation.
They say that there was a
righteous man, not a scholar that done a lot of worship became very
well known.
To set the degree, he started worshipping so much more, he
didn't even come out. They say that he used to come out once a
year,
used to come up once a year. And because he came out once a year,
he was a celebrity. So on that day that he usually used to come out
and reveal himself. There used to be 1000s a mass of people waiting
for the hero, the star, the influence, or whatever you want to
call it. So he's to come out look at everybody they used to look at
me needs to go back for another year.
Allahu Akbar.
They say in you know, the lessons that if you want to gain
influence, don't make yourself so cheap.
Play hard to get that increases your value they say. So he really
did it once a year.
So there was somebody one of the rulers of the local area. He was
like really interested in this guy, he must be so pious or
whatever. So he went and asked another shake. He said, you know,
what do you think Ken? I wanted him to do something. So he said,
let me let you know if you really want to test him. This is what you
do. The next time it says day to come out.
Just cordoned off the area of his sight so that nobody can get
close. So they can gather but like a mile away, right? So he can't
see anybody when he comes out.
That's the way you're going to test him. So when that day came,
he came out, and there's nobody there. They've all been stopped,
like a distance away. He gave a shriek and he felt and fainted
from what I remember. Because ultimately that's what he was
doing it for.
He couldn't take it
Subhanallah
that's that's a really scary story when I heard it to be honest, I
heard it from our Savior just very scary that story was
It's pride and arrogance and love is just so in the so ingrained
it's so subtle.
Allah help us I mean, I know that I have issues like I don't even
claim let's just easier so that we can work. May Allah subhanaw taala
make it easy for us. We're okay with that. Ron and Al Hamdulillah
here Abdullah Alameen
Hello Amanda Silla morning
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Yeah, Allah, we ask you for your special mercies. We ask You for
Your forgiveness. Oh Allah forgive us, O Allah, we ask you from your
generosity, your benevolence, Your Grace of Allah, we ask you for
your special attention. We ask you for your love of Allah, we ask you
for your closeness of Allah. We ask you for your closeness of
Allah both in this world and the hereafter of Allah we ask you,
we asked you to allow us to be connected to you. Our law not just
in name, not just in belief, but in action. And in our souls, and
our Allah. Allow us to be focused entirely on you. And if we're
focused on anything else, then it's for your sake of Allah make
us do everything for your sake, and nothing for other than your
sake of Allah grant us sincerity and if loss of Allah grant us the
ability to focus entirely on you, and forgive us our wrongdoings,
our delays, our procrastination, our negligence, our laziness,
Allah protect and Forgiver on laziness. So Allah forgive us our
laziness, forgive us, for not having turned to us sooner, or
Allah we are closer to our death, or the number of years that we
have passed in this life and indulgence of Allah, we ask that
you forgive us for it. Oh Allah, we know that we can't show you
much. We can't express much. We can't do much. We can't perform
much. But we know that your mercy is greater than anybody's Mercy of
Allah is greater than the mercies of our mothers. It is greater than
the mercies of all the mothers in this world. That's why we can turn
to you and we can even seek this from you because we know that you
will love those who ask and you get angry on those who don't ask.
So Allah that's, that is the reason why we're asking you. Oh
Allah, we ask that you forgive us our wrongdoings, especially those
that are bringing problems in our life that are bringing troubles
that are bringing difficulties that are
There are taking that are taking away the comfort from our lives.
And that is bringing all the mental health issues that people
are suffering from this turning people against one another. That
is breaking families apart. That is turning people against one
another and removing any sweetness in our faith and removing any
sweetness of this life completely. Oh Allah, we ask you forgiveness
from all of these things. We also ask you forgiveness from those
sins that have now become part of the life of our life and we
indulge them in them and we don't even think that they're wrong
anymore. And even we are defensive about them. Oh Allah grant us true
knowledge and grant us because for you, it's just a decision you have
to take. But for us, it's a lifelong effort that we have to
make. Oh Allah make this easy for us, oh Allah make this easy for
us. And Oh Allah, we ask you to sustain and remove from oppression
our brothers and sisters around the world that are dealing with
that kind of oppression, that you protect us and our families and
especially our children and projecting into the day with
judgment from all the evil and challenges which are out there day
by day they increase and allow us to sort ourselves out before we we
die before we pass away and allow us to drink from the hands of your
messenger Muhammad sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, and allow us to
meet you and see you and be happy about it and you'll be happy about
meeting us in the hereafter and grant has generated for those
grants as your love and grant us your affection grant us your
vision of Allah accept from chronic or obesity online, see who
knows.
The point of a lecture is to encourage people to act to get
further an inspiration and encouragement, persuasion. The
next step is to actually start learning seriously to read books
to take on a subject of Islam and to understand all the subjects of
Islam at least at the basic level, so that we can become more aware
of what our deen wants from us. And that's why we started Rayyan
courses so that you can actually take organize lectures on demand
whenever you have free time, especially for example, the
Islamic essentials course that we have on there, the Islamic
essentials certificate which you take 20 Short modules and at the
end of that inshallah you will have gotten the basics of most of
the most important topics in Islam and you will feel a lot more
confident. You don't have to leave lectures behind you can continue
to live, you know to listen to lectures, but you need to have
this more sustained study as well as local law here in Salaam
Alaikum Warahmatullahi Wabarakatuh