Abdur Rahman ibn Yusuf Mangera – Excessive Greed to Disgrace [Hikam 60]
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Bismillah al Rahman al Rahim Al hamdu Lillahi Rabbil Alameen wa
Salatu was Salam ala so you didn't more serene for either. The Asahi
or Baraka was seldom at the Sleeman girthier on Isla Yomi.
Dean, mother and so in the continuation of our series on the
HECM the next wisdom that he mentions is number 60. On page
213, he says, ma bas are caught Assan Verlin Illa Allah B three
bomber in Mombasa Asano xuelin Illa. Allah B's Retama in
this one sounds a bit complicated. It's actually a very simple idea.
Very helpful and very beneficial idea in sha Allah if Allah
subhanaw taala can enable it for us. He says, if not I thought
Allah Iskandariyah Rahim Allah says what it were it not for the
seeds of ambitious desire.
The branches of disgrace would not be lofty.
Were it not for the seeds of ambitious desire, the branches of
disgrace would not be lofty.
is connecting disgrace an ambitious desire courageousness
greed for things together? So he's saying that the more there is
greed, the more possibility there is for disgrace.
And he mentioned it as though
the seeds are what you plant, generally it seeds that you plant
and that is what develops into a tree and into then branches. So
the seeds are the seeds of ambition, ambitious desire, desire
for other than Allah, obviously, you have to have a desire for
Allah otherwise, how you're going to get to Allah, Paradise, the
happiness
and satisfaction of ALLAH SubhanA wa Tada. So this is saying that
when you plant the desire for anything, but that anything for
the world,
then you're sure to then grow from the a tree and then the branches
of disgrace.
The branches of disgrace would not be lofty, he says.
So this is a really interesting idea.
And
as I said, to make sure that we clarify you need desire in this
world, Allah has given us desire, it's a human faculty to want
something which is what drives us is what gives us the ambition.
That it's what essentially,
if a person didn't have any desire at all, they would just sit back
and do nothing. So desire is a good thing. So this is obviously
speaking about a specific kind of desire, which is detrimental.
So just for those who understand Arabic says ma basilica of Sano
xuelin axon plural of Goossen, which basically means branches
Ville means
disk disgrace and bizarre but Busuu means to become lofty, to
grow tall, to be high. So the branches of
disgrace would never be high.
In a busy determined bidder means like a seat, and Tama means the
desire and in this case, he means desire for that which is not
appropriate for us to have desire in so now let's see what this is
saying. Say Allah subhanaw taala says when nephila Bus equality
law, so the same word is used by osteopath. But anyway to move on.
This is essentially saying that you need to cut away all of your
hope for what other people possess. Whatever humans possess,
you should cut away your hope that you will get it from them.
You can have a hope that it comes from Allah, but you cannot have a
hope that you will get it from them. Even though we see that we
actually do get things from people.
On a day to day basis, humans assist one another. That's
actually a characteristic of the human being that we work together.
Unlike some animals, some animals, they work together, other animals
do it alone. But humans have to work together because we can't
each one of us cannot produce everything that each one of us
needs. So then this seems unrealistic. You know, for some
people, they may say, Well, this seems unrealistic if you're
explaining that, to be cutting away of having any kind of desire
from another human being. So that's the idea that to have your
heart connected to this idea that you will get it from someone else
meaning from another human being. And then for your heart to then
not think about Allah but then just to be focused on this other
person on on whoever it is, besides Allah subhanaw taala that
is where you're going to end up possibly, possibly with disgrace
Obal Ebersol mu
See, he says Wallahi Mara Ito is ill if you refer to him at the
annual health I've never seen
respect and honor except by turning away from having any kind
of anticipation from human beings. But Rolla key rather keep the
focus on Allah subhanaw taala. Okay, so why is having this
ambitious greed from others? Why is that going to be our disgrace?
Why is it disk? Why is this grace based on that? Well, the reason is
that the person who has this kind of desire from other human beings,
they've abandoned the Mighty One, and they've
become associated with a servant who is lowly.
So what do you expect when you've
abandoned the main source, or the the source,
the person has also abandoned his noble lord, his benevolent and
Generous Lord. And he's put all of his
attention to a needy servant.
So then he will become needy in the same way.
He is abandoned, putting all of his anticipation and all of his
hope in the one who is rich, enriched independent from
everybody else. And along with that, he's generous and
benevolent. And he's decided to put it down his anticipation with
some lonely miserable individual in the sight of Allah, or as
compared to Allah subhanho wa taala. Whereas you have to
remember that Allah subhanho wa Taala is always going to be
providing a human being providing his servants according to the how
much they think of him.
The great greater bandwidth and Wi Fi bandwidth you open up with
Allah, that's how much more he will provide you.
It's up to us to open up the next band up.
It's up to us to open up the next package up.
But Allah subhanaw taala Kitten has got enough, as much as you
want.
Also, another thing is that Allah subhanaw, Taala has made us His
servants, his slaves, needy of him, independent from everybody
else, humans are generally created, generally created free of
everyone else, as free free people. So now this person has
chosen by putting all of his anticipation in someone else, to
become a servant of another servant
of a creation of Allah.
And a servant to his own desires and his own pleasures.
Why? How does that make sense? Well, logically speaking,
whenever you begin to love something, whenever you become
obsessed, and you need to be keen to love something, you're going to
have the full desire to attain it.
Whenever you do that, you become its servant, because in order to
get it, there's going to be hoops, you have to jump, there's going to
be compromises you may have to make, there's going to be
limitations, you're gonna have to put to yourself, because when you
want to get something, you have to abide by the rules to get it. And
whenever you give up something and you like, forget that when you
give up any hope in something, you become free of it. That thing
cannot control you anymore.
We get so many cases like this, where there's a wife in a
miserable marriage, generally, it's going to be the wife in the
miserable mind in this particular scenarios, where the husband is
very abusive, but blackmails, turns, torments and threatens with
divorce, separation, and she feels helpless. She can't go anywhere.
They've got children for the sake of the children, but misery for 10
years, 20 years, health is becoming ill, and so on.
And sometimes it's the other way around. Sometimes it's with a with
a partner in a business, sometimes it's somebody else could be with
anybody.
When they leave the abusive relationship when they when they
they know there's harm coming from there, but they still think
there's some benefit coming from there. That's why they hang on.
So only reason they hang on, I asked these people I said, Why are
you still here? Why are you still doing this?
You're being beaten, for example, you're being abused in this way.
You are you are being told to run the expenses of the house. No wife
should have to do that. You've got grounds for divorce in Islam from
a faith perspective.
You hate him. You've been sleeping separately in another room for
five years, seven years.
dealt with two cases recently like that. Why do you stay together
in a loveless marriage
Ah, that's not Islam. So as you say, because they think there's
something they can still get from there, and the day that they give
up, the day that they release themselves, they become free
as long as they put their reliance in Allah subhanaw taala. But they
become free from this individual or from this source of benefit
that they feel they're getting.
That's why warmer or use them in shaitan will refer to him as the
one in La Quinta, hoorah. minnow. Wherever you abandon your hopes in
something that you're going to get something that you're dependent on
that thing and you remove all of your anticipation from nothing,
then you become free of that thing. Hopefully you don't jump
from one pot into another pot. You have to go to Allah.
That is why the poet says, Abba till Mata Maru and to Hashem and
to Hashem money in nearly every house often sold to a lab, Doha,
Roma satama. And well her Roma Matata who Abdu
says that all of these desires and
all of this obsession, etc, that's failed to make me one of its
followers, one of its slaves.
I stay very strong in front of it. I put my defenses up, I never
become slave to any of my desires.
And then he says, a human being a servant of Allah is only going to
be
free as long as they disobey these ambitious desires. A free person,
as soon as they start to obey their desires will become a slave.
And as a simple fact that he's saying
that's why in the third week, he says, why couldn't you how are you
Hello, Abdu Ibrahimi and our servants of Allah who should
become Ibrahimi. Like our Prophet Ibrahim Ali is known as Allah
subhanaw taala mentions in the Quran,
your father Ibrahim Ali Salam has said, Lo hibel Filene when he was
having that whole experience to give Gnosis about Allah subhanho
wa taala. He finally said, I do not like those that set that those
that disappear. When he saw the moon disappear, the stars
disappear, LA or hibel faylene.
And we have to remember that everybody but Allah is going to
disappear. It is in his nature to disappear. We all know that when
we buy something, it's going to last for a certain amount. That's
why we asked for guarantees to hope we can
keep it in good use until that time.
Now we're told to follow mil letter A B come Ibrahim, Allah
says in surah Al Hajj, militare Abiko Ibrahim, the way the path
the deen the the religion of your forefathers Ibrahim his way the
fitrah which is the nature so that's why it becomes wajib
necessary unbelievers that they must follow the
the way of Ibrahim Ali salaam that's where we get our guidance
from. And part of the guidance parts of the religion or the the
way Ibrahim alayhis salam got his success and made his way is by
removing any any ambition to creation so for example, the day
you know the story the day that he was thrown using a huge catapult
into this raging fire
Jabril Alistar now he this has to be understood in slow motion he's
being thrown for a big distance because the fire was so big they
said they couldn't get close. So then they came up with this idea
that they should build a catapult so now he's on the category and is
being thrown in then instance right Gibreel Ali Salam comes to
him
and he says to him Allah Gohara any need any needs he sees he's
obviously seeing you Brian That's why he's come to his to his
assistance any need and this is a Brian Melissa going into the fight
says Ibrahim Hassan calmly says Amma ileka fella.
Amma illega fella well Amma Illa Allah He for Bella to you know,
but to Allah of course.
So then he says Gibreel Harrison then said okay, fine, why don't
you ask him then go and ask him to be nice, I wanted to save him.
So then Ibrahim Allison says Now imagine this is talking to a
prophet a prophet of a high caliber of high ambition. Will
will ask me Mina Russell high resolution speaking to the Arch
Angel an angel is saying okay, make dua to Allah plus l implore
Him has been so early. L mu will be highly. His knowledge of my
state is sufficient
for me, that I don't need to ask him anything. There's no need to I
need to ask him he knows anyway. He has knowledge of exactly what's
going on. Second millisecond, in fact, pre knowledge. So if he
wants to say me, it's up
To him, essentially, this is full submission.
He's done his part. Besides that he knows Allah, whatever he wants
will happen to him. This isn't to say that you don't defend yourself
if you're going to be thrown into the fire. But here, he's already
been thrown. He's already on his way. What else is he going to do?
The only one that can help him is Allah but he knows, Allah knows
anyway. So he says, Okay, we'll leave it to Allah subhanaw taala.
This is, I mean, don't I mean, I don't want anybody to imagine from
this is something that we cannot do, or that he was doing something
that, you know, we cannot do? No, we can do this as well.
Again, it's very clear that once you're in the air about together,
what else are you going to do?
The only thing you can do is Allah, you can just put your
reliance and there's nothing else you can do. But then we would have
asked Allah.
He says, I'll leave it to Allah.
How Ibrahim Hassan basically takes away all of his
pleading to anyone else.
In fact, to get clean, but his anticipation in any one, in fact,
even with Allah, his connection with Allah is such that look, he
knows he loves me. I'm his servant. It's up to him. So he's
not even asking Allah even that's a means.
And that's not to say we don't ask Allah we can ask Allah the Prophet
salallahu Salam has mentioned so many times, Allah has mentioned
the Quran where it doesn't ask Allah, this. So he did not ask him
Gibreel he did not ask any help from Djibouti lady Salam, and
neither did he even decide neither didn't even try to make a dua to
Allah subhanho wa taala. But he done something else, he done
something higher than asking him
see because there's the sobre el Bella and then asking Allah to
remove the test urine. But then the highest status status is Radha
bill, Kedah, which is satisfaction with your degree so you don't even
ask Allah. One of our machines that I can relate back to, like on
probably the fifth one up of our line, hygiene dollar 56 one up
hygiene dad Allah once he became sick, he became ill with some
illness. And he decided, he says Allah knows my state, I can ask
him for Shiva because part of asking Allah Shiva you can ask
Allah for Shiva, is that I can ask him for Shiva, but he knows so let
me just leave it to him.
I leave it to whenever he wants. Now, if we're suffering from some,
some something, we're like, get rid of it, please, Oh Allah, it's
a good thing to get rid of it. But then there's a higher level again,
remember this high level is as for the living area that says that
it's not easy for everyone. So he said, I'll leave it to Allah.
Now, of course, when you leave it to Allah, Allah sees that your
reliance on him is even higher. That Oh, he's put all of his
reliance on Me then Allah is going to give the best possible outcome.
And you see that same story in a Ugadi Salaam. He just leaves it to
Allah Allah gives him so much better than everything that he had
lost in terms of his sickness, illness, being deserted by
everybody and so on and so forth.
Now this sounds complicated, but slowly slowly we have to change
our heart again this does not mean that you don't ask somebody for
help Hey, brother, you know I've got a flat tire can you help me?
But in the heart, it must be that only Allah is gonna help me.
Meaning only Allah is going to facilitate this way. Only Allah
will facilitate this in some way doesn't mean that you just sit
down think you can if you want to if you've got that too much
stoical. But it's nothing wrong with asking people but in your
heart, you know, it's only Allah, I'm gonna ask this person
inshallah he'll help. It's up to Allah if he helps. So he did not
ask Gibreel Ali salaam, anything it did not try to ask Allah
anything. But he actually saw the True One Who is Allah The only
true one? Allah subhanaw taala closer than Jibreel closer than
even his ask, imagine that connection with Allah. May Allah
grant has that kind of connection. Ibrahim Ali Salam is not the most
superior Prophet after Muhammad Sallallahu Sallam except for good
reason.
Among the hierarchy of prophets, the highest profit is the Prophet
sallallahu alayhi wa sallam. The one after him is Ibrahim Ali
Salam, even though he's the grandparents of the Prophet
sallallahu alayhi wasallam that's where Allah subhanaw taala kept
him safe from them rude and all of his other people, all of those
others that tried to intend evil with him. And Allah subhanho wa
Taala gave him huge rewards children at an older age. Allah
subhanaw taala gives them the construction of the Baitullah. The
whole Hodge event has continued since his time, maca has actually
become inhabited and become a city from his time, through his through
his descendants. Subhanallah every prophet that came after him is
pretty much from his descendants. You don't hear about any prophet
after him that
We're not from his descendants or the Bani Israel, right? They're
all from his descendants. Then Muhammad sallallahu alayhi wa
sallam the final prophet is from Descendants, all the major books
from prophets of his descendants. I mean, Subhan Allah, I mean, you
have to be of somewhere, if we can even put an ounce of a small
amount of Ibrahim Ali Salam stowa, Coonan reliance and cutting away
from everyone else. I mean, you can tell by his whole journey that
he just became aloof from everyone else his, but it had to be from
practice he, he dealt with the idols, he looked for Gnosis
through the stars, and eventually, that way, so you have to make an
effort from it, it's not going to come just like that.
Part of Ibrahim Ali salaams methodology, part of his way his
mill is to essentially treat as an enemy, anything that's going to
take you away from Allah subhanaw taala. treat that as an enemy, so
shun it. And when you have an enemy, you have to plan against
it. You have to take precautions, you have to have strategy. You
can't just stay heedless, because enemies are those who are out to
get you. So he considers all those that take you away from Allah as
enemies while there to get you. So you have to take precautions. So
then Ibrahim asks and this is what he says. In throughout the show
Allah Allah says for in Ibrahim Al Islam, quoting Rahim Romanism
says, For in the home I do, Willie Ihlara, Bella Alameen. They are
all my enemies, because they're all there to take me away from
Allah to pretend that they are the gods pretend that they can sustain
me that they can give me something that I can put my hope in them.
They are all my enemies except the True Lord of the worlds and uses
the word Rob boll Alameen, the one who definitely takes whatever his
they are in charge of, they take them slowly, slowly in every
stage, giving them what they want. That's what you call Rob and the
True Lord, the Lord is in nourishes you, who sustains you at
every moment. So if you want to be truly enriched by Allah, then the
only way you can do that is to just
cut away all of your hopes abandon all of your hopes from anybody
else, you can still ask them and still talk to them assist one
another and have that but your understanding is that eventually
it's all going to come from Allah subhanho wa taala.
So shakable Hasson Shalini says, I used to be enough. I used to mean
never enough See, ly enough. See, I used to mean enough enough see
ly enough. See for K fella, I assume enough lady LA. Only a true
lover of Allah to the person whose experiences can can say this. He
says, I've given up hope of my own self benefiting myself. I know
that I fail so many times, in my own self benefiting my own self, I
want something, but I can't help it.
So if I've given up hope, in my own self, benefiting my own self,
this really hits it home. So how can I not give up hope in somebody
else benefiting me?
I am most beloved to myself. I love my own self more than anyone
else. Genuinely, that's human beings. But I cannot benefit
myself the way I want to benefit myself. How can I expect that for
any other human being to benefit me in the same way?
Then he says, what a Joe Tula Haley's ad for Kayla or Julian FC,
I have great hope I've hoped from Allah in a love other people might
you know, when people ask you for dawns on you make dua for them
from Allah. So if I have put my hope in Allah for other people,
then how can I not put my hope in Allah for myself.
This is a true knower of Allah subhanaw taala, who can say this.
This essentially is you can say the, they use a word which they
don't use too much. But this they can say is like the miracle cure,
the miracle strategy, the miracle solution for everything, they
would call it Kimia in those days, which basically means alchemy,
turning dust into gold. So that was a symbolic idea that, you
know, the most effective thing to get to your objective. So he's
saying that essentially, this is he had, he had the, this alchemy,
for him to be able to say this.
Anybody who has this eventually afterwards, and he will eventually
gain such a richness and such wealth that after that, there's
going to be no need, you're never going to feel needy, because you
always feel that Allah is going to give you whatever you need, you're
always going to have honor and there's going to be never any
disgrace in that. And you'll be able to then spend without feeling
like you're going to have to deplete your,
your supply because your supply will come from the infinite one.
And this is the alchemy of those
To really get the true understanding from Allah subhanho
wa taala, especially Kabul has an also says that once there's a guy,
there's a person who wanted who tried to, you know, he joined my
company he would, wherever I go, I see him in a Mercedes There he
comes to sit in my class, whatever. And I don't know, I just
felt, you know, sometimes you see somebody who comes to you who
tries to visit you tries to meet you all the time, it feels a bit
of a burden. You don't hit off with that person, you don't have
that kind of same feeling about that person. So he says that it
felt like a big burden on me. So one day, what happened is that I
just was very frank with him, and I openly spoke to him. And I said,
like, what, why'd you come here for?
Like, you know, what do you want? Why do you come here for? So he
opened up to me, right? So then I said to him, you know, like, what
do you need? What do you want? Why? Why do you keep staying with
me? He says, oh, you know, my master, they told me that you have
the, the solution for life, you know, like, the alchemy for
happiness, the alchemy to you know, get to where you need to get
to. So that's why I wanted to stay with you. So I can learn it from
you. I can find what this magic is that you have that everybody says
that you have. So I said to him, you're right. You are right. And
whoever has told you this, they're absolutely correct as well. But I
don't think you're going to be able to accept that the solution
that I have, and this magic that I have, I don't think you're going
to be able to accept it is not something you're going to be able
to tolerate. Is there no, no, I've come here. I've made so much
effort cos I'm, of course I'm going to accept it. So he said,
Okay, Sheikh Hassan said, look, what happened is that I did
investigation, I
looked carefully and pondered over the creation of Allah subhana wa
Tada. And I found them to be of two types. Broadly speaking of two
types, they were those of the Creation who are enemies, those
things that distract and so on their enemies, and who are active
enemies. And then there are those who are friends, too love their
beloved ones, their lovers, right. So I then investigated and looked
deeply into the enemies. And I eventually figured out that
according to our deen, and so on my enemies, active enemies, they
cannot harm me in any way that Allah subhanaw taala doesn't want
any way out there to harm you. They can harm you, if Allah wills,
but they can only harm you as much as Allah wills. So they can't hurt
me any more than that, and those.
So then I decided that I don't have to worry about them anymore.
Meaning in terms of heartfelt grief and those kinds of things,
of course, I'm going to keep my defenses up, and all of that, you
know, because Allah has not told us to be silly, that you know,
somebody is going to attack me just leaves the door open.
I'm interpreting this for us, it doesn't mean that you just sit
there and put all of your, your wealth out there, here, whoever
wants to take it, take it and you don't want them to take it, you
know, you obviously have to do it. But your hope is that it's only
Allah that can protect you, you know, the scams that take place
these days, when people take your credit card, and so on. If you're
going to be worried about that every day, or people are going to
access to your bank account, people are going to there's going
to be an email, of course, you have to be careful that you don't
receive any phishing email, and that you don't respond to it. But
if you're going to be worried because of that, you stop email,
you know, you stop email, things like that, you stop going
somewhere, you start going out of your house, because
you know, like nowadays, there's people knocking on your door
pretending to be from the council, and then they come and rob you,
especially the women and so on. And because of that you can just
kind of stop opening the door to anybody is not even going to go
there.
So it's not like that. It's just that you know, from Allah, you
have to take your precautions. It's part of life. So anyway, I
just said forget the enemies. Then after I looked into the friends
and the lovers, I saw that eventually I saw that you know
what, they can actually not benefit me. Except
with, they can't benefit me and they can't
do anything for me that Allah subhanaw taala doesn't want they
can only benefit me as much as Allah subhanaw taala once anyway,
so I said, Okay, forget them as well. I can't have any hope in
them. Of course you have friends, but I can't have hope in them. And
I decided that my full time I look, relationship and connection
needs to be with Allah subhanaw taala
that's when it was actually said to me like, that's when it dawned
upon me or hear the voice or whatever. There was a realization
that hit him that you've come all of this way now.
But now you can still not reach the reality of the matter, meaning
the true reality until you also cut all of your hopes from us,
meaning from Allah do
Just as you get carried away from everybody else
and your only hope should be that whatever we've already decreed for
you, you're gonna get that. That's all you're gonna get. So even when
you put your hopes in Allah,
it's like if I want to marry someone,
then my hope should be oh Allah make me marry her. Like, Oh Allah,
if do the istikhara if it's good, Allah, ordain it for me, if it's
bad, take it away from me. Never insist on something as far as
possible, and that's difficult sometimes, because you think you
can have a inclination towards that. But then you leave it to
Allah. That way, Allah will give you the best out of it. Because if
you insist on something, I want to do this business, I want to buy
that car, I want to go on this holidays locked down. But you
know, they say that this country is okay, I want to go
well, do istikhara and then see how things pan out. And if Allah
wills it for you, Inshallah, it'll be good. These are complicated
issues. There are theological issues included in that. But
slowly, slowly, we ask Allah to provide us the clarity of that.
See, a person having a lot of knowledge is not enough, that does
not indicate the true understanding of the human being
about Allah subhanaw taala true understanding. Likewise, a person
who constantly that is regular on the vicar, that also doesn't give
enough of an indication of the true risk, the true relationship
and understanding that a person has of Allah subhanaw taala the
true thing that indicates towards how much a person knows Allah
subhanho wa Taala and how much light Allah subhanaw taala is
sending them right is how much he is enriched by Allah, how much he
trust in Allah and just drops everything else. He's always just
looking out for Allah subhanaw taala and he's keeping his heart
free from anybody else. Allah subhanaw taala says in the Quran
in In Central calf in Jalna murder of the zenith Allah, Lena beluga,
who are you home, x and y Milla that we've designated, we've
placed everything that's on the earth to be an adornment for it.
It's an adornment for the dunya.
And that's what we get attracted to. But we're doing that so that
we can test them to see how faithful they will still be to us,
who will still be of the best actions. So the best of actions is
to get that true understanding about Allah subhanahu wa taala by
becoming enriched by Allah and nothing else, to have your hope in
nothing else, to ask for your support, to ask for your
sustenance and everything from Allah subhanho wa taala. One day
earlier, the Allahu Anhu when he was in Basra, he went to the big
Masjid the German and he saw that this is a big big masjid and he
saw that by in different corners, you know, like one here one by
that pillar one by that pillar. There's different
sauce, storytellers. Why if you know to tell good stories, just to
provide good inspiration. He saw them doing that. So he made one by
one. He basically told him all to stand up and leave when he came to
Hudson Boston, who was also remember Hassan Al bacillary is
from Basra. And he asked him a question he tested him first. He
said
he The reason he asked him a specific question is because he
saw on him some special
sign. He saw that he was different, you know, he had
that's sanctity, you know that feeling of
religiosity and piety on him. So he said to him, young man, I'm
going to ask you a question.
If you give me a good response, then I'll leave you here to carry
on your dose. Otherwise, I'm going to make you leave here just like
I've told everybody else to leave.
So then hacer la Sierra de la, he said to him, you can please ask
whatever you will.
So he said, Okay, what is the crux of the deen? Like, what is this
main feature? To get your to get to the heights of your deen?
What's the pinnacle of your path in your deen? He said
scrupulousness meaning to be particular about what you do and
what you don't do. Then he said to him, What is the corruption? How
does the Dean become corrupt? How does somebody's religion become
corrupt? He said a tama to have these vain hopes in other than
Allah subhanaw taala he says, Okay, you carry on into this fight
with Luca manyatta. Kelham Island as you know you have a right to
speak. You have a right to speak to people. Ebola Ebola Ebersol
mercy. He says that one day at the beginning of my salute, the
beginning of my efforts and on
The path to reach Allah subhanho wa Taala when I started doing my
Vicodin, and so on, I was in Iskandariyah Alexandria. And I
went to somebody who knew me. One of the shopkeepers, I had some
relationship with him, so I went to him, and I purchased something
for half a day. Okay, this cost half addendum, in my heart, he was
that he knows me. Right? So maybe he's not going to, maybe he's not
going to, maybe he's not going to charge me. He knows me. So maybe
he's not going to I was hoping that he knows me. So maybe this is
gonna say take it. Sometimes it happens, right? If you know
someone.
Now that is obviously putting your hope in someone.
Right? So I heard somebody saying to me like a voice saying, A
Salama to fit Dini be taketomi Phil makuu keen. If you want
safety in your faith, then you need to abandon hopes in all of
creation. Don't expect that from him.
Just expect to pay the money. There's a nether shake, he went to
buy some fruits from one of those people that sell fruits on a one
of those carts. In those days. Nowadays, we've got those all
around London with those people selling with the bowl, the bowls,
the different bowls want on the bowl. Now, sometimes you have to
be careful what's in that bowl, because sometimes they add the bad
ones and the good ones together because they have to get rid of
it. They've got some old stock and new stock.
So the shake went there, and he actually picked out all the bad
ones.
And he paid that so his students was in Why do you do that? So
well, you know, he has somebody has to sell it Subhanallah you
know what, sometimes you go to certain fruit sellers. And they
try to give you they try to deceive you by putting they said
it's all good. You ask him how is it? They're all good. Some of the
feral ones, they'll say, look, I haven't tasted it myself. So at
least they don't take liability. So how are those plums? How are
those mangoes? I haven't tasted it myself, or they're not. It's all
good.
And then there's also some martial, they say, Look, don't
take this take that one.
Subhanallah
I went to one the other day, and I bought a pack of peaches. And he
said that he said, take another pack because this one's got a bad
one in there. And I felt really sorry for him. I said, Well, you
have to what are you going to do with this stuff? If you're not
selling it to me? What are you going to do with it goes home
canning it, we're going to eat it? I said it's okay. It's just one
peach, half a peach, that it's okay. I mean, because it's a new
kind of lace. These guys don't make much money. I don't I
personally don't think they make much money selling these one pound
bowls. It said that's a different topic that's more about
trying to benefit somebody having bit of self selfishness. You know,
that's very difficult when you're very selfish. When we're always
looking out for ourselves. It's very difficult to want to take
that but we can even start doing it in small things. Hopefully we
can do it properly in other things. But anyway, so he says no,
he heard a sound saying don't expect from anyone.
Because a person with greed is never going to be satisfied. A
person with greed is never going to be satisfied. Because in
Arabic, the word Tama are all made of is made up of hollow letters,
the tall is hollow meme is hollow, and the iron is hollow. It's
hollowness. Right? Nothing's gonna fulfill that.
That's why don't ever lower yourself and demean yourself. For
need from someone. Like if somebody is playing hard to get,
put your trust in Allah and say, if you want me to have it, Allah
give it to me easily. Otherwise, don't let me become a slave for
this. Once you do that, you'll just your life will become better.
You know, your life becomes much better when you just leave it to
Allah subhanho wa Taala when you don't get too upset about things
and when you don't put all of your eggs in one basket of the Lukin of
the creation, you still going to have to make an effort but your
trust is always with Allah subhanaw taala because like one of
them Sheikh said one of the great scholars they said that you know,
whatever Allah has decreed that your your your gums will chew that
your mouth will chew, then you're gonna get that anyway. Again, a
lot of people get confused they it doesn't mean that you sit back and
do nothing you make an effort but you have to remember that you
don't put your psychology your heart in a way that if I don't get
this I'm going to be upset. That's what this is, is differentiating
that many people who are very subtle, sorry, who are very
surface oriented. There's like how can you say that we have to make
an effort we can't just sit back yes make an effort. But don't
expect that you're going to get it unless Allah will say you still
have to make the efforts but your trust is in Allah and don't get
upset if you don't get it because whatever you get is from Allah and
whatever misses that because of Allah subhanaw taala as well. So
for example, you know, this whole greed issue if somebody asked
greed Who's your father there are Bob gonna write it sounds better
like the lead and Who is your father sounds a bit too polite
actually.
it like in order to the idiom is terrible corner you know like that
kind of thing.
So he would say it would it would respond honestly that a shackle
Phil McDougal
that's what my problem is that it's about creating doubt in
whatever has been decreed
that's essentially the crux of this matter if you if you if you
put hopes like that, and if you say Okay What's your occupation
like What the What does greed do what its active role? active role
is it desirable to go and just eventually
provide disgrace greed eventually begets disgrace
Allahu Akbar and eventually a person and what is your final
objective deprivation deprive the human being when the shaytaan come
when the shaitan over, uses that tomorrow when we develop it and we
let shaytaan take over? It's just going to be Herrmann. That's why
Finally, a poet says
hit the rock. Ill Allah He la Todra Isla NUS what cannot be is
in for in the laser, Phil yet see was stuck in the uncleanly the
Corbin was the Rahim in in millenia, money Stogner and
Ignacy. Same thing, it's just the conclusion of the whole thing says
if you're going to hope and in treats, and plea from anyone,
don't do that, from anybody, don't do that from anyone else. Satisfy
and make yourself content with honor.
Because the only way and the only way to gain honor is in becoming
despondent from everyone else that they can get you anything that
they can give you If Allah doesn't want and
enrich yourself and make yourself independent of having this idea
that your close ones or your kin your family can give you anything.
Because the true enriched one, the Truly Rich one is the one who
seeks independence from all all people except Allah subhanho wa
Taala May Allah subhanaw taala make us of such people may Allah
subhanaw taala grant us that kind of esterna and richness and allow
us to think of Allah all the time. This is the way that Sheikh
Abdullah gonna go. He finally summarizes this in his commentary,
he says, the branches of the tree of disgrace grow and spread from
the seed of ambitious desire that has taken root in the huts. As
soon as you got that ambitious desire and greed for something in
your heart, then the disgrace is could be born from there. And the
higher that desire, the more that disgrace you could get to.
Disgrace is always the consequence of greed and desire. If you had no
disgrace, no greed or desire for it, you'd care less what happens
to you. When a man's heart desires wealth and fame than for its
acquisition, he will certainly establish a relationship with
people and direct his appeals to them. This acquisition of wealth
or fame is not possible without collusion with others, his desire
constrains him to then flatter them and beg them he's putting a
slightly different idea on this this thing, obviously, if you want
is expanding it more, he says that if you're going to want people
which
you for what you need, you're going to have to do things for
them, you're gonna have to flatter them, you're gonna have to get
them on your side, you're gonna have to convince them somehow make
them happy, make them satisfied.
go hand in hand with them, support them, vote for them. Subhanallah
you're gonna have to justify their moves. Even if they're siding with
the enemies. You know, when you talk about politics or llama and
leaders, their leaders I mean, it's it's Allahu Akbar, Allah
protect us is the big fitna times right.
Imams of big masjids colluding or justifying what the leaders are
doing. You know, even though the entire human can see that it's
harmful.
Allah make it easy, Allah make it easy. So he says that this is not
without having to flatter someone and beg others. This is a great
disgrace. This is essentially disgrace. Tama is this part of the
root of all evil, true respect lies in a man's heart being devoid
of any relationship with anyone besides Allah, He remains
independent from all this treasure of true respect is acquired by the
elimination of greed and the cultivation of contentment with
whatever Allah subhanaw taala gives us We ask Allah for tofi
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Sayidina Muhammad,
Allah we ask you for your special mercy for your grace of Allah for
your Allah
After your forgiveness of Allah forgive us our wrongdoings of
Allah forgive us our bad habits of Allah forgive us our ingrained
sins and vices of Allah forgive us our bad habits. Forgive us our
addictions of Allah forgive us for all the time that we turn away
from you and that we are negligent of Allah help us and assist us or
Allah grant us the Tofik Oh Allah allow us to not want to turn to
anyone except to you. Our Allah grant us a connection with you,
and association with you. Oh Allah grant us love for you. Oh Allah
grant us trust in you. Our Allah grant us trust in you of Allah, we
cannot even raise these hands to you. Except because you have given
us the tofield our life you've allowed us to raise these hands to
you. Then Allah grant us what we are seeking from you, our love for
all of these things we can only get from you. There is no source,
no other source there is no one else that can grant us and bestow
these things upon us of Allah. We are in need we are your needy
servants of Allah we are nothing but full, fully just your
creation, who is in need and dependent, absolutely dependent.
On you have Allah we have no other way to survive and be nourished
and be sustained except through you. Have Allah help us and
assistance and you are the true Lord you are the only Lord you are
the rub. You are the sustainer of Allah all subsistence comes from
you have Allah grant us or Allah and do not allow us to turn our
gaze to anyone else. So Allah this world and its adornments its
beauties are all attractions and adornments for us, oh Allah allow
us to pass this test of Allah we are not very successful. We failed
miserably so many times. We continue to fail miserably. Oh
Allah help us and assist us so Allah accept this. Coming together
these gatherings and this small amount of liquor that can only
happen through you Allah now accept it from us, or Allah accept
it from us or like accepted from us. of Allah remove this pandemic,
Oh Allah, Oh Allah remove these illnesses of Allah make us worthy
of your Rama and your mercy. Keep us protected. Oh Allah protect us
of Allah. Bless those of us those of our family members, our friends
and others who have departed this world of Allah grant them genital
for those allow us to live a good life in this world, but especially
in the Hereafter, our likes from us and all of our permissible
projects. Yeah, Allah we asked you for facilitation, for ease and for
acceptance for a class and sincerity except from us. Oh Allah
grant us huge blessing in what you have given us do not make it a
source of punishment for us to not make it a source of burden and do
not make it a source of sin for us. Oh Allah all that you have
given us for you have given us more than so many others in this
world. Oh Allah bless all of those who facilitate this for us and who
facilitate all religious programs and who educate and who teach and
Oh ALLAH who facilitated tight in any way shape and form Allah bless
Allah bless them all. Oh Allah allow us to stand as the
supporters of the deen on the day of judgment and acceptance for the
service of your deen of Allah accept our Dias and send your
abundant blessings on Messenger Muhammad sallallahu alayhi wa
sallam. So hi now because I realized that Yama, Josefina was
Allah when I read more serene will hamdulillah Europeanized me