Abdur Rahman ibn Yusuf Mangera – Faith is Believing in the Unseen
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my dear respected
brothers, the life of a believer is an interesting life.
The life of a believer, what characterizes the life of a
believer is belief in the unseen. That's what sets us apart from
every, from every other type of belief. And every other type of
life in this world. If we didn't have belief in the afterlife in
the unseen, then we would be doing things very differently, you
wouldn't be sitting here today.
You wouldn't be sitting here today, believe in the afterlife
belief in the unseen belief in a parallel
universe and force
that's governing everything that lies at the back of everything.
That is what our belief is in the unseen. So for example, a very
simple example where you can see this kind of juxtaposition between
two types of lives. One is a life based on observation,
on empiricism, on what you see, in front of you a very scientific
life, I see the product of something the consequence of
something. So that's what I believe in. So for example, I see
that I have 1000 pounds in the bank. And then suddenly, that
increased to 1020 pounds, or 1030, or 40 pounds, or 50 pounds during
the year. And I'm getting happy about that, because that's
interest money, I got it for nothing, I got it just by allowing
the bank to use my money. So I got that money. So now suddenly, I'm
more excited. Because I'm observing an increase, I've
actually seen a tangible increase. Now.
On the other hand, you've got a person who's got 1000 pounds in
the bank, and knows that when it comes to a particular time of the
year, he has to give 25 pounds out of that 2.5% out of that in the
path of Allah subhanaw taala because he is obliged to do so.
So he gives it with full confidence in the huts with full
Yaqeen and Iman in the hearts that I give this 25 pounds out of my
1000 pounds, and I'm going to get a lot back, I'm going to be able
to do more with that money. So from an observation standpoint,
from a
observation standpoint, you're decreasing your money, but you are
more satisfied and content, and you have your team. By that 25
pounds, poor people are helped and assisted.
So it deals with a number of aspects within the heart. So on
the one hand, you've got a life that's based on seeing increase,
and selfishness of that nature. And on the other hand, you've got
where you're giving away something and yet you're still being happy
because you know that Allah subhanaw taala says, methodology
in a unicorn word on visa vie Allah He come into the habit in
Ambit that savasana will be equally somebody that you meet to
have Allah who you are a foodie mania show that any see anything
that you spend the path of Allah subhanaw taala it's like one seed
that then produces eight ears of corn in which each one of them is
a huge number of seeds. And then Allah says and Allah can even give
you multiply even beyond that. So that's how your team
so that's the difference in these two types of life. One is based on
observation. The other one is based on ima and Neopian and the
rave and the unseen and that is what sets us apart from anybody
else.
This whole life is about that this whole life is good geared towards
the hereafter.
For example, you've got a phone you just bought a new phone. Now
you start spending money on your phone, you spend money to buy a
phone. Now we will actually start spending money on on the phone.
How do you spend money on the phone? You buy cases for it?
Right you have sometimes more than one case for it because you like
variety, you get bored of one case the flip case you got to get a bit
bored of that you buy another one a pouch case, then you think it's
too much of a hassle to keep opening it up. So then you get a
case that just covers everything you need to skin screen
protectors. So you have to keep looking after it and then there's
others where you can add additional
thinks to it and you start spending, right? The only reason
you're spending on this is because it works. It's new, it provides a
function, it's still in vogue, it's still the trend, it still
attracts people's eyesight. Now, as soon as the next model comes
up, you suddenly don't feel like the same attraction towards your
phone anymore.
Because you suddenly feel like you're gay is somewhere else. The
whole dunya is like this just become more complex. Before what
you could do when the jeans first came out, when jeans were first
introduced for the Californian workers in the Gold Rush, it was a
very simple affair, this was a special cloth, a very durable
hardwearing cloth that was produced so that they could, it
could last for a long time, you don't have to wash them, it
doesn't really attract too much smell etc. This quality is in
jeans, there was only one type of jeans, you could buy just
different sizes, you went into a store, you knew exactly what you
wanted, you picked your size, you came out, your heart was not left
in the store with any other model, because you got what you wanted,
you fully realize your goal, your interest, your desire was
fulfilled with 100% gene that you wanted. Now you went, you went
away with it. Suddenly, they started producing other types of
jeans, where you have different shapes and styles, some which are
baggy, some which are taped, some which are different colors, you
have those which they literally the way they the way they fade
them out is they get people to stand there with these guns that
small pebbles, and they actually fire at this. And it's actually
very bad for them. A lot of these people in third world countries,
they actually develop bad lung disease and so on because of the
circulation of the dust in those in those chambers, where they hid,
literally hid the genes so that we can have a nice worn out kind of
look. Right, so you've got different colors. Now you've got
different shapes, shapes, shapes, and styles. Now you go into a
store, and you will not be satisfied with what you've got.
Because firstly, you'd have to make a choice of which one you
want. Out of the 30 different styles and companies, you've only
got 200 pounds. So you either buy one pair of diesel jeans, right?
Or you buy three pairs of Levi's jeans, right or, you know you do
but when you bought those, your heart is still on a few others
that you would have liked to buy as well. But you can't because you
have to make a choice. So now suddenly, things become more
difficult in this world. What is satisfaction? What is satisfaction
is now very complicated. Because you can't go get full satisfaction
anymore. You want to buy a car, it's the same thing, you only have
potential to buy a certain type of car that comes becomes available.
Now, if you want to compete in the world, that's very difficult to
do. Because the world is a place where if you start looking at
people who have more than you, then suddenly there is no end to
that life. And that's if you hear about what some of these
billionaires do not millionaires, if you hear about what some of
these billionaires do, that there is no way you can even reach that
status unless you're a billionaire. And you also want to
be crazy like that, for example.
Bill Gates has a house in has the biggest state in Redmond,
Washington. Now, this is a massive estates on number of acres with
lots of buildings, and so on and so forth. I don't think anybody's
going to disturb him. Right in his house, because he's got so many
properties surrounding buildings around his house, so much land,
nobody's going to disturb him. But what he does is he doesn't want
any neighbors. So he literally buys up all the houses and estates
around that area. So he doesn't have to have any neighbors.
There's another guy who does the same in in Florida in Miami at the
beach is a particular beach, he buys one house, and then he
suddenly says I don't want any more neighbors. So he starts going
around and saying, namely your price, 150 million 200 million,
and he buys up everything around them. Now that is not sufficient.
Now. Now, the next the next big thing, the most expensive
commodity in the world is not a building. But it's a yacht that
they have produced in a particular ship, particular yacht shipyards,
that they may come in, and they go into 300 Millions and 400 Millions
and 500 Millions. And then they start outdoing each other as to
who's got the longest yacht in the world, with everything in there.
And they take about 10 people on there to have a big party and that
place can probably, you know, cater for hundreds of poor people.
But that's that's what it is. If that's the way you want to go,
yes, no end to it. And the nature of the world is like that. But we
have something that is so valuable, which is to go beyond
this world. Allah subhanho wa Taala shows us in everything from
the example of that phone. We put a lot of effort into our phones,
for example, as soon as we see that it's become worn out, or it's
become old, or it stopped working. We will no longer spend any money
on there.
If you think there's no point spending any money on there,
likewise, when it comes to ourself,
when it comes to ourselves, it's the same kind of situation. Allah
just tells us through everything that we lose, that deteriorates
everything that destructs in this world that becomes old or becomes
all becomes lost. Allah is just telling us that that is what's
going to happen to you, you're made of the same thing. You're a
creation, just as this is the creation, you're also a creation,
the same thing will happen to you. And that's why we're told to
remember in Adela WhiteKnightTwo, Lee Rajaram, that we are also for
Allah, and to Him, we will also return. That's what it's supposed
to do all of these things in dystonia in this world. So now the
question is that, how much further do we think about this and not
nurture our iman, I read something which is so amazing that it's
there, Allah ma writes that the people who have the least Iman
will be the less worried at least worried about losing their faith.
They won't think it's something they're going to lose very easily.
So they won't be concerned about it, there'll be so, so careless in
doing things, they won't really be worried about it. Whereas you have
a person like Sophia and authority, who's one of the great
Hadith scholars, well, Allah subhanho wa Taala chose to narrate
a few Hadith. Somehow his mother, his father must have put him into
that path. And he studied, and he did such with the right teachers,
and he was there at the right time in history, to become a
transmitter of narration of Hadith. Now, today, if you
transmit the Hadith, it's a very different game to what it used to
be in those days. Now the whole world has heard of him, as Sophia
and authority, Rahim Allah, one day, he's sitting, crying, he's
weeping. And somebody says, What makes you cry?
And he says, he picks up a small seed of wheat. And he says, I have
not disobeyed Allah subhanaw taala, even to this amount,
is what are you crying for them? He says, because you know, this
gift of human that I have. I'm not 100% secure, that it will stay
until I die.
So that's what I'm worried about. So the thought is on a different
level, the more you invest in your iman, the more we will see value
in it, the more you'll see how important it is. That's when you
it's like, do we start investing first? Or do we start valuing it
first? You know, what comes first. Somehow it has to come together.
It's a matter of Tofig from Allah subhanaw taala. But that's the
believer. That's what sets us apart and Hamdulillah we already
in the masjid. This is actually what sets us apart from anybody
else.
In the in the homes, that's what we should be speaking more about
not of observation, but of the head, we need to develop the faith
of our family members, our children in the unseen. In the
unseen. That's what we need to do. I had a friend who was an imam in
America, he was actually not from America, just like I was in
America from England. He was from another country. And once the it
was either the FBI or the Homeland Security or the immigration
service, they were speaking to him. And he's part of the big
Jamaat. So they speaking to him, and they saying, you know, the
Jamaats come in such a where do they get their funding from? And,
you know, where's the hierarchy? Where are their bank accounts, you
know, so on and so forth. So he's a really cool guy. He says, you
know, their accounts, and their system is above the heavens. And
it's below the grounds.
So the guy said, like, What are you talking about?
He said, Yes, they their system, you won't be able to see it works
on another dimension.
That's what he told him.
For example, in this world, when somebody has a temperature, you
get a temperature, somebody has a temperature, they're very hot.
You go to somebody, initially, they'll tell you that it's either
because of an infection.
It's either because of maybe
a virus, it could be because of a, it could be something as bad as
malaria, or something else that's even more critical. So at this
point, it's a realm of possibilities, that it could be
this, it could be that or it could be this. When they go and they do
a blood test, they do different types of tests. Eventually, they
figure out that okay, this was because of malaria, or this was
because of the particular virus or an infection, and then it moves
from possibility into a more definite cause.
As a Muslim, we need to have a definite understanding of who is
behind everything, not as a possibility by looking at all of
these things that are the apparent causes of things. Our gaze should
be on the definite cause of everything in this world, which is
Allah subhanaw taala. That's what
Your call Yaqeen Imam is supposed to be your team. Iman is just not
the name of saying I'm a Muslim. But it's more of a practice. It's
more of a state. It's more of a mindset and a frame of
understanding and approach to something where we believe in the
unseen as a matter of definite conviction that everything is
happening because of Allah subhanho wa taala. For example,
if the believer he'll see his heart,
his in his heart will be Allah subhanaw taala. So he'll feel
completely secure, we're talking about a true believer, he'll feel
completely secure. If he has happiness, he will know where it's
coming from. So he'll thank Allah subhanaw taala he has calamity
he'll know where this is coming from what the source of this is,
he'll be patient, and he'll have his gaze on Allah subhanho wa
taala. Whatever happens, his whole focus, he will keep going back to
Allah subhanaw taala I've got this young niece, who doesn't go to
anybody.
She is mashallah she has so much later that she you look at her and
she'll have a problem.
Right? You look at the only person she goes to is her mother and
father. And if you look at her, she will start crying. Right.
That's how much labor and jealousy she has. Anything happens
children, they run to their parents something happiness,
they'll go run with it to to their parents, or give them something
they'll run with their sweets to their parents, right? This is at
the infant age, if they're angry, if they hungry, they will run to
their parents. If they feel frightened, they will run to their
parents at every stage, they run to their parents.
Sometimes you look at these children there, therefore a lesson
for us that I wish I could be like that with Allah subhanaw taala
that regardless of my state, whatever my state is, I feel
happier Unto Allah, I am so jealous, I'm like that child, I'm
so jealous that I don't look at anybody else. I don't tolerate
anybody else. I don't want anybody else to think that I'm getting
anything from them. I want it just purely from ALLAH SubhanA wa Tada,
I want only he only Allah to give me things. These are the signs
that Allah subhanaw taala gives us in the world, it's only if we
think that we will make something out of them. This is the way of
the people of Allah subhanaw taala, they find a lesson in
everything, they find the lesson in everything.
However, the one thing that one has to understand is that
a person who is whose life is based on observation where he has
to see good coming to him, then he'll believe, then the problem
with that kind of life is that when death hits and reality opens
up, then it will be a state of shock. Because there's no
preparation.
what one has to remember is that when death starts coming out when
death when when a person's life starts to leave, and death
approaches at that moment, a all artificial, all veils, everything
becomes removed from the worlds. So what happens is you actually
start realizing the truths about things. Now what happens at that
stage is once you start realizing the truth, it's like you've come
out of an exam, you're really excited that you wrote all the
right answers. But when you've actually come out, you've suddenly
realized it clicked, then only unfortunately didn't click inside.
It clicked outside, when you hear somebody saying, Oh, that
question, this is the answer to and you're just on your own. But
yes, that was the answer. And I was totally deceived. When I was
inside, I was totally confused. In fact, I was deluded inside, how
you gonna feel?
One is that you know, you've done wrong, you know, you haven't done
too well. And you come out thinking what's you know, you've
already prepared yourself. The other one is you think you did
well, you came out and you discover differently. Imagine that
state of loss. At least in a world, you can go and take an
exam, again, it's a bit of a hassle, you might have to pay some
more money, you might have to waste another year, you can take
those tests, but when reality hits you hits us in the at the end of
life. And then suddenly we start comparing that to what we really
used to believe. And now the reality is they're what do you do
at that time? If it's a believer, when they die, it will be a source
of reinforcement, it will be a source of satisfaction, it will be
a source of happiness. That's why the believer will die by saying
first to be rock Bill carrabba. I am a winner by the Lord of the
Kaaba, I am a winner by the Lord of the caribou. That's the feeling
that they will have. And this is the feeling that we want. Now what
happens is Allah subhanaw taala as soon as you start building your
faith, there will be difficulties that may come up.
In fact, sometimes it's actually seen as a sign of you building
your iman and working hard. So for example, very interestingly,
there's a number of manifestations of this one is that you see people
when it's the exam time, you will see them doing that to prayer,
crying to Allah subhanho wa Taala once the exam is over,
Dinesh, some people don't even worry about the fourth prayers of
the day. It's done now I don't need it anymore. So this is
basically a selfish approach to Allah subhanaw taala.
Allah subhanho wa Taala will answer more readily if we remember
him at other times, our voice would be a known voice in the
court of Allah subhanaw taala. So when we're in need, and we call
out that our voice will be known, our applications have been there
already. were unknown person there we have context, in a sense,
that's what makes the difference, but otherwise, that's the state.
So
if not, Allah he says, Allah subhanho wa taala. Sometimes what
he does is when he sees a believer who has faith in Him and gone a
bit wrong, he will actually give him some difficulties. Those
difficulties are to wake him up and make him do dua again. This is
for a believer to make him do to Allah to make him repent and come
back to Allah subhana wa Tada. If not, I Allah say something very
interesting. He says, Raja Babu comin Coleman Yusaku Anna Eden
Jannetty, Bismillah, Silla, your Lord,
your Lord is amazed your Lord is amazed at a people who are drawn
into paradise in chains.
Basically, Allah wants you in Jannah. So he gives you these
difficulties, he makes you suffer these difficulties and be patient.
And by that your status is elevated. And then Allah subhanaw
taala allows you to go into Jana, essentially, you're going into
Jana, because Allah changed due to Jana. That's a merciful Lord.
That's a merciful load.
difficulties have to be born in our life. That's what we have to
understand. The problem with us is that when we get difficulty, we
don't feel like going anywhere. We don't feel like going to the
masjid. We don't feel like going and helping anybody out because we
feel that the whole world has come down upon us. That's exactly what
shaytan wants from us. The secret of removing depression is to run
to Allah as much as possible during depression. Depression, Jim
generally comes from the Shavon Shavon wants us to be worried. He
wants us to be frightened. He wants us to be deluded, he wants
us to be always scared so that we don't go to Allah. And if that's
exactly what we're doing when something happens to us, shaytaan
will only make us more worried. But if he sees that this man, this
woman, when they get worried when they have a problem they need when
they're anxious, in that Allah who were in a garage, or when they're
running to Allah subhana wa Tada shaytaan is gonna say I better not
mess with this guy, I been better not frightened this person,
because this person is I'm just going to drive him to Allah
subhanaw taala. So the best remedy for these anxiety problems is to
run to Allah subhanaw taala. It may take a while, but eventually
shaytaan gets the idea. I mean, if what happens is initially it's
from the shaytaan, it could be from the shaytaan initially, but
then it becomes a behavioral pattern pattern, it becomes
something that we take on and it becomes a habit. So sometimes it
does take a bit longer for us to rid ourselves of it. You have to
you have to realize I'm gonna, if we have a problem for a while, but
if somebody has had a prom for a while, it's not going to become
better overnight, generally speaking, because it becomes a
personality issue afterwards. It's no longer just a problem with the
shaytaan. Right. But the one thing that we have to realize is that
the more we tend to Allah subhanaw taala in these times, then
shaytaan will bother us less because you'll think it's it's not
worth it, it's actually backfiring, what he's trying to
do.
So as strong as a person is, there will be difficulties. A woman who
becomes pregnant, a beautiful formation is taking place, a human
being another creature is another creation of Allah subhanaw taala
is being is being produced in the womb of the mother such a
beautiful process. However, what happens after the first month,
they suddenly start having morning sickness, they're vomiting,
there's difficulty there's pains. There's such a beautiful process
going on but this pains, but at the end of it Subhan Allah this is
beautiful product from Allah subhanho wa taala. So pains,
difficulties have to be tolerated for a product of ALLAH SubhanA wa
and that's the nature of the world. That's the nature of this
world. So
what we have to remember, is as strong as a person's Iman is now
what I mean by Iman is the actual faith, the connection with Allah,
the belief in Allah as much as a person's faith is that is how much
actions you will be able to do. If the faith isn't strong, we won't
be worried too much about avoiding the gaze, avoiding the Haram
praying etc, etc. Dealing with difficulties, the more the Eman is
strong, then that is how much actions that will be produced for
it. It's basically the similar tude here is that the stronger the
foundation, the taller the building and structure you will be
able to create on it. Otherwise it will fall and shake somebody tries
it will fold and shake because the Eman is not strong enough. So now
after having spoken about
The importance of iman for such a long time, just to quickly give us
an idea of how to build our faith. And there are primarily four ways
of building our faith. So we'll just go through them quickly and
then I'll take Inshallah, your questions. First and foremost, how
does one learn Iman? First, believe it or not, is to actually
think about the creation of Allah subhanaw taala is to actually
ponder the creation of Allah I gave you examples already. Through
the way infants are so connected to the to their mother, who they
see as their point of sustenance, they don't have a level of
independence, this level of independence, if it gets to our
head, then we will shun Allah subhanaw taala so that's the way
to understand this. When things around us when they constantly
perish, that's the way to understand we will perish so
there's ways to understand and Allah says in the Quran salary him
if Tina feel thirsty, Wolfie and foresee him had Dieter Badian
Allah Who and now will help that we will show them we will show
them and manifest for them. Our signs in the universe in the
cosmic system wealthy unfussy him and within themselves until it
will become absolutely clear that he is the true one. That Allah is
the one behind everything that will become clear. Allah subhanho
wa Taala constancies in the continent says in the Quran, Allah
Tala K for for Allah Buddha because he will feel alone Tara
Alain Tara LM, Thoreau own your own guru. See, look, all of these
words are in the Quran, it actually tells us to look, Allah
tells us to look, the problem is there's a poem, poet which who
says are equally che INLA who
were equally che in law, who is the doula and who are hidden in
everything, there is a sign that shows that he is one. But the
problem is that the reason why we cannot see it is based on is
answering another poem. It says that is in marble Canada who
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for equally che in the whoever, if a man if a person has thought, if
a person has the time to think essentially, that's what he's
saying. If a person has the time to think, then in everything he
will find the lesson. Our Twitter accounts are so different from
what it used to be before. Right? If you look at Abner, Josie, one
of the best examples that I can think of at this point in time of
somebody who used to think and think and think
and the less you interact with people, the more you'll be able to
think, because you'll have more time. When I say less that you
interact with people, I don't mean just physically which everybody's
doing today. Right? Everybody's in the virtual world, talking to
hundreds of people, but in real life talking to nobody. That's not
the same thing. We're saying, totally thinking for their own
self. It says about a bill. For example, Joseph is a great scholar
from Baghdad, he used to stay in his house and only go out for Juma
prayers.
And for lecturers,
otherwise, he used to be at home working and writing and thinking
if somebody used to come to visit him, he used to get so he used to
multitask, unless they were obviously somebody who could speak
at his level. And if it was somebody just there wasting his
time, essentially, he'd be polite enough, but he said i Don't
multitask by preparing my pens or doing something or whatever. He
writes all of these things down. He sees for example, he sees a
laborers carrying a huge piece of timber or something. And as
they're carrying it, they're singing. So then he thinks
Subhanallah, he says the reason they're singing is to take their
mind off the hard labor of their work. It's to divest their brain
one aspect of their brain from the burden of what they're doing. So
he says that this is one way that you can use these things. So he is
trying to find the Ebro in everything. So essentially, he has
a book, which is called seydel hotter, which will be very
interesting for those who understand Arabic and they're all
about to read because he's got so many thought provoking anecdotes
that he provides, of just observations that he had
observations that he had highly philosophical. Essentially, I
consider his book a precursor to Twitter. Right, but every tweet of
his endeavor is mashallah of high value. Today. SubhanAllah. You
have Twitter accounts with, you see, they have about
250 followers, and they have about 30,000 tweets. And I just wonder
how many tweets to each follower. 250 followers, 30,000 tweets,
40,000 tweets. And if you check, it's tweeting every few minutes.
So is that what you're living for? To tweet? Is that what you're
living for? It's, I mean, I don't say that if you have more, more
people than you should tweet more. Not trying to say that. But so
hello.
I haven't been able to tweet for days, I just don't know what to
say. Right? If you look up my Twitter account, I think I put out
an article that I found interesting, I think, this morning
or yesterday. But other than that, I really have to think because at
the end of the day,
you're going to be questioned for everything you say.
You're going to be questioned for everything you're saying. So it
gets really complicated. So I just wonder how people can be taking
pictures of some high heels in a store that they like, or some food
that they add.
I mean, what next? What are they going to start showing tomorrow?
SubhanAllah.
So it's just one of those things that we're so we don't have time
to think that I think one of the biggest problems we have today is
that we don't have time to think we only think about what we're led
to think, hot issues in the media, because we're all wired in two
groups that will immediately like wildfire. Spread news that is even
incorrect. So many are gonna have been killed before their time,
said so and so has passed away in Pakistan. And suddenly, no, no, he
hasn't is still alive. That was wrong. You know, that was a wrong
message that went through, and Subhanallah we just keep
forwarding things. Recently, we found out the Juma Mubarak, you
don't get those as much anymore.
Or maybe it's just because you know, as soon as I start getting
eat this way you should do as soon as you start getting text messages
from somebody or message that you don't want. Can you please
unsubscribe me? I get too much already. Just be honest about it.
And if you get forwards of some strange Hadith or something like
that, which just sounds really wacky, then just tell them Can you
give me the evidence for this? Oh, somebody forwarded to me.
So I'm just forwarding on the prophets, Allah some said Kapha.
Bill Murray, can your data be Colima severe, that it is
sufficient for a person to be considered a liar, that he just
conveys everything he hears. Before, he used to be limited. If
somebody told me one thing, I meet you, I tell you that thing. And
then I tell him I can tell about 10 people, maybe not everybody is
a speaker that gets to speak to 100 people, you know, but now
every Tom Dick and Harry can speak to hundreds of people and then
that proliferate suddenly, you get the sin of that if it's wrong. So
be careful of these things. There has a purpose in this world that
we need to think about. There's a purpose in this world. We're
losing that purpose. We are made to be busy, busy and distracted at
all times. Think about it, when's the last time unless something bad
happened to you? When's the last time you actually thought and you
know, in a luxurious way to just think, what am I doing? What
should I be doing? When's the last time you did that? Unless it was a
time when you're forced to think because there was a calamity that
came up.
We should be thinking every day. We should be thinking every day.
That's what it is. That's what he says either it will marble Canada
who Ficarra for Felicia in the horrible, if only if a person has
thought and they use their thought process
independently, then you will see that they will find the lesson in
everything. And that's how the Olia Allah, that's how they think
that's why you see them saying things that seem to be just so
spot on. And yet they're so they're so simple. They're so
simple points. Ibrahim Ali, his son and one of the greatest
things, one of the greatest examples of somebody benefiting
from the system is Ibrahim Alayhi. Salam, he looks around, he's
looking for the creator of all of this, there must be a force behind
all of this. Then he sees the moon. He sees the stars, they they
they they disappear. He says that can't be and then he says, well,
Amara Hashem Sambasiva called the heather on behalf Akbar, he sees
the sun, this dominates everything, this is the biggest,
this is the greatest, this must be my Lord, but for the affiliate,
when that came down, when that went down as well, then he turned
he said, There must be something beyond that. And you have you have
that you have you have all of this thought process through that.
Number two. So the first point is to look around you and just
interact with the environment, not with not with the other things
around you. Number two,
ponder the Stories of the Prophets. They're mentioned in the
Quran for a reason. They mentioned in the Quran because they provide
they provide, if you look at all the stories of the in the Quran,
about the prophets, the whole crux of those stories. The whole
purpose behind those stories is to provide Eman boost is to show you
what Iman is in the face of major challenges. That's exactly that's
that's what it's all about. So,
the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam used to be constantly
bothered by the what the kuffaar used to say of the time. They used
to say weird things to him. They used to trouble him they used to
bother him a lot. Allah subhanho wa Taala He provided the stories
and anecdotes, narratives of the prophets of the past to give him a
lot of strength. That's why Allah says in this verse were called a
narco Swati coming Amber illusory. We have
narrated these stories of the narratives of the messengers of
the path past man with a b2b form by which we strengthen your heart.
So if it strengthens the heart of a prophet Sallallahu, alayhi
wasallam, in the face of all that challenge, then will it not
strengthen us when our challenges are not as much as that of the
Prophet, he had a major challenge to his faith, our challenges are
much more subtle than that use of Ali salaam story has huge amount
of lessons in there. For example, he is thrown into a world by his
brothers, by his own people, by those who are supposed to love him
look after him, that took the that took the responsibility to look
after him, he is thrown into the world. Then after that he is sold
as a slave by those who find him. Then after that, he goes through
that whole system in in there where he has no position. He is
he's got no context. He has no support. He has no parents. He has
nobody. He's got no family, the place he's in is a strange for
him. And he's got nobody whatsoever. What do you expect
from somebody like that? Now, the lesson to be drawn here is that if
you have certain qualities, then regardless of where you are, and
what kind of situation you're in, then use of Amazon's story past
that, what did he have that that helped him in this situation? He
had a huge amount of nobility. He was a very noble individual,
despite being so alone. And despite being a slave and sold, he
had nobility, he had uprightness, he had honesty, and he had
chastity, he had morality, he was a pure individual. With all of
those qualities. He had obedience to Allah subhanaw taala. That's
why eventually he becomes a minister. He's not made a minister
because he's discovered to be a prophet. No, he's made a minister
because he of his honesty, because of what he does. And the same
people that the same women, they expressed his they exonerated him
at the end. Totally amazing change. However, this is what's
important. Then he sat as the Minister for Agriculture, the
Minister for food distribution, and so on and so forth. He sat
there, imagine the position he's in, suddenly, his brothers come
along, from a place out of distance, that in the needy state,
they come in, they take something first they come again. Now this
time when they come, they say, yeah, you realize these must
center must center in a dorm room. We have been afflicted, we don't
have enough money. We don't have we're not very prosperous. We're
jitna BB bar at him was gelatin. We've come with a very small
amount of payment. We don't have enough even to pay you. We've come
with a very small amount of payment for ofin and alcohol. What
the South Dakota, Elena Subhanallah give us the full
measure. We've come with a small amount, but you give us the full
measure, give sadaqa to us. That's not the cardinal, his brothers who
did what they did to him are now asking the brother without
realizing. I mean, there must be some resemblance. His brother
Binyamin was from the same mother. So there must be some resemblance,
but they could never think in any in any wildest of their dreams
that he would still be alive. So all of that is veiled. And he's
telling they're telling him to give sadaqa so
in Allah headsail, Mutasa, the theme, they're giving him the
virtues that Allah rewards those who give sadaqa and that's when he
said, that's when use of Ali Salam said to him, do you remember my
file to use of what you did with Yusuf
and they said
or you use of
the only way they could figure that out is that they only He
knows the story, nobody else knows that story. Not even their father
knew the story according to them, you know, so I you use of things
started falling in place. However, out of all of this, the most
important thing is what he says after that. Remember, the stories
in the Quran are not for the sake of stories. They they are for the
moral at the end of the story. They're for strengthening the
faith. So by Allah subhanaw taala himself he uses the words of use
of artisan him he says, well the top in LA where your spit in the
Houma yet ducky way elsewhere for in Allah Allah you will be
original Marcin that the one used by the some at the end of all of
this. He says this as a lesson he says the one who has taqwa and the
one who is patient, Allah subhanho wa Taala will never waste the
deeds of those who do goods. Allah subhanho wa Taala will never let
those go aside. He will always reward for that. That is the main
point to learn from the story that regardless of what situation, if
you show some uprightness, Allah will turn things around for you.
Allah would put people to sleep for 300 years and wake them up and
let everything having have to have changed.
To protect them and save them, he'll show that miracle as he did
with us horrible cough. These were youth. These were youth who stood
up for the Lord and Allah subhanho wa Taala literally went to
extraordinary lengths for Allah subhanaw taala. It's easy, he just
kept him asleep for 300 and more years. So that's what Allah
subhanaw taala will do for us. But it's about developing that yaki
and realizing that Allah can do that, for us. That's a very
individual thing. What I'm saying is a very universal point. But
each one of us can only take it if we take it and individualize it.
That's the challenge. The point is there stories are there examples
are there, they're all there. Brian Melissa has another story.
Allah subhana wa Tada
says for Ibrahim Ali Salam he's thrown into the he's thrown into
the fire what seems like the fire, Pune Jana Cooney burden wa salam
and Allah Ibrahim, it is totally harmless for Ibrahim Ali Salam.
Then Allah subhanho wa Taala says, What is it Tada Ibrahim Rabo will
be Kalimantan for atma Hoonah. Allah subhanho wa Taala tested
Ibrahim Alayhi Salam. And he fulfilled those tests completed
those tests with flying colors 100% He got out of them. Again,
that's not what's important. It's not about the extraordinary feats
of somebody. The point of it, the point is what Allah says at the
end, Allah says at the end of the woods in Niger Iluka Lin CE
murmur, I am going to make you an imam for the people.
Ibrahim Ali Salam sacrifice was so beloved to Allah subhanho wa Taala
he did so well. And you know, the sacrifices I don't have to repeat
them. But Allah says that I am now going to make you the Imam of the
people. And you know, one of the most amazing things after Ibrahim
alayhis salam is that every prophet and every major book that
came afterwards came down in his progeny. So he is the father of
all of the prophets and all the messengers after him. So it's
amazing isn't it where you had prophets in every tribe and then
suddenly it just comes down to Ibrahim Ali salaam from him comes
is hawk and it's marine or the he Salam is Marguerite salaam his
next is Mohammed Salah lorrison But that's after number of
generations that suspended that's waiting you know on the side is
haka is on all of this is done Jacoba Islam use of Ali salaam you
shall be known and Mousavi Sadananda with Ali Salaam and Azar
Islam yeah, here are some security Salah and will given so on and so
all the Bani Israel and the Torah there's a Buddha, the Injeel and
the Quran all from and today that's why Ibrahim Ali Salam is
revered. Because he fulfilled the test Allah will give it to you
when he brought him on Islam ever have thought about this, with all
the difficulty that he's going. So the point is to build our iman,
this sounds like a very completely beyond. But seriously, that's it's
all about EMA and it's all about your pain. That's That's what
really matters. That is really what matters. SubhanAllah. And,
finally, we give up our deen today on petty excuses. We give up our
deen on petty excuses. That's what the problem is today. Right? We
just give up on smallest excuses, we give up. These people never
gave it up. That's why out of nowhere, they got high positions.
Number three, and you have a huge amounts of data on this stories of
the Sahaba if you want to build your iman get the higher to Sahaba
and look at the stories of the Sava air amazing the way they're
helped by Allah subhanho wa taala, the Eman that they had, you know,
drinking poison and nothing happening to you, single handed
man going into such a hobby going into the Persian courts, and so
boldly with no fear whatsoever. And not in the slightest wavering,
going and sitting next to the leader. And everybody's like what
are you doing where he says there's just another creature like
I am?
You know, and that's exactly what Allah has sent our prophet for, to
take people away from the slavery of humans to the slavery of the
creator of the human being as exactly they were so convicted,
the conviction in their heart is so much and this can be done
today. It's not difficult that these things are not difficult.
There's huge amounts of that. There's a story of another sahabi,
who's actually from Afghanistan, whose name was ruminal, bulky,
there was a Sahabi from Afghanistan from bulk. His name
was Safina the Allahu Allah, he meets a line in the in the jungle,
he tells him I'm a companion of Rasulullah sallallahu sallam, and
the lion turned around and showed him the way out. Right so you've
got stories like that these are individual doesn't happen every
day. But you've got stories of that nature. You've got Amara, the
alarm stories, standing on the standing giving hotbar and
suddenly speaking to somebody miles away in in a war in another
Yeah, Safina algebra. Yeah, sorry, algebra. Yeah, sorry, algebra, and
they hear him there. I mean, what kind of communication was that?
Another famous story is in Egypt. I'm going to answer the Alaric
conquered Egypt. You had the Nile there, there was a weird
superstition there. The water would recede at a particular time
in the year and the people's
superstition had it that you had to take a virgin woman and you had
to sacrifice her throw her into the, into the, into the river now
and then the River Nile would start that would be the food the
River Nile would then start to, to,
to flow again. This was a major test for NASA and the faith. He
wrote her oh my god under Khalifa in Madina, Munawwara he said, What
should I do? Ahmadi wrote a letter to the Nile
he wrote a letter to the mail saying that if you run by Allah
subhanaw taala then I give you the command to run.
And it started running started bubbling up, and it ran and it was
more watery than ever before. That's the kind of your theme and
it's not difficult. I mean, we think that this is just related to
the Sahaba there's numerous other there's numerous others nowadays
people complain that nobody wants to listen the Nile is listening to
Amara the Allah today people complain my wife doesn't listen to
me. My husband doesn't listen my children don't listen to my
daughter doesn't need my son doesn't. My my my students don't
listen to me.
This is this is a big problem today. Nobody wants to listen to
me for they have no idea. He says that never once did I have a
shortcoming in my obedience to Allah, that I noticed immediately
a shortcoming in obedience to me of those who are under me. I saw
Derek Tim back. And I guarantee you that that is the case in this
world. You do something wrong, you will find the effect of it.
Right you will find the effect of it. Anyway, finally, move on
number four, to look at the Hadith on Iman Allahu Akbar. Looking at
the hadith of Imam there are so many. And today we're out of time.
That would be a whole other lecture just to discuss Iman,
things like Iman is I'm just going to just mention them I won't
explain them. Just to mention things like Iman is more than 70
branches. And higher is one of the branches of faith. Iman is used in
all of these the prophets. Allah has some said, that person has
tasted Iman who is happy with Allah as his Lord Islam as his
deen and Muhammad Sallallahu was His messenger. If you really
believe that you're really satisfied and happy with that you
really savor that thought I'm a Muslim. Now, I can't eat in
McDonald's.
You know, or I can't have her or him you know, whatever it is, I
can't do this. I can't go out I can't you know, it's the this
confident thought Alhamdulillah I'm a Muslim. You will get the
you'll you'll you'll feel the the taste of faith. And you know,
there's a whole discussion on anyway, there's so many a hadith
on that nature. I just want to mention one final story to end
this with. How Rhonda Rashid everybody's heard this story, it's
a king story today. All right, I generally don't mention King
stories. Right. They seem a bit outdated. But this was a real
life. You know, the Ameerul you know the Ameerul Momineen the
abbacy Khalif Harun Al Rashid, how does machine and his wife they're
working on the bank of either Tigris Euphrates, and as they walk
in through one is in how to Rishi dispersed his wife. What's the
name Zubaydah. There's a way that she's behind.
They come across blue roses wise person in his court. And he's
sitting on the side relaxed making
I would say sand houses. Right today sand houses. So how can
Rashid goes up to he says, What are you doing?
Oh, he said, I'm making these houses and I want to sell these
houses.
And what's what's the what's the value he says?
These are houses of Jannah that I'm selling. And they worth a DNR
each. I mean, the now it was a good amount of money, but nothing
for the king. Hundreds he thought he is dreaming, literally said he
thought he was on another cloud. And he walked by his wife comes
along. This is where women and their emotion really helps. This
is where women go to gender faster than men maybe. Right where they
get higher levels because they just have that emotion. Men are
too calculating. Right? They just calculate too much on these
things. So she comes to Luxor. What are you doing? Same answer
says okay, I'll buy one from you. So you bought 100 She went by
thinking nothing of it. He goes home at night he goes to sleep and
he starts having a tour of gentlemen.
And as he's having a tour of Gemma, he starts seeing these
beautiful homes in Ghana. And suddenly on one of them he sees
this is for Zubaydah. So he thought, Oh, this is my wife's
house. Let me go and check it out. He tried to go in and the person
said, Where are you going? He says this is my wife says no, let me
see what your identity you know, what's your identification? Said
I'm the husband. He says no, this world. She has to be around with
you. You can only go her if she allows you to go. So as that
happened, he's feeling really lost. He's feeling really bad and
he wakes up. And now his thinking is scratching his head. He says
Ballard had a point. She probably bought one night in Paris or next
morning. He goes again looking for Balu
and she
goes along as well. As he's going again, he sees value. They're
sitting making the sand house. He comes along and he is so relieved
to see him. Like, you know, when you've missed the deal, when there
was a deal, and you didn't take it thinking, it's not worth it, then
you got him you do recent Wow, that was a deal. I should have
gone for that. And you just can't wait to wake up the next morning
and go and buy the next one. You're going to look at ways like
hey, man, who is that guy? So
he says, but who What are you doing? He says, I'm again, I'm
making houses in gender and I'm selling them. And he just can't
wait like here give me you know, like, he just can't wait, but he
has to have interaction. So he says okay, how much? He says,
The kingdom of the entire world.
He says But yesterday there was yesterday they were only one dinar
today. It's the you know, you're asking for the kingdom of the
whole world. He said yes. You know, yesterday.
It was all based on the unseen.
So one dinar was fine. But today it's based on the seen the
observed so it's become more expensive.
Right. So, Eman, this was a it was a time of acceptance. By the end
of the day. This is all about a time of acceptance. Another final
one story. There's Solomonic Abdulmalik, another Hadith. He's
Omiya. He's earlier he's before Haruna Rashid, he had private
palace, he had his palace in the private palace, he had a private
villa, personal give gives the data and this other this mother
than he is
young kind of man, nice voice he gives her. And so you might have
Abdulmalik also had a slave girl. Very beautiful Cepko.
I mean, even if she's not very beautiful, there was a man there
was a woman, you know, you know what happens? So the slave girl,
that once so they might have been Abdulmalik noticed this more than
looking at her. So he got very jealous. And in those days, they
used to had everything. They were no human rights laws. Let's finish
him off. But he needed an excuse. He couldn't say I saw you looking,
I said, I didn't. I didn't look at her. So he needed an excuse. He
told the same girl, he says, Look, I want you to dress up, make
yourself attractive, put some nice perfume etc. And then I want you
to go and present yourself to him and offer yourself to him. So she
goes along. And she goes there. And
now this is a think of this very carefully. When he when she goes
there. The man this young man, he says to her, he doesn't say yes.
He doesn't say no. He says come back tomorrow.
Right? He says come back tomorrow. Now this is what you call putting
a buffer in place. It's very difficult to say no when something
like that happens. So he played a call he needed to work on his
mind. He knew see whether he really wanted to commit that sin
or not. Most people wouldn't be able to do that. Right? So he
said, Come back tomorrow. So she goes back. And the king is a very
he's, he doesn't have time for this. He doesn't have time to
waste. He says no, go back and say this is the only time that we
have, we have no other time. And if you want to do it, this is the
time that you've got. She goes back. And now he says to her.
I want you to go back and return and I want you never to come back.
Because I fear that we're going to have to stand in front of the one
who would not like to see us like this. She started crying. This put
drove the fear of Allah subhanho wa Taala in her heart. She went
back crying to see Martin Abdulmalik. Now, so they might
even Abdulmalik was very happy at the outcome. So he calls one of
his ministers, gives him a huge bag of Durham's and says Go and
take this slave girl, and take these their hands and go to this
one and gift. Both of these to him saying, this is the money spend
this on her, she's yours as a wife, you can marry if you want
to.
Wonderful goes up, and they approach this young man. And then
what other than he says, unfortunately, I cannot marry her.
No, I can't please take her away.
Why? Because the first time that I saw her, and I let her go, I then
made a contract with Allah subhanaw taala that oh Allah give
me a suitable reward in paradise for my sacrifice of this. Now he
could have justified it by saying it's come halal, it's fine. But he
had made a deal with Allah subhanaw taala. And his deal was
that if I leave her leave her right now you give me something
great in paradise, here's your pin in paradise for that reward is so
much greater than now nothing's going to make him move. So if I
take a now I broken that contract, and that is more more valuable to
me.
That's the kind of Yaqeen we want to develop.
And now you're wondering how to develop this. Well, stories of the
Sahaba Stories of the Prophets in the Quran, just thinking about
things time to think about what's going to happen in our life where
we going. And finally, what was the fourth point? Reading that
Hadees you should have to be a totally different lecture on the
hadith of iman the benefits of Imam or are the characteristics of
iman. And if somebody is bereft of iman, I just mentioned one of the
verses also said a person does not commit Zina, while he's still a
believer. person does not steal while he's still a believer.
Those kinds of narration to tell us what Imam requires, and once
inshallah that happens with a lot of dhikr of Allah subhanaw taala
that's how Iman will develop. May Allah subhanaw taala give us the
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Sayidina Muhammad, why don't you see then I will have to do a
birdie question. Oh Allah except I will do us Oh Allah accept our
gathering here for so many hours of Allah on this day when we could
have been doing so many other things. You gave us the trophy to
be sitting here. So first and foremost our Allah we are. First
and foremost we are extremely grateful to you for allowing us to
be in this protected sanctuary. With all of this mercy that's
descending, Oh Allah, these are the houses of Your Mercy of Allah
allow us to imbibe this mercy to take this mercy to benefit from
this mercy of Allah for this mercy to purify our hearts. Oh Allah we
ask that you give us you give us you give us obedience to you. Oh
Allah, you make obedience beloved to our hearts and disobedience
hated in our heart of Allah we ask you to give us the best of all
that your pious people ask you for Oh ALLAH that your messenger
sallallahu alayhi wa sallam asked from you and to seek we seek
forgiveness from all those sins that we've committed at any time
at any moment. Oh Allah, we ask that you, you change our life from
that of sin. Oh Allah. Oh Allah. You told Musa alayhis salam and
Harun Ali salaam to speak to Pharaoh who used to call himself
the Lord and Abu Kamal, Allah He used to say, you still told Musa
and Harun al Islam to speak to him softly and gently. Oh Allah, we
are Your servants who Say Subhan Allah be an order of Allah. We ask
that you treat us with gentleness of Allah, we ask that you also
treat us with gentleness, with compassion. Oh Allah, have mercy
on us have mercy on us. Have mercy on the Ummah wherever they are,
have mercy on the home of Allah have mercy on our Muslim brothers
and sisters around the world. Oh Allah, Oh Allah, we ask that you
keep us. You keep us in a healthy and well being and you keep our
iman strength and secure. Oh Allah, we ask that You grant us
the creme de la ilaha illa Allah on our deathbed. And we ask that
you send your abundant blessings and our messenger Muhammad
sallallahu alayhi wa salam, and you make the best of our lives,
the ending of our lives, and the best moment in our existence, the
moment that we stand in front of you. So hang on, I'll be carabiner
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