Abdur Rahman ibn Yusuf Mangera – Hadith Series The Prophet’s Ultimate Advice (S)
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The speakers discuss the importance of fearing one's behavior and creating a culture of fear. They emphasize the need for a culture of fear and good deeds to prevent slipping out of control, as well as the importance of humanism in addressing challenges such as socialization and dealing with people with good character. They also discuss the definition of Taqwa, including rights to man and religion, and the importance of avoiding small sin and finding a person of honor. The speakers stress the importance of forgiveness and letting a window be open to one's actions.
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say you didn't have even Mustafa SallAllahu Taala are they who
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cathedral laomi been unburied. And we've heard in Radi Allahu Anhu is
you know the Allahu Anhu OMA and not a swell Allah He sallallahu
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Hello, Ken Hasson.
On the authority of June W Janapada. And abou Abdul Rahman
was able to juggle or the Allah one, the Prophet sallallahu alayhi
wa sallam said, so have fear of Allah, wherever you may be and
follow up a bad deed with a good deed, which will wipe it out and
behave well towards the people. This is one of my favorite
narrations. If you want to give, if you want to think about any
advice, give any advice this this should be like written in gold in
your pocket or something. Right? It could be your screensaver on
your phone. Or, you know, it's wonderful mashallah, because
basically, if we, if this is one of those hobbies, and there's many
like that, this is one of those hobbies, that if you just if we
just fully practice this hadith, I think we've survived, we've got
salvation. That's one of the that's it's so comprehensive,
because look at what the Bible says the Lord is missing. He's
saying wherever you are a fear of Allah.
Whether you're in front of people, or whether you're not in front of
people,
right, so let me explain this hadith in brief before I go into a
bit more detail. So fear Allah, fear, Allah means that let's not
do something that Allah doesn't want to see us doing. Right? So
that's in, in general, God fearing God fearing us. It's very easy for
me to act, or religious and in control in front of people,
because human beings are social creatures. And there's a concept
of social policing. And that's why it's important to have
an in a culture or an environment in which people look out for one
another. And there is a sense of embarrassment. Unfortunately, we
are moving in the post
the postmodern world to a state of individualism, where every man to
themselves every person to themselves, and there's a concept
of what we call relative truths, so your truth, you you enjoy your
truth. And I enjoy my truth. You want to believe in unicorns,
that's up to you, as long as you're not harming me, you want to
go and do something, as long as you're not harming anybody else,
go and do it. It's up to you what makes you happy. This is basically
humanism, this is what we're dealing with today. And this is
where our struggle is as people of religion with fundamentals
principles. This is what liberalism
is basically providing us as a challenge. All right.
So social, to have a kind of a social accountability is really
good. Our children, if they were social accountability, children
would be read better as well. Right now, there's nobody even to
tell us that because they're scared, we'll go and tell them off
if anybody told our children something,
corrected our own children. So it's getting more difficult,
right? It's getting more difficult in that sense.
So it's still still to a certain degree, people are concerned about
what others are going to say. So they behave.
Now, Gina, do you remember what the DA is when you see somebody
off when they're on a journey? Or sorry when they're about to depart
on a journey? What is the data you give them?
What is the profit and loss I'm used to say to people that who are
about to depart so when you see somebody of the dollar is still
the hola Dena como Amana Tacoma Hawa, tema, Amma decom, which
basically means that, you know, I see you off and I basically
counseled you to have
your deen to protect your deen. When you see somebody else off
basically you're you're going to advise them to have Dukla
God fieriness Because when you're leaving your society, you're going
among strangers. Humans generally feel bolder because they're
strangers in that area. So it's easier to let the shaytaan
overcome and do something wrong.
See what I'm saying? So that's why what the prophet Allah is missing
here is that fear Allah wherever you are, whether you're with
people, whether you're in public, whether you're in private,
wherever you are, fear Allah
If a person can fear Allah like that then mashallah they are very
much in control right?
Now, that gives us an idea that if you focus on this you will become
perfect you will never do any wrong, but humans will always do
will always have a failure will always slip up because that's the
nature of human beings that we will have a failure. So the
prophets of Allah isn't captures that in the second part. He said,
if you do do something wrong, which is inevitable, it's going to
happen, follow it up with a good deed. So if you do end up slipping
up and doing a bad deed, then follow it up with a good deed. So
at BSA at Al Hasan atta following up follow up a bad deal with a
good deed them haha, it will erase it.
We'll discuss how effective that good deed will be in terms of the
bad deed and is it every bad deed will be erased by the next good
deed? So you do the biggest bad deal you got to make a solid? Will
it get erased? Right or does it depend on the type of deed? Does
it depend on the type of good deeds you do? Obviously there must
be like for like, at least right? So now that's that's all to do
with God right? So far. It's all to do with Allah.
Fear Allah don't do anything that Allah doesn't want you to do. But
what about people because we know that there is a hypocrisy in among
people that sometimes they focus too much on one thing and they
miss out so many other things. So we've got people who are very good
and they say, look, I've got a wonderful heart and I'm, it's all
about the hearts. I don't pray and you know, you can't judge me, but
I've got a good heart. So you've got people who say that, then
you've got the other people who say, I pray and I pray but then
they don't even account for the abuse that they give to people. So
clearly, there's that dichotomy that we're and hypocrisy we're
dealing with there. So the Prophet says I'm here he's saying the
final one, we're highly keenness to behold, look in Hasson, there's
no harm issued in Islam, you're going to inevitably have to deal
with human beings. So you need to deal with them with good
character. So if you can deal with the humans with good character,
other people, and with Allah with taqwa, that's it, you've got
nothing else to worry about.
You've basically dealt with all of your social interaction, which is
what makes up your life. So you're sorted with Allah, you're sorted
with human beings. Sharla, you go to Jana. That in a nutshell is
basically what this hadith is saying. Right? So
the Prophet sallallahu some obviously gave this hadith to
Sahaba. And it's probably one of the most important and
comprehensive and all encompassing narrations that you have. Somebody
must have done an introduction of the 40 Hadith to you already,
right. That it who is the original compiler with how did this start?
Who was the I mean, the author right now the one who actually
finished it off was Imam Noway. Right? No, we buried in Syria,
south of Damascus. But this was actually started by a Shafi
scholar earlier than him called Abner salah. When a great
Muhaddith, a great Hadith scholar, he basically started to have
gatherings where he said, I'm going to collect all those
narrations that could be considered to be the most
comprehensive narrations that if we just had those narrations,
you'd be able to understand your entire Deen from them your entire
religion. So he ended up he ended up to about 17 or something, and
then he passed away. So you won't know we continued with this and
finish it off at 40 something, right? So every one of these
Hadith are supposed to be talking about one of the most essential
aspects of religion. Right. So now this one I think is one of the
more comprehensive ones.
So the first concept of it is obviously Taqwa. And if you look
at the first two, they're about how kukula the rights to Allah.
And the last part is about her Cocona a bad rights to human
beings to other people. So that those two are what the other two
rights that we need to fulfill in this world. So in terms of the
first one
Taqwa How do you define Taqwa? I mean, how many times do you think
we use this word in our life Taqwa?
I mean, every Muslim pretty much understands, has used the word
Dukkha. But it'd be very interesting to know what
everybody's definition of Taqwa everybody's person definition of
Taqwa is. So let's get a few ideas here. Where should we start from?
In front of you? So you're talking about visualizing the Presence of
Allah and terrible Allah aka Nikka? Tala. Okay, fine.
Pray with crucial so yeah, I mean, I guess you're focusing more on
the prayer aspect more about university speaking Taqwa. In
general, in everyday life, everyday deeds, actions, behavior,
and so on. How do we define Taqwa on a more universal level?
Being conscious of Allah, okay, I guess we can say it in that way
being conscious of Allah. What else? Okay, so that is a good
place for you. The example you gave us a good one, la La Quinta.
takuna is Allah says
face to fasting has been prescribed upon you so that you
can gain Taqwa. How does Ramadan give you Taqwa?
That's the question now.
Now
right so abstinence that's the that's the word they were told to
abstain from Halal things like food drink and sexual *
with your spouse between a certain amount of time. Why? So that when
the knifes the ego desires those things, which it does, like right
now you can see I've been desiring water and I've been basically
feeding my enough's. If this was Ramadan, I would I would have
desired that. And I would have said, No, I can't do it now sort
of protested, especially if it was hot and dry, said no, you want
some? I said, No, you can't have some. Eventually it will stop
protesting, right? Eventually we'll stop asking because I've
just controlled it. The reason it keeps asking is because, as you
know, with people who graze right, one of the worst things is that if
you eat your decent meal on time, that's fine. But one of the
biggest problems for obesity, right and so on is grazing, where
we just keep going to graze, because the knifes gets used to
wanting different things. All right. So what happens in Ramadan
is like your knifes wants the coffee at 11 o'clock at work and
you can't have it. So you say you can't have it. He asks again, it
protests makes you tired, so you can't have it. The next day, the
third day by the third is gonna say, Okay, this guy's not going to
this guy's not going to respond to me so, so it gets controlled. So
at the end of 30 days,
we hope then, that even the Haram desires will be easier to control.
So how does Taqwa fit into that decoy is a fear of Allah. But what
violates the fear of Allah is that we end up doing things which the
fear of Allah should prevent. That means we don't have enough fear of
Allah that prevents
what we shouldn't be doing. So Ramadan is supposed to help us to
control our knifes to not let us violate to develop our Taqwa at
the same time because in Ramadan, we just don't abstain from eating,
drinking and sexual * but you actually do a lot of extra
worship. So that's supposed to increase the fear of Allah and
love of Allah. And with love of Allah then we can become more
reverently fearful of Allah subhanaw taala. So we're doing two
things at once. We're increasing our love, and we're increasing our
control of our desires as well. So in sha Allah that's like a winning
a winning formula for Ramadan. If we do it well. May Allah give us a
trophy. Now the word taqwa in the Quran, let's look at that. So that
was you know, mashallah, let's look at what the how Allah
subhanaw taala talks about taqwa in the Quran.
Sometimes he says do Taqwa from Allah. So for example, what the
Kula Allah the LA hito Sharon, fear Allah if I translate Taqwa
exercise Taqwa from Allah, to whom you're eventually going to be
gathered in a number of verses. It's Taqwa from Allah. But in
another set of verses, it's
what the Konar.
Right What the Canara Leti? Or is that live carefully? Beware. Fear,
the fire that has been prepared for the disbelievers. So here,
it's you can see now Taqwa is in the meaning of fear. The word
Taqwa comes from Dukkha. Which means to to fear, to prevent, to
withhold to put a barrier. So it has that kind of meaning.
Now, if you look at we don't have time, but if you look at our, our
great scholars of the past and their take on Taqwa how they've
defined it based on its rule, how they've defined it experientially
based on its root, meaning, we would get a greedy good idea, but
we don't have the time for that. I'm just going to mention maybe
one or two points regarding that.
Taco abou Herrera. The Allahu Anhu was asked about Taqwa. And he
said, Have you ever taken a path? This is a really wonderful, very
classical example, depiction of Taqwa. Have you ever taken a path
through a thorny bush garden? And you've got like a silk flowing
garment on? How are you going to walk through this garden?
Right with all the thorny, prickly bushes. So the way you would go
through that, trying to collect your clothing together and being
careful so that no part gets snagged into any of those stones.
That's essentially the way of Taqwa in this world that you get
through this. And you're careful that you don't just run through
it. And it doesn't matter what happens. Essentially, that's what
we're doing in this world. We're just running through the world.
Sometimes we're careful, but other times we don't mind that we're
being torn left, right and center.
To except with clothing we would notice that but with our iman
which is torn to shreds, we don't realize it. So basically at the
end of it at the end of our life our iman may just be absolutely
torn to shreds. Because we've gone through all of these stones of
this dunya of fitna of trials, temptations and so on. And we
won't even realize so Taqwa is that how careful can you be to go
through this?
That's Abu Huraira are the Allahu Anhu take on it.
Abdul Mortimer said,
Khaled Zulu vasavi Raha waka Vera for Hua Touka.
Abandon both the minus sins and the major sins.
For that is taqwa that is God fearing this. You know the word
Taqwa. How what do you think is what's the best translation you've
read for it? Okay, God consciousness God fearing Enos
that those are probably the better translations that we generally
deal with God fearing this God consciousness, which are probably
complaining. So here he says, abandoned might abandon minor and
major sins, for who took that is taqwa abandoning the sins that he
said, was not commercial focus or the shoki? He says and doo
doo as the person who's walking through a thorny bush garden,
right, yeah, hands out of my era, he would be very careful about
what he's seeing. So to make sure that nothing snags law attack
Iran, nasally rotten, ineligible, Al Amin, Al Hassan, do not even
consider the small sin to be insignificant that Oh, that's
okay. That's okay. Because eventually mountains are formed of
small particles.
Now, how do we inculcate taqwa in our lives, then?
What would be the most important thing for us to know? For somebody
to exercise taqwa? What would be the most important thing to know?
Now that we've defined Taqwa now? What
are you sending in private? Okay, that's one place of it. Right?
That's one place of it, but basically what they're saying is
that
my rueful querque One of our greatest Olia from Baghdad, right
correct is a place in Baghdad and Monroeville Karachi is buried
there. And he's one of our greatest ally of Baghdad Junaid,
Al Baghdadi, Monroeville querque These people, right they agreed
upon Sufis there. So he transmits from Bukhari no honus is a de
Hakuna Matata Aki and man Leia, the Maya ducky How can a person
who doesn't know what to abstain from and to be careful from how
can that person be um, with ducky a person with taco? So now what do
we need for Taco to inculcate taco we need to know what we need to
abstain.
That's why one of the most beautiful to us is Oh Allah, I
seek your forgiveness from those sins, which have become part and
parcel of my life. And I don't even realize it anymore.
Because Can you see that? If I've inculcated in my life, certain
sins that I don't even consider to be sins? How am I ever even going
to avoid them even feel guilty about that, because you need a
whole trajectory of guilt and remorse and so on to be able to
abandon something I don't even know. That means I've got
ignorance. So that's why he's saying remove the ignorance of
what you need to avoid. Sorry, what what needs to be avoided,
otherwise, you can't be a monarchy.
That's why I say they say that if you want to get to Ghana, and you
want to be a worry of Allah, there's only two steps, you need
to take one step on your heart, which is your knifes. So you just
basically crush your nerves. Don't let it don't let it do what we're
not supposed to do. And then the next step is in Gemini,
essentially, that but that first step is very difficult, massively
difficult. We ask Allah for help. There is a narration which says
that
Allah revealed to a prophet.
He says, Tell your people, that what is wrong with you, that you
avoid doing sins in front of others.
But then you have no problem in expressing your sins in front of
me.
When it's in front of others, you don't do it but when it's in front
of me, you have no problem in doing it blatantly in front of me.
Now, when you think of it that way, sounds
that sounds really serious, doesn't it? And it is serious, but
we don't think of it that way because we can't see Allah.
He says In Kuntum, Tarragona and Nila Morocco. So now, he says, if
you if you believe that? No, if you think that I'm not seeing you.
If your belief is that I can't see you, then you are Mushrikeen right
that then you're doing code for basically. And if you believe that
I do see you then why are you making me the most despicable of
those who you
Do sit in front of, because the only people you do sit in front of
in this world are people that you don't care about whether they see
you or not.
Wow, that's powerful. That really gets us to think about it. That's
why when other the Allahu Anhu was told about higher, that he was
told to have it in life from a person of honor. And so you're
saying, if you want hire,
think of a person that you would be embarrassed to do something in
front of, because we can't think of Allah that for most of us to
start by thinking that Allah is watching these difficult. So think
of your shake. When you're sitting down, think of your shaker, your
mother or somebody that I would never do it in front of them. When
you're about to pray, think that there's a respectable person
watching you, when you improve your prayer. And slowly from that,
from that we can actually move to replacing that with thinking Allah
is watching us. That's just an exercise of getting to the
consciousness of Allah that you worship him as though you see him.
Then then just to quickly finish off because our time is up.
Harlequin Naseby Hello King Hassan I already described. Hello, can
Hasson treat people with excellent character, which we already
described in the first Hadith anyway, but this ought to be ill
say at al hacer nada is an important part, follow up a bad
deed, a good deed with a sorry, follow up a bad deed with a good
deed. That's obviously the wrong source. I'm taking into
consideration that we will fail every now and then. So you're
saying the psychological benefits of you see, one of the worst
things that can happen is that if somebody does a bad deed, shaytan
comes in and says, Yep, you're just always failed. You've done
Toba and repentance so many times and you keep failing. What's the
point? You're a hypocrite? Allah subhanho wa Taala says you can ask
70 times in a day for forgiveness, and I'll give it to you. You just
have to ask. But shaytan is telling us a different story.
Right? And anybody who tells us a different story that no you're not
going to gain forgiveness is a brother of the shaytaan basically,
as well.
So
doing having a habit of doing a good deed after bad deed, as
hypocritical as that sounds, as long as you feel the guilt is that
we don't stay down.
When you do good deeds, it's a positive energy. So that
negativity is dulled. So in sha Allah, we won't stay down. That's
why they say that the woody of Allah is not the one who never
sins. But the one you have the Allah is the One who can sin. But
then he gets himself up, dust himself off and carries on.
Whereas the one who's not aware of Allah is the one who had the
trying, they sin, and then they stay in sin.
Right. And that is the wrong thing. That's why, you know, when
people ask these questions,
especially the famous questions of is it necessary to have a fistful
beard? Is it necessary to wear a niqab for example, right? Is it
followed wajib? Whatever, I find that it's now a disingenuous for
me to give a FICKY answer. Because
in it, these are just two examples, right? They may be very
common, I don't want to belabor them. But it's examples of any of
this. The point is, with all of this is keep a window open to
Allah subhanaw taala.
If we're doing something wrong, and we can't avoid it, or there's
something we should be doing, and we can't do it, let us not look
for some justification. Let us know we're doing wrong, make Toba
to Allah but have a desire that tomorrow inshallah I will be
right. Right. So I can't do it today, because of my
circumstances. But tomorrow, I want to do it.
And that is a much more useful way because now we have not stagnated.
We have not justified and we want to be better. Because at the end
of the day, we want to be as close to how the Prophet sallallahu
sallam was, and we can't all be perfect. That's where Allah says,
Allah who missed the title, fear Allah as much as you're able to.
But we need to increase that we can't stay stagnant and remain the
same. So we ask Allah subhana wa Tada for Tofik a person K had
committed, he kissed a girl, and he came to pray and he finished
prayer. And he is talking to the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa
sallam.
So the Prophet sallallahu sallam said,
Elisa could Selita mana Didn't you just pray with us? He said, Yes,
said for in Allah who could offer a look at him but Allah has
forgiven your your sin. That doesn't mean that you go around
doing that and just going and praying. Though, it would be
better than not praying but
there has to be remorse. And the Prophet saw some knew about that.
The process of the licen knew about it says fella Tara do don't
do it again. Right you've got the remorse in your heart. Don't Don't
do it again. That's why Allah subhanaw taala says we're asking
the Salah, the Torah, fine he was ALLAH
Amina lane, established prayer
at the two ends of the day and a part of the night in Al Hassan
Earth. You'd have no say yet good deeds will remove bad deeds. At
the end of the day, we may do wrong deeds. But what's important
is that what is the state of the heart and I don't mean dispense
evil state of the heart that I've, you know, I love Allah and it's
all about love, love, love, like the Christian, you know, theory of
love and don't do any practice. It's all about just loving know,
the shout when you Allah, one of our greatest of the subcontinent.
He says there's a guy, and I'll give you the modern example.
Right? He gives another example I'll give you about an example.
Imagine you leaving from work in winter after answer. Generally you
get home and you pray before Margaret, right? You get your
asset at home, and then you're Muslim. This day, you are just
stuck in traffic, and there's no place it's raining heavily.
There's no place to stop and pray on the side. No Masjid is on the
way nothing. And you are feeling gutted, that I'm going to miss my
acid prayer today. So all the way you get home at Maghrib time
you've missed your answer prayer, but you are feeling so bad. On the
other hand, you've got a person in the time of the Prophet sallallahu
alayhi wa sallam, he's a hypocrite. He has to go to the
masjid. Because otherwise he'd be known. And he'd be told that he's
a hypocrite. So he goes and prays with everybody in the prophet's
mosque. But he doesn't want to be there. Well, whom Kusa? What are
you, you know, it says, Write your own a nurse,
his state, ALLAH SubhanA, wa Taala we'll look at the state of this
person and the state of that person. So when Allah is saying,
he looks at the state, he's looking at the state
of desire wanting, right? So we can't say that you just it's
wishful thinking No, there's a real feeling that I would have
done if I could, but I can't so then Allah is forgiving.
So we ask a lot, I ended here and we ask Allah for Tofik