Abdur Rahman ibn Yusuf Mangera – How to Love Allah
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hamdu Lillahi Rabbil Alameen wa salatu salam ala Ruthie
Rahmatullah Alameen wa ala alihi wa sahbihi wa Baraka was seldom at
the Sleeman cathedral biomethane a Mbarara called Allahu Taala filled
Quran in Mudgee. They will for Colonial Hamid, you have Latina
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and then you hey buena home girl Billa Well, Latina aminu I should
do Hogben Lilla.
So the Kola hula Aleem. Firstly, I just want to mention that
mashallah, as being here is quite amazing. One of the things that
comes to mind is that
as I said, many of us could have been doing so many other things,
ordering food, picking up food, having a good meal. I literally
just came from a wedding I only had the initial or they call it
canopies or whatever. And then I rushed here because this was more
important for me. Well Hamdulillah I actually even had something in
the beginning so I was able to partake of that and then I came
here so
now some people might be thinking man, yes, I did. Great. I need to
get rewarded for this by Allah subhanaw taala as though we're
doing some favor upon Allah subhanaw taala right, we do
tahajjud sometimes mashallah we get to fee to do the hedge, we
suddenly feel like we're better than everybody else.
We managed to do Mashallah. Some good donation sometimes, and we
think, man, you know, Hamdulillah, I did this. And there's this idea
that comes in mind because shaytan is there to try to corrupt our
worship. If he can't stop us, then once we do it, then he wants to
corrupted.
So, the way of Allah subhanho wa Taala is
to understand exactly what Allah subhanaw taala wants from us, very
difficult to understand that all at once. Allah subhanaw taala is
an infinite entity. And every day as we move through this world
towards our ultimate end in this world and ultimate meeting with
Allah subhanaw taala, which is in the Hereafter, we want to go from
this world, ultimately, in the best possible state with the best
recognition of Allah subhanaw taala because that's what's gonna
count. If you look at some of the Hadith and other things where we
understand the purpose of the creation of this world. Why did
Allah create this world, Allah was present, and there was nothing
else. And Allah doesn't need anything else. And Allah subhanho
wa Taala has always been the way he is right now. He's always been
there, he doesn't need any assistance. He doesn't need any
contribution. But he decided to create us he decided to create
this whole system, right? This whole item, and one of the
understanding you get from that from the various different Hadith
and so on is so that Allah could be recognized, lucky or off so
that people gain a mat if we use that term Maddie for Marissa
Marissa tasiilaq and Nicola MultiFit, of what recognition of
what understanding of Allah subhanaw taala. That's all Allah
wants from us is simply if you want to reduce everything down to
the purpose of our creation, and what ultimately we should be
trying to achieve, it's mighty for,
for that we have vicar,
our solid is there to remember Allah were occupied, engrossed
distracted, with multiple things in this world that
compete for our attention. And in this modern world we live in
there's endless things, there's endless things that compete for
our attention. So all Allah wants from us is that we remember him
that he, ultimately I created you. That's what Allah wants us to
remember. There's a hadith about somebody in hellfire being
punished a Muslim, a believer who has gone to hellfire for some
sins, and suddenly after a certain punishment, he just called me
said, Didn't Allah promise after this such and such Allah says
immediately get this guy out because he knows me. So Allah,
Allah subhanho wa Taala once ALLAH SubhanA wa Taala wants us to know
him. Once anybody knows Allah, everything becomes right with that
person. The reason why we don't have it, right, where we struggle
with certain things, where we struggle with our distractions in
this life and performing solid or performing solid Well, or doing
our other obligations or getting the right mindset is because we
don't know Allah. It's literally because Allah is such a powerful
force. That the more you get to know Allah subhanho wa Taala the
more addictive
the more addictive it becomes. The more entrenched you become, the
more obsessed you become. And the more attached you become. There's
this
This is science. This is guaranteed, the more you can know
Allah subhanaw taala and you're not veiled from him. That's what
happens. There are various veils from Allah subhanaw taala. Nobody
sees Allah only the Prophet sallallahu Sallam got to see Allah
subhanaw taala according to the majority opinion, because there's
a hadith of Nora which says that Allah has 70 veils of light. And
then it's interesting that the believers are only veiled by this
light. That's why we can't see him. And those then there's two
other categories. There are those who are veiled by also darkness is
that there are also those who are veiled by darkness is in front of
the veils of light.
And those are the disbelievers the veil by just immense amounts of
layers of darkness, the low mat, so that's why they can't even get
to the light, which then becomes which is already a barrier. And
then there's some believers who have veils of darkness and then of
course, there's veils of light, they've managed to cut through
many of the dark veils or the veils of darkness, there's still
some left, that's what we're struggling with. When you get to
the veils of light, then in more satisfaction, you still can't see
Allah but at least you see the light then you see the light. So
the more we get to know about Allah subhanaw taala the more we
can worship Him better. So really the simple thing is that if we're
struggling is because we don't know Allah, you saying I do know
Allah I read Aqeedah
I read the Aqeedah book that was taught in the maktab or I read
something higher than Aki that the Harvia or whatever it is, that's
all academic study, which is good which tells us about Allah because
without description, you can't understand you can't some people
are purchasing certain cars or certain phones and you know, I saw
with a foldable and I said why is everybody going in this for and
then suddenly I sat with one person who has in an explained all
of his father Elon virtues and, you know, it's various different
characteristics like okay, Mashallah. Now I understand. And
in fact, I actually became a bit inclined to it myself, because
without knowledge of something, you remain ignorant, you can't
understand the beauty of that product, or you can't understand
the reality of that right without and without knowledge of it. And
the thing with lots of other things is that they're optional
things whereas with Allah subhanaw taala there's a natural attraction
in Allah subhanho wa taala. As long as you cut through the veils,
we just have too many veils. We just have too many veils. So for
example, going back to the initial thought that I had,
we worship Allah subhanaw taala, we expect a reward from him. And
there's nothing wrong with that because Allah promises rewards for
deeds and promises punishment for misdeeds, that's fine. However,
that's just to get us started because that's really effective in
getting somebody on track just on the path. However, the higher
level is as Ignatov Allah, Allah Eskandari Rahim, Allah, Allah, He
says,
it is absolutely sufficient.
Right? It is absolutely sufficient for you, that Allah chose you.
Allah thought you worthy of this deed that is sufficient for you as
a reward that Allah has chosen you for this deed, then you go and ask
him for another reward.
And when I read that, because you know we're worshiping Allah, we
expecting reward, we think it's a purchase business. I'm doing this
I expect this kind of reward. But then this kind of pressure only
came on me this kind of difficulty came on me what's going on here?
Allahu Akbar. When I read that of him, Nautilus is like we're doing
the wrong thing here.
Up you know, it's sufficient for you as a Jezza, meaning Arcadia
biblical character they throw up KTRC bilkul coffee HCA Allah Tala
name is Ibadah a wholesome job Co.
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Right that's a very powerful idea, it suddenly just changes your
perspective of worship. Now you've done tahajjud you've given
hundreds in the path of Allah 1000s Allah Thank you Allah, you
gave me that you thought me worthy because multitudes of others don't
get that Tofik Hamdulillah you I am so honored to be worthy.
Because Allah choosing someone, Allah choosing someone that's
worthy. So can you see how that small bit of information will
insha Allah change our perspective and our approach to Allah in our
worship? Just a bit of information. That's the simple
proof. I mean, if we didn't know this point, and we have now found
out this point
It just suddenly a whole new dimension opens up I should be
worshipping Allah for this reason.
If not I Allah I mean I think it's actually ignore Ijebu Rahim Allah
he says
that
actually he quotes a hadith I think it says that if Allah did
not give you anything
is he just because of the fact that he is your lord and you're
his servant? Isn't he? Isn't he worthy of worship anyway? Even if
he doesn't give you anything,
were slaves at the end of the day. Just because we have a bit of free
will we think that we have some independence.
So I believe that the only way to sort ourselves out that we want to
is know more about Allah, that will automatically remove the
veils of darkness. And then we'll be standing in front of the veils
of lights. Right? And then we can Insha Allah, behold our Lord, and
then inshallah he'll give us his vision in the hereafter. In fact,
if you look at it, it's all about that. The lovers of Allah subhanho
wa Taala are those who want to go to Paradise, not because of the
pleasures of paradise, but because paradise
is the only place where you can go and see Allah every week. That's
the only reason they want to go to paradise. They don't care about
anything else. That's why I want to go to Paradise because that's
the only place I can see Allah, where I will no longer be veiled
from him because I love him so much.
Allah subhanho wa Taala gives us an idea of this, that he makes us
pray five times a day. Hakim is sada Tellicherry established the
prayer for my remembrance, give us a multitudes a medley of things to
read, you've got a bit of a cubby and you've got a bit of thinner
and you've got a bit of fat behind you got a bit of dua, and you've
got a bit of speed, and dark meat and technique and you've got
pretty much every type of glorification and magnification
and purification and praise and Quran and everything. Yeah,
there's no other worship that includes so many different types
of offerings to Allah that he didn't talk about and, and so on.
Just so that we can remember him
and so the purpose of all of this is just so that we remember him.
Now, where are we going to learn about Allah subhanaw taala
the place is to learn about Allah subhanho wa Taala is very simple.
Right there staring in our face, we have access to them, but we've
just not looked at them like that.
The first place and the main place is the Quran.
Right now well Hamdulillah we read the Quran Ramadan, just pass May
Allah accept all of our reading. I mean, many people finish the Quran
and several Quran it's hamdulillah May Allah accept.
Thank you Allah for considering us worthy of doing that.
However, the question now is, are we going to die?
And we haven't understood what Allah subhanaw taala is telling us
in his own words.
Are we going to leave this world and we don't know what Allah is
saying to us? I'm not trying to make ourselves feel bad. I'm
genuinely saying that Allah has communicated with every single one
of us individually has literally communicated through the Quran.
And our Adama from Chava EULA was the first person to do a
translation into Persian and then his son Rahim Allah they did
translation into ODU and then mashallah, we've had a stream of
ordermark Our Adama from Monash every time we Manohar, Muhammad
Jana, Andrey Maulana Murthy mahmudul Sorry Monona mahmudul
Hasan Rahim, whom Allah and then download our hazard hazard monitor
Matata, Rahima Hola. They've done translations. Now look, when you
read the Quran, you won't understand everything. There are
some complicated parts. But there's so the majority of it will
be speaking to you. And you will think it's written for you because
it is written for you and I and everybody else.
Do we want to die and we're going to say to Allah, we never bothered
reading what we never bothered trying to understand what you said
directly. We do pick up bits of it in bonds and when it's told to us,
but we never understand it directly. If you want to
understand Allah the best best place to understand Allah subhanaw
taala is by reading His words. What you'll see in what you'll see
in the Quran. What you see in the Quran, essentially, is that how
Allah subhanaw taala is advising us. You see these verses they
impressed us people enjoyed the verses. Right? Not just because of
a good voice that was there as well. Not because of good tune
that was there as well. The choice of words even though you don't
understand what's being said can you imagine the message then? Can
you imagine the message the Quran
I think we had a talk here about the beauty of the Quran in
multiple ways. It impressed us even though many of us don't
understand it. Majan if you understood it,
imagine if you and it's not won't be just the cherry on the cake, it
will be the cake itself.
Like if that's how much it is. So you will see that Allah subhanaw
taala is telling us something he's advising us. He is pleading with
us almost like he's, he's instructing us fulfill ru Illa
Allah run to Allah. He's then telling us how he interacts with
people how he punishes people how he rewards people, right? He shows
us his promises. He God gives us His warnings, you think that's not
going to affect us when it's coming from Allah directly? Allah
subhana wa multiman it then tells us about himself. And this is the
beautiful part he tells us about himself.
That's where there are the names of Allah, the characteristics of
Allah mentioned in the Quran, nearly after every discussion, it
tells you why Allah does that discussion. Because it says Allah
is Mighty and wise. Right? It says Ali mon Hakeem lawfull Rahim
right. Zafar, that's, that's another one Razak Lulu where till
Mateen of our fideism kabhi tobe shady did a call the toll La ilaha
IL Allah, it's amazing. Just everything that is being
described, you get to understand Allah, otherwise, we don't know
him.
And we want to die. And we've never read the Quran with that for
ourselves. Just take a translation and start, take your life to do
it. You don't have to do it over two weeks, or over one month, just
bit by bit so that by the time I die, I've read at least the
message of my lord to me, thinking it's me, and it's directly to me.
Very, very important that we start doing this, don't start giving it
to us, once you start reading it, right, that's a different realm,
but there's just what we can understand from it. And if you're
confused about anything, go to the other MMA and understand that, but
there's more than enough in there.
The way you understand and begin to love something. So I'm gonna
get a bit philosophical here. I know it's a Saturday with a
Saturday to Saturday night, not the time for a philosophical
discussion. And I don't mean Aristotelian philosophy. I mean,
just thought. So the question is, I'm going to ask you is what does
love mean?
Because we're talking about loving Allah. So Allah subhanaw taala
says in the verses that I read, let's look at them, right? This is
what Allah subhanaw taala says there's among some people they
take, other than Allah, they take objects and idols and other
deities besides Allah, loving them as they should love Allah. Allah
is setting a benchmark here, that the ultimate love can only be for
Allah and they love them like they should be loving Allah, in this
endeavor is the Bulava of the Quran that Allah is indirectly
saying, ultimate love is Allah says how can you love something
else like you love Allah?
And then Allah just says really casual Latina, Amanohashidate de
Hogben Lilla that the people who believe they are most intense in
their love for Allah.
And that's that's Allah's description of the believer that
those who believe they're most intense and ardent in their love
for Allah. Is that the case? We call ourselves believers by the
instruction and the Gainsborough son we I believe anybody who
frequents the masjid is a Mortman is a believer, but are we loving
Allah more than anything else?
So the question then is, that Allah makes a statement that a
believer is our most intense in the love for Allah subhanaw taala.
There's a book that is going to be published soon. It's the thinking
Person's Guide to love, where literally, the author has surveyed
and studied every single writing on love since the stoics. Like
since before Aristotle, everything ever written on love. And he
proves at the end in a very subtle way, that the only true love can
only be for Allah. Why? Because if I love you, or you or my father,
my wife, my husband or whatever, or my art, my car or whatever,
great, nothing wrong with that. But all of these are perishables.
They're not permanent. Either I will leave or they will leave and
there's going to be a heartache, or love demands things when you
love something, and you expect love back. Everybody that you love
can't always give you the same love back so you feel upset. Love
has its own rules and demands if you've ever felt love, right? And
the only one that's always there for you is Allah. Somebody else is
going to disappear. They're going to be busy. They're going to be
occupied with something else, so subtly.
Even for a non Muslim audience is sending him. Loving God is the
ultimate form love because Allah is permanent. And he has
capability of loving everyone. If there's an individual who is loved
by multiple ikan only give certain amount of time individually to
individuals at different times, not everybody at the same time.
And only the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam. So what exactly
is love? By the way? Since Allah is saying that you have to be most
ardent as believers to be in love of Allah love is not a dirty idea.
It's actually, according to the experts and love is one of the
purest, selfless forms. It's only when you're in love where you're
at your most
selfless state. What does that even mean? Sorry, I, you will have
to, I'm going to tell you that you have to try to understand is not
you know, just just listen, you know.
They say that when you love someone, you're at your most
selfless state where you go beyond what you want for yourself,
because we love that you do everything for your beloved, if
it's true love.
You will literally do everything for your beloved, you will forget
your own hunger, your own rest your own needs, and you'll do
everything for your beloved.
You just have to make sure your beloved is a good beloved,
otherwise you'll be doing it for the wrong reason. That's the
problem. Many people fall into this trap of loving an object
which is not worth loving, waits for it's a Forbidden Love. So then
they're giving up their whole self to something else. Otherwise love
is only that it has to be given to Allah subhanaw taala and the
beautiful thing about loving Allah is them that love incorporates
loving everything good.
That's the beauty of it. When you love Allah for the right reason
you love everything that Allah wants us to love and you become
better lovers of those things that Allah wants you to love. So just
because you love Allah doesn't mean you no longer will love your
parents or your wife or your spouse. You'll actually love them
with a more pure away because it'll be for the sake of Allah.
I know this is a bit complicated but let's define love first why
what is love? How do you define love?
People have not pleasant or people have badly whatever you want to
call yourself what is love? How do you define love?
Okay, maybe you have an accent? How many of you have experienced
love?
Okay, let's put some hands up let's get some interaction. So how
many of you have experienced love? MashAllah two people only?
Rest of you What do you been doing?
Who hasn't experienced love?
You guys don't answer questions.
So how do you define love? So simply what they say love. And you
can read this in Arabic? I think month for luthier somebody has
written about this many people love is an inclination to beauty.
Okay, I'm getting a bit more complicated Love is an inclination
to beauty.
But to understand that you have to understand beauty. So somebody
defined for me beauty.
Have you seen ever seen anything beautiful? Okay, so define it,
please. How do you define beauty? Something pleasing to the eye?
Yeah, that's
that that is an effect. Yeah, that's what will happen. But
that's not enough. Why is it? Why does it please die? I need it more
deeper than that.
Yeah, but why are you inclined towards it?
Sorry, somebody you're saying?
Attraction. That's just inclination. Attraction includes
same thing, it's just different stage of it, but why?
Something's perfect. We're getting somewhere. What makes it perfect
though? How do you define perfection?
No flows. What's the flow?
Okay, we're getting somewhere with this. This is what they say.
Beauty across the world. Beauty in anything is a certain balance and
a proportion.
It's a certain balance and a proportion.
So in architecture, there is this concept called the golden mean.
When certain things are of certain proportions is like a 40 something
60 something 30 something 40 Something ratio. That's what's
beautiful. You can see that anywhere in the world. And that's
beautiful. There's certain sounds Kira sounds why you like them is
because they've got a certain balance to them. Why are certain
phones are attractive to people is because they've got a certain
sleekness and a certain balance, that nothing's out. If you look at
a human per human being that everybody considers beautiful, and
they've done studies of this in every culture
Show in multiple cultures of the world, right? So different
ethnicities and cultures. And as to what those individual culture
cultures, Indian culture,
you know, Arab culture, Chinese culture, what they would consider
to be beautiful have a face, they found that it's the same
throughout the world because we're all human beings, that the mouth
and the nose, the proportion of where the mouth sits to the nose,
and where the two eyes sit to the nose, and the shape of the face.
Throughout all all ethnicities and backgrounds. It's a very similar
form that is considered beautiful. Because that's built into human
beings to recognize beauty you I know why it's beautiful, but you
reckon most people recognize the same thing to be? Yes, there are
certain people which they say I is the beauty isn't either beholder.
That's not always the case, though. That's in certain cases.
But there's something which everybody considers beautiful. Why
do they consider beautiful, it's got proportion and balance that
was on, it's got MUSAWAH, there's got doors on in every aspect in
more aspects than none. It's not lopsided, it's not too big on one
side, it's not crooked, it's got a certain balance. That's beauty.
And humans attract themselves to beauty. That's love. Love has
multiple stages in Arab community in Arab language, where which has
a word for everything, they've got about 20 Something stages of love.
So this is how it happens. You first, when something is beautiful
like that, you notice it? You don't become obsessed with
Australia, you know? Don't Okay, Mashallah. Right? Then after that,
you appreciate it? Yeah, that's nice. Then after that, the more
you get to know and you see the balance, then you become inclined,
like I'm interested, you become interested, then you become
inclined.
And then after that, you start to like it. And then you want it. And
then you get obsessed with it. And then you're head over heels over
it. Just make sure it's the right thing.
Then you start thinking about it everywhere. So I'll give you a
simple example. I was looking to buy a car, you know, when this
London had this ultra low emission zone, you had to get rid of your
diesel cars or whatever they hate buying cars is just too
complicated for me, right? So I was looking for a car, identify
two cars, and then find out the virtues of them and the balance,
so and the price. And then suddenly, somebody told me about a
third car, which is I always thought it was too expensive for
me. And I found that it's got a very similar price range, but it's
a better company. So I noticed it. I started finding out about it.
And I took a test drive, I suddenly saw its qualities. I saw
its balance and its proportion, right. And then I became inclined
and as the others became the others with it in my sight. And
this became bigger in my sight. And then I'll tell you what
happened. The next day, I started seeing them all over the place. I
never noticed them before. But now suddenly, they're all over the
street. Where did they suddenly come from? That particular car is
everywhere now. Like I'm sure it didn't come overnight. It's just I
never even used to notice them. Now I know its qualities and I see
the balance of it. I see it everywhere. That's why we don't
see Allah everywhere.
Simple thing like that. That's why Allah is present in his design, in
his beauty in his might, in his greatness in his benevolence
everywhere. Not physically, I'm saying but in terms of his
qualities and characteristics, and it is everywhere. It can't be
missed, like literally cannot be missed. Just we don't see it was
it hasn't been a Missoula Honza when he came once is it to England
or somewhere they took me to took him to a beach. I had this a long
time. I hope I'm not making a mistake here. I've negotiated the
economic Nina Garcia de conga,
and it's true. You will see the effects of Allah everywhere you
go. Once you recognize you just see the creation of Allah
everywhere. Just like you see that car everywhere. This is why when
we go for Hajj, many people wonder why you do tawaf seven times.
Muslims are very unfit. So you have to go around seven times, do
some laps, and now they're forcing you to do it up there.
Bigger laps because you know, you can't you have to have to go into
SubhanAllah. I always wondered because I'm teaching a hedge class
every year. So I'm thinking what is the hikma of tawaf?
And it's simple. When a person has tried in solid and other things to
get to Allah and they've stayed hungry in Ramadan for the sake of
their beloved, then ultimately, Hajj is nothing nothing but a
journey of love. What do I mean by that? Why would somebody got on
it? How seven times
what do you get out of that? Oh Al Hamdulillah I've done 123 choice
my Christian dua, Vika linea I've done seven Mira hoga Masha Allah
Al Hamdulillah my
it off is done. You call your highlighter off hoga. Man, what
did you get out of your toe off? You did the fault. You'd got the
tick box exercise. But what did you really get from that has an
bossy Rahmatullah they want so, going around, you know, you hear
all sorts of people doing all sorts of doulas, Allahu Akbar. I
mean, some of the doers I get scared once Allahumma zeleni yo,
Mala Zilla Illa ZIL look
on the Aldemar will understand Oh Allah wa Jai peice Lau was then
Mooji EPIs Lana, just then quit pestle nanny who likes
it like Archippus Lana, like, oh, Allah caused me to slip on the day
when there'll be no slipping except you're slipping.
It's supposed to be Oh ALLAH.
Shade me on the day when there's no shade. So it's a little funny.
Zeleny totally different. Right. So you get scared sometimes about
the doulas that you hear there. But he heard a woman, a younger
woman, doing some love poetry to her beloved. So he told her off to
get a it's not a champ MACOM Hara bistatic you know, he's
stereotyped her that you're probably talking about your
boyfriend or something your beloved or your husband or whoever
it is. She just turned around to him, said, How do you know and
what do you know who I'm speaking to? She was speaking to Allah
subhanaw taala those top offs, you see a human being if you look at
the when you love someone, what do you want to do, you want to speak
about them all the time. But ultimately, you want to be with
them. You know, you can't always be with them. But when you and you
and I just can't wait to come home, can't wait to meet, can't
wait to hold it, and so on. These are human natural expressions of
love.
You want to hold them, you want to be close to them. Then after that,
you want to hold them, then you want to embrace them, you want to
kiss them. You can't do that with Allah. But Allah gives us an
opportunity come around my house. Because you know when when you are
in love with something, you always talking about them, then you want
to go into that area, even if you can't go home, jello, I'm going
through the area at least that's less what love does. And then
after that, you want to embrace them. So Allah says, Look, if you
want to embrace something, go to the multicam the prophets are
awesome showed us how to embrace and believe me any dua you make
the emulators and they get accepted. That's, I mean, I don't
want to give you any guarantees, but that's my experience and a lot
of other people's experience. You go and do dua at the Maltese if
you can get there nowadays is too many women they are emotionally
enjoying because women are always there. Right? You get to the
militarism and you put your chest and your as the prophets Allah and
He showed us what to do. I mean, that is the closest you can get.
And then after that, if you really want to kiss something you kiss
the Blackstone,
Allah has given us that took us the Blackstone. It's all a journey
of love. But if you don't know it's a journey of love, then it's
a tick box exercise.
It's a tick box exercise. That's what it is. Because you can't I
mean, Allah is beyond his transcendent. So he gives us
something because humans like love humans have demands for their
love.
And the more we learn about Allah subhanaw taala. Then the more so
how does beauty come in with Allah and the Prophet Muhammad
sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, there's only Allah and the
prophets who are flawless.
Without defects.
Flawless without defects. And now let's take another aspect of love.
Why do you love Why do you feel inclined towards beauty? What is
beauty, beauty is proportion. What is that? That is balanced of
characteristics. Its multiple characteristics are so balanced
and in tune with one another, and in harmony, that it makes this
perfect whole. There's nobody better than that in beauty than
Allah in Allah had Jamila on your table, Jamal, and the Prophet
sallallahu Sallam in his beauty. You've heard many bands about the
beauty of tuberculosis lung. So how can you not love him? Why?
Because you just don't know enough about the beauty. You don't know
enough about the characteristics? How many of us have gone and read
a review of Allah?
I know it's a crazy way to ask the question.
When you want to buy something, when you're looking and interested
in something, you can read a review of it. How many of us have
read it read a review of Allah.
I mean, not talking about on Google. But I mean, reading the
Quran. One of the best reviews that Allah has given us to read
about him is the 99 names. I'm telling you those 99 names, you
know how powerful they are, Allahu Akbar. And each one of them you
can use if you understand them, you can use them to your ability,
for example,
La Ilaha, illAllah.
Hezbollah and we produced in 2015 a beautiful illuminated edition,
which means is really colorful with lots of gold and everything
because we think that book needs kedma like that, and people should
read it because one of the most wonderful collections of the hours
2015 Many people have been asking for translation. So in 2009
NTN started on a transit there are other transit I just wanted to try
to match the conciseness of the Arabic itself of the doors of the
Prophet cellos and doors in the Quran. Not you know with
superfluous language try to make it as beautiful as possible. So
starting 2019 and finished in 2021 now is 2023 to yours I just
couldn't publish it because I didn't know I could not settle on
a design
because it has to be good. How do you put Arabic and English
together in a way that looks good? And that helps you read both
together it's very complicated if you're in the design was very
complicated.
Alright, so it took me about two hours busy as well so it's not
just that was busy. Then after this Ramadan I finally said we
need to do this man. It's sitting there it needs to and people are
asking. So I pray to Allah. Yah Musa, will ya Musa will ya Musa
will? Oh fashioner Oh, former. Oh, the sweet the only the one that
creates a sort of a form? Yeah, merge mill.
Right, yeah, Jamil
Yamaha sin. These are all relevant names. And so Hanalei was I
remember sitting there, I just needed the right background. And
my wife was then and I showed her a few and said, Let's try that one
trade and mashallah it just fit.
Like it was what I was looking for. You know, when you're
satisfied that I think it's got the right balance, right.
Alhamdulillah inshallah should come out and make dua, right isn't
nearly ready. But you can use the names of Allah, a friend of mine.
Mallanna is a student of ours as well. He broke his, he had some
fracture. So he's reading a Hizbul album.
I said, Marshall, I found it to offer my my fracture, so because I
didn't know your job, it allows Milka see.
Oh, fixer and meander of broken bones, Allahu Akbar. I mean,
that's the relevant when you pray you read to Allah that means that
means you're telling Allah I know you can do this. I recognize you
as the mender of broken bones. I'm calling you with that. Somebody
just what's your name?
So Bill helped me out man. It's like, okay, just generally, Bill,
I'll help me but I don't know what your profession is or what you're
good at. But if whatever you're good at and say, Man, you're the
best at this. I need your help. Because, you know, you're the one
who can help me. You're going to feel a lot more obliged because
like, man, he's singling me out, you recognize is my specific
quality. We don't do that with Allah. We just about asking me
Allah Cardo you know,
you look out for this. Yeah. Shafi when you've got to when we've got
a problem
when when we have a sickness or an illness and you're taking a tablet
or you and you can call on ya, Allah is the most powerful name
but yeah, Shafi or cure.
Or Chiara Subhan? Allah there's people who've used ajeeb doulas.
Yeah, mom's sick for when they needed to go. And they couldn't go
there was nowhere to go. Right. You know restrainer
right. You know, be careful about that one but you know, it's
the names of Allah amazing. You want forgiveness years are far I
mean, look at what the Prophet saw some was are taught at each other
the Allahu anha.
In Allah who may indicate a foo and Kareem on to Hibou laugh We're
thankful Anna, why is that a powerful golfer? Laylatul Qadr
Allahumma. Indica. f1 Kareem you are the full the Pardoner Kareem
benevolent like you know for you it's been evidenced his generosity
and you love to forgive and pardon so five one
Allah what because then you're recognizing Allah it's all part of
the recognition of Allah subhanaw taala multiple other multiple
other things that you can use. For example,
when you've got a difficulty in front of you Yeah, so far we seek
forgiveness because difficulties could come so we asking Allah for
forgiveness versus offer then we're saying yeah, Fatah or remove
this difficulty open it up Fatah open up? Yes at Tara which means
Oh Allah protect me and veil me from this going out to the wrong
people maybe and from humiliation. Then we say yeah, Hafeet Oh
protector, right. And yes, Salam o give her of safety and peace. And
then yeah, Latif is a very powerful though. Yeah. Latif is a
very powerful name Latif means lot has two meanings. One, it means
compassion. And the other one means subtle ability,
sophistication.
Right. Looks like our this is a complicated matter. Yeah. Latif
Otto spinner.
But vitae CD equally I see you're finding that they see it acutely,
I see it in other uksc We have to use these words, we have to use
these two hours
in a personal way.
And this is the way to get to know Allah. So now we've got the Quran
and we got the 99 names of Allah.
And the more you know Allah, the more you will build up that
you will more you'll understand the beauty of Allah's essence and
the Prophet, you can add the same thing prophesy all of a sudden,
the more you learn about him, the more you have to love him, because
all you will find is
qualities
I'll give you an example is about there's a guy who wanted to buy a
house.
And I don't know if I've mentioned this example here or not, there's
a guy who wanted to buy a house, and he found one. And everything
was as perfect as it could be, you know, in the grand scheme of
things. And then somebody over he started the procedure accepted,
and then somebody over bid him felt gutted. You know, buying a
house and finding houses not easy. And then when you found you after
like five months, and then you've accepted and you paid some money
for searches, and then suddenly the guy, right, so you felt very
gutted. Because he's losing something that he thought was
beautiful, he'd become inclined using dreams about it.
Then after they found another house after three, two months or
something like that, this time, he used advice.
The advice was that always remember in anything of this
remember a defect, keep a defect in your mind. It helps you to wean
yourself off. So he said everything is great about it. But
the front passage is a bit small, but that's the best we can get. He
was the highest bidder this time. But then after that the owner
decided to not self after five days. This time we felt okay with
jello. It was a small passage. So it's okay. It was so much easier
to deal with that. So a friend of mine who is an expert in love, I
asked him because lots of people have this issue that they fall
into love emotional attachment, and it's maybe a haram or maybe
it's ill advised or the parents aren't going to allow them or you
can't have it but you just can't get away with it. Anybody
experienced that when you held it head over heels in love with
something but you can't have it? Anybody ever experienced that?
Whether that's a business or whether that's a person or a thing
or an object or whatever, you know, can't get it. So what do you
do now? You're gonna suffer for the rest of your life? Because
that's tough. They still have to do is beautiful in that but so I
asked I said what he said start telling them to think about the
defects of that things and it's not allowed you're going to find
defects because everything is a defect because it's the qualities
which attach you and grip you once you start an IT an herb book or
shake your amoeba you sim your love of something will blind you
from all of its defects. Everybody will might be pointing out but
you're just focused this human this is the way humans are they
just get focused. So what you do is you start turning your
attention to there must be some defects man in everything in this
world has defects that Allah and His messengers, so you find
defects, and then like okay, that will detach you. So aside from the
istikhara don't ask Allah look for defects and you'll find enough
defects to get you off. It's in sha Allah that's the way you deal
with love that is ill advised. Whiskey could or you go salmonella
and then after that you start detaching yourself either it'll
take time but that's what you will do. So with Allah subhanaw taala
that's what we want. Now the what time is the most
Oh, Mashallah. It's like 15 minutes extra from London. Or more
actually. So this is not important. We don't the way the so
we said the Quran number two, the 99 names of Allah. And remember
the 99 names of Allah are not the only Names of Allah. There's some
in the Quran which are not part of the 99 and there's multiple Hadith
that give you different sets of 99 He says the famous one is in
sunnah telemovie that we know who Allah will Rahman Rahim, will
medical produce that one is the famous one but there's others with
other names in there as well. And they're amazing, the names, you
should learn all of them, right.
In fact, I'm hoping in sha Allah to do something with how you use
each name, for what purpose so that people can actually start
using you know, ideas of how to use each name to make it that
insha Allah practical, may Allah allow that to happen. So that's
the second thing number three. The third way to connect yourself to
Allah subhanho wa Taala
is by doing vicar of Allah,
because the name of Allah is powerful.
The character Cassiel Silla Shuja Agha, the heart gets purified
because they can is the polish of the heart. And thus Allah enters
and we are Allah allow Allah to
Enter and he pushes out everything else. And then the softness comes
about and
and then that helps us to understand who Allah subhana So,
vicar is the third thing. Right? Very, very important because the
third thing now what I want to talk about vicar is this, vicar.
Usually when somebody tells you to do Vickery says back 100 despiece.
Do maraca for 10 minutes, sit down and do this. That's great. That is
what you call focused liquor. However, that's not all allowance
from us. That is just training.
We need to go beyond that and say that is training. Ultimately what
Allah wants or says, is what Allah describes in the Quran, a Lavina
youth Quran Allah has pm and will corrode Anwar Allah juubi Him,
those who remember Allah, Allah praises those who remember him
standing, sitting and on their sides. You care a bit about me?
That yes, as a caracara, late late, Casey Kerkyra. No, that's,
that's the real vicar. You can't get that vicar until you do enough
vicar. So that is in your heart and it overwhelms you and
dominates you, so that you start remembering Him in all states.
vigor should be spontaneous. Liquor should be like your breath,
liquor should be second nature, liquor should be your refuge in
everything that you do. And it needs to be natural. What I mean
by that is liquor is not just reading 100 displays a day, or 100
is too far or 100 dilution, if no thicker is that and it's just
remembering Allah for how you should remember him throughout
your day. So if something good happens Alhamdulillah and there's
multiple good things that happen and that are happening and that we
have already so there you can literally be doing Alhamdulillah
all day and there's something strange that happened in LA he
went 90 Raggio not just as a dua but with the real thought of what
that means.
Something Oh Allah Allah protected us from that.
Oh Allah give me this Oh Allah guide me in this is literally a
constant interaction with Allah throughout the day, whether you're
lying down, whether you're sitting or whatever it is, and this is
represented in our different mashallah tasawwuf Salah cell,
right in our various and one thing that comes to mind right now our
next one, the Silsila says, for example,
Sheikh Bahauddin rahmatullah wa Lakshman. Now with this purpose
was good vicar, Sr. Raja. Get up apna Combi Caray, licking dill,
Allah talaga hamesha hamesha mon silica. So his purpose was that
the liquor that we do that he trains that they're telling us to
do the monarca, but whatever it is, purpose of that ultimately is
woof Albee, they say, which means a constant presence of Allah. And
he says in Persian, and I heard this from our one of our Uzbek
brothers recently,
dust Bakar, dill by car,
which simply means your hand is doing your work. So you're a
mechanic, right? So you're doing work, but your heart is connected
to Allah. Literally, if you can achieve this, you can be telling
jokes and having some humor and banter with your friends. But you
have to be connected to Allah. That means your jokes will be
halal. The Prophet saw some did Halal jokes. He was connected to
Allah. Otherwise, like a Sheikh was approached. And he says, tell
us how, how do you constantly have presence of a lie in your mind? He
didn't answer the question. He started telling them jokes.
And they started laughing and so on. Then after the 1015 minutes,
he said, How many of you remember the law in that time? Obviously,
nobody because they thought it was just joking time. He said I was
constantly thinking of Allah all that time I was joking.
That's ultimately that's what we want to achieve. And this is not
just something only buzzards can have. You can be that work. It's
for everybody. Right really is for everybody. All you have to do is
train yourself. Train yourself to think of Allah 10 times a day
start with that, not just in the mass, but 10 times a day, just
random times. When you need something when you want something
when something good happens to you. I mean Subhanallah you can
teach you can do this with your family. You have good food, and
everybody just praise Allah and look at the amazing food
hamdulillah Allah gave us this just organically like that, just
constantly. I mean, you get mangoes
that's a sugar No.
Even you don't have mangoes, they have a lot of other things.
Mashallah, right? Just organic, the vicar of Allah that is the
ultimate vicar because your heart then will be constantly connected.
Your heart will be then you will be careful because you think when
I'm doing this wrong, man, what am I doing here? I owe the biller.
Now the biller Allah protect me in that Allah who in it write your
own. Just make it organic. There's a PhD that was written by
This woman about how to bring the remembrance of Allah in teaching
for teachers, and essentially what she said, she suggests is that I
forget the exact every five to 10 minutes you have to take Allah's
Name somehow or the other while you're teaching. So it could be
science or maths or whatever. Subhanallah Look at this beautiful
thing.
Alhamdulillah Allah made this so easy, right? You just bring the
name of Allah that's what it should be Name of Allah should be
every because the name of Allah is so powerful, that it can't go
without effect. Even if you take it in vain. The remembrance of
Allah is amazing, the famous Hadith where there's a group of
people who are remembering Allah, and Allah is discussing with the
angels, what do they want from me and so on. Then it says, Okay, be
witness that I've, you know, forgiven all of them and I've
given them whatever they want and so on over there's one pedantic
Angel.
He's like Allah, there's one guy in there, he wasn't doing any
thicker, he came to get his keys, as a pedantic angel is like, like
you're saying everybody forgiven but there's again there wasn't
there was if genetically it was sitting there until the guy
finished because that was HIV. Milda Allah said, Man, these
people are Lashkar Allahumma police nope, even if you sit with
thicker people, that you can't be wretched anymore you're gonna get
some blessing. You know, why do Allah ma tell us to sit with sit
with the books sit with Allah Allah. Shah will you like spend
explains this refer to Lottie in his herget Allah, He says that a
low energy over there the Olia, they have this constant shower.
From what I mean here, some complex ideas how they rattle
codes, Allahu Allah, the higher assembly, you know, the purified
assembly from them, they have a shower, basically from Allah, he
has a shower of mercy and blessing and Baraka. on them. When you sit
with them, you're gonna get some of that sprinkled from there, if
not a lot. That's one of the so when you sit with observed next
time, just like yeah, I'm getting a shower as well. He's getting a
shower in Sharla, I'm gonna get a bit of that. That's the blessing
of singing with and you get benefit out of that. So the fourth
one, the fourth way to get close to Allah is fine, Allah is fine
that way you will find the sheikh who's got that and when you stay
in that company, you will benefit they'll guide you to it because
they've done it. They've been there. They've explained it,
they'll give you the vicar they will help you the third one and
help you understand Allah subhanho wa Taala this is ultimately what
you're supposed to be learning from faith.
Not just Baraka but ultimately that's the blessing of it. That's
the baraka the faith and everything that you're getting
from our and mashallah we have a wonderful tradition May Allah
reward the likes of Allah has a shaker carrier with Elia Lei and
mana should be tan Rahmatullahi la mano, Rashida Hagen going in
hygiene, dadullah and all of these amazing people that Allah has
given us that and allowed us to benefit from that we'd be nowhere
away would be if we didn't have them Subhanallah I don't know
where we would be. Right. So
Quran Paulo, before you die, you want to read Quran, right? You
want to understand the Quran at least once in your life should
look at number two, you want to 99 names get them in any language and
start focusing on them and adopt some of them. Start with a few
these Yeah, this relates to my situation, and you will find
different ones that will relate to your situation right? Then look
for more as you go along and start incorporating them in your doors.
Number three, start a vicar regimen, right if you're not
already doing something, and number four, find if you can find
a low end mashallah McAfee, McAfee allele, or orbit high. Find
somebody that you can link yourself to, so that you can be
guided in this regard. And there's multiple other ways and keep
asking Allah probably saw some had multiple doors and love Allahumma
zakenna Hogback were hurt by my in pharaoh now who are InDeck of
Allah grant us your love and the love of those whose love will
benefit us in your court of Allah make your love, more beloved to me
than cold water on a on a on a, on an on a hot day. And things like
there's a number of the and they will in his blog, and they're all
there. They're all there. So these are the things that we want. The
vicar of Allah needs to become second nature and organic. And you
can do this just start off with thinking of Allah 10 times in the
day, anytime, 10 times a day, whether that be doing or when you
go into your car, whether that be Bismillah or barkatullah. Before
you eat, that's all purpose. Why do we say Bismillah barkatullah In
the Name of Allah and the blessing of Allah. Why do you do that? Is
to remember Allah the DUA is not some magic. It's remembrance. It's
liquor. It's a remembrance. So that ultimately where they were
lying down, whether we're telling a joke, you're remembering Allah,
whether you're cooking for the sisters, you're remembering Allah,
whether you're working, you're remembering Allah, our lives will
become better Insha Allah, may Allah subhanho wa Taala give us
the Tofik May Allah Allah Hama Jana the Kareena luck Shah Karim
Allah, O Allah make us of those who are abundant you remember you
and
abundantly Thank you. Ultimately it has to come from Allah. So we
have to ask him because we can't do anything by ourselves.
Ultimately, he considers us worthy. So we ask Allah to
consider us worthy, because we want to our lives are ending soon,
and we want to know him before we die. Because that's our purpose of
this world, our iba that everything is to know Him and to
recognize him and I said, once you know him, you're gonna get
addicted. And then you can't help but do worship, it'll become
easier. You will want to be with him all the time. May Allah allow
us to do that, may Allah never allow us to be separate. May Allah
keep his toe heat and his love, not just in us and our children,
but in our progeny until the day of judgment, because there's a lot
of things outside to take us away from this. So we are asking Allah
to keep his love and his belief and he be with us in all of our
generations until the Day of Judgment, we're never going to see
them. Right. But we're making dua, why not? Right? We're making that
dua. May Allah accept, okay with that one annual hamdu Lillahi
Rabbil Alameen
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Illa Illa and Subhanak Inaka nominal body mean? Yeah authorea
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schooling where Hiral Martine
Yeah Are hemraj he mean, Oh Allah, Oh Allah we ask you for your
special mercies of Allah we ask you for your benevolence of Allah
We asked you for your Karim. Allah we ask you for your kindness we
ask you for your generosity and your Jude of Allah we ask You for
Your forgiveness of Allah, we ask You for Your pardon. Oh Allah, we
ask that you. You can do whatever you want with us because you are
you We are Your servants and You are our Lord, but our light if you
forgive us, then we know that you are caring and you are benevolent
and kind and forgiving of Allah. What will you get from punishing
us? Oh Allah make us worthy. Consider us worthy for your
worship of Allah make us a * of your worship, and of your devotion
of Allah. We have many, many sins to our name. Oh Allah, all of
these years we've been distracted. We've been so engrossed in so many
other things that you have given us our love, but we have used them
as a distraction for us. Oh Allah, we ask that you remove that
distraction from our life. Make whatever you have given us to be
true bounties and not forms of burdens are distractions for us.
Oh Allah you have given us abundantly more than so many
others in this world of Allah we enjoy life and you have given us
many things to enjoy life with. Oh Allah do not make that a burden
make it a Baraka, oh Allah make whatever you have given us a
baraka for us and Allah make it a sense of blessing for us. Oh Allah
forgive us our wrongdoings of Allah forgive us our oversight
Forgive us our delay our procrastination our Allah forgive
our wrongdoings forgive our sins our transgressions of ALLAH
forgive our in attentiveness to you forgive our distractions from
you, oh Allah if it was anyone else than our Allah you would have
you would have seized us by now but Allah your clemency knows no
bounds of Allah yo your forbearance knows no bounds of
Allah he you are created us you know us of Allah make us the way
you want us to be. Oh Allah make us the way you want us to be. Make
your obedience beloved in our hearts and make your disobedience
hate in our heart. Oh Allah allow us to know you. Oh Allah allow us
to know You grant us your mighty for Oh Allah grant us geomatica Oh
Allah grant us your mind if it the way you gave it to our forefathers
before us our mind mache before us. Oh Allah bless those mache who
have shown us the way of Allah bless our machinery has shown us
the way allow us to do the good that they have done and following
their path make us of those who abundantly remember you who
abundantly Thank you abundantly grateful to you who abundantly
praise you Oh ALLAH who abandoned the call on to you, Oh Allah,
those who abundantly seek your refuge who abundantly attach
themselves to you, oh Allah allow us to remember you and our hearts
to remember you whether we're standing, sitting or lying down in
all of our states, or Allah, maybe our hands and our feet, and our
bodies are doing whatever they're doing in this world, but our allow
heart should always be connected to you. Oh Allah allow us to
remember you multiple times a day. Allow us to ultimately remember
you all the times in the day. And Allah allow us to be of those who
are who fulfill the purpose, their purpose in this world, so that
when we win when we die, we die in a state of excitement. We die in a
statement of longing. We die in an excitement in a state that we want
to come and we want to meet you and we want to be in paradise just
to be able to see you. Oh Allah make all of those stages easy for
us. Grant us your Karim Allah Allah Allah Allah grant us your
Karima La ilaha illallah on our deathbed, oh Allah send abundant
blessings on peace on our messenger Muhammad sallallahu
alayhi wa sallam
them and grant him the best reward that could be gifted to anyone.
And oh Allah allow us to drink from his hands on the day of
judgment and be in his company of Allah, allow us, allow us to be of
the city clean, allow us to be of the Siddiqui and to be close to
your messengers in your shahada, and Oh Allah, change our lives
from today allow us to be in your remembrance. Subhan Allah Bokaro
belies that there is a fullness Allah when Allah Marcelino Al
hamdu Lillahi Rabbil Alameen.
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