Abdur Rahman ibn Yusuf Mangera – I am a Believer but Do I Really Believe
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my dear respected brothers and sisters, our dear friends and
Salam aleykum rahmatullahi wa barakato
I'm glad
our great
friend here spoke about what he did, because that inshallah has
helped to clarify a number of things I've been receiving these
emails from the organizers. And
so, that was mashallah very enlightening lecture, I hope we
have taken this to heart, Inshallah, it will clear, clear
lot of problems up for us. And the reason is that as, as as was
already clarified, it's it's always about who speaks the
loudest they make, they make, they set the scene here, they set the
scene in any society, because if you look, if you go back into
history, during the time of the Abbasids, especially during the
time of the Abbas is the peak of Harun Rashid's time, in his son
Maamoun, Rashid, he established the they establish this translate
translation
industry of taking from the grips of Greeks and bringing it into
bringing into Arabic, what happened at that time is that you
had Christians and Jews that move to Baghdad. And in fact, some of
the some of the good translators were non Muslim, they were Jews or
Christians as well. And it was the superpower of the world. So people
affiliated themselves with the superpower of the world, just
because that's that there's no brainer, that's the way to do
things generally. So just like today, everybody wants to be
affiliated with the so called super powers of the world. And,
you know, there's very few people that I actually go against, and if
they do, they get punished. Likewise, I mean, this is just the
mentality of people the way society works, and the way
politics works in general. So, at that time, you had some of the
greatest of the mines moving to Baghdad, you had them coming to
the Donald Khilafah. And so much, so much great things were
happening down there at the time, that's exactly the place where
Ghazali was born. And if you look at Imam Ghazali, who died in 505,
Hijiri 1111, which is about what 900 was 1000, nearly at about 900
years ago, he he speaks about he he's one of those scholars that
you will find in history that wrote an autobiography.
So he's got some really unique points about him because number
one, he wrote he autobiography, not many scholars are like that,
there's a lot of scholars that you will hear about, but the only
thing you know about them, is through the books that they've
written, there is no biography about them. In fact, some of the
greatest of the scholars, especially those from from what us
what is now it was Becca, Stan, ma now transaksi Anna Hora son, a lot
of the biographies were lost. So there'll be some great scholars
having written 100 200 books, there's about four lines in the
biographical dictionaries about them. Whereas Ghazali, he actually
wrote, that was one thing number two, he went through an
intellectual crisis. And he is quite an amazing personality in
the sense that he went through
all the sciences of the day, to try to reach truth. He essentially
became you can say, to a certain degree, I'm not sure if I want to
call him an agnostic or an atheist, or there's a new concept
right now called possible ism. Right? Which is that okay, we
don't want to be agnostic. We do believe something is there, but we
just want the right explanation. I don't think there's a major guy
named David something, right? He's he's not a lot of research on the
mind. It's quite amazing. The stuff about the mind that he
discusses, it's quite amazing. He's uh, He's invented this idea
of possible ism, which is at least one step closer than agnosticism.
Right, which is that there is something we just haven't found
the right kind of explanation. And I think personally, I think,
because the dominant theory and the dominant work is on
Christianity. And Islam is just one of those religions which
unfortunately, at this point in time, the whole teachings of Islam
is seen as terror, etc, etc. It's kind of veiled in that the beauty
of it is lost. I'm sure if a lot of these people sincerely looked
into Islam sincerely looked into Islam, they'd have a much better
idea and answer a lot more of their lot more of their answers.
Right? That's not my it's not my feel to it. This is hundreds feel,
but would you call it this
definitely something that I feel that they just don't look into
Islam enough. So Allah subhanho wa Taala says well Athena should do
Hogben Lila those people who believe they are intense in the
love of Allah subhanaw taala they intense in the love Allah subhanaw
taala
How do we understand that in this current time? What does that mean?
How do we get in love with Allah subhanho wa Taala how do we
express our love? How are we how do we develop this love for Allah
subhanaw taala it's very easy to claim something, but it's very
difficult to actually practice something and to implement it. A
lot of us a lot of people they will they will claim love. But
what is true love, love of Allah subhanho wa Taala most people will
probably tell you that if you want to develop the love for Allah
subhanho wa Taala you start off with things like remembrance of
Allah subhanaw taala you start off with things like obedience to
Allah subhanaw taala these are all expressions of love of Allah
subhanho wa Taala these are all things that will help you love
him.
Our situation is that we are so engrossed, we are so engrossed, so
busy just catching up with projects, catching up with
homework, catching up with the next deadline, catching up with
household chores. And a lot of these chores are not even
essential, because our life today has become a life in one year
where it's updating our phone. If it's not every year that is, in
one year, it's updating our phone, the next year is updating the rest
of our gadgets, right, the third year is updating our car if we
have a car or when you have a car, and and so on and so forth. Right?
We can't really update our houses as much because we're in a really
the most expensive country, most expensive city in the world as a
capital, unfortunately, right?
There is so much going on today that there are so few people that
actually live their own life.
Now, everybody's saying I live my own life. But do you really live
your life? We don't even know what we eat anymore. Right? We don't
even know what we eat anymore in the sense that do we really save
our foods. We've lost touch with everything. Currently, I'm
teaching the divine of Imam Shafi, which is a collection of his
poetry. And if you see this man Imam Shafi who died at a very
young age comparatively to other people, but yet he left such an
indelible mark
on Islamic on our Islamic tradition, his poetry is amazing.
His poetry is amazing. In fact, he says himself that if he focused on
poetry, if he focused on poetry, he would have probably been a
greater poet than libido, which was one of the great poets of
Jelenia. But his poetry just came spontaneously, and somebody
collected it together and is the one that's essentially what it is
he the kind of examples that he brings the kinds of
metaphors that he that he invokes using such essential realities
that we should feel around us. But we don't. One of the students
asked me says, How come because when you read his stuff, then you
start thinking about the things around you. Right? When one of the
students asked me, he says, How come he's just so in tune? Well,
the reason he's so in tune is because he didn't have the
distractions that we have today. If you wanted distraction about
even 100 years ago, or 200 years ago, and then as you go back, the
only thing that you really had around you was to go to the, the
major thoroughfare in town, or the crossroads, or whatever it was
called. And there'd be like a clown down there or something, or
a snake charmer, right, or somebody doing some weird, you
know, weird tricks or something like that a little magician, or a
sorcerer or something like that. Today, you don't need to go
anywhere, you just need your phone, or you just need, you know,
a screen of some sort. And you can literally sit in your room and
entertain yourself to death. Right. Now, games were supposed to
be a young man's thing I was I was in a lecture some time ago in a
machine as a young boy that said, you know, that adults pig play
games, there are adult games. And he was quite surprised, right?
Because maybe he thought that I'm going to play games when I'm
young. But when I get old, it's going to kind of get boring. Now
there are adult games as well. And that's why I read a report some
time ago that there was a man who wanted to clock, his game,
whatever it game was, I forget the name of the game. Right? He wants
you to click it. But you have to have brakes. You know, when you're
doing something, you have to have brakes and the brakes or you need
to go toilet. Right. Now he couldn't do that. So he kept
bottles next to him.
Right? So this is the kind of life I'm talking about. Now, I know
these are extreme examples. We think we'll never do something
like this. But the extreme is, is just mentioned here to shock us
out of our slumber that this is the direction in which many
have a say going, most of us tend to be followers, most of us tend
to be followers. That's why we get caught up in all of these
arguments as well, when many of us don't think for themselves, a lot
of us live the life of others, a lot of us sell our Archaea for the
sake of somebody else's dunya. Because of the friendships that we
have, a lot of us do not think at all. We are like in a forest, we
have a little circle around us. And that keeps us so busy, it
keeps us so busy, it keeps us so occupied, that we never get the
full picture. Now those who have believed Alhamdulillah, those who
do have belief, when they get a reminder, when they get a
reminder, when they go to the masjid, when they get a little hot
about or when something happens, it does wake them up a bit, it
does create that little wakefulness in their mind. But
again,
as soon as you think about your next deadline, it you may
everything you forget everything you forget. So we do have these
momentary reminders, these little signs of mortality, if you can
even call them that, where you realize there is something more to
me, I am going to die one day, I'm going to come out of this state of
intoxication. We don't call it a state of intoxication because
we're in it. Right? But we do get those but they don't last long
enough. And the question is how to make them last longer, how to be
in a constant state of wakefulness, a constant state of
perception, a constant state of state of focus. And one of the
most important things that you have to realize is that if we are
making our decisions for this world only, whether that be for
the next five years, the next 10 years, the next 30 years or the
next 50 or 70 or 100 years, but our our hero doesn't feature into
it, then that decision is going to be in vain. Because we know as
believers and I'm not here to establish God for you, because I'm
now mashallah on a hopefully in a very comfortable setting after God
has been established, right hamdulillah you've done the job
for me, just like Abu Bakr Siddiq, or the Allah who won he sorted out
all the problems after the Prophet sunnah. lorrison departed this
world there were a lot of there were a lot of rebellions and so
on, he sorted everything out. And one of the along came in and
mashallah he he was just able to ride on that wave. So I'm riding
on, I'm riding on this wave, Mashallah.
So, we become, we become so intoxicated in this, that we
forget what our reality is. That is what we have to understand how
do we prolong these Wait, with these times a week fullness,
sometimes you wake up on a miserable day. And sometimes
that's the best day because it actually reminds you, it actually
reminds you that what's going on today, if this is what life is all
about? What am I really to do in this life,
we need to zoom out. Our every decision we make in this world
needs to be for this world. But with the hereafter in view.
Because think about this, logically, if you have any
decision you make purely for this world, the hereafter will not
feature into it at all. The reason is that this world comes first,
you have to pass this world. However, whatever Allah has
written for us, then we go into the next world. So any decision
for the next 5070 100 years that is limited to this world will only
be for this world. As soon as we start having a perception of the
era as the real life, as Allah tells us. And we factor that into
any decision that we make, then suddenly, our decisions will have
a lot more blessing in it, they will then feature the hereafter,
we will start racking up the points we need for the hereafter.
And that doesn't mean that you will be deprived in this world a
lot of people is a fallacy. I remember once I came across I was
in Los Angeles when I when I when I was an imam in America for a
while. I was told about a bookstore and Islamic bookstore in
Los Angeles. So somebody said it's on the streets. Now I knew that I
knew that there was a halal meat store on that street, right on
that road. So I went there looking for this bookstore and I said,
Okay, it's three, three stores down. I went in there. And it was
not a bookstore. It was a
video store. Meaning it had all those it was an Indian movie
store, you know, that gross stuff. Right? That the dancing and
everything like that. So it's got the walls lined with video
cassettes, the VHS, I mean, probably before some of your time,
right? But he had those, those video cassettes.
What happens is I say where's the Islamic books? So he had about two
shelves of a few books within all of that right? Now that's all
understandable. This is a Muslim brother, an immigrant to America,
not born there. He on the desk what I see is I see these devotee
cards, right with pictures of Hindu gods and things of that
nature. Now, I looked at the videos and you
You do think okay, I must say we shouldn't be doing this kind of
thing. But then I, I got. I mean, I was forced to say something when
I saw that I said, Why do you need to sell this stuff? This is
Schick. Right? This is polytheism. That stuff maybe haram, this stuff
is polytheism. And you know, the response he gave me really shocked
me. Now, I'm not saying this in any kind of condescending way or
anything, but I was born in the UK, I was in America, right?
I spoke English without an accent with a with a messed up accent,
right? But he tells me if you don't do this, you're not going to
be able to live in this world.
He's telling me, You're not going to be able to enjoy this world
live in this world make make something for yourself if you
don't do this. Now, again, why do you think somebody would think
that way? They would only think that way. Because somehow they
have been limited in their options limited in their focus. They don't
have a direction. They don't seem to have enlightenment have many
other ways. Ask anybody who is religious and I don't claim to be
religious, but ask any people who you consider to be religious. Is
life boring. And they will tell you no, it's not boring. Because
life doesn't have to be boring. If you follow Allah subhanaw taala
and His commandments, it only gets better. In fact, according to some
of the scholars, they say that if you love Allah, and your love must
be primarily for Allah subhanaw taala as the verse I read in the
beginning, while Latina, Asha Hogben Lila those people who
believe their love for Allah is intense, they are intensely in
love with Allah subhanaw taala. Now, Allah also says merger, Allah
Allahu Allah, God mean called benefi JioFi. Allah subhanaw taala
hasn't placed two hearts in the body of any man. It doesn't say
woman here because sometimes women do have two hearts when they
bearing a child. But he says no man, but he still makes the point
because a woman's state of caring to Hearts is not a permanent
state. That's a temporary state that they go through. Some of them
are fussy, and the way they explain this is that your heart
has to be primarily attached to Allah subhanaw taala primarily
attached to Allah subhanaw taala if it's attached to anything else,
it can't be attached to Allah subhanaw taala now, the question
that arises day immediately is that if your heart is attached to
Allah only then how can you love your wife, your husband, your
children, your parents, and just love others that you're supposed
to love? Even according to the deen, how are you supposed to love
them? So, the other might have explained this wonderfully. They
said that once you begin to love Allah subhana wa Tada. Then he
will teach you to love those for his sake. And you will be a better
lover of those than a person who doesn't have love for Allah
because when you develop love for Allah, that is true love. He is
the ultimately lovable being. And when you learn that love, and I
know that's just theoretical right now, right the way I'm explaining
it, but then you will become better lovers of everything the
way some others have explained it is take away your love for
everything else of the world all about Blue, all the creation, all
created beings, anything else, that's a distraction and so on.
And then focus on love for Allah. Then once you've developed love
for Allah subhanaw taala now love anything that you're supposed to
love in the world through the love of Allah and your love will be
intense for the sake of Allah subhana wa Tada. So all that
happens when you become religious, with a knowledge base with a
knowledge base.
When you become religious with a knowledge base, fully
understanding is that you can then do what you need to do of the
world in the halal manners of whatever you need to do. And it
will benefit you also in the hereafter. I'll give you an
example. I had a friend of mine who did memorize the Quran with me
at the madrasa up north. Then he left to become a doctor, he went
to Liverpool University.
Now this man was in tune, you know, he stayed in the madrasa. He
memorized the Quran, but then he wants you to become a medical
doctor. So he goes to Liverpool University. And then some years
later when I met him, and I asked him, What are you doing? He says
he's done his normal medicine degree medical degree, but then he
did a specialization. Now, what specialization? Did he do? Right,
what's the most lucrative specialization that you can do?
Sorry,
plastic surgery. Yeah, that's okay. Anything else?
A surgeon of some sort, right? orthopedics is good one. Is that
what you're doing?
Anyway, so now look at this. He said, he said the specialization
I'm doing is tropical medicine. So like, why are you doing tropical
medicine? He says because he was looking at the world at that time,
and the world was much better than it was right now. Right? And still
there is
Choose, he says, I've seen that a lot of help is needed in Muslim
countries, they generally seem to be in the tropics, some way or the
other Africa, etc. So I'm doing this degree so that I can help
somebody. Now, can you see that intention? Now, just because he
had the intention? Does that mean he has to give up being? Being a
doctor? Does it have to stop him? Does it have to curb him? Does it
have to limit him? No, it's just what you're gonna do with your
degree. What is your intention? That's what that's what love for
Allah does for you. It all it does is that it straightens out for you
why you're doing something, it makes you think you don't become
somebody else's person anymore. You're not somebody else's man or
woman. After that you live your life. Nobody controls you after
that, because you make your own decisions. Most people are
followers in this world. And that's the problem. Most people,
they follow whoever is closest to them, people who are closest to
them. They're generally just doing whatever everybody else is doing.
It's the nature of things. It's that this is human society.
According to two of my favorite scholars, they both said the same
thing. Imam Ghazali, he says, and both of these scholars from
Baghdad, Imam Ghazali says that
behavior, humans are such that we steal behavior from others without
even realizing you just mix with somebody for a short amount of
time, you know, for a few weeks or something like that, you will
start to take on their lingo, you will start to take on some
behaviors and responses, and maybe even some attitude problems may
come in, or maybe you will get better if you if you if you've got
a good person next to you, right. I've talked to so many husband and
wife couples, I've seen the way they speak the kind of examples
they give very similar. Another scholar is Imam YBNL. Josie, who
came sometime later again, in Baghdad, the great scholar of
Baghdad, Abdullah, mandible, Josie, he said the same thing. He
said, If you can't find good company,
of people to be with, then read the stories of the pious. And the
reason is that people learn from practice seeing something in
practice or reading something in practice, more than they can learn
from just reading something about theory. That's the benefit. You
can learn the you can read the Hadith and so on. But if you sit
with the pious people, and if you read the stories of the pious love
and the people of the Great, the great earlier of the past, you
will actually see how those Hadith, how the Sunnah, how the
Quran is manifest in their life. Now, at the end of this, I want to
give you five points that I think are very easy for people to follow
and that will keep the Iman up it will inshallah stop the downs of
Iman. Iman is like the fluctuation of electricity in this country
Alhamdulillah we have good electricity supply, right well
built, and mashallah, I mean, I was talking to electrician the
other day. And the reason I say this is because when I was in
India, when I was studying in India, we bought a fridge. But we
had to buy something else with the fridge, we had to buy this big
box, it was a regulator, because there were spikes in the energy
there, right in the electricity. Sometimes it would just blow your
fridge up or any electric that you've got associated. I remember
my laptop, I used to sometimes feel a current from it, right?
That's how it is sometimes, and sometimes for 24 hours, 36 hours,
no electricity whatsoever. And then you're living with the
mosquitoes at night. Right? Now, you buy that regulator to keep a
regular flow, if only we could have a regulator for our Eman. So
it stops us from going to those peaks sometimes. And then these
drops. That is the biggest thing that most of us are dealing with.
It's the drop that wakefulness that wakefulness sometimes we get
a bit of an awareness from the hotbar that you listen to or that
beyond or speech you listen to. And then suddenly, because of the
next task, where again, back into the squirrel or the hamster going
around the wheel, essentially, that's what our life has become
like.
Let's move out.
Let's try to understand the whole picture. Try to concentrate on our
lives and focus on where we're going with all of this. And when
we realize that and we become more in tune than the smallest of
things will give us advice. Then we'll stop complaining about the
imams in your local mosque or whoever they are, right that
they're not inspirational enough. Right? It hasn't. I mean, I do
blame some Imams for not being inspirational enough, right. So I
am with you to certain level on that. But the whole blame is not
this Hasson bacillary, one of the great scholars of Basra one of our
greatest of the past. He says and you know, the thing about him is
that he's known his his writings in Arabic are studied today in
Arabic literature. That's how eloquent he was, him and hijab
given the use of hydrogen and the use of one of the governor's under
the Obama years. He was known to be very, very eloquent. Like he
could stand in front of his enemies and convince them that
they are wrong for thinking bad about him.
That's how eloquent he was. Poetry and speech has that ability as the
voice of the Lord some said. So anyway, Hudson bursary was
supposed to be even better than hydrogen, the use of he also had
the great power of the man and the hut. And once he said to people,
he says, I've got no shortcomings in what I'm saying, in what I in
the way I deliver in what I say there's no shortcomings, but you
people are asleep.
In fact, some said that people in those days were asleep and you
could wake them up. Today, people are dead, you can't bring them
back to life. Now, that's a very negative approach. I hate to say
that in any case, but
just to,
just to,
to finish off,
the successful ones are going to be the ones who decide everything
based on the hereafter.
So any decision you make any course you take, anything you
purchase, anything you sign up for any friends you make, think about
how it's going to impact you. Don't just do it, because you're
going to have some fun, some immediate fun, and then it's the
end of it, they will fund will come right Allah just will give it
to you differently.
There should be no place, for example, in what we're doing
it what we're doing, there should be no place for haram in that as
much as possible. We make mistakes. We ask Allah subhanho wa
Taala for forgiveness, and we carry on
Allah subhanho wa Taala has given everybody a membership of the
paradise club, just by virtue of the fact that you're believers. So
everybody has a card, right? The card that you can't see, and
you're supposed to collect points on this by the salah to make by
the Herranz you abstain from and Allah subhanaw taala gives you
points and he upgrades you upgrades you upgrades you and
upgrades you sometimes you get demoted when you commit haram,
just focus on that what is my Where is my membership,
unfortunately, there's no website that can give you that decision.
Otherwise, that would be wonderful, then you really know
where you are, but this is the world of the unseen.
Now, having having having said that, there are six things that I
generally will suggest for people to do.
Number one, simple things because you know, there are a number of
questions that were sent to me about this, but related to this,
number one 100 Is stick for in the morning, and 100 is too far in the
evening. That means reading a stockfeed Allah saying a stockfeed
Allah with your conscious, right, not the way not the way as as
mentioned by our friend, you know, when you're thinking about other
stuff, it will obviously take time, a StuffIt Allah Allah beam
in equilibrium, we want to go 100 times in the morning and evening.
Now, what is the benefit of that? Would you get out of that what you
get out of that is that anything wrong that you've done until that
time, it gets forgiven? So any wrong things you looked at, or you
said or touched or thought or whatever the case is, it gets
forgiven, so you are clean. You do it again in the evening. And
again, you cleanse yourself. So it's a constant state of
purification, the Prophet salallahu Salam used to do 100 or
more still for a day 70 100 acquainted different durations.
Number one is this too far. So we've purified ourselves. Number
two, now that we have purified ourselves, we need some kind of
adornment, some kind of embellishment, some kind of
blessing. The way to get blessing is by doing salawat and Rasulullah
sallallahu sallam, so Allahumma salli ala Sayyidina Muhammad wa
early so you didn't know Mohamed roboticle Salam 100 times in the
morning and 100 times in the evening. Now, you might say I got
no time. Right? You will say I got no time. I've been there. Right? I
know what you mean. I was studying in the room very, which is up
north, an Islamic seminary. I was studying Islam, Hadith, the seer
tradition, and so on, so forth. And I said I had no time for
vicar. There was a vicar gathering in the in the madrasa in the in
the seminary. I wouldn't attend because I was uh, I was on my
books all the time. So I said, I got no time that takes half an
hour, there was a gathering for half an hour, I wouldn't sit in
there and say no, I can study this grammar or this or that or the
other. Right. That's what I thought to myself. And for a
number of years. That's what I did. A lot of other people used to
go and sit there and say no, I want to be the the studious
student. Now remember, I'm studying the dean, right?
There was one time when I said no, let me go and sit there for some
reason. You know, you have these states in life these times in
life. So I went and sat there.
All I had to give us 20 minutes to half an hour a day. But I realized
that I got a lot more done.
In what I was doing in my studies than I used to get done before,
why? Same thing happened to me when I moved to America. I
finished studying and then I moved to America, I was an imam there
for a while. And I have seen this is really weird. I have seen that
time flies in the West, compared to the east, if you've lived in
the east, your day goes way more slower. Now, I don't know if
anybody's had that experience. But your day just go slower. Because
I've lived in five countries for for lengthy periods of time, more
than a few months, like more than a few days, for sure. You know,
like that. Five different countries. England is still slower
than America, America is fast, you didn't know where they went,
right? America was easier. The dunya was much easier to get in
America, America is duniya. You know, Dubai is even more crazy.
Dunya is Dubai is 10.0, dunya, 10.0, right. It's like more than
America. But America there was it was interesting. And I called up
one of my one of my teachers, and I said, there's just no broker in
time, day starts, and then it ends next day start and ends, I can't
get anything done. He said, You need to give some time to the
vicar of Allah subhanaw taala. Now, that just seems like another
task, doesn't it. So you think I've got all of these other tasks,
they always seem more important than thicker. The first thing,
remember, the first thing that will go if you if your if your
schedule becomes tight, is your your worship goes down the drain,
that's the first thing you knock off, right, because that's just,
there's somebody helping us to make that decision, by the way,
anyway.
So
I then started a regimen of liquor. And believe me,
I remember remembered at at the mother. So when I started
studying, I then had to when I started attending the modulus of
vicar, I started getting much more baraka and blessing in my studies
than I would get before I would spend less time and I would cover
more ground. Now, that is, I mean for a good student, that is so
difficult for me to convince you. But I'm telling you this from
experience, and I guarantee this is empirical.
I can use that here right. This is, this is empirical. This is
easy, this is what Ghazali does, he will not tell you what you will
get at the end of your labor. But he tells you to wait to get it.
And for him, it was an empirical science, essentially, that if you
do these things, and you worship Allah subhanaw taala, like this,
and you do these cards, and you focus on Allah like this, and you
avoid this and you, you you improve your behavior and so on,
you will get this for sure, he was convinced about it. Because going
back to his story, he was convinced about it, because he
tried everything to read certainty. He looked at the body
knights, the acid tourists of his time, he looked at the
philosophers of the time, right, the Hellenistic philosophers of
the time, he had looked at the jurist. And then finally he looked
at spirituality. And he found that it was only connection with Allah,
that got you to what it was really then he then showed the way, he
didn't tell you what you would get. He didn't explain any of the
spiritual experiences as much, but he showed you the way. So this is
what I'm telling you. I started attending the liquor gatherings.
And I got a lot more work done. And at the end of the day, as a
believer, you will always feel good when you do something good.
Because that's a sign of a believer in a suratgarh Hasina
took, right. If you're, if your good deeds make you happy, and if
your bad deeds make you sad, right, then you are a believer,
and that is what you will get out of this.
Give some time to Allah, because Allah controls all time. And if
you don't give time to Allah, then it's left to us and time, then it
just depends on how much we can get done. But for Allah, Allah can
open up time. So I've noticed that day goes faster in America than it
did in England. And England goes faster than it did for me in India
or Syria in the two places that I started, South Africa was kind of
in between.
I studied there for a year as well. So I've seen this
difference, because at the end of the day, time is in the hands of
Allah subhanaw taala and Allah opens up and Allah subhanaw taala
contains, so what I'm asking you to do may take you half an hour,
but believe me the rest of the 23 and a half hours that you have,
you will get a lot more out of them. And I guarantee you this so
anyway, number two, once you've done the 100 so far morning and
evening and purified ourselves. The second thing we do is 100
salawat and Rasulullah sallallahu sunnah we owe it to him anyway.
But the the great thing about Islam is that anything you do, you
also get a lot back. So Allah the Prophet sallallahu sallam said
that anybody who sends one blessing on the prophets of Allah
is and gets 10 Blessings of Allah sent on him or her. Now, one
blessing of Allah is sufficient. If we receive one true blessing of
Allah, that's sufficient. Allah is giving us 10 blessings for every
blessing you send
masala SallAllahu sallam, so we're adorning ourselves a blessing. We
want to be blessing people. When you're blessed, you're in a source
of protection. Allah subhanho wa Taala knows you when you're in
need, then then it's like the angels, they know you because
they've heard your pleas before, even in good times. So they're not
going to say this is some kind of unknown voice. So that's number
two. Number three, you recite a portion of the Quran a day,
regularly. Now, I'm not talking about one whole Jews, one pot, if
you can do half a pot Alhamdulillah if you can't even do
half a pot. I remember there was a sister and a Shaco, studying her
unit to do some Quran. And regularly. So she said, You know
what, I can't do it. I've got kids this that and the other goes, No,
you must do something. She said, Okay, fine. I'll do one either.
One verse Sheikh said, that's fine. Just do one verse. And
obviously when you pick up the Quran to do one verse, you're not
going to be crazy in one verse and put it down. I mean, you don't
hate the Quran that much, right? So what I'm saying is regularly
read one page, if that's all you can do read half a page if that's
all you can do, but do something regularly. We don't want it that
way. You read a whole juice one day and the next day I'm done for
the next five days. It doesn't work like that. You know, when I
you probably know Metformin. Right Metformin, everybody knows
Metformin. I started taking Metformin only when I felt that I
had eaten too much sugar. And the doctor told me when I went to him
the next time he says this is not paracetamol.
So you can't just do it once in a while. It needs to be done
regularly. You need that regular then it's going to benefit you.
Right.
So
has anybody got any miraculous cures for diabetes, by the way?
Anyway, number so number three is reading a potent portion of the
Quran. The Quran is our lifeline. It's what keeps this ummah still
together, it will be an evidence for us on the Day of Judgment
insha Allah number three, number four. Number four is
what is number four?
Because I just want to get the order right here, right, number
four is introspection, meditation, Maha Sabha, free time with Allah
subhanaw taala. It's to get us out of the it's to give us some
relief. Now you might say well, you do Salat like that.
Unfortunately, our Salah even for those of us who do Salah today,
right is still a mechanical exercise. It's I need to pray. And
if we've got the awareness of having to do salah, it's Allahu
Akbar autopilot on. The next time we've arrived. Salam aleikum wa
rahmatullah. You've arrived at your destination, right?
Some unfold. Allah says Hakim is salata, Lee Vickery established
prayer for my remembrance. We're establishing the prayer, but we're
not remembering Allah. Unfortunately, this people have
told me, We are planning our next sin in our prayer.
And shaytaan, he knows he he's, you know, shaytan knows more about
us than anybody else in this world except Allah. He knows more about
us than our parents. And he probably knows more about us than
ourselves. We forget. But he knows now he doesn't have, he can't make
us do something. But he can encourage us to do something. And
he knows all the cues.
He knows all the trigger points. He knows everything that he knows
that if this guy goes on to this website, then he will end up here
90%, right. So he just has to give ideas. He knows that if he goes
this place and sees this person, and this is what's going to
happen, he's going to come in this haram, he knows this stuff. So he
just ends. That's the kind of whispering he gives, He can't
force us to do anything. Because then we would not be, you know,
that would be against free will, we will be under compulsion.
Right. But he encourages us. And he knows because he's been with us
since birth. He knows us from when he used to play with Lego. Right?
Or dolls, or whatever it is. And he knows what makes us tick,
what's our weak points. But the great thing is that all of this
can be dealt with, by this by a thicker regimen by a thicker
regimen, which is we need the strength of the heart to do this.
So number four is five to 10 minutes of introspection. That is
just whether you do that after a prayer. Whether you do that
before going to sleep first thing in the morning, but it has to be a
time when you do it for sure. And what you do is you sit there and
you just think about anything related to Allah subhanaw taala.
So you could think about all what you've done in life and what you
still expect to do in the, you know, in the understanding of what
Allah wants from us. What am I doing in this life? To give you
that kind of state? Think about your mortal
allergy I'm going to die one day What am I going to do? In fact,
forget dying one day What about if I die right now? What about if I
die tomorrow, think about any of these are all different types of
introspections you can do. Just sit there and think of Allah in
your heart. Another one for example is just imagine that
Allah's Mercy is coming down on your heart and purifying your
heart and your heart just says, hola, hola. And your heart is just
thinking about Allah subhanaw taala taking the name of Allah
subhanaw taala. Now this is just 510 minutes of free, just
unadulterated intimate time with Allah subhanaw taala if we can't
do that, in a day is difficult. If you start doing this, your Salah
will improve, you will start we will start getting the same kind
of concentration in our salad as well. Because this is just
training because we're forcing ourselves you see if I take out at
the SMI, right and I say I'm going to do 300 times this that other I
could do it. And because I'm moving at the speed, I feel
accomplished. So I just said SubhanAllah 100 Allahu Akbar 100
times my mind was mashallah I did a lot of planning, but I felt I
did something. But if you force yourself for 10 minutes to sit
down and just think about something purely to do with
yourself and Allah subhanaw taala you know, whether you really did
that took that time out or not, you can't trick yourself when it
comes to that. That's why they say vicar of the heart is superior to
the vicar with the tongue, because it's so much more difficult to
master.
Okay, so that was number four meditation. Allah says, with
charisma robic waterbottle la hater booty la remember your Lord
and totally isolate yourself to Him. Number two,
what could Rebecca phenom Tsikata Ruang Workiva, we're doing a GRE
and these are different verses that what I want to mention is two
more verses. Allah says Rama Yasha and Vickery Romani. No paid lo
shaytaan. The Hula Hoop Corinne.
Whoever stays away from the remembrance of Allah, we designate
a che plan for him. And that shaytaan then becomes a close,
associate, close, intimate associate, closer than any friend
of yours. That's what happens when we don't do the vicar of Allah
subhanaw taala. Also, the Prophet salallahu, Allah subhanaw taala
says,
anybody who stays away from the vicar of Allah, then they get
they get tightness, they have problems. So
number four was meditation, introspection, Barack Obama has
read cetera and number five, the final point once a week, attend a
spiritual gathering a spiritually boosting gathering. I don't mean
Isaac meeting, not to say they're not spiritually boosting, right.
But not a management gathering. Not not something to you know,
would you call it develop the next
project or would you call it organize the next program are
called the next lot of speakers. Nothing to do with that. Something
that is specifically to do with Allah subhanaw taala that makes
you feel closer to Allah subhanaw taala now you're in London,
there's a lot going on in this great city. Mashallah, right, it's
a great city, and Allah subhanaw taala make it even greater, right
by removing all the
out of it anyway. So it's a great city Alhamdulillah, we have a lot
going on, try to attend at least one gathering that you can that is
spiritually boosting, look for something like that, look for
something like that. And that is what will keep you inside. Because
if we leave ourselves for the outside, we're in trouble. If we,
the Hadith, I was quoted as well. Method, Allah, the Quran bahala,
the law of karma theory, how you will make it the one who remembers
Allah and the one who doesn't is like the living and the dead
person. It's literally like that. So strengthening the heart will
keep us alive outside as well. Now, today, Alhamdulillah. If you
can't access a gathering, in presence in personally, yourself,
then we have YouTube today, right now, YouTube, or any other online
facility of that nature. The benefit of it today is that we
it's taken every excuse out of our life. The reason is that you've
got some of the greatest of the speakers of the world on any
subject that you want that's available online. And you know,
the the best part of it is that you just heard our friend speaking
Hamza, and he may have said something too fast. He was a
complex and you know, you really wanted to understand it. Now. You
can't rewind it a stop, rewind, do it again. Right. But what you can
do online, is you can rewind, you can make him say it over and over
again. You can double the speed or four times the speed, if it's a
slow speaker, right? You can change and say, Okay, let me
listen to somebody else for a while. Come back to this. You
know, there is just so much it's all at your disposal, the show you
have at your disposal today. Right? We have to use them. So if
you can't find a spiritually uplifting gathering to physical
be attending, there's no there's nothing that can replace that.
Right? Then at least listen to something online. So these are the
five things 100 Is Stefan in the morning and evening 100 Salawat on
a surah Allah salAllahu Alaihe Salam, number three, a part of the
Quran whether half a page or a page and number four,
seven to 10 minutes of introspection, meditation and
number five, attending one gathering a week, whether whether
physically or online, and believe me, your EMR, insha, Allah will
stay your your decisions will become better, you will have more
happiness in your life, you will feel more fulfilled and inshallah
in the hereafter it's all benefits. It's all great bliss.
Anyway, welcome to Darwin until hamdu Lillahi Rabbil Alameen. I've
actually, I mentioned this at Imperial College and they all
wanted copies of the five points, because you know, we all about
taking notes, we don't remember things. So I bought a few copies.
I'm going to leave them here and
just talk a little here.