Abdur Rahman ibn Yusuf Mangera – I am No Longer Part of the Rat Race [Hikam 62]
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Inshallah, in our in our series on the the Book of Wisdom so the
guitar will become of Ignatov Allah Allah Eskandari with the
commentary of
Sheikh Abdullah on GUI. We are on page 214 which is wisdom number
100 Wisdom number 62. We started off last time we gave a general
overview of it last time there's a few points which are remaining
from there which we'll be covering Inshallah, this time in this
session. So if not, I thought Allah says under Haoran Mima and
and who is where Abdon, Lima and Telugu. Ptolemy, a really simple
idea that works in many different ways. And we gave those meanings
in the last session. In your despairing you are a free man. But
in your coveting, you are a slave despairing from that which
attracts you,
that which everybody else has to have all you think you need to
have as well. As soon as you give up on that, that I don't need to
be there, I don't need to have that.
Then suddenly, you become a free man, because no longer are you
dependent on those things. No longer do you have to make
sacrifices to achieve those things. And likewise, if you still
covet it, if the desire of that is still in your heart very strongly,
and you must achieve it under any circumstances, and you will,
you're willing to do a lot to get it, then it means that you're a
slave of it. So we explained that last time, and today we continue
the discussion that one of the antidotes to this is the concept
of water,
water while raw iron. That's what I want to focus on today. What are
essentially mean scrupulousness scrupulousness means really,
this, this idea of scrupulousness is explained in many different
ways than the very high level of it, which maybe actually very
difficult for us to achieve. And I'm going to mention this from the
beginning. Because what happens is that sometimes when we read about
the high levels of
spiritual experience, spiritual being high levels of insomnia, and
human beings, you see the human being is an animal, I mean, the
human, it comes from the genus of the animals. So we have flesh and
blood, and we have lives we have souls, just like all other
animals. So when they, when were categorized were categorized as
part of the animal kingdom, the living beings, not inanimate
beings.
Now, the philosophers right from the time of Aristotle, and then it
came down over the centuries, and even many, many Muslim
philosophers, Muslim scholars, theologians, etc, like Imam
Ghazali, etc, they took this concept of,
they took the same concept as the concept of separating out the
insan from other animals. So we are all the same in terms of being
Haiwan.
In terms of being one in terms of being from the animal kingdom has
such in terms of living beings with flesh and blood, and so on,
we're all the same. So in the genus in that category, were the
same as all other animals, but Allah subhanaw taala, has given
what are called Karana bene Adam is Allah subhanaw. Taala says that
the children of Adam are special, a very special, and we've been
honored in many different ways. So now after the general category, in
order to separate separate out different animals from one
another, and to create a distinction between them, they use
sub category sub categorization. So for the horse they have now
hijk. And for others, they have other animals move the dish and
move terrorists and other things like that. For the human, they've
chosen notic notic nataka, which essentially means to speak, I
think with a conscience with consciously speak premeditated
speech, have communication in that sense. And
this is pretty much been used to describe the insulin as to
separate the insulin for the human being from other other members of
the animal kingdom. However, this is actually a very reductionist
idea, the human is a lot more, in fact, a human has probably the
best of the characteristics best of the qualities, best of the
capabilities of the different types of animals because if you
look at the entire animal kingdom, the living beings because
inanimate beings, you know, they they're generally stationary,
they're generally under control. stationary objects don't control
other things, generally speaking, it's the moving beings, the ones
with flesh and blood, that tend to subjugate things and bring
things under their control. And among all of that, human beings
are those even though we're not necessarily larger, bigger than
certain animals, certain animals are much bigger, much more
powerful, have a lot more strength than us. But it's the human beings
that pretty much subjugate everything. That's Allah subhanaw
taala that's created us in that way and given us that. So how can
you just say that the human is just, especially when we know that
even dolphins and others they also create, they also communicate and
have quite an extensive vocabulary. So the better idea of
the human being in terms of characterization is, is Al Hassan.
Al Kamil
is the perfect animal is the complete the most accomplished
animal, the most accomplished being in this world. That's what a
human is, that is the human supposed to be. So now, this ties
in with all of that, the way of spirituality, which is the way of
Islam. And it's that aspect of Islam which seeks to perfect
people from a spiritual perspective, which, from the witch
in, from the perspective of the Hereafter, from the perspective of
our infinite life is probably one of the most important aspects of
Islam,
our spirituality, meaning our realm inside, for example, there's
somebody who mentioned that is he runs a company. And it's a
particular type of company in which he deals with a lot of very
high end clientele.
It's about branding and promotion and things of that nature. And
mashallah, he's a good young Muslim. And he says, sometimes
when I speak to these people,
when I speak to certain people who are just in the money, like
essentially intoxicated with the money, almost, I'm just saying
this from what I understood. He says, You can't believe that human
beings.
They are human beings, they just like us, they look like us. But in
terms of the way they operate, the way they think their world
perspective, their outlook, the way they do things, the way they
communicate. It seems like they are just taken over by something.
The mug lube, they are dominated by something, they're not the
normal human. They're not like normal human beings that you will
interact with on a day to day who have the same kind of emotions and
feelings. They have emotions, but their emotions are very, very
limited. It seems again, this is just an assessment. This is just
an assessment. And
what this reminds you of is what Allah subhanaw taala says in the
Quran, regarding those, the Quran says regarding those who take
interest who consume interest who are in unlawful haram, unlawful
dealings, that they are like
you have to have butter who shaytaan liminal bus, it is like
those who shaytaan has
basically put into this state of hot, where they don't really they
in this uncertain kind of state, where they're in the state of no
stability, where they focus as a human being they're not in a
stable state, that it can be unknown Callooh in MLB, or
mythical River. This is because they they have said that Reba and
Bay Bay is just like Riba is just like Bay, meaning usury is just
like bait. Now, the focus is not on usury here. But it's basically
anything, when you get too much into it of the dunya. This is what
it does to you intoxicates you in a certain way. So it takes us away
from the balance of what a human being is supposed to be, in terms
of our Allah subhanaw taala wanted us to be.
Now the difficulty we have is that when there's so many people off
that balance, then the off the balance, status becomes the
standard, then we don't think of ourselves as being off balance. We
don't think of us ourselves as being abnormal.
See, when everybody's greedy about something, everybody's in the same
rat race, including sometimes people like us who are supposed to
be leading the spiritual,
then it's just how do you how does anybody know better? How does
anybody No, that's not the standard.
This is the difficulty.
That's why it's very easy than
for us to condemn people who have the right balance according to
Allah
as being extreme, to Orthodox, to strict to this into that.
Now, I'm making this very difficult because this is going to
cause a lot of confusion. What is the right balance?
But this instability is good. Because then we can seek out what
is in the Quran sunnah. What have we been taught?
What do the classics say about this thing? And those that pretty
much everybody agrees of the past people who departed this world in
a righteous way, in a praiseworthy way. What was their status? Allah
subhanaw taala has not left us in the lurch. He has given us many,
many ways of deciding what is good and what is bad. And
if it's confusing, and not very clear for us to go directly Quran
sunnah, sometimes because of interpretations. Well, let us look
at how people who have been respected and revered for their
piety, how did they practice Islam? We have, we have a lot to
work on. So the in sanel, Carmel, the perfect human being the
accomplished human being in terms of what Allah wants, is going to
be very different from what many people in the capitalist world
would want. Because their their entire focus is money. And that
can't be that. If Allah subhanaw taala says in the Quran that we
created you to worship us, then surely that must be one of the
the highest motives is how our entire life can become worship.
See, when a lot of people hear that, when a lot of people hear
this, that I created you for My worship,
how can we pray all day? They say, how can we how can we be fasting
every day, because we've reduced worship, to just the obligatory
worships as though it's just those rituals, which our worship.
Worship is a lot more vast than that. You see the word worship,
maybe that's the problem. Another verse is another another
translation is devotion.
Devotion, which then makes it a bit more personal that I am
devoting myself I'm expressing a devotion.
And to be honest, our what we understand from the Quran is that
Allah subhanaw taala praises those who are constantly remembering
him.
Both or not just in us, not just sitting down or in a particular
posture, but standing sitting and on their sides when they're lying
down.
This gives us a better idea of what worship what devotion is
speaking about.
Subhanallah the Hadith I've mentioned this several times
before, which really confused me in the beginning is it said that
da, is the kernel of worship, is the essence of worship. And I
wondered for so long that how is it the kernel of worship when it
seems like a very personal selfish act? I'm asking Allah for giving
me this. So giving me that. That's for myself. It's not an offering.
But it is an offering, if you do it right, to understand and to
recognize that I am nothing and Allah has everything and I'm in
absolute need of ALLAH, so that instead of asking others and
hankering towards others, we're asking Allah, that's a devotion.
Our entire life needs to become a devotion in every sense, even our
eating needs to become a devotion. So we can enjoy our it doesn't
mean that our food will become tasteless, and that we must not we
must fight our tastebuds. And we must not enjoy good food.
It's just we need to thank Allah when we're having it, and eat it
with the right reason.
And of course, eat healthily that is part of devotion, so that we're
not abusing the body. How can something when you're abusing the
body become a devotion?
How can overeating
be a devotion?
That's a Seraph that's zoom that suppression, that's putting things
in the wrong place. Especially when the promise a lot is said to
us to the stomach being the worst of the vessels that we can fill
worst of the containers that we could put things into, over and
abundant over and beyond what is required. So now you get an
understanding of that the perfect human being that Allah wants us to
be is in every aspect, not just in a business sense, not just in what
we earn, not just in what we consume, but in every aspect and
everything of it, every moment of it, as long as we can be conscious
of Allah subhanaw taala that would be inshallah helpful. So
what is that balance? What is that balance, and then even within that
balance, there are those who manage manage to fulfill it
exceptionally well, which is very difficult for the majority of
people who are even trying, and that's understandable. So that's
what I wanted to preload here before the next discussion, which
talks about a very, very high level of scrupulousness. Of
particularity, of refined understanding of the faith and
relationship with Allah subhanaw taala I don't want you to hear
these things and think
I'm not like that. So let me just give up. Because I'm telling you,
this is all part of the journey. It's a journey at the end of the
day, we hope to reach a high level. But if we don't, we can
try, we can die trying.
And Allah subhanaw taala wouldn't Shala raise us on our intentions,
because we've seen many Hadith about this. Those people who are
who have made an effort to go in the right direction, if their
death caught up with them, and their life ended, and it stopped,
and it prevented the them getting to the destination. Allah subhanho
wa Taala is very generous. Allah subhanho wa Taala six looks at us
according to our intentions. And our final standings, say seeding
state, which will determine how we are in the hereafter is very, very
important. And that state needs to be a state of training that we de
train. There's somebody who I was discussing just a few days ago
about how many collaborators they have. And they reckon that he
might have 10 years of it, which sounds like a daunting task. 10
years, 510 years, 10 years. 10 times 365 times five times six, do
that sub, right. That's a huge amount of prayers. And it sounds
huge, but SubhanAllah. Then if I can give you examples of another
friend of mine, who's seven years, he's nearly finished now. He had
seven years of cada he's nearly finished. It's a possibility and
it's only about
about 50 Something 5253 Started about 10 years ago. I don't know
how long you started to go. But it's all possible we have to die
train. That's our job in this world. We may not lead
lead to get to perfection, but at least we die in the right state we
die working for Allah.
We die working for Allah, that's our Messiah. So this is
what a poet says. Right or Karna Rasul Hina for seems to be a very
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Essentially, what he's saying is that I saw I eventually discovered
that contentment and satisfaction with what I have, and being
thankful for what I have, and not hankering for more, but satisfying
myself with what I have. That was the element that was the essence
of that was the essence of real richness and true richness. So I
held fast onto it.
He's got a lot of personification and metaphor in there, but I'm
just going to give you the main point, I held on to it very, very
strongly. So then, when that happened, it actually garbed me
with honor.
It got me it basically covered me with a garment of honor. So now I
became honorable, because no longer was I in the rat race
anymore.
You know, I became an honorable individual, the internal Karmiel,
the human being the perfect human being. When I gave up on these
things, I now became wealthy and enriched without having a dinner.
Without the abundant amount of dollars or a big bank bank
balance, I became wealthy. And I could approach people just like a
king could approach people.
Because I was satisfied with what I have.
And this is what they call a renal Akbar, this is the highest form of
richness.
This is what they call water. This is another concept of water which
is scrupulousness being very particular about what is right and
what is wrong and avoiding that which is wrong because you don't
feel you need it anymore. Or because there's doubt in it.
But this on this high level, it's this is the scrupulousness of for
us the scrupulousness would just be that we try to avoid as much
wrong as possible. And we try not to do things which are doubtful.
These people they go to a much more higher level, the water and
the scrupulousness of the very, very elect people. There's very
few people who even will understand that and comprehend
that that's why I'm prefer prefacing this, from before that
this is a very high level. He says what they would do is they never
never want to find any kind of satisfaction with anybody else but
Allah subhanaw taala like if they ever feel satisfied, it has to be
with Allah subhanaw taala they don't want to incline in their
love to anything but Allah subhanaw taala that doesn't mean
that they're going to treat everybody bad and say I don't love
you. That means that if anybody is loved is loved also for Allah
because that's loving Allah when you love Allah and you
Have someone for the sake of Allah, it's because you love Allah
subhanaw taala, sheikh of mandibular Ashura, one of the
people of the past, he says that once I left Baghdad, he was in
Baghdad, he says, I was going to Mosul.
I was going to Mosul, out above that. And as I left Baghdad, you
know, when your own hometown, you know how to react, you know, which
places to go, which places not to go, because it's all familiar,
you've kind of put a routine to yourself that I know, if I go
there, that's not a very good place or whatever I can, you can
control yourself in a sense. So he says, that,
when I got out, I the the entire dunya with all of his glamour, the
world with all of his glamour, it started to basically beckon
towards, you know, to
confront me, and beckon towards itself.
I started seeing, you know, the various different clothing and
it's like, a person's not going to and suddenly he goes to the
airport, there's all these people who are dressed up and you know,
they're going on holidays, or whatever, it gets really, really
difficult.
So I tried to ignore it, I tried to stay away from it, meaning I
tried to deal with it by veiling myself from it.
Alhamdulillah I'm glad I didn't jump into the reserves. But I
tried to avoid it, I made my best. So then, paradise, with all of its
hold, and palaces and everything
manifested manifested itself for me, how he had an experience, I
don't know how right whether that be in his dream, or he just had
these visions or whatever the case is, that I was given the glad
tidings of paradise I started seeing paradise.
Now for most of us, that would be wonderful. A paradise dream is an
amazing dream, right? Something that we would celebrate paradise
started to now beckon it's a you know, beckon towards me, with this
rule and palaces and its lakes and its fruits and everything, fallen
ashtag will be her, but I did not take that on either. I did not get
too occupied and obsessed with that either.
You see, this is where the differences between us like if we
even saw paradise once in our dream, that would be wonderful, or
anything that even resembles paradise.
It's now when I even avoided that because I'm in the world right
now. This world is a place of effort. He says, Even when I said
no, that's not my objective
for Kedah Lee Earthman. So then it was announced to me, Boothman low
work after my Lula had you stayed with the first in the first
manifestation of the dunya had you just stayed there and got
involved? The Hijab, NACA, Annie, Sonya, then we would have she
prevented you from the second one you would never have had that
second experience of paradise. But what a walk off the marathon near
the hijab, NACA Anna, had you now stayed in the second phase and got
involved in that and started enjoying that, then we would have
blocked you from us from Allah subhanaw taala.
As I said, this is very difficult for us to even comprehend when you
have when we have no experience of these things. But now the voice is
telling him for her no, no luck. Now we are yours, meaning we are
for you. Work is to come in at the rainy attic and your proportion
and your share of both those worlds will also come to you now.
So had we gotten involved in the first directly, then you would
have missed out in the later ones. But now that you've got to the
last stage, you'll also get the first ones from us.
Now that's a difficult thing, but that is maybe one day, maybe one
day inshallah
thereafter that there's a Sheikh Abdul Rahman Al McGreevy.
He says once he was he used to live in one of the eastern edge of
Alexandria sharpei Iskandariyah it was in one of the Eastern sides of
Alexandria in Egypt. And he said I decided to do I decided to perform
the hajj so I went for Hajj.
When I finished the hedge
I was gonna go back to his country and go back home go back to
Alexandria Alexandria when suddenly I heard a an intuition
and intuitive voice or however it came to him I heard a voice saying
to me that
next year you're going to be with us again. Means next year you're
going to perform the hedge again, what what a wonderful experience
that would have been you know, when you go for hedge anything you
get, you get this kind of sign or you get this voice saying that
you're gonna do hedge again next year, like you know, you believe
in it, it's something
you know, because when we finish I generally say Inshallah, we'll do
this again, you know, we say that to one another, but this is where
you actually believe in it. And he says, so I said to myself,
that if I am going to be here next year anyway, then let me not go
back to Alexandria. And in those days, you couldn't make those
decisions. There were no visa problems and things like that. You
just had to earn a bit of living and carry on and just stay
somewhere. You know, it was very different in those days. So I
thought, I'm not going to stay in Makkah, let me just go down south
to Yemen, just down the road in the Jazira to a lot of let me go
to Yemen. Right. So I went to Adam, to Aden, where they call it
Pollack call it today. And he says, I was just walking on the
coast of Aden one day, right? I need to pass my year learn
something, do something. And suddenly I see that mashallah,
they've got all of these merchants, they're taking out
their supplies, their stock their merchandise, and, you know,
they're doing good business. So, and then I look towards the sea,
and I see this guy who's performing a miracle on the ocean
in he's taken out his prayer mat, and he's performing this miracle
on there. And I just said to myself, that llama slowly dunya
what are the lucky robots? Look at my state. I'm neither here
neither. They're like, I can't do good business. I'm not I'm not a
successful businessman. I'm not a successful What do you have alive?
This is something he just said to himself, like, you know, let me
get somewhere. So he says, Suddenly, I heard this voice
saying, Mala Mia Salahuddin duniya wala de la Hera. Yes, Lana, don't
worry, whoever doesn't think himself to be
capable of this world, or the paradise that Archaea whatever
than they, they have to be capable for us. That should be your that
should be
your objective. Now, that's not something that if we don't even
have this idea, in our mind, that's not something that is
probably even going to come to us. It'd be too confusing for us
equally is the shaytaan telling us this? We think, because a lot of
people when they find out first that your focus should be Allah
and not paradise. They're like, No, but Allah talks about paradise
in the Quran. Yes, he does. And explain that in the tafsir over
and over again. That is a very good incentive. And yes, Paradise
is there. But our higher objective must be Allah,
which includes paradise and everything, but our objective is
not paradise. Our objective is the satisfaction of Allah subhanaw
taala. Somebody doesn't even have that paradigm in their mind. And
it's very difficult for that experience. The people who reach
this kind of stage, this kind of particularity, this kind of focus
and scrupulousness, this kind of enriched focus, being the human
being the perfect human being.
Then these people will take directly from Allah, their
connection with Allah, it becomes so strong, because they don't see
anything but Allah.
For them, everything comes from Allah now.
And that is one of the descriptions of the 70 people who
will enter paradise without a question.
They don't, their focus is never on the US verb. They may take a
paracetamol if they've got a headache. But when they're taking
the paracetamol, they're gonna say, the cure is from Allah.
In fact, when they're eating, you know, if you're very thirsty right
now, and you need a glass of water.
When you're drinking that glass of water, what is our understanding,
at that moment, is that this glass of water is going to satiate my
first. That's normal, isn't it?
But how many of us are there who went drinking a glass or saying,
it's not this water? It's actually Allah, every time we drink a glass
of water.
When you're feeling very hungry, give me something to eat. When you
got a sandwich, no problem. I eat the sandwich because I need
something to eat. My entire focus is on the sandwich that is going
to benefit me. And it is it is because Allah has kept it like
that. But it's actually Allah who's going to satiate you.
Because sometimes you end up eating and you still don't feel
satisfied.
Satisfaction is a whole mental idea of what satiation is. It's
from ALLAH SubhanA wa Tada. So,
how many of us are there that every time they eat, it's like,
this is from Allah, Allah is satisfying me. Where we go beyond
that we acknowledge the sub we acknowledge the means we
acknowledge the tool, we acknowledge the the act, we
acknowledge the emotion, but we remember Allah each of these
times.
And I think it's not difficult. You know, the way to do this is
just to, even after the fact remember Allah.
One of the things that's supposed to help us in this regard is the
doors, the doors for each occasion, with the read with
meaning, because they it's all a vicar of Allah is to remind us
before eating before everything, even before really intimate
relationships with the spouse, even then there's a dua that even
then Allah must be remembered.
Even then, what Takala who are lmao and Nicola, who,
as Allah subhanaw taala says in the Quran regarding that state,
you, you have to fear Allah
And you have to know that you're going to be soon meeting with
ALLAH SubhanA wa Tada. So for a person who does this day, they
will become so clear about their faith and about their path, that
they will, when they speak, they'll speak for the sake of
Allah, they'll speak with the trust in Allah. They, whenever
they do any deed, they will do it for the sake of Allah, they will
do it with the assistance of Allah. And they will be, they'll
have a lot of clarity in why they're doing what they're doing,
their mistakes will become less
the mistakes and the errors will be reduced. This is the very high
level of water of the Abdol and the Siddiqui.
It's a it's a very special state, it's a very special state. The
benefit of it is that a person gains absolute conviction. And
they become, they gain
an extremely strong and close relationship with Allah subhanaw
taala. And they become totally satisfied in their heart, that
doesn't matter what's happening around them, they just so
satisfied with Allah subhanho wa Taala that nothing perturbs them,
depression doesn't come to them.
Anxieties like that don't come to them. They just know in every
state that they find. So for example, it says that
this is one of the people he wanted to find somebody like this,
like, I want to see somebody who's like this, so maybe I can benefit
from them. So he got a lot of money. And then he decided that
let me go to these people who
fucking years are poor, and not.
What he means by the fuck is those who are claiming that they are
some kind of pious person, you get that in other countries, there's
these mid zooms these people who want to stay away, they don't,
they just do some vicar. They just show themselves to be righteous.
And then people just give them some money. And then she says, let
me find out if I can find them among these people. So I started
with this money, and I started giving up money. And when I would
be giving the money, I would be saying that this is quite
a denigration a humiliation for you to be taking this money, but
they will still take it. So I couldn't find the person I was
looking for. Until one day, there was one person I gave the money
and I made the same statement. I made the same comment in front of
him. He said, No, I'm taking this but I'm not taking it from you.
This is Allah subhanaw taala providing it to me. So is that I
could finally see in this person that he his focus was on Allah
subhanaw taala he was not superficial.
For such people, you know, they never have any.
They would never have any greed or hope from another human being.
They will interact with them, they will go and buy some bread because
I mean, you buy bread from a bakery, you know, they're not
going to start making everything like even their toothbrush.
They're gonna make themselves no. Well, I mean, they could do a
miswak I guess. Right. But you know what I'm saying they're using
people, obviously, they're interacting with other human
beings. But the focus is that it's all from Allah subhanaw taala.
It's all from Allah subhanaw taala
to such a degree, that
if they ever even did think that even a bit of hope came in their
mind about somebody else. And that person gave them something, they
will not accept it. This is just their way of self discipline and
wouldn't be haram to take it.
Like, for example, if somebody's coming in with a bag and I think
Marshall has been a gift for me. You guys didn't bring any gifts,
did you? Right? But if somebody came in, it seems like you've
given me a marshmallow, I'm gonna get a gift today. They would then
refuse to take that gift. Just because they they want to train
themselves actually, if it comes then it must be purely for Allah
that I take it. But if I thought already, yes, it's coming. My
knifes is allowed. I've allowed my knifes because I'm not trained
enough to do that. Right?
Then that's not good enough, so I need to refuse it.
So shakable Midian. Great. Alia of
Algeria, present Algeria
is a guy who came to him with some wheat, which is very important in
those days. I mean today if somebody brought you with like,
what kind of gift is that? Right? But these were staples that you
needed. So as he was coming, my knifes said something that look,
Where's this coming from? Right? It wasn't like from Allah directly
or whatever the case was. So this is when he brought it
I said to my enough's, I recognize it. Yeah, I do Allah. Oh enemy of
Allah.
I know exactly where this is from now.
And then he told some of his students who are sitting there
take this wheat and gone
gone distributed among the four Carl Icahn have it it's halal.
It's not haram. It's just done for personal discipline. And you can't
impose that discipline anybody else's for yourself only
thing think it's about chef Asher really taught me a key moment
similar kind of thing happened. Somebody came with a gift. And
when he came and presented it he said no, I can't take it. He said
because I had issue awfulness.
So now
it was a no no, take it It's okay. Whatever. Person discipline. So
you went away with in this particular case the person just
walked away with it said okay, fine, no problem. Then he comes
back a few moments later. And he said now you can take it because
now you didn't know I was going to come back.
To give it to you. He says okay, I can take it now. These are not
haram things to do. These are personal discipline, spiritual
disciplines to do so we ask Allah subhanaw taala to give us some of
this. We ask Allah to create for us balance in our life, to really
understand the right balance in things. So I'm going to finish off
this reading here of Sheikh Abdullah and go here to see how he
explains this. In your despairing you are free man but in your
coveting you are a slave. When desire and greed for an object
arises in the heart, a strong relationship develops with it, and
the heart becomes enslaved to it. This enslavement brings in its
wake a variety of difficulties. In the bid for its acquisition, then
man bears the indignity of many a disgrace. But they think it's all
justified, because the end justifies the means in that case.
If the heart despairs of all things, it attains freedom from
them, and achieves perpetual peace and comfort. I don't need to have
it unsatisfied. I don't need to go and do extra work. I don't need to
do Uber at night. You know, I don't need to do these things that
they think
it does not behoove a Muslim therefore to disgrace himself in
the pursuit of the lowly things of the world and to forget the
hereafter. So may Allah subhanaw taala accept that from us and make
it easy for us. Allahu Mantis, Allah manga salaam Tabata Tangela
Allahumma salli wa salam ala Sayidina Muhammad why'd you say
you didn't know how many more Burdick was salam Allahumma filled
in our home now in our zoeken Allahumma Dena Medina who the
attendee monitor allow me Nana Salah colorful and rfef dini with
dunya Allah, Allah who made Nana so look at the mobile if you are
the worm and if your chakra and RFEM that Allah we ask you for
your special mercy of Allah we ask You for Your forgiveness we ask
you for your tofi can divine enablement of Allah grant us
balance make us good human beings make us that accomplish human
being? Oh Allah make us the good insan the perfect insan Oh Allah
make us how you would like us to be our law makers how you would
like to see good human beings so Allah grant us your love and the
love of those whose love benefits of you. Oh Allah make your love
more beloved to us than even cold water cold water on a hot day. Oh
Allah we ask that
You grant us those actions which you are satisfied within that
which you are pleased with our Allah bless us, oh Allah bless us
and grant us, Grant grant us and our families and Oh Allah, the
entire entire humanity on Allah.
To be good human beings, oh Allah to have a spiritual well being our
Allah remove the spiritual deficiencies that we have the
spiritual ailments that we have, oh Allah cure us, both from the
physical maladies and the physical pandemics and oh Allah also from
the spiritual pandemics that we have been dealing with, Oh Allah
we ask that you strengthen us you strengthen us and grant us basura
grant us insight grant us true understanding true perspective of
Allah allow us to see the truth as the truth and allow us to follow
it and to see the wrong as the wrong and allow us to abstain from
it. Oh Allah bless all of those who are working for the deen and
accept us also to be workers of the deen for to be to be doing
something for our religion in whatever capacity we can and
whatever situation we are in our leg set from our Suhana will be
corroborated here I'm IOC phone was salam al mursaleen but 100
Allah Hafiz beyond I mean, mitigate