Abdur Rahman ibn Yusuf Mangera – Imam Fudayl ibn Iyad (Abid alHaramayn)
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hamdulillah
Al Hamdulillah hirable Alameen wa salatu salam ala cu mursaleen
while he was me he will Baraka was seldom at the Sleeman Kathira en
la Yomi Dean Amma Bharat, Allah subhanho wa Taala says in the
Quran,
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when can you read the Hello Salah Hera does it look goofy healthy
woman can at the heart of the dunya note to him in her woman
Allahu Phil, here, Ottoman naseeb.
We have these two verses that I've just recited from Surah Surah the
first verse. Second one are some similar to Shura. The conclusion
of these two verses is that Allah subhanho wa Taala is going to give
people according to their intention, their motivation and
their sentiment.
What is your ulterior motive? What is your primary objective of your
life?
What is the ultimate ambition that you have, based on that Allah
subhanaw taala will give you when he's talking about ultimate
ambition.
We can have a number of different ideas, imagine that there is a
particular objective that you want to achieve.
There will be a number of steps that you will take to achieve that
objective. Some of the objectives that some of the steps that you
will take to do that may have nothing directly related to your
main objective, but it's just something you must do.
For example,
whatever your objective may be in your life, you still have to eat,
you still have to drink, you still have to rest. These are not main
objectives of life. These are things that you just have to do to
go from day to day.
Eating and drinking is not an objective in life, is it? Or is it
for some people? Is there anybody here who eating and drinking is a
big objective for them?
There must be some people like this, that that's a big objective
for them, they must find a new restaurant every week, or a new
dish every week.
Anyway, so these are things that you do on the way the main
objective is something else. Allah subhanaw taala is saying in this
verse that it depends on depending on your main objective and
ultimate goal in your life. Allah subhanho wa Taala will give you
based on that. So, whoever whoever is main objective is the crops of
the Hereafter the fruits of the Hereafter
then we will increase in these crops.
And
we will increase in this and whoever's crops, whoever is
objective is the crops of this duniya then we will also give him
that thing, whatever you want, Allah can give it to you, whatever
you want, you make an effort towards it, Allah subhanaw taala
will give it to you. A way to understand this is this. Imagine
that somebody gives you a car, a brand new car, all tuned up, ready
with the fuel charge, everything is ready, take it, use it how you
want and mashallah the car it does exactly what you want it to do.
Now that same car, you can take it to do something good with
or you could take it to do something bad with, it's up to
you, it will do whatever you want. If you want to go downtown to a
club or a pub or whatever it is a bar, it will do that. If you want
to come on Saturday night to home near masjid, to listen to a
some discussion about Allah subhanho wa Taala and his
wonderful people and be with the Muslim brothers and sisters. And
you can do that the car will take you the car is not going to say
no, I refuse. No, I'm not going to take you this way. The cars aren't
smart enough like that yet, maybe one day they'll do that with the
artificial intelligence that we're dealing with. Somebody will put a
righteous chip in it or somebody will put a atheist chip in it.
There's a no you can't go to the masjid with it.
You can't go to the masjid that's all false for you. Because
atheists right.
So
whatever is your desire? The cow will do it for you. Likewise in
this world, Allah subhanaw taala has given us a body
He's given us a mind. He's given us free will we all experienced
free will. And he tells us, okay, this is what I want you to do,
because this is beneficial, and this is harmful. If you want to do
that, you will still be able to do it for men shot of a human woman
shot affiliate for you can do whatever you want, you've got the
energy, there's enough, you know energy to do that. But we will
then score you, we will give you a score and reckoning based on what
you have done with the energy that we have provided you with the
power we have given you.
That is what this is all discussing that if you want the
dunya, Allah will give it to you.
If you make enough effort for the dunya, you will get it. And if you
make effort for the Akira, then we will give it from there. And as I
say, it doesn't have to be mutually exclusive. It's just what
is your main focus? If your main focus is this dunya and akhira
can't come into it. Because the the dunya is first the world is
first, our hero comes afterwards, if my main objective comes first,
the second objective they can't the objective is too far out. It
can't come into this equation. If my focus is the second our health
objective, I must go through the dunya to get to the agora. So I
must do things in the dunya I must eat, drink, work, sleep, acquire
do business, whatever it is, but my main focus is the accurate. So
all of this that I will do I will do it with the focus of the
accurate Do you understand of the hereafter. But if I do everything
with the focus of this world only, there's no way you can bring
accurate in it because it only comes afterwards.
It's just simple logic. Now, today,
I'm not going to go into too much theory. As the topic suggests, for
today's for daily ignore er Now here's a person who has inspired
me hugely, just reading his story because he is a person who's
tasted the dunya. And then he is made his his main focus seem to be
the dunya first, then his focus became the hero. It's related that
his father was a very, very righteous man.
Unfortunately, though, in the beginning for the luminary out
seem to have gone on the wrong track. And he got probably into
the wrong company or whatever the whatever the problem was, but he
ended up becoming a rubber, a bandit. He became so notorious
that everybody knew about him. And people would be concerned when
they would go past his area. Because if you had any goods on
you, and you're going past he his men would stop you and rob you. So
he became well known for banditry. Basically, he was
his full name is for Dale ignore a son of a
son of Massoud son of bishop.
He was from a Tamimi tribe. So he is originally an Arab tribe,
originally from Arab descent, the earlier Bori but he was born in
hora, sun and Hora son is basically part of Iran, or most of
Iran, part of Afghanistan, part of Turkmenistan. All of that is
called hurrah, son in those days, that was a famous area. It was
part of the Silk Route, the Silk Route went through hurrah, son. So
he was born in Samarkand summer come today is in Uzbekistan.
Summer candy is one of the main cities of Uzbekistan today. Then
he was brought up in a place called a b word. If you want to
check it online, he was it's a small area, a b word. And then
after afterwards, he went to Kufa in later life when he became a
decent person, he went to Kufa
so he's got an interesting story about him. They say that he used
to be the bandit between socks. Socks today is there's one town
called socks on the border of Iran with Turkmenistan. On the other
side, there's also a small village or whatever it is called saris,
when it's called Starbucks does when it's called settlers. There
was a great scholar that came from there. It's basically north
northeast of Iran near Mashhad. That's where That's where that
Starbucks and further up from there is where he used to be. So
that was on the Silk Route and marshmallows very lucrative
project all the big, you know, imagined in these things, all the
big supply trucks were going past. So he would just stop them and he
would take everything from them. So everybody knew about that.
It's related that
the reason why he came out of that
industry he stopped robbing
People is because even bandits and even robbers and highwayman, they
fall in love. Because love is something that everybody it
happens to everybody. Right? You fall in love with somebody. Right?
Any of you not falling in love with anybody else. So he fell in
love with a woman.
And it looks like he couldn't have her. But he got so enamored with
her love
that he was trying to look at her so he climbed this wall to look at
her. I'm not giving you ideas here. Right? That's what he did.
He climbed up on a wall to look at this this woman that he was
interested in
as he climbed up now remember is a famous bandit everybody knows him
that he is the very notorious when he climbed up he suddenly hear
heard the verse from the Quran LM yet Nene Latina and Daksha are
Kulu boom lithic Rila ominous elemental Huck. Somebody was
reciting within that area somebody was reciting. And those words they
came to his ears. What it means is,
hasn't the time come for those who believe he was a believer, but
he'd just gone on the wrong track? Hasn't the time come for those who
believe that their hearts start to fear
for the sake of Allah, their hearts become filled with fear for
the sake of Allah, woman as the liminal Hawk, and that which the
truth which Allah has sat down, come on, you've been away too far
for too long now. Hasn't a time Come? Come on, you must think
about this. These words are very powerful.
What are your Cuca Latina Allah economical Athena, hooter Kitab
Amin, Kabul. And
he should not be like those who are given the Book beforehand, a
long time passed over them. And then after that, the heart became
hard. The hearts became hard. And now you know, inspiration comes
in. What this is telling us is that Allah gives you many, many
excuses. Allah subhanaw taala gives us many opportunities. And
if a person doesn't take it, and each time we block it out, we
becomes harder in our misguidance and then it becomes more
difficult. That's why they say that younger people are more
easier to change and adjust. But when you've disregarded something
for too long, then it becomes much more difficult to change. Allah
help us Allah, make us how he wants us to be. Allah make us how
he wants us to be. That's a wonderful dua that I heard from a
sheikh Allah make us the way you want us to be. So when he heard
this
rumor, he's an Arab. And he heard this that hasn't the time come LM
yet. Nene Latina Ahmed one Tushar, Kuru boom, Nicola, he suddenly
said, he said, Baba Yaga, of course era.
Something hit him at that time. And he said, Yes, of course, this
time has come, because n is come at this time. So he went back and
that night he spent among these old buildings
that night he spent among these old buildings, and that was
actually on a main path on the main routes. So on the side of
that, that's where he spent the night.
What he discovered was that there was a caravan you know, a lot of
traders who had also stopped in that area, he could hear them
and
they were this was evening time, and they're deciding should we go
should we leave now? Or
one said Shall we leave now the other one said no, no, let's wait
until morning. Because for dailies on this path,
this is his territory. And he he could rob us so let's not gonna
He's listening to all of this.
So he says that for forgotten to I really thought deeply about this.
Look, people are fearing me. Remember, he's now got the concern
of Allah in his heart. And he says, US Alfie Layli filma be lady
filmer RC. I'm spending all my nights in robbing people in this
disobedience. And this this group of believers who are here who are
fearing me.
I can only think that Allah subhanaw taala has put this sich
me into this situation.
So that I stopped doing what I what I what I have been doing. So
he said to Allah, Oh Allah in need to earache. I have returned to you
now. I'm stopping this
which I'll to toe but he mucha whare. Tell Baitul haram.
Unfortunately, you can't do this so easy nowadays, but in those
days you could. He said I have made my repentance that I am going
to
On stay in a beetle haram, I'm going to go and stay in Makkah,
mocha Rama. I'm going to stay by the cupboard. That's, that's the
way I'm going to do it.
A lot of people even today when they make Toba then they go for
hombre they go for Hajj. But he decided that he will say so the
last several years of his life, that's where he spent them.
He is he went and he worshiped in Macomb, Oklahoma until he became
known as the Great worshipper of Makkah. He went to Madina,
Munawwara and he worshiped there until he became well known for his
worship there. You know, nobody could even believe that he was
abandoned before. That's how bad he used to be before famous well
known, not an amateur bandit, a well known one, a well known
highway person, a robber, and then he became Eventually he became
known as ja, Biddle Haramain
and a bit of the to Harlem's both Maka Makarova Medina mana what a
wonderful name that now in history that's the name he goes by RBL
Holloman, there's only another person who has a similar name to
Him, whose name is Imam Al Haramain, who came several
centuries after him.
Imam Al Haramain, Abu Murali Abdullah medical geranium.
He was a great, great scholar of of theology and of jurisprudence
and he was the he was a teacher, teacher of Imam Ghazali Rahim
Allah. He went to the high domain and he became such a great Imam in
teaching down that he became Imam Al Haramain. But he was Arabic
Holloman, and that's a there's only two people I can recall of
that name, you know, of the two hundreds not just 100 the both.
One is Imam Al Medina, you have Imam Malik. But for both people,
that's amazing. May Allah subhanho wa Taala give us a wonderful
designation of this nature that's worthy. We are looking for
designations we are looking for titles. Now if Allah gives us a
great title that people can remember us and make some dua for
us, then what better investment is that than anything else? May Allah
subhanaw taala accept all of us.
He became such a great scholar afterwards, that some of the
people who have transmitted Hadith from him, that ruler might
consider him to be a reliable transmitter of Hadith sahih write
a very reliable and upright and and authentic transmitter of
Hadith. That's why some of the greatest Allah ma that you will
know their names many of you will know their names have transmitted
Hadith from him. For example, Abdullah Abdullah Mobarak has
transmitted Hadith from him
Yahia Seidel Katan you know, anybody who studied Hadith will
know Him. Abdul Rahman Abdul Mahdi ignore Archana This is Sophia
Norina. Big scholars. I know if I was taking football names, you
guys will say yeah, I know what you're talking about. Right? So I
want to take these names because I'm excited about these people
just like you are about Pogba and everything else, right.
hamdulillah so US Marine abdulrazaq YBNL Homam Abdul
Rahman, Abdul Mahdi. These are some great names if you start
studying Hadith and chains, you will see all of these people
Imam Shafi has transmitted from him as well.
Yeah, yeah. Here at Tamimi, Musa that kotoba Vishal haffi. Surya
cerca de these are all great Sufis of the past as well.
And there's a number of other names. I don't want to mention too
many. Because this is not a list of names that we want to tell you
about here. I just want to tell you that some of the greatest
Mohabbatein have transmitted from him and he was a robber before.
That tells us that you could be really bad person. But the door to
Allah is always open. The door to Allah is always open hamdulillah
that's one of the greatest things about Islam there. And he's not
the only person there are so many other people like this.
Abdullah Abdullah Mubarak. Now if you want to know Abdullah in and
voila, he also had a very strange upbringing. And he also went off
track a bit. And he later also turned to knowledge and he became
one of the greatest Mohabbatein
so he knew for later, he knew him very well. And if you want the
biography Abdullah Hinden Mobarak I've done the biography. It's very
inspirational. His life is extremely inspiring. You will find
him on zum zum academy.com. If you look for Abdullah Radek, he'll be
there I can't speak about him today. We only have a short amount
of time. Abdullah hymnal Mubarak says that are a to Akbar the
nurse. I saw the person who I thought was the greatest of
devotees. One of the greatest worshipers that Abdulaziz ignore a
biro word. According to him, he was the greatest worship at that
he has seen one hour on us, and I've seen the most scrupulous of
people most careful about what they do. What's halal, what's
haram, never wanting to do anything doubtful. He said that
was for the liberal elites. And he says, I've seen what Atlanta's the
most knowledgeable among people, and he said that was Soufiane
authority. And I have seen the most
juridical and juristic insight possessing most geopolitical
juristic insight among people, and that was Abu Hanifa Rahim Allah
Mara at Villa Kamath Allah who I've never seen anybody like him.
So he, this is his assessment of his time that these are the four
great people that I have seen.
I'm delighted normobaric also said once to Ibrahimi Bucha mas, he
said that ma Kia Allah Hurry up there in the abdominal for the
Dibner el SubhanAllah. Is that out of all of the people that exist
today? There is nobody generally superior superior in general to
felida binnorie out if Abdullah ignore Mubarak is saying this,
that means something great, because I'm delighted when Mark
was no small person. He was a great Scotland for him to rate
somebody like this is amazing.
In fact, Harun Rashid Khalifa he's said Mara a to fill Allah ma he
had been Malik. I've never seen anybody from that Allah ma who has
more or who is very awesome when you sit in front of him, you can't
say anything. That was Imam Malik. He said, an imam Malik's
gathering, when used to come to teach Hadith used to dress in a
particular way with a turban used to have a special fragrance but
who would put on because of the respectful Hadith and is and they
say that you could hear a pin drop in that gathering because it was
so silent they had so much respect for Imam Malik. Yet he was such a
soft person. But he had such awe about him that people would be you
know, they would be very respectful of him. So how do i She
said I've never seen anybody more than that. Wala Ultra Emanuel
Fidel, and I've never seen anybody more careful and scrupulous than
for the diviner ELT Shetty, another great scholar of the time,
he says that, you know, every people, so the people of Norway,
the people of Oslo, there must be somebody among you that you can
say that if we want to present somebody in front of Allah
subhanaw taala on the day of judgment that this is what Oslo
has produced of one person we can say, who did the best that he
could?
Would there be a name that you can, you can think of?
Do you see what I'm saying? Do you see what I'm asking? There is one
kind of role model person in every area.
And they this shriek is saying that Lim Mirza liquid Nico mean
Hoja. The URL is Imani him, every time for any group of people. They
will have somebody who will be their proof somebody they will
take a lot of pride in. Right he's there hoja de Lille their proof
that we've got somebody and he says we're in a full day Lebanon
are in a full day Lubna al al who genuinely Aliza money for the
diviner EOD was that person for his time. The other other one said
this is the man for you Subhan Allah Subhanallah wouldn't you be
wouldn't you want to be like then you're wondering how can I be like
that? Do you think for they never thought he could be like that when
he was robbing people of their of their goods. I'm sure there's none
of you who robbed people here. If the most we may be doing is maybe
missing salats maybe doing some firearms once in a while maybe
committing some wrong here and there. I'm sure we're not dropping
the people. He was robbing people.
But then he becomes known as the Hoja Allahu Akbar, I just that's,
that just shows you the Mercy of Allah that He will take
forgiveness from anybody that shows you the greatness of the
Mercy of Allah, and how doors are open. Just you need to want to
take it.
The mistake is in our parts. We don't make the effort. It's the
effort that we need to make.
He says he is this proof for his people. And then suddenly he was
in a group of people when he said this, suddenly a younger a younger
man, a young man like a youth, just maybe older teens, 2025 or
whatever. He suddenly got up to go somewhere
when he had gone, Haytham who was there, Haytham is saying that
Shrek had told us this. Shrek is the one who told him that for the
wo AR is this proof for the people of his time. Then Haytham says
that
suddenly there was a young man who left and when he had gone, Haytham
said that this man is all this young man is also going to become
the Hoja and the proof. If he lives on this youth is also going
to become the proof he could actually see in this young guy
that he was special.
So
somebody else who is that?
Do you want to take a guess of who that was? That was Imam Muhammad
didn't know humble.
He wasn't an imam than he was a young man. But his teacher who was
in the gathering could see that man, this guy is gonna be
something when he grows up, and there's no doubt about it. I'm a
liberal
Humboldt Subhanallah who died in the 240s to 50s, right? Because
for a living or al died in the 180s or so
180 Hijiri or so around that time, whereas he died in my mom had died
about 5060 years later. So he was a young man at that time.
Allahu Akbar we want to be inspired by this we want to be
inspired by this May Allah give us inspiration today that from today
we want to make a difference to what we do we want to have a
different way to I want to make the Ark hero our main objective
will still go for dunya we will still get the dunya will still
work in the dunya but our main objective is going to be the Ark
era inshallah um to sum up the summative no matter the way he
says that Abdullah in the robotic told me I mean I'm the lone martyr
had such a great respect for him. It says he says that Abdullah and
Barak said for the Lipner EOD was truthful to Allah. He was truthful
to Allah so Allah subhanho wa Taala caused wisdom to come from
him roll off his tongue. So then anything he said was wise.
Full full day to me, Minerva, who Elmo, for that is one of those
whose knowledge has benefited him.
It's gone into his heart and it's benefited him. In fact, Abdullah
hymnal Mubarak says, to Abu Mariam al karvy, ma Bucky Phil Hijazi.
hadoo Minal Abdol
among the 40 Abdol. I mean, this is going into a bit but this is
I'm quoting by the way, everything I'm quoting today is from Amanda
Herbie. Amanda hubby was a great scholar of Hadith who wrote knew
all the biographies of the Hadith scholars. And I'm taking most of
this, if not everything from this from CRO al Amin novella, which is
a 30 volume book of his. And he's a very respected scholar by
everybody.
He is a greatly respected scholar by everybody. And this is what he
relates, he says that I'm delighted. normobaric said that
among the 40, Abdullah, the 40 of the most pious and righteous
servants of Allah, that always there are 40 people chosen for
this in the world. We never know who they are generally right. But
a number of them are sitting in Sham. He says that among the he
says that there is nobody left of the Abdol in the hijas in the
western border of Arabia, except for the diviner er and his son,
Ali, Allahu Akbar, his son was amazing. When you read the
biography, as for the diviner, er this son, he used to always be
making dua to Allah, Oh Allah do not separate between me and my
father in the era,
as we are in this world of Allah do not separate between me and my
father, meaning that he wants to be in Jannah with his father. And
they actually say that both this is exactly what Abdullah and
Mubarak said. He said,
What are they, you know, cut them on Philhealth. In fact, his son,
Ali IGNOU, Fidel was even more fearful than his father. When he
would hear hola como taka for it as Zilla till although Zillow, he
would faint.
There were certain there was a certain sort of that his mum had
told her husband for a tableau er that when your son is there, you
can't read that Surah because he would just faint. He was just too
fearful, so connected, that he would be fearful and he would just
faint. He fainted numerous times when listening to verses of the
Quran.
And that's his son wama Bucky, a hidden fee Billa Billa de sha
Allah use of spelt in fact he was saying that in the in the sham in
the Levant, there is no Abdullah's left there except use of notice
but a boomer RBLS word. And in horror son, it is Madden. And
that's, I mean, I'm not going to go into that. Bishop neuharth says
that there are 10 people that he can think of who never ate
anything but the halal. They never ate anything haram.
They were so considerate and so careful.
He says that liat Hulagu tuna home Illa, Halloran. Nothing except the
halal has entered into their hearts into their into their
stomach. They would never enter anything into their stomach except
the halal even if they had to survive on soil and dirt to stay
alive.
They were very careful about this. So somebody asked Abu Bakr in
Makati. He says I asked him, Who are you talking about Abu Nasr. He
said Sophia is one so if you had authority number two Ibrahim
ignore Adam. He's taken the names of some of the greatest people I'm
sure you've heard these names. Some of these Ibrahim you know
Adam, for the Lipner ELT and his son. You know, if you look in
history,
there's not many people that you will find that you praise them and
their son or their father. Generally you get somebody you
hear of Sophia and authority you don't know much about his son
You hear about Abdullah Hoon robotic you don't know much about
his son. But what's interesting about for the EOD he's like Mufti
Shafi with money. And you got his two sons, Mufti Turkey and with
the Rafi of money, you don't get that often think of any scholar.
And unfortunately, it doesn't always pass on the sun is not
always as great. Sometimes the sun becomes even greater and the
father gets eclipsed, that happens as well. But in this case, they
keep mentioning his son,
which tells you the effect that he had on his son SubhanAllah. So he
says that these are the 10 people that never had haram in a haram
into their stomach. Ibrahim Adham Sofia and authority for the
luminary out his son and ally, and Sulaiman will house use of about a
boom or Allah we are
who they fall merace That would have thought he will he biblical
world. These are people are so careful about halal and haram.
That's why they get to the place that they get to.
Ibrahim ignatia says, I have never seen anybody that who in whose
heart Allah who was greater
than for the, the greatest thing in the heart of Allah a how to
fillet diviner Al was Allah subhanaw taala there was nothing
greater than that. As your as long as you're a believer, Allah will
be in our hearts.
But is he the greatest thing in our heart? Or is there something
greater a job, maybe a person, maybe something else maybe? Or is
Allah the greatest thing in our hearts?
Then he says,
What was the proof that Allah was the greatest in his heart, these
are the proof whenever he would remember ALLAH, or if Allah was
remembered by him, or if he would hear the Quran, you could see the
fear and the grief come over his face, and his eyes would start
pouring. And then he would start crying to such a degree that the
people who are sitting there would just feel sorry for him. That's
how much he would cry. And I've never seen anybody he says,
who always focused on Allah so much in everything. His focus was
always Allah in everything, whether he was studying something
in his knowledge, whether he was practicing, whether he was giving
something, whether he was taking something, whether he was spending
something, whether it was how, whether you should not like
somebody, whether you should love somebody, in every aspect,
everything was done only for the sake of Allah subhanaw taala, a
very balanced individual in that regard. In fact, he says that
once, if we used to go out with him to a janazah, to a funeral,
then he would throw out the way he would use that opportunity to
advise us to counsel us throughout that journey, he would do that.
And he would do this and he would be crying as though he is going to
be buried. It will be as if he is seeing us off. Like he is greeting
us. And he is giving us advice. Look, don't do this. Don't do it.
Don't as though he is going to be buried
until we would reach the graveyard. And he would sit there
Wait, you know, he would sit there until it was all done. And then
after that he would stand up. And he would come back and it would be
as if he had died and come back to life. And he's just had an
experience. Very intense. For the diviner er, he used to say that
you cannot become adorned and beautified with anything greater
than truthfulness and seeking the halal that will give you the most
adornment that will give you the greatest beauty and people respect
that. His his son said to him, his son who was infatuated with
Father, it seems his son said to him, yeah, a birdie in the holiday
season. So he said to his father, he said to his father Yeah, yeah,
yeah. But he my father Halal is difficult to come by. He said my
son, were in college who are in the law, he cathedra even though
it's difficult and you only get a small amount, the small amount
that you will focus on that for Allah, that will be great, the
value of that will be great because of your sacrifice that you
give. So if you do find things difficult to come by, then you
know your Sobor on it is going to be valued by Allah subhanaw taala
so don't think that Allah is going to say Man, why you are too strict
for Should we just eaten, say Bismillah need? Allah won't say
that to you. If you genuinely as if you doubt what is proper halal
and you doubt that that's haram. But when there's doubt and you
avoid it, because the prophets Allah, some said that may your
ebook Allah Allah and ebook, avoid what puts you in doubt to what
doesn't put you in doubt hamdulillah
these are all advices these are all advices of this great man. For
the live not a yard also used to say that man, half Allah, Allah
mudra who I had, anybody who fears Allah, nobody can harm him because
that harm will be nothing. He fears Allah.
Allah will protect him well
On half a layer Allah let me unfair who I had and if he fears
anybody but Allah then nobody can properly benefit you either.
He also said Abdullah had nomadic, asked for the diviner EOD O Abu
Ali father of it you know the Arabs they use the these petrol
limbs NIMS for the for the for them once you get a son or a
daughter then you get a new name right? So Abu Ali Mahalaxmi mana
Hanafi how are we going to take extract ourselves from this
trouble that we're in? What is the way out? How do you survive this?
Tell me
for the liberal elite said to him, Okay, let me ask you a question.
You tell me monitor Allah health adorable mouse here to ahead. You
know, basically, I think what the issue was, is that look, you got
all of these people who are committing sin around you, you
know, we can we generally complain about Western culture and we say
look, all of these people are committing haram and we have to
live here and this done another whatever, right? This is a
constant complaint, similar complaint. So this was filleted
ignore er this response. He said, tell me that the one who obeys
Allah Himself.
Will anybody else's disobedience harm him?
As long as you are obeying Allah, and people are going to * is
not going to harm you. And then he said,
for me, yeah, I say Allah and the person who disobey is Allah. And
everybody around him is doing good deeds, will that benefit you? If
you're disobeying Allah? Will anybody else's
good deeds benefit you. And if you are doing halal, and you're doing
the worship of Allah, will anybody's haram so stop
complaining about people? Do what you have to do, and do the best
that you can do? This is one way one advice for our situation. And
then he said to him, so the person said, No, of course not. So then
he responded, he says, Well, this is if you really want to, if you
really want to stay free and clear, then this is your answer.
You just carry on doing what you have to do. You do the best that
you have to do.
Ibrahim Abdullah says that I heard for Dale saying
that a person will only be in awe of ALLAH SubhanA wa Tada according
to how much he knows about Allah. You can't fear Allah more than you
know about a life you don't know much about Allah how great he is.
Have you ever noticed a situation where there's a person who you
didn't know who he was, he just looked like a normal person. So
you kind of went and spoke to him or said something? And then later
somebody told you Do you know who that is just like the, you know,
big scholar or big, they're so big that you're like, Oh, I just went
and spoke to him so casually, I didn't respect him. Have you? Have
you ever experienced that kind of a situation. So he says, it's the
same thing that until you don't really know who Allah is and you
don't know more about him through the Quran, then you're not going
to have fear of Him. If you want fear of Allah, you need to know
more about Allah through learning the Quran, and, and learning more
about what tells us about Allah subhanho wa taala.
And then he said to him, that whoever practices on that which he
knows that Allah subhanaw taala will suffice him for what he does
not know. And whoever practices what he knows, Allah will give him
Tofik to learn that which he does not know. So the main thing is
that don't you know, today, there's a culture of celebrity
shakes, and all that kind of stuff. So we love to listen to
scholars.
And we listen, and we listen, and we listen, and we click Keep up to
date with it, and we follow it. And we you become fans. And you're
not supposed to there's no concept of fans in Islam, you either
become a serious student, but there's no concept of fans. I
mean, the classical scholars never had fans. They had students. So
either be a serious student, don't be a fan. Because a fan is just
somebody who follows somebody who just keeps up to date. They just
know what you're doing. But there's no benefit. If you're
listening to somebody just for entertainment purposes, because he
sounds cool, and he really discusses the issues. But how has
that discussion of issues benefited you?
I'm speaking to you today. How has that benefited you? I pray to
Allah that it benefits me myself first. And it gives us some
difference of opinion and perspective. But if you're just
listening to somebody because you like some of the comedy some of
the entertainment he provides, the way he discusses issue, but is it
benefit if it's benefiting us and we actually making changes, then
that is successful?
The scholarship could be perfect, but our relationship with the
scholar could be messed up. Let's not blame the scholars all the
time.
Is just Are we doing the right thing? By really benefiting from
what we know? And that's what he said here?
He is
said whoever acts upon practices upon whether little he knows Allah
will give him Tofik to learn a lot more. So people are wondering,
I've got nowhere to learn how you practicing upon what you do know.
And if you are then Allah will give you Tofik because there's no
way Allah will deprive you.
For they used to say something, Rahim Allah, He said, You know
yesterday, everything that's happened, that's just an example,
is become an example. Now it's happened, it's happened. It's just
an example to reflect upon. Today is the time to practice.
And tomorrow, where it can be. It's just hope.
Whatever is past this past, those are just examples. Now, today is
the time you need to do your work and practice. Because tomorrow is
just all about hope. It may never happen. Tomorrow will become
today.
Right? And that will be time for practice. If you don't practice,
it will just become an example of the past. So do something, do
something.
He also said that it is based on how small you think the sin is.
That is how great Allah subhanaw taala thinks you have committed a
sin. The smaller you think the sin is, that's how much more serious
Allah takes it. You're saying you're disobeying me and you're
saying this is a small sin. It's a cerebra it's a minor thing. That's
how much more he seriously takes it. And if you commit a sin, if we
commit a sin, and we think oh man, that's such a big sin. I miss my
prayer because I slept. I slept over. Oh no, I miss my bed. I was
coming back on the flight and I just couldn't pray and we take it
to be so serious. Allah will take that very insignificant and say
don't worry about it. He will be more easily forgiving us. It
depends on our approach to our sin and our good deeds that Allah
deals with us because Allah subhanaw taala is not like a
mathematician that you do this. You get one reward. You do this
you get to reward he looks at it very holistically as well. Right
he wants to see our motivation in our hearts. Ibrahim is Hakeem
Ibrahim October he says I have never seen anybody more fearful in
himself than for the diviner ELT know, though He's fearful I've
never seen anybody more hopeful in Allah than for dative knock out
gun Akira to who has Xena Shahida bought the Motorola Silla gun the
who you how Tebow insaan
his Kira went for the revenue he used to recite the Quran May Allah
give us though feat to do this kind of recite recitation, when he
would recite he his recitation, it was full of grief. It was full of
hope, desire, it was slow. It was measured and paste. It was as if
he were speaking to somebody, you know, the Quran resident was just
wasn't like that it was as he was speaking to Allah. And what can
either Amara be, I think via the cruel Jana, you wrote the Doofy ha
was
what Ken says that whenever he would go past an idea of the of
paradise in which there was a mention of Paradise, he would
repeat it over and over again. And he would say, Oh Allah give me
paradise. Oh Allah give me paradise. This is showing us an
other how to recite the Quran.
And he talks about his nighttime prayer, how a match would be
placed there for him, he would sleep some he would go and do will
do, he would pray. And then after that, he would get tired again,
you would take another bit of nap, then he will go and do will do and
so on. And that's how he would, he would he would spend the night is
he as I told you in the beginning, that he was a sign writer agreed
upon that he his narrations are so he didn't fabricate anything,
Sudoku, listen, very truthful. However, he was actually very,
very fearful of narrating Hadith. Why would you be fearful of
narrating a hadith?
Because, remember, in those days, you didn't narrate from a book,
you didn't just pick up a guitar and say, Okay, let me read this
out to you. The hadith was all memorized. So he would just be
concerned that maybe he's saying something wrong. So he says that
it would he would find it very, very difficult. So the the
narrator who is Hakuna Ibrahim A totally. I believe it's him. He
says that sometimes he would say to me, that if you had asked me to
give you money, right dinars, gold pieces, that would be easier for
me than to relate Hadith to you.
Because I give you money. That's easy. But if I relate Hadith to
you, and I make a mistake, that's a big responsibility. So I said to
him, I said, you're narrating Hadees to me that I don't know and
I can benefit from is much more worth to me than if you gave me
gold pieces. So for both of them, they want Hadith and not gold
pieces.
Then he said to me, when I said that to him, he said to me, You
know what? In the come of tune, you're in a fitna
All right, you got a problem with a fitna. Why, because by Allah, if
you practice the upon what you have already heard from me, you
know all the Hadees that you already know, if you practice the
upon that, then that would occupy enough occupy you enough from
those Hadees that you haven't heard, whatever you've heard
already, you know, enough to be able to practice. And he then said
that I heard from Sulaiman ignominy, Iran, who I think is
alarm ish, right? The great Hadith scholar. I've heard him saying
that if you've got food in front of you, this, keep this in the
mind of us listening, listening to people just for entertainment. He
says, if you've got a pile of food in front of you,
that you're supposed to eat, you take a morsel, you take a spoon of
food, and then you throw it behind your back. You take another spoon
of food, and you throw it behind your back. You take another spoon
of food, and you throw it to the side. Are you gonna get filled
with that food? You've got the food, it's yours, you can eat it,
but you start taking it like the little children do. Right? And
they start messing around with the food. Are you gonna get filled
with that food? He said, it's the same thing. You just want to keep
listening. And you don't want to practice upon what you hear.
This is all of our state, May Allah help us.
Finally, I'm going to relate to you a very special encounter that
Harun Rashid had with him. You know how to honor Rashid was one
of the greatest police
of the Abbas it empire.
You know, he they ruled a huge amount of land they came after the
OMA yards. So by that time, the Islamic world has spread far and
wide. And the center of that was all in Baghdad. And Harun Rashid
is the big, the big relief of the entire piece of land, one of the
most powerful men of his time.
He goes to
hajj, he went to Madina, Munawwara and Maka Maka Rama so he went for
hajj when he got the
further ignore rabbit relates further ignore rabbit relates that
when he got the Haroon Rashid, he said to me, so further in the
rabbit, I think was local. So how do we know Rashid was with him
when he had come for Hajj and he said to me that could have
caffeine FC on Hacker phenom Setia. You know, I've got a I've
got some turbulence in my heart. You know, when you want to just
listen to something that's going to help you when when you feel a
bit troubled in your heart.
Is there somebody is one of the owner mahiya one of the Olia here
that I can speak to who can give me some benefits. So I said yes,
this Sofia and even Ariana is here, great Hadith scholar. He
says, Okay, let's go to him. So we came to him. And he says, I
knocked on the door. I said, Who is it? So I said, respond to the
Ameerul Momineen is here the leader of the Faithful is here. So
he quickly came out that the Khalifa was here, he quickly came
out and he said immediately meaning, if you had told me to
come to you, I would have come to you there was no need for you to
come to my house.
So Haroon Rashid said to him, Look,
give me a response to what I've come here for. So he spoke to him
for a while. And then how Rashid said to me and said to him, do you
have any debts to pay off? So he said, Yes, I have. So he told me
when she told me pay his debts off, you know, whatever debt he's
got on him paid off. And then we turned away. And the highroller
she said to me that I didn't benefit enough from from this
discussion. I didn't get what I wanted. So is there somebody else?
said yes, there's Abdul Razak is here. Abdullah Sheikh Abdul Razak
is here. Okay, let's go to him. Again. We went there knocked on
the door. And he came out in here the discussion with Harun Rashid,
and then how to finish it asked him the same question, you know,
because he's spoken to him is, you know, he's used this time. So he
says, Do you have any debt that I can pay off for you? This is just
one of their ways of helping people. Is that do you have a
debt? He said, Yes, I have says, okay, pay his debt off as well.
And then he said, again, I'm still troubled, I still am not. I'm not
fulfilled yet. I need somebody else to speak to.
Is there somebody else? He says, Well, this for the liberal elite,
as well. Remember for later, but yeah, there's no need to have
them. Right. You know, after he after he made Tober. He actually
went to Kufa and he studied there for a while he was in the
gatherings of Imam Abu Hanifa Rahim Allah as well. And he
studied there. And then after that, eventually he stayed in the
Haramain to do his worship. So he's there. Okay, let's go to him.
We came to him, and we found that we were told that he's in prayer,
he is making dua, and he's reciting an IRA, which is reading
over and over again. You could hear that from outside because in
those days, the houses weren't all that, you know, large and
whatever. I mean, he was probably inside the room. You could hear
him read. So
Haruna she said at least knock on the door. So I knocked on the
door. So when he finished or whatever he said, Who is it? So I
said, respond to the Ameerul Momineen is here Ameerul Momineen
is here. So then for they didn't know yet immediately, you know
what he said? He says, Melody, you were the immediate meaning what's
the minimum you got to do with me? You know, what have I got to do
that middle Momineen that's something beyond
I said, subhanAllah
Mr. Licata, and you're going to be, you're going to obey that
minimum, and he's come to you and you're like talking like this,
like what have I got to do with the middle mean? So he came down
from the top floor, or wherever he was, and he opened the door. But
then he was nighttime. He opened the door and then he quickly went
back into his room, and he put the lamp off.
You know, they had the probably the oil lamp, he put it off, so it
was all dark now. So now they're going into a door, he's responded
to the immediate meaning so he's obeyed them, but now he's gone in.
So the narrator, he says, we went in and we started going around
trying to feel about with our hands, what's going on where he
is, and
how to nourish his hand fell on him first. So he found out where
he was first. So immediately for the Illuminati out when he felt
the hand of Haroon Rashid the Khalifa on him, he said, Ya mean
Catherine, ma Alina ha in Nigeria, harden mean other villa. He said,
What a soft hand. He said
what a what a hand, how soft it is, if tomorrow it can be
protected from the punishment of Allah. That's how he started off.
And I thought to myself, the narrator is saying I'm saying to
myself, today it looks like he's going to give him straight talk
coming from a righteous heart. This is straight talk coming from
a righteous heart. Maybe this is what Haroon Rashid meets.
So Haroon Rashid said, Look, I've come to you for a particular
reason. May Allah have mercy on you? So for later, he started he
said, you know, Omar Omar Abdulaziz Rahim Allah when he
became the Hadith when he was put into the opposite position of
Khilafah. There's a long story of how he became fairly vague. It
became clear by accident, he wasn't supposed to be the next. He
was a governor of Madina, Munawwara based cousin who was
actually passed away, his children were too young. So then they
suggested that he become Khalif. So he became a lawyer by accident.
But when he became the Hadith, he called over three of the great
scholars of the time, salam, Abdullah, Abdullah, Abdullah
Ahmed,
Mohammed ImmunoCAP, and Raja Imnaha. He called these three
great people and he said to them, Look, I have just put been put in
this test, this is a test for me to be given the Khilafah to be
given authority. This is a massive test, right? For Ushiro Allah give
me some matura give me some give me some advice. So for the liberal
er is recounting this. And then he says, Look, Omar Abdullah Abdul
Aziz considered this to be a test. And you people, you and your
companions, you think this is a bounty that you are the Hadith.
You think it's a bounty. And then Salim said to him, that if you
want to be saved, then you need to be fasting from the dunya. And
your Iftar needs to be your death. Like you're not going to be
concerned for your dunya anymore. And that's why Omar Abdullah is
used as a place was a * before he became the Hadith. After
he became the Hadith, he dropped everything he dropped, everything
is a long story. Then Cobb ImmunoCAP, the second scholar said
to him, if you want to be saved from the punishment of Allah, then
look at the advice he gives him. He says, then the
older Muslims should be like fathers to you, like the way you
treat your father, the
the middle aged Muslims should be like brothers, and the younger
Muslims should be like children. So you should respect your father,
you should honor your brother, and you should have compassion on your
children. That's how you should deal with people. This is actually
really wonderful on the third scholar Raja Imnaha. He said, If
you want to be protected from the punishment of Allah, then you
should love for the muslimeen that which you love for yourself and
you should hate for the Muslims that which you hate for yourself.
And then after that, you can die and you'll have no problem
for the liberal er recounts the story to Haroon Rashid. And he
says to him, that
I have fear over you a great fear on the day that the feet will slip
on the Day of Judgment.
Do you have Ameerul Momineen Rahim Allah Allah may Allah have mercy
on you? Do you have such people who can give you these kinds of
advices
Do you also have people like this? Now, let me tell you something at
this point. Recently, I spoke to a very prominent individual. And
what he told me is I was asking him some questions about
why certain decisions are being taken by certain rulers of the
world in this current time, they look so crazy. The day they're
making mistake after mistake, but they're taking some really, really
crazy decisions, that doesn't seem rational in our mind. Why would
somebody do that? So he explained to me that look, what happens is
that when you are put in a place of authority, right, as a
responsible person, and you have a number of different departments,
you're heading all of these departments that you need to make
decisions in. Right? So now, your ministers or your advisors,
they're coming to you and saying, Look, this is what it is,
depending on what you know, whether the information is
accurate, not accurate, proper or not. They can tell you, whatever,
you don't have time to Google everything, you don't have time to
do your independent research. You're the main boss, you're
making the decisions. So they're coming, and you have to make
several decisions a day. And you don't have enough time to look at
this from a third person's perspective. You're too involved.
You're tunnel minded all you know, almost. So you're saying yes, yes.
Even if you have a good intention, you hardly have time to make your
salad you have we have time to even do exercise for yourself,
right? It's just too fast moving, even if you have a good decision,
it depends on what you're hearing, you have no time to think
otherwise. Right? Because you're so involved in it. This is this is
a genuine problem in everything. So
you know, you can take it as how you like, but this is a reality
that when you get stuck in something, then you don't you're
in the woods, you can't see from outside that hey, what's going on?
Let me take a better look, the effect that I'm having the
decision making? Are they really wise or not? You only seeing the
details surrounding you or what people want you to see. And that
gets even worse. May Allah subhanaw taala give the best to
our leaders. May Allah subhanho wa Taala guide them. And that's why
it's important that you know, people make dua for their leaders
because if they do good, then it's good for everybody. That's why
it's better to actually make dua for a leader than to make for an
individual because many people's lives are in the you know, and
their livelihood and the way they live. And they Islam and Iman is
in the hands of the leaders because Allah has put them in that
position. So he tells him this and mashallah Harun Rashid starts to
cry for for Bucka Bucka Bucka Bucka. And she didn't, he cried
intensely. Finally, somebody had said something to him to make him
crave. Hershey, are they in fact, at this point, he became
unconscious. So I, the narrator says, I started telling for the
moment and you know, you need to take it easy with the immediate
meaning. You've just made him things. So you know what he said?
He says, if not Robbie ductular, who under was hubback were arpha.
Kobe, Anna, you guys are killing him. You and your your friends are
killing him. And you're telling me to be compassionate with him? The
decisions you make. They're killing him and you're telling me
to be compassionate with him. Then, then, after he had fainted
for a while, he came back to consciousness. And he said,
Sidney, give me more. Tell me some more. Rahim Allah. So then he said
that
there was a he gave him some other nnessee. He talked about Omar
Abdullah Abdullah Aziz had been told about one of his governance,
some complaint had come about one of his governors. So he quickly
wrote a letter to his governor saying, oh my brother, I am
reminding you that you will have to spend these long nights among
the people of hellfire forever if you carry on like this. So be
careful that nothing turns you away from ALLAH SubhanA wa Tada.
And that become your last act that you do. When that Governor
received that letter. Immediately. He undertook a journey to come and
visit Omar Omar Abdulaziz so I'm gonna I'm gonna Abdulazeez quite
surprised. He said what is brought you here? He says, You've just
taken my heart up by the letter that you sent me. I will never go
back to that governorship until I meet with Allah. I will never take
up that responsibility. It's a tough responsibility. I don't want
to be the next king. I don't want to be the next Khalif. I tell you
that. Right. That's a massive responsibility. I don't want to be
the next prime minister. That's a big responsibility.
Haroon Rashid heard this and he began to cry even more, it says
then again Omar, Omar Abdullah sorry, how do you feel they'd have
no IELTS is Ameerul Momineen Abbas the uncle of the Prophet
sallallahu alayhi wa sallam came to him once
and the prophets of Allah and said to him that Imara to
be the leader is the cause of great loss and remorse on the Day
of Judgment. If you can avoid being an emir, then do so. And how
to Rashid started crying even more, right? How does she started
crying and he says, Tell me some more. So then four eight have not
yet said to him, Oh, beautiful faced one. You are the one who
Allah subhanho wa Taala is going to ask about all of the creation
on the Day of Judgment
week if you can protect this beautiful face of yours from the
Hellfire then do so?
Then do so. And if you can wake up in the morning, and you have no
hatred and enmity towards anybody from among your your subjects,
then that is the best thing because the Prophet sallallahu
alayhi wa sallam has said that whoever wakes up in the morning
and they've got hatred for somebody in their heart, they will
not receive the fragrance of paradise, how long it is, how
long?
How long she cried, continued to cry. And then he said to him,
finally he said, Have you got a debt on you? Do you owe anybody
money? Sorry, do you have a debt on you? So immediately for the
diviner er says, Yes, I do. I've got a debt to my Lord, which he
hasn't taken into account, which he hasn't taken me to account for.
And my distraction, it will be if he asks me about it, and it will
be my distract a distraction, if he scrutinizes it, and it will be
my distraction, if he doesn't tell me how to extract myself from it.
So how do we she said, I don't mean that kind of the debt. I
mean, do you owe anybody anything? So he says, My Lord has never told
me to do that, which means I don't take debts from people. Anyway, he
says,
give him a give him 1000 dinars.
Give him give him 1000 dinars. And he says go and spend this on your
family or go and use it to worship your Lord with he says Subhanallah
adieu Luca Allah Tariq Naja. Were under to coffee only be with me
hada
i I'm telling you about the I am telling you how to get away from
the hellfire and you are telling me about this. You're talking
about money while I'm telling you about the Hellfire while I'm
telling you how to save yourself. Suddenly McCullough Whoa, fuck,
may Allah keep you protected. May Allah give you Tofik and then
after they became silent, he wouldn't speak to us anymore. So
we left Haroon said, Abu Abbas, when you said to me generator,
that when you take me to somebody then take me to somebody like him.
This is the seydel Muslim, this is the leader of the Muslim, this is
the real leader of the Muslims, this is where you should take me
to after we left his his wife for DataBlock rial his wife must have
come in because she was hearing all of this. And she said to her
husband, that
you know what kind of what kind of trouble we're in, we don't have
any money, you should have taken the money you gave the money to
you. Were hearing this from outside.
So he said to her that in the method your method or Concur
method he called me loan but you don't yet kulula mean QSP for them
Kabara na Rufer, Kuru LACMA,
that, you know, our example my example, your example is like
this, that is like a group of people who use this camel for all
of its life. And they do it, they rent it out and so on. And they
benefit from its earnings. And when it gets old, and they
sacrifice that come on, and they eat his meat. That's that's how
your example is basically saying that all this time, we've stayed
away from this. And that's how it's benefited us. Now that we're
all now you want to do this? How do we heard this from outside? He
says, quick, let's go inside. Maybe he will accept the money
from us now. Right? Because maybe his wife has soften him out. When
for they'd heard about this. He went and sat somewhere how to help
him she went back in and he sat next to him. And they he was
speaking to him, but for DataNode would not respond to him. And then
suddenly, there was this
a servant or slave girl came out and she said, she said to the
immediate moment and she I don't know if she knew who he was or not
said Yeah, Heather got called Data shake Amanda Leila, you've been
troubling the shake all night. Fun safe. Now not leave. So then we
left Subhanallah Subhanallah this is
this just tells us as one of what I'm most amazed about by this
story is where he started now is understandable if he had come from
this great, you know, scholarly family and so on. So yes, his
father was a mashallah righteous person. And I have no doubt that
it was his daughters that brought him back. Like I got no doubt
about that, because I've seen this happen so much. I've seen children
and their fathers righteous, but somehow they've gone off track and
the father or the mother they make a lot of dough.
Ah, I've seen people like they've seen a guy who used to drink. And
now he's a great scholar. And many people love him. And in his
university days, his friends tell me that he was drinking in
university. And he's a big scholar right now. Right? And I've seen
his father and the DUA he probably makes. So don't ever stop doing
the art for people, especially for your children. Even if they go off
track, they may go off track for four or five years or whatever,
but inshallah they will come back. If you've given them a good
upbringing, then that is very important. We must give our
children a good upbringing, regardless of the situation. We
may make mistakes but inshallah Allah forgive us our mistakes. But
the main thing is that regardless of our situation, as I mentioned
before, we have we're not robbing people in Sharla. We're doing any
since these other weird weakness sins, and Inshallah, if Allah
wants to forgive us and shoot us up somewhere to some other state,
that's absolutely possible. And I believe in here, there are huge,
huge amount of advices that inshallah we can ponder over
saying any more than this would be just too much to take in for one
day or one night anyway. May Allah subhanaw taala give us a Tofik May
Allah reward you for sitting here. And may Allah make this a
beneficial gathering, one of great benefit, and Giacomo Allah. Hi,
Ron, welcome to that one. And under the law here or below the
mean, I have really one because that is beginning of guidance, and
it's beneficial. However, some of it is difficult to practice is his
advice where it takes to get to gender without punishment. I think
I mentioned this earlier, in the previous talk that if you do read
the manga, this book, it's hugely beneficial. Imam Hassan is
beginning of guidance, but it's a bit over ambitious, compared to
our states. He wants you to just be worshiping Allah all day,
right? So while there's beautiful advice that we can benefit from
what to do at this time, what to do at this time, but when he gives
you permission, even to go for work, he says, he qualifies, he
says, if you've got no other way to earn money, and you need to
survive, and you got people dependent on you, and so on, then
between this time and this time, you can call and work, otherwise,
you must spend the rest of the time in worship. Now that's heavy,
right? That's too heavy. And I'll tell you that right now, it's too
heavy, many roadmaps that this is a bit too heavy. He wrote that
towards the that was one of the last books he wrote. And by that
time, he had this huge mystical experiences. And, you know, he was
writing it in a very elevated state of spirituality. So don't
you don't need to take his word for words, right? Because a lot of
it is advice and guidance, take whatever you can and fit into your
fit into your schedule. That's, that's the way I would tell you to
read it. And that's not the only way to Jannah
Allah subhanaw taala in sha Allah, if you do the best that you can
do, then Allah will give you Jana in sha Allah. Right? That's the
main thing. So don't think that if you can't do what Imam Ghazali
tells you to do? If you can't, then it means pretty much the
majority of Muslims and I in trouble, because I don't think
that majority of Muslim can do what he's telling us to do. So,
yes, let that be very clear. How can we become more spiritual? What
is the first step to 100? controlling the tongue? What
should we do? Again, I've explained this before. Number one,
you can't even start getting closer to Allah. You know, the
club of wellies, the wedding club, that will be the key, the just the
membership is that you must fulfill the obligations, and you
must avoid the harms as much as possible. So try to don't miss
your prayer, your five daily prayers, forget the 100 right now,
your five daily prayers, they speak about that first, you can't
miss those. If you do make make cover as soon as possible. And if
you already have some days or weeks or years of cover, make up
an estimate of how much and get those done. Slowly, slowly, even
if you've got three years of color. I know people with many,
many years of color and they've been doing it and some people have
completed it. It's not difficult. How to seek forgiveness for
backbiting. Backbiting, is one of those really strange ones. If the
person you backbiting against knows that you have backbiting
him, then you must go and ask him for forgiveness?
If they don't know, then many orlimar say that don't go and tell
him hey, you know what, I biked it, backbiting about you. Please
forgive me. Because imagine you don't know anything. And somebody
comes in and say I was backbiting you, what are you gonna say to
them?
What are you gonna say to them?
You're gonna say, Hey, what did you say? Who did you say to? Why
did you say it's gonna, it's gonna cause a bigger problem. So if
somebody doesn't know that you've backed by to them, then don't say
anything to them. Make lots and lots of dua for them, and make so
much to offer them that you tell Allah Oh Allah, I don't want to
make it worse now. But you have the ability to change, you know,
to have him forgive me. So please have him forgive me on the day of
judgment. And if you're sincere that Allah subhanaw taala will
help you.
So you ask Allah for forgiveness, but you must ask the person for
forgiveness as well if you can
In the case that they know especially