Abdur Rahman ibn Yusuf Mangera – Imam Sha’rani’s Code of Companionship Series Be a True Faqir
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It is incumbent on you to be in the company of
the choices of people the best of people in Arata Rafi to come down,
if you want relaxation and comfort in that life, then it is important
that you take the company are righteous people in this world.
One Two has been vulnerable Ashura will come in with kill Alia and
number two is that don't always hold bad opinions about people.
Abstain from always bad judgments of people. It's better that you
err on the side of caution in that regard.
hamdu Lillahi Rabbil Alameen wa Salatu was Salam wildermuth
Ramadan the lion Amina whiner earlier he also asked me who you
are though, like I was so limitlessly when you come here on
Elijah with the bird under Allah Allah subhanaw taala gave us Tofik
to cover quite a number of narrations and Hadith Rasulullah
sallallahu alayhi wa sallam with regards to the importance of
loving one another for the sake of Allah subhanho wa Taala to make
that one of our highest motivations in our life, to love
somebody or to hate somebody purely for the sake of Allah
subhanho wa Taala not for personal reasons. Now today, we're going to
look at a few statements of some of our highest predecessors, some
of the famous people of the past, whose words hold a lot of
significance because they are people who generally live for the
sake of Allah subhana wa Tada. So when they have made an
observation, then it really helps us to put this idea in
perspective, it gives us some idea of how to practically
how to practically
start to practice loving people for the sake of Allah subhanaw
taala how that's done. So the first one is from Hassan Al
bacillary Rahim Allah, one of the greatest of the self Salah him. It
says about Hassan bossy Rahim Allah that
he he was he's one of the greatest of the tambourine Gratzer hidden
worshiper. He is known for his straightforward remarks, his
eloquence, his beauty, in his speech, effective speech. And they
say that, if there was anybody from this ummah, whose speeches
were like that of Prophets, then it would be him. And one of the
wonderful things about him was that he was brought up in the
house of one of the Omaha mumineen.
One of the wives of Rasulullah sallallahu sallam, he saw many of
the Sahaba and then he saw people after them he saw the changing of
times, and he used to speak very much about that. So has embassy
Rahmatullahi Allah says khulumani Thurber, Atari Jota. RTL happy
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fucka anima I have Billa I have Allah azza wa jal.
Now you can tell that this is putting those Hadith that we read
into practice. So what he says is that
anybody who is adherent, who is following the path of obedience to
Allah subhanaw taala
then it is necessary for us to love that person.
Anybody who makes it their primary goal in life, you generally see
their general actions,
the general behavior, speech and perspective about being obedient
to Allah subhana wa Tada. I mean, that's a distinction. There's some
people who either are generally obedient or not, there's some
people who are average the obedience and there's the other
people who you see make a greater efforts, both in terms of their
thought, their speech, their clothing, their behavior, and
everything else to try to make it as soon as possible and obedient
to Allah subhanaw taala as possible. If you see a person like
that, the more the more a person is like that. Lizzie Metka
Muhammad who is necessary for you to love him,
because he gives a reason for that woman I have bargiel And Saudi has
anybody who loves a pious individual for kirtan Namaha Allah
Azza wa Jalla then it is as though he's loved Allah subhanho wa Taala
there is no reason for you to love this individual for his piety,
except that you love him for the sake of Allah subhanaw taala Why
would you love a pious person? You genuinely love pious people
because they generally tend to be more independent, self enriching,
and not worried about what you have. They don't care about what
you do, meaning that they're not greedy for what's in your hands.
They're generally focused on the Lord. So you have to love those
people for the sake of Allah subhanaw taala anyway.
Imam Shafi Rahim Allah he says Lola Sahaba Tula here what we're
not too happy to either build us how to back
Harvey Harvey hit da imam Shafi was known to be a bit of a poet as
well. So in this one he says, if it wasn't for the sake of
accompanying elect righteous people,
you know, the highly dignified righteous people if I couldn't get
their company, if it wasn't for the company, that's in terms of
people, and for intimately discussing with Allah subhanho wa
Taala at in the last portions of the night, doing your tahajjud and
your dua to Allah subhanaw taala those two things, then I would not
have desired I would not have loved to live in this world. If
these two things were not open to me, I don't see what life is all
about them. And it's very comprehensive statement. One is
your connection with Allah, which is the highest manifestation of
that is sad time. That's the whole time and now Masha Allah Allah has
given us the opportunity during the month of Ramadan, that we are
awake at that time anyway, when we're generally not awake it's
very difficult to do the hygiene and due to our to Allah subhanaw
taala at any other time, during the year, it's only the very
elector get to do that. But at least during this time when we're
awake anyway. And especially if you follow the 18th degree
timetable, your mashallah your your future is performed with
possibly performed with the wudu of Eurasia, which is another
Subhanallah sign of the great people of the past. Right. So if
you're doing your Saturday at 115 120, or whatever time it is,
then your whole night is spent in a bother because you do taraweeh
go home, you do a bit more Quran reason to protect yourself for
about an hour. And in that time, you do some damage. And you have
your soul which is part of the bother because Sir Who is also is
also sunnah, so your whole night is spent in worship, and your
future can be performed with the widow of Eurasia Subhanallah you
can also say that I spent a month with performing my
fajr with the widow of Marcia, if that holds any, any benefits, if
that holds any value to Allah subhanaw taala and I'm sure it
certainly does if you do it with sincerity. But anyway, if it
wasn't for these things, one is the whispering intimate discourse
conversation with ALLAH SubhanA wa Tada and sitting with good people,
when you're not with Allah, then you're sitting with good people,
then what is the point of life?
If Allah can give us those two bounties? What a wonderful life
that would be what a wonderful life that would be. May Allah
accept it for all of us. May Allah accept it for all of us. And he
also said Imam Shafi would also say the common one lately I did
were in the shade. Meeting with brothers, it means brothers, he
means good brothers. So says meeting with good righteous
brothers. There's nothing that can compare with that in my sights.
Because the benefit that you get from sitting with good people, a
lot of the time, it's much more difficult for people to benefit by
reading a book or just by themselves. When you sit in the
company of others, we benefit through induction.
You don't see anything transferring but it's by
induction. The price Allah mentioned is that a person who
sits in the company of the pious is the best of people who sit in a
company and if you sit with evil people, then that's a worse
because you will be effected.
Nowadays, we have induction cookers, I mean, they don't feel
hot on the surface, you put a pan on them, they get hot, you
understand these kinds of things. Now, in the in the dean, this
concept of the Evil Eye align, and that's a hug, and that's in the
Hadith, then cannot a good I also be valid. If people can affect you
with an evil eye out of jealousy or whatever the case is, then
people with a good heart and not an evil hearts. Can they not
benefit us from just being in their company like that? Isn't
that how people were benefiting in the in the company of Rasulullah
sallallahu alayhi salam. So this whole book is about this kind of
companionship. Anyway, we'll totally ignore Abdullah Shaheed,
who was one of the another great one of the services otaku, Armani
in the hookbaits, gradually solid, how can you say something like
that? How can you say something like that if it didn't hold so
much meaning this is one of the very pious individuals of the
past. He's saying that out of all my actions that I have, the one
that I have the most trust in,
most faith in that's going to get me somewhere
is my love for pious people.
My love for pious people holds the greatest source of promise for me.
How is that possible? What about my salah? What about my fasting
and all of these things? Well, because there's a certain benefit
when you find the right company. Unfortunately, this is what we
miss the right company, there's a certain benefit that you get the
motivation that you get during that time.
It's much easier than the thoughts that will come if you're sorry.
lat is improper.
Abu Nasr Bishal haffi he mentions Rahim Allah he says that it can be
so battle fer.
It is incumbent on you to be in the company of
the choices to people the best of people. In Arata, Rohit Avital
come down, if you want relaxation and comfort in that life,
then it is important that you take the company or righteous people in
this world, one to hasin, Veronica will Ashura with Infocomm, in
repeal of VR. And number two is that don't always hold bad
opinions about people. Abstain from always bad judgments of
people, it's better that you err on the side of caution in that
regard. And another thing is, you free yourself from the captivity
of others. So you don't become the slave of others. You're only the
slave of Allah subhanho wa taala. Becoming the slave of others is
what most people are not leaders. Most people do not lead most
people follow. This is the general understanding of people, the
general behavior of people, most people follow others. What happens
is, when you make somebody when you become so dependent on
somebody as a friend, he wants to do something you don't want to do
it, you will be forced to go along.
Especially if there was friends or not good, then it's then it's
really bad. Of course, if you're it's all about good friendship, if
it's good friendship, Hello, come on. Let's go for prayer brothers.
Come on, let's go out in the path of a let's go for camera. Let's
prepare this, let's do this good deed. Let's go and help a few
people here and there is going to do some relief work. Those are
good people, they're going to come with good ideas. But if you're
with bad people, they're going to come up with bad ideas you got
they can't help it. That's what they do. It's your choice to be
with them or not. Now if you become totally captive of
somebody, then you have to follow them. And the only person you
should be a captive of because that's our reality is a slave of
Allah subhanaw taala.
Say the Ahmed ignore referring Rahim Allah he mentioned, one
thing I want to say about a bonus of Vishal haffi, who mentioned
this statement is that he was his his origin is from Marvel. Marvel
is a city now called Mary or Mary or something like that. It's an
it's a very famous city in Turkmenistan today. Next, it was
Becky Stan. But this was a great place model was a great place. The
model was these came from that it was a place of scholarship of
great Hadith scholarship, and great or other marking from this
place. So he was originally for more, but he had moved to Baghdad,
as many scholars and moved to Baghdad. Baghdad was that great
city that attracted a lot of visitors and people who settled
there. He died there in 227. So you can imagine he was much early
push, he mentioned that the way he came to close to Allah subhanho wa
Taala is that he wasn't very, he wasn't such a righteous, you know,
practicing person in the beginning. But what happened is
once as he was walking along, if you're walking along the streets,
and suddenly, you see half a page of the Quran, you know, the
children, they've just finished their medicine, and they leave.
And sometimes their pages aren't, you know, they turn on everything
and they they drop them, they don't care, they care less about
these things. You saw a piece of paper that had the name of Allah
subhana wa Tada on it. Right, whether it's a flyer or whatever
it may be, I mean, a Quranic P page, half a page, everybody's
going to notice that. But then there's all of these other flyers
that people put out there and they just go all over the place. And a
lot of time we disregard this stuff and we just throw it away as
well. But this person, Bishop haffi, he saw this piece of paper
with the name of Allah subhanho wa Taala on it.
And there were people walking over it. It was people were being
careless. He picked it up. He perfumed it like he really
evaluated as though this is something very important for him.
And he put it somewhere very on the side of a shelf, or in some
cupboard of his and it was then he heard somebody saying to him,
yeah, Bishop by Yep, the SP by Yep, the izmi Lakota uban is
McAfee dunya. Well Acura, as though the word is coming from
Allah subhanaw taala that you ennobled my name? You treat it
with grace by doing what you did. So I will honor your name. I will
honor your name in the dunya and the archaea.
So then he becomes a great,
great Tsar head and he's known for his dissolution from the dunya and
once his sister,
Imam Muhammad, so he passed away in 220
I mean, Mr. Muhammad passes away in 241. He was very close. So Mr.
Muhammad no humble once his sister asked him and Muhammad him no
humble Rahim Allah, that
we, we've, they used to do weaving we weave on our roofs.
Sometimes what happens is
the possession goes past of a royal possession of one of the
dignitaries or something like that. And it comes with all the
lights and everything. In those days we didn't have this kind of
lighting system as we have outside, we'll just looks like day
and night is the same thing. But in those days, night was night,
there was no light pollution. So when a convoy would go pass,
slowly, slowly, there would be light that would come from that.
And he says that its light comes upon our roof. Now, they will
obviously stop weaving because you need to look when you're weaving.
But when this light comes there, can we use that light? And can we
weave in that light? Now does that even that question, does it even
occur to us? Or does it sound absurd to us? Right? So Imam
Muhammad was Imam Muhammad. He says, Who are you? Alpha Killa?
You know, sometimes we receive a lot of questions people call you
people email you. Most of the time, we just leave it anonymous,
we got no time to ask where you're calling from Who are you know,
time for that? Right. But sometimes it's a very interesting
question. It kind of indicates the honor of somebody or something
like that. It's unusual. So say, who are you? And so he asked my
auntie Alfa Kyla, who are you? May Allah subhanaw taala give you will
be. She says I'm booked Bishop haffi. I'm the sister of Bishop
and haffi, the same individual we spoke about. So Imam Muhammad
began to weep. And he said, mean Beatty come? Yeah, hold your
water, a sodic. It's only from your household that such
scrupulousness can come out only from your house, from your
household from your family. Can this kind of scrupulous
questioning come that you're so particular about asking these
things? Lattanzi levy sure I know you don't. Don't use that light to
weave. Because it's not right for you, in your status, your status
over not wanting to use anybody's else's source for your benefits.
For us. It's helpful, because it's there. It's there. It's expected
that people will benefit from that. But for her, he said no, you
can't use it because the standard that you want you This is better
for you not to use that so you have a higher level of Taqwa. So
people are different. And you have to deal with people differently.
You can't give everybody the same fatwa.
That's why email Muhammad no humble. I think I mentioned this
here some time before. Imam Muhammad did not humble once
ordered some butter or some ghee, some clarified butter from the
markets. And it came it was delivered to him in a Leaf. Leaf.
Disposable just like today, I mean, leaves are probably more
disposable. Right then disposables today, which we have Subhanallah
Mr. Mohammed took the clarified butter of it, and he sent the leaf
back. And he said, It's okay for you. But this is just important
for me because I ordered the product and not the leaf with it,
who was just sent as a carrier, so I need to send him
these things. We're seeing quite significant for a lot of people
before today, because of a lot of these disposals, even our rights
of others become disposable. Because we're just so used to
disposability and there's just too much abundance around us. And when
you have abundance around you, you become careless.
So it's about a mindset.
See the AMA live no referring Rahim Allah he says messiah will
saw habit to early Taqwa
Association,
Association and companionship of the people of Taqwa near Mattoon.
Alima to minyama Allah Allah Allah land is one of the greatest
bounties that you can have of Allah subhanho wa Taala on his
servants, if you can get that. See this is all nice in theory. Let's
ask Allah to give us good company.
There are good people out there a good person is the one you will
benefit from his flock and from his character. You will learn
something will make you feel guilty and make you reflect.
That's the person who is of benefits. It will make you
reflect. The person doesn't have to be overtly pious, but sometimes
good character we learn from people the way they do things,
their generosity, their scrupulousness their thought for
others
their hearts,
just their feeling of love. All of these things we learn from these
things. And the more we can have these kinds of people in our midst
and benefit from them, the more the benefit there is. This is a
bit of a strange one episode if not a bit, Asha Rahim. Allah says,
Whoever wants to be given
a really important distinctive position on the Day of Judgment,
then he should accompany people for the sake of Allah.
That should be his motivation. And whoever wants, that the bitterness
and the difficulty and the terror of the standing on the day of
judgment be averted from him, then he should
be a bit of a strange when he should feed a brother of his for
the sake of Allah subhanho wa Taala something sweet.
Now, how does that How do you put that in perspective, his opinion,
maybe by feeding somebody something sweets, if people are
if you're feeding somebody something sweets, then maybe you
will make them satisfied and happy and then make dua for you. So that
could be one reason.
Another Hadith mentions that Manoir thought I mean, Alicia
Horton who fear Allah Who, wherever fulfills the needs a
desire, some kind of desire that a person have whoever fulfills that
he will be forgiven. About I will serve, I will assure him, I
mentioned that he was one of the great scholars of Egypt,
originally Iraqi. But you see, Egypt has also had its time, like
Baghdad had its time and people were moving there to benefit from
all the academics and the great people and the piety and
everything. Likewise, Cairo had its great time as well. Damascus
had its time as well. So you have these different cities that have
their time. They become very prominent for a number of
individuals that Allah subhanaw taala brings up in these places.
So he was originally Iraqi. But he became one of the great scholars
of
Egypt. It says that the Sultan used to come to visit him, the
Sultan used to come to visit him, the King, the ruler, and
the Sultan used to stay in his company as far as he could. A lot
of people benefited from him. Sheikh Khalifa al Rahim Allah he
says, he says that,
for even an iota of the of love for Allah subhanho wa taala, don't
equate, don't sell that for as many deeds as you can, because
that's very, very valuable. shakable my Wahiba Shafi he
mentioned that it is an incumbent upon you to abundantly interacts
with the choices of people, the best of people, because anybody
who increases the number of choices, which means that who goes
and stays with them and increases the the number he's he's going to
be, he's going to be considered to be part of them. So it's the same
thing that when you love the people, you interact with them
more, you will be considered to be one of them. He also said, Now,
this is a very important one. If you see in your heart
more often and more that the URL hack. If you see that you have an
aversion from the people of truth, you don't feel good in their
company, you don't feel good in their company, you feel like a
fish out of water.
You just don't feel right. The owner is talking about the
hereafter. That's what he's saying.
He doesn't, he doesn't understand he's always talking about the
hereafter.
Then know that you have been
repelled from the Door of Allah.
Because these are the people of Allah, if you don't like them,
then you've got to people, you've got a problem. Now, not everybody
who claims to be a person of Allah is a person of Allah. Right? Not
everybody who claims to be pious is pious. There are people who are
very bad character, but they may be the biggest in terms of solids
and correcting people. But they may not
mean these are people who have been what I mean, how do you tell
if somebody is really pious or not? We don't really have much
choice except to go by the way, generally people and especially
Olimar consider others.
You know, how do you know a doctor is good every doctor can give you
a prescription. But when you know that there's other specialists who
also regard this particular one to be of some high status, that you
know that he's really a good doctor because other doctors also
consulting. So when you've got when you've got an individual who
is respected by other people, like you know other people who are
righteous as well, then you know that there's a guarantee there,
because at the end of the day, the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa
sallam said, A janazah passed by a funeral pass by and the prophets
of Allah Islam heard that the Sahaba days
They praised this individual who was in that janazah was such a
good person. And the professionalism said, whatever it
was, yeah, but
then another funeral passed by sometime later. And they said bad
things about the person and he said, watch a bit watch of it.
Which means
essentially saying what you've said has become necessary. Sure,
sure. Definitely, definitely. And then the Prophet sallallahu sallam
said,
and took shahada with Allah, he fell out. You are the witnesses
for Allah in the earth.
Generally speaking, generally speaking, but obviously this
matters in terms of piety. If people just respect revere honor
somebody for dancing, like if you look on Twitter, some of the most
popular accounts are of the celebrities of that nature. But
that's a different kind of, that's a different kind of liking. It's
not for piety reasons. That's just knifes reasons that make you feel
good in the world. But it doesn't have a long term bearing. They
only make you feel good now, because they have a good voice.
They look young and sexy right now. But as soon as that goes,
then it'll be gone. Sorry for that word. I know it woke you up.
But that's basically what it is. It's all about that today, isn't
it?
The more they flaunt themselves, and they have to come up with
different ideas, to keep the rankings to keep the attention and
Subhanallah it just the shaytan just takes over. shutdowns always
been there. And he says something else which is going to need some
explanation, he says that it can be soft metal Fukada.
If I was to literally translate this, it means that it is
incumbent on you to keep the company of the poor. But that's
because the word Fukada has been used for poor that's why
we use this term but the word faqeer means somebody in need
somebody dependents and the 14 here is the one dependent on Allah
subhana wa Tada only dependent on Allah. So there's a lot of
discussion among the in the books of the pious and so on when they
describe somebody described as the fuckin for kill for Allah, the One
who just wants to be dependent on Allah subhanaw taala the one who's
spiritually dependent on Allah subhanaw taala. So it's not about
pouring while they could be the wealthiest person, but they are
they want to be spiritually dependent on everything on Allah
subhana wa Tada. So that's what we're speaking about the full
Cara, a group of the choices and most elect people of piety. It
says you need to have the accompany, because if it was only
that they will take your hand on the day of judgment and help you
that would suffice.
Again, the stuff shafa intercession, because, see,
there's, the scholars say that if you want to learn from somebody,
then who should you ask, says, Ask a pious person, because a pious
person because of his reliance in Allah subhanaw taala. If he's got
the money, he'll give it to you.
If he doesn't have the money, he'll make dua for you.
But he won't humiliate you at least. Whereas if you go to
somebody who is not pious, who's got money, your chances are, you
know, it just depends on whether it's a good day or a bad day.
Right, and you're fortunate with Allah subhanaw taala on that day,
but at least you will be safe with the pious, you won't have
humiliation, at least you will be degraded. So he's saying that if
the only thing that they can do is to actually take your hand on the
Day of Judgment, despite the fact that they helped so many people in
this dunya in their calamities and so on, anyway, right, that would
that would be sufficient.
He says, How many poor people have been alleviated of their poverty,
because of staying with such people, how many broken people
have been fixed and given endurance because of such people?
How many lowly people have been given honor, because of staying
with such people, they can honor.
They may not be from a good family or a good tribe, but because of
piety, they will gain their respect among people. How many
ugly and despicable people have been covered up because of the
good that they've changed their life to afterwards? This is the
state with most of us, how many oppressors would be destroyed
through them? And how many complaints would reach Allah
subhanaw taala through them? Sheikh Suleiman will hold ad says
whoever intends
that he be given abundant goodness in this world and in the
Hereafter, then he should keep the company of the people have visuals
or hidden maraca. People have visuals who are careful about what
they do. There's a general meaning of balaclava. Say the alien who
was one of the main teachers and guides
of the author. He relates from him. He says, Whoever wants his
Iman to be complete, and his opinion about Allah subhanaw taala
to become good, you know, to have the best opinion about Allah
subhanho wa Taala and our approach to Allah being excellent, then he
should stay with the good people. Now I'm going to move on to the
next section,
which tells us
and
this is going to tell us about the rights of brotherhood. This
doesn't just apply to pious people, it applies throughout, if
you want good brotherhood, good companionship, and you want to
benefit from that. Then take the first step. After listening to all
of this, we may be saying
Where am I going to find the righteous person?
Well, start from yourself.
You will be the pious companion and you will find pious
companions. So, Imam Shalini. He mentioned a number of them.
He mentioned the number of them
from his experience. He mentioned over 60 All of them have a source
in the Quran and Sunnah. There are some Hadith to this effect, what
is the right of one brother over another brother? Meaning what is
the right of one Muslim over another Muslim? The professor
hasn't mentioned a few specifically like that, while
others are understood. So the few that he mentioned specifically,
there's one related by Imam Muslim and Imam Muhammad and Imam Bukhari
in Allah the other will move from Abu Huraira the Allah on release
Rasulullah sallallahu sallam said, How could a Muslim a Muslim is
septum seven rights that a Muslim has over another Muslim?
What is What are the hours well Allah says what is that if you
meet him you should say salaam
I told you yesterday the benefits of salaam wherever you are in the
world. It creates that bond
gives a sense of security so to a certain degree and brings the
heart closer to Allah subhanaw taala and closer to one another.
So when you meet your brother say salaam
either the Agatha gebouw if he invites you to food or something
else, answer it, except as far as you can. Either stanza hackathon
sadhana asks you for advice or counsel or guidance, give him that
guidance.
And if he sneezes, then praise Allah, you know, Alhamdulillah
Alhamdulillah, we have that that's also a hug.
If he sneezes, you should do that. It's part of the right what either
Marilla Pharaoh do, if he's sick, then visit them, whatever matter
for debate. And if he dies, then follow his funeral, his Janaza
hamdulillah within Muslims, we do this to a certain degree, but the
one who does this more is going to fulfill more rights. So based on
that, the first one he says minhang He says Ella Wafaa con la
IACA Ilana your head, he says May Allah enable me and you to do
those things that he loves? Know that the Rococo Sahaba de Kathira
if you want good companionship and you want to fulfill the rights of
your companionship with your friends and your brothers that you
have, there are many because we all have some friends. We may not
they may not be the best friends that we would like, but we all
have friends and associates.
So what's our risk? Are we always looking at what others can do for
us? Let's look now at what we can do for others. So that's what this
is all about. Now, how can we improve ourselves and our
character towards our friends so that our friends can rejoice in
the fact that we they have good friends and hopefully they can
become good friends and Allah would give us more good friends
because like attracts like, so we have to improve ourselves and we
start seeing the good in others as well inshallah. So the first thing
he says is he says that these are these are North Korea like a
Joomla to help walk into the lab with them and having particular
issues that you will Mahabharata once going to mention to you a
number of the rights that are necessary for living with others
for you know for spending life with others for mixing with
others, while I'm Aidan under Masha it could have to Alan at
night it'd be helpful in f1 says the amount of the pastor machete
they have encouraged very strongly fulfilling the rights of your
brothers were called woman the year one and they have said that
anybody who violates one of the rights of their brothers if Tala
hula with the ANA be told the Iraqi Allah subhanaw taala will
also put a calamity on them
and he will test them by their rights also being violated. we
violate
Other people's rights, our own rights will be violated by others.
This is the nature of the world. This is the quantum mechanics of
this world. In terms of spirituality, you do good to
others who come back to you.
You do evil to others, one day you will come back you may be
successful for an Bolden successful for for few years. But
eventually when it comes to able to destroy,
Allah may leave a person for a while, and he may get away with
his oppression on others, violating rights of others
stealing from others. But when it comes back, it will be very hard.
And that's generally what's being seen. You see, give up, you know,
give those kinds of people have fears where they feel untouchable,
and you can't do anything, because they've got themselves covered for
whatever reason. Right? They will, unless they make some serious Toba
and recant and go back and forgive again, forgiveness, it will always
come down. I mean, look at look at the leaders of the of the world,
they're 70 years old, 75 years old, and that's when they become
humiliated. They take an off and put on the trials and everything
like that. Some get away with it, they have worked in the hereafter
they've done something good or something like that. But some of
them Subhan Allah, they get humiliated at the end.
Allah protect us. Well either tell Allah Who are the methodical
marketer who and when Allah subhanaw taala does then test
somebody and see somebody for that. He big, he then dislikes
them, he has his wrath on them. And when Allah subhanaw taala has
his wrath on somebody perahu Vietnam, he throws him into the
hellfire. So when you know this, now, he says, For uku I say we
like Tofik and Allah is the divine enabler. minhag kill Ali Al, a yet
our alma mater, and who Ubay he mentioned this first.
One of the first rights that you have over a friend of yours is
that you should feign blindness from his defects, you should be
pretend, even if you notice it, you should pretend to be blind of
his defense. Now, you know, this is like the alchemy of happiness.
This is the alchemy of happiness. The reason is that everybody's got
a defense, every single person has a defect except the prophets.
They're the only ones who had an equilibrium. Everybody else has a
problem. You just don't notice people's defect straightaway.
You'll notice it. Some defects they carry out, they carry them on
their sleeves, because they just got too many problems. Some have
less problems, but everybody has a problem. Even the biggest scholar
of the time as a problem will have a problem. And all he's doing is
he's trying to help us manage that.
He's helped. He's telling us to help us manage that. That's why
there's people who say that, you know,
it's easy to become a fan of somebody when they're doing all
the great things. But it's when they run into some trouble. Are
you still there fan?
Now, the worldly fans, they don't work like them today. But if you
take that in terms of righteous people, individuals, they can make
a mistake sometime. Are you so fickle that you're going to just
drop them?
You know, and that's it, you're going to start going against them.
This is what people do is one big scholar who used to visit our
masjid. And mashallah, his lectures after Turabian so when
used to attract a lot of people from far and wide. So obviously
whenever that happens, and people will come up to you and say, Why
don't you move here?
So, I mean, for those who are Gujarati will understand this,
maybe those who don't understand ODU might understand this, but he
says, is his beloved atomic Yakubu, horrible carapace
Mahabharata.
Which means first you will say bajada ciabatta Cha
bourbon Jaga Salah you know, Salah is a good word really but it just
becomes like a bad word. So that means your brother in law but for
some reason brother in laws, I don't know what's wrong with
brother in laws, but they use that word for like a derogatory term
eventually, like you know for a bad person like you know,
admonishing term. So it's like you know, first it will be nice nice
and then after I will be brotherly maiden sound right in English
doesn't.
But anyway, you got the point. So,
once you stay with somebody, the novelty wears off. And then after
that, you start noticing their defects and then you start shaytan
wants you to speak about them. That's the problem. So he says,
we're only going to do this one today. We'll carry on insha Allah
the in the next session, but he says the first thing is just feign
blindness, just pretend you're blind just just don't see it. That
effects because some of the other might have said that Menara ILA
Are you bidness con Lana through who were horrible, our Haribo
konbu gets any
But he who keeps his focus on the defects of people that there's
going to be no benefit is going to get because that defect is going
to become a problem in between.
So although you could be benefiting from somebody, but
because of the Divi is going to keep bothering you, this is the
way humans work is going to keep bothering you. It's going to spoil
the satisfaction that you will get from the benefit of friendship
that you have with this person.
Especially if that defeat it's got nothing to do with you. It's not
affecting you What is it the defect is that he's a con man.
He's taking you for a ride, you know, clearly you need to see
that. The Sharia doesn't want you to be blind to that. Because the
province of Assam said A believer is not stung from the same hole
twice. But something that's not going to something that he does
really twitches his face once in a while. Right? He has this weird
way of eating loudly, or something like that. Or gobbling up food or
eating too much, or eating too much meat. Like, what's the
problem with that you guys are thinking, right? Everybody does
that? You say?
Yeah, it's similar to eat less meat. By the way. A magazine he
says that if you eat meat for 40 days, your heart will be your
heart will become hard.
And studies show that as well anyway, but try to decrease the
meat have a few meat free days in a week. If not just one.
Like no meat on that day. Don't even put it a few pieces in
something else. Just two flavors. Meat has an addiction than
previously it was mentioned in a hadith. It has a.or an addiction.
Ramadan is a time when these things can happen. Because you
only have to worry about a few hours then after that the next
day, if you can pull it off. One day, the women who are listening
at home, let's do a meat free day.
Stew a meat free day. And I don't know why I got into that subject.
It's just a general tip. All right, General will be anyway. He
says that when you have this problem, then your benefit from
that person will decrease and the huts will become Desilets you
won't have the same feeling. We'll call with our eight origin walk
Columbia Ubinas hurry on behalf of Adam one now called Mookie Robbie,
when you see a person who has like taken guarantee of knowing the
defects of everybody who is well aware of everybody's defects, he
is like, your gossip person or whatever it is and he knows
everybody's defect, then know that
he has been deceived. There is a bad plan for him from the shaper
and he's not a good person. Well call Lumina Allah Murthy synergy
lab not Rufio up nurse where am I? Why are you being upset? He is
part of STD Raj is part of Allah subhanaw taala is slowly taking
somebody to the hellfire, right? Is that person constantly looking
at the defects of people and being blind from their own defects?
That's what's gonna happen.
Well call tomorrow in Russia and China what absolutely no clue,
they would say that we have not seen anything that destroys your
actions more. And corrupts has more and which leads a person to
destruction more, and that takes you closer to the anger and of
Allah subhanaw taala more
than
a person not knowing their own defects and always looking at
others defects. And also what it does is it creates in a person, a
person like this creates more ostentatious and pride and
arrogance, because they're always thinking about others being low.
They don't realize that they are also low. When you realize we're
also low and they also know we're all low. Hollis is not an issue
anymore. It's canceled it out. We've all got defects, brother,
you have a defect, I have a defect. Now let's learn to live
together. That's the way it should be. But when you only see others
defects, you think you don't have a defect then suddenly you put
yourself in a position higher than that. So he creates urgent
Andreassen it creates this feeling of ostentatious self conceit and
pride and arrogance, and causing others to look at them in causing
oneself to look at others in a despicable way. May Allah subhanaw
taala remove this. Remove this problem for us so that we can have
better friendships and company with people. Well through Dawa and
Al hamdu Lillahi Rabbil Alameen olam and the Salamanca salaam, the
Bharatiya Janata jewellery chrome Allahumma Yahaya, a young girl
medical study, Allah Mia Hannah Yamuna Illa Illa Allah subhana
Kadena Konami, nobody mean just Allah one more hammer them
a lot of them are fiddling on our home now or if you know had in our
opener, a lot of men you know what have you been our job now? Who
that eliminated? Oh Allah, we ask that you forgive us our sins. You
forgive us our sins, you forgive us our misdeeds, our wrong deeds
of Allah, our sins of the heart. I
Our sins of our body, Our Allah, our excesses of our eyes and our
hands, our tongues, our ears of Allah our entire body that will
bear witness against us on the day of judgment of Allah We ask that
you give us the tools to make Toba of Allah grant us Toba, grant us
repentance grant us recourse to you, of Allah grant us your love
and the love of those who love you. Allah these are the blessings
moments of Ramadan. Oh Allah, we are sitting here for a purpose.
We've We've sacrificing this hour that we sit after after prayer for
your sake of Allah make this a true company. Make it like the
company that even the prophets, and the shahada will be envious of
as we read in the hadith of Allah, Oh Allah make us worthy of that
position of Allah make us worthy of being in your shade on the day
of judgment of Allah, you've brought us here. You've allowed us
to sit here, Oh Allah, we can only take a good omen from this that
you are wanting to bless us. So Allah truly bless us. Oh Allah, we
wouldn't be sitting here in this Masjid. Listening to your words,
listening to these great things if it wasn't that you had some good
plan for us. Oh Allah, Oh Allah make this a good plan for us. Oh
Allah people have come from far and wide. Oh Allah except all of
us are like cept all of us are like sick to all of us. Have your
mercy on us. Have you mercy on us during these days on our families
as well? And Allah allowed this Ramadan to be the best Ramadan
we've ever spent. Make us closer to you than we've ever been
before. And Allah above all keep us close to you. Oh Allah keep us
close to you. Oh Allah do not give us distance after closest to you.
Do not give a scuffle after Iman. Oh Allah, we ask that You grant us
genital feitos Oh Allah send you abundant blessings on Rasulullah
sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, Subhana rhombic herbalized that
yamna Yossi foon was a lot more study, you know.
The point of a lecture is to encourage people to act to get
further an inspiration and encouragement, persuasion. The
next step is to actually start learning seriously to read books
to take on a subject of Islam and to understand all the subjects of
Islam at least at the basic level, so that we can become more aware
of what our deen wants from us. And that's why we started Rayyan
courses so that you can actually take organize lectures on demand
whenever you have free time, especially for example, the
Islamic essentials course that we have on the Islamic essentials
certificate which you take 20 Short modules, and at the end of
that inshallah you will have gotten the basics of most of the
most important topics in Islam and you'll feel a lot more confident.
You don't have to leave lectures behind you can continue to live,
you know, to listen to lectures, but you need to have this more
sustained study as well as local law here and Salam aleikum wa
rahmatullah wa barakato.