Abdur Rahman ibn Yusuf Mangera – In the Footsteps of Productivity A Divine Perspective [Hikam 22 & 23]
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Once a human nose, and first SEC got there, I'm Maha Elkader, that
every single breath of yours every single micro moment of yours is
already predetermined meaning ALLAH knows about what you're
going to do, and how many you're going to get.
And one thing we have to know is that ultimately, everything that
we do is already passed in Allah's knowledge. And that's ultimately
what we end up doing with our own freewill. We end up doing that
anyway.
So there's two aspects. Number one, we value each of these
moments. So that's the one benefit of knowing this is that we value
each of these moments because they're just taking away and
there's no two moments alike. And every time a moment is gone, you
never get it back. There's just no way to get it back. There are
predetermined moments that Allah knows about, they don't come back.
So one thing is we value every moment. So that's the one benefit.
The second thing is that after we've done our best to achieve or
acquire something that we really wanted, and we didn't get it, then
we leave it to the predetermination of Allah that
Allah knows anyway.
Smilla rahmanir rahim. hamdulillah Europe Rabbil Alameen wa Salatu
was Salam ala Murthy, Ramadan, Delilah, Amin, while he was off
me, he was seldom at the Sleeman Kathira en la Yomi. Dean, a mother
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for those who are following in the book, in this series of Ignatov,
ilus Book of Wisdom of the heckum, we have completed chapter four.
And chapter five, we're going to postpone we'll do that later.
Right now we're moving on to chapter six, which is on page 123,
for those who are following through the book. And this is
aphorism number 22, which is the first one of the chapter. So we'll
be looking at number 22 and 23 today in sha Allah. And
it's a really, really important chapter, this one, and in sha
Allah, this will be really encouraging for most of us, in
terms of
it's all about taking benefit of the time, and not letting the
deception of shaytan overcome us to find the right time for
something. Because time continues. That's what he's going to be
discussing eventually. So we are on page 123. This is what he says
in aphorism number 22. This is what he says he says, mommy never
seen mommy never seen to be d il wonder who Calderon fika Yong Li
Illa weather who cut their own
fika yum li what that means is not a breath, do you expire, every
breath that you take every breath breath that passes.
But a decree of destiny has made it go forth.
Meaning every subsequent breath that we have a moment of time that
this breath represents.
There's a predetermined destiny from Allah subhanaw taala, that is
allowing for that next one to take place. And the next one to take
place. And the next one to take place until the last one.
So Allah knows exactly how many breaths we're going to take.
And when that quota will be filled, and that last breath will
be taken, then it will end. So it's all predetermined. He wants
to set the scene for something that's very, very important to
understand it from that perspective. So to understand
this,
the word nefarious in Arabic means
a moment of time, the kicker two minutes is a man, right a moment
of time.
Usually, as much as the birth is exhaled. And then inhaled. The the
the moment of time that it takes to exhale and inhale, maybe two
seconds, maybe one second.
That there's another moment of time that's mentioned, which is
tougher. So the numbers in Arabic is longer than the tougher,
tougher terrain they refer to that's even shorter.
The tougher actually is even longer
than the lava.
Lava in Arabic is even a shorter moment of time, which is literally
the blink of an eye. the blink of an eye is faster than the taking
of a breath.
So these are regardless, they're all very, very minut. They're
very, very short moments. So either of them whether you take
the NFS the tougher terrain, the Roanoke rom cold buzzer either one
and law sorry, letter Laffer. And then he talked about the cost
other COVID is destiny and a simple aspect of destiny. Simple
understanding of destiny is Allah subhanahu wa taala is for
knowledge meaning ALLAH has eternal knowledge from before
about everything that everybody is going to do with their free will.
He knows his creative everybody with free will. And he knows
exactly what they're going to do from even before we were created,
He knew what we were going to do. Because he just can see in the
future that far, let's put it that way to make it simple.
Earl Musa, basically a Shia Coppola and tada, that's the way
they've described it, the knowledge of anything, even before
they appear, because Allah subhanaw taala just has that
knowledge, right?
And what exactly does that mean, then that means he knows exactly,
if he knows what's going to happen. He knows exactly the
amount of time it's going to take. So if we put everything that is
ever going to occur, that has occurred, and that is occurring,
and that will occur, and you put that into a stream of time that is
divided into small time modules.
Imagine a ruler, some of the time is divided in the ruler is divided
into meters, deci meters, centimeters, millimeters, right.
And if you want to get a better, it's a micro meter, and so on. So
just imagine, on whatever scale you want it, Allah knows exactly
how much of that scale each person of us and every entity, every
issue, every object is going to take up of that. And then
ultimately, when that whole scale of time will ultimately end Allah
knows that as well.
So let's reduce ourselves to that, to understand the value of this.
So it's a more okati, what a Marchini Hello mahavidya. So then
Allah subhanaw taala also knows how long how many of these little
units we're going to occupy in our life. He also knows where we're
going to be when we occupy which unit in this unit is going to be
here in this unit is going to be Masjidul, Fela, this unit is going
to be at home. He also knows exactly what is going to be your
state in each of those moments.
What exactly you're going to be thinking what you're going to be
going through how your emotion is going to be. He's also going to
know what kind of calamities are going to overcome you.
For the last few weeks, we've forgotten a lot of other
calamities in our life, because there's a massive calamity that
has distracted us all. Now, once we've reduced it down to this,
this is exactly why we're in equation ultimately, I don't want
to demean ourselves or reduce ourselves down to that as
devaluing ourselves. No, it's to actually value ourselves that
we're doing this, once a human knows. And first sec, * Maha
Elkader, that every single breath of yours, every single micro
moment of yours is already predetermined meaning ALLAH knows
about what you're going to do, and how many you're gonna get.
And one thing we have to know is that ultimately, everything that
we do is already past in Allah's knowledge. And that's ultimately
what we end up doing with our own freewill. We end up doing that
anyway.
So there's two aspects, number one, we value each of these
moments. So that's the one benefit of knowing this is that we value
each of these moments because they're just taking away and
there's no two moments alike. And every time a moment is gone, you
will never get it back. There's just no way to get it back. The
predetermined moments that Allah knows about, they don't come back.
So one thing is we value every moment. So that's the one benefit.
The second thing is that after we've done our best to achieve or
acquire something that we really wanted, and we didn't get it, then
we leave it to the predetermination of Allah that
Allah knows anyway.
We've tried our best. We've said so much. We've campaigned, we've
marched. But still people just don't get it.
They're still blinded.
Still not enough children that
that we have to ultimately say, Well, we're going to keep trying.
But Allah has a plan in store we know that for sure.
So he says what our offer took Walhalla took Matsuura every
moment and micro moments, blink of an eye moment, breath moment, it's
all limited and predetermined by Allah subhanho wa Taala for Ethan
arciero and fossick. So when that last moment of yours will come to
pass that final one, which we will, we may not even know it's
our last moment until it actually happens. Raha erhalten ala Hera,
that's when you will
travel from this dunya to the hereafter.
So now the question is that if you know that this is what it all
comes down to them.
What's your focus
Now,
every every step you take every thought, every idea, every
everything that you intend and everything that you strive for.
Somehow you need to bring it all together. Once we know this, once
we know this, we've only got a certain amount of time. What
happens is that when somebody doesn't know that they've got a
certain amount of time, they start taking too much time. They say,
Look, I've only got five minutes Brother, can you suddenly start
rushing a bit? So that's what's important is for us to know how
much time we have so that we can rush a bit to do the best for the
next world.
That's why one of the poet says, mache, machina her hotton cote,
but Elena,
woman, quotevalet Houghton Masha woman Cosima many too many yet
many year to be out of them, Felisa Muto Thioridazine Siva,
we walk the steps, we take the steps that have been decreed for
us, meaning what Allah knows of how many steps we're going to
take.
And anybody
who Allah knows how many steps they're going to take, he will
certainly walk those steps will certainly fill those little units.
However, then he says that whoever's death has been written
in a particular place, then he can't die in any place, but that
place. So we're being told to be satisfied with that.
That's why he said the concept of redraw in Arabic, the concept of
being satisfied in Arabic, means that you deal with the most
difficult math matters with a smile on your face.
Meaning you deal with it not in a way that you consider yourself to
be totally despondent and hopeless. Because ultimately, we
know that Allah knows all of this anyway.
So we do our best to achieve what we can. But then if something
doesn't go the way we want it to go, then we deal with every
calamity, every setback every shortcoming with a smile on our
face.
How can you go to reader he says in this context is the luck kill
Mahalik B wedge hidoe hijk. To deal with every destructive
factor, but with the face of a smiling person.
You don't have to literally smile but you it just means that you
have to feel like a smiling person, in essence that you deal
with it. Because ultimately, there's a whole other world to
come when absolute justice will take place. absolute justice,
absolute justice, no unfairness.
Now, the next point we got, we move on to the next aphorism. This
is where it's very profound. He says, Loretta Rocca for rural
area. Once he set the scene here is the next step, which is what so
many people are confused. And I just spoke with somebody last week
in the in the past week, actually, who's been wanting to go and study
in another country for so long.
And because of, I think a lot of deception, I think it's the same
thing. He's waiting to go to an ideal place to study.
So he discounts everything that he can do locally. So he doesn't do
anything locally, until he can get that ideal situation and
everybody's waiting for an ideal situation.
This is one of the biggest deception or Satan that I've seen
in the last 25 years of my life in multiple people.
They want to do something good, but they're waiting for the ideal
situation.
This is what he talks about. So listen carefully. He says, let
that rock for rural fer let that rock club for over a year for in
Nevada, you Dr. Rocha. And would you deal maraca Tila, who female
who are Mookie McAfee.
It's a bit complicated, but hopefully the translation make
things clear, do not look forward to being free of alternatives.
Meaning do not forward do not look forward and you do not wait for
that ideal time and there's nothing but you and Allah, where
you get full focus, no distractions, essentially,
alternatives. So do not look forward to being completely free
of alternatives. For that is indeed what cuts you off from
vigilant attention to him in that very, in that very state that he
has assigned to you saying a few things here. Allah has assigned to
us whatever distractions there are around us. We're living in the
world, the world is a place of distraction.
So they're not going to go away. So he's saying that you are trying
to overcome that and you want a situation where there are no
distractions, but that time may never come, which means that you
actually wasting all of this time
which is going to be probably the majority of the time where there's
always going to be distractions, but you're not remembering Allah
in those, you're not taking and using the potential in that time.
That's that's the dunya. That's how it is.
So ultimately, that's that's what he says, he says, Do not look
forward to being free of alternatives for that is indeed
what cuts you from vigilant attention to him in that very
state that he has assigned to you. Because all of this time that
you're in where you are occupied, Allah is the one to put you into
that time anyway, you think this is shaytani time and she times
like, overcome and, you know, Allah is being defeated and
shaytaan is distracted you right now. No, Allah is behind that as
well.
shaytaan may have distracted us but it's still within the power of
Allah, that Allah enables this to happen. He wants you to do
something else during this time, and not let the shaytaan overcome
you. So let's look at what he says yeah, this is beautiful. The word
terracotta, terracotta, meaning don't wait, don't look forward
don't delay to this time.
In DEVAR, and the concept of earlier that he says alternatives
when you're looking for a time without any I translated it as
described as distractions, but he calls them alternatives, which
basically means a VR gym or here for those who understand Arabic.
It's who are my yoga you can ban hardly anything that will corrupt
your hearts, anything that will take away your heart from it being
connected to Allah that's er in Arabic. So here in Arabic is
anything that will take you away from Allah subhanho wa taala.
Right, that's pretty much most things will evaluate Is there a
man who FEMA your human heritage will Kumari ILAHA Dynex majority
of the time it's used for
such distractions that will take you away from a better state to a
deficient state doesn't let you focus for me. They're always going
to be around. So he says that according to the spiritual
scholars, anything that is going to take you away and distract you
from presents with Allah.
And he's going to change your heart and get it to focus on
something else then that is a real that is another thing. That is
this other thing that he's a seeking prediction from. Okay, now
you've heard of concepts like Morocco, right? Morocco means
vigilance. Meaning focus. That's what Morocco really means. Right?
Reflection, focus, vigilance, safeguarding, essentially Morocco
by safeguarding, in other words,
guarding your heart so that it doesn't go away from being focused
on Allah. That's Morocco, bombings like constantly Iraqi, constantly
be conscious of yourself. That's one thing.
However, here when he says you need to be focused in Moraga will
do the maraca, which is your vigilant attention. He translates
he talks about not just your heart, but your rule as well. So
what they say is that the heart is supposed to be focused
on Allah subhanho wa Taala is presence. And
we have to focus on God our soul, we have to guard our soul our
roar, right?
To be constantly with Allah subhanho wa Taala and not with
anything else.
We have to then constantly focus on our inside, that we are
constantly in the best etiquette for everybody and towards Allah
subhanho wa taala. And we don't let ourselves start thinking like
lowly creatures, but we always have a high aspiration in our
mind, and high luck and high attention to things. So there are
multiple things that our heart, our soul, and also our just
internal faculties to constantly be
thinking positively
in a praiseworthy way.
Now, the main part here, that he's he's saying, that's what you're
supposed to do, but the delusion is that I'm waiting for the best
time and waiting to retire and waiting to get away from all of
this and waiting for this project to end.
Right and waiting for this qualification to be met, etc, etc,
etc.
When Allah subhanho wa Taala is the one who's placed you in
whatever position you're in right now, ultimately, he knows right?
That specific segment of time was for you in that particular
position, in which there are all of these other distractions and
others, there are all of these others within this time that are
distracting us.
And your perception towards these things is very strong. That's what
you're dealing with. That's why you are distracted because your
perception to these things ultimately is all about
perception, if our perception of these distractions becomes lowered
and our perception to Allah increases, then despite the fact
that we're in the midst of a chaos, it'd be no problem, we'll
be with Allah subhanaw taala.
So it's about the sensitivity of our perception towards those
things as opposed to Allah, we're just not, we don't have enough
perception of Allah yet for that to be more important and focus for
us than everything around us. Otherwise, the same thing.
So he says, just as He has put you into this dunya, we obligate
occupation.
Right, in the apparent you know, in, as it appears, there is no
escape for you from your jobs and from everything else that's going
on in your life. Maybe there's an argument going on with the rest of
your family or whatever Allah Allah forbid, or there's a war
going on somewhere, whatever the cases, for Jahad called Baka fill
asset, yada, he will do your job in that situation in that chaotic
situation as bad at it is to guard your heart.
And to keep it focused on Allah subhanho wa taala. So that
distraction doesn't steer it away from you.
Your job is that all the time.
Again, your room, your internal faculties, everything needs to be
on guard all of this time because these are the times that are going
to come upon you. He said the way to sort that out is learn more,
keep learning more, keep learning more, because knowledge is helpful
to keep you going. And then just don't keep waiting. Don't keep
waiting until you are in that position. I was traveling so I
could do my vicar. I couldn't get my salah trades. I had a wedding
on I had this visitor I had to go here. I had a leak in the house
and these things are gonna carry on. So he says what you do is done
your Ferrara surely they come into local area, you're waiting for
your for like vacation from those things from all of these other
things besides Allah subhanaw taala for to call Baka Illa Tama
me surely attic.
You then delaying your heart.
You're mistreating your heart, you're depriving your heart from
what it really needs during that time.
So that's really bad other he says to Allah subhanaw taala you're
getting distracted, it's too bad, it's bad. And the biggest thing he
says is that the study or the medical work, you're wasting that
time because remember, we're still counting from those limited number
of moments that were allocated for us by Allah subhanaw taala
that that is what hit me. Ultimately, whatever it is, they
are still counted moments limited moments is still counting from
that.
And remember, the most productive people are those who try to fill
every moment their time doing something useful. Do Nui aspect or
curry aspect, hereafter aspects.
So if you're gonna keep those times away from having any kind of
dealing with Allah connection with Allah subhanho wa Taala was
sorrowful, okati Lion King Kala, and remember you wasting all this
time, you're never gonna get it back.
There's no color for this. He says, there's one of the Sheikh Al
Mohler lobby, he says, Whenever he would see his, his students
occupied with something and he's getting worried that they're going
to get distracted by something. He would say, be careful because you
you you be careful, like you would constantly remind them Subhanallah
Imam Mushara and he visited actually his his place in about
400 years ago, in Egypt and one of the big sheiks of Egypt. It's got
a number of beautiful books, we actually preparing one of his
books very soon in sha Allah. So he says that one of his shakes
would never be absent from Allah, his consciousness of Allah and his
focus on Allah, who was 24/7 almost right, will sleep on it,
you could say probably drempt stuff as well right? To such a
degree Subhanallah to such a degree. And I'm going to use
because we have children who
had their fill Jima had Daffy highlighted Jima to such a degree
that even when during intimacy with the wife,
he was focused on Allah even then, he's supposed to read the DUA then
Right? So it's not like hey, that's haram. I mean, you can't if
you're focused on, if you've got some issue going on and you're
occupied somewhere else, you're still going to be remembering it.
This is obviously a high level where they're constantly vigilant,
but they're constantly vigilant. I think if you can just even
remember your DUA then that's good enough.
Allahumma jedna Shavonne agenda with shaytaan. Amara is up and if
you can just remember that
because you know the Muslim community they consider anybody
who's Bae Bismillah without Bismillah to be haram is that's
what they call them. Sivan, Allah, your dad did not read Bismillah
that's a mad swear that is
I will the biller, that's a really bad swear, like your dad didn't
read Bismillah Don't ever say that to anybody else, you know?
They say that from the actions of some people that you must be like
that because there was no Bismillah it's it's, I mean, it's
a really important aspect in our deen, you know, too,
because that's where it all begins Subhanallah that's where it all
begins. And you have to remember Allah then, in fact, I mean, I
don't want to digress here, but there's a diff see from this
major, Senegalese great scholar, he's saying that Subhanallah the
people who are Ahrefs of Allah subhanho wa taala, even the act,
gets them closer to Allah, how does that do that? Because the
pleasure that's given to them, that gives them an understanding
of the pleasure of paradise, that this is from Allah subhanaw taala,
they just have a different way of looking at it.
So the ultimately, the conclusion of all of this is that we have a
limited number of minutes, seconds, microseconds, however you
want to count them, they're all limited, you know, it could be a
million, or 10,000, or 100,000, or a billion, or whatever it is,
ultimately, right? Now, the main thing is that Allah knows exactly
what we're going to do in all of those. And our job with our free
will, is to fill those spots to fill those units. So that no
units, because anytime we waste the unit, another unit is not
going to be given to us, it counts as part of our units. You've
already used it up. You can't say I'm really sorry, I was
distracted, I was sick. Those units carry on. So we want to do
the best that we can. And number two, the thing he's saying is that
you're always going to have distractions in life. Because
that's just means that your perception, your sight, your is
your heart is just perceiving those things more strongly.
Because remember, our deen is not about going in a cave. Yes, the
prophets of Allah Islam used to retreat in a cave before he became
a prophet, you know, for certain worships that he did. But after
that he never went to a cave. Once we had Islam, and he became a
Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, he never went to a cave
afterwards to do you know to retreat, did he? He went into a
cave to hide, you know, with Abu Bakr Siddiq or the Allah one, but
going in a cave. There's nothing wrong with a cave, right? We were
just in a cave two weeks ago, when I was in Jordan.
They had organized special reading of pseudo gaff in the cave of gaff
as hobble Gavin our man, with Sheikh Habib, Oman, and a few
other big scholars that have come read the whole of surgical care
have been made very, you know, number of dollars were made for
our brothers
in Palestine. So, yes, caves are there, right Hamdulillah. But the
main point is that you're always going to have distractions, you're
never gonna have the perfect scenario all the time. But use
every moment of that. If you can't go somewhere else to study and you
really want to study, study locally, study online, get
something going, you've got your whole life to do this. You want to
become close to Allah you want to do some vicar don't wait, don't
wait, start the vicar while you're in there because we have to raise
our perception of Allah so that when we raise our perception of
everything else will start happening more easily. And our
worry and grief over everything else will become lowered. We're
still going to be in the same world. But we just mashallah more
in tune with Allah. And that's what a satisfied person is. That
is a person who's connected that is a person who's got contentment
and that's what's important. May Allah give us that it's difficult
because every new issue come you have a travel, you have a visitor
you haven't called, you have to pay a bill. It just changes us.
It's like okay, I miss my vicar, I miss my salad, sometimes
Subhanallah you know, no, these things are like food, in fact,
stronger than food that because
it all is going to count in the hereafter.
It's all going to count in the hereafter and these moments are
going to go away, then we can just enjoy the hereafter you can watch
all the football you won in the hereafter. It is still going to be
interesting. You can see the highlights from when the team came
into existence.
I mean, I'm assuming it's going to be there if you really still feel
like watching that kind of stuff. God knows.
But I mean, that's one way to satisfy ourselves that meets all
day if you want. If you still feel like you should have the login go
he had written about them. So we're on page 123. We're on number
22 and 23 wisdom. This is on time and it's important he says
man is regarding the first one where he says mommy loves to be he
mommy never seemed to be Hilah who cut their own figure you
Are we
not a breath do expire, but a decree of destiny has made it go
forth. He says man is perpetually in a state that is either pleasing
or displeasing to his ego.
We are enjoying or we're hating the situation we're in.
If it is pleasing to Allah, though it will be a blessing. The way to
find out if it's good or bad is is it pleasing to Allah, that it will
be a blessing, an error on condition that it is not a sin, if
it is displeasing, then it will be a calamity on condition that it is
not
the effort of an act of obedience. So every state of * has a right
a hack on a person. It is incumbent on a man to discharge
these rights,
the right of a blessing. When when we're in a state of blessing, the
right is gratitude sugar you do Shaka and the rights of the state
of calamity is you do patience, is that you exercise patience. It is
therefore imperative for the servant to be patient or grateful
for every moment in his life. Because either you're going to be
in a good state or a bad state, there's no third state, there's no
neutral state, and neutral state is a good stage. Thus, he should
not destroy even one minute of his life. But be thanking Allah in
every minutes. Finally, we could take this to heart the way some
people do, I've had a person contact me twice now. He's a
convert.
And he says that he's really taken it to heart Allahu Akbar. I mean,
I feel embarrassed myself. He said that every prayer of his that he
does in the daytime or in the evening, it takes him at least
half an hour or something to do the prayer. Why does it take him
half an hour? Because he contemplates everything here is
he said, but the problem is that at work and so on is disruptive
me, I can't take off that much time.
Is it okay if I do it some other way.
And I'm just thinking so mine Allah. So then I said, Look, if
it's disrupting in the time, you can't take off because you can't
think of half an hour each for each pray especially in winter. I
said
by now in terms of contemplation, you probably have the general
meaning of what the suit is that you read. So instead of half an
hour, take 10 minutes. Because now that you've read Surah Fatiha so
many times, we might not be able to go into a deep reflection, but
at least you can get a general idea and that's enough at least to
do your prayer. And then in the evenings in the nights, then you
can mashallah
have a good time. You know, in that sense, Allah make so twice he
called me about that. And I thought it was an OCD issue and
it's not because it will do he doesn't take that long.
He's just basically taken the teaching to heart literally like
this is what we need to do. This is what we're going to do May
Allah give us Sophie to, to do this, the next HECM that the
second one that we read was letter Tara Fluval Eliade for inauthentic
actor who can who will maraca Tila, who female who are more
chemo kofi, do not look forward to being free of all alternatives for
that is indeed what cuts you off from vigilant attention to him in
that very state he has assigned to you
in this one, he says that when the grace of Allah the father of Allah
Most High focuses on the spiritual traveller, his heart establishes a
connection with the invocation of Allah. When Allah is Fidel comes
on us then we get connected to invoking Allah, constantly in
touch with him.
Thereafter, you know like when you make a friendship with somebody,
you get connect somebody, then you want to have a lot of WhatsApp
messages. Like you start talking much more often.
Thereafter, sometimes the condition of his engrossment in
invocation is such that his heart becomes completely emptied of all
things besides Allah.
The love gets so deep, there's nothing else left.
Mashallah, if you can get a message from somebody who they
can't sleep at two o'clock at night, so then they message you
that I'm thinking about you. That's the connection, isn't it?
When they're going through the disturbances that night, or
whatever they contact you, you know, they send a message do not
don't disturb you, they send you a message for you to read the next
day. So the idea is that if you become so connected, then
eventually all other things.
For example,
one family member, she's got cancer, young person, she's got
cancer, so we're concerned about her. And then when this Palestine
issue began, for three weeks, we didn't even think about her
because there was a bigger issue. So that's what happens sometimes,
an issue becomes big enough in our minds, even though we saw
Far from it, but it's a big issue for us. So then you forget about
every other thing everything else becomes small. That's how he's
saying when a person big when Allah's grace comes upon a person
and they invoke Allah subhanho wa Taala then eventually, everything
else is dimmed in their sights. However, sometimes the
alternatives of mundane affairs and activities do dominate a
person. Due to involvement in worldly affairs, the original
state of invocation in the heart becomes overshadowed.
Everything else becomes more important. The spiritual traveler
becomes terrified and desires to extricate himself from this state
of perplexity. Much of his time is then spent in this desire trying
to get himself out.
He waits in anticipation for a time that will make you free of
all of these activities so that he can engage peacefully in
invocation. He wants the perfect time to do it.
So the shape is Rahim Allah is advising that a spiritual,
spiritual travel not wait for such a free time, in order to resume
invocation.
Even the state of spiritual darkness and spiritual pollution
into which the True Lord has cost one is the time granted to one by
Allah that is also Allah's time, even when you're busy, that is
Allah's time, involving the heart excessively with the need to
eliminate this pollution, before actively engaging in invocation
will in fact prevent one from meditation invocation of Allah
Most High. Such time is thus to be defined as negligent squandering.
shaytaan its wasting. Consequently, the idea of waiting
for a time devoid of activity should be abandoned. think that
this is the only available time I have, however the time is,
and that there is no other time because one has no certainty
regarding the future.
We may never get to a free time. This is our time it's given to us
by Allah. Thus become engrossed with your master in this very time
of pollution and darkness, occupation and busyness and
distraction and heedlessness.
Someone asked Sal ignore Abdullah to study Rahim Allah when does the
fuck EU. The one in need of Allah attained comfort.
He replied the 14 attains comfort when he knows that the time which
has passed over him over him is the only time
when this knowledge becomes grounded in the spiritual
traveler, the pollution and the confusion will be dispelled. This
is the way to dispel the pollution.
You don't try to dispel it first without the vicar of Allah you do
the Dhikr of Allah and you get involved in the invocation of
Allah and this will be removed. In reality this advice of the Sheikh
is the remedy to get rid of all of these alternatives. The
aforementioned discussion will apply if the sheiks advice is
intended for a spiritual traveler who is involved in invocation and
spiritual exercises, the person who was on the path was trying
hard. Nevertheless, this advice can apply to people who are
ensnared in the world as well. That applies to everybody.
Nevertheless, yeah, generally people involved in the world wait
for a time when they will be freed from the inconveniences of a
certain activity.
They deceive themselves by believing that on the
accomplishment of a particular activity, they will be free to
apply themselves to the invocation of Allah.
After accomplishing one worldly activity activity, however, they
commence another another business opportunity comes up. You have to
buy the next house with the next car, the next job, the business
expands.
Then your son's gonna get married, but your daughter's gonna get
married.
Then you're gonna get married again, maybe,
you know, it just never ends. After accomplishing one worldly
activity, they commenced another there is no end to the hopes and
desires of the ego. Once entire life is squandered without
achieving a time to devote to the invocation of Allah. For such
people in the world, the sheiks advice will also be applicable.
They should not wait for a time when they will be free of worldly
encumbrances, we should immediately engage them should
engage themselves in the invocation of the master molar.
Regardless of worrying disturbance, Allah Most High can
himself dispel the state of worry and agitation from the hearts
despite one's apparent worldly preoccupation.
Very, very relevant. Allah make it easy Allah remove the problems
from our brothers that are having so let us do some thicker. Allah
Who man the sinner, Monica Salam, the Bharatiya Janata with the
Quran Allah me are you after you Muroc medical studies on Yemen and
Isla de Subhanak in condemning Awali mean there's a lot of one on
one but
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effort. Yes. Yeah, have you? Yes, sir. Yeah. Latif yeah Latif yeah
then generally very Crom Allahumma field on our Hana Allah homophilic
Medusa you know Muhammad sallallahu alayhi wa sallam
Allahumma Filou Muslim enormously mad when what we know and what
Marina de la jolla even on one word rather than Murphy Lee Mota
and Muslimeen livina show he do in a criminal work then you're
married to other donec ya Allah have mercy on this ummah yeah
Allah accept our coming here, oh Allah except our discourse ya
Allah accept our of calm of Allah accept our our rod here Allah
accept, small recur that we have done our Allah allow us to do this
more often. Oh Allah allow this to become our state our Presence of
Allah despite the situation you're keeping us in our Allah whatever
those situations are over Allah grant us closeness to you and
focus and consciousness of you all the time of Allah. Forgive us for
making so many excuses for delaying so much for
procrastinating or Allah for becoming distracted and becoming
occupied with everything else waiting for that perfect time. Oh
Allah what a what a false idea that was Oh Allah allow us to
remember you regardless of our situation of Allah ease our lives
and for our brothers and sisters everywhere, especially in
Palestine. Oh Allah grant them nostra of Allah grant them
assistance, grant them patience, grant them the shahada, those who
have diagrammed them shahada, except them of Allah those who are
left Oh Allah grant them Yaqeen in you, Allah do not let them be
depressed or Allah allow them to continue to stand strong. Oh Allah
in despite all of the difficulties of Allah despite the difficulties
of allah how must it be that you can't even sleep of Allah without
thinking that this may be my last moment? Oh Allah, we sit so
comfortably we sleep comfortably with all the amenities here that
we have. Oh Allah,
Ya Allah Ya Allah Ya Allah forgive us, O Allah, Allah, Allah don't
make this a test for us. of Allah allow us and them to be protected
of Allah to to be relieved of these problems of Allah allow them
to be relieved of these problems of Allah Yohe of Allah we are
already seeing the effects of your your vape and your assistance of
Allah let that come. Oh Allah allow that to be there. Oh Allah
grant consolation to their hearts and our hearts. And our Allah we
ask that all the others in Afghanistan, the earthquakes and
all the other places where people are suffering, Oh Allah, relieve
them, relieve them have their burdens of Allah, we know you've
made the hereafter the real life for us. That is what makes it
easier to deal with the tragedies of this life of Allah. It makes it
easier to deal with the difficulties and the setbacks. We
know that ultimately we're all going to return to you. Oh Allah,
strengthen our faith. Continue to allow us to focus on You. We thank
you abundantly for allowing us to be here together here to remember
you for the short amount of time in these two weeks of Allah We ask
that you accept it from us, grant us sincerity grant has purity. Oh
Allah bless everybody that's here and those who are listening, oh
Allah bless everybody. And Allah. There are see brighter days of
Allah both in this world and definitely in the hereafter. Oh
Allah allow us to be with your messenger Muhammad sallallahu
alayhi wa sallam, and gain the company of your righteous ones,
your profits and your Gambia and your shahada and your Siddiqui in
the hereafter. Yeah Allah forgive us, forgive us, forgive us, our
Allah strengthen us and allow us to do that which is right, that
which is beneficial, that which is practical, that which is
productive. Oh Allah forgive us from acting ignorantly forgive us
from making the wrong excuses. And Allah we ask that you allow us to
join the company of the Prophet salallahu Salam in the hereafter
we send abundant blessings to him Subhan Allah because mobilicity
and IOC Fonasa Rahman Al Mussolini Al Hamdulillah Alhamdulillah.
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 base
Sikhs have 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 salaam aleikum wa rahmatullah wa barakato.