Abdur Rahman ibn Yusuf Mangera – Muhasibi’s Risalah Part 10 Submit to the Decree
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The importance of faith in achieving the ultimate goal is discussed, with a brief recap of a situation where a woman named Probably was in prison for a serious crime and wrote a letter to the police. The woman eventually gets angry and becomes upset, leading her to write a letter to the police. The transcript suggests that the woman is not a pious person, but she is a woman who wants others to do the same.
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Bismillah al Rahman al Rahim Al hamdu Lillahi Rabbil Alameen wa
salatu salam, O Allah Azza, you didn't mursaleen while he was
happy he or Baraka was seldom at the Sleeman cathedral, you know,
your meeting of merit. We had been speaking about believing in Qatar.
And what that means is not just as an article of faith that if
somebody asks us what are the fundamental beliefs that you have
as a Muslim, and we say, we believe in Allah and His angels,
and His scriptures, and the Last Day, and Qadr This is a belief
that people have on paper, as an article of faith, but it needs to
become a reality. And that's why he had said that you will never
feel the pleasure of a man you will never taste the man, what it
truly is what faith truly is, until you believe in your heart,
you believe it, you interact with it, and it becomes a reality in
your life. And thus, it is not something that we just bring up
when asked to reaffirm our faith, but rather,
on a personal level, each time something happens to us, we bring
in mind, Allah subhanaw taala.
And coder doesn't, what's expected of us is not that you have to
believe I believe in the coder of Allah. But rather, when something
happens that is maybe a bit unfavorable. Then we think of
Allah and we say, Allah subhanaw taala knows, Allah has when a
loved one you're lucky. So it's that interaction that this is
actually speaking about. Because when you the whole point of it is
that it's supposed to make life easier, and take out the concern
and the worry, knowing that Allah subhanaw taala is with us.
The more a person thinks about Allah subhanho wa Taala and how
he's in control of everything. How he's behind everything. Then it
alleviates his feeling of helplessness, aloneness,
estrangement, loneliness, of course, and depression. Because
you think Allah subhanaw taala he knows anyway. So what he wants,
I've tried my best.
Likewise, when something good happens, then we don't attribute
it to ourselves. We say, Allah Subhana Allah Shaka, Allah sugar.
He gave us this, you have food on your table, and mashallah you have
good food. When you think Allah subhanho wa Taala you're given a
gift, something good happens in your life, something favorable
happens in your life. And you think about Allah, that's the way
I look at Qatar. Because really, that's the maxim and the objective
of it. As Allah says in the Quran, de la Sol Adama Fatah, while at
the frog will be Mata so that you don't
feel depressed and
despondent when something misses you.
And something misses you and you couldn't get it, then you don't
keep crying. And likewise, if you do have something and you do
attain something later fro you don't exalt about it, you don't
get arrogant about it, just to moderate us. Until then you're not
gonna we're not going to feel the pleasure of Eman. Eman is supposed
to create the balance within us. And you can only have that balance
with Allah subhanho wa Taala like this. So it's just about trying to
remember a lot each time.
So there's a very easy because what, it's only what Allah wills
that will happen. In many cases, in most cases, in fact, everything
happens from behind the veil.
You ask for something, it's not going to pop in front of you.
It's generally going to come if it comes through somebody through
something, somebody's going to be made a means of what you asked
for.
So although extra ordinary events to take place as well, sometimes
those are where it's just clear cut. But generally Allah subhanaw
taala works from behind the veil.
Sometimes however, it's a very obvious situation.
It just seems very extraordinary. So for example,
the great Hadith master Khomeini, who was a student and companion of
ignore hasm of Lahiri
or his student,
he he relates this
in he's got a book as it's called Java 12 October spedically, wala
till on the Andalus
as you know, ignore hasm
was from andalas, which means Spain. So this is just some
stories about the different Wiley's and governance in
understand some interesting stories over the years. Over the
centuries. Rather, he says that there was a was Eve, a minister
whose name was Abu Omar Ahmed Abu Saeed ignore hasm that the Father
of Evil has mov right. So he's this is
who maybe was relating from his teacher, about his father. If no
hasm about him, no husband's father.
He was once sitting in front of his,
his Governor Massoud ignore Ahmed, Mohammed, Mohammed, Mohammed, Abu
Abu Mohammed, Mohammed Abu Dhabi army, that's the governor's name.
And this, the father of Abraham is a minister for that governor.
So what happens is,
this was a open gathering for the public.
And this is where people could come and give their petitions,
bring up their issues and see what the governor could how they could
help him and how the governor could help them. So there was a
note that came up to him from a mother who had a son in prison.
And she was asking for some mercy clemency, like, help out to get
him out.
So this monsoon, the governor had
put him into prison
for a really
big crime, or at least a crime that he thought was big and
serious. So he put him into prison. So he gets this from the
mother that have some mercy on him. He read it, he got even more
angry, because it was a serious crime for him. So he got even more
angry.
And he said,
the current anyway, Allah Hebei, you've just reminded me of him.
Basically just got me more angry. But he had forgotten about him.
But now when she mentioned when this note was given to him, he
felt that it reminded me of the seriousness of that crime. So he
got even more angry, what are the column he took, he took his pen
and he wrote, he wanted to write on the paper on that note, your
SLUB he shouldn't be crucified, he should be killed.
Like finishing.
So
instead of writing use lob, ja, sod, lamb beam, ba, he wrote up
luck.
Right, it's similar, but it's not the same. But he wrote us luck.
That's what he wrote. I didn't realize whatever he threw the note
at there was enough that we mentioned abou hammer.
So there was he took it, so that he could write it out properly,
because the government he just gives small, small indications.
And then somebody has to write an official letter that look, this is
what needs to happen to this person. So he wrote according to
what he had seen on their use lab, it said you Slava, you're sorry,
you're good luck. Good luck means let him go.
Good luck means let him go. Useless means crucify him, kill
him. And good luck means let him go. So he decided to write that
someone said to him, What are you writing?
He said, to release him
to I'm writing this letter to the police that they should release
him. So he got very angry said, Man, America who told you to do
this? Why are you writing?
So then he gave him the previous look, this is what your old your
old you'd look not useless.
So he sent me his way him too, I made a mistake. The
the word, he says he made a mistake.
Monsoon. So then again, he went to write
your slum?
Again, he wrote you to look
so he gives it back to the was he was he starts writing the letter,
man who looks at it gets very angry gets even more angry than
the first time telling you what's wrong with you.
Who taught who's telling you to write this? So again, he showed it
to him. He sees his own writing. And it was written you'd look what
does your block mean? You should be freed.
Your understanding sunny
La Ilaha illa Allah so this is not the third time he goes to write
your slob. Again, he writes your clock for some reason.
You know, I mean, it's just like
maybe he wasn't looking at it. At that time. He just gave it
was he takes it again and starts writing and this time mental
monsoon looks at this monsoon looks at it again. And
he gets even more angry than Nyquil. What's going on with you
guys? You know, you can imagine what kind of anger he must have
had by them and
And
so again, he shows him the letter and he says, Look, this is what
you wrote. You'd look.
So finally, he is defeated. He says, Now, you'd look at me, let
him go, despite myself, despite myself and then Suhana he says,
Furman see this bring other from an era The Allahu Allahu Allah
Akbar, Anna, Allah, many, anybody who Allah subhanaw taala wants to
set free, I'm not going to be able to
prevent that.
Now, this seems a bit of a quite a interesting story.
Quite an extraordinary story. So sometimes things like this happen
as well. But not all the time. I mean, sounds a bit far fetched
that three times he wrote this, but it's a possibility that when a
person is in a distraction, and he's got so many things to think
about.
And if you see the way these guys, I remember, in Syria, or in Egypt,
you have to go to these offices, and you have to get 10 People
signature, it's ridiculous, right? So you go to the one person, you
fill in the form, he looks at it, he puts a stamp on it says, Okay,
take it to the Medina, you go there and he signs and like,
there's so many people coming in. So he's just signing him, you go
somewhere else, and he has to sign it. She has all this bureaucracy.
So maybe it was something to do with that I'm trying to give some
understanding of this.
There's another story, which sounds obviously a lot more
plausible, not denying this sort of thing. Even that could happen
to Allah subhanaw taala could make it happen even that way. And it's
not impossible. Things strange things do happen.
Sheikh Abdul Fatah Buddha, he says that a friend of his who was in
the oath, money army, the Ottoman army.
And this was earlier on, he must have been an older person who had
been in the Ottoman army during the First World War. He mentioned
to him that they had been preparing for a particular battle,
they were preparing for a particular battle.
And every one of the soldiers had found what they thought was the
best place to
to build a
defense, maybe a hole in the ground, a trench, and then to
fortify it. So each one each group, each person had done this,
and it all set themselves up.
The commander came around to check everybody's positions. And this
particular individual, this particular soldier he had,
the commander really liked how he had
strengthened his place. And how he had,
he had a very good position.
So what he did was, he's a commander, right? He took one of
his friends in the Army. And he moved this guy away, it was his
trench, he moved him away, and put that his friend inside that place,
thinking that this would be more safe for him. And he moved this
man who had made this trench somewhere else.
And then, obviously, he turned away it was very unhappy. It was
by force and coercion that he had to move. He was very unhappy and
angry. However, when the war started, when the battle started,
immediately, they fired a rocket from that side, and it landed in
this particular trench, despite the fact that it seemed to be the
most protected. And that guy was killed in there, the friend of the
commander was killed in there and this person was saved.
So that's again, Allah subhanaw taala does these things sometimes
like this, but it's up to him, there's no guarantee. You can
never say that this is what's going to happen. You just have to
ask Allah subhanaw taala and then deal with it like that.
So this gives us some kind of unique experiences in the fact
that Allah subhanaw taala is behind everything. And in this
case, we can actually clearly see that there is a certain wisdom, we
can see the wisdom. In many cases, it's obscure, but it's belief in
Allah that will help us to manage that situation when you can't
understand something. You can't understand why something is
happening. But if you have trust in Allah, it'll just make it easy.
Otherwise you will be getting angry with everybody around you.
Okay, then, Allah Momo has to be he continues from that point
seeing what couldn't be hockey. Milan is it Gala? Who knew run
wobble, see your rotten? Always practice the truth. Always
practice the truth. The benefit of this will be that Allah will
increase you in your light and your insight.
Your light and your insight the light will be beneficial for us on
the Day of Judgment. And in this world, because on the Day of
Judgment, there'll be no light and everybody will need light. That's
why the Manasa tea and they will say to the believers
Nocta best
We know they come, let us take some light from you, killer Giro
whare, a consultant mizunara. Now you guys leave you guys leave
group behind you, you go and look for your own light source of
light. So all actions in this world will become a source of
light in the Hereafter. And of course, Insight person will become
wiser. That's as long as the person is always on the truth.
This is the benefit. Walter called me my yet more Obi Wan Han who do
not ever be of those people who
command that the truth be followed, but stays away
themselves from it. They tell us to do it, but they abstain
themselves, they refrain themselves, they can't do it
themselves. For who will be if me, then the person is going to return
with the sin of that were downwardly Mukti Rafi and he's
setting himself up for the anger of his Lord. Allah subhanho wa
Taala says Gabor mochten. In the law, he and da Kulu malata Fardon.
It's a massive lie and falsehood in the sight of Allah that you say
that which you do not do?
This has to be clarified that in the West, when they find the
minister,
who is
maybe to do with immigrants and so on, and then they find out
somebody who's
when you when you have a minister or something who
is supposed to be the Minister for Immigration and so on. And then
you find that he's actually using an immigrant as a servant in his
house. Right? cheap labor.
That's clear hypocrisy. He is supposed to be in charge. But on
the other hand, he's using an immigrant for cheap labor. So it's
a clear hypocrisy.
However, you get some who
it's to do with, for example, morality, and then they get caught
doing something wrong.
Somebody could make a mistake, they genuinely don't want to do
something. Hiring an immigrant is not a temporary weakness. It's a
proper decision, day after day, but somebody who fell to a
weakness
and then they call them hypocritical, when he may be
hypocrisy, but you have to understand people have weaknesses.
So likewise here as well, if somebody is telling others don't
do this, don't do that. But then they may commit this some time
with dislike, then that's not hypocrisy. They're trying. But
somebody who doesn't try at all and he's just going around telling
everybody wasn't do this, you mustn't do that you mustn't do
this. doesn't pray himself doesn't abstain from the haram. So this is
what this is talking about.
Especially if the person is saying all of these things just to get a
position to get influence to seem like a pious person, but he has no
intention of being a pious first.
One is that you can't do something yourself, but you want others to
do it because you hope that will affect you as well.
That's why it's bigger Omar they've mentioned in one has
Hakimullah Malamala, Tania Abdullah, he says that he had a
bit of an issue with anger, and thus he gave a speech about anger.
Firstly, telling himself so that is justified that if you want
change, you find this are too weak to do it when you want to create
an environment. That is fine. It's not clear hypocrisy is it? One
needs to distinguish between these things. Hypocrisy is really tell
people to make yourself look like you're pious, but you don't do it
at all. You have no intention to do it. That's what I think
hypocrisy is here. Not that you want to change and you want people
to change and you think this will help you change because when your
surrounding changes, then it's easier for you to change as well.
So that's what I think this verse means.
What God Allah Sula, he sallallahu alayhi wa sallam Manoir, alpha
welcome your 30th Was your over immunization. When a while me and
daddy for who are in the law he middle ha EB Allah who are LM if
this is a Hadith or not, because the editor mentions that he
couldn't find this hadith couldn't find the narration. But either
way, the wisdom in it is true. Whoever gives Nasi who gives
advice to others but doesn't take the advice himself has no
intention to do it. Right. Who senses others stops others but
doesn't stop himself who prohibits others but doesn't stop himself,
then he is of the losers according to Allah subhanaw taala. Now
that's clear.
He's not going to get any benefit out of that. Whereas the other
person who was trying and who's telling others as well and he
sincerely believes it should change, then he will be rewarded
for that, even though he's weak himself. That's why in America
many others they have said that if nobody was to sin, now, if you had
to be sinless to do a marble marble for nothing, and then after
Rasulullah sallallahu, alayhi wasallam nobody would be able to
do so.
Because nobody's pure
Oh,
that's why once IGNOU Omar Abdulaziz he wrote to one of his
governors about something that look, don't do this, don't do
that. And he says, I know that I am probably the one who has the
greatest shortcomings. But I'm telling you this.
So this is this is justified in that sense.
In fact, one poet says that they want people not to tell anybody
off unless they can stay,
do not prohibit anything unless they can fully be clean
themselves. They don't want anybody to do Ameren, Madhavan he
and Moncure. So that everybody can be the same, and nobody has any
guilty feeling.
So that's the intention of some people. Like why are you telling
them? That's why a lot of people they say, look, especially in the
West, where you're not supposed to tell anybody anything, this is
kind of the environment that we have. But it's very, very harmful,
because it then becomes prevalent, then we get caught up in it as
well if we don't. And that's why the Hadith mentions very clearly
that there was a punishment GBR Islam was told to bring punishment
to a certain area. And it was mentioned that, oh, there's that
particular pious person there. So Allah said, go and strike him
first way, because he is never we read that before. He said, Because
His face has never changed for my sake, meaning he's never seen
wrong and prohibited. This is becoming tolerant of wrong around
you. So now see how it is for everybody. It's not just for the
automa because our deen is not see a dino Naseeha.
And it's very, very useful when people can tell each other in a
nice way. Unfortunately, you can't do that anymore. It's just very
difficult to go and tell anybody anything. We don't even know how
to do it. But we should start and we should do it with the full know
and with the right kind of manners, and that's how the
improvement in our community will be. We start with our family and
we discuss and this is how Inshallah, we can help. It's just
there are certain rules to be followed. wisdoms. Wise ways of
doing this