Abdur Rahman ibn Yusuf Mangera – Muhasibi’s Risalah Part 12 The Benefits of Righteous Company
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Smilla Hoffmann Rahim Al hamdu Lillahi Rabbil Alameen wa Salatu
was Salam ala so you didn't Marcelino early he was asked me
about Rocco was seldom at the Sleeman Kathira, you know, Yomi de
I'm not bad. We were going through a number of incidents and
individuals and personalities in our history, who
who's met me a present sitting in their presence would remind a
person of Allah subhanaw taala and give them concern and a figure for
the Ophira. That's why it's related about the famous Derby,
who everybody's heard of, I'm
assuming Muhammad Dibner serine Rahim Allah, the dream interpreter
of a state of the Quran, whenever he would pass by in a market,
place of absolute negligence. Anybody who would see him would
remember Allah, and then the market will just see him and they
will remember Allah subhanaw taala.
This is one of the hobby has related in study for Islam.
When he would remember death, then it says that all of his limbs
would be as if they did, meaning it would just all be focused on
Allah subhanaw taala.
I was speaking to a particular
scholarly individual the other day. And
he actually had another scholar research for him all the virtues
of Decker.
And what he discovered, because he was trying to create an hierarchy
of which gives you the greatest reward, he said, one of the
greatest rewards you can get from a vicar, specifically or not. When
I say greatest, abundant, I don't mean greatest Lila Hill, Allah is
the best vicar right. It's the most powerful. But in terms of
rewards, which you get the most reward for in multiplications. Do
you know what that is?
It's the one when you go into the market.
And what is that like ilaha illallah, or the hula? Actually,
Golan will Quran handy when you need to hire coalition and codeine
and how much is the reward. It's a million rewards for each one, that
apparently that Dicker holds the greatest amount of reward.
So then he said,
This is a very influential individual I'm talking about, he
says, I sometimes go into the market just for that reason.
Just to do those, they can see how many I can do.
And the whole reason is that it's a place of shayateen. It's a place
of seeing the Haram The dunya. Essentially, while a person has to
go, they're clearly what this hadith is telling you that it's
permissible to go in a market, but just have your priorities right.
It was not permissible to go in the market. You know, because the
Hadith, there's a hadith which mentions that the best places in
the dunya are the masajid. And the worst places are the markets.
That's just to discourage you, it doesn't mean that you can't go
there, people need to go there. Sometimes it's a market where you
get your needs of the dunya.
The other day, I had to go to
a meeting in Knightsbridge with somebody and for the first time in
my life I got there one hour early.
I just completely miss read the time or whatever the case is. And
I got the meeting was at 12 o'clock, I got the 11 o'clock.
No sorry, meeting was at one o'clock and I got there 12
o'clock. I got there. And I, the other person, another friend of
mine who was supposed to come the eye contact and said Sorry, I'm
late. It was around 11. So it is around 12 o'clock. And I was said,
I'm going to be a few minutes late. I'm still running late. So
he called me up. He says I haven't even left. So what happened is
this meeting is at one o'clock. And then that's when I realized.
So then I decided I walked to Harrods because Harrods is on that
street. And I said let me check the perfume department and the
fruit department. Very interesting things in there. But I felt that
this I can go in there and do this.
It's a market. It's a market. I mean, it's you know what I mean by
market is a place you buy things. So you go in there and you do
liquor, and you do what you have to do.
So I saw a few good perfumes and so the fruits was about 50 pound a
kilo, right? Very prohibited and no joke. They come within you know
you have things like mangoes from Reunion Island and these big figs
from I don't know which country things are brought in like within
48 hours and then they're sold at these exorbitant prices. There
must be people who are buying this obviously, right for you just go
in and pick these things up in just three 400 pounds is by
Subhanallah you know Fruitville
anyway, so
if you do end up going this is what the what this person said. He
said that sometimes I take my family to the markets and we read
a few of these
was a cello. Let's go back now. When you come for this reason,
just joking with them, but it's just to remind us that wherever
you are you remember Allah subhanaw taala so it was just from
this. Hassan Al Busey Radi Allahu Anhu likewise whenever he would be
seen people would remember Allah subhanho wa Taala and usher I
think no Abdullah, who's one of his students as a chef, if not
Abdullah one of Hassan bossy students says that whenever we
would go to visit Hassan Al Busey Rahim Allah, we would come out,
and we would think in significantly of the dunya we will
think that dunya is insignificant, he would just totally lower it in
our eyes. Units of no units have not obeyed says that. Whenever a
person would see Hassan Busey Rahim Allah He would benefit from
him. Even if he didn't see him doing any deeds, just by the mere
sight of him and just the way his composure was his demeanor was an
I think I may have explained this last time that this is all to do
with the node that is developed and the overspill of that node
that comes about from ALLAH SubhanA wa Tada when a person is
focused on the hereafter and does abundant vicar then you see that
it's a power of that that is being emanated while I'm yes Macula mon
even if they don't hear his speech even just by looking at him they
would they would do this. Somebody asked UNICEF have not obeyed.
Do you know anybody who can who does the same deeds as Hassan Al
bursary?
Anybody who does equal deeds to hassle boss of your MO Allah? He
said,
Allah he will he says wala he I don't even know anybody who says
the same thing as him can say the same things as him. So how is it
possible that somebody do his deeds as well meaning can be equal
to his deeds when just his words are so and he was very powerful,
he was not just a normal speaker. He was a very eloquent speaker, a
master of Arabic, very penetrating in terms of his effect, and very
eloquent in terms of his delivery, very efficient. So just in that
regard, with a heart that nobody could compare with him, so in
terms of his action, and then after that, he decided to give a
bit of a description of him and describe him. And he said, Ghana
either acapella fucka, and the whole acapella mean, definitely
Hemi me he, when he would arrive, it would be as if he's just
arrived after burying his friend.
You know, when you're in a reflection, when you've just
buried your friend, somebody who you're in, you got some Suhana, we
see we go to people, people's Genesis, people, we don't really
know, it doesn't affect most people in the same way as if your
own close friend or family died. Because then you feel a distance,
and then you feel I'm going to be distant as well. That feeling of
distance and loss of somebody you know, and now to think you're not
going to have access to them anymore, right? And the closer
they are to you, the more this effect is, then you we start
feeling the same thing towards other people that we will also
have to go one day, it's just a natural human reaction to these
things. Unfortunately, when you don't know the person, and you
just attend the janazah, then I'm assuming that fewer people would
be reflective. They do it as a duty. They do it. Because it's a
it's a good thing to do. And it's rewarding, but do you have the
same effect? Do we receive the same lesson from it? I doubt that
I would doubt the most people will do this because I guess I can only
you know, think about personal emotions in this regard. But
really, we should try to take a breather and lesson from every
single death. If the person is young than the concept of dying
young, if the purpose of personal purpose die if the person died
in difficulty through a lots of illness and disease, then that is
something we need to seek from Allah subhanaw taala to protect us
from and to give us refuge from so whatever the circumstances we can
reflect over those circumstances and then try to put ourselves
because the whole point is a sorry Do men were either betrayed. The
fortunate one is the one who receives advice from others who is
always constantly receiving advice from others. He doesn't have to be
told and reminded. But he is constantly on the lookout for
advice. And to Allah Allah subhanaw taala has made human
beings that we can literally take advice from pretty much anything
out there. Whether you see something entertaining
entertainment right which is supposed to bring happiness as
such, you know haram entertainment also bring joy to people. Well we
can say that hamdulillah Allah has protected us from this and may
Allah protect us from
falling into this. So everything can be a source of Abraham why?
either a jealous Africa who O'Meara be Darby rudaki. And when
he sat down then it was as if the command and decree had been given
that his head would be chopped off
what either do karate, Norfolk and Harlem to Kolok illAllah. And if
the Hellfire was mentioned in front of him than it would be as
if nobody else was created for meaning that he was only created
here that he was created just for the fire. How fearful that would
be. I personally believe this is a bit of an exaggeration, because
this makes it sound very sudden, sudden, depressing, right? But you
understand the purpose. We have to understand when we read these
kinds of comments. These are
comments of
what a person would pick out from someone. The person may not be
doing this all the time, and who am I to say that it's not
possible, but it may sound very depressing to some people. This is
not to say he was never happy that he never smiled, that he never
joked. I mean, that's
none prophetic Professor Prophet sallallahu sallam was seen as
being happy yet, there's a hadith about the price of awesome as
well, Canada imel Ficarra is constantly in a thought process or
is constantly thought in thought, and his numerous Hadith like that
about him, it just depends on who saw him and when they saw him. And
what they decided to mention at that time. We do this about some
people as well. But human beings go through various different
emotions. So I just want to put that into perspective.
All the EOD. In one of his books, it's mentioned he relates that
most even though Abdullah says that Imam Malik,
the great Imam of the month herb and the name of Madina, Munawwara.
If the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam was mentioned in front
of him,
he his color would change and he would bow down in a sense, he
would he would look down, he will become very solemn.
Until
this would be very difficult to take him by his,
by his people, by the people sitting around him, because it's
kind of uncomfortable that somebody's into this thought and
the interaction may have stopped. Somebody asked him about this one
day.
But why did you do this for they couldn't understand.
Now you have to understand who this person is. This is a person
who used to when he used to teach Hadith, he used to create so much
or because it mentioned that when he used to go to teach Hadith as
opposed to fake or anything else, when he, when it was to teach
Hadith, he would put a special Imam on it put special garments on
there would be a special place made for him. So there will be a
lot of ceremony in the process of Hadith teaching out of respect for
Hadith only. And he said that you could hear a pin it was Pin drop
silence in that gathering. Despite the greatest people being there,
there was a lot of effort, a lot of respect. So one day, while he's
teaching, his face is turning blue and red and you know, various
different colors.
And people obviously looking at this because they're looking at
him, but he's not flinching at all. It's just his, you could tell
that there's something going on, but he's not making much movement.
Later, he revealed that a scorpion got into his dress is his
clothing, Garmin, and had bitten him, I think it was 17 times or
something. But out of respect for Hadith, he didn't move. He didn't
flinch. He just preserved that. This is the kind of respect some
people have for generations. And it seems unbelievable. But after
seeing a few people with some extreme level of respect for
different things, you can see how that's humanly possible to do
this. Just because we didn't see him do this doesn't mean it's
deniable just because it seems just believable.
He says Lola eaten
llama and Katsumata Yama Turon.
He says, If you had seen
if you had if you had seen what I have seen basically, then you
would not consider this to be strange of me. What you see that I
get into this state when the price of gasoline has been it has
because I used to go to Muhammad Abdul Mancha, Amman Cardiff. I
used to go to Mohammed mancha who was one of the main Korra comedies
of the time, one of the great orlimar of the time. And anytime
we used to, we suggest about ask him about a hadith except that he
used to start crying
Think and until we feel sorry for him. It's just their way of their
emotion. Instead of you know, there's people who get emotional
when you mentioned
one of their relatives to them, that they saw into their relatives
or whatever the case is. Well, these people, their whole emotion
was focused on the Prophet sallallahu sirmon Allah subhanaw
taala
he said, I used to sometimes go to Jaffa even though Muhammad Jaffa
you know, Muhammad is Jaffa sodic
Radi Allahu Rahim Allah,
one of the family of has of the Prophet salallahu Alaihe Salam
what can I cathedral, Misa? He was the person. He used to joke a lot.
And you smile a lot. She's very humorous. But for either looking
at our Endo, Nabil sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, right?
When the professor Larson was mentioned in his presence is Dora
is is for we're going to call them at the vehicle because with an RT
montcada, he says, however, whenever the professor Lawson was
mentioned, then he would become green and yellow.
So this was just their respect and all that they would hold for the
price of awesome. Now this obviously shows you that in here,
he's actually taken both things in consideration. He didn't just
mention that every time Brussels was mentioned this, I was he told
him as a jokey fellow. So this is not to show that we're just all
these people were all depressing individuals, right? Welcome to
cold call, because certain, it says that every time I used to
find hardness in my heart, I used to feel that
I don't feel like doing worship, I don't feel into it. If we get we
go through those stages, right. Just don't feel right, you know, a
sweat and that's hardness in the heart. I used to go to Mohammed
Abdullah Moncada.
I used to just look at him once.
And so Hannah Ludd that would be enough of a dose for days, I would
receive so much benefit and not see him counsel just by looking at
him once. Right, that it would last me for days it would open up
my heart. This is the inductive benefits of the Olia Allah, that
just by their presence, they can do this.
Unfortunately, we're living in a world of entertainment, dramatic
events, and a lot of these things that require a lot of interaction.
A lot of display, nothing is good enough without music. Do you see
any programs on TV even the machines nowadays have to have
some kind of back if not instrumental music, they have to
have unfortunately some kind of vocals behind it right which sound
a bit like music or provide you that same
same kind of effect as music as such. In fact, even some of our
bands are like that these days, you know, at least clips that live
were online that there has to be some kind of okay, sometimes it
helps, right? These are all additions that help but
Subhanallah these were the people that they could benefit you just
by the mere presence and looking at them and these were people who
could be benefited that way. So it's both of these kinds of people
that were speaking about
Subhanallah they there's a wonderful poem it says that either
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what you never knew her Rica, Hoonah Cebu.
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when the pond the water reservoir becomes completely motionless in
its purity.
And it is protected from being
moved by the morning breeze. And hence it's very pure, very clean
and completely motionless. And still, then
the sky
will be witnessed in it without any doubt, without any fuzziness.
Likewise, the shot that likewise the sun will appear in it and so
will the moon. You'll see the reflections of all of these
things, because there's no turbulence whatsoever. He says
likewise Gallica would you who are Barbie digitally, likewise are the
faces of those who are in the Divine Presence. The people of
digitally right who have these unveilings in their purity, Allah
the Majestic can be seen.
Of course Allah cannot be seen anywhere, but it means that it
reminds you of Allah subhanaw taala now there's there was a
hadith before which we read
Edwin said that his speech should increase you in knowledge. Such as
the person who is close to Allah is such a person who, whose speech
should increase you in knowledge, knowledge that's takes you to
Allah subhanaw taala not just lots of data. So the very famous and
noble Sahabi Abu Musa al Ashanti are the Allahu Anhu says
the imagination come to God so who Abdullah who animus or who did not
the Allah one? Oh third goofy enough see me and I'm very
sensitive. How can you even say something like this? Right? He's
saying that the modulus the gathering the sitting in which I
would be with Abdullah Abdullah Masuda the Allahu Anhu you know,
maybe it was with him for half an hour, one hour, maybe two hours.
That is more, I have more trust and reliance in that than a whole
years of my own deeds.
I think I will get more from that much less than a whole years of
deeds in terms of
where it will take me that's what he's saying,
Oh, my deeds accepted. Are they done properly? Do they have
issues? Right? But when I sit with him, I know the sincerity that I
can muster in myself and the benefit that I get
achieve kind of people with easements SubhanAllah.
It's mentioned
in the last year to let Iran have called the Blue Halycon. This is a
very famous book by Abraham Lincoln. It's called wasa to Iran
meaning the death dates of the
it's basically like obituaries or death dates of the famous
individuals of the past. So if you need to know about when somebody
died when he was born in a basic This is one of those biographical
dictionaries it's very useful for scholars
he he's got an entry in there for the famous Therby Obaidullah
ignore Abdullah ignore to ignore Massoud Obaidullah ignore Abdullah
ignore Akbar even though Masaru
and he is one of the famous seven fuqaha of Madina. Munawwara so you
know, after the time, the Sahaba they were these were the famous
seven jurist of Madina Munawwara and he was one of them, right?
They were known as the famous seven right? So these famous seven
folk AHA See, we know that kind of famous five but nobody knows the
famous seven folk Aha, right. This is our state. We need that we know
the Enid Blyton stuff.
So he died in 102 Hijiri. Around the time, and I would have not
disease died. He would have Abdulazeez or himolla also died
around that age. So
actually Abdulazeez is the one who's relating this
that look at this number of NAB dilla Z's who is Subhanallah
right. Lai Hakuna imagined so many Obaidullah. Hubba elimina dunya on
mafia
that just one modulus with Obaidullah ignore Abdullah ignore
autobiography Masaru is more beloved to me than the dunya and
everything in it, like I get so much out of it. It just infuses me
it gives me food for the it's like I've gone to a petrol station and
I filled up you know with the high class petrol or diesel or
whatever, you know, this is this is kind of thing that they
understood that they could regulate themselves industry gun.
For us. It's just like our iman Uppada it doesn't even make a
difference like we're in the same state all the time in the state of
fluctuation. But these people could tell and they could tell
when the battery was charged. I had a very good meter within we
don't have meters or meters very crude, you know Subhanallah he
also said that Wallahi in Nila steady Leila to me Lady obey the
law Blvd Nariman Beighton man. Wala he I would I would pay I
would pay I would buy one night of Obaidullah.
If not Abdullah Abdullah of northwave number one of his nights
I would buy for 1000 dinars of the Beatle man
I would be willing to pay that much.
One dinar is about 150 pounds
140 150 pounds one dinar today. So 1000 You can imagine what the cost
of those?
They said yeah. Ameerul Momineen Takahama atta Herrick Matahari
Kaushik data, hopefully, you are saying this, like a person like us
saying this, despite all of your efforts, and all of the way, you
know, you preserve the deen and you know, all of your efforts.
He's saying that I would be willing and you know, what he's
saying here is that, remember what one of nagila Aziz did is that
I
After the dominant culture of the previous Romanians, he was part of
the Romanians, but he was a cousin of the main ruling family. And he
had become the Khalifa by accident. Right? Because the
previous one didn't have children that were old enough to take it
up. So what he first did was that his wife was the sister of cinema
demanded American, all of those guys that Abdulmalik number ones
daughter.
So he first gave all of her jewelry away in back into the
beetle man. Gone are the days he said, when we use this as our
personal bank balance. It's for the Muslim. So he first started
from home. So what he's saying here is that,
you know, he says, What's wrong with you guys? When they asked him
this question that somebody like you, you are saying this about?
Obaidullah ignore Abdullah?
Whereas you're so careful, you're so particular he said, Exactly. He
goes, What's wrong with you people? He said Wallahi because of
his opinion, because of his Naseeha. Because of his guidance,
I am able to bring back into the Beatle model of the muslimeen
1000s and 1000s It's because of his nasiha that I'm able to do
this.
You need an inspiration.
You need an inspiration.
I was talking to a prince recently, Prince have a particular
country. Right? very religious man, Mashallah. And,
basically, he said, Look, all you need really, as a leader of a
place is somebody with a good heart who wakes up in the morning
and thinks what can I do for the people?
What can I do for the people?
How can I help people today and be honest and just about it?
That's what you need. You just minimally need that the
selfishness gone.
And this is what you're seeing here. How'd you get that you need
somebody to give you an offseason?
That's why Munna Rashid all these people, some of their success,
obviously is that it was one incident where I believe it was my
own Rashida Haruna she was the to the father or the son comes to
Madina. Munawwara wants to meet all of the scholars, he meets them
and then he says to his minister, whatever he said, You know what,
I've got hardness in my heart. I feel turbulence, call me an alum.
So they mentioned the number of difference this is no No, not him,
not him. Because he's probably had interaction with them. And he
doesn't feel like they can benefit. So somebody then said,
Okay, there's a boo has him.
Scrape scholar Medina when he's a big Muhaddith as well. He said,
Yeah, bring him right. But take it easy, like, you know, don't go in
as like, you must come and all that. So they went to his house
and he hit
he didn't want to come.
Right, finally managed to come and the list is long discourse about
it. And he just gives it to him straight. Right? Because here the
first question he asked, why is it that we love the dunya we don't
have that.
So he said is because you know, you've you've inhabited this world
and made it beautiful. So you like it, and the hereafter one, you've
left it desolate, so
you don't feel any relationship to it.
Right? And he was the longest discussion. So they will do this.
So you need inspiration in your life. You can be wherever you are,
everybody needs inspiration in their life.
That's the main thing because that's our battery charging. That
is what makes the heart
Subhanallah that's what it is.
So he said because of this, how much I'm able to benefit
1000 1000s into the beta month.
And he says that
in his discussions he's he's talking about obaidul live now
Abdullah says in his discussions in his discourses, it refines your
intellect, the lucky handle illogical, it gives you sharpness
in your intellect to how you should look at things from an
accurate perspective. Not in a fuzzy dunya perspective that is
ambiguous it tells you how to sharpen your intellect and how to
give comfort to your heart in what you're doing that I feel
comfortable about doing this
what the three handle him and he removes your cares it gives
satisfaction to your worries and concerns and of course what then
the handle Adobe
and reforms your character that's what he used to benefit from.
That's why somebody has poems appoints as well Mr. Buck a two
minute warmer Bucky to mean a lava T il Mohammed atta to return
either we'll call it
the only pleasures that I have now is that I like to. I like to
discuss with men who have an intellect that's the only thing
that gives me pleasure. Nothing
Ask gives me pleasure just to sit with somebody who will help me
out, who will give me a better understanding of things. That's
what I need. And you know, anybody who's high up there, this is their
pleasure. Even if it's for the different reason, it's mentioned
about Bill Gates, for example, that, you know, if you go to sit
with him, anytime they can let it go sit there, if you're even able
to sit with him, he'll just dismiss you. Like, even if you
have to have a meeting with him, he'll just be doing something else
and you won't even be paying attention. The only way you can
grab him and catch his attention is that if you speak about
something that is up there to his benefits, then he'll give you his
full attention. That's what some people said.
Right? This is just how people when they've understood their
purpose, whatever his purpose is, right? hamdulillah Allah has given
him tofi To help billions of people become big philanthropist,
right. But
this is when they get really particular by so people who are
focused on the hereafter and ALLAH subhanaw taala then they know
where this benefit comes and they're willing to pay gold for
it. May Allah subhanaw taala grant us that kind of benefit and
company may Allah subhanaw taala grant us that kind of inspiration
around about their their jewelry with the Quran Allah Mia how you
have the human medical studies
along me know me I'm Ananda you know who learned this for Hanukkah
you know, couldn't have enough volume in along with Sunday was
sent me mine so you didn't know him. Eduardo. You say you didn't
know Mohammed or vertical Salam, O Allah, we ask You for acceptance.
Oh Allah we ask you for acceptance of the scattering. Oh Allah for
all those who are present who are listening. Oh Allah, we ask you
for forgiveness of Allah, we ask You for Your compassion. We ask
You for Your Mercy of Allah we ask you to for us to be able to return
to you. Oh Allah for us to be infused with your Lord and your
light and to be inspired so that we can have a life of full of
obedience and to be protected from disobedience of Allah make your
obedience, beloved in our heart, and our low disobedience hated in
our hearts. Oh Allah, we ask that you gon guide us right in whatever
we do. You grant a Satoshi to live a life full of Taqwa and of purity
of Allah that you make it easy for us to avoid the wrongs that are
out there. And the wrongs which have crept into our life. Oh Allah
and the sins that have become second nature to us that we don't,
we no longer even sometimes considered to be Siddons anymore.
While we asked you for insight we asked you for understanding of
Allah we ask you for tofi that well now we ask you to grab us by
the forelocks and interesting to Jin. And Allah put us on the path
of the people of Jin O Allah put us into the path of the people of
jell O Allah fulfill our permissible needs of Allah protect
us and our children and our progeny until the day of judgment
of Allah grants and relief to our Muslim brothers and sisters around
the world of Allah we ask you for we ask you for your assistance we
ask you for your help of Allah we ask you for unity among us. Oh
Allah, we ask you to fulfill our permissible needs whatever
obstacles we have in front of us that stop us from practicing your
faith or Allah remove them. Make our surrounding our family, our
work environment, and our social environment of Allah make all of
that conducive for our faith of Allah the challenges that we as
Muslims are going through, in this in around us and people around the
world that will now we ask you for relief from those problems grant
us strength or Allah grant us the strength or LeBron to strength
grant us conviction in our deen of Allah grant us the Kadima La ilaha
illa. Allah grant us that grant us a smooth transition in all of the
stages of the hereafter and a place high levels of genital shoot
dose of Allah and we ask you one final thing that you send your
abundant blessings upon our messenger Muhammad sallallahu
alayhi wa sallam, and you grant us his company in the hereafter.
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