Abdur Rahman ibn Yusuf Mangera – Muhasibi’s Risalah Part 14 Comfort in Allah’s Remembrance
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Bismillah al Rahman al Rahim Al hamdu Lillahi Rabbil Alameen wa
salatu salam ala l Mursaleen. What he was taught me he or Baraka was
a limit to Sleeman girthier on Eli Yomi Dean Emeritus,
we were discussing the remembrance of Allah subhanho wa taala. And
how
Imam Maha SeaBIOS saying that if you continue perpetually with the
remembrance of Allah, you will gain his closeness.
I mentioned yesterday as well that a program that
we constantly speak about a speak about loving Allah subhanho wa
Taala being close to him. But that's sounds like a theory and a
concept that
we don't really have to put into action, we think you have to
people have various different ideas of how that may be achieved.
But as I mentioned, that it was just aside from your father if and
generally avoiding haram, and
impermissible things and if somebody does, then you make Toba
and you feel guilty about it. Aside from that, what we really
really need is to
have a regimen of liquor, which we're supposed to be doing,
you know, a bit of a stiff fire a bit of Salawat bit of Quran
reading,
a bit of private meditation time with Allah subhanaw taala.
That is really what helps to keep the inside warm and recharged.
Otherwise, you don't feel the closest because then our salaat
and everything else that we do become just a routine.
That's the problem with it. And it's guaranteed that anybody who
does these things with some kind of concentration, these extra
things, for about three or four weeks, the condition of your heart
will start changing. I mean, it's empirical science is simple, its
straightforward. It's just about making sure you do it with some
kind of concentration, of course, concentration, some care, at least
some amount of and the more concentration, the greater the
benefit.
Allah subhanaw taala is unseen.
And hence our physical actions or physical actions, but it's really
the heartfelt actions that are really going to connect us with
Allah subhanaw taala. So it has to have a spirit inside it in the way
it's done.
So we were going through the benefits that vicar of Allah
subhanaw taala provides.
So I'll just mention a few more here
saying, Well, what a singularity birdie would have done to her.
It's the most simplest form of worship.
You don't have to do anything physical for it, you can just say
it with your tongue that said in your hearts,
yet it is the most superior of those forms.
Well, Hirasawa Jana, it is the plantation
of paradise. Every vicar we do every speak, we read, it gives us
something in place of it in Ghana.
And of course, this doesn't have to be said but it's an additional
point which is that it protects the person from forgetting Allah
subhanaw taala.
When you do, vicar, of course it's going to protect you from
forgetting Allah subhanaw taala but that in itself is an
objective.
Because Allah speaks about those people who forget him.
Now so Allah for answer him and for some, Allah subhanaw taala
made them forget themselves
forget themselves, they forget themselves in the sense that they
don't really know what's beneficial for themselves. So they
may be well aware of themselves in terms of their worldly self, but
their real self of the Hereafter they've they're totally oblivious
to that they have no time for it.
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Mithila.
And another thing is that vicar can vicar spans all times and
states you could be lying down and as Allah mentioned, is actually in
praise that those who remember Allah standing sitting on their
sides
so it's not even bad that if you're lying down, you remember
Allah subhanaw. You don't have to be sitting in a particular place.
Somebody is lazy and doesn't pray. So that's standing that's lazy.
That's wrong. Because that ritual worship requires standing
frustration, but just dickering, generally supposed to be made so
easy that you can do it at any time. That's the whole idea of it.
And there is nothing of any other worship similar to it.
Well, who are not only lab defeat dunya who are covered here well
Maha Shri, it is also the knower of the servant in his dunya in his
cupboard and on the day that he will be gathered. This will work
out as a light because in this world, it works. How does it work
to work as a light in this world? The more thicker you do, the more
discerning you become of what's good for you and what's bad for
you.
So there's less chance of
there's basically less chance of us making wrong decisions, you can
still make wrong decisions. But at the end of the day, you know,
what's beneficial for you What's harmful for you. Sits gives you a
healthy approach to things in the dunya, spiritually healthy
approach to things in Kenya, of course, in the grave, it's a light
because it will provide
the door to the window to Paradise, and it won't be dark.
And then on the day of judgment, you need it because the only light
there will be the light of Allah subhanaw taala will be he told you
Lama dahulu Amma who lived they were acquired who what a Hulu
you could do deeds, you know, you can make your soul out and you
could do lots of other things, which are deeds which many of us
do, especially the practicing people do. But if you have no
thicker than these acts have no light in them. They're lifeless
forms
of murder saw don't go in.
They just forms existing forms, which we know we go to the ground
we bow to that we bow on the ground, we read Subhanallah
bailarina
but if we don't have remembrance of Allah in any of these things,
then it doesn't have a light. Well who are out so we lie at the water
Ico and this is the essence of Wilaya if you want closeness and
friendship with Allah subhanaw taala then there's no way no way
you can get it without remembering Allah.
The more you remember Allah the more Allah will take care of you
because we lie means to take care of someone. That's what it means
to be a well you have Allah to be friend and take care to be in the
care. What are the haha it's the path to Wilaya
if we can't even do 100 is too far in the morning and evening 100
through Sharif in the morning and evening. What kind of vicar do we
expect? What kind of Wilaya do we expect? When do we expect this
path and this door to be opened up to us? Well, you see to her little
kalbi, it removes the
removes the problems of the heart,
the dust and everything else that settles there from the bad things
that we see. Not just dust, but the smears, the the blotches, the
paint of everything else that we see that paint our hearts.
Were you for rebou MUMA who MUMA who?
You it will dissipate
the cares concerns griefs and worries of the hearts.
How do you think it's going to do that? You got to worry in your
hearts about something that is concerning. You do the current
supposed to remove it?
That sounds like a great idea. But how?
Well the reason is that
if you if you think about a grief or a worry, it's a mental state,
isn't it? It's a state of being people go through hardships. But
the way one person reacts to a hardship is very different from
another person, how they react.
A person who has a lot of support behind them fares much better in
dealing with hardships than a person who is alone.
More than a person who's alone in this country, no friends, no
family. And they go through something as simple as a
complicated pregnancy.
I mean, that's quite, you know, and it's their first pregnancy.
It's very complicated for their family. What's going to happen go
hospital discharge, and that is difficult. Well, let's just say
that one some part of your family is in hospital, your mother, your
father or somebody.
If you're alone, it's going to be very different because you feel
helpless you because you every individual has many other things
to do somebody's becoming sick and going up having to go to hospital,
or whatever the case is, is abnormal. It's not it's not the
normal routine of your day. What about your work? What about
everything else that you need to take care of when you have
support? And everybody shares in that support? That you
psychologically just feel more in control and better and that you
don't feel so let down so depressed?
Likewise, if a person has in his heart that Allah subhanaw taala is
there all of this is happening for a reason? Because this question
still remains why is this happening like this?
And some people go to the extreme of saying, was it only me that
Allah found
to do this thing to
all the worlds will see but comes upon me. There's some crazy people
who say these things.
When you understand Allah subhanaw taala you remember him and you
begin to love Him. He will give you openings in that make you feel
much more comfortable and better because your trust will be there.
That Allah Allah is there he helps, he helps.
So it's just about feeding support, feeling that somebody is
there to take care of you. And that's why even though I busted
Allah says that when you
if you are mindful of Allah, Allah will be mindful of you follow the
law, how you felt.
If you are mindful of Allah, Allah will be mindful of you. The
difficulty may remain,
the difficulty may remain,
but your control of it, the way you react to it is going to be so
different from the other person.
It's going to be so you're going to be in control. You're going to
take this as Maha Sabha as a means of earning reward for the
sovereign patients by which you have to deal with this numerous
ways that you will be able to fit in this much better.
Then he says, will you not be able to call them in? No, me he, it,
vicar wakes the heart up from its sleep.
It awakens the heart from it's sleep.
It's sleep of offline saying we're very much awake, externally doing
everything running around, getting things done achieving attaining
things. But when it comes to the heart, there's no focus on it
whatsoever.
We're used to middle Merde for well, world gelila
And of course then once you get into the thicker then it will
provide you the fruits
of various states of knowing
various states of knowing Allah, you get to understand Allah much
better. mirdif Marisa is knowing Hola. The more we know him,
meaning how the more we learn the more characteristics of his will
recognize the more we will see him around us his his hands in
everything that happens. We will see his subtle planning. All of
these are my if
you will see the beauty of online places you will see the jalala and
Majesty of Allah you will see the assistance of Allah, you will see
the mercy of Allah before these things may have been around but
you never noticed them. And thus you never thanked Allah. Now
you're studying all of these things. While while gelila give
you it will give rise to great states states of the heart where
you feel much better.
While the Euro Kalibo meme with Cody and it's a fact that anybody
who remember someone else is considered to be close to them.
Like anybody watching somebody's always speaking about the iPhone,
you know, the particular comic or model or whatever, then you must
be very close. So it'd be nice to for people to say that this is a
man of Allah.
You know what better characteristic and description can
you have to that and say, Man, the guy's infatuated with iPhone.
She's infatuated with her handbags or whatever the cases
or iPhones for that matter, because women do that as well.
Right.
Now, rather have a have our association with Allah. Now for
some reason, man he is infatuated with Allah. So when he thinks of
as what he talks about
and if people don't see the angels will see it at least and Allah
will see it
well, la humara, who
the verkeerd is close to his, the remember is close to the remember
his remembered one, and Allah is with him. And the most honorable
of creation to Allah is Monday as a man lie as early sadhana Waratah
been men decree law, the one whose tongue is constantly moist with
the remembrance of Allah subhanaw taala
and again that does doesn't have to be with the sweetheart though
that is probably the highest form but even speaking about Allah,
bringing a line to conversations, yes inshallah we will do that.
Yeah, Allah will take care of things.
God bless you.
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It removes the hardness that comes upon the heart.
It removes the eliminates the hardness it's soft and the heart
and the heart is hard. It doesn't take in anything. It's not porous.
So a thicker does is that it makes it porous to the Anwar the lights
from Allah subhanaw taala.
It also attracts the bounties of Allah.
It attracts the bounties of Allah and it repels that it repels
the calamities
and then a few other things that happen is what you do salata
Allahu wa Mala Mala salah.
like you're on my left you gotta hit
1000 within a melodica T Subhana, Allah Verkehr see anybody who
remembers Allah
then
Allah remembers him and the angels pray for them. So what it will do
is it will necessitate Allah, sending blessings because Allah
salata of Allah means the blessings that He sends.
And his angels, they will pray, they will praise this person.
While Majelis will decree majority swill, Mala Ekati worry about will
Jannetty and any gathering of vicar,
or the gatherings of liquor, other gatherings of angels, and they are
the gardens of Paradise. And that's what we tried to do every
two weeks.
That imageless just completely completely dedicated to the
remembrance of Allah,
you know, not for any other kinds of doors, not for any, because
Hamdulillah we have those things. But unfortunately, we don't have
Majelis avec.
You know, among all of the classes that are taught ficken can Tafseer
and everything massages, have sealed classes, could have fit
classes, but how many gatherings of vicar do we have?
And in the middle period, during Islamic history, you had you had
many, because there were many, many practitioners of spirituality
in that sense. And they felt it was important to have a gathering
of vigor today if you have a gathering of that you have to
justify it.
You have to justify it that yes, this is okay. Because it seems so
abnormal people to be sitting together and doing some kind of
degree even if silently. Right? And if you do it loudly freaks
people out.
Right? How many times we've had to deal with somebody saying what are
they doing in cyber, right, but even silent because people aren't
used to it. Yet Melissa liqueur is the other Jenna's mentioned by the
Prophet sallallahu alayhi wasallam.
We ask Allah subhanaw taala to make this uh, this little
gathering we have every few weeks you know, to make that a place for
angels and reorder Jana.
In fact, what he's saying now is that we're Jemmy all early in the
machinery earthly economy, the decree law he to order all actions
every action that we have is has been legislated to establish the
remembrance of Allah
to institute the remembrance of Allah. Hakim is Salah tele Vickery
established prayer for my remembrance. But we established
prayer we don't remember a line.
That's why we have to have this other regimen that helps us to be
focused. So it's not just in solid. Unfortunately, our primary
focus a lot becomes fulfilling the certain conditions for tea
rulings, and so on which are important.
So then we forget the vicar element of it, because that's the
most difficult element of that it's easy to learn solids, but
it's very difficult to learn solid, in terms of what is
supposed to be gained by it.
What of the leuco Li Li I'm Ellen exaro, whom Fie, fie, Linda he the
Quran.
The most superior
of the people of any action,
you don't like solid performance or whatever.
The most superior or the most superior of them is going to be
the one who remembers Allah Most in there.
So, all the people of Salah to do lots of solid, the one who's going
to be the superior among them is the one who does the most vicar
the most thicker is going to have a better solid his solid is going
to be full of thicker so it's not a mutually exclusive thing that
you do. The thicker no solid
but the more thicker you do, the more solid which is the place for
vicar will become more
will become better.
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constantly engaged, engaging in vicar
will can stand in the place of numerous bodily worships,
worships, monetary worships and the combined worships of the two.
For a person who is constantly in the vicar of Allah, sometimes it
can be higher than many sadaqa and other worships that we do relief
work and all the rest of it. But the
Best is that to train yourself and then to do all of those works and
thus fill them with vehicle as well. So you have sadaqa that is
full of sincerity. You have relief work that is full of a class and
sincerity. That's really what we want the end of it. These are not
mutually exclusive things. Okay, a few more. Well, who are your EAN
or other authority law? No doubt no doubt, remembrance of Allah is
going to assist you in
worshiping Allah in obedience to Allah.
If you're sitting down doing decurrent, remembering Allah
subhanaw taala you're not going to miss prayer, you're not going to
miss You're first going to think I mean, I'm doing something Nephal
an optional, that gives me so much pleasure, why can't I do what's
valid? Well, you say local law,
which I dealt with earlier, which is that it will facilitate an ease
or difficulty, how you deal with it, your confidence in dealing
with it will increase.
While you Yes, Cyril Omo, it will make matters easy
to deal with.
Because when you understand the fleeting nature of this world, and
the real world is of the Hereafter, then if you don't gain
something that you went out to gain is a big deal. It's not
wasn't really helping the hereafter anyway. Um, there was
nice to have, but if I don't get it, it's okay. Allah will give me
something else
where you have to work your co workers and people behavior, but
then he gives the person remembering, it gives him a
strength in his heart and in his body, the body follows the heart.
If you have strength in your heart, your body will follow,
you'd be a lot more confident. Generally speaking.
I think that's a lot too. But the main thing is that we must become
regular Miss few days and under mister you know, few occasions,
that's understandable. But there has to be a regular timing. And
you know, the best way to do that is to have a regular timing in
which
it's not an arbitrary time, it's when I wake up, this is the first
thing I must do, okay, sometimes you might wake up late. So maybe
you know, you can do a bit or even miss that day. We'll try to make
up later. But on a general basis, there must be a time when it's for
nothing else, why should it be secondary that you will try to fit
it in,
it needs to be primary, and you will find out eventually. And
start from a bit, it doesn't have to start from one hour. That's too
much too. You know, that's very difficult for people who are very
busy to throw in one hour and sacrifice an hour of other things.
Because busy people probably have all of their time accounted for
already.
So start with 10 minutes.
But then move on to a good 20 minutes. If you don't have 20
minutes, it's not, there's no mother in it. Because, you know,
five minutes later, you don't even get into it. There's no warmup, I
mean, there's a warm up in everything, you have to get
inside, relax, sit down, get focused.
And then you start seeing something, then you'll go off
track again and then you have to get back into it. So if you do
maraca even for five minutes, then it's over and you haven't done
much if you do it for 10 minutes, then you'll have you know a good
one minute or two minutes and then you get distracted and get your
butt cell back on and you have another one or two minutes of good
stuff so at least within that you'll have a good period
but if you're just going to sit down for a minute you're literally
sitting when is the time up and then you just leave.
So you need you know like just start with 1520 minutes a day
and then at least have half an hour of the minimum
or whether that be the last part before you go to sleep. So if it
is and you dedicate that time before you go to sleep at 11
o'clock half 10 Is my vicar time sleep a half 1111 o'clock is made
because some days you'll be very very tired you may fall asleep
but that's fine.
Just do it the next day but have a time in which it's dedicated time
for this otherwise you're going to be struggling all your life
nobody's gonna say I don't I don't I can't do it. I can't do it. It's
not gonna happen. And you said you didn't have a vertical Selim
Subhan Allah Allah Allah Allah Allah Allah herb
of Allah we ask You for Your Mercy of Allah we ask You for Your we
ask You for Your compassion. Allah we ask You for Your forgiveness of
Allah We ask that you don't let any of us return here without
complete forgiveness of Allah grant our hearts taqwa and purity
of Allah grant is closest to you, Allah, Allah grant us people
around this community around us that is conducive for your worship
and your obedience of Allah. We run into difficulties day in and
day out. We asked you for assistance. We asked you for help.
We asked you for Dolphy O Allah, we asked you for your care, O
Allah, O Allah. We ask that you open up our path to you, of Allah
grant us.
Grace Brantas those around us that assist us in worshipping you. Oh
Allah protect us and our children. Oh Allah protect us and our
progeny until the Day of Judgment. Oh Allah.
Move the difficulties that face us in worshiping you. Oh Allah we ask
you for a complete cure from both our spiritual and physical
illnesses. Oh Allah.
Those of those of us who are those that we know who are ill, and it's
my mother's was in hospital. Although we asked you for a quick
and complete relief with Afia Oh Allah we ask for because you are
the Shafi you are the giver of cure our law everything comes from
you, or Allah it's all in your hands. Oh Allah we ask that you
remove these illnesses remove these problems, remove these
difficulties, and oh Allah grant complete shifa, complete cure to
both the smiles mother and to many, many other people that we
know who are sick and who are ill grant relief to our brothers and
sisters around the world of Allah who was suffering persecution. Now
Allah those who have just had a child, oh Allah grant them baraka
and blessing in their children. Make them the gladness of their
eyes, make them the coolness of their eyes, make them open up the
door of Wilayat for them, and oh Allah grant them protection and
all of our children protection. Our Allah we ask you for your
help. We ask You for Your Mercy, Your compassion, of Allah, we have
many sins, when many sins that we continue to commit that keep us
away from remembering you that make it difficult for us to
worship You. Oh ALLAH that make it a big task and with great
difficulty, to remember you have Allah grant us times in our day,
grant us the heart that will allow will that will remember you that
will find it easy to remember you have Allah that will make it easy
for us to remember you grant us a love of obedience in our hearts
and hatred of disobedience in our heart of Allah grab us by the four
locks and put us on the right path and to do the right things. Oh
Allah grant is blessing in all the permissible projects that we have
permissible ambitions and goals we have our law makers, useful
people, our law makers, beneficial people, our law makers, beneficial
people, Oh Allah grant us the ability to assist others. Allah
grant us the ability to help others and oh Allah. Whatever
projects we have in front of us, allow us to fulfill them properly.
Oh Allah grant us a halal and lawful income. Our Allah grant us
a good life. Oh Allah with Taqwa with Eman O Allah grant the US the
final Kinema La Ilaha illa Allah on our deathbeds and our Allah
grant has a long life on Iman and health of Allah grant has a long
life and Iman and health and Allah any difficult situations we're
having difficulty in our lives so Allah remove them, or Allah remove
them. Allow us to do the right things allow us to do the right
things allow us to do the right things.
Oh Allah make the best moment of our life the moment that we stand
in front of you and grant your abundant blessings on our
messenger Muhammad sallallahu alayhi wa sallam Subhan Allah big
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Hamdulillah.