Abdur Rahman ibn Yusuf Mangera – Muhasibi’s Risalah Part 15 Closeness to God through Daily Supplications
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Bismillah al Rahman al Rahim Al hamdu Lillahi wa Salatu was Salam
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the vicar of Allah subhanahu, WA Tada, vicar of Allah subhanaw
taala should not only be considered, just repeating his
name.
That is obviously, one way of remembering Allah by taking his
name. But what could actually happen is sometimes you are
reading something, you're reading the Name of Allah, but with no
connection to the heart, in the sense that the heart is thinking
about something else, the mind is somewhere else. Though the tongue
is repeating the name of Allah, while there is benefit in there as
ignored by Allah says that remembrance, taking his name,
without any kind of concentration is better than taking not taking
his name at all.
And it is very likely and very possible, that after having a
vicar with no concentration, you will develop concentration, and
then after that, you will develop presence. So, obviously, that is a
step by step approach. However, what is also considered the Dhikr
of Allah subhanaw taala along with taking his names, and remembering
his attributes, is also to praise Allah subhanaw taala that is also
a remembrance of Allah. So, for example, if something good happens
to us Alhamdulillah
not just as a figure of speech,
not just as a proverbial sentence but or rhetorical statement, but
all praises to Allah, like you actually think about that is the
vicar because you're remembering him. And that's what Allah wants,
in fact, to remember him at different times, as opposed to
just sitting down one time and remembering and forgetting him
like us, like you know,
Mother's Day or whatever, other days that we have like this, that
is actually superior because then you are remembering him constantly
throughout the day hamdulillah
tansy who who I'm really Kobe he which means you see something
awful, absurd strangers, Subhan Allah, you know, Allah is
purified. This isn't from Allah, this is, this isn't what Allah
wants. So again, you're thinking about Allah because Allah wants us
to remember him at everything.
remembering ALLAH SubhanA wa Taala is commands and prohibitions. It's
another one.
Not just as a fifth key point,
while there's benefit in there, but not just as a drive, key
point, dry juridical point, whether this is halal or haram,
but you're not thinking about a line that statement.
You just getting angry that somebody is that's good thing, but
it's not the same as thinking, Oh, look, Allah's command is being
violated.
One is you're looking down at somebody that somebody is not
praying. So you think law of them. That's not what we're supposed to
be doing.
We could rather think that Allah's
Allah's worship is not being done.
How can I get this person and encourage this person to
understand the beauty of Allah so the focus is always Allah, as
opposed to any kind of selfish motive
way according to the crew will call we will listen. And of
course, we know this, that the vigor can be obviously with the
heart and with the tongue.
What will Akmal
and joining between the two is more complete. Doing it with both
is the most complete, followed by just with the heart, followed by
followed by just with the tongue.
Because you there's more likelihood that you could be
distracted when you're doing vicar with the tongue, then when you're
doing with the hearts,
because with the heart if you're not doing vicar
I mean, with the heart, you can only do thicker. Otherwise, you
won't be doing anything, you'll either be doing thicker, you're
not doing thicker. Whereas with the tongue, you'll actually be
repeating something. And thus you think you are doing something and
you are doing something, but the heart isn't there.
But this does not denigrate vicar with the tongue, it just shows
that. That's just
if you can muster it with the heart because a lot of people
won't be able to master the heart. Because that requires a lot more
focus. Because there's nothing else that you can go by. It's just
either your heart is there it's not. Whereas with the tongue,
you're at least doing something you're getting used to saying the
name of Allah, and the name of Allah will have a benefit, and
eventually it will penetrate the heart.
Right. And when you're doing when you're doing with the heart, you
may be distracted. Sorry, when you're doing it with the tongue.
You may be distracted for a short while, but you will obviously come
back because you're doing something Oh, what am I talking
about? I'm saying something on my tongue. You know, you can't be
distracted for now.
Our
unless somebody's watching a movie while just saying Subhan Allah
Subhan Allah Subhanallah Subhanallah Subhanallah
Subhanallah they'll probably stop doing vicar, actually to be
honest. Right? So that's what we think. So for him many 30 Because
in many ways of dhikr, they actually start you off with the
tongue generally, and then they take you on to eventually the
heart.
Once a person gets used to it, and the, the Allah subhanaw taala is
named and
person gets used to it, then that's what happens.
Or superior form of vicar, the most superior form of vicar is
actually a Quran
there is nothing greater than reading the Quran, even more than
just sitting there doing a repetition of the Name of Allah or
something.
Now, for a lot of people, that would be surprising, then they'll
say that why don't the Sufi 30 Because just focus on the Quran,
well, they focus on the Quran, but they don't just focus on the
ground. Because again, the same thing with the Quran and the
heart. You could be reading the Quran, but you're not
concentrating on what it says. And a lot of people don't know Arabic,
the majority of Muslims in the world probably don't know Arabic.
So it's very difficult for them the exercise of reading Quran with
meaning, which means you have to have a translation there. Right?
But a person who knows Arabic Who knows the translation of the
Quran, who understands it has some kind of seal for anybody for that
matter to read the Quran with meaning with full concentration,
reflection, because the Quran is much more interactive than
anything else. It asks questions.
It petitions Allah for certain things, you know, Serato stopping,
makes you think if you're concentrating,
don't they think, don't you think? Where are you going? What's your
problem? You know, these kinds of other questions that so that kind
of interaction, that's why the process wasn't interaction with
the Quran. Even in his stage it was that whenever there was a
verse of wrath or whatever, he would seek forgiveness, he would
seek protection, whenever it was something of mercy and so on, he
was asked for that. So the Quran is supposed to be with full
concentration that can reach it because the Quran
imbibed in it a message, along with just the vicar because you're
not only remembering Allah, you're remembering him in how, and he's
speaking to you in that case. So there's a two way discourse taking
place in that. Whereas indica is generally a one way discourse
because you're just saying the name of Allah.
But to get to that level with the concentration the Quran is that
you practice with vicar so all of this helps.
And of course, there's many rewards for doing individual
records, and so on as well. So the afternoon Anwar is decreed.
The superior form of remembrance of Allah is the Quran followed by
remembrance in in general, and praising Allah subhanaw taala. And
then after that, all the rest of the doors,
all the rest of the doors are for the same thing that they remind
you about what we must think the most appropriate thing to think
the most appropriate thought about Allah at that time. So when I'm
about to eat, what should I be thinking about Allah, the Prophet
has told us, I am starting in the name of Allah and with his
blessing.
It's most appropriate. At the end, I'm saying Alhamdulillah Allah,
the Armineh or Sakana, which either now Muslimeen
all praises to Allah Who fed us, gave us to drink and made us
Muslims. That's the most perfect thing that you can think about at
the end of your food.
And this is coming from none other than then Rasulullah sallallahu
lyricism
again, what should we be thinking about? How should we remember
Allah before entering the bathroom, or the toilet? Again,
when we come out? Before milk, before everything before
traveling? What is the most appropriate thing to think about?
Subhan Allah, the Sahara, Luna hada. And what does that remind
you it gives you a debacle at the end of the day, glorified, be
Allah Who subjugated this for us. This animal we're riding on this
car we're writing that we're able to control it, it does our
bidding.
So Glorified is Allah who did this. So it's the most appropriate
thing.
And anybody who masters the doors with meaning
he could, he could get very close to Allah. That's just one way to
get to Allah subhanaw taala because with everything,
especially just make a list of things that we do, I mean, there
are mundane things eating, drinking, using the toilet going
to sleep waking up, entering the
House coming out of the house going to the masjid. These are
mundane everyday things that we do usual things, those doors we
should definitely know. So we come into the house
where is it? Allah Khomeini so Luca Hiral. There's two versions
Hiral wuhou Jeeva Halal haram or Halal Modiji were higher on
mythology Bismillah he well as you know, Bismillah Hara Jinnah, while
Allah He Robinette our killer.
Why Allah asked me for the best entry and the best exit. So if I'm
to enter the house, let me enter in the best of ways that I find
everything favorable and good for me it's full of blessing. When I
come out, it's the same thing. It's just very comprehensive
things.
And at the end, what Allah Who Robinette our kuleana. And we rely
on our Lord, only on our Lord do we rely in fact, that's what it
is. So just think of, you know, there's hundreds of 1000s of
doors. Just think of the
waking up and sleeping, that's to eating and before and after
eating, that's for
toilet two hours or six
Masjid doors, that's eight. Right entry and exit that is everyday.
Clothing is another one. Right? So that's nine. And then the house
entry and exit. That's 11. Anything else? That's like a
normal everyday thing.
And traveling. Right? That's that's 12
What else is?
Yes, they will do one Bismillah he before and after? That's 14?
Yes. If you're if you can hear that other than 14 It's 15.
Meeting one
I guess Yeah. But
fifth, so we'd say $15. At least. Now there is
looking into the mirror the sisters are suggesting I guess
that is important for the sisters. So 16
Yeah, I don't know how I probably look at the mirror either once a
week or something. But okay, that's about $16. If we can match
the $15 there's so many more, right? There's so many more. But
if we can muster these 15 That's all that's all it is with meaning.
With meaning
maybe we should compile this actually make it these are the
absolute basic everyday doors.
Just think of them meaning before and after what you do. So by next
week. Let's see. I mean, most of us should know most of these doors
anyway. So let's find out next time how much everybody knows and
how much we've been able to put into action. Insha Allah will try
to do that. It's very important, I think. So.
If no game continues, he mentioned the number of other guidances with
regards to vicar and the remembrance of Allah subhanaw
taala
the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam he says, was the most
complete and perfect of created beings. In regards to the vicar of
Allah, what vicar the Prophet sallallahu Sallam did how he
remembered Allah, there's nobody else more complete and perfect
than him. In fact, pretty much all of his speech, everything he did,
or he said was about the remembrance of Allah.
Reverence Allah means if you're speaking remember a point of fit,
you're giving a point of guidance that you're providing somebody.
If that is somehow related to Allah subhanaw taala with Allah in
mind that becomes a vicar of Allah as well. That's why the Prophet
sallallahu alayhi wa sallam said, could look Allah maybe any other
Marathi he learned who ill Victrola he OMA wala Hawaii, the
moon Omata Alleman.
Every single utterance and speech of a belief of the human is going
to be considered against him.
Basically, anything you say is going to be taken against you.
That's the default state.
Right? So just by the defaults, that anything you say is going to
be used against you. Then he provides a few exceptions. So
these aren't the exceptions This is the norm that everything's
gonna be used against you. Except the vicar of Allah Allah the
crolla except the vicar of Allah okay, that will be precluded. Omar
wha hoo.
And anything related to that anything conducive to remembrance
of Allah? Whether you're giving you know, whatever it is, that's
remember? Oh, lemon Omata lemon or somebody studying, teaching the
deen on knowing the deen studying the deen. So either an acronym or
metallicum Somebody who is known knows the dean and he's teaching
it because why else would you be an alum you know what you're
saying the scholar. Right? The Scholar can say bad things as
well. So he's talking about when he's in the dean. Oh Metallica.
or when he is studying
those are the exceptions and anything else okay you're gonna
say well what about joking around a bit?
So again if the intention is clear there that okay bit of Halal
joking is fine the person did that as well. Then that would be
understood to be as long as you know the presence of mind that we
have that this is this is fine as long as there is a boundary of
that joke and so on.
What he means by it's going to be a burden again she was going to be
held against you is that if Allah wants he can punish you for that
if it was out of place, because the color of the Imam Ghazali
Rahmatullah has Minch as listed 20 kilometers of the tongue. He says
his colleague on Jericho cathedral judo, it is
so small in body, the tongue out the whole body compared to the
hands, the the feet, and every other physical aspect of your body
is so small, yet it's crime is the most mighty. It can get get. It
says that to move it. You don't need any effort. Whereas to move
your hand eventually you'll get tired beating somebody up, you'll
get tired, but you can go on for hours, right with your time.
It doesn't tire It doesn't require any much energy.
And it can get to where the hands and feet can get. So the cannon
and the speech of our messenger sallallahu alayhi wa sallam was
all ready to Allah's remembrance.
Of course, he gave commands and prohibitions legislated for the
OMA. That is obviously a remembrance of His of Allah
because that is establishing the deen teaching people about the
deen that is all dhikr of Allah. How you're going to have Allah's
commands to be enacted in the world. That's all they could have
Allah.
He is informing the people about the names of Allah subhanaw taala,
his characteristics, His commands, his
his his actions, his warnings, his promises, all of that is
remembrance of Allah, His praising Allah for all of the bounties that
he's provided.
His glorifying Allah, His display of Allah subhanaw taala. Again,
all of the vicar of Allah, he's asking his making dua to Allah
subhanaw taala his humbly entreating Allah, all of that is I
mean, everything the Prophet sallallahu did was for the sake of
Allah subhanaw taala
In fact, even his silence was dhikr of Allah subhanho wa Taala
with his heart and that's why they say that the reason why you say
well Franco Allah forgive me after using the toilet I mean is nothing
wrong with using the toilet so why would you seek forgiveness is
because the profits or losses and couldn't remember Allah at that
time, he was so connected, it's like, oh, this time I can't. So
I'm going to make a stick far for that.
So the prophets, Allah Allah Islamization of the Allahu Allah
has said she, he would make the he would make vicar of Allah, in
every one of his states. In anything he was doing. He was a
vicar of Allah. But it wasn't necessarily the court of Allah
with the tongue. It was just in the way he carried himself.
In fact, his dhikr of Allah, the Dhikr of Allah would.
The vicar of Allah subhanaw taala, would apply to every one of his
breath, every breath he took, the Dhikr of Allah flowed with it.
Many, many, Allah ma different Allah ma have explained this
differently as to what that means. And thus they've come up with
different ways of how this could possibly happen. And one of the
ways which at least the Chishti has happened some others have is
pass and fast, which is obviously a Persian term, which means that
every breath is every breath is accompanied by the name of Allah.
Which is when you say Allah, you actually when you take a breath in
you say, Allah and when you're taking the breath out you say who
you do this obviously silently is always
as I shake
the shake monozukuri arm Teulada he had it so perfected that even I
think when he was sedated or something, he was still doing this
because it just becomes second nature to do this. A friend of
mine mashallah is a very I believe he's a Willie of Allah. From a
young age, he said he had his father was a teaching darlin
Berry. And he's an imam somewhere now, meaning the his son, my
friend. So he said, I heard this when I was much younger, and he
said, I started doing it from when I was 789 years or whatever. And
I'm assuming he's quite second nature for him.
So he's just
it's effortless. It's actually
effortless, and the name of Allah, Allah doesn't require parsing of
the lips, the lips just don't come into it. So it's just all empty
and just cause just the tongue to touch the top. That's it. Allah
just slight touch of the tongue. That's it.
So there's different different expressions of this. The Prophet
sallallahu alayhi wa sallam with every one of his breaths, he
whether standing or sitting, whether on his side, walking,
riding,
mounting the animal coming down from it,
where wherever he was, this liquor kept with him.
I'm not just going to do with liquor in my room after fajr for
example, that vehicle goes everywhere, wherever you are,
because it's something you can do anywhere you need.
And if you don't have to consult a book of liquor, right, and it's
just in your heart to stick in the name of Allah said and this be
hot, then you can do it whenever you want.
Allahu Akbar Allahu Akbar. Okay, so he carries on discusses some
other aspects of the Quran but what we'll do is we'll just spend
some time in
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medical Mr. Leith, Allah who may or have known Yamuna?
Subhan
Allah Who misogyny was salam ala Sayidina Muhammad why'd you say
you didn't know more about the adequacy
of Allah we ask you for forgiveness. Oh Allah, we ask you
for forgiveness. We ask You for purity or Allah we ask you for a
complete turning towards you. Oh Allah, we ask that you give us the
ability to turn towards you to think about you to remember you at
all our times in all of our states in whatever situation we may be in
our love. We ask you for your consciousness for your presence,
our Allah we ask that you treat us with Your mercy. Oh Allah grant us
your compassion grant us your grant us your blessing. Oh Allah
yo Baraka, O Allah, O Allah, day by day we do things. We have
consciousness of belief in you. But we are distracted. Oh Allah we
constantly engrossed in many other things. Other things distract us
and make us negligent. We ask you for forgiveness from this
negligence that we've had our law we ask you forgiveness for all the
sins we have committed, in whatever state we committed them,
whether in broad daylight, whether in public, whether in private, oh
Allah and especially those sins, that
that are stubborn and that do not want to go from our lives of Allah
there are certain sins that we may be committing that no longer do we
even think that we are committing sins of Allah we have justified in
men in our minds, maybe many sins, while we ask you for a discernment
and understanding while we ask you for
Dakota in our hearts, your fear in our hearts and also hope for you
in our hearts. Oh Allah we ask you for concern for our hereafter. Oh
Allah we ask you to protect us and our children from all of the
challenges that are out there. Or Allah in whatever country people
may be in whatever situation people may be in, we ask You for
relief. or Allah we ask you for your relief, we ask You for
relief. We ask you
to grant us Kadima on our deathbed and make all of the stages of the
Hereafter easy for us. Oh Allah bless us and our families have
Allah bless us in whatever we do. Our Allah grant us ease and relief
in this world grant us the best of this world the best of the
hereafter. Oh Allah allow us to come to your house over and over
again. Oh Allah, the masajid of this world and Allah the Haramain
Our Allah give us the trophy to come over and over again, and to
visit the Two Holy sanctuaries of Allah to allow us to visit the
Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam and Allah to bask in the
blessings and blessings of basking the blessings and lights of those
places. Oh Allah, we ask You that wherever we are in the world, that
you grant us your blessing. You grant us your blessing. You grant
us your blessing. And the fitna out there, the challenges out
there the difficulties out there, Oh Allah, they seem to be
increasing day by day. Oh Allah, we asked you for steadfastness and
strength. We asked you for steadfastness and strength. We
asked you that you keep our iman with us, you keep your love with
us. Oh Allah. Day by day people are losing their faith. Allah we
ask that you strengthen our faith, and you make us You make us of
those who can assist others and guide others. Oh Allah make us
make us make us a force for good in this world. Make us a force for
good in this world. Oh Allah protect us from all forms of evil
that are out there. And especially for us leading anybody to evil.
Oh, Allah opened up the path for us open up the path
After you, oh Allah grabbed us by the forelock and enter us onto
your path and intergender till fifth dose of Allah We ask that
you send your abundant blessings and our messenger Muhammad
sallallahu alayhi wa salam, O Allah, those who are sick and ill
among us so Allah removed that sickness and illness of Allah
those who have died recently we ask you for their forgiveness. Now
Allah those who have any difficulty in front of them Allah
we ask you for ease and relief from that difficulty. Oh Allah. Oh
Allah we ask You for Your Mercy to envelope us our love for baraka
and blessing in our homes, in our businesses in our work of Allah in
our life in our iman in our life in our iman you know life and you
know Iman, oh Allah bless our children *, our bless our
progeny until the Day of Judgment, oh Allah bless all of our all
those who are connected to us all those who are related to us all
those who hope for us to make dua for them. Oh Allah, we ask that
you grant them the best of Allah except this
except this gathering that we have here. Oh Allah make it full of
blessing. Oh Allah we are nothing we can't do much we just come
together take your name and expect and hope that you will reward us
for this and that you will fill our hearts with your lights you
will fill our hearts with your light and remove some of the
darkness is that we have in our hearts. Oh Allah we ask you for
blessing for all of those who are here and those who are listening
for Allah we ask you for full blessing and purity of Allah grant
abundant blessings and Your Messenger Muhammad sallallahu
alayhi wa salam and grantors his company in the hereafter. Subhana
Allah because I realized that you and I are seafood was salam ala l
Mursaleen. Alhamdulillah been around I mean