Abdur Rahman ibn Yusuf Mangera – Muhasibis Risalah Part 43 Wine and Vice Switched Off
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Somebody asked,
How do you avoid? How do you avoid showing off, especially if you're
a person who is productive is gifted in some way? Right? If
you're gifted in some way, you're gifted student, a gifted
individual, your value that work, people praise you, you get praises
every now and then.
Then how do you be sincere to align that?
So number one, they say, don't give up the work just because
you're insincere. That's the shaytaan ones. They don't want the
good work, if it's good work, at least,
carry on the work and constantly be conscious that I'm doing this
for Allah. So this is the benefit number one, I'm doing it for
Allah. Why? Because Allah is the One who has given me this. I
didn't have to be here. I didn't choose to be gifted this way.
You know, there's a lot of other people who aren't as smart as me,
who aren't as savvy as myself. I am savvy, I am smart. That's why I
got this but who made me smart and savvy? Oh, it's in your genes,
because your father and mother's smart, who did that to them? How
far you're gonna go to try to attribute it to somebody other
than Allah subhanaw taala. So always think this is this is what
really helps me to think at the end of the day, if I'm doing this
Alhamdulillah Thank you, Allah for giving me this opportunity. It's
all yours Alhamdulillah Alhamdulillah.
That's very, very important.
And number two, what's going to see how to think this way, the
easiest way to get yourself to start thinking about this is to
increase your remembrance of Allah if you don't
sit down and take the name of Allah and do vicar of Allah. Then
why would you think about Allah. That's the benefit. When you sit
down and you do any form of vicar. What that does is that you're
putting Allah in your heart. So then when the time comes, Allah is
easier to remember.
It's easier to focus on Allah. That's what I find because the
name of Allah soften the heart. So that shaytaan Khan, overcome it
and make it hard and focused in the wrong direction as easily
because the heart is soft. When you see when you do the care of
Allah the benefit will be that
you will attribute things to Allah rather than yourself. Because when
you remember a lie softens the heart. So the arrogance is
depleted and minimized. The pride is reduced and the connection with
Allah growth that's the benefit of it.
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only that knowledge and that action is going to be satisfied
with by Allah subhanaw taala is going to achieve satisfaction.
That is based on Yaqeen that is established with certainty.
So anything of our deen as we know has to be established with
certainty.
So its basis has to be certain. Its basis has to be proven. We
can't make things up about how we please Allah subhanaw taala they
have to have a basis. So when we want to devote ourselves to Allah
and offer Allah subhanaw taala some worship either it must come
directly from the Quran. And so now that the Prophet saw some
said, Do this, or Allah says do this, and the Prophet sallallahu
alayhi wa sallam said this is what you get rewarded for if you do
this directly, clearly. For example, Prophet sallallahu alayhi
wa sallam said after the victory La ilaha illallah
the most virtuous vicar is La ilaha illallah
and Subhan, Allah Alhamdulillah and these they will fill up your
scale on the day of judgment. And if you do salawat and the Prophet
sallallahu alayhi wa sallam
You said one blessing. Salawat means Durood means blessing. You
are asking Allah to send blessings on the Prophet salallahu alayhi wa
sallam. That's essentially what drew Sharif is, when you say
Allahumma Salli, ala Sayyidina Muhammad as we just did, like, Oh
Allah send your blessings on Muhammad sallallahu alayhi salam.
And the most amazing thing is that the process and doesn't need any
more from us, Allah has given him enough and as promised him enough
and has showered him with sufficient and will shower him and
as promised him. But I think this is only to benefit us because
number one, it reminds us of who Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi salam
is
because then we remember him.
Every time you send blessings on the Prophet salallahu alayhi
salam, and especially when you hear the virtues of sending
blessings on the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, and
how people's lives have improved, how the blessings have increased
in their homes in their life in their health. When they've started
to increase in the blessings on the Prophet sallallahu sallam,
somebody says that they just started 100 times after every
prayer.
And they said, amazing, things started becoming so much easy and
facilitation. Lots of ease came in and so on. So what it does is that
it connects us with the Prophet salallahu Alaihe Salam because we
remember him. When you think blessings, why would you send
blessing on somebody that you can't connect yourself with? Why
would you send blessing sit there and 100 times say Allahumma Salli,
ala Muhammad, if you had no affinity with the Prophet
salallahu Alaihe Salam, if you didn't care for him? If you did
not respect him, you revere him?
Why would you say that? So when we do this, we're honoring the
province or we're trying to May Allah accept it from our
unclean mouth sometimes they'll accept it.
So but then Allah promises the promises and said whoever sends
one blessing like that on me, I'll Allah will send them 10 Blessings
SubhanAllah.
So, all of these things are known. Number two, you can also do those
things which are inspired through the Sharia inspired through the
Quran, so they may not be directly mentioned, but they don't but what
you're doing is not going against anything. That the Quran sunnah is
telling you.
In fact,
it goes in accordance, like remember the Name of your Lord and
you find different ways to take the name of Allah that you find
effective that comforts you.
Yeah, Allah,
Allah,
you know, or just in your mind, you're just thinking about Allah.
Allah says, take the name of your Lord. He didn't say how.
You know, it's not restricted. You, your tongue should be.
Your tongue should be constantly moist with the remembrance of
Allah. If that's the case, then your heart. The tongue is supposed
to be just an access to the heart, a pathway to the heart. The heart
is really the place of vicar because it's Allah be Vickery
Allah He taught to my inner Kulu
it's the hearts that gain tranquility through the
remembrance of Allah the remembrance can be made in any
way. So you can have remembrance with your tongue Subhan Allah Al
Hamdulillah, Allahu Akbar recitation of the Quran. This is
all thicker, that's supposed to it's all supposed to go to the
heart. Number two, you can listen to the vicar and that should go to
the heart. So you don't want to read you just want to listen to
the remembrance of Allah, whether that be Quran recitation or
something else.
Number three, you just want to sit in Makkah and look at the Kaaba.
And remember Allah that way. You can memorize the Quran, you can
just think about Allah, then that's direct man. That's very
difficult because thinking, there's a lot of competition in
thinking, especially when we live in a distracted times. So in a
way, you could have a test B and Say Subhan, Allah Subhana Allah
Subhanallah because you've got to remind that this B is a reminder.
It's it's keeps you on track, even if your mind wanders, you're still
doing the tongue. But you see, you can can disconnect the tongue from
the heart. So you could be doing vicar but your mind could be
mashallah wandering around many other places. But if you are then
trying to do the call with your heart, where you're just the
whole, your focus is thicker, you know, saying anything with your
tongue, you're doing a thorough meditation, it's going to be very
difficult because there's too much competition. So you will be doing
it for a moment and then Sunday will get distracted. Another
thought will come in your mind. Something as simple as is anybody
watching me?
Or that noise? So you can hear that noise. You become dizzy when
you think with your heart and you're not distracted or you're
trying not to distract yourself from anything. What happens that
you become more aware
Have everything around you. Otherwise that child making noise
we can't we couldn't hear him. But suddenly when you said
now you can hear them.
So that's the challenge of the curry the heart but if it's done
well then that is the most powerful speaker because it's
where it's supposed to go to. It's the hearts that connects
Allah subhanaw taala didn't look at your bodies. That means the
tongue or whatever it looks at the heart is that they could go into
the heart.
So, anything that is established everything Quran, sunnah, or
inspired by the Quran, sunnah does not go against the Quran, sunnah,
then you can do that.
So first, he says that only that will be accepted only that Allah
will be satisfied. Why if you make up your own way to remember to
think that that is the best way to remember Allah subhanho wa taala.
Or that's the best way to do a worship to Allah.
That if I go
instead of hydroxyurea, if I go to a certain other place and go
around
that particular tree, I know nobody's crazy enough to do that.
But, you know, that's essentially how things come in. That's
extreme, then you don't get any reward for that. In fact, that's
completely wrong, they won't there's no satisfaction or even
accepted, then he says, it's very interesting. He makes it seem like
something that you establish on the ground like a tree. So he says
that, firstly, any deed must be established firmly with certainty,
through the Quran and Sunnah through Allah subhanaw taala, then
its
branches can only prosper through truthfulness. So you have to be
truthful in your approach, which means sincerity in your approach,
then it will go up to Allah subhanaw taala. And you will have
branches from that trunk. So the action starts off with certainty
being established on Quran soon, then after that, you have to have
a class and sincerity to let it prosper and let it get somewhere.
And then he says worth tomorrow Bill water in Alberta, who, then
if you want it to flower off the branches, if you want the flowers
to appear, and it be adorned, then you need scrupulousness You need
to be particular, you need to be careful, you need to be
precautious.
And then, after that he mentioned the number of other things, the
importance of compassion, the feeling of compassion and softness
in the heart.
Then he talks about fear.
The fear needs to also be there otherwise, what's going to happen
is that you could be affected negatively.
You have to put a veil of fear that maybe Allah subhanho wa Taala
will not accept it.
Unless I do it well.
Unless I satisfy Allah and do it for the right reason.
So he says, Don't don't accept for yourself, don't be satisfied with
yourself for doing things in a language fashion, in a lazy
fashion or in an excessive fashion in the wrong fashion.
Because there's no excuse for anybody to exaggerate, to go
overboard or to have shortcoming. You can easily do it. And the
other thing is he says that you need to do it properly. Because
Allah subhanaw taala is independent. He doesn't need
anybody. So we need him so that's why we're trying to make an
effort. May Allah keep us on the straight path. The next piece of
advice he gives is why LM LM inside that hill Murray husana
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what Sophia called the Mojave woman Aurora de la Hui Hiren. What
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he says Know that if a man is going to be fortunate if a person
is going to be considered fortunate in the sight of Allah
subhanaw taala then he gets hosts no near his intention starts to
become correct and beautiful and excellent in everything. Why am I
doing what I'm doing?
Ramadan is coming Why am I going to focus in Ramadan on these
worships? Why am I going to recite Quran so I can say I finished five
grams, three Quran 15 Quran one Quran you know whatever standard
you set for yourself you know some people they the group of people
who just about finished a Quran so for them yes mashallah I finished
the Quran and which is good hamdulillah as long as not for the
sake of showing off. And if your half is of the Quran, then you
want to do it 1015 times that's one time I only did it one time
there's nothing if your half is of the Quran and everybody's half is
you only did it once. You know, for the group that you're in, it's
that's nothing. So then the competition is 510 15 times. So if
you want to be a fortunate person in the sight of Allah subhanaw
taala excellent, Neil X
intention for that which is by Allah subhanaw taala that's very
very important. I want to achieve what's in Allah and is exactly
what the Torah says and tells us about Ramadan man sama Ramadan
Iman and whack the Serbian who fear Allah Houma taka Dominionism
Whoever fasts Ramadan
we all first Ramadan that that's because everybody first Ramadan so
we first Ramadan will feel really weird to be a Muslim and not fast
that's not good enough
if our intention is just Muslims have too far so you know I'm just
going to fast just for that reason otherwise and I can't be that
messed up that I don't even fast
you know I'm not that messed up now we need to have a higher
aspiration
Why are you fasting so the prophets Allah gave us an example
he said the whoever fast in Ramadan with iman so obviously
he's not staying hungry for no reason. He's not staying hungry
for diet purposes.
You know, mashallah we have many non Muslims in the affinity with
Muslims, they got Muslim friends, they also fast in the month of
Ramadan, they also withhold eating, because there's not a
bother aspect in there they might be doing for their own, you know,
your particular personal, spiritual reasons, but there's no
faith in that so you can't be Iman. But then the prophets are
awesome, said 87.
Which means in anticipation,
it didn't say into anticipation for what you can fill that in.
What are you anticipating from Allah? In your fast this month?
What are you going to anticipate? Are you anticipating reward?
Are you interested anticipating blessings, forgiveness, mercy,
assistance, happiness, Janna, satisfaction, good life company of
Rasulullah sallallahu sallam, all of those things,
you can only be limited by your intention. So I think it would
really really be beneficial if we can focus before our first verse
at least before Ramadan begins. So as Ramadan begins, these are all
the reasons I'm fasting, I expect because fasting is for Allah, it's
that one deed which has to be for Allah can't be any two ways about
it. Why? Why would you stay hungry if it was for someone else.
You just eat and just tell them fasting,
right eating secret, just tell them you're fasting.
You know, if you are going to stay hungry, then there must be some
element of it being for Allah subhanaw taala. You know. So Allah
rewards with it directly. So if we have hope in Allah, that he's
going to reward us in all of these different things. And Allah has
abundantly and he's generous as well. And he likes to give them
he's going to give. So let's hope for more. Let's go for more.
That's why he opens up the doors of Paradise.
Doors apart paradise. And then he says, Look, I'm going to give you
an example of what I like to give in Ramadan. All of your first
worships which you're going to have to do in Ramadan. If you're a
practicing Muslim, I'm going to increase it 70 times, like just
one to 70 straightaway.
Just to give us an idea of what kind of thing is installed in
Ramadan what Allah wants to give?
When do you think out of the whole year? When do you think Muslims
are most generous? When do they give the most in Ramadan? Why did
he give you the most in Ramadan, because of the special blessings
because Allah is Most Generous, the Prophet salallahu Salam was
most generous. So we become more generous, it's an effect of your
belief that you're able to give more, right? Either because of the
extreme rewards or you just feel better about it or because you're
fasting and you feel whatever the cause is. So Allah is Most
Generous you can't compete with Allah can't compete with this
messenger. So if people are so generous, and they feed so many
people in Ramadan, and they give so much sadaqa and Zakat and
everything, imagine what Allah is giving.
So, you must have houstonia femur in the law have an excellent
intention of what Allah subhanaw taala has what tofi called the
Mojave. And
if somebody
another thing which is among the fortunate things for believers is
you are enabled to do those things which Allah loves, you naturally
feel inclined.
And you get to do things that are beloved to Allah subhanaw taala
that's tofi CLI Mojave Tofik means you're divinely inspired to do
that which is beloved to Allah. So if you feel like I must pray and
pray is of course, beloved to Allah. You're divinely inspired.
Like I must fast I must assist others. I must be a good person. I
must be
restrain myself. I must avoid being harmful to others, I must
avoid cursing and swearing, I must avoid expressing bad conduct to
somebody. I must avoid cheating, swearing, I feel guilty about
that.
All of those things are beloved to Allah subhanaw taala. If that's
the case, that means that you've been given to faith. Now that's
where it gets scary that if there is something good, we know it's
good, but we don't feel like it is difficult for us to do. That means
the full Tofik isn't there. The full enablement isn't there, and
it can. And if we had enabled can just imagine this, you know, when
you go into the,
the wine aisles in supermarkets, if you're a person who likes to go
through, you know, you go to a shop somewhere, I mean, like
Costco or somewhere like that. And you just go through all the aisles
if you need something, right. I mean, of course, if you're a smart
shopper, you know exactly what you want, you know exactly where to
get, you don't want to look at anything new, then you just go
there and get those things, right. Some husbands are like that they
have a list, they have no idea how to shop, they just go in and pick
up the first tomato sauce that they've been on and the wife tells
them off. That was the wrong one. When you check, there's five
tomato sauces you get in Tesco. Right? You pick the wrong one and
the most expensive one. I didn't need that one. But you pick the
cheapest one.
But others they like to shop. But you know, when you get to the
whiners, there's two three whiners, you just have to ignore
them. Do you feel bad about ignoring them?
Do you feel like let me just check it out? At least? No. Why? Because
the switch is closed. There's no There's no Vista in our mind,
there's no switch Hamdulillah you know how much money saved? How
much harm is prevented, that you don't have to worry about those
aisles. When a person looks at his, he's got a absolutely
beautiful sister.
An auntie a daughter, he looks like there's no shower, there's no
desire. It's closed, that door is closed.
Looks at others, it's a temptation.
But here it's closed.
That's the beauty. If our behavior can be like that, if our internal
emotions can be like that, where when it comes to good deeds, it's
open. We want to do them we enjoy doing them. And when it's
something bad, don't feel like doing that. Or it's easy to avoid
them. I don't know. I mean, there's always going to be
challenges. There's always weaknesses, but the more wrongs
that we can be switched off from the better. That's so fake from
Allah subhanaw taala is developing an immunity is developing an
immunity. Somebody asked
how do you avoid? How do you avoid showing off especially if you're a
person who is productive is gifted in some way? Right? If you're
gifted in some way, you're gifted student, a gifted individual,
you're valued at work. People praise you, you get praises every
now and then.
Then how do you be sincere to Allah and
so number one, they say don't give up the work just because you're
insincere. That's what shaytan wants. They don't want the good
work. It's good work, at least
carry on the work and constantly be conscious that I'm doing this
for Allah. So this is the benefit number one, I'm doing it for
Allah. Why? Because Allah is the One who has given me this. I
didn't have to be here. I didn't choose to be gifted this way.
You know, there's a lot of other people who aren't as smart as me,
who aren't as savvy as myself. I am savvy, I am smart. That's why I
got this but who made me smart and savvy? Oh, it's in your genes
because your father and mother's smart, who did that to them? How
far you're gonna go to try to attribute it to somebody other
than Allah subhanaw taala. So always think this is this is what
really helps me to think at the end of the day, if I'm doing this
Alhamdulillah Thank you Allah for giving me this opportunity. It's
all yours Alhamdulillah Alhamdulillah
that's very, very important.
And number two, what's going to see how to think this way, the
easiest way to get yourself to start thinking about this is to
increase your remembrance of Allah if you don't
sit down and take the name of Allah and do vicar of Allah. Then
why would you think about Allah? That's the benefit. When you sit
down and you do any form of vicar. What that does is that you're
putting Allah in your heart. So then when the time comes, Allah is
easier to remember.
It's easier to focus on Allah. That's what I find because the
name of Allah soften that
heart so that shaytaan can overcome it and make it hard and
focused in the wrong direction as easily because the heart is soft.
When you see when you do the care of Allah, the benefit will be that
you will attribute things to Allah rather than yourself. Because when
you remember Allah soften the heart. So the arrogance is
depleted and minimized, the pride is reduced. And the connection
with Allah gross, that's the benefit of it.
Then he says woman, Arad, Allah who be higher on whoever Allah
subhanho wa Taala intends good for
whoever Allah intends that he wants to give him something good
will happen. Holy mackerel, this is really interesting. He says
Allah will give him intelligence. So that means that all the very
intellectuals of the world and the intelligent people of the world
they are
given a gift of God, well, that is a gift of God, but they're
missing. Not all of them are valuing it and using it in the
right way. Some of the criminals are very gifted with a certain
type of intelligence to figure out how to run the scam, how to cheat
somebody, and how to commit a fraud,
that if very intelligent, they could have had to PhD, some of
these people, they're very, very intelligent.
But now that's not the actual here is the one that thinks straight.
The Arkell is the one that thinks prudently for the hereafter, any
intelligence that is just focused on the next 5060 years of this
world of their life or the world, or that is restricted to this
world is not good, good enough. It has to take the next life and the
future into consideration. That's proper intelligence. Otherwise,
the short sightedness
because it's a reality to be in the next world. And everything we
do here is going to impact the next world. So if somebody is just
focusing like if you tell the student right who's just focused
on today of just passing the exam, this is as soon as gone to
university and he's focused just to pass the exam just he's not
caring about the kind of job he may want to look for the position
he wants to be in what he wants to do with his degree is want to pass
that short sightedness isn't it and you've got another student,
his focus is the reason I'm studying this well, is because
this is going to help me in that job that I want in that position
I'm after. That's what you call more intelligent. So that's why
likewise, because the hereafter is going to come, it's inevitable. We
believe in it, it's our belief and so on.
Then we better focus on that. So we've had to do everything in this
world, our intention needs to be for that world as well. That's
proper intelligence. That's the intelligence that
he's speaking about to where he says that whoever Allah subhanaw
taala intends good with, then he gives him an alkyl. We'll have
Baba la Hillel. And number two, what he does is that he makes
knowledge beloved to him. Sacred Knowledge, beneficial knowledge,
knowledge, knowledge, that is supposed to take you where things
are beneficial for you, which is knowledge of the Hereafter, and
how to make this world the greatest benefit for the sake of
the hereafter. That's essentially what it is. That's why
what the old Mr. Right Is this they say that if you've got
you know, there are some certain commitments we must do in this
life, right? In our deen. Those are called Farah is Farah, right
obligations, that there's no negotiation with that we must do
our salads and fasting and so on. Once you've done all of that, then
there's a number of optional acts that we do.
Give me an example of optional act.
So optional, x would be like Knuffle prayers, optional prayers
that are not obligated optional fasting, what else is optional and
praiseworthy
charity. Another one is,
in order to in order to do the obligatory acts like Salah and
fasting and Hajj, and so on. That also includes obligatory
knowledge. Because if you don't have obligatory knowledge you want
to your Salah properly, you won't do your fasting properly.
You won't do purification properly, you won't do your
business properly. So if you have a business, then it's obligatory
for you to learn the basics of business rulings, that much is
obligatory, it's not just an option, but then to learn beyond
the optional things,
right optional knowledge, more Hadith about different virtues
that are not obligatory. So if you compare now knuffel worships and
knuffel knowledge
so you know how to pray and everything. But you don't know the
Syrah enough. You don't know the fear of the Quran, you know,
that's not enough. It's not it's not obligatory along with you
know, enough to get by, in your belief and public worships that's
it
Now, but this is optional. So, if you had time just for one thing
and not the other, what is superior? Do Knuffle prayers or
Knuffle studies
like taking a class once or twice a week, or every day for that
matter of the CRO arky extra Aqeedah or Hadith or extra Syrah
or something or spending time doing nettles. What is superior?
Why LM an HD Ivana been Filati mineral enemy of the luminal HD
have already been Filati minyul a bada know that occupying yourself
with optional knowledge pursuits, is superior to occupying yourself
with knuffel worships.
While other Vertica Emanuel orba, our room in a cell clean in Islam.
This is the position of the four Imams and all the other great
pillars of our religion. Many of them actually did both. So it's
not mutually that I can only do this but they just giving you a
scenario. If I can only do one I can go to that class or I can do
another prayers which will go to the class and learn something. Of
course, correct intention everything. But when he scholars
they talk about like YBNL Josie, he speaks about how difficult it
is because he was trying to get to high levels of a bad extra Eva,
not just few extra novel prayers, lots of Knuffle prayers, spending
that half the night in something and also studying for so many
hours.
So he says he's so tough. I want the best in here and I want the
best in here.
And it's so difficult to do.
Imam Shafi student whose name was
Robbie Imlil Sulaimani Marathi Robbie is one of his most famous
students that you know we have Imam Abu Yusuf and Imam Muhammad
for Imam Abu Hanifa.
So Robbie is one of those Imam Shafi. He says I heard Shafi
saying tolerable LME, for the Lumina, Salah Tim nephila
studying something new of sacred knowledge is superior to praying
Knuffle prayers. This is not just random university courses. This is
proper sacred knowledge we're speaking about.
Imam Al Kashmiri
says in his commentary of Sahil Bihari he says what I don't care
for the al l
don't reject and deny
the virtues of sacred knowledge for in murdy can What about Hanifa
Tara Hema whom Allah Tala the hubba Isla and Alicia Viola below
me leader Manish still don't even know I feel
both Hema Malik and Iman Abu Hanifa Rahim Allah they were of
the position that occupying yourself with knowledge is
superior to occupying yourself enough well if it's one over the
other.
Imam Muhammad had two opinions about this. One is that LM is more
for Lila and the other one is jihad was more for Lila. So he he
had that person because that was the meat of the time. Right? It's
related.
The Abdullah the son of Muhammad even though humble Rahim Allah the
son of Imam Muhammad, no humble, it says abou Surah Razi, a big
scholar came to Baghdad, remember when I didn't know humbler was in
Baroda, and Razi is from Ray, which is near Tehran today. Right?
He came, and he stayed with my father. Or close to my he stayed
with my father.
And he would do lots of they would they would talk about knowledge a
lot. He would be teaching study, right. And he said one day I heard
my father during that period when that Sheikh visited, you know,
like you have a big shoe when they visit especially in Ramadan or
some other time, right. You know, they come stay for one or two
weeks or whatever. I don't know how long he stayed. But Imam
Muhammad son says that I heard my father saying that marsali To
Leona hadal for today have not performed any Salah except the
fourth prayer
is thought to be Madonna, karate, Ibiza Allah and our theory. I
preferred
to have this
teaching and studying with Abu Zahra Razi Overmind. Now I feel
today, there's numerous stories of it. Inshallah, we can try to cover
that some other time. But don't get this wrong. The idea of this
is that if you're sincerely and genuinely circuit seeking good
knowledge, and because of that you can't do worship. For example,
Imam know we had 12 lessons a day, an hour lessons, 12 lessons a day
back to back. Where did he get time to do anything else from I
don't know
Once Ebner Josie says that they used to be from one lesson to the
other. And they used to try to eat the most basic food.
And he said once I decided that I want to buy some fish because I
saw some fish guy selling fish, it looks really good. So I bought
him, took it home and had another class I went there, another class
another for next few days. Because by the time the fish got rotten,
and I wasn't able to cook it, that's how they are what they are,
and that's how they've done I mean, I'm not saying everybody
must do it that way, but Subhanallah it's inspirational
man. It's very inspirational. May Allah give us the Tofik to study
for the right reason. And may Allah subhanaw taala accept us to
do those things which are for those things that he loves. Okay
with that 100 Allah Hi Robin Alameen Allah who met in the Santa
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now Allahumma salli ala Sayyidina Muhammad sallallahu alayhi wa
salam Allah homophily Muslim you know when almost imagine what
meaning it was want me to hear him in one word? Yeah Allah have mercy
on us. Yeah, Allah we ask for your generosity or forgiveness we ask
You for Your tofield for your enablement to do that which
pleases you or Allah protect us from that which
you are displeased with make your worship beloved to our hearts make
your
disobedience hated in our hearts. Yeah, Allah, Allah we want to do
good. We start the day thinking that we want to do good by the
evening
we have turned in a different direction. Oh Allah protect us
from denial protect us from negligence protect us from
indulgence in the wrong things protect us from excessive desires
protects us from shortness, shortness of vision, in what is
really beneficial for us, allow us and grant us good intellect, sound
intellect, that Arkel which focuses all the way to the
hereafter, as ambition and goal is you have Allah make our goal. Your
Pleasure, make our goal your love of Allah grant us your love and
the love of those whose love will benefit us in your code of Allah
bless us during these days so that we can have everything ready for
the month of Ramadan so that we can benefit from this month of
Ramadan that is coming up our Allah make this Ramadan like no
other before it make it better than any before it oh Allah except
from us. Our Allah bring us close to you in this month of Ramadan
protect the entire world protect the entire Muslims of Allah the
entire Muslim community remove the subjugation and oppression Oh
Allah bring back in sunny Earth and humanity to the human being of
Allah assist us and protect us from the disease that is still
going around our Allah help everybody and except
from us, whatever little we offer you and accept us all for the
service of your deen Subhan Allah be corrupt belies that Yamuna,
Yossi Fong wa salam when I was listening, you know Al Hamdulillah
Robben Island.
The point of a lecture is to encourage people to act to get
further an inspiration and encouragement, persuasion. The
next step is to actually start learning seriously to read books
to take on a subject of Islam and to understand all the subjects of
Islam at least at the basic level, so that we can become more aware
of what our deen wants from us. And that's why we started Rayyan
courses so that you can actually take organize lectures on demand
whenever you have free time, especially for example, the
Islamic essentials course that we have on the Islamic essentials
certificate, which you take 20 Short modules and at the end of
that inshallah you will have gotten the basics of most of the
most important topics in Islam and you'll feel a lot more confident.
You don't have to leave lectures behind you can continue to live,
you know, to listen to lectures, but you need to have this more
sustained study as well as local law here and Salam aleikum wa
rahmatullah wa barakato.