Abdur Rahman ibn Yusuf Mangera – Muhasibi’s Risalah Part 7 Tests and Trials A Doorway to Bounties
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Bismillah R Rahman r Rahim Al hamdu Lillahi wa Salatu was Salam
o Allah say you didn't know Celine were an early he or Sufi or Baraka
was seldom at the Sleeman cathedral Ilario Medina Amma beret
wala for the Raha E for in the hubba ujjal. Rob will be now we're
in the lab, the soil as usual, Rob will be better
when you have prosperity, don't exalt and don't get too excited
about it.
Because gold
because gold is
generally tested by fire,
tested by fire, or you could say
it is purified by fire.
And likewise, the righteous servant of Allah the righteous
slave is purified and tested through difficulties.
So
he's saying that what a tough Robbie Raha when you have
prosperity, when you think you have an opening and lots of things
are available to you, then don't get too excited about that.
Don't start thinking that you actually close to Allah subhanaw
taala. Because if you are close to Allah subhanaw taala, just like
gold, which is considered to be very valuable. In the sight of the
one who has gold, they consider it to be very valuable, and those who
don't have it also considered it to be valuable. But how do you get
gold that is very, very good. How are you going to make sure that
your gold is the purest of the gold that's out there, because
gold comes in many different forms
2420 23 point something 23 and goes down to 18 and 12, and so on
as well.
So, the way gold is tested is generally through burning it,
extreme heat is applied, and it causes
the gold and any other components that are mixed to it to melt and
then to separate through the different weights is a procedure
that they use. And it's put back in a few times to make sure that
it's purified completely until they get what they call 24 carats
of gold. Likewise a servant of righteous servant of Allah is also
tested through difficulties.
And the more difficulty the more burning that goes through the
gold, the gold as much burning as it goes through. That's how much
more purified it can become. Likewise with the servant of Allah
subhanho wa Taala it's the same kind of thing.
That's why it is a narration that is related from Imam Hakim by Imam
Hakim in his mustard rock.
Which Imam the hubby has also considered to be a Sufi narration
Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa sallam said that in Allaha la
mujer Rebo a header can build Bella what what will be Camilla
usual reboot ahead to come the hubba Hubei Na, Allah subhanho wa
Taala tests, each one of you are test some of you with difficulties
with tests, trials, challenges. And he is well aware of how he's
doing this. So it never goes out of hand. Or sometimes you may put
somebody under test situation and then you walk off and then
the it gets out of hand. Because you're supposed to switch it off
at a particular time or you're supposed to bring it back in the
joke was supposed to have stopped. But then No, your test continues.
And it goes goes out of proportion. Now with Allah
subhanaw taala he knows exactly how he's doing it. It's very
measured. He is never negligent of it. It's completely calculated.
Just like one of you maybe
using his gold and taking you through the same kind of process.
So anyway, the result that you get out of that gold, and thus by
extension, you should consider that to be the extension of the
servants as well. Is I mean who am I? Yeah, who would you get the
Hubble Avery's some of you will come out as absolutely pure gold.
That's the hub a breeze. That's pure gold, absolute gold. And who
is that person? What is the sign of such a person for that equal
Edina Joe Hola Hola. Hola. Mina say you're
such a person is the one who Allah subhanho wa Taala protects from
all evil deeds.
That's the person who is the most heartless and pure. I mean who am
I? Yeah, how did you can maybe do another trick. But then there are
others who come out to be gold, but they have a slightly inferior
degree to the purest form for vertical learning. Yes. Should go
back the Schottky. Yeah should go back to the Schottky. That is
somebody who has a slight bit of doubt his conviction is not there
yet.
Is 100% is conviction is not there.
Well mean who am I? Yeah, how'd you get the Hubble S word but
there is also some that comes out as black gold. Right
It doesn't refer to oil. Here it is today that's called black gold.
But this means that it's not as pure, it's mixed further dhikala,
the cut off to Tina,
that is the one that still challenged.
The other day, we read something very interesting about your team
conviction. What even though Josie says about Yaqeen is that
anything that you associate with in the VA here in the apparent
world,
anything that you see around you, all of that is VA here, all of
that is apparent. So what he says is that anything that you see
around you, that's going to be apparent. And what you see with
your eyes is going to give you a lot more conviction, because you
are experiencing it, not just with your belief with your heart, but
you actually seeing it, you can feel it, you can touch it, you can
sense it.
And the accurate issues, they are always going to be weaker, for the
person who is more focused on the volume.
However, any person who is able to develop his Yaqeen, then his
conviction can get to such a level that they can be actually more
stronger.
They can have greater,
they can have a greater reliance on the rave and the unseen, then
you will eventually have even on the scene afterwards. That's how
powerful your teen is. Like, can you imagine that? You know,
generally we can we think that anything that you can see that
that is what we would have the greatest conviction in. But what
YBNL Josie is saying is that if you can develop your you're keen
on the unseen, that can actually prove to be stronger than your
belief in the scene eventually. And that's quite clear, because if
you develop our Yachty, in that Allah subhanaw taala is behind
everything. That's what he means by the unseen, he doesn't mean
mythical issues, he means real issues with Allah subhanaw taala,
the reality of the world, then you will then that is why you see the
great people like the Prophet sallallahu Sallam and others just
putting away what's in front of them for what's to come
afterwards. It has that ability, though, on the face of it, it
doesn't seem likely. Because you would think that whatever you have
in front of you is stronger.
But when you actually ponder over what you have in front of you,
everything is going to perish. So you can't have your teen in it.
And it fails many of the times, it doesn't come to our assistance on
numerous occasions. Whereas when it comes to Allah subhanho wa
taala, you can develop enough you're keen there because you see
the benefit coming from the and he says a simple example it gets for
this, like if you want to understand the difference between
the two. He says go to a shopping mall. He doesn't use the word
mall, he says go to the supermarket. But basically today
the market who goes to markets, they all go to malls today, right?
You go to a mall and you see all the glitter as soon as you get
into the music carries you. Right, it's just a lot of research has
undergone you know, a lot of studies have been done on these
malls. As soon as you go in the way everything is set up. It's to
extract your money and to give you that false sense of excitement and
euphoria. So the music starts carrying you from there, all the
glitz, all the glitter, and everything that you see in the
shop windows beckons you inside, and then it makes you part with
your money, feeling like you are getting some kind of bliss of this
world.
He says do that and see how you feel with the world. See what
happens to your heart. And then he says go to a graveyard.
And just reflect there for half an hour about where people have gone
and where you're gonna go. And you will see Verbena Houma for
couldn't begin. And that's what he says, you will see an clear
distinction between the two feelings.
That just shows you the feeling of this, this shows you the feeling
of this. And then basically what he's saying is that which feeling
do you want to be in, which is beneficial for you. Because that
one while it may be boring, and he doesn't have the image of ecstasy
that it provides, but that is what the reality of our life will be
towards the end. So he says to do this test and see how you feel
about this and then to keep that in mind. So though we're going to
be living in the world, but we need to have in our mind that
let's not attach ourselves too much to it.
Ignore the theme, Rahim Allah he says in his power it
that whoever Allah subhanahu wa Tada has created for Jana manhood
aka man hula Hula, hula Jannetty lamp Tehsil hedaya T hymnal,
Makati, la Allah. Then whoever Allah subhanaw taala has created
for Paradise, his gifts.
Whoever Allah subhanaw taala has created for Paradise, his gifts
will come through difficulties.
Not a very, not not a very exciting thought Is it? Right?
Allah grant us Afia because we don't seem to have
an ability to go through this but that's what he says. Woman Hala
hula hula denari lamb Tehsil hada hooter T him in a Shaohua.
And whoever Allah subhanaw taala is created for the hellfire,
meaning whoever he knows who's gonna go to the hellfire,
his gifts they come through lustful things, desires things,
things that give you give you that initial happiness and
satisfaction.
But our The thing is that difficulty is making solid
fasting, abstaining from haram things around you, all of that is
difficulties. So doing all of that you will be given your gifts.
Whereas anybody who is not made for the hereafter, they can focus
on the shadow words. And that is where they will continue to get
the excitement from because they won't have any excitement from the
other side.
So the way I look at it is not trying to it's not necessarily
stating a fact of that you're going to be put into difficulty.
But he's saying that undergo your difficulties which we have to do
for our deen. That's the difficulties I'm speaking about,
of abstaining from the Herranz things that we want to do. You
can't do it. Make your salad, your song,
and everything else that we have surrounding it. That's how you
that's your source of gifts. We're in Nicoletta now Luma Toledo. Illa
be Torquay Malatesta. He, you can only he says you will not acquire
what you intend, except by abandoning things that your heart
lusts for
basically things that you are desirous of worldly things that
you're desirous of. If you you will not gain your ultimate
Maqsood and objective unless you're willing to sacrifice
if you're not willing to sacrifice and you won't get your eventual
goal. And the reason of that is very clear. Because then you will
be distracted. You will waste your resources in those kinds of
things. Your time will be spent up in acquiring those things, and
then you'll be left left out with what's in front of you. That's why
sacrifices are so necessary. When double over MA to amila Ellerbee
Sabri Allah ma Takara, you will never reach that which you hope
for that which is your ambition, you will not reach your ambition
except by making somewhere on what you are what you find undesirable.
Whatever you find undesirable, you will have to be patient on that to
get your objective because there's nothing in this world that is in
complete suit smooth sailing, everything requires some kind of
difficulty, some kind of obstacle to overcome some kind of barrier
to go around. And you have to do other things. If you stop at the
first barrier, the first obstacle that comes in, it puts off it puts
you off, then you can't get beyond that. That's just the way it is.
If you want to get somewhere you have to go to it. What the Bema or
the Kola who be he you need to be satisfied with what Allah has
intended for you.
You have to be satisfied with what Allah has intended for you caught
up numerous rules, you know, the Allahu Anhu irida Bhima Kasam
Allahu laka. That could mean an illness.
Even Masuda the Allah one who says that
be satisfied with what Allah has divided for you, what Allah has
allotted for you.
And you will be the wealthiest of people.
This explains, what he said earlier, is be satisfied with what
Allah intends for you, actually, rather than what Allah intends to
be what Allah has intended for you. Because what this is speaking
about is that if Allah has placed you in a certain situation, for
example, somebody has a disability,
somebody cannot see properly, somebody doesn't have enough
money, somebody doesn't have access to resources.
And he looks at others because generally you either look at
somebody who does and you start feeling much worse. Because it's
all about status, if I feel that I've got less than you
because you drive a better car than I do. So I've got less than
you because I can't get the same car that you have, and I start
feeling bad about it,
then that's going to cause us great, huge depression.
It's obvious it's going to cause huge depression. But if I have a
car that I drive is not as good as your car, but I'm satisfied
because it takes me from point A to B doesn't give me any problems.
I'm the ruler.
So that's why be satisfied what Allah has intended for you. That's
what he's speaking about. You don't know the future. But you
know what's now so at least be content with what you have right
now.
That's why you know, Mr. Wood said that what Allah wherever whatever
Allah has allotted for you, that's your status.
That's where you are. That's where you live.
That's what you have.
Then be satisfied with that and you will be the wealthiest of
people because wealth is not counted. Wealth is not
evaluated by the money amount of money you have, but by what you do
in your life and what you're satisfied with. And there is just
so much truth to this, that it's unbelievable. Unbelievable.
Because
we look at other people who seem to have the outward glitter of
this world, they seem to have everything at their disposal. And
you think they must be so happy because they have everything.
That's just a misplaced perspective. Ask the people who
these people consult about their problems. They have all of the
wealth in the world, but believe me, when you sit down with them,
I'm not saying all of them. But many of them, when you sit down
with them, you see the troubles that they have to go through.
Because of what they have.
There's very few people who have so much, unless they're in a very
special situation that Allah has given them a particular type of
ability, right? To to give back, right? To make them satisfied,
they're not going to be satisfied.
They're not going to be satisfied.
You know, Subhan, Allah, Allah makes you happy at your stage at
your status with what you have. That is the ultimate success. It
can't be any greater success than that, that you have only so much
but you are satisfied with that.
Which then Muharram Allahu Allah TacoMan or in us. And if you just
abstain from what Allah has made prohibited for you, then you will
be the most scrupulous among people, you will have the what
they call the characteristic of water, what that means abstention
from things that are unbecoming of a person that are unfavorable for
a person just abstain from the harms of Allah subhanaw taala and
you will be the odor in us. We're at Dima McDonald Allahu Allah, he
couldn't mean Akbar the nurse and then just do other just just
fulfill and complete what ALLAH SubhanA wa Tada has made further
new and you will be considered one of the greatest devotees of Allah.
That's what Allah wants from us.
Fulfill the Fuhrer it abstain from the Haram
be satisfied with what Allah has given you. You've got your deen
your dunya
and you're accurate all sorted
into human or human Allah says in his Ariela Mullaghmore pain.
Allah subhanho wa Taala is owed by every single person A servitude,
slave hood.
Obedience according to his level according to his or her level,
everybody owes that much are Buddha to Allah subhana wa Tada
he doesn't require from us remember this he doesn't require
from us Oh booty like that of Rasulullah sallallahu Sallam
Rasul Allah Allah says the level of a Buddha is something
different, which he has to do, and he does he did based on his level
of understanding and his microphone. Similar oboe, D Atilla
t so well, Boehner EBA the FIFA. This is asides from the universal
or the general the generic amount of devotion that is required from
everybody because Allah subhanaw taala has made everybody equal in
that regard. So there's a certain level that everybody has to do to
be considered the Muslim and a slave of Allah to qualify for that
category. Then after that, it depends on each person's
individual circumstance.
Gibreel or Buddha, Allah He said Salam is not something that is
called from us. That's a whole different category. For Allah land
me mineral booty Yeti, he initial sunnah to Allah in melody, Bertha
Bertha Allahu be here Rasulullah sallallahu sallam, Melissa Allah
Jaya Hill, for example, for the island,
he has to do
a certain level of servitude which is different from that of an
ignorant person, person who is not an island.
What is that? That is spreading the Sunnah, propagating the Sunnah
and knowledge, which Allah subhanaw taala has sent his
messenger with. So whoever's in Ireland, they have to that's their
responsibility, additional Budimir over and above the generic amount
that everybody has to do.
Now who's an island, an island, Ireland, everybody is an island
according to their level.
Meaning
otherwise what is an island? Right? How much is a NOAA if you
know that you have to make solids and that is obligatory upon you
and it comes from the Quran and Sunnah. Your anatomy.
That's your level. Now anybody who knows more than than they've read
Sahil Bihari as well. And read many, many Hadith and
See it as well then they are hieracium.
Now in our society, the formula homies who studied for a certain
number of years and he studied this that in the book, in some
communities, it's somebody who has ijazah and transmissions in these
particular subjects. So that's what you call a formalized island.
But an acronym is a person who knows Allah subhana wa Tada and
there's different levels in that and according to that level, that
is how much you have to do. Why are they here booty to Sabri Allah
30 Kamali, Salah Hady. And in doing this in spreading this,
you're also going to have to undertake some support and
patience. You can't do it the support and patience, with without
struggles without setbacks, without some maybe rudeness that
may come to you.
So you have to undergo these things. You have to take out time
and do these things that's also sober. Then you have the Hakim
Hakeem is anybody who's in a position of responsibility person
who's in charge of something and administrator, his Obadiah is a
coma to help you with an fi Why is he here? What exam Him and who are
they he be he
which means that he has to establish the truth, he has to
keep the balance right. He has to act with fairness. He has to
implement these things. And he has to try to
impose it on those that he has the right to impose it over.
What sobre la vertic and to get this done, there's going to be
this there has to be perseverance there has to be sacrifice in that
regard. Well gee, her the idea humor Lisa mufti, he also has to
undertake jihad. This is not something that the Mufti has to
do. His job is different. So everybody has an additional level
of obedience. Well, I love the honey, you mean everybody to hear
that? That will help Okay. Latifi Mahima, this island for theory,
and the person who's wealthy, he has a level of Urdu Obaldia, which
means that he has to fulfill the rights of the extra wealth that he
has that a poor person does not have.
What I will call the rial Amory milma ruffian Nahanni Moncure, via
the very Son Hema Lisa IGCP, Hema, and the person who has the ability
to enjoin the truth and prohibit the evil using his hands and his
tongue, then he has more responsibility in our body than a
person who is urges.
Done a person who doesn't have the same ability.
What the kandalama Yep, no more as a Razzie Yo, man, filthy heard. He
will, um, rebuild my roof.
When he I need Mancha.
You're here no more as a Razzie.
One day he was speaking with reference to jihad and Amara
Miranda Hanuman Takara Allahu imra. A woman said to him,
her the word she wouldn't got who they are Anna tiny Marcelo Nisa.
This is one of those would you one of those obligations that we have
been exempted with meaning that women have been exempted from
these things? For color, hobby and the hookah will they are and
goodness Allah holier they will listen for them Yoda and karuna,
Salah, Silla, Silla, lb fucka that saw Dr. JazakAllah Iran, he set
her right. He said, Yes. Okay, consider that maybe
weapons of the hand and tongue
have been, you've been exempted from that, which means that you
don't have you're not obligated to use those. But
using the weapon of your heart, which means to do Amyl maruf and
jihad with your heart, which means to think things are right and so
on. That's still your responsibility, isn't it? So she
said, You're absolutely right, just like a locker room.
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dunya well in gaita IBLEES has deceived a number of people huge
amounts of people by making by making beautiful in their site
only certain types of worship
for example just thicker just continue to do more walkabout
that's it just continue to sit and do this be
or just didn't do Quran reading or salah or some or some kind of
zoomed in dunya like just forget the world
what happened to her the healer booty yet but these are booty is
that we mentioned that every person has according to their
status, propagating the knowledge for the the island and spending
according accordingly for the wealthy person and so on so forth.
Then these things they stopped doing.
For them you had the two kuruva homebuilt here and maybe how they
stopped even telling themselves to do it. With this
is what we're doing and it's big enough. That's why the dean is so
complicated. In that sense. You have to be balanced.
For them you had the two kuruva homeopaths, they don't even speak
to themselves. They don't even tell themselves that they must do
this. Well ha hula you're in the water till MBIA Allah Allah ma
Sadiki Mala Aruna V Himley. Dean. According to the water tool Ambia
the ALMA Sadiki. In these people they actually have nothing of the
Dean they don't they haven't understood the dean for in Medina
whole TIAMO Lila he Bhima Mr. Ravi, because the dean is actually
what Allah subhanaw taala has commanded you to do. And that
means all of these things for Tarik or her Coachella, a lotta
Jiwani he had an en de la he was even more tacky Bill Murase.
He's saying that the one who abandons the hook of Allah the
rights of Allah azza wa jal on him he is in a worse state according
to Allah and his messenger than the one who commits some sins
for not doing what we're supposed to do Subhan Allah can you imagine
what kind of shortcomings we have in that regard? were worse than
the person who's committing sins.
Woman Lahab rotten Bhima bathala Who be here Rasulullah sallallahu
alayhi wa sallam what we might call an ally he who was horrible
who are an actor Rama, you shadow era him Bedini Amon Hola, Ecole
Mata Zahidi in Oman, Katerina whom are colonists you know certainly
Dean Allahu Allah, Allah Mustang.
Anybody who has some experience with what Allah subhana wa Tada
has sent His Messenger sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, and the sooner
upon which his he and his, his his us hub, his companions were, they
will realize
that a lot of things that we call the dean, or what we've confined
the dean to, or restricted the dean to
meaning from those people who are one of these hits,
right, who are cut away from the real commands of Allah. Then they
are the people who are the least in assistance of the deen of Allah
subhanho wa Taala
and only Allah we can seek assistance from
what are you doing? What are you hiding? fumine yara Muharram Allah
He to attack where who do the WHO to dog? What do you know who your
truck was Sunita? Rasulullah sallallahu Muroc subhanho wa who
are buried the mill CALB Oh, sorry, well, who are bedridden Obi
Wan Kenobi? circuito Lissoni shaytaan Aras.
He says, What Deen What goodness What virtue is in the one who sees
that the limits of Allah are being transgressed and violated. His
limits are being violated transgressed. His deen is being
abandoned. The Sunnah of His Messenger SallAllahu lism is
turned away from and he is cool hearted still.
There's no boiling in the huts, silent in his tongue.
He is a dumb shaytaan shaytaan Atlas
May Allah subhanho wa Taala grant us an understanding of the
completeness of our deen and may Allah subhanahu wa Tada grant us
an ability to rectify our shortcomings wherever they are
because clearly we all have some kind of shortcoming here and there
may Allah subhanaw taala grant us that ability Allahumma salli ala
Sayyidina Muhammad wa ala as you say you know Mohammed Al Abadi
Casa
Loma and
the other generic Quran just Allah who I know Muhammad the MO O Allah
accept how it was ALLAH accepting our gathering here. Oh Allah, the
little bit of the code that we do Oh Allah we ask you to accept it.
Oh Allah we ask you to make it our source of connection to you our
source of becoming closer to you. Oh Allah we ask you for your
closeness of Allah we ask you for your closeness even though we're
so far we ask you for your closest. Oh Allah we ask for
purity from you. We ask for God fearing this we ask for Taqwa.
Allah we ask you to forgive our sins. Oh ALLAH forgive our sins.
Oh ALLAH forgive our wrongdoings Oh ALLAH forgive our excesses of
ALLAH forgive our negligence. Oh ALLAH forgive our heedlessness Oh
ALLAH forgive our in attentiveness to you or Allah we ask you for
the love from you. Oh Allah fill our hearts with your love fill our
hearts with your lights of Allah. Grant us your love and the love of
those whose love will benefit us in your code of Allah we ask you
to fill our hearts with your obedience and the love of you
obedience of Allah and the hatred of your disobedience of Allah make
this easy for us. of Allah allow us to fulfill whatever
responsibilities we should be fulfilling of Allah whatever is
our individual state of herbal D O Allah allow us to fulfill that
state of Allah grant
What is the greatest benefit in that state? Oh Allah, Oh Allah we
ask you to guide us right to show us the truth as the truth and
allow us to follow it to show us the wrong as the wrong and allow
us to abstain from it. Oh Allah whatever little we may be doing Oh
Allah we ask you to accept that fully. And our Allah we ask you to
increase us to enhance us and to also reach out to those areas that
we are also responsible for. Our Allah we ask you to make us
complete believers of Allah we ask you to make us of those who are
completely on your path who are
who are fulfilling
the rites of servitude that is required from each one of us, of
Allah make us of those who are following the Sunnah of your
messenger salAllahu alayhi wa salam, O Allah, whatever obstacles
are in our path, we ask you to remove them, whatever difficulties
we may be facing, we asked you to remove them. Oh Allah, whatever
confusions we may have. Oh Allah, whatever doubts we may have, we
asked you to remove them and grant us full Yaqeen in your way. Oh
Allah. Oh Allah, we ask you
to grant us gentlemen to fill those.
We ask you to grant us gender to full dose and make all of the
stages of the Hereafter easy for us? Oh Allah, we ask You to bless
all of our Mirko mean, all those who have passed before us, Oh
Allah, we ask you to give them a high status in your sight. Oh
Allah, Oh Allah, we ask You for assistance. We ask you to protect
us and our children and our progeny until the day of judgment
from all of the challenges that are out there. All those that are
currently then those that may come up. We ask You for our fear of
Allah, we ask You for protection. We ask You for protection. And if
you and Allah grant us the ability to make Toba and to repent to you
to return to you from all of the sins that we've committed in the
past, Oh Allah, Oh Allah, whatever mistakes we have made, we ask You
to forgive those as well. And Oh Allah, we ask You for beneficial
knowledge of Allah, we ask you to grant us beneficial knowledge. And
Allah Hayato you been in this world? And philosophy law, Hera, O
Allah, we ask that you
bless all of our Marcin in our teachers, Oh Allah, all those who
have assisted us all those who have assisted us Oh Allah grant us
and grant them sincerity. Oh Allah bless all those who expect us to
make dua for them. Oh Allah. Oh Allah, we ask you to fulfill our
doors and the doors of those who have asked us to make dua for
them. Oh Allah. Oh Allah, we ask that You grant us one more thing,
which is that you give abundant blessings to your messenger
Muhammad sallallahu alayhi wa salam and grant is his company in
the hereafter. Subhan Allah bigger Abdullah is the tianma Yossi foon
wa Salam on Al mousseline. Hamdu lillahi, Rabbil Alameen.