Abdur Rahman ibn Yusuf Mangera – Muhasibi’s Risalah Part 9 Acquiring the Sweetness of Faith
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Bismillah al Rahman al Rahim Al hamdu Lillahi wa Salatu was Salam
ala so you will mousseline wider early he was not be abarca was
seldom at the Sleeman cathedral, Eli Yomi. Dean, Mr. Barrett is the
next point that he makes is
what either saw later for Saudi Salah termo a day in, when you
pray, then your prayer should be the prayer of the one who is
who is basically giving farewell to someone.
When you see seeing somebody off, there's a certain sentiment in
that, just think about it. You know, one is that somebody's come
to visit you or somebody lives with you, the way you act with
them every day is a very normal kind of
behavior that you have. The emotion is is nothing special.
It's just like you're with them all the time. However, when you
see somebody off, they're going somewhere, then imagine the
thoughts in your mind, the thoughts in your mind that oh,
he's going, she's going, what's going to happen? You know what
there's going to be separation between us, all of these thoughts
come in the mind. And what that does is human beings, I'm sure we
can all relate to this, it creates a greater connection,
you start actually feeling more love for a person in their
absence, sometimes then when they around because you take it for
granted when something is around. But when you're seeing somebody
off, then imagine all of the feelings and emotions in your
mind. So we're supposed to do that for solid with every salats as
though this is the final salad and then I'm gonna go after this. This
has to make a massive difference. Just imagine. It's the final salad
of our life, what kind of emotion and sentiment we'll have in our
heart towards that prayer.
I mean, just imagine, this is my final salad. And I know that the
first thing to be questioned about on the Day of Judgment is solid.
Right? The last thing the Prophet sallallahu sallam said, was solid,
before he passed away, the last words were a solid, a solid
warmer, Malakut, a man who come over Melaka demeanor, which means
prayer, prayer, meaning, observe the prayer, be careful about your
prayer. That's his last words before he stopped speaking before
he said, rafiqul Allah, right, these were his last word, salad
salad and that which your right hand possesses, look after your
slaves. You know, be very careful about them. Be very considerate
towards them, fulfill their rights. So the salah is the final
thing the Prophet sallallahu sallam said, Salah is the first
thing to be questioned about on the Day of Judgment. It is the
main pillar of faith.
And it is the thing we do most often.
And is the thing we do most often and that's why it becomes routine.
And that's why the challenge of it is, is that for each Salaat to
make it as though it's a lot more than imagine the brainpower you
need for that. Imagine the feeling the sentiment you need for that
it's so difficult.
But it's to know that this is what we must do. That will help us go
beyond the salad that we do perform which is full of
heedlessness because we're just trying to get it in time.
Journalists just premium us. It's getting the most out of the way.
That's our approach to these things generally. I mean, we think
Alhamdulillah we're doing salah, there's a lot of people who are
not doing Salat, but this is where we hope to inshallah gets
that's why
I think I mentioned part of this last week who shame
who is the
student of monsoon ignore Zanna McAfee adversity.
His students said about him that if somebody said to his teacher on
school, that the angel of death is on your door, he wouldn't be able
to do any further action, meaning he wouldn't say oh, I need to do
this or I need to do that. He was already perfect in his approach.
Mandsaur YBNL Mortimer, a salami alcovy from Kufa.
Now the first person we talked about his was it was he disclosed
to Kufa and we're talking about Kufa. Yeah these these were some
great people that lived in these places.
Clara Sophia and authority Sophia and authority is his student man
sort of mnemonic demon student,
Sophia, Sophia Sophia authority, as you know, is a major Hadith
master had the scholar, he said,
Laura ETOM and Soren usaully if you see mensual praying, Lakota
yamu. Sir, you would think that he's going to die now. Meaning
that this is such a prayer as though he's gonna die. This is the
way he's making his prayer, which goes to show that there's a
certain approach to prayer for a person who is doing a farewell
prayer. This
Probably a certain body language, certain actions, certain
expression of the face, a certain approach and human beings are very
transparent in general. That's why Allah subhanaw taala says about
the people on the day of judgment would would you who in Yama is in
Nadira, and others would you who you'll meet in Bursera. Right,
that their faces, some will be downcast. Some will be
resplendent, which is essentially
the place where you can read what a person is thinking generally.
Most people you can kind of get a lot of idea of how they're feeling
from their face.
He said that the IGNOU Kodama,
who is another student of his said,
monsoon fasted for 40 years.
And in the nights of those 40 years that he fasted he used to
make the hedgerow and vigil at nights.
What can a yep can Leila Kula?
He would pretty much cry the whole night.
In the morning, he would wake up and go Hello he he will put
antimony Suramar in his eyes
and he will put oil on his head 100 razza.
He would do all of this. His mother would say to him
a cartel the cartel and
we just
killed somebody. Oh, why do you keep crying for the Kathy matara
membuka he was allegedly he was a bida T Rila Hytera? Have you
committed such a major sin that you've killed somebody which
probably the worst thing you can look at is one of the worst things
you can do killing somebody. So his mother used to say is that how
you if you just killed somebody, and that's why you're doing all of
this worship and this crying.
So then he would say that Allah will be my son at Neff. See, I
know what my self has done.
I know what myself has done. Unfortunately, this state doesn't
come to most of us. Most of us don't get this state. We're just
using the stories for inspiration that we can get somewhere in sha
Allah, that if we don't wake up, then we start waking up. If we
don't cry at all, then we try to cry sometimes.
If we don't do enough worship, then we try to do some amount of
worship. And if we do worship, then we try to be better in our
worship. That's what I feel that these stories that they serve.
Then he says meaning I love mrcb continues in his Naseeha he says
while I'm in McAllen, digit thermal EMA, and he had told me in
a bill Kadri, Heidi he was shot V. Now this is a matter of faith,
this is a matter of Aqeedah. Why are we talking about that here?
Says that know that you will never feel the sweetness of faith until
you believe in God. Did you believe in destiny,
predestination, Allah has knowledge that of everything that
is to occur that he had the knowledge, both the good and the
bad, until you don't believe in that fully, you will never feel
the sweetness of faith.
You will never feel the sweetness of faith until you
believe in Qatar. And you know so much truth in these words in these
words. And the reason of it is that you know, the biggest spoiler
of our faith, one is the clear spoilers which are sins. Right?
There are clear spoilers, but I'm talking about somebody who tries
to avoid sin, who tries to do good deeds.
A person who's on the path, a person who's focused a person who
wants to get something who's trying to be cautious.
For such a person, the challenge is generally our emotional
challenges.
They're not necessarily external since their emotional challenges.
I feel so far from Allah.
I feel so let down. I feel so dejected. They lose hope.
They lose hope. They become despondent if something doesn't go
right. For example, somebody for the last
six months looking for a job, he can't find a job.
If he does have a job, it requires huge commuting.
It requires you to deal maybe the place that you work is not morally
correct for you.
Because
maybe the your supervisor,
your the person above you, is not very good with you. You don't feel
right in that environment. So you feel extremely these are things
that make you dejected, clearly is a human reaction generally that
when something goes wrong in your life, you feel dejected about
these things.
Something isn't going right.
However, by increasing your knowledge of Allah subhanaw taala
by really pondering over what Allah is saying in the Quran in
the verses that in all the verses, you then start to understand Allah
more. And then you will never complain about Allah.
You will have these moments but you will be able to overcome them
and
get a freshness of your approach. Small, small things will not
depress you, because everything is in the hands of Allah subhanaw
taala. both the good and bad is from Allah subhanaw taala when
something wrong happens
when something doesn't go according to plan,
when something doesn't work out for you, when you say, Well, I
tried my best as long as I know I tried my best and no problem
didn't work. Okay, let's move on, we'll find something else.
We'll find something else to do. So you will never feel the
sweetness of faith and the sweetness of faith is when a
person feels connected to Allah subhanaw taala. And he feels the
blessing of that.
What this means is that until you know and you are convinced that
what comes to you what has come to you what you have received, it
would never have missed you.
This was for me, from Allah. One is I've got it and I'm like, I got
it.
I got it. That's selfishness. Another feeling is, this has come
to me, Allah gave it to me Alhamdulillah Yes, I made the
effort to get it. I worked hard to get this. I slaved 24 hours a day
for you know, for several months to make up this money to buy this.
For example. I don't forget his position. I really worked hard.
But I'm attributing it to Allah, knowing that this was written for
me from ALLAH SubhanA wa Tada. And that's why it would never have
missed me. And that which has missed me.
It would never have come to me. It was just not going to happen. So
why should I worry now? Look, I tried my best. I did all the
petitioning that I could I filled in the forms. I paid the money I
hired a lawyer maybe, whatever it may be. I tried my best it didn't
happen. Okay, what am I supposed to do now? Man, all my money's
gone to waste. Why did I waste my time doing this?
Yeah, if it does come out to be a futile attempt, which we should
have known better about, then yes, you can
abuse yourself for a while if you want to. But if that was not the
case, and it was the best thing, but according to the best advice
is to hire etc. And then it didn't happen. hamdulillah something
better for me. Something better for me.
This is one person who wants to get married to
a Hindu woman
at work, she's working with a Muslim guy. And they mashallah
you know, they made a relationship, how la cote La
Villa. But I said, mashallah, because she became Muslim out of
it.
And then after that, there was no way his family would accept.
So, her in her mind, she loves this guy so much that she's asking
the question, will I be with him in January?
That's the only way I can convince myself that and comfort myself
that I've lost him now that she's become Muslim out of it became
Muslim for the right reasons. Alhamdulillah though, the reason
that the beginning reason what this was this man, right? Now he
can't marry her. So now she knows she knows she's gonna marry
somebody else. But right now she's thinking that there's no way that
I will be able to take him out of my mind. So my response was that
look, that's a
basically her question was that if somebody does get married them to
somebody else, and they have a decent lifestyle, and you know,
they fulfill each other's rights? Will she have to be with him in
general? Because generally, you're with your spouse in general. So
will you have to be in Jannat with your spouse? Can I not choose
somebody else afterwards? Very complicated questions, in a sense,
but the way the way I explained it is that look, number one, you will
get what you want in Janet's number two, this is very early
period, you've just broken up with somebody in the sense, right?
That's why your emotions are very high. Over time, Allah has given
us his ability to forget things for things to wear out. There's
many other fish in the ocean. Right? And you can always love
something and always transplant you know of something else though.
You don't think you can do that at the same time? Right? So knowing
from Allah subhanaw taala that this was not going to come to me.
Can you imagine how easy this would make it?
When you know that this isn't supposed to because Allah doesn't
want it to come to me finished? It just makes it so much easier to
deal with these emotions in our life.
Over the human assignment are the Allahu Anhu
he relates and this is mentioned in the Sunnah of Buddhahood that
Oba Abel Asami the sahabi he said once to his son at death Yagoona
yah
yah yah yah Oh my son in excellent aged
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You can never gain
the taste of the reality of faith. The reality of human you cannot
get the taste of that you will not receive the taste of it had the
time until you know clearly that that which is going to that which
comes to you would never have missed you and that which has
missed you would never have come to you.
So this is based this advice of Maha CV is actually based on this
narration of IBAMA without Oba in Assam it gave that advice to his
son and he said, I heard the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa
sallam saying, so he's basing in what Rasulullah sallallahu sallam
said that Allah the first thing that Allah created was the kalam
was the pen in the old Mr. hodda. Allah, who I'll call him first
thing he created was the pen. And then he told the pen octobe. And
the pen said, Robbie Omada Aktobe I'm just the pen What should I
write? I need information, I need a feed data feed, what should I
write?
Called the October McCarthy Era coalition?
Had that a coma? Sir? Right. The apportionment of everything, right
the decrees of everything, right makadi Right, right, the decree
the allotment that apportionments what each thing is going to have
or get or be like, right, all of this, that is going to happen
until the Day of Judgment. Now we understand these things very
easily, you know, you you have these computer pens and other
things that you put a feed inside then it will just, you know, in
the early days, how would you understand this? You know, but now
it's so easy for us to understand smart pens that they could write
something you know, like that they could produce something nowadays,
computers and so on so forth. Yeah, but in a year, he said, Oh
my son, he said in the summer, rasool Allah He sallallahu alayhi
wa sallam and you're cool. I've heard Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi
wa sallam saying man Murta Allah, Lady Harada. Felisa mean me,
anybody who dies without this belief without the state. without
believing that whatever comes to you will never miss you and
whatever
has missed, you will never come to you. If they don't die with this
faith. They're not from me. They're not on my path.
Abdullah him not Abbas are the Allahu Anhu. Similar is related to
him from him. And if you look at this, all of this is being taught
at a young age. Because our children need this young people
need this because you have to develop this otherwise, if you
grow up
with misconstrued ideas about Allah subhanaw taala, they become
more dangerous.
They become more dangerous because we get bolder as we grow. Right?
And we're more liable, the older we get, because you're mature now.
But if, if a 10 year old kid says something crazy, or an eight year
old or an 11 year old before, but
he's supposed to be innocent, supposed to be forgiven, hasn't
fully developed yet. But the older we get there is a problem. So if
you look here, both Oba Ignace Ahmed is teaching that to the to
his son, right.
We don't know how old his son is. I mean, that's the but Abdullah
Abbas, in this case was definitely Young. Because he mentioned that.
He says once I was behind the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa
salam, and the brothel also when he passed away of the labor bus
was still quite young. So he is definitely
the most he could be is an early teenager.
And he's probably much younger than that when this happened.
Allahu Adam. So once I was behind the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa
sallam, the same animal, he was sitting behind proselytism. And he
said to me, yeah, hola.
Oh, child, so he's a child right? In knee or a limo Karima. I'm
gonna, I'm going to tell you a few words. I'm going to teach you a
few things.
fo the La Jolla fork. You'll be mindful of Allah and Allah will be
mindful of you.
In fact, for the law, digital to Jack,
you be mindful of Allah and you will always find him in front of
you. Meaning his assistance will always be there. If you're mindful
of Allah, what does he mean by being mindful of Allah though? I
have never felt alone in front of me. I've never sensed him I've
never observed him. Well, how many times have you thought of Allah
when you're doing something? Have you only thought of Allah when
something went wrong? Do you understand? We generally think of
Allah when things go wrong? We're supposed to think of Allah when
doing that when you got that woof. Calbee when you've got that full
consciousness of Allah subhanaw taala then you will see him in
front of you. Okay, something's gone wrong here. Allah subhanaw
taala that so he wanted, I haven't got it. That's what Allah wanted
in that Allah Who nada Raju and I've lost this. That's what
happened. Because when you're in tune with Allah, right from the
beginning, then you will understand.
So he says, you will find him in front of you. What he does. The
facility line if you ever ask anything as from Allah, where you
stand the VISTA in Billa when you seek any kind of assistance, ask
it from Allah subhanaw taala Allah makes us say this over and over
again every day you're gonna do a year kind of staring
Yeah connect Buddha er kind of Stein makes us say this every day.
Why alum and then this is this is the main part know that Anil OMA
if the entire nation if the entire Ummah was together to benefit you
with anything we share him with any small thing let me infer Oka
Illa be che in Kolkata bola like they will not be able to benefit
you except what Allah has decreased. And if they gather
together to harm you in some way
whether they jealous of you, whether they criticize you,
whether they want to come and rob you, whatever it may be, let me do
rukh they will not be able to harm you, except with what Allah has
written for you to lose.
Now if that does happen, because if we've left a window open, or we
were handbag was, you know, open and for everybody to see, the
phone was just left on the table, and somebody stole it and we
understand that it's our mistake. But if we've taken all precaution
and then thing went, and you couldn't have done anything better
than Why you crying for the nature of the world,
you did everything that you could do.
And then it still went wrong.
Don't people break into banks? Don't people break into security
companies, you know, secure places. It happens. It's just the
nature of this world don't cry over it. Move on things can be
replaced.
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lifted with effort is sort of and the pages now have been dried of
this book. Mountain media is related this the Prophet
sallallahu alayhi wa salam dua is as follows in this regard. We'll
read it at least once and then you know if somebody wants it, they
can Allahumma inni as Luca
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This is related from the bizarre
the professor Lawson said, Oh Allah, I asked you for such Iman.
Which is like a skin on my heart. You brush your OB which is
intimately in my heart. That's the kind of human I want. Not only man
that I claim and profess, but any man that is in my heart, until I
know I'm it's it permeates my heart to such a degree until I
know that nothing is gonna strike me except that which you've
written for me. And instead what Dini Rabine from radar, and give
me so much satisfaction.
Give me such a satisfaction in life, middle Maisha in life or in
my earnings or in my everyday
livelihood.
satisfy me in my livelihood, in my everyday livelihood, with what you
have allotted for me, with what you have said, This is my pot,
give me satisfaction in that much. We don't know how much that is, by
the way.
Nobody knows.
But whatever it is, make me satisfied. That means if I'm
getting less today, I'm satisfied. If I get more today, tomorrow, I'm
satisfied. If I get less afterwards, I'm satisfied. I'm
never going to freak out about it. I'm even concerned, but I'm never
going to freak out about it. So satisfy me in my livelihood with
what you have distributed.
There's some interesting stories here which inshallah we'll cover
next time about this. May Allah subhanho wa Taala strengthen our
iman in the color. And
if you if you haven't done so already, then
because Condren how you relate the whole thing to free will. And all
of that is so complicated. We don't know the boundaries of these
things. And because it definitely is a very complicated thing to
understand.
The simple thing is that Oh Allah, you know, just let me be satisfied
with whatever happens. But to get an understanding, a better
understanding. There's a lecture that we did some time ago and it's
online, it's called, don't be depressed. You don't be depressed,
you don't know your future.
Right. So
I believe it's very helpful based on the feedback we've got on that
particular lecture. It's helped a lot of people in making sense of
difficulties in their life.
Once you can make any sense of any difficulty in your life
and figure it out. It becomes easier. So may Allah subhanaw
taala make that easier for us. People that run on it 100 billion
I mean, Allah man to Salam omenka Salam about the agenda anybody
chrome Allah who may hate you the human medical study.
Aloha My nana Yamuna ilaha illa Anta Subhana Allah in condemning,
avoiding mean Subhana Allah hilarity you'll Aaron and will
herb Allahumma salli wa salam Arda so you deny Mohammed Why do you
say you did Mohammed or because
Allah we ask you for your attention, we ask You for Your
compassion, we ask you for forgiveness for Allah we ask you
for purity, we ask you for forgiveness. We ask You for purity
of Allah we ask you for obedience of Allah We ask that you make your
obedience, beloved in our heart, your disobedience hated in our
heart of Allah fill our hearts with your light. Oh Allah allow us
to be connected to you, or Allah allow us to be
a full faith in you of Allah grant us. The level of the Salah him,
the level of your Olia of Allah grant us the same stations that
they have experienced. Oh Allah, we ask You for us here in this
world and especially in the hereafter. We ask You for
protection from the hellfire. Oh Allah grant us protection, or
Allah make us in this world that we enjoy our Sadat. And we get the
pleasure and we feel the sweetness of faith. Oh Allah grant us the
sweetness of faith. Oh Allah grant us the sweetness of faith. Oh
Allah, we may be doing various different things. We may be
thinking we're doing these for our faith, and to help the people and
to help others. Oh Allah grant us complete, effortless and sincerity
in this regard. Oh Allah grant, a strengthened disregard of Allah
grant us support industry God, Oh Allah, we ask you to protect us
from all of the evils that may be out there. Oh Allah, we ask that
you protect us, our children, our progeny. Until the day of judgment
of Allah, we ask that you help and assist them Muslimeen wherever
they may be around the world, that you helped the Muslim mean of Iraq
and Syria. Oh Allah and Palestine and all the other places in the
world which are suffering. You ask you for assistance. We ask you for
help of Allah, we ask that you make us
individuals who have compassion and care for others of Allah that
are concerned about
what our fellow Muslims may be,
may be facing, Oh Allah, we ask You that You give us assistance to
help them You grant us Baraka in what you have given us. Or Allah,
we ask You for special compassion of Allah and for your mercy, and
to make the stages of the Hereafter easy for us. Oh Allah,
we ask that you send your abundant blessings on our messenger
Muhammad sallallahu alayhi, wa salam, and all of those who are
sick, in our families, in our relatives, and those that we know.
And those who we have association with Allah we ask you to remove,
remove that illness, random relief, random relief, those who
passed away from those who we know
locally and elsewhere and Otherwise Allah we ask you to give
them grant them forgiveness of Allah, we ask
You to bless us on this day. And do not let any one of us be
returned from here without being forgiven. Allah we ask you for
forgiveness, full forgiveness, and company of your messenger Muhammad
sallallahu alayhi wa salam in the hereafter in the highest levels of
generosity. And for those Subhanallah arbiter arbiter is
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