Abdur Rahman ibn Yusuf Mangera – Never Forget God When Shaytan Never Forgets You [Hikam 236]
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our dear friends dear listeners, we continue with our series on the
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today, we are
on hc hekman number 236 It's a very interesting hikma
number 236 the aphorism says, either I lived in a shaitan Allah
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sia to Kirby Eddie, very interesting. If you do not, if you
know that the devil does not forget you, then do not forget for
your part, him who has your full lock in his hand.
If you know that the devil the devil does never forget you, then
make sure that you do not, for your part, forget the one who has
your forelock in his hand.
Now, that's not too complicated. That's actually a very, very
important clarification. The the virtue, the excellence of these
Hichem of Ignatov Illa is that anybody who understands them, will
eventually, through understanding them one by one, they'll actually
get a much better understanding of their relationship with Allah
subhanaw taala their relationship with Allah subhanaw taala the way
they should worship Him the objective of the worship, the
purpose
for which we worship Him. And that way we'll be able to refine our
worship because you get an understanding of what is all of
this about, you know, what, why do we worship Him. If anybody who
understands this book, anybody who understands this book, they
should, they will move away from just ritualistic worship, right to
really worshiping for the sake of Allah subhanaw taala, it makes a
big difference. I mean, just understand this one, what he's
saying in here, is that you should know. And you should know this,
because I'll tell you why. But once you know that shaytaan is
never going to be negligent of you, he's always going to be on
your case, then the one thing that you need to do, as far as possible
for your part is that you do not be negligent of Allah, you do not
be forgetful of Allah, because that's the only way that you're
going to protect yourself against the shaytaan. So the idea of this,
just to give you a brief idea, is that when any human being is born,
soon as they come into this world, then a shaytaan is according to
the hadith of sahih. Muslim, a shaytaan is allotted for each
person. Right? So there's a specific shaytaan for every single
individual, it's not one shaytaan for 10 people. So the next 10
births, the shaytaan will have no it's one individual shaytaan for
each person, so he's not one cheetah and trying to run around
and and misco and misguide about 510 different people, right? And
then he may miss somebody else in that no, it's one shaytaan to the
person and he's been with us. And this sounds quite, I mean, this
sounds quite awful. He's been with us from birth. So he knows more
about us than anybody else. And anybody who's been with us from
birth, you'd expect that they will know everything about us, meaning
things that we do our traits, the way we react to certain things our
sensitivities, our pitfalls, our vulnerabilities, our weaknesses,
clearly, and that's how shaytan basically exploits us by knowing
our vulnerabilities. So that's why he's saying that Allah tells us in
the Quran that you need to understand shaytaan you need to
take him as your enemy. So that's what he's saying. If you know the
devil does not forget you, then make sure that you on your part,
do not forget Allah who has your four locks in his hand, which
means you are in total in Allah's control. So you need to at least
remember Allah subhanaw taala. So based on this now, we're going to
try to understand this better. Allah subhanho wa Taala
through his divine wisdom of
The way he wants this world to operate, the environment he is
created here, for the good and bad to be in front of us, reminding us
of the good and telling us to do the good and avoiding the bad. So
the bad influence is the shaytaan. So Allah has created not just the
inside, but he's also created this ego and this passion within us,
which sometimes just miss aligns our understanding. So the shaytaan
and the knifes, and number three, basically when other people act
like the shaytaan, or when we act like shaytaan, for others. So evil
comes through three different ways through the knifes through the
shader and himself or through other people, through other people
who act like barriers from the Path of Allah, who take us away
from virtue who mislead us, who challenge us who harm us in
different ways. So
all of these three categories of beings, they're basically standing
in front of the Presence of Allah subhanaw taala. Imagine that they
like those that you have to cross, right to get to Allah subhana wa
Tada. Nobody is able to get into the presence of Allah subhana wa
Tada until they managed to overcome this. Imagine, it's like
a computer game, where you have to deal with the people first, you
have to deal with the shaytaan, you have to deal with your knifes
and then eventually you get to your target, you get to your goal.
So you have to deal with all of the enemy in between. So you have
to overcome them, because they're basically standing in front of the
door. And they are stopping people from going in.
So ALLAH SubhanA wa Tada
basically has told these people that you do not let anybody come
in, unless they're able to overcome you. It's almost like
that, that that's how Allah has set it up. Right? Not out of
mischief for us. But just so that we can remain firm, because that's
the best way to remain remain firm. And if we're able to do this
properly, that means we'll be a better human being in the world
anyway. So Allah subhanaw taala has kind of set it up in a way
that do not let anybody come in, unless they're able to overcome
you three groups of people. So they stood at the door. Now
anybody who wants to come in the first line of defense, so called
the first line of fitna is generally people, that's where we
get the biggest issues from. Right. We had a discussion about
that in another aphorism last week. But in general, we see that
a lot of challenges to us, we know that from experience comes from
people. So they're going to stand in our path.
Now, if we're able to overcome that, for the sake of Allah,
subhana, WA, tada. Then after that, we'll come the shaytaan
directly. And what the shaytaan does, shaytaan causes problems in
another way. Shaytan will say that, Oh, it takes too long to do
your worship, it's too cold today, it's too difficult to go to the
masjid. It's too difficult to pray at home, it's too difficult to
take time off work, to ask your boss for leave, to find a prayer
room to find a place to pray when you're shopping. This is the
shaytaan that comes and gives you all of these ideas, then he says,
If you're going to do that you're going to miss out on this deal. If
you
act in an Islamic way, if they find out you're a Muslim, then you
may not get a job. So he's going to try to warn you, he's going to
try to mislead you. By making you feel like you're going to become
poor, you're not going to get a job. And some in some places, this
stuff has become institutionalized. For example, in
the case where in some communities, you have to have a
degree to get married, or you have to have a medical degree to get
married. And subhanAllah there's people who are suffocating within
those within those families or those communities, right, which
leads them to do haram because if they're not very good students,
and they can't become a doctor, then what happens is that they get
frustrated. They have this whole antagonism towards their society.
And then they start doing all of these bad things. So that's
another way shaytan does it.
So he'll he'll give you he'll give you he'll, he'll give you the fear
of poverty. And you will say that when is Allah subhanaw taala gonna
open look how difficult it is. You've made Toba last week. You
know, you you you thought you were okay after that, but now you've
messed up again. How is Allah gonna ever forgive you? Am I ever
going to be forgiven these kinds of ideas that he puts out to you?
Maybe it'll happen maybe he won't happen. He just no determination.
He's here to create problems. Now if a person overcomes the shaytaan
as well, then there's still another enemy, which is the third
line of defense. And that is basically the knifes now we love
ourselves more than we can see shaytaan as an enemy, although we
don't see him but we can get an idea. We can see people but our
own knifes is so close to us. So basically, it's just like, we love
our knifes. So for that, it's the knifes will say cave a tattoo of
dunya back
Hey, Jack, where is it a che in yakun Oli Akun How you gonna leave
this honor that you've got by doing the right thing, right?
This honor that you have by you keep doing the wrong thing. That's
how you get this honor. Right now if you tried to do the right
thing, you're going to lose your honor, you're going to lose your
respect, you're going to lose this job, you're going to lose the
dunya we're not going to get enough money. Then offices been
spoiled like that and corrupted by the shaytaan. So even though
shaytaan may not be telling us this, and that's what we're going
to experience in Ramadan, we're gonna Shayateen locked up, we're
still going to feel like doing things. But remember, in Ramadan,
whatever you feel like doing wrong, then it's generally a
habit, you will hardly ever feel like doing something new wrong in
Ramadan because Shayateen are not supposed to be around. Whatever
you do still feel like doing wrong, those are habits. And
that's what Ramadan is therefore the 2930 days so that we can kick
those habits by learning to control ourselves after a few days
that we avoid doing those things. That's the point of Ramadan is to
eradicate the problem with the knifes. So anyway, if a person
then finally overcomes the enough's as well, which is quite a
difficult journey. Then finally Allah subhanaw taala will tell
them marhaba Bic wa Helen, Helen wasa Helen, basically, now you are
welcomed, and Allah is there to welcome us, you've passed your
test, and Allah is there to welcome us. That's his way in the
world. I know some people may be thinking in their mind, why does
Allah make it like that? That place is paradise where there'll
be no fitna, there'll be no challenges. It'll just be pure
bliss and pure hospitality from our Lord. In this world, he wants
to do it this way. Right? Whether we like it or not, you can
question him as much as you want, we'll make a difference. We're
going to have to resign, right? Death is inevitable. We're going
to have to resign to that fact. There's no point protesting these
things. Right foolishness to protest this fact. It's another
deception of shaytaan To be honest, to feel like why is it
like that couldn't have been this way couldn't have been this way.
Why if God is merciful, then it could be it should have been this
way. It should have been that way. These are just futile arguments.
It's the way it is. It is the way it is. And we have to get the best
understanding which is the Islamic understanding, to understand it
the way it is. Otherwise any other ideas, just whimsical. Just
fantastical doesn't work.
So finally, when a person Allah will welcome them, that person
will start tasting the pleasures of being closer to Allah subhanaw
taala they will feed a sweet sweetness, they're called Tamil
Eema and they will have the taste of faith they will, they will
enjoy it and
Allahu Akbar, according to the those who have passed this path,
they say that Wallahi ma Raja manraja in La Mina Tariq Worre, a
merman Wassell fellow I urge that anybody who's failed, he's
probably never gotten to Allah, those who failed, they failed on
the path, they may have gotten very far on the path. You know,
these, the path with these three things in between, they may have
gotten very far, nearly towards the end, but if they failed and
they failed on the path, once you've reached the Presence of
Allah subhana wa Tada then Allah takes care of you because you
become a willy of Allah have even Buhari etc. Make it very clear
that once a person gets close enough to Allah subhanaw taala and
to his presence with the know the father, then the Nawab fill that
Allah subhanaw taala divinely protects them with the hands by
which the person touches and the feet and so on. That person gets
get benefits from Allah subhanaw taala is protection. Now, once
you've understood this, right, the shaytaan is never going to be
heedless from us because there's remember one shaytaan to each
person, that's his full time job. There is no sleeping time for
shaytaan we need sleep, human enemies need to sleep. But believe
me shaytaan doesn't need to sleep. He is constantly on our case 24/7
Right. So the reason why the Scholars say that Leia hula
angkasa at an even for a moment, the shaytaan will not be
distracted from you. The end of the WHO bathe and fee sodic means
you had the Shema ALEC, the shaytaan locates the place at the
left hand left hand side of our hearts.
For either a filter and decree law he was was as soon as you become
as soon as you do not have a law in your mind. As soon as you
become occupied from thinking about Allah, then shaitan will
start his whispering where either the court Allah in harness, but as
soon as you remember Allah says Subhan Allah, wow, that Allah
created that so beautifully. Thank you Allah that I received this.
Right? You're in your business and you receive the order you receive
the customers Alhamdulillah that's the Dhikr of Allah shaytaan goes
away.
Now if you get excited, right for the wrong reasons, and you think
it's all you're doing, right and you don't remember Allah, the
shaytaan will become part of this. That's where you don't get baraka
and so on as well. For either
I am Tarik Filatov, fuller, and I'm in nasiha, to cover NASA to
Hubei Well, how could the other so once you understand this, once you
understand is to make sure then that you do not ever become
negligent of Allah always remember him somehow the other always have
him in the forefront, always right. And that, as I said, that
doesn't have to be doing some kind of vicar all the time, it could
just be about thinking about Allah, that's adequate as well.
Because shaytaan is never going to be
never going to be too busy to work on you. So that's why the only way
we know that Koolau to be robinus. We know from there as well, that
shaytaan only recedes and retreats when you remember Allah so that
way you cannot afford to remain without the presence of Allah
subhanho wa Taala at all times, so that shaytaan stays at bay.
Because when you do that, when you say for either shovel or Billa,
when you become occupied with Allah subhanaw taala in whatever
way are the who and he's the one who's going to remove him from you
the shaytaan work Africa, Amara, he is going to suffice you with
the matter of shaytaan you basically you just have to
outsource to Allah, you remember Allah and Allah will sort him out.
That's why
that is why the verse says in a que the shaytani ganador ephah
that the ploys and plots of shaytaan his strategies, they are
very weak. The reason they're very weak is that you've got a very
easy way of defense redecker of Allah, just Allahu Akbar, La ilaha
illa Allah, all Praise to Allah, just thinking about Allah shaytaan
is gone, is no way. He just fizzles out. Soon as you do you
just remember ALLAH, you just put Allah in your heart somehow the
other any mention of Allah, it doesn't even have to be with your
tongue. In fact, it's more powerful in your heart. shaytaan
goes, there is no other way to do it. That's why Allah subhanaw
taala makes that very clear in another verse in Surah, 13 in the
shaytaan hola como I do want photography do i do i shaytaan is
your enemy clear enemy. So make sure you treat him as your enemy.
And the way you treat somebody as your enemy is that you find the
best strategy to overcome your enemy. So now you've got different
people. Now they've looked at this verse, They know Muslims genuinely
know that shaytan is the enemy, right? Some people they just
forget. Now there's another group of people who try to do something
about it. Once they understand that shaytan is the enemy, they
then occupy themselves in fighting the shaytaan.
They occupied themselves in fighting the shutdown because they
think he's an enemy. So let me fight my enemy. So what the shield
tell us, right, they are experts in this subject, they tell us
those who had the experience, they said that you're wasting your
time, because what's going to happen is that when you get too
occupied in fighting the shaytaan, you're going to miss out on
creating love for your beloved, which is Allah subhanaw taala, who
is the one in whose hand is all defense. So you're wasting your
time. That's another ploy of shaytaan to engage you in a fight
with him to miss out the bigger idea, the bigger purpose, the
larger purpose in life. That's why the other group who have
understood this properly, that they've understood shaytaan to be
an enemy, but then they say that they know and Allah speaks to them
and tells them what angelicum Habib, I am your beloved, I am
your beloved. So they basically become more occupied, they forget
the shaytaan they focus on Allah, they become occupied with
developing the love for the beloved one, and he suffices and
he keeps the shaytaan at bay. So don't worry about the shaytaan
focus on Allah and the shaytaan will be away from you.
There's no other way to mess with the shaytaan you just have to
focus on Allah. He takes care of him he fizzles out. Another great
chief who's got a lot of experience he says, I don't know
what to do, we can hear ha ha Luca B Maha batil Habibi haka
that for you to demonstrate full enmity towards your enemy is to
actually become more beloved, and get closer to the enemy. Who is
Who is Allah subhanaw taala. So, when you become occupied with the
enemy of your enemy,
then actually if you get focused on the enemy, then you're going to
lose out your real friend who can really help you rather focus on
getting a strong friend that can assist you against your enemy.
That's why some of them are shy when they they've been consulted
by individuals who are being harmed by by other folk. So for
example, Sheikh Abdul Wahab a Shah Ronnie, he had a che
in he had a shape I think in my
Morocco. And he complained to him in his early days, probably he
complained a moon shot on us a major, major, major shake, who's
who's from Egypt. So he had a shake in, in the, in the West in
marketing. So he complained to him once that, you know, I've got
people who bother me all the time. So the sheikh wrote back to him
and he said, Let's hashtags will be my vehicle.
Don't get occupied with these people who are saying things about
you who are harming you in these ways. Don't don't just, just don't
try to respond to them. Right, which doesn't Billa you focus you
get occupied with Allah subhanaw taala. You make your dua to Allah
you cry to Allah, you seek your refuge in Allah, you should seek
your defense through Allah focus on Allah get on Allah side, you're
the one and Allah will remove them for you.
And this is this is the case in which so many people who want to
get close to Allah, and people will start causing problems
because shaytaan just upped the ante in that case, and then they
people get involved with people to respond to them. Right. And
because of that, so many people make a massive mistake. And they
get in, they get involved in trying to respond and everything
like that, and then it just becomes worse and you could end up
actually committing a sin if you if you do any excess in that
regard. Had they just returned to Allah subhanaw taala Allah would
have sufficed them while are at the home and home and Allah would
have removed those enemies from them. And that's what that is
basically the message of that shake to shiksha irony as well.
That's why it shakes the rook another great scholar of North
Africa he said why in the Mayan defeat shaytaan Obi Tawakoni,
well, Eman shaytaan can be thwarted and gotten rid of through
two things. One is Tawakkol and Allah reliance and Allah and
strong faith in Allah subhanaw taala basically just focus on
improving your faith and your reliance in Allah. That's why
Allah says in surah Nahal in who lay seller who sold dawn on Allah
Lavina Manu, while Rob behemoth our killer, this is taken from a
verse by Sheikh the rook is taken from verse of the Quran Allah says
the shaytaan has no power, has no control has no no no power against
those who believe who have Iman, and who rely upon the Lord who
have debacle on the Lord.
That's why another great scholar said Zulu mystery his name was he
said in Canada who are Juran I mean, hey Fula Nara for in Allah
Euro who mean hey Thula, your Allah, first time Biller, he had a
wonderful way to explain the relationship of shaitan. So he
basically says that shaytan can see us and we can't see him.
Right, we're visible to shaytaan. But shaytan is not visible to us.
Whereas Allah subhanaw taala sees him so he is visible to shaytaan
but Allah is not visible to him. So we can't see shaytaan he can
see us shaytan can't see Allah but Allah can see him. So just seek
assistance in Allah because Allah can see him Allah knows about him
and everything, we can't see him. So it's very, very difficult.
That's why whoever recognizes Allah, and whoever connects
themselves with Allah, then shaytaan is literally going to
fizzle out through the light of Allah subhanaw taala and that's
why the only one that you will need to focus on and know and get
to know more through His names and the Quran and so on. Is Allah
subhanaw taala that's why
there's been groups of people who worked on this. And when they were
asked about shaytaan they said nano calm, we'll learn how evil
shaytaan Where are people we don't even know who shaitan is, meaning
we don't deal with Shavonne we don't know shaytaan is so then
somebody said that doesn't Allah subhanaw taala mentioned shaytaan
in the Quran, how can you not know about shaytaan? Like take this,
you know, with some context, right? So they said agile? Yes, of
course. He's definitely mentioned in the Quran. It's part of our
theology that shaytan exists, while working a struggle Nabila
for Caverna. umbra, had done a cena, right. What we did was we
occupied ourselves in getting closer to Allah and trying to
remembering him more and to OBEY Him and Allah then Allah then
sufficed us
everything to do with shaytaan, so we were no longer influenced by
him, until we actually even forgot that he's around. We're belie
Tofik and only Allah provides us to divine enablement.
So
that that is a very important understanding. Let me let me just
read for you. What Sheikh Abdullah Ganga he says how he explains this
Hiccup and how it clarifies it before I move on to the next
section. It says, Oh believer, an old traveler. You are aware that
Allah Most High has informed you that the devil is perpetually
scheming to do
deviate and destroy you. Allah Most High mentions.
The devil is vow in the Quran that he shall most certainly come to us
from in front of us, from behind us on our right side. And on our
left side. He vowed to attack the servants of Allah from every side
in an attempt to mislead them. Your plan to thwart the devil
should be your alertness, you should not be neglectful of your
master in whose power is your life, supplicate to him, because
only he can save you from your enemy. That's why the people of
Allah, they don't bother with the shaytaan anymore. They don't get
obsessed about the shaytaan. That's why one of these people
they're looking at Illuminati and all of these kinds of while it's
an understandable that we need to be aware. But to get really
obsessed with these things, what you do is it gets so obsessive
that you actually forget about Allah, that Allah is the only
solution to these problems. Anyway, all of this makes it very
clear. This verse of Surah Nahal is very telling that shaytaan has
no power over those who believe and who rely on the Lord. So
that's why she is a rock says that all you need is Iman and Tawakkol
that is what you need to increase but those are tough. It's actually
easier to do online, research YouTube videos and keeps keep and
you think you're actually helping the Dean by doing that sometimes,
as I said, it's okay to be aware. But to really get obsessive about
that. Just watch hours and hours of different shaytani plots and so
on. Just focus on Allah that that is that is easier.
Right? So then he carries on and then he says okay, then why did
Allah I mean, the question that arises here then is that if the
knifes and the shaytaan are your enemies, the Why did Allah create
them? Why did Allah create the shaytaan? What's the purpose of
that? What is the purpose of creating your knifes? I mean, he
doesn't answer the question of Why did Allah create the third line of
defense or the you know the people who bother you first? Right?
Because we obviously know that the benefits that come from people we
need people to live with, that's where a person's well, so but it's
the question is about shaitan. So then he says gyla who like I do
want the you know, Leah who shall be here in a jar, Allahu Allah Can
I do one, Leah who shall be here a Wahaca Allah, you can knifes Leah
Duma, Isabella, Ducati, he made the devil your enemy. So that
through him, he could drive you towards himself.
Shaitan is actually used by Allah subhanaw taala to drive people to
him to Allah.
And he stirred up your soul against you. So that your drawing
near to him would be permanent, that needs to be thought about
that's not easy to understand, intuitively, just like that. So we
have to explain that we're probably only going to have time
for the first one today. So the idea here is that
Allah subhanaw taala made the devil your enemy.
Right made the devil your enemy, so that he could drive you towards
him. What exactly does that mean? So essentially, if we look at
this, Allah, the first thing we have to understand from a meta
understanding is that Allah subhanaw taala has not created
anything in this world.
With no utility, like just futile. Nothing. There's nothing futile in
this world. Everything has a purpose. Sometimes we get it
sometimes we don't. Right but everything has a purpose. So the
what is the purpose of shaytaan See, Allah says in sort of early
Emraan Robina mahal aka about Isla Subhanak
Subhanak that's those who know Allah they finally say yeah, Allah
they can they can then eventually see the purpose of Allah and
everything. So they're the ones who then finally have to declare
that our Lord you have not created anything here void, anything
redundant, anything without purpose or without utility. May
you be purified of all you know, anything that is below your
position.
There's several different reasons for shaytaan number one
when you know shaytaan When you know he's an enemy, when you know
anybody's enemy when there's an enemy I mean, this this is used by
politicians all the time. You if they don't have an enemy, they'll
create an enemy so they can get something else done. That's the
nature of the world in fact, right? Enemies are really
powerful. The enemy may not be powerful but somebody who digs up
then and magnifies the enemy they can get a lot done by forcing you
to do something else that's very negative though. Allah subhanaw
taala created the shed on one of the purpose is to drive people to
him. Why because human knows the week I've been fighting in the
shade on on my life. I'm going to die now ya Allah protect me from
the mystery of Shavon. Right? So that when when a servant
understands that she died his week when when they're weak, right, and
they see the shaytaan, who's out who's out for them, they have to
go somewhere. They need some kind of, they need someone to go to and
that is Allah subhana wa Tada. They go to the force of Allah the
massage etc. Right?
Allah subhanho wa Taala His presence and he takes care of
them. He is telling you Look, this shaytaan is your enemy come to me,
I'll sort you out. I'll help you out. That's number one. Number
two,
is from a profitability perspective, that if there was no
shaytaan, then this is very interesting when people oppose
Allah, right? Because they don't always fulfill the commands, they
make mistakes, they oppose Allah. Right. So
in this case,
Allah subhanaw taala can say to them, that you've actually
followed my enemy.
That's why it's justified for me to punish you if I need to.
Because if there was no enemy, if there was no wrong, and a person
went against something, then there'd be no concept of wrong. So
it's essentially for there to be proof against human beings, right
for them not to be able to get away with it If Allah doesn't want
them to. Because Allah subhana wa does call for the law Hill hudgell
believer, Allah has the most far reaching proofs, the most
effective proofs Allah subhanaw taala has.
Number three,
this is a very interesting one, actually.
shaytaan can be your fall guy.
shaytaan can be your scapegoats. shaytaan can be your excuse, not,
before you do around shaytaan can never be an excuse to evade, or
look shaytan is going to make me do this. I'm going to do it.
Now after we've fallen after we've made a mistake, right. And after
we've made a mess, then you take the shakedown and you wipe the
floor with it.
So the idea is that once we've made a mistake, and we're sorry,
and we want to make Toba, we can at least blame the shaytaan and
gives you a bit of comfort human like people, human humans, like
something that they can blame. So Alicia is I could blame. That's, I
mean, that's another purpose. Not sure if you know how you want to
how much you want to take these, each of these as a purpose, some
obviously stronger than others. So that's a very interesting number
for Allah has given us something to struggle against. If there was
no shaytaan paradise is no shaytaan is all hospitality. But
Allah has given us something to struggle against, that's our
struggle. That's the way you're going to find out who does more
than others. That's your point of contact. Competition, that's your
point of trying to make your effort and to show your effort of
value when I struggle against the shaytaan. So if there was no
shaytaan, what are you going to struggle against? Allah wants us
to struggle in this world, that's the nature of this world. So
basically, shaytan is the one that you struggle with, so that it can
make you more distinctive, it can give you more virtue and he can
provide that for you. So all of these are the there could be many
other wisdoms for why shaitan has been basically put into this
world. And Wallah who Hollywood Allah, Allah subhanaw taala is his
his dominant over all of his matters. I mean, Allah subhanho wa
Taala is in full control. And what will animal Hakeem he is
basically, the old knowing, and the old wise, and the great judge,
and we will say you're gonna say to him, So, interesting story.
shaytaan, remember, has come in front of people, most of the time
shaitan will never come. I don't know if anybody here, anybody
listening has experienced shaytaan like physically, like shaytaan
shape or not human shape on I mean, shaytaan old gym, right? But
Shakedown comes as mentioned in a hadith, the McCanns were making a
meeting about what to do with the Prophet salallahu Salam, they
didn't really come up with any bright idea. Suddenly, this is old
man. And Jerry's a Nigerian man from Nigeria, right? And he comes
up with this really bad idea that Okay, everybody,
contribute every tribe contributes one of their best men, and then
they'll all kill the professor last month together, for example,
so that way, if the founder of the voxel awesome tribe want to take
revenge, they can take revenge from all the tribes. So he has
come in it's mentioned in terms of Arsenal awesome. And later on, he
will come in the form of something and try to mislead somebody,
right, whether whatever shape form or a person or whatever, so now,
you have a story about Sahel if no, Abdullah to study
shaytaan comes in front of him and he's laughing, giggling, laughing
smiling, whatever Sal says to him, a curse one What are you laughing
at? He recognized him as like a curse. What are you laughing at?
Why are you laughing? When you are somebody who's really messed up?
You've confused so many people, you've become a bliss and so on.
And you've become hopeless, despondent, you have no hope in
Allah subhanaw taala has mercy. Why can you be loving? Trying to
make him feel guilty or whatever, right? So shaytan says Yes, sir.
*, you know what, I'm a che. This is a bit Arabic and a shape.
I am a thing. Right? I'm also a thing, just like everything else
is a thing. Right? And Allah says, he's quite knowledgeable. He says
what I've met he was
Ciara Kula shake. My Mercy encompasses all things. And I'm a
thing. So I should be receiving Allah's mercy as well. Can you
believe it? And then he says another one.
So Sal is an acronym. He responds to him. He says that faster to
Wuhan Latina taco but Allah says that I'm only going to decree this
for those who are righteous. So you are exempt, you're excluded.
So Shaitan says, How much Taqwa Do you have?
For Aina minute taco, what kind of righteousness Do you have? How
much do you have? Taqwa is a characteristic of a servant. And
Rama is a mercy of sorry, is a characteristic of the Lord. Right?
And how can you who's a temporary being be compared to the Mercy of
Allah? Like what are you trying to tell me that Allah's Mercy is not
going to be given to me? So how could not see him? Right Sal could
not say
there's there's obviously ways to answer at the end of the day,
Allah subhanaw taala you said If Allah homeless alone, so we ask
Allah subhanaw taala to allow us to come closer to him. And in
these times, these are times of great reflection and thoughts. And
what else is there that Allah subhanaw taala wants from us at
this time? Except that we get close to Allah subhanaw taala what
else is it that Allah subhanaw taala want from us? What else is
he looking for? To turn this?
This virus off? To bring it back to normal? Why did such a huge
amount of change had to occur in the world were huge companies that
were so strong,
the breaking apart?
People who make policies, they're being struck by this.
People with money, nothing's helping them.
So nothing is nothing is helping today. It's all about just
waiting, waiting, waiting.
So what else is it that Allah wants, but for people to
understand him? So we ask Allah subhanaw taala that Allah makes us
close to him and grant us His love and occupies us with developing a
relationship with him and the love for him Allah humara sukhna
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dua to Allah subhanho wa Taala so we can be sufficed of the shaytaan
we can inshallah be sufficed about knifes that will be held in
Ramadan Inshallah, and we can be sufficed of the evil of people.
That Allah subhanho wa Taala will suffice us with that as well.
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Generally will Iran have mercy upon us? Yeah, Allah shower us
with Your mercy. Yeah, Allah shower us with Your forgiveness of
Allah, we are in need of your forgiveness. We're in need of your
mercy. We're in need of your generosity of Allah shower us with
your generosity, with your clemency, with your forbearance of
Allah with your compassion, of Allah with your forgiveness,
especially of those sins that bring the misery in our homes,
especially of those sins that have taken away the blessing from our
lives. Those which have made our lives dark of Allah, those which
have brought this problem upon the community upon the entire world of
Allah remove those sins from us of Allah, we may not even know the
sins that we are committing, which are so hated in your sight of
Allah they may have become part and parcel of our life and we no
longer even consider them sins anymore. Yeah Allah give us
discernment of Allah the first condition of closeness to you is
knowledge is beneficial knowledge of Allah grant us understanding of
the wrongs in our life. And our Allah what we need to do to
correct the matter of Allah help us and assist us help the entire
ummah. Have Allah made us all feel that we must also contribute, and
we must also do our part of Allah for us. All of us are special in
your eyes of Allah, all of us, especially in your eyes of Allah
shaytan makes us think that we are nothing that we are redundant,
that we will not gain forgiveness that we will not gain closeness
that we are insignificant, or Allah removed this accursed
shaytaan from us, or Allah remove his mischief from us, or Allah
especially remove his mischief from us on our deathbeds. Oh Allah
Oh Allah this Ramadan is around the corner of Allah we ask that
You grant us this Ramadan to be better than any Ramadan before it
of Allah that you allow us to enter Ramadan and be
Let's sit right from the beginning to start basking in your mercy to
become drenched in your compassion, to be drenched in your
forgiveness to come out of Ramadan like the days that our mother has
had given us birth, Oh Allah, Oh Allah make this Ramadan a truly
changing moment this Ramadan is going to be a special Ramadan with
a forced Attica for everyone Oh Allah this is in your wisdom
wherever your wisdom through this is of Allah grant us the best of
it. Oh Allah do not allow us to be on the on the worst end of this,
oh Allah this may be a punishment for some people, but for others
they may be a source of Mercy of Allah make it a source of mercy
for us of Allah this loss that we have sustained right now is
actually more beloved to us due to the rewards that we're getting and
the status that is increasing of ours in your eyes. Then had we not
had this problem? Oh Allah Thank you Allah. Ya Allah we ask you for
thanks but oh Allah we ask you that you relieve this problem from
us. of Allah We ask that you relieve this and you protect us
You protect our loved ones you pray, you protect the entire
Ummah, oh Allah relieve this problem from humanity, allow
people to reflect and to understand, to make this a source
of great connection with you to go back to our basics to remove the
indulgences from our life to remove the obsessive buying and
consumption. And oh Allah the indulgences that we had everything
we had, our everything we still have, oh Allah allow us allow
these things to not become a fitna and all the wealth that you have
given us. Oh Allah, you've given us so much more than so many
others in this world.
Do not make this a fitna for us. Do not allow us to disobey you
with the very wealth that you have given us. of Allah do not make it
a source of burden for us, make it a source of Rama for us. Your
Prophet sallallahu Sallam has said that how wonderful is wealth in
the hands of a righteous person, our Allah make us that combination
of Allah make us that combination with with all the bounties that
you have given us make us among those who are constantly thankful
to you. Those who remember you are all times Oh Allah, make us of
your of your Olia those who remember you so that they can keep
away from the shape on the shaytaan will keep away from them.
Oh Allah suffice us from the shaytaan suffices with the halal
away from the Haram give us pleasure in our Halal so that we
don't even have to look at towards haram to go behind the Quran.
Allah protect us and our assets protect our iman above all predict
our children, our next progeny our progenies until the day of
judgment of Allah allow these massages to be revitalized of
Allah allow these massages today we're sitting in a near empty
Masjid. Oh Allah this would not have been the case a month ago or
just before that, Oh Allah this must be some big plan of yours. Oh
Allah this must be some big plan of yours allow us to be
successful. Allow us to be successful allow us to come out of
this successfully of Allah relieve relieve this problem bring back
the misogyny Oh ALLAH how many of the time in history may have this
happened? Oh Allah, Allah Allah we ask that you
send your abundant blessings and our messenger Muhammad sallallahu
alayhi wa sallam that you grant us his company in the hereafter. I
knew especially protect us around these times with the various
different thoughts and opinions that are being spread around.
There is just so much chaos so much and misunderstanding so much
misinformation because of the unprecedented nature nature of the
calamity that we're in. Oh Allah people are saying all sorts of
Allah do not allow your deen to be disfigured. Oh Allah do not allow
your Sharia to be corrupted of Allah allow us to make the right
decision. So Allah we some of us are in decision making roles of
Allah we ask you for guidance of Allah we ask you for forgiveness
for the mistakes we have made our life it's so easy to make mistakes
in these kinds of situations. Guide us right? Allahu Medina
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anywhere near wa sallahu wa salam ala Sayidina Muhammad Subhanallah
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