Abdur Rahman ibn Yusuf Mangera – Our Deeds Only Accepted Because of Allah’s Veil [Hikam 131 & 134]
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This is
quite a profound aphorism which goes to show
the way our worship and our devotion works with Allah subhanho
wa taala. As we've said before, this is a book on spirituality but
essentially it's about affirming the Oneness of Allah subhanho wa
Taala and our devotion to Him. That's what this is all about. So
what he's saying in this one, he says, We're not for the kindness
of his veiling.
Meaning, if Allah subhanaw taala did not veil us,
then no deed would be worthy of acceptance.
If Allah subhanaw taala essentially did not ignore a lot
of the shortcomings,
and then put up
a veil to cover those blemishes
then none of our actions would be worth it, the salah that we just
performed, the first thing that we just did in Ramadan, the Hajj,
that assistance we may have given to someone else, the vicar that we
may have spent time doing.
If it wasn't for Allah's veiling, then that wouldn't be worthy of
acceptance.
So someone might look at this and say, That's tight. We've spent so
much time doing this, why wouldn't it be accepted, I've done the
deed, there's a lot of people who are not even doing the deed. So
I'm doing the deed. So why should it not be not be accepted?
Well, were really selfish if we think that way. Because we think
it's only us. And we've not really recognized Allah subhanaw taala.
So let's look at this in a bit more detail as to what he's saying
here. So this is what he's saying.
If we want our deeds to be accepted, if you want to give a
gift to someone, and you want them to feel very, very, very happy
with your gift, and really be excited by really be fulfilled and
satisfied by that, what would you have to do? Could you just buy any
gift and give it to them? Could it just be a gift, I've given you a
gift, you should be satisfied, you should be happy. You know, a lot
of other people don't give you a gift, I'm giving you a gift, you
should be happy. If I compare it that way, nobody else gives me a
gift. And only Dr. Sub gives me a gift and okay, maybe, you know,
that's something to, you know, to be excited about. But if you
really want somebody to be satisfied with a gift, you'll have
to make a lot of effort, you have to understand what they like
how they like it, how it's presented in the manner we present
it, if I've got a gift from someone, I just got, like, here
you go this, I bring some flowers for my wife, and I'm just like
here, these are flowers for you.
They are really expensive, but I just thrown them so these are
flowers for you, and then I run out
it's going to totally be wasted.
There's a way to give a gift. And you know, I've received quite a
few gifts in my life and sometimes Subhanallah it just depends on the
manner in which the gift has been given the thought recently,
somebody gave me a gift and I think they they know that I'm
quite particular with my perfumes but they wanted to give me a
perfume. So they gave me a perfume and wrote a note with it. I really
apologize. But you know, I don't know what your thing is. But this
is
what I would like to give you. And it's one of my female students so
she doesn't even have direct access to you know, ask and find
out like would you want to whatever, but she wanted to give
me a gift. So I accepted that and I felt really good about it. It
was actually decent perfume anyway. So there's an effort that
somebody goes through. Actually speaking about perfumes is another
somebody helped him out with something so he sent me four small
tester bottles of perfume and said Which one do you like from there?
Now I had to choose one of them.
So then I chose one, I didn't want to upset the person who actually
decent one of them was decent. So then they sent me got a full
bottle of that
made and sent, there's an effort, essentially, there's an effort,
right? There's an effort that goes with it. When you do work for
someone, your own employer, or if you are an employer, or if you're
a director, or if you're if you manage staff, there's a clear
difference in the 10 staff that you may be managing, or the five
staff that you have, there's going to be a big difference between
each one of them. And there'll be some, they all doing the same job,
but the way one of them does it, it's just going to be different,
because you can see there's something about it, that they're
putting their hearts into it or something like that. They put in
their mind, their sincerity, their concern, they've got everything in
there. So likewise, with Allah subhanaw taala, with anything else
for something to be fully acceptable, to fully be accepted,
and to provide that satisfaction, it needs to be worthy of that. And
that's essentially when it comes to Allah subhanaw taala, who is
the greatest and least I mean, for example, me, I'm just a normal
human being, you know, what right? Do I have to criticize things. But
Allah subhanho wa taala, who's got, who is perfect, who is
complete in every sense, he's got a right to be critical if he wants
to be.
So to give him something that is to his level, if I go to a very,
very, very wealthy individual, right, the gift I give them must
be accordingly must be according to their status, as opposed to
what I may give to somebody else.
So with Allah subhanho wa taala, it needs to fulfill the conditions
of COBOL it needs to fulfill the conditions of acceptance, that's
essentially what it is now, what are the what are the
what are the conditions of acceptance, I mean, we this is not
what we want to go through right now. But one of them is definitely
sincerity.
purely for the sake of Allah, nobody else purely for the sake of
mind has to have been focused right to Hadoop, so it lasts and
higher toolholder which means absolute presence. That's what
Allah wants. He wants us. He wants to see from us that when we devote
ting whatever we are our worship to Him, that we have nothing else
in mind at that time because he knows the world is full of
distractions.
So when I'm praying to Him, if I'm thinking of something else than
what I'm giving him, and I'm thinking about something that's
not good enough, because he knows, you may go to give a gift to
someone or make a petition to something your mind would be
elsewhere a won't make a difference, they probably won't
know.
But when it comes to Allah subhanaw taala he knows there is
no veiling.
So when we're praying to Him, it needs to be purely for him. So if
our minds did go elsewhere, we couldn't help it maybe. But at the
end of the day, there was a distraction. So now have we
fulfill the condition of that prayer to give to Allah subhanaw
taala
now look at any of our deeds, zakat, sadaqa, assisting someone
else, if it's for the sake of Allah, was it purely 100% for his
sake, and for nothing else? No distraction in there whatsoever?
And it was actually complete in every other sense as well.
If not, then why should it be accepted when Allah only wants
perfection?
In Allah, Yeah, but you're able to utilize pure he only likes the
pure anyway. He likes gamble, he is complete. And he only likes
what's complete and what's perfect. So why should he accept
this? It's got a bit of a blemish, oh, it's just got a bit of a
blemish. It's not good enough for Allah subhanaw taala.
But he see it is because he overlooked so much that's what
he's trying to say here. So if loss and at absolute presence and
focus and what the battery fee hymnal, how we will cover?
Right? Which and to basically completely think at that time that
I nothing can assist me except Allah subhanaw taala nothing can
facilitate me except Allah subhanaw taala.
And that's why the Scholars say that this is Fi hi, Yeti nudura
This is so seldom that you could have a worship with all of those
things in there so pure, with absolutely no distraction at all.
So, now, if that's the state of our worship, and may Allah allow
us to continue and perfect our worship, if that is the state of
our worship, and Allah subhanho wa Taala had not been graceful to us
and by his veil that look, don't worry, I'll ignore a lot of this
stuff. As long as I see some kernel, some essence of this in
there, some focus of this in there. I'm going to ignore a lot
of the
shortcomings, the distractions wonderings of your mind, focus
elsewhere doing something, not purely for my sake having some
other ideas in there, I will forgive it.
So out of his absolute compassion, and his kindness and his subtlety,
and his generosity, Allah subhanho wa Taala he covers the defects, no
problem, he covers the defects.
So, can you now see what he's saying now that had it not been
for the kind leanness of Allah's veiling, so that's what he means
by veiling is just ignoring that stuff, then no deed will be worthy
of acceptance. So Allah subhanaw taala, he's the one who actually
gives us the Tofik, the divine enablement to do it in the first
place. That's why we're all sitting here today could have been
doing a lot of other things on Friday evening. That's why we're
sitting here. And then even if they were a bit distracted,
hopefully Allah subhanaw taala will accept it. So he's the one
who allows us to do it. And then he accepts it on top of that, and
forgives a lot of the distractions and everything inside. Right.
That's why it led one of the pious people to say, ma Hoonah, aka in
Le Fabuleux. What a claim that is that there's nothing in existence
except Allah's grace. Like if you reduce it down to just Allah's
grace, that would be absolutely right, because there is nothing
but Allah's grace. It's Allah's grace that we're here that we
exist, it's Allah's grace that we are believers and it's Allah's
grace that we actually devote anything that we do to any
devotion we do is because of Allah's grace, and then it says
Grace even accepts it.
It's just absolutely rational, logical, there's no ill illogical
idea in there.
And then he says, well on our initial INLA fee Saturday, and we
don't exist, we don't live except under his veiling anyway. Because
if people were really to understand and know everything
that goes through our mind and our ideas and everything else that may
come into our minds in a moment of vulnerability or desire or
whatever, then
it would be quite despicable. So there's, we can't live except with
his mashallah, veiling upon us by His keeping everything under
wraps. Well, Okasha Fajita. Lakeisha, and I'm ready now theme,
was he to remove that veil? Then there would be a mighty issue that
would prevail afterwards, everybody would know what's going
on with everything. And then we don't know what the situation
would be, then you have no more of Rahim Allah says miskeen on ignore
Adam.
The human being,
the human being is a miskeen is indeed all the time. Poor
vulnerable, son of Adam Giesemann Marieb.
A defective body.
What collarbones Boone Marieb a defective heart, meaning a weak
heart, weak body, constantly got troubles with our body and our
hearts. You read When You Reach Me in My eBay now where? Where do
actions come from? They are produced from our body and our
heart, our hearts and minds desire, our bodies follow and
produce something, but our bodies and what we can do is obviously
defective, it's incomplete. And likewise, the state of our heart
is incomplete. So then he's saying that if that's our case, then how
is it this human being is trying to produce
a pure deed, but from a defective source? Because his physical state
is defective, and is, and so is his heart, and we're trying to
produce a pure deed from there.
So if it wasn't for Allah subhanaw taala, then nothing would have
happened. That's why it's written above the Throne of Allah subhanho
wa Taala that
My Mercy has dominated my wrath and anger. Because if Allah wanted
to deal with everybody 100% perfectly with everything he wants
them to do. The laws that he's laid down, we'd be in big trouble.
So he forgives a lot. He overlooks a lot and give him a small excuse
and he's willing to forgive
La ilaha illallah that is why the verse I read surah Kahf verse 16,
will equal ArenaNet Jakob Burdwan, home, cinema Emmylou, those are
the people who now this is a play on the Arabic so I'll explain it.
These are the people from whom we accept the best of what they've
done.
Not their company and home for those who understand Arabic this
is not a Kabbalah and home, as opposed to not a Kabbalah mini
home. He was not a couple I mean, who that would have been probably
stronger would accept from them. This is Will
Accept on their behalf. That's the difference I would say.
One is I'll accept it from you another one and accept it on your
behalf. That means somebody else could have done it, or I'll just
accept it in whatever way shape it is, but I'll accept it from you.
Right? If you if you have those two statements, I'll accept it
from you directly is the strongest statement is coming from you.
And I'll accept it from you like on your behalf, like from from
your balance, like okay, don't worry, I'll accept it. It's okay.
So maybe that's why some of the orlimar say that that is why it
says unknown instead of Minho men would have been directly and
unmanned on behalf of bit more distance. Allah knows best.
There's a narration which says Al Bella Oh, well Hawa was shower to
Mark junortoun. Between them. Tests, challenges, desires
and lusts, they are imbued and infused into our the human makeup,
human composition, human essence. So we're going to, we're going if
we're not very careful, and if we're not particular, we're going
to end up fulfilling our desire fulfilling our last getting into
some kind of challenge or trouble. It's just what it is. That's the
way Allah subhanaw taala has made it in this world. He wants us to
do the best. But it just goes to show that the Rama Allah is always
there, which we invoke. You know, there's a verse in the Quran in
surah Al insan verse to Allah subhanho wa Taala says, In
Harlequin Al Insana may not fit in, I'm charging. Libertad Lee,
we've created a human being from a mixture,
mixed mixture of many different things, which is within, you know,
humans have the capability to do the good and bad soul there. The
idea is that with an abundance of vicar, and making an effort to
abstain from what is haram, and what is wrong, the human is where
our effort is to try to not let any of those acts which are any of
those features that have been placed in our composition to
dominate. Because while all of those have been placed there, we
also have a rule and a spirit, which makes us closer to the
angels.
So if we are to fulfill
our every desire, and every every lust, which is which we have the
ability to do so then that means that we're focusing too much on
our purely body, material self, we're not letting the rule and the
spirit dominate. And when that happens, then the spirituality is
lost. While we may have a abundance of physical things
around us, when we're never going to have a satisfaction, they're
going to feel content, not going to feel fulfilled. You only feel
fulfilled when we when
the Ruhe and the spirit is allowed to express itself. So Sheikh
Abdullah Ganga, he the way he explains this is as follows. He
says, Only a deed and tidy devote devoid only a deed entirely devoid
of any ego artistic contamination deserves to be accepted,
regardless of the degree of adornment and purification of the
ego, they will always remain to some extent, ego in the self, even
though this may not be discernible. The ego by nature is
an embodiment of evil. I mean, essentially what he's saying what
we said earlier, is that we're constantly because the world is so
important for us, we're constantly distracted. So even if trying to
focus and have complete sincerity in what we're doing, it's so easy
for us to have some of that distraction. It's just so easy.
It's so difficult, otherwise, you have to work very hard to
eradicate that. So that's why Allah's Rama has to be there,
otherwise we'd be in big trouble.
It is because of Allah's grace and kindness that the evil and sins of
the servant are then overlooked and concealed by him. Allah shows
great for parents by withholding his punishment from the sinful
servant. Above all, he then accepts the servants defective
deeds, give him any gift till accepted. As long as it's coming
to the you know, as long as we've got some sincerity in there, he'll
accept that gift in reality know what nobody's deeds would actually
deserve to be accepted in his lofty court. So Oh, traveller. Oh
seeker, do not be overwhelmed by excessive grief on account of the
deficiencies in your acts of virtue. This is actually a
positive one that look if you start focusing on everything being
defective and how weak we are, and then shaytaan makes you start
thinking that you know what is not worth it? You can't do it perfect.
Perfectly, so don't do it. It's okay. This is a lot of people have
this issue.
So that's why he's saying, there is the Mercy of Allah. So focus on
his mercy, try your best. And if there is distraction, focus on
Allah subhanho wa Taala has mercy to accept it.
So do not be overwhelmed by excessive griefed grief on account
of the deficiencies in your acts of virtue. In fact, when Allah
Most High accepts, he accepts our defective deeds and awards, the
reward for the very defective acts offered by his servants, because
something is in there that he likes, and he will ignore
everything else, Allah just once an excuse. So that's what he says.
Now,
the next wisdom is on the page after which is page 201. That's
wisdom number 134.
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were Shaka rock. This is really interesting one, you know, this
idea
that our deeds are incomplete, defective, and Allah subhanaw
taala, veils our faults in there and just accepts
on whatever good is in there, Allah subhanaw taala accepts it.
Now, he transfers this to other human beings to other people in
the world, how they see us. What he's saying is listen to what he's
saying, Whoever honors you, honors only the beauty of his veiling you
if somebody respects you, and honors you, and praises you, what
is he praising? If we've already established that we are weak and
defective in everything that we do, you know, as perf, as much
perfection as we have, there's still defect, right?
Believe me, there's a lot of defects, right? We try our best to
get it right. 100% being a perfectionist, and you still
discover those mistakes afterwards, in whatever we do.
Right? So he's saying that whoever honors you honors, only the beauty
of Allah has veil in you.
Because Allah has veiled everything and doesn't allow the
bad stuff to be exposed. So people can only see good things about us.
That's why they, they praise us. Therefore praise is actually for
Allah, who veiled you, not to the one who honored and thanked you.
When somebody thinks you don't thank them, thank Allah, I mean,
you can thank them as well. But you should really be thanking
Allah because of him having concealed everything.
Now, you see, all just take a simple example of the most popular
people online are generally these pop stars and singers, singers and
things like that. Now, the reason why people like them is because
they only see the good side. Right? They see them the way they
are dressed and made up and present themselves.
Of course, they're human beings, they do every single murky human
being thing that everybody else does. But you will never see that
that's never put together. When we see them, we only see a very
specific side, it's very, very closely and carefully
choreographed, very closely protected, what you see.
Because everything else has been you don't see that even though we
know they every every other thing that humans have failings, they
would do the same thing. So that's because
all of these things are veiled. Likewise, with everything that we
do, we have there's a certain secret aspect, there's a certain
hidden aspects. So what he says in this case now is
Allah subhanaw taala has taken responsibility to look after us to
take care of us, in this world and in the Hereafter. And part of that
is that he veils our evil, he veils, our bad thoughts, bad
things we may have done in a moment of weakness, in a moment of
vulnerability, in a moment of extreme greed, extreme desire.
Nobody else knows about it, may Allah keep that covered. So what
Allah subhanaw taala does is that he
allows you to allows us to have our perfections shown as real
perfections whereas he is actually the real Perfect, perfect one.
Allah subhanaw taala allows us to be seen as perfect, as
accomplished, as beautiful, as handsome, as wealthy or whatever
it is. And then he gets he allows people to praise us. So what is he
allowing people to praise? He's allowing people to praise His work
in us that he's veiled us and
He's allowed only the good things to show.
So recognize Allah subhanahu taalas favor upon you recognize
that it's all Allah is working. It's Allah's hand is everywhere.
Allah has power is everywhere. Allah has control is everywhere.
It's Allah's work that is everywhere. So now he's the one we
need to magnify and glorify, and praise and honor. Now, in that
way, as perfect and great as you are in what you offer to the
world, you will never be arrogant. If Allah subhanaw taala has given
you and granted you, maybe an ability, and honor, wealth,
beauty, possessions, whatever it may be, when we realize that it's
coming from ALLAH and he also helps us veil all the wrong things
that we may have have within us, then thank Allah because it's all
of his work. And this is essentially what the people of
Allah have recognized. That's what makes them Alia. When we recognize
this thing, you become a worthy of Allah. Because when anybody
recognizes Allah, and recognize, I mean, one is we reckon and we know
who Allah is, I'll describe Allah to you, as we say to people.
That's what he means when we actually experienced that
recognition. When with everything that we do, we recognize Allah is
behind everything. That's when you become a weenie of Allah. That's
essentially every one of these will make your body of Allah
that's how these aphorisms are.
That's why in Surah Nisa, Allah subhanaw taala says, verse 83,
Allah says, Allah will further Allah Hi, Lee kumara Mehta who let
the two most shaytaan are in luck or Lila, had it not been for the
grace of Allah upon you and His mercy, then you would have
followed the shape on except
with a small exception, otherwise, you would easily just follow the
shape on very difficult to avoid the shaytaan if it wasn't for the
fear of Allah, if it wasn't for Allah subhanaw taala is Sophie
again in surah. To know now, verse 21, Allah says, what Allah for the
law here at a kumara METU massacre mean could mean I hadn't.
Had it not been for Allah subhanaw taala His grace and His mercy upon
you, he would never purify any one of you ever. So the first one is
telling us that you would have followed the shaytaan if Allah
subhanaw taala had not assisted. And the second one is saying that
look, even though we understand you have defects and weaknesses
and faults, if Allah didn't want, he would never purify any of you.
He would never take you for the good that you've done so easily.
So that means praise is really for Allah subhanaw taala why should we
attract praise? We can think we can thank them. Thank you for
praising me. But inside when you say thank you, Allah, thank you,
Allah.
If Allah subhana wa Taala was just to reveal just some of the bad
things about us. It could be a small thing, but the way it could
be magnified. Sometimes it's a small issue, people make a big
deal out of it. And if you are objectively going to look and say,
Why are you making such a big fuss about this?
Why do some people make a fuss about something?
What is the cause of that? Why does it happen sometimes Allah
protectors, Allah protectors. Because if Allah subhanaw taala
was just to bring up an iota of any of our evil or wrongs or bad
things, people would hate you, people who dislike you. So fresh
could Allah
thank Allah subhanho wa Taala for the honor that he allows us to
have, and for the veiling that he has done of all the evils that
that we have, otherwise people would hate us. They would seek to
hurt us to harm us to criticize us, and so on and so forth. The
Imam as the Rock says, Lola cetera who annual mousy ma Quinta Mati
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endl Hulk, had it not been for his veiling you from his from
disobedience. You would never have been obedience. If Allah did not
protect us from doing wrong deeds giving us the ability that
consciousness No, no, I can't do it is bad. It's repugnant. Right
there then you would not be obeying Allah subhanaw taala look
at godless societies. Look at godless enterprises, atheistic
enterprises, they don't care about all of this. They look at
everything based on just whether it's a utility, whether it
provides any utility to the human being whether it's beneficial for
you to forget God, forget that it says whether it's beneficial for
you or harmful for you. That's all we're going to look at. That's the
criteria.
So remember if it wasn't for Allah subhanaw taala and the Allah for
these people is just literally said, Okay, you do what you want.
Allah has that that barrier is not there for them to think what's
wrong and what's right. They just think everything is okay. As long
as it's beneficial as long as it makes you feel good. That's what
the criteria is.
Then he says, you know, so he says that if it wasn't for Allah's,
well then you would never have been obedient. Now, okay, we're
obedient. But now he's saying that if Allah has not value in your
obedience back to that same point before, then it wouldn't have been
worthy of acceptance, and you would not you would have been
humiliated in front of people.
Well, I will learn here I'm going to rugby law school to mean a
little more during sort of soft facts, somebody's going to say in
the Hereafter, had it not been for the bounties of my Lord then I
would have also been one of those priests to be presented here.
But it was because of the bounties of Allah I was saved. So inshallah
I'm not going to be in the hellfire. So the whole humanity
they work between them using Allah subhanaw taala is veil otherwise
people would start to hate them people would fry or people would
harm them
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he's saying, they think of me being they think of very good
things about me, they think of good things about me, whereas I
actually have no goodness in me
is talking to Allah subhanaw taala. In fact, I am a very, very
dark slave of yours. As you know, as you know, Allah, you have
veiled all my you have, you have veiled all my defects and my
wrongs from their eyes. And you've made me you've allowed me to be
garbed, in this beautiful veil of yours, to look good and to look
righteous, and to look decent and honorable. So now they've begun to
love me, whereas actually, I'm not really one to be loved.
And they, in fact, what they've done is they've actually made me
resemble someone else, they've mistook me for somebody else. So
now on the this is the state of me in this world now. So now on the
Day of Judgment, don't
degrade me.
Don't humiliate me, between them on the Day of Judgment, keep it up
this veil that you've had, that I was a decent person in this world
in the sight of people. Despite all my little my blemishes big and
small, on the Day of Judgment, don't let me be humiliated.
La ilaha illa Allah, and be there for me, oh, my master, Oh, my
Lord, in the standing place in the gathering. So essentially, I think
it boils down to three types of people which is mentioned before.
There's the common folk. All they see is what people see around what
they see what people see around them. They just did Allah subhanaw
taala is not in their mind. Number two people who just see Allah
subhanaw taala.
And the third people are the perfect people. We actually see
people but Allah says, Allah see Allah among everything that they
do, so they're not cut away from people there with the human
beings, the sociable but they are fulfilling Allah has commanded
every moment because they're fulfilling the rights of being in
this world by knowing Allah subhanaw taala and by being among
the people, may Allah subhanaw taala allow us to ascend and to
enhance ourselves to that Sheikh Abdullah gonna go he this is how
he summarizes it. He says, Oh traveler Oh seeker when someone
respects and honors you with praise or gifts, do not become
proud. Do not gain the impression that you have in you some
excellence. In reality, the person has not really praised you. He's
praised Allah's attributes of veiling the sins and defects of
people.
If Allah Most I had not concealed your egotistical evils, people
would not even spit on you. All would have detested you because
your ego is an embodiment of mischief and evil. The cats and
dogs in our mind, the pigs and the other evil ideas that people have
in their mind all of that would have been
All of that would be clearer for people to see therefore do not
praise and flatter the one who praises you or one who treats you
with respect, honor and kindness. The being who has conceal your
faults is truly deserving of praise. The one who praises and
honors you is not deserving of respect and praise in essence,
meaning you do have to praise them but don't think that they're the
only people to praise Allah has to be praised. However, there is
nothing wrong in expressing gratitude to the one who is kind
and shows respect to you, for it is Allah Most i Who bestowed the
goodness to you via the agency of that person who has honored you,
but the gay should be on only Allah Most High. May Allah make
that easy for us. I think it's very, very logical, makes absolute
sense. But inshallah it will be how we think as well. And it will
be the way we deal with things in the future. Insha Allah may Allah
subhanaw taala assist us Allahumma InterSolar morning for salon
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Sayyidina Muhammad Vida as you see now Muhammad Allah Burdick was
salam. Jamar Idina Judy will Karamja Kremen a Chromia
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generous one Oh, forgiving one. Oh, Clement one oh forbearing one
have mercy upon us. Treat us with Your mercy treat us with your
with your generosity Oh ALLAH shower your mercy and your
forgiveness of Allah we ask You for Your forgiveness and for
complete purification, our love purify us, we thank you for the
veil you have over us. We have done so much wrong. We have so
many defects we have so many issues of Allah. We have we have
transgressed we have shortcomings. We have blemishes we have defects
of Allah, we have sinned of Allah, forgive us our sins, protect us
from sin, protect us from wrong. Oh Allah, grant us your love of
Allah. Make your love more beloved to us, then all the beautiful
things of this world. Oh Allah, grant us your love and the love of
those whose love will benefit us in your court. Oh Allah bless all
of those who sit here today those who listen, oh Allah bless all of
us, oh Allah except from all of us. Allah, whatever little
devotion that you've given us the ability for us to do a lot except
for us and grant us the ability to do a lot more. Oh Allah allow us
to understand you allow us to know you better, or Allah with every
subsequent day that passes so Allah allow us to know you better,
so that we are at our best knowledge of you before we pass
away. And Allah make that sufficient knowledge for us to, to
gain your pleasure in the Hereafter, to gain your pleasure
in this world, to relax in the gardens of Paradise in our grief,
and our love for all the stages of the Hereafter to be easy for us.
And Allah to be welcomed by you welcome by the Prophet sallallahu
alayhi wa sallam to his,
to his water in place to be able to drink from his blessing hands,
Know Allah to pass over the causeway of the Hereafter over
Jahannam Oh ALLAH entgegen nettleford dose of Allah for an
eternal life of bliss of Allah except whatever little that we
have done. I know Allah change our lives from all the distractions
and the laziness and the procrastination, and Oh Allah, all
the delays that we have of trying to become better people to start
becoming more practicing to start doing tahajjud to start doing
extra remembrance to start doing our cover prayer and to be
balanced, free to make an effort to be balanced free before they
leave this world of Allah allow us make it easy for us to, to pay off
our balances of every debt that we have in this world, whether that
be debt to others or debts to you. Allow us to be clear and complete.
Oh Allah to be ready to be to meet you or Allah. These are very, very
high things that we asked you for. But for you, it's easy for us.
It's difficult. It's a lifelong toil but our logra grab us by the
forelocks and O Allah into us into genital fiddles remove the
obstacles from our path. Remove the distractions from our path of
Allah remove the weaknesses that we have, oh Allah remove the
weaknesses of Allah strengthen us for your obedience and keep us
steadfast and your obedience so Allah bless all of those who
facilitate these classes and the people of the masjid and all the
others who facilitate
all the good things that are happening in this world and make
us of the contributors for of the good in this in this country and
around the world. Do not just make us consumers Oh Allah allow us to
contribute something and oh Allah allow us to be accepted for some
service of your deen Subhan Allah be corrupt binaries and IOC for
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