Abdur Rahman ibn Yusuf Mangera – Pure Sincerity and Insincerity [Hikam 161]
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There's a statement that one of the machines made one of the Scott
has made, and we'll see if you understand its relevance here. He
says that if you see anybody who's answering every question he's
asked
and articulating and conveying everything that he has witnessed,
and remembering everything that he has learned about, then from that
you can understand how much ignorance he has. I'll leave that
to you to figure that out. We can have a discussion about that
later.
Bismillah al Rahman al Rahim Al hamdu lillah wa Salatu was Salam
ala Sayidina Muhammad wider early he or Sotheby he he Marina my very
dear brothers and sisters. May Allah reward this author, we move
on in our series of Ignacia ilus Alaikum The next one is 161 which
is on page 107. This is what he says
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This adds another dimension to what we were discussing last time
as to what showing off is and how it's so subtle, and it's so
difficult to avoid. So here he's taking, he's giving us another
idea. Another dimension again, I've benefited from this Insha
Allah, He says, Your desire that people know your particular
distinction is a proof of insincerity in your servanthood
think about that,
if we have something special about us, we're very good at something
or we've acquired something or have a skill set, or we've
achieved the work goal. Or we make sure we're very regular on worship
or we've developed a sense of contentment, or generosity or
whatever it is and now we want people to know about it.
So that's why it's in your desire that people know your particular
distinction is a proof of insincerity in your servanthood
now, there are caveats here sometimes you need to tell people
because you need to set something right. So those exceptional cases
are exceptions, right. This is just I want people know so they
respect me
or they under me more now.
So let's see how we can understand that better.
So either hosaka Allah who either hospital Haku Tyler, they also see
if Allah subhanaw taala has mashallah given you a specific
characteristic or an excellence or merit a skill
or some kind of religious achievement. For example, one of
the praise way that he's given you Zuid you just don't care about the
world too much anymore you use it for its utility only you're not
after your cars anymore as it used to be you're not after clothing
anymore as used to be you just get it you know, you don't go off to
the latest phones and etc etc. And mashallah, you know, like you're
focused on the hero now.
You'd rather be in the masjid. You'd rather be praying you'd
rather do some extra TestSuite etcetera. For example, a water or
scrupulousness A you're very careful about what you take what's
halal and haram and you're very careful about that Allah has given
before you never used to care now you do what are called reliance on
Allah subhanaw taala.
Or you're very satisfied with Allah has decreed, you know,
before used to always be stressed, and aggravated
or is under some kind of tension. But now it's like, whatever Allah
wills, it's a wonderful place to be, right?
Is a shakedown doesn't want us to achieve any of this, but when we
do achieve it,
then shaytan wants to mess it up. So then he says, Okay, you need to
let people know you've got this because then that's an
achievement. So we want people to know our achievements, especially
in this world we're in we're famous taken on a whole new
dimension, isn't it? Through social media and so on? Oh Tasleem
are that y'all is submitting to Allah subhanho wa Taala that is so
easy for us to submit to Allah subhanho wa Taala or you've
developed a love for Allah muhabba Allah for Allah subhana wa Tada or
you've developed a conviction in your heart so nothing now shakes
your faith. Your stories be confused about stuff. Why is this
like this in Islam and why is it like that innocent? Why can't we
do this and why can't we do that? Discrimination this that and the
other now it's like, no, man, this is
Is it? I've got that Yaqeen and conviction, these are all very
important things. Oh my God for all mashallah, you've recognized
Allah, like, you know who Allah is now
to a higher degree, or Oh Allah, Allah, your data kuramathi. And he
see it and oh man, are we it? And oh, maybe you've had a few
vehicles.
You know, maybe you found money under your mattress.
So I
don't know how often that happens. Allah usually works behind the
veil. So you might not find money under your mattress, but somebody
might give you a gift that you didn't expect.
Right? For example, you might get a good deal in something you sell
or something like that, Allah, Allah has multiple ways of doing
things anyway. So I mean, I'm not saying that's a karamba. But
fewer, I think that's a Kurama or something else just amazing
happened. There's lots of things that can happen.
You are quite sure you're going to miss your flight and you didn't
miss your flights. And you suddenly saying that must be
because I'm very pious, multiple things like that. So you had some
special things happen to you. Whether that be
whether that be something perceptible people can see it,
whether you can explain it, whether you can't explain it. Or
if you move on from that you manage to before you never would
come up with any kind of wise ideas. And now mashallah, you're
coming up with wisdoms. Suddenly, this door of wisdom has opened up
for you. So now you're actually speaking with wisdom. And people
are saying, Wow, where did you come up that with, you know, your
tweets are now much better, and your Facebook posts are better.
And
that's just putting it on the whole social media thing, but you
know what I mean, it's just that you're starting to speak a lot
more sense and people are listening to you and you realize
that have I become wise have I finally turned 40, whatever it may
be, whatever it may be something that's happened. And then after
that, once all of these things happen. Remember, now shaytan
comes and he wants to mess it up so that you don't get the benefit
of it. The full benefit of it. So Mr. Chuffed, then now you wanting
to show others, you want other people to know this,
right. Now, of course there could be exceptions to this where you
want people know that they could take it on purely for that sake.
Very difficult to think of that without saying having any ego
involved in that.
Whatever, Nathan, yeah. Animal Hulk. Bihu. sociopathic. And you
have this eagerness and this hope that people know about this
distinction of yours, so that they'll mention it further. Lika
Delino nada would you did RIA ill huffy about cynic. This is
evidence and proof that you still have subtle showing off and
ostentation in your hearts.
Yeah. So you see, I got a
question. The other day somebody said that he had achieved one of
these things where he was very satisfied with one aspect of
Islam. But he says why doesn't the other side come? So there are
different things you have to work on each individual thing.
Yes, any achievement in Islam, you get into work that's going to help
you in other things, but you could have to work on. But you may still
have Ria, you may still want to show off of it. So
we have to work on everything and first diagnose what the problem
is. Could be multiple problems, right? So they all need to be
sorted out. So anyway, he says that this is definitely evidence
that there's still that subtle, showing off and boasting inside
you where they don't either either we sit giffy city coffee or booty
attic. And it's also proof that you don't have sincerity in your
obedience and your servitude to Allah because servitude to Allah
must be everything for Allah, I don't care about anybody else,
whether they know or not. In fact, I'd rather they don't know,
because that just creates a challenge. Right? But undercar
they will fear in fact, you're an absolute false You are a liar in
that regard, is located on the side, the configurable D I think
most of you are absolutely truthful in your servitude to
Allah subhanho wa Taala let the fate of bear l Milla that you
would have sufficed that just Allah knows. As long as Allah
knows that I've got the worker, that's enough for me. As long as
he knows that, I'm being careful, that's enough, because that's what
I'm doing it for, not for anyone else. What cannot be more are
covered here and you're satisfied that he's watching you. That's all
you need to be worried about. You don't care about anybody else, was
terminated behind the lady. And that gives you independence, of
concern of being concerned about anybody else, recognizing your
favors to them or anything else very difficult place to be when
you really done a lot for someone. And then after that they don't
recognize it. It hurts that is very, very difficult. The only
antidote to that is to do it purely for the sake of Allah. And
when you do it for the sake of Allah, then nothing can affect you
anymore. Because then you don't care what the world throws at you
because you only worry about Allah and Allah will never violate
Whatever he's promised, he'll never go against that. And he
knows exactly the best way to do he doesn't make mistakes. Whereas
people do make mistakes, right?
Phil wajib that's why it's necessary, right in this path of
spirituality that if Allah subhanaw taala has mashallah
specially selected a person to with a special merit with a
special excellence ketemu ha. To hide it, to conceal it, were Jaha
to literally rejected like, if somebody says hey, mashallah, you
got to work? No, no, no, no, no.
Right?
We'll sit through her.
And to veil it, except from your guide, except from the person that
you've taken as a teacher to help you figure these things out and
take you on a path your teacher, because I mean, he needs to know
what so that if you think you've got something that he can say
whether he recognizes it or not, or whether it's just shaitan
making you think you've got to work on and you don't really have
it.
Somebody gave me a really beautiful Ruud, which is a perfume
the other day from Vietnam. It's amazing. He gave me a lot of
virtues for it has a lot of silage, it lasts for a long time,
he said, cause the next day said Have you tried it yet? So I had
tried a bit of it. But I was very busy. So I didn't really get to
try it. What I did was, I put it on somebody else. I somebody who I
sat next to for a while co teacher I I applied some to him. And then
mashallah I saw the benefit of it. Sometimes you can't see what's
going on in your own self. It's much easier to see it on somebody
else. That's why a lot of other people will see our faults,
and our silliness, and our foolishness, and our claims and
all that stuff.
Much more quicker than we can. It's just something that too
polite to tell us sometimes. And the very straightforward ones, we
don't like them.
The straightforward ones who say it the way it is, we don't usually
like those kinds of people. So we try to avoid those kinds of
people. Or we don't take them seriously.
So weird world we live in but what do you do? Anyway? Then he says
find out hahaha. Now look, if you do reveal any excellence you think
you have, right? If you do reveal it, like you said, one is that it
gets revealed that's from Allah that you can't do anything about
that. And if somebody praises you for something that you did not
reveal, but Allah revealed it then you can just thank Allah and say,
May Allah give me sincerity and that's different but if you
revealed it if a person reveals it for who Anahata then you're in a
great amount of danger. Because it could be multiple things now why
did you reveal it for remember there could be some exceptional
cases of revealing these things just to maybe prove a point to
somebody to for an ulterior motive you have to be very careful about
those four cardio cornuta had done maybe you're doing it that doesn't
mean Nerima for very particular What am I doing with your big
forehead this fella has given you a bounty then you should sometimes
reveal that Be careful how you do it. Right sometimes you do that.
That's mostly in the case where for example if Allah has given you
wealth, and you act like a fucking to make people feel sorry for you,
so they give you things and to help you out. That's really messed
up.
That's not right. To make people pity you because why would you
want people to pity you? For instance, what could the Hakuna
Tibet Johanne
in some cases, it could be a boast so it could either be because you
genuinely want people to know about Allah Karim and his
blessings. But in other cases it's actually you're bragging that's
why we're Phil get money a Salama,
there's just safety in hiding it in veiling it is just safety in
hiding it.
Le Ilaha illa Allah.
Now
I'm gonna, there's a statement that one of the machines made one
of the scholars made, I'm gonna see if you understand its
relevance here. He says that if you see anybody who's answering
every question he's asked,
and articulating and conveying everything that he has witnessed,
and remembering everything that he has learned about, then from that
you can understand how much ignorance he has. I'll leave that
to you to figure that out. We can have a discussion about that
later. One of the show up said that one of my one of my fellow
students whenever he would be
whenever he would be asked that, you know, you've been trying to
get close to Allah subhanaw taala you've been doing vicar and all of
these tests we had, etc, etc. All of this spiritual effort you're
making, what have you got from that? Give me some of your
experiences.
Now you see that you could
Say, Well, I want to encourage him. So again, this is person he
says walmart.com, Walmart hooked on, what have you achieved? And
what have you tasted? You know, what's been your experience, he
would say, Alberto will do cold, and hunger. That's what I've
experienced in this.
Right?
Now, you don't have to do that. But that's what he decided to do,
just to hide everything else.
And he says that their shake history, you still really be
impressed about that. Okay, that's one way of him. He never used to
say that Russia, you saying that to other people. Because that
shows that you've got a class that you're not care about what people
know, you don't want them to know. In fact, that's why it says that
many of the, you know, these righteous people, they would try
to be very, very simple and low key and not try to show their
extreme piety in public, just so that it protects what's inside
them purely and keeps it for the sake of Allah.
They don't want it for the people, they want it for themselves.
That's why we're saying that it's 70 times superior to have the
goodness inside than to have it just outside.
Because it's just a lot more valuable. There's a there's a
narration from a Sally Salem.
There's a spirit issue, there's a statement attributed to him. And
Allah subhanho wa Taala knows best but it's interesting, says either
kind of yomo sold me a honeycomb. Whenever one of you first if
you're gonna pass out of Ramadan, right? You don't do this in
Ramadan. This is just after Ramadan for Noah feel fast. For
example, for the he later who way I'm Sasha fatty, you should all
your beard, and you should moisten your lips, just so people don't
find out you're fasting. That's the idea, right? When you go out
to the people
to show that you're not fasting, right?
Whenever you give anything to somebody give you with your right
hand, just like the professor Olson said. So that your left hand
does not know, which is a really extreme statement just to show
that you need to give it away that you forgotten afterwards. So your
left hand me your left hand is going to know because your mind
controls both obviously. I don't know if anybody physically can do
that. Right?
Whenever one of you prays,
then make sure you put a cover on your door I mean nowadays just
close your door making sure you don't your door isn't open. I
don't do in public places.
Because if you really want praise Allah is just like you believe and
everybody believes this that your risk, your your sustenance is
distributed by Allah right here, Zakouma yesha, the lady who said
that Allah right. The same way, Allah also your customer center.
The praise of a person is also distributed by Allah.
Yes, you can go and put yourself out there on Facebook and
Instagram and threads and Twitter and everything new that comes out
and pay for promotion and you know, all the rest of it. You will
get somewhere with that, but that's not the praise that is
praiseworthy, that praise is not praiseworthy in the sight of Allah
subhanaw taala.
Now, I'll tell you about an interesting thing you know, Sheikh
Zakaria, Rahim Allah,
He this. There's a scholar, he was a Mufti he came to him to learn
vicar and so on. Right. And then Sheikh Zakaria also considered him
worthy and gave him what they call filler for that, okay, you can
actually help others. He is from the northwest province of
Pakistan. Right? He went there and disappeared is like 567 hours away
from Islamabad. He's in the middle of nowhere in some village, nobody
knew him. He came in mashallah got this kind of, you know, studied
and got this achievement, marry for whatever it was, and he
disappeared.
Another one of his another another one of the students have shares
the Korea went looking for him, found him
and then told everybody about him that you know, this, this man,
this molana, this move this up, he's actually really connected to
Allah subhanaw taala. He got very angry. Until now, nobody knew him
or about him. He got very angry. But then after that, this is just
Allah wanted it to be. Now, I've seen pictures of this place, his
place in Medina, sorry, in wherever that place is. In the
middle of nowhere, it takes five, six hours or so from the big city
is packed with so many people coming to benefit from him. And he
did not want any of that.
And there's the rest of us who want something before we've even
got anything to deal with on a shooter. We want a satellite in
the sky, a star,
you know, can't have a real star that you should have satellite on.
Right? There's a number of scholars like that. There's a
number of great people
Unlike the who wanted to just stay low, but Allah subhanho wa Taala
opened it up for them, Sheikh Abu Abdullah kurayoshi, he says,
anybody who's not content and satisfied in his actions and his
statements, that just Allah is Seeing him and hearing him. Like,
if that's not enough for him, then Rhea and showing off will
inevitably come to him because you're leaving that door open.
What else is in here, except that other people know, another
statement Ma, so I've done that too. In La Habra, you're gonna fi
jubin LA, you're off. That's a difficult one.
He said that. There's nobody who can get full loss and sincerity,
except the one who just wants to be in a, in a pit. Unknown.
Not literally. But you'd rather just be in a pit that nobody knows
me. Now, again, there could be reasons for being known. Right?
But you just have to make sure your ego doesn't come into that.
That's why he's saying that if you want to get close to Allah
subhanaw taala, you're going to have to make the sacrifice.
Showing off is one of the biggest pitfalls on the path of Allah
subhanaw taala? Because it'll just consume everything.
Only. Now, you might say that there are some mushy can, you
know, the everybody recognizes them as people of Allah
accomplished? And they will mention the, they will mention
their accomplishments. Why is that? Right? How, if this is so
strict, why are they doing that? So you're saying that you can do
that, oh, Allah will make you do that, or allow you to do that,
once you've purified yourself in such a way that everything is for
Allah. So when you do do it, it's going to be no ego in it. You
know, I've been saying that it could be exceptional cases to
that, that's when there's no more ego, when you do say it's to
encourage somebody, or to show somebody how it's achieved. Or for
another purpose like that. You're doing it for the sake of Allah in
that case, but it's very, very difficult to do unless you've
really got the wave. Only once you've established full Tawheed in
your life, every aspect of the heat where everything is Allah and
nothing else, purely every worship of yours,
Lord, every aspect of the heat, only then will you be able to
achieve that, which is quite an achievement, that's when you got
full Obadiah. When you got full Tauheed, then you can have full
OBU. The
over the means full servitude, otherwise, you can't have it full
of Bucha or Bucha has to go with full Tauheed. Otherwise, you can't
get there they both concomitant with one another.
One of the stuff, they used to wake up in the morning and say,
they used to say, nighttime, I did this many records.
I don't know how many but he said I did this many records. This is
how much Quran I read to somebody who said, Aren't you fearful over
here? Like what's your problem? Why do you keep saying this stuff?
So he would say we have combo 100 A toma Euro, EB for any lady,
what's your problem? And how can I show off it's somebody else's
action,
basically, is trying to say that, like he's just so beyond his ego,
that he doesn't even see that as his action. He's just like, Allah
gave me this little feat to do it. But let's not try that. At the
conclusion of all of this is very simple that anybody who finally
manages to get beyond their own knifes, and beyond their own self,
and it's all about Allah afterwards.
And they have gained that witnessing of the Lord in the
sense that, you know, they experienced Allah subhanho wa
taala, and they thinking about him all the time, then of course, then
we can't criticize that kind of a person. And Allah will not
criticize that kind of person, because they're doing it for the
most sincere reasons.
Now, there are three categories of people essentially, this men, a
hobble HOFA, for whoever, Abdul hover, whoever, whoever wants to
be hidden, then he is the slave of being hidden. Right? Woman habits
the whole
for who under the hood and anybody who wants to be known then he's
the slave of be known, a slave of fame.
Both of those are not good positions to be you don't want to
be hidden for the sake of being hidden. You want to do it for
Allah. So that's why then he says, Woman love beauty the diorama or
the law will be here for who Abdullah Hakka
and the one who doesn't want anything but what Allah wants was
like, Oh Allah, I just want you to do for me whatever it is, and I'm
willing to do whatever it is that you want to do. Then he is the
true servant of Allah subhanaw taala This is how Sheikh Abdullah
gonna go. He summarizes it in English. He says, truth in the
state of worship truth in your worship is the diversion of the
gaze from all things except Allah like purely my worship is for
Allah. The attention of the servant should turn solely to
Allah Most High if the servant possesses
This then he is true to his servitude. If he desires people to
become informed of his pious acts and his special spiritual
conditions, and he adopts various methods for publicizing these,
then he should know that he is not sincere.
May Allah subhanaw taala grant of sincerity. It is so elusive. It is
so difficult because shaytan really doesn't want us once a
person gains sincerity he's, he's got servitude. You know you're
fully sincere. You've got most a lot of servitude. That's why
shaytan is going to always try to create problems.
For those people who are naturally low key, and they just don't like
limelight, it's easier for them.
It's just easier for them. They have other challenges. And those
of us who like a bit of Limelight would like to be heard and seen.
It's just more difficult for us. But Allah, Allah can give it to
everybody. So may Allah subhanho wa Taala give us this Sofia alum
and I'm concerned about the other jewelry widdicombe about a young a
young girl with you can study Yeah, and then Yemen. Yeah, then
generally when you call on yah yah yah. Yah ha haffi Yeah, Salam
Yeah, Latif. Yeah Allah have mercy on us. Yeah, Allah accept us Yeah,
Allah purify us. Yeah, Allah purify us and forgive us. We ask
you for your special grace, we ask you for your special mercy. We ask
you for your generosity. We ask you for your rock man. We ask you
for your benevolence. We ask you for your kindness of Allah, we are
nothing without your kindness of Allah, we are nothing without your
attention. Oh Allah, you have given us so much more than so many
others in this world of Allah do not make us the ungrateful ones.
Do not make us of the ungrateful ones of Allah, we ask that you
make us of the Shaqiri of those who thank you and who are grateful
and Allah of those who do not use the resources that you have given
us against you. You do not allow us, oh Allah to use the resources
to become a burden for us. Oh Allah, we ask you to protect us
from all forms of fitna and trials that are out there all the
challenges all the distractions, and all of the means of removing
any sincerity that we may have of Allah give us the ability to
become close to you, to remember you to love you know Allah to be
on the way of your messenger Muhammad sallallahu alayhi wa
salam, O Allah, we ask you forgiveness from those sins, that
have now become part of our life and we do not consider them sins
anymore. of Allah, we ask you protection from those sins that
bring depression in our lives that bring difficulties in our life,
that turn people against one another that turn hearts against
one another, that take parents away from their children and
parent children away from their parents. Oh Allah, he asked me for
protection from those sins that take the blessing out of our life
of Allah, that take happiness out of our life. Oh Allah, we ask that
you make our life full of dukkha and full of sincerity, and full of
Tawakkol and full of Zeus and full of water satisfy us with what is
halal. So we don't have to look at the haram. of Allah satisfies with
the 100 away from the Haram of Allah of Allah make us of those
who remember you frequently who remember you frequently who are
always remembering you and standing and sitting and laying
down. Oh Allah make this easy for us grab us by the forelocks and
enter us into paradise of Allah we get up in the morning with good
intentions. Oh Allah, we have good intentions in the evening but by
the morning we have lost who Allah we get up with good intentions but
we fallen by the end of the day. Oh Allah does shaytaan give us a
shield from him. We've seen in this world when there's children
who are learning to walk and when they get tired of walking, the
parents will pick them up. Oh Allah, we're tired of fighting
against the sheep on we need your assistance and our knifes we need
your assistance. Remove this ego from our hearts and Allah Oh Allah
we ask that you make us have the multimeter Salah and our
descendants until the day of judgment of Allah keep this Eman
and DOE heed and Sunnah
in all of our descendants until the Day of Judgment, oh Allah keep
us firm in our faith. Our Lucky was firm in our faith, oh Allah
these projects that we have to establish these massage and and
the expansion of these massages are all these projects of Allah
allow them to be completed as soon as possible. Remove the obstacles.
And now Allah all of these difficulties we may be facing in
our life are challenges of Allah remove them. Oh Allah grant us and
make us though Oh Allah make us the way you want us to be. Grant
us to Kadima La ilaha illallah, on our deathbed, reward all of those
who have taught us whatever we have learned to be on your faith,
reward everybody until up to the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa
sallam gather us with the righteous people on
The Day of Judgment in your shade Subhan Allah because Allah is the
IMEI of the phone, or Salam and Alamo city, you know Al
Hamdulillah Hiraki.
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rahmatullah regard.
The point of a lecture is to encourage people to act to get
further an inspiration, and encouragement, persuasion, the
next step is to actually start learning seriously to read books
to take on a subject of Islam and to understand all the subjects of
Islam at least at the basic level, so that we can become more aware
of what our deen wants from us. And that's why we started Rayyan
courses so that you can actually take organize lectures on demand
whenever you have free time, especially for example, the
Islamic essentials course that we have on the Islamic essentials
certificate which you take 20 Short modules, and at the end of
that insha Allah you will have gotten the basics of most of the
most important topics in Islam and you'll feel a lot more confident.
You don't have to leave lectures behind you can continue to live,
you know, to listen to lectures, but you need to have this more
sustained study as well as local law here and Salam aleikum wa
rahmatullah wa barakato.