Abdur Rahman ibn Yusuf Mangera – Q&A Is it Important to Have a Shaykh

			How important is it to have a
spiritual shake? And how do you
		

			find one? Well, I'm assuming that
the person has already assumed the
		

			answer is it's important. And
that's why they're asking how do
		

			you find one, it's the reason why
having a spiritual shake is
		

			important if you can find a
spiritual shake is that we
		

			generally find it very difficult
to have any kind of discipline in
		

			our spirituality, without some
kind of supervision. To do it
		

			alone is very difficult because
our nurse always overcomes us. So
		

			if we don't have somebody who we
can relate to who we can report to
		

			a surgeon or help us ask
questions, and take some guidance
		

			from then we will say, Okay, we'll
do it, we'll do it, we'll do it,
		

			we end up not doing it, then our
solid suffers, our entire Deen
		

			suffers, we get into sins and all
of these other problems that
		

			occur, if you have a spiritual
shake, who you are listening to
		

			the specific guidance that they're
providing, you are reporting back
		

			to them, to tell them that I am
doing these,
		

			this regimen of vicar that they've
given you. Right? Then it's just
		

			easier if I have to do a number of
things without having to report to
		

			somebody, then eventually what's
going to happen is that I'll do it
		

			for a short while. And then after
that, because there's no
		

			supervision, it's just me, myself
and I, I stopped doing it. When
		

			it's to do with somebody else. And
I get I have a feeling of guilt, I
		

			have to respond, you know, to
report to somebody, right? They
		

			may ask me, that's the whole point
of this interaction. It's just
		

			like, if you're studying physics,
or whatever you could study at
		

			home, you could just get all the
books, but how many people in the
		

			pub among humanity are such that
they have so much discipline that
		

			they could study a specific
subject to a high level, right,
		

			without having any kind of
guidance or instruction or
		

			supervision? Most of us come to
universities and other places to
		

			get that kind of supervision
guidance.
		

			That's why how'd you find one, you
basically find somebody who's
		

			willing to take the bear who has
other students who you can trust
		

			in terms of the taqwa, their
practice, and how they been able
		

			to maybe help others. And then you
ask them, Can you you know, can
		

			you help me and then you have to
have the main thing is that you
		

			have to have communication with
them. It's no point taking a
		

			prescription from a doctor and
then walking around with that
		

			prescription in your pockets.
Right from the best doctor in town
		

			and then you walk around with that
prescription, don't do anything.
		

			Of course the work is going to
have to be done by you, but at
		

			least you've got somebody that can
help you and assist you