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