Abdur Rahman ibn Yusuf Mangera – Qasida Burda (The Mantle Ode) Part 16
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Bismillah al Rahman al Rahim
Al hamdu Lillahi Rabbil Alameen wa Salatu was Salam ala Sayyidina
Muhammad wa ala alihi wa sahbihi wa Baraka was seldom at the
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giving them a little Maknoon goofy solder Finn, mean by the name and
they can mean who were moved to see me.
Such as a splendor that even alone in his glory, superb courtiers,
and God seems to stand around him from the rich mine of his speech,
and his smile hidden pearls seem to sparkle from their shell Fuzu
Lee says,
where all is private, though alone were found, where none attained,
attainment, thou did find where all is private, though alone, were
found. That's the place beyond where Gibreel Ali Salam could not
even go that's the private most private have places where it's
only you and Allah.
Because it's mentioned in the Hadith that the Brazil a lot is an
event and then Gibreel Ali Salam said, you can't I can't go beyond
this place you'd have to go along. Navami says rubies men cut from a
mind can't atone for the wound to his lips. His dazzling bright
teeth far outshine any pearl that is caught by a ship. Which battle
was he wounded in battle or hurt? He was he was wounded. So can the
hula hula photography gel ality he asked her in Hanaa Tulpa who he
Hashimi what the poet is saying here is that the Prophet
sallallahu alayhi wa salam when you met him, when you met the
Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, even though he was alone,
he would be alone.
It would be as if he has this
huge army of dignitaries around him. That doesn't mean that he's
frightening you. What it means is that, although he's alone, but you
know, the kind of awe and respect that would be demanded by
a ruler or a king or someone else that would come with all of their
dignitaries, imagine you open your door one day, and there it is,
whoever it may be, with a number of God's dollar Top Hats and you
know, everything and it just standing there. Imagine what
awesome site that would be, you know, the kind of respect that
would demand from you. Wow. So without having any of those people
around him, that's how the prophets Allah, Allah Islam, is
that how much respect you will demand? That's just such a
beautiful metaphor. That is just such a beautiful metaphor. I mean,
how can a person's mind just think of that, and then this, the only
way that I think he could have thought of this is if is only if,
when, for example, in Egypt, the author, he must have seen a
parade, he must have seen the ruler of the time, whichever
King it was, and he must have seen it with him with all his
dignitaries and soldiers around him. And that must have been like
an awe striking situation. And he must have thought, That must be
how Rasulullah sallallahu sallam was but to think of Rasulullah
sallallahu I mean that time is the secret of this. When you really
love someone, you will think of him all the time. That's why I
will shake when I went to Madina Munawwara the first time I said,
What should we do in Madina? Munawwara He says, When you go
there, what I want you to do, and again, this is the recommendation,
I want you to just think of the Syrah of Rasulullah sallallahu
alayhi wa sallam, his life that imagine wherever you go, you just
think, oh, you know, if I was 1400 years ago, what would have been
happening here? That really makes you appreciate and understand who
the Prophet said Allah ism is, for example, another one of our sheiks
he said that Masjid another way, is where the Prophet sallallahu
Sallam would be sending delegations around the world for
that what purposes, more of that or the Allahu Anhu to Yemen. idea
to the Allah on others go here, go there, take this letter to,
to the Caesar to Kisara to pay some soul for massive Naboo isn't
it? So that's where the Dawa was taking place. And that's the
center of Dawa masjid and robbery. So when you go there, ask ALLAH
SubhanA wa Tada that the Prophet salallahu alayhi wa sallam, you
know, I can't converse with him directly myself to send me I can't
hear him. We don't have that Koran.
But we want you to accept us for the service of your deen just like
the Sahaba was sent from here around the world. I want you to
accept me for some service to do whatever it may be. I may not be a
scholar. I may not be accomplished in this
swear that way, I may not have any resources to my name. But souhan
life Allah wants to use an individual who's totally weak, who
has nothing, no resources, Allah can provide him the backing that
he wants. And what better place to make that dua than the because
that's the place where 1400 years ago the prophecy wasn't used to
send people too. But anyway, there's this author who's this
comparison he's making that when you see the progress that awesome
is just like, he's got this massive army with him where he
doesn't. That's not how the Prophet sallallahu sallam was, he
didn't have to have that.
So the prophets of Allah isms might majesty, His greatness, his
or, and his dignity, the way he impacted the heart. When he was
alone, nobody really no servants, no slaves, nothing.
Generally, when there's a person you find alone somewhere, he has
to be very dignified for you to be afraid of him or in awe of.
Generally, when there's a person alone, they may be bigger than you
physically bigger than you, they may be known to be troublesome,
they may carry a knife with them, they may just be pure trouble.
That's why you're afraid of them. But this is not about afraid. This
is about respecting somebody like that.
The Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa salam though, despite that kind of
awe striking aura that he had around him, he was just so humble.
He was so humble, that he would go to the geneticists, he would go
and visit the sick, he would sit with the weakest of the Sahaba,
they were the closest to him, in essence, they were the closest to
him, like Sohaib, and Bilal, or the Allahu Arnhem and hubub, even
a lot with the Allah one.
And
when speaking to them, he wouldn't be the first to turn away from
them. He'd wait until they finish, and then they turned away. Now
this is kind of a very strange situation. Let me give you an
example. Let's just say you're speaking to a big scholar, or a
really pious individual.
Somebody's very respectful, you go, and he's very busy. And you
got lots and lots of people want to meet him. So you go there, you
have a few things to say, there's a few things that you have to ask
her to say or whatever. So you go and you say those, then you're
sitting there because you want to extend your time, or you don't
know what to say next, then what we should do is, we should just
say what we have to say and then walk away. Because sometimes out
of the respect and following the Sunnah, they may not say anything,
but then there's other people that you must give time to. In fact,
you know, when you go to the role of Rasulullah, Salah some to give
salam, one of the rhodamine, he said, You stand there, as long as
you feel concentration. As long as you feel you can connect and do
the salam. Once you've done the salam, and then you've kind of
lost your focus, then move on. Don't just hang around afterwards.
Because the point is not to hang around. Point is to give salaam
there, and then give somebody else a chance. So as long as you can do
what you can with concentration, then do that. And then move on and
let somebody else do it. Of course, sitting in the row there
is a different story. But this is where you know when you go in line
and you you give salam and you move on, that's that's what I'm
speaking about. Then, of course, you can turn around go there and
do Tibble dua that's different. Now the prophets of Allah is on
the other amazing thing about him is that too.
This is probably one of the reasons that he lived the life of
so much abstinence from this world and so much adopted poverty.
That no poor person there could have thought that the Brazil
awesome is eating better than me. That's a leader. He lived at such
a level that the fire would not burn. We've read these Hadith in
detail in Shama, Elton, maybe he wouldn't eat for days, fire would
not burn, the basic that he would eat would be dates and water. So
the lowest person in Madina, Munawwara could sympathize with
them could relate to that. My king, my leader, is it's no more
than I do. How must that made them feel? How most of that made them
feel? Because if you look at upheavals around the world,
whether that be the French Revolution, which is you can say,
the foundation for much of the change in the West, it was
primarily based on because King Louie, and what's an A Marie
Antoinette
say that in a French race, and in it, you know, something like that.
But there was a big problem. They were three classes of people. And
though 80% Were not the landowners or the aristocrats or the
politicians or whatever, they would pay the taxes and not the
people above. So then there's a massive revolution on the
bases of equality, legality, and so on.
And you look around everywhere that that is the problem. If you
look at even the Arab Spring, if you look at the countries where
the population is quite well off, and they're not suffering the
citizens like in Bahrain and Saudi and Kuwait, even Morocco, they're
doing okay. The King has done some stuff for them. They're okay. But
the country is where you had the problem was because they were
suffering.
So
the reason why they've stood up a lot of the time is because they
suffer.
And suffering people can't stand and then they cloak it in Islam,
and it's because of the Ruhlman the oppression. You look in Egypt,
it was quite a bad scene, what people what kind of money people
used to make. Libya the guy what he first did that the whole The
whole reason this all started was because he
he was somebody who was a doctor or something like that, but
couldn't get a job. And then he set himself on fire because he
couldn't get themselves out and he wasn't even allowed to do some
other menial kind of job.
So the Prophet sallallahu, some really showed the highest level
that he would come down to the level of the poorest of the poor.
That's a major sacrifice. And that's why he would say I'm here
I'm here.
Well, Mama Mama took the life is like your life. That's the life I
want to live. And he actually made that as a DUA. Oh Allah, Allah
whom I shouldn't have resumed rattle Misaki
Oh, Allah gather me on the day of judgment hashtag to my hashtag my
gathering with the Misaki. Because they're gonna go easily to Jana.
They got no baggage to answer for, you know, when you file your
taxes, the guy who doesn't have much you can do it online
yourself. Self fighting? No, no, no, no, no, no, no. 5000 pounds,
2000 pound 500 pounds. Those who have this business interest in
that business interest and that and then you get accountants and
the more you have, you get better accountants, and then it takes
much longer for them to that's the way of the hereafter as well.
There's a guy in Denmark, that owns one of the biggest container
companies in the world. You see his containers all over the place,
he doesn't pay tax. And
when I went to Denmark, they all pointed out, this guy does not pay
taxes. But he's one of the richest guys there. If they come in, we'll
just move out. He'll just move out to another country. What
difference does it make them move to Sweden? So he doesn't pay
taxes, apparently. And they can't do anything about it.
Obviously, that's not right. That's what they'll call data
Guinea.
Right? You can't do that kind of stuff in the hereafter. But what
you can do is you could have some really good things to your name.
And then Allah subhana wa says says, Okay, fine, you had a lot of
money, but you've done so many good things. There is no question
answers you go in.
But that's the struggle. So what this guy does in Denmark, he
builds an opera house, so he does this. So people think, okay, you
know, he's doing something good, that keeps them calm.
The prophets of Allah Islam would see a slave on the street, he
would stop and talk to them. If they wanted to talk to him, you
talk to them. If they want you to go and take him somewhere to help
them out with something he would go.
But despite that he had this or that was just amazing. But it was
soft. Wasn't harsh. So when he sat in a gathering the people some of
them would not even look up to sit I've never been able to look at
some others would. But they were so calm, there would be no
ruffling around there would be so calm as though this. They say
there was birds on their head. And the Sahaba would avoid laughing
out loud and older in front of him just smile if there was something
to smile about.
Because he wouldn't be sitting around cracking big jokes anyway.
There was something he'd have a small joke or something that did
smile about that because they were really relaxed, happy people.
That's why today as well, we have to have the same other.
We have to have the same other. When you sit by the road. My son
is sitting there okay, the Prophet salallahu Salam is not with us in
this world. But it's the place you have to respect it's just other
other matters a lot. Once Abuja Feldman saw one of the first
beliefs on the basket caliphate, he was
having this discussion got to be heated like a debate with Imam
Malik Ibn Anas for the Allah one summer me some some something
about some knowledge. They were in the masjid of Rasulullah
sallallahu alayhi wa salam and monsoon Abuja fertile monsoon he
got a bit agitated so he raised his voice start to kind of loud
voice same America the alarm Cydia and Myanmar
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letter. So Takeshi Masuda, Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa
sallam, Don't raise your voice in the masjid of Rasulullah
sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, and then he gave his evidence from the
Quran. He said because Allah subhanho wa Taala says in the
Quran, you have Lavina Manu lithographer as well to come focus
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Do not Allah subhanaw taala says, oh people who believe Do not raise
your voices over the voice of Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi
wasallam
and don't raise your voices as you would do with each other. Don't
have that kind of a discussion here. lest your actions your good
deeds be wiped out. And you don't even know
and you don't even know.
Then Allah subhanaw taala praise the opposite people he says in the
Levina will do NASWA Tahoma. Indra rasool Allah he will equal Latina
tan Allahu Kaluga humbleth Taqwa those people who keep subdued
this their voices by Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa sallam.
These people Allah subhanho wa Taala has tested and selected the
hearts for Taqwa.
So now, this is clearly after the prophets Allah has passed away but
Imam Malik is using this and telling the Ameerul Momineen that
this still applies today. So this is the this is generally what
they're gonna go with. Do not raise your
voice down there.
So monsoon, okay, no problem.
He calmed down.
He calmed down. And he said, you said that that's right.
The next one
is gonna look local McAloon ofii sada fin min max the name I'm
taking men who are moved to see me from the rich mine of his speech
and his smile. Hidden pearls seem to sparkle from their shell.
The word look no
means pearls. l mcnown. Means hidden fee. Sadaf sort of means
their shell. It's like pearls that are hidden in their shells. When
you've got a slight crack, you know, there's a pearl inside.
The word Pearl is used quite a bit in Arabic poetry, because if you
look at some parts of Arabia, like Oman, etc, they had a lot of
people that used to die for posts. So PPOs the new because there's a
lot of cost around there's a point which says because it will cut the
taxable Murali non tolerable arola Sahira Layali
it's by the amount of effort that you put in that you will attain
elevation and high position
the one who wants a high position will enliven the Knights will stay
awake at night then it's then the poet says the room will match that
this is not mostly this is somebody else's premises the room
will match the water now Malayala the room will match the Wattana
who Leyland yeah who sold borrow yeah who sold Bahara man tolerable
early. So the whole problem is because the real cut the talk
testable, Marathi woman tolerable Aruna, a woman tolerable Saharan
lady, the room will match the Vietnam War laden, Yahoo saalbach
Rahman, tada been early, so late, early and early, they rhyme. So
the second part is you want dignity. You want dignity, and
then you sleep at night.
You want dignity in your sleep at night,
the one who wants pearls, we'll dive into the oceans.
Now this works for anything of the dunya.
And the worst, you could do that for good. And you can do that for
bad. The worst of the people are those who spend their nights in
evil.
There's nobody else to bother them. They spend their nights in
evil, and they get the most of the evil. This is just for the taker.
So spend the good study at night. And you get, you'll get you'll get
somewhere. So what the poem is saying here
that when you meet this prophet, then the initial appearance you'll
get is like what was mentioned earlier in the previous poem.
But he'll just take your mind away.
You will just be totally awestruck. Taken aback by his his
his greatness and His state, even though he's he's alone. It's as
though you met him in a large
AMI, but then when you sit with him,
that's your initial reaction. But when you sit with him,
you will find that he is the most sweetest, he is the sweetest in
speech, he just so soft in the way he deals with you.
And he will be so concerned about you.
So he won't be selfish, but he'll be very concerned about you. So
he'll talk to you very selflessly, when you saw him first, he just
seems to have so much all around him that you don't want to speak
to him. But when you actually sit down and speak to him, then the
way he opens up and softens out and has so much nasiha and has so
much concern and compassion
that when he starts speaking, he doesn't waste his time he speaks
with benefits. That's what it's saying here. When he speaks, it's
like he's dropping pearls. Pearls are valuable. So he's dropping
very valuable. advices. That's what he's talking about. He's not
speaking nonsense. So that's when he speaks. He's dropping pearls
for you.
When he smiles, it looks like pearls.
So it appears like pearls. This is obviously his explanation of how
he looks. Because the process isn't spoken or wisdom.
And in lots of books, when they talk about wisdom, they actually
refer to as pearls because it's like, pearls are not everywhere.
That's why they're precious. There were 1000s and 1000s Millions of
pearls all over the place easy to get like pebbles, marbles, a you
get any marbles valuable. You know you can buy them pound to a dozen
or whatever. But when it comes to pearls, because they produced in a
particular way they hidden. So that's why people look out for
them because they're valuable. So that's why not everybody speaks so
much sense all the time. Not everybody when everything they say
speaks common sense. That's why there's some people who have like
monosodium durata. That's one person I have to say anything he
says just makes it sound so useful. Right? He can be talking
about the same thing that, you know, you've heard 50 times
before, but when he says it, I don't know what Allah has given
him. It just seems to make sense. That's one quality that I've seen
in him.
You sit with him, and he will talk to you. And it's just like, wow,
that makes sense. I've heard that thing so many times. But it's just
got to my heart this time.
He's got this cheap quality. But he'll say the simplest things. He
doesn't talk about complicated things, which are the simplest
things, but they just make a lot of sense in the way he says it.
It's a matter of Tofik isn't it? Now the other thing is why did he
say pearls in their shells? What did he just say sparkling pearls
on a necklace around a beautiful neck, as the jaw Hillier poets
used to say, because the jaw Helia poets, all their poet poems were
about the war, and their manliness and their bravery and their women.
And how, what Tara Abraham a skeleton, essentially, that this
chest part of us was so polished,
sparkled with the pearls. Why didn't he say something like that?
Why did he say pearls in their shells?
Why can they be outside? Well, the reason is that this is the depth
of this man's throat. That's why this poem is so famous.
Every part of this is just so deep. The reason is that he wants
to show them as unadulterated pearls. Nobody's touched them.
These points of wisdom coming from Rasulullah sallallahu, semi unique
like that pearl, which has not been opened up yet and no hand is
touched. No site has even seen. That's what he's talking about. So
that's why he specifically says that from the rich mine of his
speech and his heart and his smile, hidden pearls. Hidden
pearls seem to sparkle. Those that have not yet been seen or touched.
They're pure, they're unadulterated, they unique. Nobody
said anything. Like the way Rasulullah sallallahu has said it
so pure.
So articulate, so perfect, so penetrating. And all of these
people that you hear who speak and who inspire you, they all are
caravans of Rasulullah sallallahu sallam,
the other Kurama of Rasulullah sallallahu
so this is to show how fussy unbelief which means how
effective his speech was, and how deep it was. There's a hadith in
Tirmidhi in which Abu Huraira or the Allah one who says that Mara
Ito isonomy Rasulullah sallallahu I've not seen anybody more
beautiful than this will Allah salAllahu Salam Ganesha on
Saturday if you watch
it says if the sun just
the sun just runs through his face. What either dahican Yatta la
fille Jada
and
When he smiled, then it would sparkle his teeth would spark
sparkle. Why either Tekken lemma, Ro er can Nordea which mean by any
third eye.
When he spoke, it was as if this light was emitting
from his, between his teeth between his front two teeth.
Whether that's literal or metaphorical, Allah knows best
what he witnessed. Right? Allah knows best.
The Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam
went on the ascension.
And I mentioned the story before he went on the ascension. He went
up to the heavens.
Question Is that why did he go to Masjid Luxor first, and then up to
the heavens? Quran? Allah subhanho wa Taala just taken him up
directly from Medina from Makkah, why did you have to go to Machu
Luxa first, then go up.
One of the reasons all of our gift for that is that this was to be
not just a personal journey for him it was it was to give him that
closeness because remember, this happened after he lost two very
close people in the 10th year of
the 10th year of Hijra was the most severe on him, because he
lost Khadija, the Allah one has internal support, internal moral
support. And he lost his outside support, which is his uncle and
Muttalib in the same year. So it's called the animal whose name the
year of the two griefs or two sorrows, then this happened. So
you can see he was over the moon. I mean, over the moon, he was
beyond the moon.
That metaphor is too short for him. So anyway.
However, the other benefit of this was to test the belief of people
and was to show the greatness of this is a miracle. Now, if you
weren't up to the heavens, how are you going to prove that to
anybody? Nobody's been up there. So you say I went up there, test
me about it. You know, challenge me on it. Why I've never been up
now. Can you test you? So first, he was taken to Masjid Luxor where
people had been so when he came back and he said, That's where
I've been. I've been there and I've been up to the heavens. So
there was a group there who'd been Tomasi Luxa. So they started
quizzing him about it.
How many windows is he got how many doors is he got so and so
forth. And he's he said, this was like one of the worst times in my
life. I didn't remember all that. I didn't go there to check it out.
I went there. And we were all there that this is what the Hadith
says, I went there, we were all there standing around. All the
prophets of Sunday gathered and we're waiting from the Jubilee
salon comes and he pulls me forward and says you need the
prayer.
SubhanAllah. So that's what I was there for.
But then Allah subhanaw taala revealed it for me, like he put it
right in front of me put the model of it or here somehow Allah gave
him a vision of it. That's what I mentioned in the hadith of Muslim.
So then, they asking the questions, and I'm responding.
So that proves it. They all knew you see people like right now, if
some of you told me that you've been to this country or that
country, none of us would know that because we have private
lives. We're in a city, not everybody knows everything.
Alhamdulillah we don't do that kind of Punjab. You know, we don't
live in that kind of an area where everybody must know everything.
That's like, just so bad.
The other day, it was so troublesome for me because I went
to Blackburn. And I went into a masjid and this guy goes to me.
Are you the guy from online? Are you online? I said, No, I'm right
here. And then I quickly went inside the Masjid.
I went into another masjid for monitoring. And this guy was are
you here in Jamaat? I said no, no, I'm not here in Jamaat. Then I
quickly moved away and I went right to the back of the back.
There's two parts of the Muslims and background is set there.
Because I guess I can't hide them too tall to hide. I look, I look
different. Right, I look, you know, so it's very difficult for
me to hide. But it's kind of really weird when you keep asking
these questions. I guess some people they don't mind so
extroverted. Yeah, come and ask questions. In fact, I'll introduce
myself to you, but I'm not that extroverted.
So, the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam.
When he's asking these questions, when he's been asking, he's
answering all of these questions. That was one of the reasons. The
point to make is,
so he went up to the heavens, he went beyond where nobody else
went. Now, some Hadith in terms of the debate about Did he see Allah
or not? Or Isha? Or the Allahu anha.
And
Abdullah Masood, they're the ones who don't agree he swim. So I show
the Allah one has like, she says that my hair stands on end when
people say he saw Allah He did not see Allah. So she's very strong on
that. But Abdullayev not Abbas are the islands
There's no he saw Allah he's clear about it many tourbillion as well.
Then the other person was rated number of Hadith Abu Dhabi Allah
one. So he says he's kind of ambivalent. It's not very clear
what he means because a lot of his narrations are neutron in the
Arapaho neuron Anna Rahu.
He's the light, how can I see him
right to neuron in another one he says I saw a light.
So now the other ma have discussed something very important here
which is very important for us. There are two veils when it comes
to human being an Allah subhanaw taala.
And Allah subhanaw taala is imminence. There are two veils
here. One is the veil of Allah.
Because it actually mentions that he has a reader will Kibriya he
has the blanket of might and greatness.
It says. So the veil around him, as mentioned some Hadith as well
is of light, that light, you get close, you'll be dazzled. So you
can't see Allah subhanaw taala when that light was manifested in
the world for Musala Salam, look what it did.
So Allah subhanaw taala is veiled by light. And that light is so you
can imagine the desert of that light any light desert, you
suddenly imagine it, Allah subhanaw taala is light must be
amazing. Now again, don't understand this physically.
Because we you know, we don't want to reduce Allah subhanaw taala to
some kind of substance at the end of the day. But the Hadith
mentions a light. So the verse said, I saw a light,
that light is going to be the veil of Allah subhanaw taala will be
removed in the hereafter for the believers. That's a promise.
In the hereafter it will happen. So it is possible to see Allah,
it's not inconceivable. But in this world, it doesn't happen
because of our limitations of our sight. And Allah hasn't promised
that but it will happen in the hereafter. As mentioned the sahih
Hadith, you will see him like you see the 14 moon that a 14 Nights
moon. However, there's another veil, that we can remove and
should remove, and should make an effort to remove that is the veil
over over our heart of darkness that prevents us from knowing
Allah subhanaw taala.
Now, let me give you an example. Most believers, they like people
who work in a factory.
So imagine you've got people who work in a factory of a global
company.
And you really liked that company. Because you think they're very
ethical, they will treat their employees well, and so on. You've
heard a lot about the the owner, the director, but you've never
seen him. But you know, he exists on you. You know he exists because
you get information from him. He sends people to you to the
employees, he sends gifts, you know, it gives you perks, you've
got special rooms to enjoy. You can in the canteen, you can have
whatever you want. He's got, you know, imagine Google, you know,
whatever. I'd hate to say that. But you know, you know what I
mean? So you really want to see this person, you believe that he
exists? If somebody came and told you he does not exist? Would you
believe him?
You wouldn't believe him. But if somebody kind of important came
and told you that, you know this whole thing, there is no person
really? Have you ever seen him on the media? Because there are some
CEOs who have no nobody's ever seen. They're not public people
know, they don't they don't give interviews. Now, of course, at
Google, they gave an interview. So let's bad example, let's just take
another exam. It's very discreet. People at the top, you've never
seen them, you know who they are. Meaning you've heard about them,
you know, their name, you know, seen them. So imagine somebody
really high up and comes and tells you look, really there's nobody up
there. It's somebody else. It's not him. That's just the namesake.
Now, how much would you be inclined to believe that?
Or would you vehemently oppose that? Would you have any room
reason to vehemently oppose that all that you've heard and all the
names you've seen on the letters and on the company, you know,
reports and all of that, all of that can be thrown aside. All of
that can be disbelieved. If somebody's high enough, with
enough conviction, tells you this really, that person does not
exist. There's a bunch of other people who actually run it, but it
just using his name, because you know, but he really died so many
years ago.
Now, that would shake your faith in the wilderness, that would
shake your faith. But what about if you've seen this guy?
What about one day when you see him? Would that? Like you haven't
seen him but you've been close enough to? You've got some
information that is more than anybody else, then would you?
Would somebody be able to mislead you? No.
That's the veils of our heart.
When you don't
don't have money for you can have all the evidence about God. So the
more you know about the company, the less likely that somebody is
going to be able to mislead you about it because you know, you
have a lot of knowledge, the more knowledge you have about Allah
subhanaw taala, the less likely somebody is going to be able to
mislead you about your dean, make you an agnostic, or make you an
atheist, because you have enough proofs and evidences, the more you
learn, but the best evidence that is unshakable is Malefor. Which is
when Allah removes the veils from our heart, so that we experience
and we're never going to see a lie in this world, but we experience
it, when Allah allows us to experience him, whatever that
means, in that state,
then there is no doubt whatsoever, then come the biggest atheists in
front of you, you will never be misled, they will just be no way
to be misled. And somehow I've been thinking about this
yesterday. And shaytaan comes at the end of the day to a person and
what about if there is no good?
You know, what if there is no good when that question comes to you,
then we think of all the things to reassure ourselves. This
discussion is so prevalent nowadays that it's it's something
that a lot of people are thinking about, unfortunately,
the you know what I thought to myself, I said to be a more wide
and believe in the to hate, and to believe in Allah is a matter of
Tofik
it's just a matter of Allah's guidance. And Allah wanting this,
us to be like that. If it wasn't, we'd be off.
So atheism is not an intellectual problem. It's a spiritual problem.
That's my understanding. I that's what I heard yesterday
that atheism is not an intellectual program problem.
Because you have the most intellectual people who are Muslim
who believe in Allah who believe in God, and you have intellectual
people who don't, they look at other proofs and evidences proof
and evidence has to work with our emotion.
We're not like some kind of computers that you put certain
programming and he's going to do that regardless. Because, you
know, there's nothing else emotion is just too liquid. It's, it's not
something that's so firm. So when we take in an argument, there's
going to be an argument that if I give to you know, three of you two
of you may accept it, one person will not accept it on anything,
you will make sense you won't accept it, because your emotion
your feelings,
just won't accept it. So yes, intelligence is very good. But
there's also emotion, this feeling, there's a heart, there's
prayer, pray, experience, all of that thing is important. So If
Allah doesn't want all of that to be conducive to believing Him and
to do good, it's not gonna happen. That's why you have the most
intellectual people within Islam and you have the most intellectual
people out of Islam.
So if it was a matter of intellect, there'd be no problem.
But it's not a matter of intellect. It's a matter of
guidance in Nicoletta halimun. But work in Allah Dima, Yeshua.
And we have to be so thankful of that. We have to be so thankful of
that. No matter how intelligent we are, we can lose it. It's a
spiritual issue. It's a spiritual issue. That's why people who are
on the brink there's a lot of people like this, there's a lot of
people like this one the breed. They
believe in Allah, they brought, you know, they Muslim, whatever.
But they've got some doubts, but they don't know where to take it.
They should ask Allah for help. Allahumma komatsuna Tibba about
till about machina. So this veil of darkness, Allah has a veil of
light, which will be revealed in the hereafter for those who have
removed the veil of darkness from their heart in this world. And
this veil of darkness is not something it's something we
acquire as we go along when we when we brought up all of the
filth around us is what gives us this and we become adulterated. So
it's about being clarified, purifying that through the vicar
of Allah subhanaw taala remembrance.
And I guess when Allah subhanaw taala tells us why does he tell us
that be with the Siddiqui? Yeah, you have the denominator? Kulu mas
Sadiki Why does he tell us to be with the truth floors, because
their hearts are shining.
that darkness is gone, you sit with a dark person you will be
affected. Because they're going to talk about drugs, they're going to
talk about this, how enjoy it. And that's going to appeal to our base
desires. When you talk to bad people, that's what I mean. You
talk to a rich person, you you talk to a wealthy person who's
into business and that that's what he's gonna talk about. Right?
You're gonna it's just gonna be all around him. It's gonna be in
his watch. It's going to be every
way that's gonna affect you, you're gonna look at that watch.
And you're gonna think you know, Alhamdulillah I don't like these
big watches. I'm like, you know, I don't want it.
That's a status symbol, isn't it, these big juggernauts on your
hand. So even if somebody gives me as a hottie, I can't wear it, it
just, it just looks like you're showing off. It's oversized. It
just looks like you're showing off man. I've got a friend which other
he's a very wealthy guy, he wears one. But then he always only is
hiding it, I believe, literally seen him hide it. Because he's a
kind of a humble individual. Why do you wear it them? I guess
somebody's sentimental gave it to him. So maybe that's why he has to
wear it. But what's the point of hiding it if you're going to wear
it.
So Hamdulillah. And I've got this nice small words, as of seven
years old, and it does the job. I see nice watches around. But
that's just my thing, I probably show up in other things just
personal.
But this veil of darkness must be removed. So when you sit with
people who don't have that veil of darkness, who birthed out of
connected to Allah, the shine from their heart is going to affect us,
just like a wealthy person.
His thoughts on business and this, that and the other is going to
affect us. We're human beings, at the end of the day, we are human
beings, we're social creatures, we are affected by people around us,
whatever they do, somebody swearing, you're going to feel
like swearing.
Because you just you know, you might just feel like swearing. If
somebody's talking nicely, you get affected by that. So if somebody's
got their heart, which is bright, they can affect you. That's the
benefit of sitting with pious people.
It's one of the benefits of aside from what they will say and
everything like that, just the atmosphere, there's going to be
better
pure beings around this Mubaraka with them.
And then if they focus on you, and that's even better, because if you
mentors, if you get somebody as a mentor, like rich guy who's
focused on you more than anybody else, he's gonna give you more
tips, tidbits, he's going to give you more, would you call it more
ideas that he's going to give to anybody else.
So if there's a pious person who's focused on you, then
you can see where that's gonna go with that.
And that was the benefit of Rasulullah sallallahu is just
constantly dropping pearls.
So may Allah subhana wa, tada give us the toffee.
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