Abdur Rahman ibn Yusuf Mangera – Qasida Burda (The Mantle Ode) Part 23
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Whereas in the time of the Arabs though it's a time of ignorance,
but they had this tradition let's just imagine in Medina in Makkah
mukarram Abu Bakr Radi Allahu and decided to leave the city because
the people are bothering him, they wouldn't allow him to read outside
aloud. He wanted to make it salata loud, they wouldn't allow him to
do that. He just said, You know what, what point is there to stay
in this city? When I can't enjoy my a brother. Let me go and just
leave. So he went south and he met this non Muslim whose name was
ignorant Davina,
the say that ACARA just further south. So where you're going, he
says, I'm leaving the city of Makkah. He says you're not a
person who would leave force be forced to leave a city or would be
would be thrown out? What's the problem? He says, Well, this is
the reason. So this non Muslim, he took him into back into Makkah.
And he said, Look, I'm giving him my refuge, I'm giving him my
protection. Now, when you gave somebody your protection, all your
allies, those who have no enmity with they will have to respect
that even though the person that refuge has been given to is going
to be your biggest enemy. You can't do anything to him now. And
they would respect that, you know, despite all the ignorance despite
all the darkness of the times, right? It seems like in that
sense, he was a bit brighter. They they really their word really
counted in that sense.
Bismillah R Rahman r Rahim, Al hamdu Lillahi wa salatu salam ala,
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meet Dean Melbourne.
My dear respected brothers.
This is a poem since it's our first week here at this new venue.
This is a poem that's probably one of the most famous and most
celebrated poet poem in Islamic history.
There's a poem before that which is considered to be very famous as
well, but it's not as famous. This one it's called Bernard. So, which
was a poem set in front of Rasulullah, sallallahu alayhi
wasallam by one of the initially one of the enemies of Islam, who
then later came and repented.
But this one is, from several 100 years ago from Egypt. There was a
scholar there, whose name was Allama boo city.
And
in his middle age, he had a very large family.
He had extremely difficult times and a calamity that came upon him.
And then what happened on top of that, is that suddenly he became
paralyzed.
So he's got difficulty in terms of financial difficulties. He's got a
big family to look after. And then suddenly, he's overcome by this
disability, which paralyzes him.
He was a poet. So he'd written a number of poets poems before as
well. But then he wrote this particular poem, which we've been
studying and looking at very carefully.
He wrote this poem privately.
And then he went to sleep. And the story that's related is that he
saw sudo allah sallallahu alayhi wa sallam in his dream. And the
Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa salam took his garment and gave it to
him in his dream.
Now, he didn't tell anybody that poem, he woke up the next day, and
he was better. So Miraculously, he was better.
Now, if anybody's listening to this with disbelief, you can't
deny somebody's experience. You don't have to believe it for
yourself. But you can't deny that somebody had an experience. Of
course, there are people around him who must have observed him in
the state of paralysis, and then suddenly, after a few days is
walking. So how does that happen? Allah knows best. It's a
historical aspect. However, when he did go outside, there was a
person who met him. And of course, this was a very private affair
between him
and Rasulullah sallallahu Sallam and ALLAH SubhanA wa Tada. But he
met with someone who then said to him, can you say this poem to me
that you said to Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa salam, and
then he gave you his garment? How do you know? This was in his dream
that this had happened? He had said the dream it said the poem
The day before, but then it had this dream and who knows your
dream? You know? I know. They know many things. And they Snoop about
everything but dreams. I'm sure they don't know your dreams yet.
Although they are definitely there are studies taking place to gauge
what people are dreaming about. And there's some massive studies
going on about that. But anyway, different story. So he says, How
do you know he says, Well, I had a dream that Rasulullah sallallahu
Sallam told me that this is what you had done.
Then he
became famous when it happened. That's why it's called the qasida
Buddha. The poem of the scarf, the poem of the, the sheath that
Rasulullah sallallahu had given him. Now, what is that it's just
the poem said in a state, a particular state you can imagine
if you are disabled, paralyzed in absolute need middle age,
brokenhearted and Allah subhanaw taala. The Prophet sallallahu
sallam said that Allah is with the moon Cassia Toluca lube, those who
are brokenhearted, Allah is with them. That was powerful. So when
you're in that state, of course, your die is going to be special,
and poem is one of the highest expressions of any language.
That's why they say that if you want to master any language, you
have to study poetry. So classically, that's what they did,
unfortunately, in our schools, poetry now for our young kids and
everything, poems, that, you know, unless you're studying proper
literature, and so on, it's very difficult for them to memorize.
But in any language, whether it be Arabic or anything, poems are the
highest expression, because they force you to say so many different
meanings and articulate them in a very short form, using the best
possible expression. So poems are one of the highest expressions of
any language. But when you have someone who really loves the soul,
allah sallallahu Sallam on top of that, who knows his life history,
very intricately. And he puts all of that life at points from the
profit and loss of his life. He weaves them into this poem. And
it's amazing that it's literally like each word is a pearl that he
strung together, and this entire poem, which is
of 150, or is it 160 lines or 160 poems? It all ends with
me, me, me, it's a meow meow. So the entire 160 lines of it ends
with meme at the end with a customer. So we've been looking at
this poem, and in this poem, what he does is he starts off very
interesting, which you'll have to listen to the previous lessons for
that, because it's, there's a lot of analysis there. But he is
taking different aspects of Rasulullah sallallahu Sallam from
pre birth, to his birth to his miracles, to his suffering, and
everything related his status. And it's amazing where his mind is
going in all of this, it's just amazing how somebody's mind can go
so far, within two lines, how he can be referencing so many
different points and bringing them together, both in terms of
connecting similar words that have multiple meanings, together to
provide a particular effect to also dealing with and you have to
really appreciate poet poetry, to really appreciate this, but at
least what we can learn from this is the different aspects of
Rasulullah sallallahu his life seen through the lens of an
individual. Now this poem, you know, one is that many poems have
been written about Rasul Allah lorrison. But there is no poem,
there is absolutely no poem in the world that has had as much
attention as this one. This poem is still written in the role of
Rasulullah sallallahu Sallam around around the green section.
It's written around there. It was it adorn them, you know, anybody
who had a nice house in Baghdad or in Syria in other places,
Damascus, this is the poem that they would get a calligraphy
calligraphy to come and write it, or adorns the tomb of Salahuddin
and so on and so forth. It's a very, very famous poem. It's just
amazing. So I was very curious about it for for many, many years,
because I've heard so much about people memorize it, in children
memorize it. So that's why we decided to look at this poem. So
we're on number one number 80. Mercer many Dara Damon was
scheduled to be ill one nil to Jivaro Minh who lamb udimi
massaman de massa many Death Row Damon
was scheduled to be he il one il two gr Amin hula muled AMI while
thermos to Hina Daraa in him in Yachty. He enlisted them to
another I mean hire him was tell me
and then he says Latin Kirill ye Amin wrote Yahoo in Allah who
called been either na matil aina Neelam Jana me was Archana Bulu
him in Uber wealthy he Felisa Yun Karachi he heard Omar tell me
so those are the few lines that we'll be looking at today. The
Baraka Allah Houma why you and B Makuta Sabine, wala n a BU nada
Hey bimby Mata hermy so it all ends with me at the end of it as
well. So what he says first Massa many the Hello Damon was the joy
to be here, il one il two Jivaro mean who will amuse me never does
this age or press me but that
I Seek His protection, his protection do I find that the
oppression is no more? Because there's a lot of metaphor in
there. So we'll be unraveling that so inshallah never do I seek from
his hand the goods of both worlds without gaining my share from the
best of all give us
deny not the revelation in his dream visions for his was a heart
which slept not, though his eyes slept. Thus it was at the outset
of his prophethood so when adult his dream visions are not
gainsaid. Blessed is Allah revelation is not acquired, no is
a prophet to be accused when he speaks of hidden things.
So the first one never does his age oppress me. Never, never does
this age oppress me but that I seek His protection, his
protection, do I find that the oppression is no more meaning that
any difficulty that the author is saying this author is saying this
through through experience? And look how much this this may be a
very telling poem out of the whole poem, we you know, those who are
new to this, in the first does today, they obviously haven't read
the previous ones unless you've had any private study of this. But
this is seems to be where he's speaking about himself. He's
saying, Never does this age oppress me and He was oppressed,
used to work for the different organizations that will cough in
in Egypt. And when he used to see problems, I mean, Egypt has
problems right now. I mean, Allah relieve those problems. But he saw
he had problems in the ministries in the civil service, or whatever
it was. And he used to write poems against them about the problems he
saw. So he did rack up a few enemies that way, because he was
just outspoken in his poetry against the evil that he used to
see around. So that he says, I mean, look how comfortable he is,
and look how much debacle he must have had and reliance, that the
miracle occurred that did occur after he said the poem. So he
says, Never does this age oppress me but that I seek His protection,
his prediction do I find and the oppression is no more? He doesn't
tell you whose protection clearly he's talking about. But of course,
many of the commentators they've said that based on what he's
saying before this is obviously speaking about a pseudo allah
sallallahu alayhi wasallam? How does one secrets will Allah Allah
some protection right now that he has left this world is departed
this world. So that's something that we need to understand, right?
You have to remember, this is poetry. So in poetry, use a lot of
metaphor, you will lose use a lot of figurative expressions, things
don't always they're not to be taken literally, you know,
although in some contexts, they are to be taken literally. So
before anybody jumps to any conclusions and provides fatwas,
you know, preliminary fatwas to this, let's understand this, what
he's saying, the the author, the poet, what he's saying a nonverbal
CD is that whenever any calamity, any difficulty, comes upon him,
upon anybody, for that matter. So he's not saying this just for
himself. He's saying this for anyone, any form of fear, then,
how, how would you seek refuge with Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi
wasallam? How today, if you've got a difficulty, how would you seek
refuge with Rasulullah sallallahu sallam? Well, different people
have done it in different ways. The foremost way which everybody
can do, obviously, is that you start reading more about him and
you start understanding what he would do, what's his guidance in
that regard that seeking refuge from him, sending blessings on him
is set to remove our problems. That's another way of doing it.
Because when a person sends blessings on Rasulullah Salallahu
Salam, as we'll be looking at the benefits that come from sending
one Durood Sharif one blessing on the soul, allah sallallahu alayhi
wa sallam, and Allah sends you 10 blessings. We will look at that a
bit later. But that's another way of taking refuge with Rasulullah
sallallahu. And because you know, that when you
send blessings on a soul, allah sallallahu alayhi wa sallam,
something's going to happen, you're going to be rewarded. And
there's a lot of blessing and Baraka that comes from that,
because it's mentioned the Hadith very clearly. So one is to follow
his teachings, and one is to do that. And of course, there's also
other expressions which we'll be looking at which people have gone
there was a Hindu person who lost his eyesight
in India, who with one of the Hajaj one of the hajis, the
pilgrims that were going he sent a beautiful poem written in order to
be read by the road of Rasulullah sallallahu Sallam
pika, he knew the whole row here and work is on there, and so on.
And you read the person who took it for him read it in front of
Rasulullah saw Psalms Rhoda and that person regained his eyesight.
Right This was something obviously observed by people again
It's an experience that somebody had, right? There's people who are
sick, who are ill, they make a special pilgrimage to the
Haramain. They go in, in the cab, you know by the Kaaba in the
Haram, they make dua to Allah subhanaw taala. There was accepted
there. They go to Madina Munawwara there was accepted there. If
you're if you get more reward for your Salah, there's something
going on down there. Clearly there's something going on there.
I mean, one of the Imam was a sham, the beautiful reciter. He
was told once, you know, he was offered a place to recite in
Madina Munawwara. But he said he found it so difficult to lead the
prayer there.
Because you're praying, and Rasulullah Salallahu Salam is
listening. Because you're right there. Our belief is that when
you're there, a salsa lesson can listen to you. When you do when
you send blessings from here, it's conveyed by by an angel, but when
you're there, he hears it directly. So he finds it very
difficult and even shake well, they didn't make it made a
comment. He said, You know, this has been the case each time that I
don't know if I'm going to be finished, my prayer must be quite
amazing to lead a prayer, Madina Munawwara.
So anyway, whenever this difficulty takes place, then a
person goes and seeks refuge and Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi
wasallam. Or he seeks tawassul. So tawassul Dawson is asking ALLAH
SubhanA wa Tada due to the honor, high position or closeness of
someone to Allah subhanaw taala. So Oh Allah, I want you to accept
my dua. And I will just use the name of someone I know to be very
close to you. So I come to you. And I say, Look, you know, can you
really help me out? I'm friends with your brother. Right? So that
suddenly takes away a lot of barriers between us. Right, you
may not still help me, but at least it takes the you know,
brings a lot of familiarity. So it's just a means of doing that
it's not necessary to do tawassul. But there was for many people,
they found it to be extremely useful. And that's what it is. And
the Sahaba did tawassul. So now there's a few different opinions
about that, obviously, some people deny it outright, they said that
it's only restricted to people who are alive. So you can only say, Oh
Allah, because of this living person status, according to you
answer my door.
But the question then is that if that's allowed, and it's not
allowed after they they've passed away, then does that mean that
their life has something to do with it? Does that mean you're
giving some efficacy and some benefit, some efficacy to their
life? That is not if if Allah is who you're asking, then this
person was honored. According to Allah, when he's alive, he's going
to be more honored after his death, because he's now guaranteed
that honor because he didn't mess up at the end of his life, he
didn't become corrupt. So a person is more secure after their death
in their state than they are in their life because you could
change. So now this person is definitely honorable in front of
Allah subhanaw taala. And if you're asking Allah and he's the
giver, anyway, so what difference does he make that somebody's alive
or dead?
Right? So that's a really simple way to look at this and understand
this.
Yes, in the time of Ibis of the Allahu anhu, the Sahaba did go and
do tawassul with him, but that's because he had a special position
family of Rasulullah sallallahu they just wanted to do it with it
doesn't mean that they can't do it with Rasul Allah after he's passed
away, because there's no de Lille against it.
Right? So, that's the other way to seek refuge Rasulullah sallallahu
Sallam is to do tawassul to say to Allah, Oh Allah, you know, with
this special place that Rasul Allah, Allah ism has in your site,
according to you, then I want you to accept my dua for me.
Again, it's not necessary, you can have a direct you know, you're
speaking to Allah directly, but this is just people using means
when when you say that, when I make dua,
and if I say, Oh ALLAH forgive my sins, and generally the other my
recommend that if you do is still far
before your DUA, your doors are more likely to be accepted.
Because the reason why it was won't be accepted is because of
sins that we've committed. So if we've made this too far, then
suddenly we're just taking that barrier away obstacle out of the
way. There's a hadith which mentioned that the prophets Allah
Islam said that, when you do dua, at the beginning, and at the end,
send blessings upon me, because blessings upon me are guaranteed
to be accepted. So obviously, anything in between is going to be
accepted because Allah subhanaw taala doesn't discriminate, when
he accepts, he just accepts everything.
So, the these are, this all proves the fact that this is definitely a
valid opinion. So the question then is that why should a person
not be responded to when they have sought refuge in the greatest and
most virtuous of those have ever existed? Out of all things created
and existent in this world? The greatest is a pseudo la Salallahu
Salam. And that's the most
beloved to Allah. So why shouldn't you do as we accepted? Why
shouldn't your seeking refuge be responded to?
And the other thing is that us all allah sallallahu Sallam is one of
the most generous after Allah subhanaw taala. His Generosity
knows no bounds.
So, he has made to offer his OMA, we're just tapping into the
benefit of that da. He's already made the offer this OMA and he
continues to make the offer because prophets are alive in
their grief, as has been established by mamby Hakim, am and
many, many other scholars, only the shallow would disregard that.
So
anybody who is in the refuge of Rasulullah sallallahu, alayhi
wasallam, then they will gain honor, they will gain safety, and
they will have protection both in this world and in the hereafter.
The best he is the best of those that you can have any form of
security as opposed to anybody else, nobody else is as great as a
pseudo loss or loss means providing refuge. Now, the reason
why this concept of refuge is being used here is historical. In
nowadays, who cares about what whose word means anything today,
presidents give their words and they change they they make all of
these claims Prime Ministers make these claims and and suddenly
everything goes down the drain once they become elected. Whereas
in the time of the Arabs though, it's a time of ignorance, but they
had this tradition that let's just imagine in Medina in Macomb Akarma
Abdullah Abu Bakr Radi Allahu and decided to leave the city because
the people are bothering him they wouldn't allow him to read outside
aloud. He wanted to make a solid Hello, they wouldn't allow him to
do that. He decided you know what, what point is there to stay in
this city? When I can't enjoy my brother. Let me go and just leave.
So he went south and he met this non Muslim whose name was ignored
Davina,
the Cejudo, Cara, just further south is where you're going. He
says, I'm leaving the city of Makkah, he says you're not a
person who would leave force be forced to leave a city or would be
would be thrown out? What's the problem? He says, Well, this is
the reason. So this non Muslim, he took him into back into Makkah.
And he said, Look, I am giving him my refuge, I am giving him my
protection.
Now, when you gave somebody your protection, all your allies, those
you had no enmity with, they will have to respect that even though
the person that refuge has been given to is going to be your
biggest enemy. You can't do anything to him now. And they
would respect that.
You know, despite all the ignorance despite all the darkness
of the times, right? It seems like in that sense, he was a bit
brighter, they really their word really counted in that sense. So
that was a big thing. So you're saying that if that's the case of
the way it was dealt with, during the time of the Arabs, then this
is exactly what he is saying that this is the kind of refuge you
will get with Rasulullah sallallahu Sallam as well. So look
where He's taking a historical fact. And just to show the
strength of Rasulullah sallallahu Sallam being with Rasul Allah,
he's, he's doing that He's emphasizing that by mentioning the
Jeeva, or the the refuge of the Arabian people, just to show the
strength of that. So that's what I think it's such a, he uses all of
these great facts and puts them together to make this beautiful
thing.
Then, what the, what the commentator is saying is that
which I explained earlier, that there's many ways that people have
sought refuge with Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wasallam. And
he's saying that this is something tried and tested, and it will
definitely work. So one was obviously the story of the poem,
the poet himself, that his paralysis was lifted, then,
especially if a person does a lot of Salawat on the Prophet
sallallahu alayhi wasallam their life will become easy. Because
Salawat on the prophets, Allah Sanam delusory has to say it makes
it very easy. Your Life. There's a famous story that's related by
this Sheikh Salah Musa, who was a blind individual, and once he
embarked on a journey, a sea voyage.
And suddenly, the storm hit them. And this was one of those really
bad storms, which they call the ecolodge. Via the uprooting one it
would, it wouldn't leave anything, it would just uproot your ship and
everybody would perish. So people were really worried about this
impending storm that's coming in their direction. So this
particular che he says, when I was with them, I suddenly fell into a
slumber. Allah does this sometimes it did this happen during the
Battle of Earth as well. No us. No analysis, the slumber that
overcomes you it's this in the middle of a difficulty This is not
us will overcome you. This assembler will overcome you and
you will be Allah subhanaw taala will give you some safety through
that. It's amazing that the way that happens
And,
in fact, there's a hadith in Muslim which speaks about this
kind of slumber, overcoming the sinful believers, who will be sent
to hellfire to be purified, that they will also be and it's not
clear so we can't like we can hope for it. But it's not clear that
we're guaranteed that don't worry about it, it's going to be fine.
It mentions there that they they will be overcome with this sleep
or slumber. It's inevitable Eman. And by that they won't feel any of
the punishment. We hope that that is what it means, because that
makes it does give us hope. Anyway, he says yes, I my eyes
overcame me and I saw Rasulullah sallallahu some in my dream and he
was saying tell the people of the ship to say the following words
1000 times and this was a special salawat and Prophet sallallahu
alayhi wa sallam which is called Salatin to ngina Otona. Gina, many
of you probably know it Allahumma Salli ala Sayidina, Muhammad wa
ala rezidor Mohamed Salah and Dona Gina be having Jimmy Allah Who
early will effort and so on. There's there's a whole Salawat so
he says that I when I woke up, I remember it was fresh. I mentioned
that to the people and people started reading and they'd read
about 300 times and hamdulillah Allah subhanaw taala relieved the
calamity. numerous stories, there are numerous stories to this
effect. There's another one about Abdullah Abdullah bin he saw he
mentioned that once he became disabled, so no longer was able to
move freely. So what he did was, in all desperation, he thought,
okay, you know, this is your love for someone you have love for
someone, you will call them when you're in need. So he wrote her a
note in which he wrote a poem seeking assistance from Rasulullah
shafa from Rasulullah, sallallahu alayhi wasallam. So he didn't just
do it here. This poet, he did it in his hometown, and he benefited
but this boy, Abdullah, Saul, he sent it with somebody.
And he says go and just place this by the grave, and what he thought
in his mind or whatever, he's just going to put this by the grave.
And
when he did that, the person went put it in by the grave, and he
became better. Right now, today, they have to stick the carpets
down in the road. That's the only places where the carpets have been
fixed to the ground because people do all sorts of stuff down there.
And when they have to clean out the inside is there's all sorts of
charities and things like that, that people people write in there.
Subhanallah I mean, this is an exceptional case. You know, this
is not the way necessarily to do it. This is what came into his
mind is I do and he benefited but it doesn't mean that that is Ubik
that becomes a sunnah to do that. Ask Allah subhanho wa Taala and
when you're there, then you can speak to us with Allah salAllahu
Salam, but otherwise ask Allah Duta was still if you have to
write, but basically he wrote this amazing poem it says guitar
Bharati didn't mean Zimmern it in Moshe machine, because every
Rasulillah he had your stash V.
Lu Lahu.
Tada Makai did the hurry Hotaru her follow me yesterday, Ill
ishara Bill kofi. Well, Amara zuba we have 30 Runa who work at the
ICA who Uncas the Ecuador fee, because Stefan was told that a
rock will either harder to hear to sit in a more rock bubble or Bill
roofie for your heart failure ha Tama Rosalie Shafi, Ilya, Robbie,
do wanna hear you than her she will call me with toffee. And then
at the end he says, What until the non Jew Hi Ian warmer yet and the
Salafi Hutu been led to de la Salafi.
Basically what he's saying is that this is the letter of one who's
lying down because of this disability that has overcome him.
He is making shafa through the cover of Rasulullah sallallahu
alayhi wasallam, the Shiva of Rasulullah achmad, asking him for
shafa when he's been afflicted by these difficulties of time, and
the only thing he is able to do is to move his hand slightly, because
he'd been disabled, the only thing you could do is move his hand. And
then he continues, and then he says that you are the one that
that is the who's who shuffles who's helped and assisted is hope
for whether you you are alive in this world or you've passed away.
And this is the daughter of somebody who's who has this
reverent fear in his heart and his eyes downcast and he knew he
became better
if no Gela he says that once I entered Madina, Munawwara I
entered Madina, Munawwara, the medina of Rasulullah sallallahu
alayhi wa sallam, and I'd gone there in those days, you didn't
have to prove that you've got a hotel and that you've got enough
funds to you know, pass your time that nowadays mashallah you have
to do that. But in those days, you just there were no border checks.
There was nothing you just went in, you know, hamdulillah and you
could stay there for a few years if you want it
You so there will be people who just appear there and they just
about made it then they've got no money so they're going to do a bit
of work or something, but he got there probably very late. He went
straight to Rasulullah sallallahu in his grave, He said salaam to
the sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, then to Oba chronometer, the
Allahu Anhu then he said Yara surah Allah. So you address the
copper inside ya rasool Allah,
I am extremely hungry. I have extreme hunger. And
I am your guest tonight.
I mean, what state you must be in? I mean, you need to have some
sense of closeness even go and say that. Otherwise, what are you
hoping for? You know?
So look, I'm extremely hungry, and I'm your guest tonight. And then
he went and slept between the cupboard and the member. They'll
push you out today. But you know, in those days, you could do that.
I mean, today, they actually get irritated that you've been
standing for more than two seconds. Like something happens to
them. Especially the the guy standing up there, the police,
okay, it's, they just want to move the crowd and make sure they
don't. But the other guys they just suddenly something prickles,
them. When you stand up from when you know, you're because you're
innovative, you stand there for more than two seconds. So I just
want you out of there. So to get really irritable, you do that.
So he says that I just went and slept. And then suddenly I sort of
sort of Lasala was my dream. And he came to me in my dream. This is
what I saw in my dream he came in he gave me bread,
a piece of bread or you know, some kind of special bread, whatever it
was, and in my dream, I ate half of it.
And then I was woken up and I found the other half in my hands.
Now that's obvious a miracle is not gonna happen to everybody.
Right? So obviously a miracle. I'd read a story about somebody going
to Rasulullah Salah and Graham saying salam everybody goes and
give salam but not many people actually hear y equals Salam what
he said and tell us, right? So you heard the story. I've got a friend
who's also America is got to convert wife and they moved to
Madina. Munawwara.
Right. And when I went for Homer a few years ago,
they did, they went, they went was in Madina, Munawwara and we got
together and everything. And then after late at night, they'd gone
to do Salaam. And his wife was crying afterwards. And he told me
this afterwards, he said, My wife has requirements like Why is she
crying? Maybe she's just emotional, or something. And then
he says, After a while, she said that when I said salaam I actually
heard while econ was salam.
Now, of course, you know, she may be imagining things, you know, you
could, you could say lots of stuff. But at the end of the day,
it's all about a personal experience, isn't it? So that's
what I'm it doesn't matter what people will say about that. Well,
you know, until you don't experience you're not going to,
you're not going to understand that but Subhanallah uh, he didn't
get that experience. She did
it for whatever reasons. It doesn't happen all the time.
When my grandfather, for the first time went for Hajj, my father was
with him as well. The first time they entered into the Harlem a
Sharif. And you know, when you look at the Kaaba first that's a
very special moment. So my grandfather Rahim, Allah, he
looked at the Kaaba, and he turned around to my father. And he said,
Where's the cloth?
Right, so my father said, it's there. So it looks back. Oh, yeah,
it is there.
So, maybe if he hadn't said anything, he could have
experienced more. Allah removes barriers and veils. But as soon as
he said that, so now it's going to become magic.
And like, no, look, there's no clock. No, there is a clock now.
It's gone. It's finished. Right? So
these are just things that Allah subhanaw taala could reveal for
you because everything is within his domain. Then this, this
individual who was hosted by Rasulullah sallallahu isn't like
this YBNL Gela.
He says that after the heal, he remained alive for another 40
years or something. And after that, he would never feel that he
had to eat or drink, he would never feel hunger or thirst
because he'd been served by Rasulullah sallallahu sallam. That
was a special benefit from that because of the baraka of that,
that food. Anyway, there's numerous stories about that, not
the point of going into his stories. And we'll be light over
the next poem while Thomas to Hina da rein him in here, the illest LM
to another I mean Hadrian was tell me. So in this one, he says, Never
do I seek from his hand the goods of both worlds without gaining my
share from the best of all give us Now clearly, the professor
Lawson's hand is not available today, literally speaking, for you
to go and ask for something from his hand. But as everybody knows,
Was this is a metaphorical statement. Right? My hand is with
him, don't worry, I mean, you're not it's just an expression, I'm
assisting him or I provided facility for him to benefit from
it. So, again, there's a there's an expression here that needs to
be looked at. So what he says here is that
whenever somebody wants some benefit of this world,
or the hereafter,
and they have this desire from Allah subhanahu wa taala, that
both the benefits of this world the hereafter be gathered for
them.
And the person does that was to read Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi
wa sallam. Now, again, that also has many meanings. One is a clear
tawassul Oh Allah give me this through tawassul of Rasulullah
through the position of Rasul Allah, but the other one is, by
acting in the correction, the manner that's the What greater
tawassul than that, to act with the Sunnah in your life, in your
pursuit of happiness, in your pursuit of money, and wealth, to
do it through the way of Rasulullah sallallahu. There's
going to be definitely benefits. So there's many levels of that, he
will definitely gain his objective. That's what he says.
And obviously, the author has had that experience, but he's not
restricting to himself. He's making this as a claim that
anybody can do this. So for him, it's definite. It's happened to
him. So it's becomes your theme. It's definitive for him. Of
course, for us, it's, we have to have that Yaqeen as well.
So because for him, it becomes like Yaqeen he's saying, it's
like, I've taken it from his hand, because he has in his dream, the
promise of awesome gave this, the scarf with his hand. So for him,
this could be literal, but for the rest of us, it doesn't have to be
literal. It's it's in the metaphorical meaning. There's a
hadith, which I alluded to before, man, Radha and yes, Allah has
written anybody who wants a need from Allah. Phil Yep, that Bisola
Tiarna. Yeah, well, Yatta timbi Salah tiada Yeah, start with
praying, sending blessings on me and end with sending blessings on
me. Because Allah accepts both those blessings. Were who were a
Kremen a year that Mr. Bynum and his two honorable to leave what's
in between. For you acceptable for them, he'll accept what's even a
Masuda the Allahu Anhu says, No, it's related from him. That when
one of you wants to ask for his need, he should start with
praising Allah.
As much as he's entitled, then he should pray on our Mo Allah
Muhammad sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, then he should ask for his
need. That's the trick. Like, if you want to get through to that
person, this is what you must say.
You know, people will give you those advices so we've just read
the story of YBNL Gela, where he didn't have to, he didn't have any
inclination to food and drink afterwards for a lot, you know,
for the rest of his life because of that. That's a dunya eating
just foreign, you know, foreign fuel parts, but obviously he's
done everything. Now, you know, if anybody who makes a lot on the
Rasul Allah Islam if the only thing that they receive from that
was what was promised in the Hadith, and that would be
sufficient. What's promised in the Hadith, man, Salah, Allah YAHWAH,
Hadith and SallAllahu, alayhi, Ashura, anybody who sends one
blessing on me, Allah says, 10 blessings on him. That if that is
all, that will be sufficient. How many times have you heard that
hadith? Many, many times? Today, let's really understand the
significance of it, because really ignore it, but he really opens
this up. This is what he says. There's a hadith in which the
Prophet sallallahu sallam said Gibreel Ali Salam came to me. And
he said that, Aren't you pleased? That Your Lord
has said that anybody who sends a blessing on you from your Alma,
Allah will send him blessings on him. Anybody who sends one Salam
upon you, then Allah will send 10 salaams on him.
There's numerous Hadees to this effect. There's another one which
actually continues and says that whoever sends you one blessing
Allah will write for him 10 Good deeds, he will erase 10 bad deeds
and he will elevate him 10 degrees so there's numerous Hadith about
that there's whole books written of it by anima Saharawi and
there's a famous for dial Durood Sharif as well called the Abu
Abdullah Al billary. He mentioned that
understand that when we say that Allah sends a blessing on him, the
salah it's on him What does that mean? Salat of Allah blessing of
Allah means mercy of Allah. And anybody who Allah has set a single
mercy on that is superior for that person from more than the entire
dunya. So how much do you think
10 Blessings 10 mercies of Allah is worthless.
If one mercy is superior to everything of this world, then he
sends 10. So how much do you think? You know, because sometimes
you do one day and all these other Hadith it's all about 70 and
107 100. But in this one is only giving you 10 blessings. Well, I
mean, it's still a lot, you're still getting more than, you know,
buy one get 10 free, and those 10 are from Allah, they're not your
one blessing, then they're not criminals don't have your
blessings.
This one is sufficient. So you got 10 of those.
How many calamities Do you think that's going to take away from
you?
Now, you're not going to see that because the only way you will know
whether it's going to take any calamity or it would have is if
you didn't do it and then a calamity came to you. But if you
actually did it and then the economy didn't come to you won't
even know that it's come because there's no place you can kind of
check that there was gonna be an earthquake there or there's some
clouds going there or something you can't check those things.
And then, if that's what you get the it takes away all these
calamities, and it brings about all of these great benefits and
bounties and so on. That's why if not I thought he loved his
country. He says that man Salah Lee Martin Wahida, anybody who
sends one blessing on him kufr Hula, hula Hamid dunya. Well,
Akira, this is the value of one blessing of Allah on a person, his
causing one blessing of his design, which is the His mercy
that will suffice you all your worries of this world. So then he
says, for k forbidden Salah are they he Ashura then imagine the
one who Allah sends 10 of his mercies down upon. But of course,
for him to send his blessings we need to send a proper blessing.
If no shelf it says that Allah subhanho wa Taala has extended the
honor of Rasulullah sallallahu Sallam to such a degree that
anybody who sends blessings on the Prophet salallahu Salam will will
be given the status.
Otherwise, if Allah subhanaw taala sends you one blessing
and you in your entire life do every worship there is and then
Allah sends you one blessing, that one blessing of his will be more
valuable than all the worship that you have done in your entire life.
That's one blessing. Because
you obviously are doing what is in your capability and you're
insignificant human being, that's what we are limited.
Whereas when Allah sent something that really that is big, and
because Allah is infinite, you can imagine the bounties of that, if
Allah is infinite, and he has no ending, then the bounty is going
to give us should have no ending, which means that inshallah is
generous.
Because that's the only way to do it. bounties are not in Jahannam
they in gender and gender is the only place that can deal with the
endless life. This world is too limited for this.
And this is all if it's just one blessing from him.
So now you understand that when Allah is only giving us 10
blessings for one blessing
is still a lot because that's a huge undertaking. It's big. So
what the author is saying here I've never never
asked for sort of allah sallallahu Sallam sought refuge in Rasulillah
salons for something and not being responded to have always been
responded to and it's always worked out for me. Now of course
it comes from Allah but because it's due to his love for a Salah
Lhasa lawyer Salam, he just said, Well, it's him
because that's his high status. And because generally, you get
things from somebody's hand.
That's why he used the expression hand not because he literally got
it from his hand although in his in his dream he did. The next one
is lerton Kindle. Why even wrote Yahoo in the local been Ivana
Mattila, Aina Nilanjana me this is a different point. So what he's
saying here is,
don't deny the revelation. In his dream vision, visions for his was
a heart to it slept not, though his eyes slept. So this is
alluding to a famous hadith of Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa
sallam. He, earlier on, there was one poem in which he spoke about
the splitting of the chest, where the prophets Allah says, chest was
split, and then his heart was washed. Because of that, there was
a level of purification, high level of purification that he
received. When you receive that high level of purification, the
newer Anwar and the blessings. You can imagine, the process the
lessons heart is a greater receptacle for that more than
anybody else. So if he's getting all of these blessings from Allah
subhanho wa Taala sleep can overcome him.
This is one way to understand why he said I don't might I might
I sleep but my heart doesn't. Because the heart is being
watched. Our heart is corrupt. So we need to sleep we needed the
nourishment of the heart, but when it's been purified by Allah
subhanaw taala, like the way it was with a special water, then it
suddenly becomes super. It's different. It's immune to these
things. That's why the author says, don't deny that Allah
subhanaw taala could give ye to Rasulullah sallallahu I mean, his
dreams, his dreams are also watching and this is agreed upon
that the prophets their dreams are working. Because although he seems
to be asleep, his heart is very much alive. It's relating the
sahih Hadith from Russia to the Allahu Anhu nice. She said, Yeah
rasool Allah See, he used to perform his tahajjud long time at
night then he used to sleep lie down for a while, then used to get
up and do with her prayer.
As he used to do he used to lie down then he used to even like be
snoring in a sense and then he would get up and just do with or
pray without doing will do so she was a bit worried this is how come
you know she's she asked that question. Are you sleeping before
you pray with her? He says don't worry about yeah Isha my eyes
sleep, but my heart doesn't.
And that's why whenever the price lesson was sleep, they generally
would not waking him up.
Because they know that he's in control.
So there was no need to wake him Hey, solid time or whatever, you
know, they would generally not.
The other thing is that you didn't want to disturb his way. He may be
receiving a revelation. So you didn't want to disturb that
either. Now what you have to understand, just slightly
digressing, the dream world is a world that you enter. After you
leave the wakeful state. And whatever your experiences are in
your wakeful state, that's the kind of dream world you will enter
into. Because that's what you're used to. It's got to do with your
mind your thoughts, a lot of this, and then its interaction with your
roots interaction with the angel of dreams, especially Angel that's
designated for dreams. So if you have good thoughts in the daytime,
your thoughts in your dream will also be good, because that's the
kind of natural world progression that you will go into, otherwise,
it's going to be bad. So if somebody is getting bad dreams at
night, well just think of what you're doing in the daytime. A lot
of women complain about icy bad dreams and they get really
paranoid. But I mean, are you speaking bad about people during
the day? Are you Reba are you doing all of these weird things
that you do at night, you then it's gonna come back to haunt you.
Generally speaking, the profit or loss is pure. So his dreams are
pure. The angel is having, you know, giving him great working in
Revelation bringing what what he's been told to.
Now the question that arises that if the Prophet sallallahu alayhi
wa sallam is not asleep, while he is asleep, but his heart is awake,
then why was there that occasion where they all missed? Fajr
including the Prophet sallallahu sallam, they overslept. So anybody
who misses Fudger, they should feel that as a sense of comfort
that it's a human thing, even to Rasulullah sallallahu Sallam it
happened to him. But how do you reconcile the fact that his heart
is alive?
Awake? And he misses Fudger? How's that possible? Well, there's a
number of
responses to that. First and foremost, that time when they
overslept, that was a special situation. So although in the
majority of cases, his heart was always awake, but in that
particular instance,
for a particular example, to establish a point for everybody
afterwards to benefit from he was put asleep.
Right, he was put asleep, because the Sahaba could have missed it.
And he could have been awake, but then why didn't you wake them up?
You know, so that it would have been, Allah knows best why he did
what he did, but he just made everybody asleep. And then they
woke up and then they did a jamaa of cada Acaba, Jamal Fajr, after
sunrise. So it was to make it how to deal with it because you know,
people are going to sleep it's a natural thing. So how do you deal
with it if you sleep? So it's for that reason.
That's why in the Hadith, narration of Allah, in one version
of the Hadith the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam said
lo SHA, Allah let you call now, if Allah had willed, We would have
woken up.
But we're lacking era, the anticodon sunnah and remember the
Quran. Allah wanted this to be an example for the people after you
have how to deal with a miss prayer.
There's already people who claim that if you miss a prayer on
purpose, you don't have to do cover you just do Tober they do
agree though, that if you miss it, by mistake, or sleeping or
something, then you have to do cada because of this hadith, if
this hadith was not there, then that even deny that
if not Abbas of the Allahu Anhu This is what his expression was
about this incident. He says, My son Rooney and nearly a dunya be
mafia
Harvey Salatin, Rasulullah sallallahu Sana subhub. Right the
solutions.
If I was given the entire world and I prayed for God that day,
that would not have been more valuable to me than my salad in
Canada with a sudo allah sallallahu alayhi wa sallam that's
more valuable to me than if I'd been given the entire world.
So is the major rasa. It's a major concession that yes, you can do
your color pray afterwards and insha Allah will forgive you.
That's one one answer. The other answer is that
technically speaking, the eye is asleep. The heart is awake. But
what's the sun? The sunrise got to do with the HUD.
The eyes are asleep. So he missed the sun. So technically seeming,
there's, there's there's no conflict here. Right number two.
And number three, is
when he says My heart does not sleep, he is referring to the fact
that my heart doesn't sleep. It's not in a state of heedlessness,
it's still connected to Allah, so I receive ye. So that's what he
means by being awake, that I still receive revelation in that time.
And finally, he says whether Kahina Bulu human liberty he
Felisa Yong ki roofie, he heard Omar told me, these dreams, this
was the dominant thing that he used to have revelation in his
dream at the beginning of his prophecy, says that six months is
when he got these dreams. Then after that, he still had dreams.
But then he used to also have revelation openly. Either Allah
directly inspiring his heart or coming through an angel. So he's
saying that there's no way you can reject this. So what he's saying
is, thus, it was at the outset of his prophecy. So when adult his
dream visions were not gainsaid. So the revelation, earlier
revelations that he got, were in his sleep.
And later on, it became even more complete, that he no longer just
had to be in asleep, it was also in his wake from the state. And
that's why they say that the Hadith mentions that the only
thing left of prophecy today is pious dreams, righteous dreams.
Allah subhanaw taala doesn't talk directly to people. And if there
is any message that he gives, now, it's actually through dreams.
Somebody say that it is how many parts of prophecy,
one of
4640 there is narrations that range from 40 to about 70. So
there are a number of explain that for some people, it's 40 because
their dreams are stronger and more truer. And those who are not as
pious, their dreams are more veiled and obscure, and they're
not as clear than theirs is 170 or even less.
Right? So that's like a spectrum of truthfulness of dreams, the
older Hadith that's how you put them together.
Okay, so inshallah we will end here
and inshallah we'll continue afterwards.
But this particular line is just to show
that it starts off as dreams but then it became even more intense
and that's why he says, though, thus it was just at the outset of
his prophecy, he got through dreams then. So when adult and the
word you use in Arabic is Mark, tell him more than him is the one
who is now mature. So
again, the word Mark tell him in Arabic, although he means mature,
he also means the lamb also is to do with dream. So again, there's a
play on words here.
So he says when adult his dream visions were not gainsaid, there's
a few other poems I'd like to meet Ali Sher Khan, he says to cleanse
the muddied thinking of the people of my age, pure water from his
fountain, when versed will thirst, a sewage?
It's a bit complicated, it's a poem.
Both worlds
are just a golden radiance an exhaustible book of signs and
reflections. But where is the lighthouse? To light up our
journey. Beauty is wellspring of light that's appointed by a mean
illustrator.
And
midnight was rich with Musk drifting from his lips so fair.
The moon was a circle at dusk, like a shoe from his steed in the
air. That's an enormous poem.
Make dua, Allah him and the Scylla Marinka salaam Tabata federal
jewelry really grown? Allow me are you you're a young bureaux medical
history. Hola, homea Hana Yama? None. La ilaha illa Allah Subhana
Allah in the Quran I mean Allah
Are you mean just Allahu Ana Mohammed Ahmed who Allahumma salli
wa salam ala Sayyidina Muhammad wa ala early so you didn't Mohammed
Robert eco Salam. O Allah, we ask You to forgive all of our sins,
and we ask you to forgive our heedlessness of Allah we live a
life full of heedlessness and negligence. Though we acknowledge
we claim and we declare that we believe in you and we are your
believers and we come to the masjid and we do a few things, but
our hearts are not connected to you as the hearts of the Sahaba we
ask that you give us true spirituality in our hearts with
pure purification of our hearts. Oh Allah, we send blessings on
your messenger sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, make it worthy of those
10 True blessings that come from you. of Allah make them suffices
for the problems that we have in this life and the calamities of
Allah strengthen us from inside and out of Allah make our insides
superior to our outside and make our outside pious and righteous Oh
Allah make these things easy for us in this world that we live in
then it's so difficult. Oh Allah, Oh Allah, we asked you to protect
us from all of the challenges and all the problems that we face
around us. Oh Allah, these things don't seem to be getting easy. Oh
Allah we hope that is not because you're angry with us. Oh Allah
have mercy on us. Oh Allah become pleased with us. Oh Allah make us
worthy of your pleasure of Allah of Allah, you seem to be extremely
angry because of all of the difficulties that are taking place
of Allah, grant us intuition of what to do to remove that that
state and to make you happy, Oh Allah, he may be because of our
sins that many of the calamities are taking place in this world. We
ask that you forgive us and you inspire us in the right direction
and you protect us. Oh Allah, we all have this desire, but we fall
prey to our sins, our whims, our desires of Allah. We ask that you
drag us and you force us into your submission, despite our states
where we don't want it. Oh Allah, Oh Allah, we ask that you show
your abundant blessings upon us. And you shower us Your abundant
blessings and us and our children elevate the Kadima La Ilaha illa
Allah in this world of Allah and you make us a means of assisting
your deen to be of service of your deen of Allah We ask that you give
us the true love of your messenger sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, and
you give us a true following of his message and his sunnah, so
that on the Day of Judgment, we're not left alone and we're not
isolated away from your mercy. And away from his generosity of Allah,
we ask that you give us the drink from his hands, from the coauthor
and Allah that You give us his company in the Hereafter, and that
you send your abundant blessings on him on behalf of us and you
give him you give him an appropriate reward on behalf of
the entire Ummah, of Allah make the best of our days, the day that
we stand in front of you and make this world easy for us to live in,
in gaining your happiness Subhan Allah because Allah is your Si Fu
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