Abdur Rahman ibn Yusuf Mangera – Qasida Burda (The Mantle Ode) Part 3
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Bismillah R Rahman Rahim Alhamdulillah
Alhamdulillah wa salatu salam ala Sayyidina Muhammad
wa ala early he will be here Baraka was seldom at the Sleeman
Kathira en la AMI Dean Amma beret.
So we're in the midst of the mumble series of Buddha.
So in the beginning of this poem, which is about Rasulullah,
sallAllahu, alayhi, wasallam. And praising him,
he started off on a totally different
subject, which for us, when we're not used to poems, it sounds a bit
strange, but as we discussed, just to bring us up to speed with where
we are, what he does is he creates this imaginary dialogue between
two individuals. One of them is complaining about the other one,
and trying to prod him and push him to discover. Why is he so sad?
Why is he crying? Why are the streaks of tears on his face, then
the other one doesn't confess first, then eventually, he starts
to confess. And then he describes the kind of love that has captured
him,
which is so difficult
to manage, but he can't get out of it. So that's where we were. So
finally he comes. And he accepts, and he confesses, and he says,
yes, then he says, Yeah, Hola, me, Phil, how a little three year mark
the rotten mini ileka. 101, softer lambda roomy.
So what he's saying here is that you who blame me for this chase,
love. We don't know who this love is for he's making it seem like
it's for this. It's a man's love for woman. That's the way he's
making it seem just to capture everybody's attention. That's the
way many, many problems begin.
I seek Your pardon. He says, You who blame me for this chase love,
I seek Your pardon. Yet had you judged fairly, you would not have
blamed me at all. So that's where we were. And in that regard, we
were discussing what he said he was saying chaste love, actually
what the real translation here is that my love, which is like the
love of the tribe of Banu agora, they had this ajeeb love that if
they began to love something, then nothing could separate them. So we
talked about a number of incidents with regards to them. There were a
few, a few things left in that regard. So because we were
actually discussing the topic of love, we discussed how in Arabic,
there are a number of stages of love, and they have a word for
every single stage, however, is the first stage than a laughter is
the second stage and it goes all the way up. And the word Hotbird
in Arabic actually comes from hub button, which means seed, right
hobo means love. habitude means seed, and this actually comes from
this the seed in the heart from where the love comes from. So
Arabic has a very kind of a loving Subhanallah essence to it. Right
now. We were discussing a number of the stories and do you remember
the story of the more other than that was mashallah a very
inspirational story.
It's related that now this one for many of us, may sound a bit
strange, but it's related from Hassan, bossy Rahmatullah Lee
who's one of the greatest of our, not only for kaha not only
professors, not only would you call it great ilmc He is one of
the greatest Zahedan he's like the shape of you know,
all the great sciences we have. So it's related. Euro subnet,
Abdullah says that
I once I stayed with Hudson bacilli, Rafa de la de for 20
years, I never once heard him saying prices have gone up, or
prices have gone down. Or even mentioning that the emir, the Amin
has, you know, the immune is writing or his come down. The only
thing that he would be remembering was death. So his whole focus was
ALLAH SubhanA wa Tada. Then he says, On one occasion, a woman
came to him.
She was on the highest levels of beauty. An extremely beautiful
woman came to him. If I say a stunning woman, it would make it
tabloid so I don't want to use that word. Stunning is very kind
of, I find the words she's stunning. A very tabloid kind of
talk. There's no beauty to it. Stunning, there's a difference
between attractive and beautiful. And you have to realize that most
of the time it's the shaytaan that is making us look and become
attracted. It's the shaytaan you have to remember that because
shaytaan wants to cause problems with our shadow and our desire. So
I don't like that term. He said she was on a very high level it
says that route but it hurts me well, German will cut they will
get it done.
Subhan Allah, she was the perfect stature, perfect model. Again, the
word model is very abused word today, but the perfect kind of
model absolutely beautiful. Right? So she came perfect in proportion
every well, but they will didn't she came and sat in front of
Hassan basally Basri. And she said,
Yeah, she is a hillbilly Rajouri. And yet as a witch Allah is OJ.
Well, he has sharp but on Jamila tone Walloon Is it permissible for
a man to marry over his wife? When she is beautiful? She is no, she
is young. She is beautiful, and she is fertile. So everything you
would want in a wife, she's fertile gives you children. She is
beautiful. And she is also young still. Right? So is it permissible
for a man to marry overheard meaning and take a second wife.
Now this is talking about the time when it was quite a culture to do
so. But she came and asked him this question. So he answered in
the way of the Quran for Karla Hana? And he said yes, of course,
it's permissible, because a man's desire is something else, he can
have the best, but that's his desire. That's the way I lost
mine. What Allah has made him of course, he has to restrict it. If
he can't get something he has to he has to do somewhere. Anyway,
then he so he said, Yes, of course, la, la jolla desert which
are barren is permissible for him to marry up to four, he gives us
technical answer. It's a technical answer he's giving Yes. Allah
subhanaw taala also has you know that this is the technical answer.
So then she says, even if it's over somebody like me,
like first she gives a generic picture. Then she says, even if
it's somebody like me, can you still marry over? Right? Can Can
her husband still take another? And so she had an equivalent in
now. Right? And so she now she lifts up her veil
to get a fatwa. She lifts up the veil, and hasn't and hasn't bossy
probably just looked at and said yes. Again, very technical answer
is that yes.
And she said, Subhan Allah, she said, Subhan Allah, Glorified be
Allah ba schicke LA to feed in us we have the fatwa by your life do
not give this fatwa to people.
In the calm haram Korean Koran is
don't don't. And then she left Hassan bossy, he just kept
wondering after her and he said, then I think here, he says, My
aduro Imran akan Allahu Mithila. Nisha? Umina, dunya. It's not
harmful for a person if he has something like this of the dunya.
Right. So he was giving for him. It didn't matter where he gave it.
He just gave a very straightforward answer.
SubhanAllah.
Now,
Abu Nofal Allegedly, he was asked, * yes, ma'am. I had the mineral
however,
because we're under discussion of love. It's important. I mean,
there shouldn't be hidden. Love is something every one of us deals
with. So it's good to understand how the role of mod dealt with the
concept of love. So we understand the parameters of Halal love,
haram, haram love, obsession, etc. That's why we're having this
discussion. It's a very mature discussion, it's important to have
not many people speak about this. So it's important that we speak
about this. He said, Is there anybody who is protected who who
could stay away from having desirable having desire for
something for anything? Right, whatever. It doesn't have to be
for a man or a woman or a woman or a man, it could be anything is
there anybody? And generally this how he's saying?
So then he said, yes, there's only one type of person who would have
absence of love. This is a Jill al Jaffe Allah de la formula in the
hula Hill. This is the totally harsh, rough kind of guy, right?
Who absolutely has kind of no virtuous understanding, or no no
forbearance. No, * no clemency. Only such a person can have no
feel no love for anything. Just totally hardhearted only such a
person remember the love we're speaking about our minds is that
the focus of our mind is love for Mac look, but this is talking
about love for anything, which includes love for the Creator. So
some of the Hakama they said well how are Jellystone Montair were
ill from news will come ka Hara Yummly could have done what Ottawa
when pollute or Havarti Raha well are you in one of our Hirahara
what new Foose wa
Tamara Anil upside him at Hulu who were huffy and annular universe
look Masuku must look whoo hoo hoo ajeeb. He, this is how he's
described. Love. This is how powerful love is and I think this
description, the benefit of it is
As we can then appreciate why surely the Sharia has prevailed
has provided so many barriers. Because love is something once it
overtakes you,
that's it. If it's for the wrong thing, then it can severely
cripple you and severely be of great detriment. That's why Allah
subhanaw taala wants to protect us and direct us. So he this is how
he describes it. This is how he describes he says how, which is
the initial initial stage of love. He says, It is Jelly Sun Moon,
there is a companion who you love to sit with. Imagine a friend you
just love to be with them and associate that you always want to
be with them. You can't wait to be with them and you find it
difficult to depart from them. That's what love is what elephant
Matt loosen. elfin means it is such so familiar and congenial to
you that you just love to be sociable with it. So he's giving a
description of how you would feel with others like that. Or Moroccan
car here. It is a dominating sovereignty or possession, it will
dominate you.
Right as a medical medical, you can read this as medical car here
it is a dominating ruler are dominating king he will just
dominate you everything of you. Then he says he M liquid abdominal
Wawa, it will take charge of your bodies and your your room your
soul you will take over both of them. Don't think it's only one
thing is taking over to take over both. And while Kaluga Herati Raha
he will take over your heart, and your thoughts, your heart, and
your imaginations and your thoughts, your eyes and what you
see. And your knifes and all your opinions. You're, you're gone.
You're lost, right? That's what he does. Then he says that this is
the worst part of it.
Its entry into you is hidden from the site. You don't see it coming
so you can prevent it or protect it, protect yourself from it, it
will enter surreptitiously, so your eyes won't see it. Well, half
your annual uni must look woohoo. So
your eyes will not see its pathways it will just come in.
That's why we have these that once you start talking a bit more and
getting mine and then the emotion comes in then you you fall in love
and it's the wrong person to be in love with. That's why the Sharia
says you can't do this kind of stuff. Because then it doesn't
work out. That's why today, there are so many people out there today
who want to marry somebody. And these are the DNR people. These
are the people who are religious who want to make it halal. But
they've already they've already crossed the barrier and they have
love emotional attachment however is there but they want to make
love so it's they're finding it most challenging because their
parents are the opposite side parents are not allowing it so now
they're running from one place to the other. And now this is the
only way to make them make tahajjud so when they call you say
make tahajjud they say can you give us a dua the best boys get up
at night do Tahajjud prayer and make do afterwards there's no
better do other nuts right the prophets Allah Sanam, I don't know
if he gave us permission to do off or something like this, but that
there are two hours in general, but this is your best way that you
can do it is such a massive problem because you've allowed
yourself to go there. And then you Garbett Oh, he's praying, you
know, this is generally comes from women, which are you know, because
men, it comes from men as well of course, but it's like, oh, he's
such he's such a good brother. He's praying and, you know, he's
religious and my family is, you know, so not religious and so on.
I don't think I'll ever find anybody like him. You know,
there's no other fish and sea. That's what they think. And
subhanAllah it's a tough position to be but that's the whole thing
is love is just something which is Allahu Akbar
now
well for Cobain, and he'll be well ish. So what's the difference
between hope and nourish?
Right there are these are two Arabic terms, but you hear the
word risk a lot in Sufi poetry and Sufi discussion, what is the risk?
And what is what is what is hope? So he says that when it comes to
worldly, worldly context, the word hood is the one that doesn't have
any desire with it, chakra sexual desire, a desire a wanton desire,
whereas ish, in the worldly sense, is the love that also comes with a
sexual desire as well. It's not the focus is not just the focus is
not just to be with the person, but you wants to be fulfilling a
desire. I was an antique off with an older Maulana who was also a
hadith of hockey masters. Right And now, he was in Attica, and I
think he's his son was there as well. And he was, I think he had
called home or hadn't called home for a few days, you know, for 10
days during Attica. So after a few days, I'm sitting on the desert
island with him. And mashallah, very Allah, Allah bless him. He's
a nice, very nice individual. And he says, grifone Nick, you haven't
found him yet. I said, you know, mashallah, you're so old, you
know, old enough to
or grandchildren you still worried about pack, you know?
He says Maulana and he slapped me. On the underside, he says Montana,
he says which either Boehner whomever that Omarama is his
belly, it's all about touch. Then when you get older, you may not
even sleep together. But the love has increased even more than it
was before.
Before it's all about touch, then after that, the hearts are so
connected that Subhanallah you know, you have a real bond. And
then he said would you rather be in or whomever that Omarama as
Allah subhanaw taala says in the Quran, Allah has put between the
moment that and Rama, love and mercy now is the state of the
mercy you can you know, some have described this as the first stage
and the others, the others. The second stage. This is when it's
halal relationship. This is when it's a halal relationship and the
person has Taqwa. This is the benefit of it, you will never tire
you will only get closer, you will only only get closer. I remember
when I wasn't married, I had gone to taraweeh with a married
individual, much older than me. And so we were away for the whole
month of Ramadan. And he kept calling home probably more than I
did. So I think when you've been married for so many years, what's
your problem? You know, when you're not married you You talk as
a as a child, as an infant who doesn't understand. So I said, he
says, you know, the longer you stay together, the closer you
become, it doesn't get stale. It doesn't you don't tire of it. This
is if you have your trust in Allah. Otherwise, you can have the
best like this poor woman, like this poor woman who was coming to
complain to her son bursary to get a fatwa so she could ban her
husband. Right?
This is not to say it's not permissible to marry again, there
are reasons and considerations for that. But you should be at least
happy with what you have.
If you're married because you're not happy, maybe you should look
at for other reasons. Unless of course, you've got somebody fault,
but even then it may be your own sins that have created this
situation. So we must look at ourselves first, then. So now,
all of this discussion so far, it's all about love for creation,
love, love among the Create created beings, people to people,
and so on.
What about
does the Creator love his creation? That's the question for
you. Hey, Bill, harlot, mahalo AKA, does the Creator Almighty
love his creation? The answer is yes. What are the signs for that?
We can only know that by science and the science for that this is
most important for us all this topic of love was just an
introduction just to give us the nature of it. This is the love
that we should be seeking. So
the signs, one is Allah one is, obedience is will be made easy for
you. Allah will, your obedience, your worship will be facilitated
for you, it'll become easier for you to wake up prefer to stay away
from haram, etcetera. Allah will give you Tofik to do them, divine
guidance. Another one is if Tila, who for your spirit. If Allah does
test you, then he will give you patience, you will have a test and
you have patience. You might question Why do you have a test
and then be given patience? Why just not be wellbeing? Allah
subhanaw taala wants to raise your status. That's why the prophets
were given IP Tiller to make their status even higher because they
are going through they're going through a test they're doing sub
Allah loves sub rubbish at solvating. So you get more and
more and more reward. So Allah wants to raise allowance to raise
your status just like that just by doing so. But by do you do nothing
by doing sober.
So that's another sign in the Hadith mentions either Abdullah
who Abdullah Abdullah who when Allah subhanho wa Taala loves
somebody, he will test them for in Sabra HA, HA HA who, if he does
have sober them, if the person exercises patience, then Allah
subhanaw taala will select him, Allah will choose him, which means
he will give special attention to him. What and then he says we're
in Rhodia. And if the person is not just sober, but if he you see
there's two levels, one is having supper, when you have a masiva and
asking Allah I've got patience. I'm going to be patient on this.
I'm not going to complain, but can you please take it away from me?
That's one status, which is generally the status that we look
towards to see hopefully we can do this. There's a higher status
which is of Allah, this is your status. This is the way you have
kept me. I'm happy to be the way you keep me even if it's in this
that you've already Salaam. That's his story. That's what you call
Radha Bill Allah. That's what you call satisfaction with the decree
of Allah subhanho wa taala. That's why in this hadith, he says, we're
in Nadia is Stouffer who, and if we become satisfied that Allah
subhanho wa Taala makes him a choice just makes him the choices
servant. So even more attention is then given to him. And that's
that's exactly what you mean by big
coming on, well you have ALLAH SubhanA wa Tada, one shake I saw,
I just I just saw that and we were discussing this among us that
mashallah everything he does just seems to be so calculated despite
being such a busy individual. Everything he does, it seems to be
according to the Sunnah he's got so calculated moves in, in his
ability to do this, when you get so busy, it becomes very difficult
to do that, because you start, you know, you're rushing, so you miss
out Sunday, and you will do his quick, you know, and so on and so
forth. But his martial everything is calculated yet he's so busy,
right. And what the Hadith that come came to mine was when the
hadith of Rasulullah sallallahu, where he says, that when a person
when a servant of mind fulfills the Fuhrer it, then he comes close
to me, if he wants to get close to me as to fulfill of Allah, it,
that's the that's the first kind of benchmark you have to reach by
fulfilling the follower and then if he continues to claw come
closer to me, than I become his hands by which he touches his feet
by which he walks his eyes by which he sees. And I'm saying that
I had to say that this is a manifestation of that stage. This
is an expression of that stage, that at this devil with all his
business, there is no way that you can be so calculated, so
particular on everything, unless you have divine help.
That's what I thought was a manifestation of this hadith. May
Allah give us this stage? May Allah subhanaw taala make us
worthy of this. And then so that's These are the signs of when the
Creator loves you. Now we need to own look at ourselves, how much
does our creator of us and we put ourselves in this position,
facilitating worship? And if we're in trouble, we have software and
we have patients? Does our Creator love us or not? And it's, it's
easy to make the Creator love you because he's promised that he will
love you if you do the right things. So it's not like, it's not
like you you're trying and he's not gonna love you. There's
certain humans that are stubborn.
Certain parents are like that. So number of individuals have
complained that he they just love my brother, more than anybody
else. Even though I look after them. I do everything I spent on
him, but they just always favoring him. That's a stubborn parent who
doesn't do sugar?
Sometimes it's like that you do everything for somebody, they do
nothing for you, but Allah is not like that. So
women, then he says that is
another another sign is when ALLAH SubhanA wa Tada
love somebody. janela Who are you from enough say, Allah creates
from his own self, something that admonishes him essentially an
internal check process, that when a person wants to do something
wrong themselves, there's an internal facility that allow you
to create a new that will stop you from doing so. See, the worst one
is somebody else tells you, we'd rather have our own self tell us
and prevent prevent us from doing wrong. Because then it doesn't
matter whether you're in front of somebody or not. There is no
private since then, because you are self controlling. So he
creates his mechanism. That's also the Allah's love for a human for a
person, he creates that facility within him to have self self
governance like that. Another thing is warming either Abdon
basato basato Are you been upset? When Allah loves somebody, he
gives him insight into his own sins. He sees his own defects and
sins and does something about it. Otherwise, you never see your
sins, you never see your defects. And you you go around as though
you're the most pious or the most righteous person, because you
don't, you're blind to your own sins.
And finally, finally, another point is when Allah subhanaw taala
loves somebody in he announces to Gibreel Alayhis Salam that I love
so and so you love him too. And you bring it to London,
announces a among the angels that Allah subhanaw taala loves
somebody loves such and such a person, you also love him. So all
the inhabitants of the upper world, the super luminary world
begin to love this person. His love is spread among these people.
They're talking about him even though he doesn't know the
speaking about you.
And
then from them all the effects of that come to this world. So the
people in this world begin to love this person. As mentioned the
sahih Hadith, the sign of a servant's love for Allah, this is
again self check for us. Allah to hug Bill Abdullah This is
the problem with this one is that a nurse Yetta Sir Hello Anna Viet
lucky people are people are very careless in the way they apply
this. I love God's I love Allah. We love God we love him. People
there's a lot of claims in this regard. Claims are nothing and
that's why he said warmer.
Warmer actors will Marina so easy is to make a claim. So difficult
is it to make it
Reality
so difficult is it to make reality
there are if if somebody claims this and wants to decide whether
they love Allah subhanaw taala or not, there are signs again at the
Hatfield, Minh MAUSI will be taught it abstinence from his from
sinning and full and loving obedience loving obedience not
doing it out of force, or out of habit or ritual
or out of social pressure, but loving to do it love like God May
Allah give us that stage. How can somebody love and yet disobey the
world anybody you love you will do everything. The one other sign of
the other one other sign of love we mentioned earlier on in one of
the earlier weeks was that it's something where you're willing to
give everything and you'll think it's less and if only a bit comes
from the beloved, you'll think it's so much
you will appreciate every small bit even if you get a missed call.
Okay, you know that's a big deal.
We only using this worldly love to put our focus on the love of Allah
We only use it because this is what we relate to. And this is
exactly what the you know what the poet's they use to relate. Well,
you know, because everybody understands worldly love except
the geography, except the harsh one is very few of those. Most
people are romantic.
That's why the poet says that still Isla wanted to throw hookah
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the Moorhead palaemon You hit boom, Lima, you hit the Lima in
your head boo Mati rule that you disobey the Lord. Whereas you
express his love, you express love for him, but you disobey Him like,
how can you do that? That's why he then says, this is inconceivable
Mahal. This is inconceivable, Phil Clerici buddy rule, in any kind of
logic, it is, it is just totally amazing to even think of this
through any logic.
If you were truthful, in your love, you would be obedient.
Because the love for the one he loves, He is totally obedient to
the one he loves.
So another sign is that you you can't wait to meet him. You can't
wait to die and be in Jannah. And to be to see him and to gain that
happiness.
Because beloved, they'd sit with their beloved for a lover would
sit with their beloved for hours and hours, they'll never die from
it.
I was announcing levitate for it.
However,
you know, this shake, the one who's coming to him reading. He
was one of those who turn to
spirituality after becoming a greater Ireland.
See, there's many other ma who turned to spiritually early on.
And they didn't focus completely on that. And they don't, they
don't, you know, they haven't been able to study much. Then they
process the information. Obviously, somebody who studied
for many years and mastered all of the sciences, somebody who has
mastered all of the sciences. And then he turns to this focuses on
this. He's got a whole arsenal, it's air, all his knowledge is now
Mozillian is adorned. And there's those people are going to be very
powerful. They're going to be extremely powerful. So he's got
this whole bulk of knowledge behind him that he's able to
invoke, and put this put the love of Allah subhanaw taala on it.
It's absolutely amazing. So he says that
he says yes, sometimes what happens is that there were maybe
some people who love Allah subhanaw taala, but don't want to
die yet.
They don't feel they want to die. And you can't say just because you
don't want to die that you don't love Allah. important
clarification, because you think I want to do more so that when I
meet him, I have more to show.
I don't want to meet her or him yet. I need to do some shopping.
I need to take a bar, I need to groom myself. Did you understand?
So if it's for that reason, it's understandable because your love
is there. And everything you're doing now is for him anyway. Do
you understand? You're doing everything for him? So it's all
parts of that love. So it doesn't mean that somebody who loves Allah
loves to just want to die.
It's not that it could be that that's eventually where they want
when they just lost all from this or they think they have enough or
they just lost all hope in this dunya. But there's there's no
contravention, there's no contradiction in this.
So the person wants a longer life so that they could do more good.
And they can also try to make up maybe for any loss time that
they've had before.
Another thing is,
when a person has true love for Allah subhanaw taala is that he
will give preference to the satisfaction of Allah over his own
personal likes and desires. Let's clear. Then another one is that he
is always remembering. He's always remembering Him, He will his
tongue will never stop, his tongue will never stop, and neither will
his heart ever be devoid. That's why in the document these days,
this and I'm sure it's different manifestations of design, the
different took by international is one of the six major steps of this
is woof Calbee which means presence of the hearts, Allah God
beyond as they say, Just wherever you are, whatever you're doing,
you're cooking, you're you're driving, you're working, you just
keep turning to Allah, you just keep thinking about him. And then
you go back to your work and then you think about Allah again.
That's the kind of work of Kobe, if that comes for anybody, I mean,
it's, it's it's massive price. It's a massive price.
Another one is
that even if the person is alone, no problem. He's with Allah. Allah
is wherever you are with him. Allah you know, you're with Allah,
wherever you are. So it doesn't matter. You're alone. You're never
bored. These people are never bored. I mean, I've heard people
who say I'm bored I got nothing to do. I'm like surprised. How can
you do that? How can people come home and just relax and watch TV
and waste their time all evening? I just don't understand that if
you've got nothing better to do.
You get some wives that complain their husbands are always going
out in Jamaats.
They never at home. But then would you rather have him sit at home
and watch TV all day or cricket all day, all night. There has to
be a balance of course. There are some who say their husbands are
workaholics. They always at work or whatever. But then there's
others who complain that he just sits like a slob on the on the
city and watches the video he doesn't do anything. There needs
to be a balance. But a person would love Allah subhanaw taala
doesn't matter. Leave me in this room.
You know, we'll do our vicar. Now. What's the problem? We've got
Allah subhanaw taala. So the person is never devoid of that. In
fact, he'd rather stay away from people and just be with Allah
subhanaw taala. That's, of course, a very high stage. It's a very
high stage. Like it's related from Ibrahim Abu Adham,
that when he was coming out from his seclusion, he'd gone into
seclusion to do his vicar. And then when he was coming out of
that this person met him and said to him, why have you just come
from? He said, middle on sibilla He was alone. But he said just
from being in the company of Allah subhanaw taala just just talking
to Allah subhanaw taala that's where I've come from. Allah
subhanho wa taala, he revealed to Musa alayhis salam, that there's a
there was a person among his Alma, who was a very nice man, he said,
netmail ABD, he's a very good person, except that he loves
Nasima as har, he loves the cold breeze of the morning. That's a
complaint against this person. It's not a complaint against us.
We can love the breeze of the morning, but it's a complaint from
him because this person is Subhanallah he's at a level where
he's fully given himself to Allah subhanaw taala. So now even the
slightest will be you'll be checked on, you know, because it's
like, there's a curry, what's his name? The one from Madina,
Munawwara who's here right now. Kariba Shiva, if you want to study
with him, if you're at a level where you can appreciate your era,
then he will listen to you directly. But if you're kind of
beginners, he will send you to one of his students. Right because
he's got he wants to focus on the on the people who think they're
complete to complete them to understand so with Allah subhanaw
taala is the same thing. He's not going to worry about us looking at
you know, enjoying the morning breeze, or enjoying, enjoy, enjoy
enjoying the scenery. This is for those who it doesn't mean that if
you become close to Allah subhanaw taala you can enjoy yourself. It's
just that if when you're doing that thing, that enjoyment your
love for that becomes more than your love for Allah. Otherwise,
you can take part in everything of the dunya
that's why Imam Malik is known to have one nice close, he loves
that. But then it was for the sake of Allah subhanaw taala and desire
that he caught it when he was asked about it. So it's why you do
what you do. In fact, according to the T journeys, they say monlam
yetholm In Barbie Shoukry lumea it's a big claim that those people
who don't enter into Jana, into the satisfaction of Allah subhanho
wa Taala through doing sugar of Allah, they will never they will
never enter. That's the way do lots of sugar and you will become
closer to Allah subhanho wa Taala is just another way because if you
do sugar of Allah, you understand where it's coming from. There's no
way you can do sugar what is sugar, sugar is that you use
everything that Allah gives you in the right way to string sugar. If
your auntie or your uncle or somebody gives you a gift, and you
never say thank you or you start abusing that gift, you start
spending it in the wrong they're not going to give you back
To you, so what's sugar you you acknowledge it, you respect it,
you do something right with it, if Allah is giving has given you a
gift and what are you going to do with it? So Subhanallah is just
another way of looking at it, we still another way to get to Allah
subhanaw taala this is essentially the differences in the different
ways of the orders, they have just used focused on different things
to open up different, you know, different ways to Allah subhanaw
taala essentially, that's what it is.
So, then he says,
there was another Abbot,
who worshiped Allah subhanho wa Taala for a very, very long time.
One day, he looked at a bird that had made a nest in a particular
tree. And
he said to himself, oh, if I could only come to the tree that's like,
closer to my house or my my own place, so that I could, I could
also hear it singing and chirping and, and feel good about it.
Allah subhanaw taala told them to be of that time tell that Arabic
that he is finding satisfaction in a month look,
I will I will drop his status if he does that. So again, this is
just for those kinds of people. We shouldn't get worried that you
know, we you'd have to become dry people. This is a different level
that these people have
the internal capacity to deal with this kind of situation. Allah
deals with everybody according to their capacity. Another sign that
you love Allah subhanho wa Taala is that you have compassion and
mercy for His creation.
So you're merciful to others because they they are Billups
bonds people, they your beloved creation. So you love them, you
forgive them, you overlook them because of Allah subhanaw taala.
Believe me, if that thought can enter everybody's minds, we would
have no problems in this world. All this bickering and negativity,
all of this infighting and hostility.
All of this would go all this hatred and envy, it would all
disappear. Because when you think somehow Okay, he's made a mistake,
or he does this. He said something bad about me. But at the end of
the day is my Allah's creation. Why should I mess it up, Hollis?
Now you can understand that these great Imams This is the status
they had in my mind. I didn't know humble has been flogged to such a
degree that you know by Marto Cymbala, the basilica leaf, he was
flogged until he fainted until he became unconscious. And then a
doctor a physician had to operate on Imam Muhammad did not humble
and the doctor after Mr. Muhammad Muhammad's operation, he said
today I've seen the most strangest thing. Whenever I've seen anybody
wounded by somebody else, and I'm operating on them and they are in
steimer There's no anesthetic, right? There's nothing to put you
to sleep or to numb the area. We're talking about like a you
know, a crude, you know, the best. It wasn't that time whatever it
was without any kind of
without any kind of, you know,
facilitation for that. He said is the first time I've seen you as
somebody seeking forgiveness for the aggressor, because throughout
it
admits pain. He was saying Allahumma Fira, Lil matassa Oh
ALLAH forgive mitosis. So when somebody asked him about that
afterwards, he said, The reason for that is he's a family of
Rasulullah sallallahu sallam, he's a he's a grand, he's a descendant
of the uncle of Rasulullah. SallAllahu is Mr. Bassett. And I
don't want to case against him on the day of judgment.
Subhanallah that says love for rasool Allah, Allah says family.
Another one is another sign that a person really loves Allah, is that
you won't go on boasting about it, you will actually conceal it.
Because that's what true lovers do. Right? They will conceal it.
And you won't talk about it. Because you think it's so
precious, right? Unless, of course, you're telling others to
also get close.
So you're not just claiming, essentially, this is to say that
you're not just claiming, but it's all inside. It's in your heart.
It's really it's not about the claim. It's actually more about
the benefits that you get through this love. You won't be telling
bragging about it.
So yes, you love Allah subhanho wa Taala you're going to try to take
people close to him as well. But the benefits are you personally
get the Kurama that you have the special Sr, between you and Allah,
you're not going to reveal that to everybody. So it's not about
boasting, because it's not for boasting. It's this special
relationship that you're going to value. So this all of this was
under you who blame me for this love, which is like the love of
the people of Benoit era. Right? I seek Your pardon. Yet had you
judged fairly you would not have blamed me at all. This is not
something I've got any control over.
So now let's move on to the next day.
These ones took quite a while. So we'll just we'll just do another
one or two here. The next poem then he says, now he started you
know, now he's talking right after the other person really pushed him
and said, Why are you crying? What's this all about? Why you so
miserable? You're in love, aren't you? So now this person he said,
Yes, I did. Kahaani last serie BMO started in Andalusia, Tijuana EB
mon Hashimi, which is added curly la sillery, BMO started in
Andalusia, LT what are the EB Monosomy? What that means is, so
this is the way he started was very eloquent. He says, May you be
spared my state? May you be protected from becoming tested in
the way I am. Right? So may you be spared my state. I cannot hide my
secret from my detractors. I can't hide this feeling. My sickness
will not leave me. But Allah save you from having to deal with this
as well. Right?
So the poet is saying that may Allah subhanaw taala. He's acting
compassionately towards this person. So he's, you see, this
person is the one who's complaining to him, who's trying
to who's trying to make him censoring him that why you got
this love for just remove it get out of it, is trying to distance
him from his beloved, that's the way he sees it. And he's trying to
tell him that, look, you don't get this, but I wouldn't want you to
have it. I'm trying to express compassion, so that you would be
calmer, and you wouldn't you see, the whole thing about this is that
what happens with some people when they see somebody love somebody
else is that if they've got a jealous streak in them, they will
come in between, they will cause friction, they will cause a
problem. In fact, what the commentator says, and this
happens, they will actually go and incite somebody else to go and get
married to that person. Right, just so that prevents you from
this is what parents do.
When they don't want their child to marry who they want, they get
married to their own cousins, because that's who they wanted
them to marry from the first place. Right? So they cause a lot
of friction like this.
So he's starting off on a compassionate tone to try to
invoke some of his compassion towards him and to, to maybe curb
his any animosity he has or any evil intent that he has. Right? So
he's saying, I wouldn't want you to have this may pass over you May
you never be me, you never have this problem.
Allah subhanaw taala give you well being and Allah subhanaw taala
prevent you from having to experience such a thing, right? So
that somebody will, you know, say the same thing to you. Because
this sickness that I have is the sickness of love.
It's a sickness that will that is not going to go away, that it'd be
more hassle me in Hazama means it will not go away. And even though
now I've confessed it, to those who are my detractors who've got a
problem with me having this love, right, it's still not gonna go
away from me. So this is the you know, these detractors sometimes
what they do they do, would you call it that they start causing a
conflict, they do a meme, they do, riba they try to just cause a
problem between them.
So it's the tradition of the poets, that when they've got
something like this, they'll give it to her. In fact, it's an Arab,
its Arab tradition writing to do this because Allah subhanho wa
Taala does the same thing with the Prophet salallahu. Salam.
Allah says, if Allah Who Lima have into the home,
the prophets, Allah, some gave permission. Allah subhanaw taala
didn't like that he'd given that permission. Had Allah said first,
why did you permit them?
That would have shocked the Prophet salallahu Salam, that
would have been a massive trauma to him. So you know what he says
to him first, Allah has forgiven you. Oh, for what? Why did you
give them permission? It's much easier to deal with now. Right?
It's like, you know, somebody you like, and they've done something
wrong and you realize you go up to them, and instead of like, making
them feel really bad, it's It's okay. I forgive you afterwards. If
you really love them. They say, look, I forgive you. Okay, well,
forgive me if I don't know what i What are you talking about? And
they say, Well, this is what you did, but it's okay. I forgiven you
anyway. Right. It makes it much easier because at the back of his
mind, oh, he's forgiven me. Right. It's there.
That's shows Allah's love for His messenger. He's using the same
thing if Allah one or maybe we're taking this from the Quran, you
know that Allah has forgiven you. Why did you permit them?
Why did you give them permission?
Otherwise, imagine what would have what would that would have done to
Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi salam and this is something very similar
this adverb in fact this is other been many situation for example,
almost so then
she has to come to the province a lot of time to ask a very
sensitive question.
Right, she has to come and ask a very sensitive question, which is
really sensitive for women. She's has to ask a man because he's the
one who's going to answer her. So there's nobody else to answer.
It's you she comes here rasool Allah,
in Allah Allah is the human of Allah subhanaw taala is not
embarrassed by the truth.
That's how she starts. Why is she saying that to the prophets? Allah
is Allah. Allah is not embarrassed by the truth. Nothing embarrassed
is Allah the truth?
Hello al Marathi min hustlin either elements does a woman have
to have a bath if she has a wet dream?
Very sensitive question Sahaba there as well. This is not done in
private. She is coming in the middle of Saab obviously covered.
She's coming. And she's asking the question. Now what this tells us
hasn't been studied, that woman came and asked him that question,
niqab question, but it tells you that it's okay for women to ask
men questions when there's nobody else to ask. There are people we
have, unfortunately, the border is to such an extreme level. That
until they don't find if you know they will go for three, four
months. But if they can't find somebody to ask, they won't still
ask a man.
Whether it's by email or whether it's by they will suffer. They
will have this dilemma in their mind. They will spoil their Deen
it's a fatwa. It's a question. Not a casual chat we're talking about.
But that's what you call extreme further. This is not what the
Sharia tells us to do. There needs to be a balance. Surely you're not
going to miss your salad. You had a problem in your salad, you need
to ask a question. There's no Alima zero marginal we have
arguments is good. But there's nobody who can ask you a question
where you're going to ask. Right? So you can ask these questions. It
has to be done with other. So anyway, going back to this, she
says she's pre she prepares it first by saying look, Allah
subhanaw taala just in case anybody thought it gets it gets us
all pushed. Like, you know what kind of a question is he asking?
You know, surely, you know, ALLAH. So he has to say Allah doesn't do
that. Allah is not embarrassed by the Surah Surah Allah Salah Samson
now if
yes, if they see a discharge, yes, that's the answer probably doesn't
give an answer.
He didn't say why are you asking such a question?
Then?
So what she was trying is that look, this is a question that I
have to ask. And social kind of decency would tell me or social
you can say culture would tell me that I shouldn't ask this
question. Because it's a bit sensitive, but Allah does and this
is Allah's matter. This is not some cultural matters that has to
supersede this That's why I'm asking this question that almost
surname I mean, she she knew what she was talking about. Now on the
opposite now, this is after postal awesome has departed this world,
or actually the Allahu anha is moved here. Now,
Abu Musa Lucha Libre the Allahu Anhu
came to actually the Allahu anha. And he had a similar kind of
question, but different.
You said Yeah, among many are Mother of the Believers. So he's
addressing her as the mother. Even though she may have been younger
than him, Allahu Allah.
This is how we start. He said, Look at Shaka Allah Aquila, for
us, HERBIE, Rasulullah, sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, he Amarin in
Neela all of them and a stock Billa COVID A stock below keybie.
There is a matter he says I find it's I'm finding it very difficult
that the Sahaba are deferring about a matter which I'm finding
really difficult that I asked you about
Savannah law.
It is becoming a major burden on me that the Sahaba have an act of
love. They're deferring about a matter which I'm finding it very
difficult to ask you about to clarify, because she was wearing a
suit Allah loves him. So she knew the answer. He would expect it
that she knew the answer to this. So the Sahaba have some actually
laugh about this issue that yes or no, it doesn't happen doesn't
happen. So he finally gets enough courage to go and as I showed her
the aloneness sensitive man issue that he's asking a woman now. So
this is how he starts it off first, actually the Allahu anha
and she was very bold, right? She asked him, she said to him, Mark,
contessa Elena Ma. Quintessa, Elan and who mucky muck, Sal Miano
whatever. Whatever you would ask your mother asked me about it.
Because I'm your mother.
Whatever you would feel comfortable about asking your mom
asked me as well.
That's the way she smoothed away for him for Karla original use
Ebola. So my Excel file and
I'm going to say this as ambiguously as possible because at
home there'll be people listening children's. A person is with the
with their spouse, a man is with with his wife.
He He begins but then he loses
ability and thus does not,
does not * I'm sorry it does not *, right. So what
happens in penetration has taken place but no *. So then
is goosal This was the love among the Sahaba in those early days
where the hustle was watching through * only or
through penetration, just penetration. Now, there's no extra
love it was all agreed upon after this, right. But there was the
love about it before there was a difference of opinion about it
before so he came to clarify this, because he said the Sahaba
differing about this is very difficult for me to deal with. So
let me clarify it. So I showed you Allah when I said something, he
she said either Jah was theta and theta and forgot variable was
either Jah was theta, or theta and forgot variable was when the
circumcised part goes beyond the other circumcised part, then was
on his wardrobe, whether it is * or not as simple as
that, as soon as there's essentially, as soon as there's
penetration, it's watching us, because you don't know whether
something's come out or not. Now, this is all based on. This is all
based on the fact that he first has a prelude to what he's going
to say. So before you go to speak to anybody, it's a good idea to
prep the situation. If you think it's a sensitive issue that you're
going to speak about. It's not generally a good idea to just go
in bold, gun blazing, guns blazing and just, you know, some cases
demand that but not all cases, the sensitive issue, you start off,
you know, and then you ask the question, you do what you have to
do. So that's what he was saying to these people that
my mic secret is no longer hidden from my detractors. My sickness
will not leave me, but believe me, I don't want you to have the same
problem. So he's trying to turn him around when you have the same
problem. It's a problem. Right? So please go easy on me. It says very
eloquent way of telling him that and then I'll just do one final
one Maha turn in Noosa luck in less to a smile. Who in Malmo Heba
Angela dolly V salami,
beautiful piece.
Then he takes even a more kind of conciliatory tone, trying to
invoke his compassion, he says, Look, you are offering me sincere
advice, right? My husband in Nasir Mahathir Mohamad, like you give me
pure sincere advice, I'm not doubting you. You are giving me
pure advice Lakhiani, lurking, lurking, listen to us metal, but
I'm not going to listen to it. I acknowledge you're giving me
sincere advice, but I can't listen to it. Because a lover is deaf to
all of his reproaches once you're in love, you're not gonna listen
to anything.
You're blind, you're you're deaf from it, you can say what you
like, it's not gonna work. So I understand what you're doing. I
give you the credit for that. But it doesn't make a difference to
me. Later, he's going to reveal what this love is for. But until
now, still, he's still playing the game of trying to invoke people's,
you know, love for romance, so capturing their attention that
this is all about a man and a woman or whatever. But it's not
about that. So what what the this individual is, you know, this
individual in the dialogue is thinking that this guy's giving me
Naseeha he must be sincere. So he's taking him to be sincere,
okay, you're being sincere. You're not one of those detractors who
are just trying to prod and pray and investigate and spy. Right?
You. You mean? Like, you mean, well, for me, you want me out of
this parish journey. You want me out of this state of grief and
sorrow, I completely understand that. And you want me to come away
from my beloved because you think that's going to relieve my
problem.
Right? Like just Chodos. As they say, you know, like, leave it so
that you're gonna you know, you're that's what you're trying to say.
But that doesn't work for me. I understand. That's what you're
trying to say. But that doesn't work for me. So you're trying your
best and everything like that you have all sincerity, but it's just
not gonna work. This is like someone Bookman Omean they are
listening, they are seeing but they don't get it. It doesn't get
to them. It doesn't penetrate. So this is all worthless. That's what
the situation is.
So what he's saying is
he's trying to say that I cannot turn myself away from this. I
can't extract myself from this love. It is too much too intense
that any kind of strategy will work. You can do what you like you
can use whatever strategy and ploy you want. It's not gonna work. And
you know what our commentator says and I have to read this though. He
says NUS ALLAH SubhanA anugerah other Havana Min houfy journey
will be the journey be Hillary will be Maha Bettina be is a key
that this kind of love, may Allah subhanaw taala give us a part of
it. That is, this kind of love takes over us for our Prophet
salallahu Salam and for Allah subhanho wa Taala This is the kind
of love we want for them.
If we had this love Allahu Akbar, and this is exactly the you know,
just to let you know, this is what the, what our poet is really on
about. But he's just creating this entire dialogue to create this
kind of mysterious situation. And the other thing is that many
people Subhanallah it's known.
Some people have begun to love Allah subhanaw taala, after they
have loved somebody of this world to an intense degree, it's easy
for them because they have focused somebody who's like obsessed with
something
for them, if you know anybody who is obsessed with gimmicks, or
music, or whatever it is, if that person becomes obsessed with
Allah, He will become obsessed, because they know how to be
obsessed. They know how to focus, they're not distracted lovers.
They know how to love to love, they know. Right? They know how to
have focus, love. So there are many pieces, who had love for
something of the dunya and Allah gave them to seek somebody who was
there to guide them. And that love was directed to Allah subhanho wa
Taala and they became very close to him. Now, this is where you
don't want to shaytaan to deceive you
and think okay, let me train here first.
Right. In a haram way, you can train in a halal way but we are
training in a haram way. And then I'll just turn it around. Soufan
Allah.
He says mostly, you know, when this happens, it generally happens
when you start a midlife crisis. I looked it up what is midlife
crisis? Midlife crisis is when you come out of your youthfulness.
When you start maybe seeing white houses, or something, death
happens in the family. Or you start getting some illnesses and
sicknesses and you start realizing your mortality, you start
realizing I'm not in this world forever. Now. I am going downhill,
I've crossed the hill. That's what he called midlife crisis where
you're trying to reorient yourself. That is the most
important part for us to be on the right path. And because people can
do some weird things at this time, they will divorce their wives,
they will get married somebody else they will do some love,
they'll do this weird stuff. Right? This is a very precarious
and this one men have to be very careful and women as well, when he
goes to this stage. That's why now I can understand human design. He
says that anybody who by the age of 40, that good has not overcome
the bad, very less chance after that for that person to gain
salvation. Because they've matured on that stage. And now if that
because they're good as an overcome the bad, then they may
turn to the wrong, elaborate Tofik elaborate tofi exhibit Tofik very
important to sort yourself on get yourself into the right direction
before that. So he's saying that generally this kind of happens
when you know something happens. And then you you start focusing on
Alana and your focus from the dunya on your love for this dunya
focuses on the Hereafter.
And then it goes, you know becomes a divine love. That's why a poet
says just Allah who are uneasy, Jura che be higher Rama Jaya Jessa
Nasi Han, Farah tiada behind he left a lift to trickle hook Behat
into the bundle to hook Billa even hability he is at May Allah
subhanahu wa Tada rewards give the best of rewards to the White House
to this old you know when you start getting white hairs may
Allah subhanaw taala give it the best of rewards why?
Because it is filled my hands with goodness. I had become used to
this way of love. Until when this happened. My love of that turn to
the love of Allah subhanaw taala because of the whiter what does
that tell us? For those of us who have whiter and still doesn't do
anything?
That's the problem.
That's the problem.
Believe me, it's a crisis.
And all thanks to Allah subhanaw taala if you can extract us out of
that crisis at that age,
believe me otherwise, for those who are not 40 yet
it's not easy to change at the last minute. You need to have
scored a lot of points that would help you at that time. And if you
haven't scored any points then it's a tough one. It's a proper
time of crisis.
Okay, we'll stop here inshallah we'll we'll carry on
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Oh Allah. Oh Allah.
Christ.
contest your love and the love of those who love you. Oh Allah grant
us love for your messenger sallallahu alayhi wa salam and for
every one of his sunnah. Now Allah allow us to bring them in our, in
our lives of Allah, Allah Allah give us a life that is in
following your messenger sallallahu alayhi wa sallam in
being obedient to you. Oh Allah make your love in our make your
love, Beloved to us in our hearts, our Allah make your obedience,
beloved in our hearts and make it easy for us to be obedient to you.
Oh Allah, Oh Allah, help us and protect us from your disobedience.
Make your disobedience feel ugly in our hearts. Make it totally
ugly and unembellished. So that we don't even want to go Oh Allah,
that is the challenge that we have in our life. Things just seem so
bright, and that is we know you tell us you, your messenger
SallAllahu Ariosa has told us that all these this is adornment of
this dunya it's all avail for Hellfire of Allah. Oh Allah, turn
our gaze away, turn our gaze towards you. of Allah grant us
comfort sitting on the masala and sitting doing your vicar of Allah
give us comfort in that just like we have comfort in watching
football or doing anything else that we'd love to do of Allah. Oh
Allah, we may have all of our life done things like this where we've
been focused on something of the dunya so much of Allah give us the
baraka of turning that love to you. of Allah grant us your love
and the love of those who love you. of Allah grant us your
Kalamata Illa Illa Allah, Oh Allah, you're the only one who can
do this for us. Or Allah we know that we are extremely sinful
individuals with dark hearts that are coming to you full of sins
life, a life full of Sins of Allah only you can clarify them because
there's nobody else we can put our hands in front of Allah only you
we can turn alone to you we can turn to Allah there may be many
people turning to you at this time. But we know that you have
the ability or ability and you're listening to every single one of
us, oh Allah your mercy is immense. Allah your mercy is more
than any kind of mercy or compassion we've seen in this
world of Allah. There are people who claim different types of mercy
and compassion in this world. But we know your mercy is greater than
that. Oh Allah, in this world when a child is totally soiled and
dirty, totally dirty and soiled. The mother doesn't run away from
it, but thinks it's our responsibility to pick it up with
our love, despite all the soilless and washes it and then draws it
close to her close to her hearts. Oh Allah, we are soiled. We are
dropped of Allah we are the same soiled and dirty ones. Oh Allah,
we ask you and we know that your mercy is greater than any mother
on this earth. Oh Allah pick us up and rectify us, pick us up and
rectifiers of Allah pick us up and rectifiers Oh Allah, we're
habituated to so many things that we just find very difficult of
Allah when we listen to these great things. It gives us a
chatbot in our heart, but as soon as we leave it goes away as well.
Oh Allah let this endure that these beautiful words enjoy Allah
does not say is the see hand these advices let them endure and be a
true nasiha for us. Well now we're gonna see her in our own selves,
the weight here and any other mortality signs that we have, oh
Allah make them make them something that we think about.
Make them something that we realize and take a lesson heat
from, Oh Allah, Allah No, let us not pass over them as heedless
individuals that have lived in the past and then have been destroyed
and nothing is nothing has come from them. Oh Allah. Oh Allah,
give us the ability to prepare for us to meet you and make the best
of our days the day that we stand in front of you. Oh Allah, we ask
you Finally one last thing is that you send your message, you send
abundant blessings and peace on your messenger Muhammad sallallahu
alayhi wa sallam. Subhana Allah is
just like Allah here for listening. May Allah subhanho wa
Taala bless you. And if you're finding this useful, you know
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Wabarakatuh