Abdur Rahman ibn Yusuf Mangera – Qasida Burda (The Mantle Ode) Part 30
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Bismillah al Rahman al Rahim Al hamdu Lillahi Rabbil Alameen wa
salatu salam ala Ruthie Ramadan Lila Alameen wa ala alihi wa
sahbihi edge Marina Baron.
From the sessions of Placida Buddha of Allah will city were on
poem number 108. This is the section in which he discusses the
ascension. The Ascension has a story in terms of the details of
what exactly Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wasallam did. He was taken
by night from Makkah Makarova to Jerusalem and from Jerusalem up to
the seventh heaven and beyond. So one side of the story is to
discuss the details of what exactly the Prophet sallallahu
alayhi wasallam saw in that
journey.
What he saw on that journey, where he went, what he visited who he
met, that's one side of the story. The other side of the story is
what is the significance of this particular journey itself?
What happened?
What does it show for a school allah sallallahu alayhi wa sallam?
What does he indicate? And what does it prove? Why did he have
this journey? What did Allah subhanaw taala intend by him to
take him outside of this dunya of this world of the earth, and take
him to a place where nobody will ever get to, which is beyond the
seventh heaven. Because Gibreel Ali Salam, even the angel did not
get there. And this is what he'll be discussing. So the point of
this is not just to tell the story in the detail of what happened,
but the detail of what it implies. So let's try to understand from
every line of poetry, what he's saying what the author is saying.
And that's how you'll enjoy this more. Because this is a poem at
the end of the day, poems are written, to be enjoyed and to be
savored with the meaning that they're conveying. It's not just
the story that they're telling. So we're not reading a story to
someone, we're actually reading a poem, and the poem, there's
certain strategies that are used in a poem to make the meaning more
effective and to provide much more significance and influence of that
journey. So he says, well, a bit the Tata Illa Nilton zileuton mean
Kaaba ko saying Elam to the rock what I'm
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then he says what the doctor eco sub Aktiva kabhi him female given
the fee he saw Heba Lila me had either there was only muster
between when a DUNU we went to a Moroccan limo stand me, half of
the cola maca mill is dollar 50 is new DW rough, a mythical mufaddal
Add me came to Fusa be waffling. A year was studied in Anila uni was
settled in a year Makuta teamie.
And then he carries on. As you can see, at the end of every second
line of this poetry. It's a meme, it's a me Allah heard me lambda
Rumi. So he continues that pattern still
obita Turca Illa and Milton and zileuton mencoba cosine Ilam Todra
quantum tharuni This is a very important poem because it goes to
indicate the level at which Rasulullah sallallahu Sallam went
to. Now the thing is that nobody will ever know the exact level
where a salsa lesson went. We just have an idea. Because the only way
you can actually know where somebody went is if somebody else
has been there.
And then they can describe it. And they can put it into perspective
for us. When nobody has been to where Rasulullah sallallahu son
went, we can only say that he went beyond a certain area where
somebody has been and that area where somebody has been is the
area considerate. remonda where Jabril Alehissalaam and the angel
is allowed to go up to beyond that God Laurie salaam can't go any
further. So the prophets of Allah some literally went where no other
creature went, when no other creation of Allah and so the way
that is described in the Quran, is not in very clear terms. And
that's why there's some difference of opinion as to what exactly that
verse means. Allah subhanho wa Taala says in Surah najem it's
called the ko SANY adeno Cava ko SANY or Adina. GABA means carova
which means to be close, as close as two bows, either now or even
closer. Closer to what? What is this closeness being implied Who
is this closeness to? So firstly, he says we're a bit darker you
through the night you rose that means to ascend and to go up. Ila
and Milton and zileuton until you gain
A stage until you reached a station until you reached another
degree. The Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam already had many
high levels and many high degrees that he'd already ascended to,
both in terms of his clock in terms of his, his conduct with
people, in terms of his beauty in terms of his makeup, in terms of
his behavior in terms of the way he ate, and everything, spiritual
state as well. This was a very special journey, that he gave him
another high status to get to what was that high status in this case,
mean? cavaco SANY. This is a set of a stage of two bows length.
Bow, that why you must be wondering, why are they talking
about bow and arrow? Why bows length, because in those days,
they didn't have centimeter rulers. They didn't have feet,
rulers, you know, centimeters and inches, the measurement was in
qubits by the arm, that's an arm, that's a qubit, they had a virar.
You know, they had a hand span, they had a bar, you know, two
arms. So these were the things that they would generally use.
Now, you might say, well, who's two arms, and then the moderate
person. And of course, if a tall person or a big person promises
you two arms, then yeah, that's a good deal. I'll take two arms of
that cloth, you know, I'll take two back of that cloth, no
problem. So Vera, and Sonterra is about 50 centimeters, half a
meter. So there were two bows. Now that would assume that the bows
were of a certain stature, they were of a certain size. That's why
they would say two bows. Otherwise, if every bow was of a
different size,
then that would be very difficult to decide, okay, which bullets
which bow you're talking about. So, again, they could be longer
bows and shorter bows. But there was a certain idea of what a bows
length was, and this is just to show close, there wasn't sure
exactly six centimeters,
or 123 millimeters, it's not about that kind of accuracy, two bows is
close enough,
is closest to Allah subhanaw taala that may be discussed being
discussed here. So he says when cavaco SANY alum to the rock, what
taught me a stage of tubos length, hitherto never reached, or even
hoped for.
So the prophets of Allah isn't went to a place which nobody's
ever reached.
Now, that's one thing that I've got a hope of reaching to a
certain place Mount Everest top of the summit. Now somebody reached
there. But then there's another level beyond that, which is that I
can't even dream of reaching that high status. So that's where he
was taken. Allah subhanaw taala said, I will take you to a place
that nobody else has ever dreamed of going, probably didn't even
know he was existing.
In that sense of height, where exactly, that's where the focus
was on it. So now you can understand from this poetry, where
he says, you continue through the night to rise until you gained
another stage, which was the stage of the closeness of two bows
length, hitherto never reached, or hoped for.
That really magnifies the status of Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi
wasallam.
So in that case,
he's saying that you continue to rise at night, until you reached a
stage that no prophet has ever reached, let alone are weary of
Allah. No prophet, no angel, the two have miracles they haven't
reached. So beyond that, the angel no angel has reached there. In
fact, it's not something that anybody even ever thought about
asking for. It's just not within the ability to go everybody today,
I'm sure has dream ideas of dream holidays, Dream properties, dream
cars, that you can't have. But you would like to have. It's an idea.
It's something you've entertained in your mind, or you wouldn't mind
having because it's there. It's got a place in your mind. But if,
if somebody gives you something that is beyond that, that you've
never even thought about Subhanallah Can you imagine what
that would bring to somebody? When I'm talking to me, or when I'm the
roomie, this would mean, it's something that was never sought
after intended, made a goal made an objective. There is obviously
for a lot of exaggeration to show how high this place is. I mean,
how else would you describe this place? How else would you describe
this place? You can't say where it is exactly, because nobody's been
there. So the best way to describe it is a place where you you've
never even thought of going there. It's beyond that Subhan Allah. So
Allah subhanaw taala says in the Quran, thumb Medina feted Allah.
He became close and even closer.
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Then he became he came to he was only two bowls length a dinner or
even closer than that.
The morpher sitting obviously have a difference of opinion as to who
is this closeness because it doesn't mention necessarily that
this is talking about Mohamed Salah with Islam being close to
Allah or him being close to Jibreel Allah Islam, or Jabril Ali
salaam being close to something or to Sidra, toondah there is no
exact defining point in the Quran that tells you who's close to who,
but because he's talking about a sunnah allah sallallahu Sallam and
ALLAH SubhanA wa Tada. That's why there's some difference of opinion
as to this and I don't think anybody else's will Allah
salAllahu alayhi salam, very specifically, in any kind of sahih
Hadith that has come down to us what exactly does that mean?
Because there's just certain things you can't ask.
Today in hindsight, you think Subhanallah there's a lot of these
things if you just ask Allah wa salam, but you know, there's a
certain all about a person you this is a very personal journey.
And yes, many aspects of his was a very public aspect of it. But then
to ask him for details would sometimes be diminishing that
journey. Now, what difference does it make Subhan Allah. So
some say that this, they make it very simple. They said, actually,
this refers to the closest of the Prophet salallahu Salam with
Gibreel Ali Salaam.
And that was the that was the case, because you realize I'm
accompanied him from a chemical Rama to Jerusalem and up to the
heavens.
Or it means that this is his closeness to the Sidra toolman da
now say that Rhonda is the last extreme, it's the load tree, the
last extreme of this entire universe, up to where certain
angels can go, but not beyond that.
Like that's the tip of the universe. If you want to know how
big the universe is, it's quite mind boggling. If you start
studying astronomy,
I just found a site the other day that explained just the
relationship of the Moon to the Earth, than the earth, to the
other planets in our solar system that we know about. And that could
be seen by telescopes, generally, in comparison to Jupiter and
Saturn, for example, then, the comparison of this Earth and all
its planets in comparison to the sun, and the sun is much bigger
than any of the planets that we have in our solar system, then the
sun, which is just the star in comparison to another star that
they have found this the Cyrus of the Sirius, Sirius, can't remember
exactly which one, and then after that to another one that they
found the comparison to that, but can you imagine how small we've
become already. And then another one beyond that. And then it just
shows this picture of the heavens, just dark heavens, with just lots
and lots of lights, each one representing a star
or something. And then it's it, it highlights a square of just one
centimeter square within that entire sparkling space. And then
it says, Does that look even significant? That square and it
doesn't. But the Hubble telescope apparently noticed something, then
they kept it on there for several months. And what they found just
in that little square was amazing that within that there was another
galaxy, or a number of galaxies that were bigger than our own
universes, galaxies. And that is just in one square of, you know,
of this big of area of sky, or space. So within that there are
it's bigger than what we can even fathom. So what about everywhere
else? Then? Can you imagine what's beyond that. So when we're
restricted to just looking around us and the tallest skyscrapers,
and that's our point of reference, the clock tower in Makkah Empire
States building ground zero, then, you know, that's all something
that's scalable, it's all something that we can fathom and
understand and compare relativity to but when you go beyond that,
subhanAllah
it's quite amazing what this could mean here. When you look at
astronomy and what that could reveal to you. What he's saying
here is quite phenomenal. Now for one individual, a creation of
Allah, to be taken to this place beyond all of these places. Right?
And all of that is possessed by Allah subhanaw taala is created by
him. We only know what's going on here. Just about so then can you
imagine how high level this is?
That even Allama Boosey know what kind of level he's speaking about.
When he said this, but then he said it in such a way which is so
perfect because this is timeless. What he's saying here, it doesn't
matter what becomes what comes under new discovery. This will
apply because this is how the Quran has said it's called for
Denna Fattah de la vaca Anna Kobelco Signia Adena kept it so
general that he could apply timelessly. It's totally
phenomenal. So, that's one opinion. These are some of the
opinions that I've been mentioning. If not above study
alone, he actually says, who are Muhammad sallallahu alayhi wa
sallam, Danna fiddlerman Robbie, this is Muhammad Sallallahu
sallam, and his closeness to Allah subhanaw taala.
And, again, don't understand this closeness as will be clarified,
don't understand his closeness as physical closeness. But because we
can only understand through things through physical space and
distance. That's why it's seems to indicate that, but even in our
common usage of expression, we, when you say he's close to him, we
don't always mean he's close to him physically doing. We mean,
many times, we mean, he's close to him, meaning he has a special
position. He's got a relationship with Him. It could be miles away,
it could be in another country, but he's close to him, because
he's got that association. So this is how it's been taken. Don't take
this physical, if it's to do with Allah subhanaw taala it cannot be
taken physically, in that sense, because Allah subhanaw taala is
infinite is infinite. So how can how can a finite creature a
creation of Allah
relate to an infinite creation just doesn't come into the
equation. But it's just to explain to us this closeness, which is
closer than anything ever has anything ever has taken place, so
that the law means to become more close. If not ibis, it's also said
that he said it the other way around that Allah subhanaw taala
became close to Muhammad sallallahu alayhi wasallam,
meaning his greatness and His Majesty became open to the Prophet
sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, he witnessed Allah subhanho wa Taala
Allah subhanho wa Taala showed him whatever of his Qudra and his
greatness, his power, and His omnipotence that he wanted to show
him. So the Hadith in this regard
what they say is this one Hadith, says Falcone Jibreel. When we got
to this final point, gibril, ali salaam separated from me is that I
can't come beyond this area. This is the furthest one cutter I need
a squirt. Any sound now.
stopped, I couldn't hear any sound anymore.
Regardless of where you are, you're never 100% It's never 100%
Silence is it?
That's what bosey Earphones try to do for you
or purport to do. But still, it just creates white sound, that's
what it does. So when you put them on, you still hear sound but it's
just a neutral sound, which cuts out outside sound that's all
and it just makes things more clear. That's that's what they're
trying to do. But here I came to a place where it was like total,
absolute stillness and no sound. That's the expression of sort of
La sala ism is using one quarter Archer Annie ASWAT was submitted
to color Murghab B and I heard the, the speech of my Lord.
That must have been amazing. Something we can just dream about.
But in sha Allah in the hereafter.
So the when he got the what Allah subhanaw taala gave him was 50
praise. So now this is a phenomenal journey. We've all
accepted that phenomenal journey. Now in a phenomenal journey. Allah
subhanaw taala chooses to give him solid, how phenomenal doesn't that
makes a lot now,
such a special journey. Allah subhanaw taala is not going to
give him something simple, is going to give him something that
is extremely significant. He gives him salad.
And subhanAllah salad is that thing by which you can get closest
to your Lord.
And a person can gauge the closest to the Lord by how they feel in
their Salaat Do they feel connected or not? That's why we
have solid five times a day. And that's why we have abundant laws
and rulings regarding solids. And that's why we have to do it every
day and they are no holidays for men. Not even on a day. You have
to do solid every day because it's just what Allah wants us to be to
get close to him by.
So all our life we pray, but our hope and desire and objective
should be that it's not just something standard that we do to
fulfill the fact that it's an obligation, but that with every
slot we're actually getting closer and if we're not, then we're we're
not taking the benefit of our solid and that's why they say
that the solid is the mirage of the believer. That's the only way
that you can get even a fraction of what Rasulullah sallallahu
attained in that physical ascension
is through our solid.
So he was given 50 Salatin, you know the story that it was
eventually reduced to five. But then Allah subhanaw taala says
that because everything is magnified 10 times over, you do
five salads I'll give you the reward of 50 Salads every day.
Imagine if
the great scholar Imam, Jaffa sodic, who was and then you have
Imam Barker, Imam Abu Hanifa met Imam Jafra sodic. And he's written
as one of the teachers, Abu Hanifa.
So I had a discussion with this particular individual from a
Shiite background.
And this is the precipitation that takes place. He said
about him. Imam Abu Hanifa was a student of Imam Jafar Assadi.
Cassidy. Yes, that's right. So then, why don't you take the fake
object for a sodic then?
Because the Shiites, they generally follow the mother, the
mother, they don't follow Hanafi Shafi American humbly, they follow
the Jaffery Mala. So why don't you follow the Jaffery method because
that's the teachers method.
So now, I said
the reason is the Imam Abu Hanifa had about 400 or more teachers,
and Imam Jafra sodic. Being a teacher doesn't mean that he sat
with him for years and studied everything that he knew from him
or any particular science for that matter.
When the when Imam Abu Hanifa, used to go for Hajj, etc, used to
visit him, just like he used to visit 300 other teachers, 350
other teachers and take a Hadith from them. That's what it means.
You go and study, you take some Hadith, you take some Hadith that
whoever had it, that was the time when these Hadith different people
had the Hadith and you would go and you would take from there. So
if a person is ignorant, and you don't know this detail, say yeah,
that's a good question. Why not? Right? So I said, Well, that was
the first reason that he's not a teacher in the way you're trying
to make him out to be. And we have all respect for him, as you know,
as a great scholar. So number one,
Imam Abu Hanifa sfic is totally different. His shtick is the cool
fanfic right from Hamid ignobly Salima and up to Abdullah Abdullah
Massoud and earlier the Allah one that's the fifth he has it that
dominates. The other problem which is the bigger problem is that we
believe that you have imputed onto Jaffa sodic a lot of what you guys
say. It's not really from him, because it's totally contrary to
what all the other arrma have. And then Imam Jafar Sadiq was his
mother. We don't know of it in history to have continued as
strongly as the others anyway.
So we don't agree with everything that you impute on to Jaffa sodic.
Whereas whatever the Shafi says we have full respect for it, whatever
the humbly say, we have full respect for it, though we don't
follow it. Because there's 100 of you, I'm gonna be following the
Hanafi mother, but I have respect for the other say, and I believe
that it's authentically related from them. But we feel that
there's been a lot of things that have been attributed to Jaffa
sodic. And the mother who just seems to be totally
different and invalid compared to compared to the others. That's why
generally within the Allisonville Gemma, we do not even consider
that to be one of the valid methods at all.
So
the second time, he didn't come and sit with me again.
The first time he did, he sat me down, he tried to say all of these
things, and I respect responded politely. We were in hedge, so I
didn't want to cause a problem in hedge for no reason. So am I
right, that was my response.
And then I said that when you say these things, I don't think he
says but when I tell people that they don't, they don't agree with
me that Imam Abu Hanifa that was his shit. You know, that was a Che
Guevara sodic. So you know, why don't you take as they're not
going to? Because of these reasons. It's not you know, it's
incorrect. What you're saying what you're trying to prove from there
is incorrect.
So I just tried to be polite in that response. In that response.
I'm going to cause a big scene at that time, but then the next time
I saw he passed me he didn't he didn't come and sit at my table.
So then he says, The next one is
Walker diamedica Jimmy will Ambia Ebihara Selita Kadima Makhdoom in
other Hitomi This is speaking about a particular event that took
place which happened in Jerusalem, which happened in Jerusalem, which
is that
he says they're all of the prophets gave you a precedence,
the messengers to a servants give way to their master. So all of
these messengers of the past they're obvious
He came before him. Some of them were his forefathers. But they all
put him forward. And what happened here is very simple when he got to
the Mercy Luxor
May Allah subhanaw taala protected
this is what happened.
There was a number of Prophets, they're not necessarily all of the
nonsense 124,000 But a lot of them, especially some of the main
ones, and they were wondering who to put forward for salads. So it
says here they all the prophets gave you a precedence.
So it wasn't as if I mean, again, this is a bit of an exaggeration
in poetry form. It's not like all the prophets said, you go forward,
someone among them, some among them, or Gibreel, Ali salaam gave
precedence. And when you don't reject somebody, deny somebody
going forward. It's like everybody standing in the moment, sorry,
standing in the masjid waiting for solid. So who who goes forward? If
the Imams hub isn't here, if the Imam isn't here, then people
should relax a bit and wait, because the time is not sacred.
That's just a guideline. And people should understand it's a
guideline, right? If the Imam is going to be two minutes late, and
he understands that people have to fit in, he'll make a shorter
salad, what's the big deal,
he'll make a shorter salad. But when the Imam is in here, and he's
making wudu, he's a human being is not some kind of robot that is
going to be on time. It's all done and dusted and ready. Sometimes he
has to make the window breaks at the last minute, the province of
Allah Islam came late once.
So it happens these things. So just relax, carry on with your
thicker.
And if you are in a hurry, then just tell the Hmong and if you can
shorten the prayer a bit, it'd be sorted. It's very flexible. That's
why Al Hamdulillah we don't have our solid sound like you have to
make it for 10 minutes. Or you have to read this surah along with
Fatiha it's all very flexible Subhanallah it's our deen is
beautiful.
We it's wonderful when you go into the services of other beings, it's
quite ritualistic in terms of the number of things and moving from
one place to the other and singing something here and then
going around something else and the altar. And it's kind of
complicated.
I was it's very simple Hamdulillah.
But there's the beauty in that simplicity. So just take it easy.
But imagine if the Imam doesn't come then who goes forward.
People will generally put somebody forward that they have some kind
of respectful because he knows the rulings read very well. Older,
distinguished, and so on, so forth.
So generally they're going to try to put forward the best person
that they have, generally speaking, unless there's politics
going on, then two parties will be trying to put their guy forward,
which is just ridiculous.
But that's that's the point. So in this case, what he's trying to
prove from this that just like you see in the world, that people will
push the most honorable forward.
That's exactly what they did, even though he's the last prophet to
come.
That's exactly what he's saying. That the Prophets the all the
prophets gave you precedence, the messengers to as servants gave way
give way to their master.
And they thought that you are, you are entitled and worthy of this
status of leading them in prayer. Subhanallah
Imam, Abu Huraira the Allahu Anhu relates that Rasulullah sallallahu
sallam said that I saw myself in a jamaa act of Ambia, in a
congregation of prophets, and I let them in prayer.
That's significant to lead somebody in prayer is really
significant for them to give you the ability to allow you to go
forward.
Exactly who was there who's not there? We don't have the full
detail of exactly which prophets were there. But this happened
based on mark this.
He also mentioned that July Salam came out.
July Sam was obviously with him. There was Ibrahim Musa, Risa, or
the human salatu salam, and a number of other prophets and the
Rasul Allah some lead them in prayer.
Then he says, want the doctor equals sub active worker bee him
female Kebun Quinta fee he saw hibel Alamy. You then broach the
seven tiered skies with them behind you in a procession where
you are the standard bearer. Now again, that's a bit of an
exaggeration because the Mirage did not take place like that. If
this is to mean the other prophets. The other prophets did
not continue with him. Yes, what is mentioned as in Hadith and
Muslim as well, that number one, what we've already learnt what we
learned from certain Hadith that there were many, many prophets
that were in beta macness And he became the Imam among
Ibrahim Ali Salam, etc. Then we learn from a hadith and Muslim
etc. that on the first heaven he met at the mighty Salaam and
Ibrahima Islam on the seventh heaven. Musa alayhis. Salam on the
sixth one Haruna Islam on the fifth one, and so on. And so
Eastside Islam on the second one, and yeah, hey, Ali Salam as well.
Now he had already seen some of them, they were already there in
the congregation, but then he saw them again here. Well, just like
he's able to get from one place to the other than they're able to get
from one place to the other. Once you've left this world, then what
happens there is not constrained to the way we understand this
world. So let us not think that this is some kind of mind boggling
thing that is happening. We believe in the hereafter gender
and jahannam. So what's the problem with things happening in
between that with the Prophets being taken, in fact, there's
another Hadith which mentions that he met Musa alayhis salaam, on his
way to Jerusalem he met met him first by his grave, and he spoke
to him that he saw him there. Then he in mercy Luxa, then up on the
seventh, sixth heaven, where moosari Someone got to speak with
him.
That's why
there's a poem out of He says, When you like Moses came into the
pulpit of the sky. The fourth highest fear heard Jesus speak,
welcome came the cry, Nizami says, eyes which are fit to see light,
never ending will not lower themselves to vain notions, his
feet on the roadway to glory, ascending, tear the veil of
tangible motions. Now, it would take some commentary for that,
which I'm not going to do, because we've got another commentary here
that we're doing. But Rumi says, On the steed of love, the animal
of love, God's prophet rose through the blazing heavens, the
messenger, the messengers of old rose to salute him. Noble Brown,
he blessed them all, with his greeting. So then he met these
different prophets on each of these. So what he's saying here
that you broach the seven tiered skies with them behind you in a
position where you are the standard bearer, that is obviously
not literal, because we don't know from any Hadith that they
continued with him like yes, he met some on different he on each
heaven, he met a different prophets. So he's saying that he
carried on now Jubilee ladies son was obviously with him, there were
angels with him anyway. So it could be it could mean that and
Allah subhanaw taala knows best.
Then he says Hatter, either Allah Tada SHA one limo stability minute
do we want our marker Nemo steamy. So as you saw with the first poem,
it was more about talking about the significance of this journey,
using his poetry, then the second two poems was about what he
achieved. Now this one again, is another one of those symbolic the
points of significance where he says, until your closeness left no
space for others on the quest, no summit for others to attain un to
such a high status. So, you see, this is the beauty of it. He the
first poem, which I described in detail at the beginning was with
the terracotta ILA and Neil Thurman zealot, and min Kaaba co
st Elam to the rock bottom through me.
And through the night, you rose until you gain the stage of tubos
length hitherto never reach to a hoped for. So it's starting off by
saying you got to a place that nobody has ever contemplated ever
going to a dreamt of going.
Right now he's reached there already. Rasulullah Salallahu got
to this stage. So now we've got somebody who's been there.
Now, we could also decide we want to go there. Or we could have this
hope in our minds. But what does he say? He shuts that door. That
no, this was a unique place that nobody else will ever go to as
well. It's a place which never anybody thought about going and
nobody can think of going there. Because he did not leave any space
for anyone to go there anymore. That's why he says he shuts the
door to that. So he basically fixes the promise of the loss of
status as totally unique in that place. That there is nothing
that's ever going to happen even in the hereafter. Allah knows best
until your closeness left no space for others on the quest had that
either long, dark shot, one shot one mean Mozilla 10 space or an
ability. A race there wasn't even a competition. Like there is no
competition he's far gone. There is no come he's not left no
competition. That's what he's saying. Shut one mean sub sub
cotton, Lima stubby looking for anybody who would like to race
with you. Anybody who would like to compete minute do we in
closeness while American and no any place of height or elevation
limos steamy for somebody who hopes to ascend to these heights?
So you've been to a place where
nobody's ever thought about going, nobody will ever be able to go
because you have taken the one only opportunity and taken. A Thor
says when his religion gave light to the world, the other rights
halted and stayed as God knows for what may become of the myriad
stars when over the world, a new sunrise glows, what is going to
become of stars when the sun comes out. So what's going to become of
all the previous nations and their beliefs when the sun of Islam
comes out and Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wasallam.
So this is actually to be honest, this is actually to be read over
and over again and to be savored, just thought of what Rasul allah
sallallahu Sallam it's all about. And we're rewarded for that.
Because what that's doing is that's honoring our messenger
Salallahu Alaihe Salam, the more honor we have for him, the more we
will want His love will come into our hearts, the more will want to
follow him, because we will be convinced that he has the best
way. If Allah subhanaw taala gave him all of these amazing heights,
then wouldn't he give him the best way.
But when is that concept of the his best way gonna come into our
hearts in a way that it gives it best fruit on our own persons in
our own behavior, in our own expression, in our own dress, in
our own conduct, when is that going to happen is that's the
whole purpose of all of this, when as you can sit back and savor
these things and seeing poetry and as people do, but it doesn't make
a change to you whatsoever. You still go back and you forget it.
It's a double life that we're living, that we can sit and savor
these things. And we go back and it's another life that we actually
live, may Allah subhanaw taala Make, make those great times that
we enjoy, make those permeate, permeate all other times in our
life. And then he says, had either limited that shut one limb was
stability. Now, of course, this is the province of the law. So went
to such heights that you mentioned in one of the narrations that he
could hear the angels, pens, writing screech.
So this is really high, in the sense that he got to the place
where the angels describe angels, they take down from the Divine
tablets, what's to happen for the next few days, the next month, or
whatever it is. So nobody is privy to what's happened, what's written
in the in the divine tablet in terms of, because the divine
tablet, everything is written in there until the Day of Judgment.
Right? Everything, since the inception Genesis to,
to the Day of Judgment, everything is written. But nobody can just
kind of go and have access to that. Right. So we'll never have a
Snowden problem here. Right, because it's just there is no
access, the only access you get is the only access some angels are
given different angels for the next day, maybe the next month, or
maybe the next year, depending on what has to be done. So these
angels that are writing, and it says that he heard the
the screech of the movement of the cerebral aplomb, basically are
these angels who are making the notes or instructions for the next
to pass on to angels or whatever.
So the immediate future, that's going to happen, so they know that
much. Because that's what the jinn used to listen to the angels
conversing about what's going to happen in the next day or two,
what they have to do the Djinns used to get on top of each other
and listen to that. And then they used to pass that on to the other
gene and then pass it on to the human friends. And then they would
say that they could tell the future, because only a part of
that would be remaining because genes have a high imagination. So
they make up a lot of stories.
And people who make up a lot of stories in this world, they have,
they've got a dominance of the Fire Element of Fire in them.
You know, because we're made up of four elements. So they have a high
level of elements of fire. So that's why they make up a lot of
stories. They have a vivid imagination.
They see some crazy things they can think of some they can make up
some really crazy things. The problem is when you actually start
believing in them.
And then you start eating people Subhanallah and cannibals. I mean,
there's so much food that's available, right of every taste
and kind and still people Allahu Akbar, that just goes to show that
it's the it's the it's a disease, it's a disease of the heart.
And, you know, we big deal we make people are making about and it is
a big deal. There's no doubt about that, you know, whoever does this,
rather. And now the revelation is that it's even Muslim girls that
were Pakistani girls, Asian girls are also targeted in this because
once you lose your sense, then you're going to make a
distinction. That's my daughter and that's that daughter. In fact,
there was a an interview done with a particular individual who was a
*.
Well, not a * as we know here, but they, you know, that's a
problem. So somebody said to him, Do you have kids? He said, Yes,
I've got two kids. One is eight and one is 12. What happens if
somebody does that to them?
And this guy was just so gone. And so honest. He says, Well, what
comes around goes around, what goes around comes around.
So
he was at such a stage in this, that he knows that he's I mean,
he's got faith, some faith left. So he believes in that that, yes,
it will come around. He's not that deluded. But he is deluded.
Humans are very complex, you have to remember that nobody's been
able to fully understand the mind there's nobody has many theories,
but there's no unanimous agreement. As to the mind. That's
one thing. Can you believe it? We haven't been able to understand
our mind.
Nobody knows. No psychologists until today, there's so many
studies that have been taking place, but nobody has an agreed
upon idea of how the mind works and how it deals with different
emotions and things of that is numerous theories, some seemingly
more plausible than others, but they all break somewhere or the
other because the mind is usually complex. with Allah subhanaw
taala, he gave the one of the most noble aspects of the human being
is his article, is this article. Now if that becomes distorted
and problematic, then can you imagine this is I mean, I, this is
a video of this individual and he's saying this very clearly. He
goes, what goes around comes around, he said that and I just
looked at his face, I thought, subhanAllah How can you say that?
But then you can't just put that on Pakistanis or you can't just
put that on Asians? How about SIRs that we know,
sir, so and so. How many hospitals? Countless Hospital A
guy was just opportunistic everywhere he went, he couldn't
stay away. 1000s of victims is probably laughing in his grave. If
you know what I mean. I mean,
I mean Subhanallah
that this only came up after he died.
What's his name? Sir?
Jimmy Savile
made him a sir as well.
totally blinded, nobody said anything until he died.
He's probably having a massive love.
For everybody that a you know, I'm gone now. hulless? Obviously.
Allah knows, but don't use it. Don't you know don't let people
use double standards against you.
You know, they say make it seem like an Asian problem. It's much
destination problem. It's a human problem.
No matter what religion you're from, that religion for each
individual is only as good as the person following it.
The religion is great. But when it is embodied in the human being,
it's only as good as the person observing you.
As much as he observes That's how good the religion is for him. The
religion is great. So then he finally to finish to finish off
today's darts. He says half of the Kula McCollum in Darfur is no need
to be rough, a mythical more fragile Alamy. Now, this one, it's
going to be more appreciated by those who understand Arabic and
who have some understanding of Arabic grammar. Because, you know,
for those who understand Arabic grammar, it's about the fact that
active participle being more full, having Adama Rafa and the monsoon
and the object and the Darfur. And so he's using those terms, but
that's not what he means by them. He's using grammar terms, so that
it's to conjure up in your mind rules of grammar that he's doing,
but they actually mean the real person. So he's saying her father,
which means to give a customer to give a half a job. I mean, this is
only for those who understand this otherwise, it's gonna sound like
something else. Half a taco llama calm and Bill a dasa T is new D to
be rough, a mithril mufaddal, Alamy. And even the translation
that's done on this, on this on this particular line is a bit too
complex. It doesn't seem to make a lot of sense is all other ranks
lay beneath you in conjunction?
What does that mean?
All other ranks lay beneath you in conjunction. When See, you are
addressed directly. You are now alone. His is your noun alone his
object doesn't make much sense. Right. I'll explain what he's
saying though. Just so you understand what the poet means by
this.
He says that half of the which means you've you've been
overcome, and thus push down. Right and he hasn't pushed down.
That's the stage he just went higher. But the idea is that
every, every stage is lower than you and has been made lower than
you.
That means of every other prophet
Willie or anybody else believer in, you can say,
relatively speaking. So that's what it all for him is relatively
speaking to your status. So every other status is lower in
comparison to your status, and that is Prophets and everybody
else.
So then what do you think of Prophet of the wedding of Allah is
going to be even lower than that of Prophets. You have also all
stages all degrees or levels, you have surpassed and overcome them
because Allah subhanaw taala has given you great height ruffer has
given you great height is new DTB Rafi because we're offering like a
thick rock, you have been
you have been addressed, announced
to be elevated. Elevation has been announced for you, height has been
declared for you.
And you have gone to the most noble of stages had the new datum
Musa hidden on the roof it will Louie mythical mufaddal Academy
for a single word of Adam, which is a proper, proper word, you know
a proper noun. So what he's trying to say is
just like, when you have a particular term, when you say,
Zaid, or when you say mcomber Kurama, that becomes a proper noun
signifying one particular individual. So what he's saying
through this poetry is that you are such of such a high that you
have become this unique, high ranking individual and entity.
That's what he's saying by this. So it is a bit it is a bit
complex. Subhanallah look at what Giamatti Conboy says, he says, Now
this is obviously poetry, and is exaggeration, right? So don't take
it literally. He says, Moses lost his mind.
Moses lost his mind, when unveiled became the names.
Moses lost his mind, when unveiled became the names, you see the
essence of the essence and still smile.
What is that saying?
What he's saying is Musa alayhis salam when he discovered that
the names of Allah have become unveiled, which means Allah became
manifest to Muhammad sallallahu alayhi salam, something which Musa
Hassan wanted in this world, but was unable to achieve, then what
do you think he's gonna feel? That's what he means by Moses lost
his mind. It's just as exact exaggeration as saying,
he became extremely taken aback, surprised, astonished. When unveil
became the names, you've seen the essence of the essence, and still
smile Subhanallah, that's what you call poetry.
Makes you think, and then it hits you the meaning, and it stays with
you.
That's why they say that you could give a, a one hour speech. But a
person may just take and if you're good at this, right, this is what
some of the famous speakers have said that used to use poetry a
lot. And in English, it's diminished quite a bit. Now,
nobody uses much poetry. I mean, how many speeches you actually
hear poetry, which is really sad, just goes to show a level of
language, because the highest expression in any language is
poetry, because it requires using every aspect of that language to
say something that means so much in such small amount of words, you
have to have a mastery. So they still use a lot in Arabic, and
especially in order as well. So I was actually reading this book by
one of the most famous scholars, one of the most famous speakers,
not a scholar necessarily, but a speaker,
or writer
of the subcontinent. And he says that a very
cleverly placed line of poetry could have more impact
than an entire speech of general, you know, just general explanation
of something that if it's placed in a particular way, people will
remember that line of poetry That's how powerful poetry is. And
that's exactly why this point
and because of the high level of this poet has gone down in history
to be so great. Iqbal Allama Iqbal for those who
know the in the order, this is an English rendering of one of his
poems, he says that, though he saw the essence, though he saw the
essence of all being all unveiled. He saw Allah subhanaw taala yet
the words God teach me more upon him, his lips prevailed
So what is he trying to say here? So when I say that despite being
so close and knowing and get acquiring so much is still Rob
busy the near Alma Rob visit me Elma all our teach me more teach
me more. So it's a very humbling The more knowledge you know,
should humble you to learn even more not to make you arrogant.
And that's the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam.
Allahu Mantis Salam Minka cilantro Bharatiya. Allahumma. Yeah, for
your medical history. Allah homea Hendon em and then you know
Subhanak in condemning authority mean, just Allahu Allah and
Mohammed and Mo Allahumma salli wa salam ala so you didn't know
Mohamed Wilder earlier you didn't know more hamburger burrito
selling? Oh Allah shower, Your abundant blessings and our
messenger Muhammad sallallahu alayhi wa salam. O Allah. We asked
you to grant him the high stage and the high status the Makana
Muhammad on the Day of Judgment, the praiseworthy station of Allah,
we ask that you grant that to him. Oh Allah in our asking for him, Oh
Allah we also asking You to bless us of Allah. Oh Allah, your
messenger SallAllahu. Alison has promised us that one blessing sent
on him will attract 10 blessings on us, Oh Allah, one of your
blessings would be sufficient for us. Oh Allah 10 of your blessings.
Oh Allah, that is your generosity of Allah grant us the true
blessings and grant us if last when we send blessings on a
messenger Muhammad sallallahu alayhi wa salam, O Allah grant us,
his conduct his character, grant him grant us the ability to make
him a proper role model in this world, oh Allah for us, to imbibe
him, to emulate him and to, to take his take his example in
everything that we do in our character of Allah, in our
conduct, in our worship, in our interaction, and in every aspect
of our life. Oh Allah, we know that he is our role model par
excellence. Oh Allah, He is the Rahmatullahi Alameen of Allah he
is, has the perfect equilibrium in everything. Oh Allah, we ask that
You grant us the blessing in this, you grant us true following
through obedience of allah and You grant us his company in the
Hereafter, you grant us the ability to be given drink from his
hands from the holder and co author of Allah and the he not
turn away from us, Oh Allah, you allow us to become you allow us to
become a role model for others, and to leave behind the good name
in this world of Allah to make investments for our future. Oh
Allah, we ask that you bring us close to you. We ask that you
grant us your love and the love of those who love you of Allah and
that you do not put in our heart,
darkness and evil about any of your servants that have passed and
that are still present and that will be to come. Oh Allah, we ask
that we never show any enmity or to any of your earlier and we
don't attract your oath of Allah. Allow us allow us to see the truth
as the truth and to ability and to the ability to follow it. And the
the wrong as the wrong and the ability to abstain from it. Oh
Allah fulfill all of our permissible needs in this world of
Allah. Keep our attention on you and our hearts linked to you. Oh
Allah, whatever you dislike in our heart to Allah you just remove it.
Oh Allah, we ask that you make your obedience, beloved to our
hearts so that we enjoy doing it oh Allah bring back the sweetness
of practice the sweetness of iman in our heart of Allah, we ask that
you give us you give us your closeness and that you make the
best of the day's the day that we stand in front of you. So Hanabi
kharab genericity and IOC phone was salam ala Mursaleen. The point
of a lecture is to encourage people to act to get further an
inspiration and encouragement, persuasion. The next step is to
actually start learning seriously to read books to take on a subject
of Islam and to understand all the subjects of Islam at least at the
basic level, so that we can become more aware of what our deen wants
from us. And that's why we started Rayyan courses so that you can
actually take organize lectures on demand whenever you have free
time, especially for example, the Islamic essentials course that we
have on the Islamic essentials certificate which you take 20
Short modules and at the end of that inshallah you
will have gotten the basics of most of the most important topics
in Islam and you'll feel a lot more confident. You don't have to
leave lectures behind you can continue to live, you know to
listen to lectures, but you need to have this more sustained study
as well as local law here and Salam aleikum wa rahmatullah wa
barakato.