Abdur Rahman ibn Yusuf Mangera – Qasida Burda (The Mantle Ode) Part 36
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this particular section after which there's one section that
remains. He says in here, come Delta Karema Tulla him in jevelin
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so now in here what he does is he finishes off the discussion about
anybody challenging the Quran and how it manages to
refute those challenges and deal with those challenges. Then he
moves into something very personal. He's actually speaking
about why he's writing the poem.
Why did he start to praise the Prophet salallahu alayhi wa sallam
and write this poem. So that's what he does. So just listen
carefully see if you can pick up what he's saying. He said, How
often have Allah's words, felled those who oppose him? And how many
a debater has been defeated by his proof? erudition in an unlettered
man is miracle enough in an age of ignorance as is knowledge in an
orphan
by this eulogy have I served him hoping to be redeemed from the
sins of a life of ODEs and patronage?
The life yoke to me with colors of ominous portents, as though I were
a ritual lamb destined for slaughter. In both did I obey the
wild folly of youth, but greed, nothing but sins and sorrow.
So what is he saying here? To complete the previous section
where he said the stronghold of his faith is where he set his
people like a lion which places cubs in the safest place, that
Allah subhanho wa Taala census centers sent sent His Prophet to
us, the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam gave us a perfect Deen
so that if we remain adhering to this deen and remain obedient,
then inshallah we are the safest of places in this world and stay
in the term in terms of the hereafter. So that much is clear.
Then he said,
speaking about the power of the Quran and the words of the Prophet
salallahu Alaihe Salam, come Jan Delta Karim Atala him in Javelin
how often have God's words fell those who oppose him so many times
what you had
is that people came in challenge the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa
sallam the Mona few King, the disbelievers of Makkah, makan
Rama, then the mafia hidden Madina, Munawwara they would say
things, they would plot things, they would plan things in absence.
The next day when they would come to the verb Salah who it was
salam, the professor Lawson would already know what they had planned
because Allah subhanho wa Taala would reveal a verse.
So how many times has Allah's words filled? Those who oppose him
failed means defeated those and their plans, put them to waste and
make them vain? How many times has that happened so many times the
proof has come the ye has come and the prophets Allah some new and
those people, they used to experience this they used to know
that there's nobody who's going there's nobody was telling the
Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam from among us. He is
finding out from somewhere else. They were in a weird dilemma. One
is that you've got a false imposter who has a spy within you.
Sometimes you can kind of work this out people set
traps for such kind of informants, but here they could do everything
they wanted.
They wouldn't find any
anybody to have told him from among them, they were all on the
same wavelength. But
it was Allah subhanaw taala telling him so they knew that this
was something out of the ordinary.
So that's why
it was always that the Quran would overcome and how many a debater
has been defeated by his proof? How many times
they would challenge him with different things and Allah
subhanahu wa Tada would bring back a reference to something that
look, this is just an excuse that you make.
The Allah subhanho wa Taala broke provide a response. For example,
they went when they couldn't work out anything themselves, they went
to the Jews, and they said, you tell us a question that we can ask
the Prophet
sallallahu alayhi wasallam. So then the question was asked, ask
him about the rule the spirits? That's a question not anybody has
even answered till today. But Allah subhanaw taala gives the
response that is appropriate to us. It says it's something which
is from the power of Allah subhanaw taala it's from his
command, you only have been, you've only been given a small
amount of information about it.
They asked about Volker name, Who is the girl coordinate of the
past, maybe his story wasn't as famously known as the other
stories. So again, Allah subhanaw taala revealed the story of the
Zulu codename the annual calf, Allah subhanho wa taala, told him
about the people of the cave, and so on and so forth. These were
responses that Allah subhanaw taala was providing the Quran
would come that will be revealed with their answers. So that's why
he's saying that how many debate has been debated by the proof of
the Quran. That's why a poet says And God called out to me and said,
Rise, Prophet, raise and hear and see, and let my works be seen and
heard. By all who turned aside from me.
The proof is there in the proof is there in Africa. Now, after all of
these miracles, so many miracles that have been
mentioned, we've discussed them over and over again, is that one
final thing,
there are just two things which are sufficient miracle and
imagism.
About the Prophet sallallahu, alayhi wasallam, out of everything
else, water coming out of his fingers,
for stones to be doing this V and responding to his salaam, and so
on and so forth, speaking to animals, and everything that is so
extraordinary out of the ordinary, if you want just two things which
are just simple that are not out of the ordinary in a sense,
meaning they're not they're not miraculous in the normal nature of
things, yet they are a miracle are two things. One is he says GAFA
Beloeil. Me Phil Omiya Margie satin vilja. Haley yet you DB Phil
you to me,
which is the knowledge and erudition in an unlettered person,
a person who had never been to school, never sat in front of
someone to read or write, for such a person
to have the knowledge of what he does have,
because the knowledge that the Prophet sallallahu sallam was
providing was not something that you would just know by sitting in
gatherings, you'd have to be sitting in various specialists,
gatherings.
People who had gone out to search for these these stories and travel
the world and receive those stories, otherwise, you won't get
them. So the fact that the probably settlers I'm sitting in
Makkah Makara, Rama had this depth of knowledge that nobody else had
in that place, that he could actually clarify things for them,
that the knowledge that they did have the knowledge that they could
get from others, he knew a step further. He always was a step
further, he always knew a bit more than them. And he could say, yes,
that's that that's wrong. That's correct. And so on, and so forth.
Number one, so that's the first thing which is a Marchesa, which
is a miracle that is in front of your eyes. And number two,
the fill you to me.
First one is to not have all of this knowledge
while being unlimited on me. That's a miracle enough in the Age
of Ignorance.
When ignorance generally prevailed in that area anyway, so there
weren't many people he could go to the one schools or universities or
specialists that he could go to anyway, they want some major
historians in the area, Ivan, so this was a place and time of
ignorance. So within that even more, what is that you've got
London, you've got Makkah macabre, Madina, Munawwara lots of things
going on. But the person just stays in his house. It doesn't go
anywhere.
Where did he study? Nowadays? It's difficult to believe these things
because
You can have these things beamed into your house, you could be
studying online, you could be reading things, you don't have to
go anywhere. Those days, there was nothing, there was absolutely
nothing. And he's still, the prophets, Allah has managed to
learn so much and know so much. And number two, is that the Phil
Utomi, which means
to be so well mannered, and conduct, which was so out of the
ordinary, because that wasn't the general manners of the people that
used to that they were dealing with. They were quite wild in
their approach to things, but the prophets, Allah, some within all
of that without a father, to give him that tarbiyah generally, you'd
be a lost soul. But Allah subhanho wa Taala looks after him. So those
those two are sufficient miracles.
Even if you don't want to look at the water coming out of his
fingers, and everything else, and him comforting a staff a piece of
wood that wants a tree trunk that wants to speak to him, and that
cries in that weeps. If you want to ignore all of that for the
moment, then this is big enough. So that's what he's trying to say
here.
So he's saying that when you have the Quran with such a proof that
it would constantly respond to anything that they would bring up
and give them a satisfying response. And it would put to vain
their efforts to try to challenge and pick holes in Islam, then,
likewise, it's enough for you to just understand this, these two
major mortgages out in the time of great ignorance. One of them is
that Allah subhanaw taala made him the most knowledgeable of creation
in the dunya, and akhira. You could, you don't need to listen to
a person's everything he knows, you just have to sit in one
gathering with him to be able to understand how much he may know,
just because of what they're able to speak about.
Generally, that's the way you will when you speak to somebody, you
will know what level they're at,
in their knowledge of something, whether it's a superficial
knowledge, or this person is speaking out of experience, and
full knowledge. And he's only giving you a bit of what he knows,
because that's all that's possible here. But what he's giving you is
the cream of the crop is the choices, portions. It's something
that you can't just get anywhere else. So people, this is the way
humans act. This is the way humans interact with others, and judge
one another. So they could see that from the Bronx and Alosa. On
top of that, they all knew this was known that he was not from an
obscure family. In those days, everybody knew everybody. Muddy in
Mocha, mocha Rama, everybody knew everybody. You know, they knew
everybody's forefathers as backers as far back as they could go. So
they they knew people who existed they weren't living in a virtual
worlds. They knew everybody physically, they knew what
families they came from, they knew what people were doing. News would
spread far and wide within the town as soon as it used to occur
pretty much. So they knew that he was on me.
Now this word only comes from home, or means mother,
a person being unlettered without not being able to read or write
like the day he is born from his mother. So it's an attribution to
the mother that he's still owe me. That's one of the meanings of it.
Now, just as out of other, we don't ever say the Oume
for the Prophet salallahu Salam, we say it as a praiseworthy
characteristic by saying an OB, you'll owe me. That's why in any
two hours or wherever it's mentioned, it's generally
mentioned as an OB, you'll owe me the unlettered prophet. You never
just say to me, and unless you're using it in different contexts,
but you never refer to the rest of us. And it's just only you refer
to him as the only prophets, because that's the other day. So
he didn't know how to read or write. He never went into a
madrasa. He never studied anywhere, did any kind of research
like that. You never managed to even look at the books of the
early people who didn't know Hebrew. He couldn't read the
Psalms. He couldn't read the Torah. He couldn't read the
injeel. He had, he had no access to any of these things. He didn't
have access to the Mishnah, or the Talmud, or any of these books that
spoke about the stories of the past people.
But despite that, he's able to give you full information about
what happened in the past in detail. He's able to tell you
locations, he's able to tell you great details of things. And he's
able to tell you about things of the future.
Now future things you don't read in books,
pass things you could say he had a book to read, secret teacher, but
when it comes to the future, there's nothing. There are no
books to read until the Day of Judgment, all the things that are
going to happen
And then he tells him about things that were going to happen very
soon and they did have. One is that he tells you about things
that are going to happen in 200 years, who's going to live to 200
years to see that. That's only after 200 years, people will see
whether he's right or wrong. But the other is that he tells you
what's going to happen in a few days, in a few years. And so all
of these things are happening. So he's telling you about the past
people and the people to come. And subhanAllah without having gone
and studied this anywhere. And this in an environment of
ignorance. It wasn't called ignorance were nothing. These
people were ignorant. They had no high civilization of knowledge.
They weren't like the Greeks of the past, who used to sit, walk
around and study and think these people are very practical outdoor
kind of people.
It was a very simple life that they led wasn't very much studying
going on at all. They didn't even have a written language, as much
read sorry, they had the they could write but they didn't have
rules of grammar. These are things that they will just inherit there
is very oral kind of tradition passed down orally. A lot of
speaking going on, but that's it. I don't think there were any light
libraries in Madina Munawwara
never heard of a library in Madina Munawwara Maka macabre.
If there was anything that anybody wrote, he may be just personal.
Everything they memorized, they just remembered things and they
would pass that on. But they weren't really interested. This
was these were very kind of practical folk outside. They were
considered to be quite wild in that sense. So
the traditions that they didn't have access to, which was at the
Yehuda Madina, Munawwara
the prophets, Allah Psalm was then able to judge those traditions
that they had the Torah and say, oh, there's a change here, there's
a change here.
As in one case,
they tried to manipulate the punishment. So the Sahaba cinema,
the Zulu, Allah, sallAllahu, alayhi, wa sallam, and Acerbi
said, carry on reading.
So there were many things like that which they tried to put in.
Those who thought they had knowledge and the process, the
last one was even able to clarify their knowledge, confirm some
aspects of it, and deny other aspects of it. So these were some
major things, events that were taking place, which was so
abnormal in that time, we're just reading about it as a historical
piece of information. But those people were seeing it, it was a
big challenge for them. That means for them not to believe was
really, really a big Miss was really a missed chance. Because
they could see it. And the only reason they didn't believe is
generally out of stubbornness. Stubbornness is a very bad thing.
You know that it's the truth. You know, this is what it is, this is
the reality and you still don't agree with it. That's what you
call stubbornness. And that's worse thing wherever wherever it
is, that's that's really bad wherever it is. You have to be
open to change doesn't matter how knowledgeable you are, how old you
are, you have to be open to realize and see the truth is
truth. In fact, that's something we should always be making dua for
because I said to all Rasulullah sallallahu samalla show me the
truth as the truth and allow me to follow it. Because that's a two
stage process, isn't it? One is to see the truth as the truth. One is
we don't even see it as the truth. Second one is okay, we've seen it
as the truth, but we can't follow it because
I've got affinities elsewhere. I've got my faith lies elsewhere
or something like that. Or I'll be at loss if I did this or I'll be
worse off something like that some kind of obstinate reason. So
that's the door and show me the untruth as untruth and allow me to
stay away from it. That's the door rasool Allah Allah Islam. That
means this this is an all ages, just because we grow older in
something doesn't mean we're right.
So he was able to speak about dunya husband about me speak about
the deen he was about to speak about the world. He was about to
speak about cosmic phenomenon. He was about to speak about
historical issues. He is able to speak about Allah subhanho wa
Taala is able to speak about the person, the human being the in
sun, and all of these things.
So this was one of the biggest signs that you could have anyway.
Now, the other thing is that why does Why do people read and write?
The whole MCSE in an objective of reading and writing is to become
enlightened,
to know something more beyond what people tell you.
See, people tell you what other people are going to tell you. It's
generally going to be biased. It could be correct, but it can be
biased. But when you read in books, and come to a decision that
is generally more objective, of course there's a bias in what's
written as well. But you have more access to
More knowledge in written form, then you have an oral form.
There's only few people who are orally transmitting knowledge and
giving that word. But there's much more in written form that is
available out there.
So, once you have access to that you have access to 100 times more
information.
However, somebody who's been given all of that knowledge from Allah
subhanaw taala, who doesn't know how to read or write,
then he's got the objective. He's reached the objective of what
somebody learns to read and write for. Since the Prophet sallallahu
sallam, he's doesn't need the means to get that knowledge
because he's already got the knowledge so he doesn't need to
read and write. Because Allah is directly giving it to him. Allah
gives it to most people by allowing them to learn how to read
and write. And with some people, he gives it to them directly.
That's the difference here.
That's why Allah subhanaw taala says in the Quran, wama Quinta
bloomin kita Robin, what are the hot to be me, Anika is even Lortab
and multilumen.
I would still be doubtful even if you're reading or writing.
You've got the crux, you've got the objective of what you read and
write for. Now.
The second point that he says is the mortiser is the high level of
luck that he had, despite not having somebody to tell him at
each moment do this, don't do that. Don't do this.
That's what God understood, of course, Abdullah, tell him he had
after his mother, or the Allahu anha denier Abdullah Muqtada for
two years then he had his uncle a bowtie that generally what you
understand is that when a person doesn't have a father as well as
two parent family, and then he's given over to others generally you
understand it's generally understood that they won't come
out with as well mannered as others because of just the
dynamics generally speaking.
So
I'll you know, the Allahu Anhu says the Prophet sallallahu alayhi
wa sallam these are just some of the different kind of Oh Sauron
nurses soldered on was so x. So open in his heart. Like he was
just so open to doing things for people for giving things he was
very generous. What a stucco hula Jetson alien Mohammadi curtain
Werkraum homage here and just total nobility throughout
truthfulness from the tongue, all of these characteristics. However,
he had, nobody will teach him these things in particular like
that. His father had passed away his mother was still pregnant with
him and his mother, his father had passed away when the Prophet
sallallahu alayhi wa sallam was born. He said his mother for a
while, then he went to Halima Saturday or the Allahu anha stayed
with her for for many, many months, few years, came back to
his mother. Then, when in after she passed away, his grandfather,
Abdulmutallab, he looked after him. And his mother passed away
when he was six. He stayed with his grandfather for two years.
Abdulmutallab was like a patriarch of the family, well respected not
just on the family, who was well respected. Makka makalah.
So what they would do his family members, when he was old, they
would put out a bed for him, like a platform, a bed platform, some
kind of thing like that, where he would sit, everybody would gather
around him, all of his children, grandchildren, they would gather
around him, and he would speak to them. That's how it would be. And
nobody was allowed to sit on his bed, they just wouldn't sit there.
They had so much respect.
They wouldn't sit there. It wasn't like they sit down till he came in
and move off. They just wouldn't sit there. That's how much respect
they had for him. The Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam was a
very young boy at the time was seven years old at seven to eight
between the age and
he would come and he would maybe sit there on that bed and his
other uncles etc, they would come and they would move him off. But
Abdulmutallab whenever he would see that he would say,
leave him alone, leave my son alone. That evening, from Allah He
in Allahu Allah Shannon, leave this son of mine alone. He's
special.
He's got something going for him. So he could just see that. There
were some signs that he had seen himself by even naming him
Muhammad. He's the one who insisted that he be named Muhammad
Sallallahu wasallam. And then he would actually let him sit with
him. And he would pat him on the back. And he would be really,
really happy to see all the things that he was doing. So it's very,
very fond of him. When the Prophet salallahu Salam became eight years
of age, Abdullah matale passed away. Then the Prophet sallallahu
meant to his uncle Abu Talib, who was one of the youngest of the
uncles that he had.
And
he started to look after him.
But of course, Allah subhanho wa Taala has constantly is constantly
looking after him at the same time. So he comes out to be
great in every aspect, great in every aspects, in his speech in
his behavior in his kindness, in his reliance in his satisfaction
with what Allah has given him, in every aspect, just totally far
away from being ugly. In their approach being mean, being rude,
being vulgar, just wasn't there.
Even though maybe the people around him that were vulgar, he
didn't pick it up, was like he was protected and veil from these
things, just naturally, very humble individual. That's why I
understand the Allah one who says, I served him for 10 years.
And never once did he tell me, what did you do? Why did you do it
like that?
Never even in kind of mock anger. He just didn't tell him off. And
he did do things wrong, because other people would tell him off.
That proves it. One is that you think well, Nana said they didn't
do anything wrong anyway. But he says no, even if I did do
something wrong, and other family members would start telling me
off, you tell them not to turn me off.
And then, despite being so great, he would sit with his companions,
he would humor he would joke around with them as well. He would
speak about the play with their children. He wasn't in some ivory
tower, you would play with their children.
If some poor person used to invite in, he would go with them as well
to their house, go and help them out or something, he would go and
visit the sick. And if somebody made some kind of excuse he was he
was willing to X. He wasn't rough. He wasn't harsh, he would be
willing to accept even that as well.
And they say that when he would shake somebody's hands, he
wouldn't be the first person to pull it away. The other person
would so he was always very open hearted in his
in his interaction.
He would keep his solid short. Some of the Sahaba if he heard
that they made a long salad somewhere in their local masjid,
he would get angry with them. He says take it easy on the people.
So you can just tell how he's always very particular.
In fact, once Abdullah Massoud of the Allahu anhu, was sitting
this hadith in Bukhari, Abdullah and also within the allowing
inside one of the tabbies come along. And the people said, what
he said, why you're sitting here, he said, we're waiting for
Abdullah bin Salman to come and talk to us to give us some Nasi
her give us a lecture give us a Bayana class. So find out the loan
officer came out. And he said the progress hasn't told us not to.
Not to speak to people too much out of fear that they'll get bored
of the deed.
But to do it at intervals.
Again, that's very important.
Because I mean, there's only so much people can handle the take it
piecemeal. The dean is very good, but you don't have to speak about
it. 24 hours this practice about that.
So people get bored otherwise.
Right now, in the next section, which is the seventh section of
the book, it's called lament and hope.
This is very interesting. It's like he's getting down to why he's
writing the poem. So these are just random thoughts of his own. I
mean, these are not random but disparate thoughts of the author
of the poet. So this is what he says. He says,
Why am I writing this poem? He says hadham to be muddy in a
stocky Ruby he Zulu Burma in Mother officiated, we will have a
meal.
Or hidden he has called me he asked me hear
what he's saying here is haram to who I am providing the service.
I'm serving the Prophet Sal about Islam, be muddy. With this praise,
a stocky Ruby here and I'm using this praise to seek forgiveness or
seek to seek to compensate for life full of sins.
I've spent a whole life full of sins. I'm writing this poetry
about the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam in praise of him.
So I can seek some forgiveness for some of the sins that lifelong
have since I've created mother which have passed. What are the
sins I've been?
It's poetry itself. I've been saying other poems. Well, harder
me or hate me. It means and just being just spending time in my
general labor and work or it could mean
praising the rulers of the time and flattering them
So, he was known to have written a number of points beforehand. He
was known to have written a number of poems beforehand. So this poem
was something he came up with in the Middle Ages in his middle
ages. But before that, if there was a problem at his workplace or
something like that, he would write a poem about it. He was a
very good poet, and he would just write a poem about it. So
Wallah, who knows what his exact state was, but he's saying that
the reason I'm writing this poem
and praising them rather, using the reason I'm praising the
process, I'm trying to use that to seek forgiveness and compensate
for the life long of inappropriate poetry, and flattering. So what
how does translate, he says, By this eulogy, by this praise, have
I served him hoping to be redeemed from the sins of a life of ODEs
and patronage.
Now, the way poetry is to function is that they used to write poems,
and they used to earn money by that the way you earn money is you
go and write a nice poem about somebody, some wealthy person, the
governor, the King, the ruler, and he gives you a gift. This is
tradition throughout
the famous story of Jaffa monsoon, where he decided to stop paying
people.
And he said, he couldn't just stop paying poet poets. But he said
that I'm not I'm going to not pay any gift, I'm not going to give an
award or a reward to any poet who knows who, who doesn't bring me a
fresh poem that I don't know.
So what he would do is because he could memorize things by hearing
them once, he would just
the poet's would come with a brand new poem that nobody else has
heard. He'd come, he'd say, the poem and Jaffa monsoon would
immediately memorize and say, Oh, this point, 20 years ago, I've
known it, or whatever. And he would repeat the poem.
And they'd call this boy, this boy that was in his code. This is even
he knows the poem, come on, say the poem. Now, the boy could
memorize anything by hearing it twice. So he would also repeat the
poem. And then he'd say, even this girl in my code, she knows it. And
she could memorize things by listening to things three times.
So all these poets are coming with new poems, and they are just
flabbergasted. They don't know what's going on. Because soon as
he says, The poem, The king says, He knows it.
And he repeats it.
So he tried to stop that. So then this one point came along, and he
said a poem which nobody knew which the king couldn't get,
because it was a tongue twister.
So from that, you understand that there was this tradition,
which he tried to stop, I even had to take a step back afterwards,
because of the final point, which is,
particular poet came in, sat in front of him, which he could
memorize.
If we have time, at the end, I'll mention the poem afterwards. But
basically, since that person came and said, the poem and the king
couldn't memorize it, and the boy didn't know it, and neither did
the girl know it. He said, Okay, I'll give you the weight of it in
gold. So he had it written on a rock, and he cleaned up all of the
gold.
And then after that, when he called him afterwards, he
discovered who he was, and he called him and he said, Look, why
did you do that? For give me the gold back? Do you? I mean, would
you like that the beta model of the Muslim mean, is empty of the
goal of the Muslim mean? Why did you do that? So he says, Well, you
know, it's because you've stopped giving the poem. Poets they're
earning,
you know, you're breaking the industry. So then he, he restarted
that, and he didn't have to give all the gold to the poet, the poet
or summary.
Anyway, so
it's a different system, we don't have that anymore. For us, it's a
different thing. Now. It's all these programs they make and
shows, talk shows and programs and just a lot of big waste of time. I
mean, there was a lot of wasted time in poetry as well. I mean,
not no doubt about that. But that was that time. Now it's all visual
poetry is not visual, is it? So now it's all visual lights and
everything like that. It's all glamour, makeup, all that kind of
stuff. That's what it is. Now it's a different world now. That's why
people used to know poets and poet poetry all the time. I think, I
guess that I think Pakistan still the people that Allah microbiology
has had a big influence. So you see lots of people from Pakistan
and even some parts of India, they they know they still know their
poetry in the up people. I think we drought is still a bit behind
in this regard. Right. But when it comes to
Pakistan in mostly in Punjab and Sindh etc They know the Allahu
Akbar quite well.
Allah subhanho wa Taala says in the Quran Yeah, you have ladina
Armineh Takala Webster who either Hill was sila
or people who believe fear Allah, and find a means to him.
So that's exactly what this poet is doing. He's praising the
promise of the lowest and most beloved to Allah subhanaw taala so
that Allah can forgive him the past life that he had, and what a
poem what a poem that has been celebrated throughout history.
That's why
the vasila is one of the biggest doors that you can get to Allah
subhanaw taala from the prophets, Allah from himself used to reward
those who used to praise Him.
Proper praise. So for example, Hassan of northa, beats the pro
salatu salam, he made a dua for him when Hassan methodic came with
a very good poem has the prophets Allah some said Allahumma ye will
be ruled will produce of Allah support him,
support him with the Rural codice with the Holy Spirit's
and on another occasion, when he made another poem, where he said
hi Jota Mohammed and we'll jump to and who were in the LA here cool
jazz up. This is what Hassan without said. He said, You have
criticized Muhammad, you said bad things about Muhammad sallallahu
alayhi salam, I responded. This is one of the lines is in a longer
poem. He said, You have said bad things about Muhammad I have
responded. And the reward is by Allah subhanaw taala for me, so
I'm getting a reward from Allah subhanaw taala in that.
And then finally, he says in the next poem, allowable CD, he says
is Culloden. NEMA Daksha. Our people who are in many Bihar had
human anatomy.
They say this is one of the from an Arabic perspective, this is one
of the most beautiful lines in this poem, in this entire poem.
Unfortunately, I don't know if I can convey to you and articulate
for you the beauty of this because it requires a bit of understanding
of the Arabic sound. Let me explain it. Canola, Danny colada,
you can lead with duck lead means to put a garland assign a
generally in the form of a necklace around someone, they
would generally do this in two different forms. You'd either do
this to
appoint somebody, you'd either do this to honor someone, there's
still a tradition, I came back from hygiene. There were some guys
that come with me for the hygiene. They'd come for the first time,
got to the airport. And as I got out, I saw these big hearts, you
know, those flower necklaces. And
as I went past the Signia, I've probably been longer, you know,
I've could be pinned on you know, you have to desire to kind of
stand them. They put that and they won't say no. So it's still a
tradition.
I think they even put it took a picture hope it never gets out.
Anyway, so one is honoring someone and other one is appointing
someone. And thirdly, they used to do this same word is used for duck
lead of animals, specifically for the animal you're taking for Hajj
to sacrifice. So people would actually bring their animals with
them from their countries before.
Like the profit or loss, we took a whole lot of animals all the
Sahaba they took animals from Madina Munawwara to Makkah Makara
in their Hajj, so that they could sacrifice them. You call that a
hadith in Arabic. So what you do is to distinguish the Hadith from
any other animal that you've brought along with that maybe
around locally, you you get like an old slipper or something or an
old something, right, and you tie it around the camel to show that
you know put something kind of weird like him up today, you get
an old bottle, a plastic bottle, put a rock through it and put it
around the animal or something like that, just to show that this
is different. Don't touch this animal this is designated for the
sacrifice. So that's what you call that lead.
That's what you call duckling. Right? So he's saying
that the two things poetry and flattery.
They have garland did me
in a way that the result is a fearful result. By doing them.
I've been given honor.
But I've also been, I mean, how do I explain this one is look, if you
are a good poet, a good producer like today and you are flattering
of the power fool people, then you will have respect in the world.
But when you have respect in the Hereafter, not necessarily because
this is flattery. And this is something you're doing for the
dunya and is generally going to involve some kind
of wrongness. Okay, so what he's saying is, I've done this wrong,
which has given me this necklace, this honor.
So he's using it in the positive sense there from the dunya. But in
terms of the Hereafter, it's like the necklace that you put on a
hoodie going for Hajj to be slug, slaughtered and sacrificed. So
from the worldly perspective, it's an honor. But from our hero
perspective, it's like the animal sacrifice. So I basically put
myself up for both of these things to happen to me from the dunya is
perfect but from the arciero I'm Kearney be Hema as though by those
two things I have become HUD Yun, a hottie and sacrificial animal.
Mina Nymi from the goats and sheep.
So that's what he said. It's that's why he's saying it's so
beautiful because he's using the word duck lead and hottie in two
senses, the Honorable sense and it's just doing it so perfectly.
That's why they say this is one of the one of the most
intricate and eloquent lines of poetry there.
What he's saying basically, to quickly conclude here, the way he
translated start here is
that life he helped me with Connors of ominous portents as
though I were a ritual lamb destined for slaughter. I
don't think it's doing justice doesn't make much sense, in fact,
right, that one, I am sure it could be done better. So some
poets some points, you're doing it to reap, reap some rewards from
Allah subhanho wa taala. Because it's a virtuous poem. Sometimes
you may be writing a poem just to earn a living, but it's a positive
poem. That's all fine still. But then other times. It's a poem in
which you're just fluttering. You're saying Alize You're
exaggerating. You're saying bad things. Because the way poems work
is that if you're praising someone, you praise them more than
enough, that's the way poetry that you exaggerate into praise. And if
you are criticizing someone, then your criticism will be more than
it's supposed to be. You're exaggerating that. That's why
poetry is so effective because it's full of exaggeration.
So if you do go wrong criticizing somebody in poetry, then it is
very effective. And that's why you could be committing a beggar haram
and being wrong. That's what that's what he's trying to say.
So, because poetry requires mobilizer, and Dojo it requires
license taking license is going overboard and requires mobile data
which means exaggeration.
Sometimes it will make you lie, it will make you lie. For example,
one point 1.1 poetry one poem, a poet is speaking about some
beloved of his or something like that which
who begins to weep and cry at the loss of her love or something like
that? That she cried so much, and she cried so much, that her tears
were enough that even in the heavens Gibreel and Mikael was
swimming in the waist full of her tears. And what an exaggeration.
What an exaggeration.
That's where Allah subhanho wa Taala says, We're sure Allah yet
to be a woman with a woman, anybody who likes poetry of that
nature, they are they will. They all deviant people as our own.
That's the kind of situation it is.
The but there's good poetry, it can be used effectively. So that's
why the Bronx allows him said in the minute Shayla Hikmah that some
types of poetry have a lot of wisdom in it, and they do because
they give you so many, so many ways of thinking about the issue
and looking at the issue. So what I did was I adorned my world by
this flattery and this poetry
and by adorning my world, I wrecked my hereafter. So now I am
writing poems in praise of Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi
wasallam by which I seek to compensate for that so they can
build my hereafter and seek forgiveness for what I've done in
the past. That's basically what he's saying.
And to finish that off, he says, a doctor to hear your sob Phil
holiday nuamah has sold to in the island earthworm you won't need
me. In both did I obey the wild folly of youth, but reaped nothing
but sins and sorrow is giving an excuse for him. So why did I do
that? When I was younger? I did that when I was younger, because
that's what youthful people do. You're, they say that youthfulness
is a is a degree of insanity. If you don't really think properly,
you're not stable. You have all of these newfound energies, you
suddenly seem to have a lot of freedom to do whatever you want.
So you do a lot
things when you get to them 3335 40 Then you calm down and you
start seeing things in a reasonable light. So now he's
writing this in his middle ages, and he's giving an excuse for
himself trying to redeem himself by saying that, Oh, this was a you
Saba, this was just the deviance of youth. This was just the
misguidance of youth that I did this in both of these things. But
the only thing that I got out of that was I got sin, and I got
sorrow. So now he's trying to redeem himself. And it seems like
he's been redeemed Walla Walla Island, we just, you know, we
don't purify anybody in front of Allah subhana wa Tada. But such a
poem that people have Subhanallah celebrated it, and benefited from
it and it's taken them closer to Allah subhanaw taala May Allah
subhanho wa Taala also allow us to benefit and may Allah subhanaw
taala grant us the love of the Prophet salallahu alayhi wa sallam
and the love of Allah subhanaw taala Allah Amanda Salam, Salam
Dubach the other jewelry with a chrome Allahumma yada yada you
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Subhanallah in condemning allottee mean Allahu wa Salatu was Salam
ala so you didn't know Mohamed Weider early, he was such a big
Marine.
Oh Allah we ask that you grant our messenger sallallahu alayhi wa
salam, a reward, befitting to him on behalf of his entire Ummah, of
Allah We ask that you allow us to follow in his footsteps and become
true representatives of him in his deen and religion of Allah We ask
that you make us Dar es. You make us invite us to the path through
our actions more than our words of Allah make our actions better than
our words of Allah Miko behavior of Allah. We ask at this point,
because we have just learned that your messenger sallallahu alayhi
wa sallam was taught this a HELOC by you despite being a your team
despite being an orphan, our life you can teach our messenger
sallallahu alayhi wa salam, we ask that you also teach us of the
flock. You also set us a right you also make our tarbiyah nurturers
in the correct way. Oh Allah we ask that you also show us the
light and you make our surroundings easy for us to follow
your faith of Allah We ask that you remove any obstacles in our
path of Allah we want to come close to you. We ask that you make
our heart conducive for this. Oh Allah assist us or Allah help us.
Oh Allah, Oh Allah us sisters. Have mercy on us have compassion
on us. Oh Allah, Oh Allah, we ask that you give us a view of Mercy
of Allah, we ask that you give the entire Ummah from your mercy, the
Ummah is crying, suffering. Oh Allah, Oh Allah we ask that you
relieve the OMA from the distresses that they're that they
are experiencing at this particular time. Oh Allah, we ask
that You grant us the Kadima, La ilaha illa, Allah on our deathbed,
and you make all the stages of the Hereafter easy for us. And you
allow us to drink from the hands of your messenger Muhammad Salah
money, you grant us his company in the highest levels of gender to
fit those and our law. You make the standing in front of you the
best, the best moment of our life, our life except how do I also hang
out because popularity or male seafood was around when I'm at 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 Dean 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 there, 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 will 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 in Salaam Alaikum Warahmatullahi Wabarakatuh