Abdur Rahman ibn Yusuf Mangera – Qasida Burda (The Mantle Ode) Part 4
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hamdu Lillahi Rabbil Alameen wa salatu salam ala Murthy
Rahmatullah Alameen wa the he was sabe he he Marina Marburg. Allah
mobile city says Then next in nit the hum to Nasi Hashemi, the
utterly was Schabel about I do finos hen and to her me in the
home to Nasi has che beefy utterly was shaped by goofiness hen and it
to her me. So as you know, in the midst of this dialogue, where the
one who's in who has this obsession, this love, and who's
expressing it has finally confessed it and now he's talking,
and now he's speaking and he's confessing, and He's declaring
what this is all about. But then he goes on to discuss other
things. So now he's saying to this person, after saying to him, as we
did last last time, may you be spared my state? I did kaha de la
Sibley be misstated in Andalusia, T E. V. Mon, hussy me. May May you
be spared my state, I cannot hide my secrets from my detractors, my
sickness will not leave me. And then he said Maha Peninsula can
listen to a smell who in the light biannual or the leafy Sami, which
means that you've offered me sincere advice, but I don't hear
it. Because the lover is deaf, from all of his reproaches that's
what a lover is deaf from everything. Anybody who tells him
so are 30 means anybody who reproaches him, tries to correct
him, tries to set him right, or tries to make him realize that
you're spoiling your life, you're wasting your, your life. You're,
you're causing detriment to your health. Why are you doing this for
and then after that, he turns it around, you can tell this is a
very, extremely eloquent person and very deep, deeply thinking and
profound individual. So after telling him that there's no way
that you can tell me, I'm not going to listen to it, even though
I completely understand that you're sincere, because
the lover is going to be deaf to any reproach. And then he says,
you are an individual, a human being, you could have ulterior
motives. You can have other motives for reproaching. me for
telling me off. So forget you. There is another one another
approach, who cannot be considered suspicious at all, an absolutely
neutral one, and I didn't even listen to that one. Who is he
talking about? So that's what he says here. In the hum to Nasi has
che beefy utterly was che Boo aberdovey knows when I need to
hear me, I suspect the council I even have my own gray hairs. I'm
getting all of these gray hairs and I'm
I still haven't prepared anything. It still hasn't hit me and it
hasn't struck me that I'm about to go into my grave. So although this
now as you can see, he's moving away from the love poetry aspect
to to actually making people think and getting them to think because
gray hairs is something that everybody is going to experience.
Generally even the Prophet sallallahu Sallam had 14 or 19 or,
you know, minimum number of white hairs. As a miracle he only had so
few. But that's something that each one of us is going to deal
with. So is our gray hair. Is that going to wake us up or not? Are we
still going to be in slumber so now as you see, he's actually
moving away from the whole love poetry thing to start speaking
about
admonition and reminders, and these things related to the
hereafter. So he's saying that I suspect the counsel even of my own
gray hairs, that even though they're so neutral, I'm even
suspicious of them. Although the advice is far indeed from
deception, because what has gray has got to do with anything? Is no
conspiracy and a gray hair and then he says in the next one for
in a Mara t be su imata Albert min jelly her being a DD che be well
Harami thanks to its foolishness, my ill urging ego has paid no heed
to the Warner, white hair and decrepitude. So now he's blaming
himself of why I'm not paying heed to all of this. So now this is
self you can say this is self criticism to make people think for
themselves as well. So he's a lot of thought has gone into this
amazing, but sometimes these kinds of poems, they just flow from a
person. So these kinds of people must be very deep thinkers, that
they can just flow with these things. And otherwise, look how
long it would take to construct something like this with all of
these different meanings, going from one place to the next idea
and making it so meaningful. And they say that this is one of the
best of I mean, this is the most celebrated poem in our history. So
I mean, it must be a masterpiece. This is we need the minds and
profundity
To be able to understand it and appreciate it. So when he
mentioned in the previous couplets, he mentioned that I'm
not going to accept the advice of any advisor, any reproach.
Here, he says why? He says, How can I
listen to anybody, when I didn't even listen to somebody before you
that's more closer to home than me, they're more closer to home to
me than you.
And somebody who's more neutral than you, who could never be
suspected of having any conspiracy. It's someone it's
actually a it's a, it's an advisor that announces the that a person
has gone over the hill, that a person is going towards his death.
So it's a very profound Warner. But still, I didn't listen to it.
It tells me that the sufferer is close. The journey is about to
about to begin the journey of the Hereafter is about to begin. But I
didn't. Well, a couple tools howhow I didn't accept it. I
didn't accept it. What a farmer submit to Waterloo, and neither
did I even listen to its preaching. So I didn't even take
into consideration that I've got weighed in which is the case with
many of us, even though who are mobile Ron middle of the bar, you
don't need to hurry. It is so far away from any kind of suspicion or
any kind of ulterior motive still. And then he says for in Amara TV
su e meta avert mean jelly has been a leader shaping a theory
shape you will Harami what that means fairly well Jimmy the clear
although even Allama Pirazzi lair Martha shimmy so what he's saying
now is thanks to its foolishness, my urging self soul knifes has
paid no heed to the Warner white hair and decrepitude. Neither has
it prepared fair deeds in hospitable welcome for a guest who
has taken up residence in my head. That's what you call poetry. The
guest that has taken up residence in my head on my head that's
talking about the White House.
So now he uses a number of terms Yeah, he says this word here Kyra
leaf in Tierra means what you prepare for a guest. In in Arabic.
It's amazing how remember, even for love this, the stages, there's
so many words for the stages.
There are different names for different types of food that are
prepared not food items, but food prepared at different functions.
Or for different reasons. That's given different names. In English,
how many we have a meal, we have a dish. We have I guess breakfast
lunch supper, which they had us dinner, we have a few of terms
like this as well. So Pyrrha is the food that's given to a guest.
Right as prepared for a guest, Tara dooba is general diet food
that you give him a general invitation
to have is the food you give to anybody that's coming or going.
Maybe give them a bit of supplies, you know, give them a pack lunch
or something like that could be called a tougher
walima is the wedding meal.
Right? That's called a walima.
They've got one when you feed people at at a birth. They call
that a Horus. special word for that one as well. Then the seventh
day of the Willa, that's the seventh day. Would you call that
one? You call that the Akiko. Right then some people they even
feed during circumcision. There's a special one, that they have a
special diet for circumcision as well. And I don't think many of us
do that. Right. But some people do that as well. So they call that
the who they are. And then there's others as well. So these are
different Arabic terms.
Now what he's now saying is all of this is due to my enough's, which
is the Nossal Amara, the evil inciting self, which use of at
least speaks of in the Quran as Allah subhanaw taala quotes and
Rama Oberlin FC in the NEF, Salah Amara tembusu So that's the knifes
Amara. So what's happened is the Warner in the form of this white
here, it came along. But then my enough cell Amara Bisou
did not listen to it. Even though it's announcing Look, you're about
to go now. Your time in this world is diminishing.
And it's telling you not with a verbal, not verbally, it's telling
you with its whole state. Its whole state. The whole white hair
is telling you this, but it's still in that you've only got a
bit of life left. But this knifes it's so bold,
that it didn't listen.
And it didn't listen at all.
It didn't stop doing its sins.
It continued to be disobedient to Allah subhana wa Tada. And it
carried on
not in the path of the one that this white here was telling me
that you should be going. Number two, it didn't do anything, right.
But on the other hand, it also did not prepare any supplies or any
kind of welcome for this white hair either. So one is that okay,
I'm not doing too well. I'm committing haram and wrongs and
disobedience is but I'm not doing even any good deeds that I'm
sending forth for the hereafter. That's what he's trying to say. So
he's making a distinction between those two, because there's some
people who have one problem, and not the other problem. There's
some people who make salads and everything, they put their
Ferrari, they do their Ferrari, but then they still do haram. You
know, they might still drink once in a while, or lie or Zina or
whatever it is. But my problem is both, neither am I on the right
path. I mean, disobedience, but at the same time, I'm also not
preparing anything to send to the hereafter, which is what he's
saying is I'm not doing any preparation for the guest, no
Amel, Salah, no Farrell, Jimmy nothing. And had I honored this
guest had I honor discuss now Subhanallah there's a hadith a
very short Hadith mankind Allah Who shall run for lucre mho the
Prophet sallallahu sallam said, Whoever has hair, they should,
they should honor it. And then there's the other Hadith, which is
that the white hair is the knower of a believer,
because he's supposed to guide you, because he's supposed to help
you to realize that I'm going somewhere else. Now. I'm not, I
don't have time anymore. SubhanAllah.
So he said that had I honored it, and had I put something forward,
then on the day
of need, I would have found it to be of benefit to me, which is on
the day of need, which is the day of judgment. But I didn't do any
of these things. I didn't benefit from it at all. And I didn't stop
a stop my way of my way of disobedience. Now the question
that arises here is that this person seems to know that what
he's doing is wrong. So then, why is he acting like an ignorant
person? If he knows what it's wrong? It's because although you
know, but if that knowledge doesn't help you at the time, then
it's like you have no knowledge. And I think we are all very guilty
of that. May Allah subhanaw taala grant us true knowledge that helps
us
that's why a poet says, Yo, Ma, El Mariachi, Emami manatee, he had
the Euro Hassan and Melissa Bill Hassani that sometimes a person is
kind of intoxicated becomes kind of unconscious in a metaphorical
sense. Just in front of his challenge, the trial that's going
to come in front of him, he becomes kind of intoxicated or he
becomes a bit bewildered. So then he sees Good evening that which is
not good. And that's that's the nature of our sins. That we do it
despite the fact that we know it just seems to be okay justified or
we're so passionate about it or our shadow and desire overcomes us
to such a degree. So it is as though that at that time the
knowledge that you're supposed to have something being halal or
haram it's taken away from us and that's why the prophets of Allah
some said liars and is Ernie Heaney is an evil woman. That when
a fornicator phony case he is a fornicator does not phony Kate
while he's still a believer, and many of the other might have taken
that to mean that the Eman comes out for a while while that's
happening, because if you're a Mormon, you can't do this. So that
means if you aren't doing it that means okay let's push that you
might not for a while it will come back it's not going to make you
healthier. But if it does keep stay out for if he does keep going
out for a long time you might like to stay out then I'm not going to
go back keeps throwing me out. Whenever that guy comes he throws
me out of the house. Can you imagine that? You got a roommate
when somebody comes in you throw him out I know you can't be here
eventually is gonna send me find another place
what I sure will Hummer Hina Yasha whoo ha ha ha moment. A person
doesn't intoxicate himself drink in toxic and drink wine. When he
does White he's a believer. So that means the belief is coming
out at that time and then it comes back in.
In another Hadith he mentioned that he stays above your head like
a shadow like like a cloud. Then it comes back in one of the one of
the other ma they took the meaning of that that they are actually
this Iman is so this Eman is so valuable that although you're
doing this wrong, what it does is that it goes up above your head as
the shadow to protect from the punishment of Allah.
Because when we commit this sin we could be punished by Allah
subhanaw taala. So what this image does is it goes what the prophets
Allah is trying to say they say this is the opinion that it's
actually protecting us from the punishment of Allah at that time.
May Allah subhanaw taala protect it from
I'm being seized from us.
Now the knifes there's three types of knifes, I'm sure many of us
have probably heard these three types. One is the Amara. One is
the low worm and one is the Mahatma Inna, Amara lawan
watermain. The Amara is the worst of them. It's the lowest of them.
And the multiple in is the highest stage. And the nurse has to be in
one of these stages at any given time, it can't be in none of these
stages, there's no fourth option. So
the lawanna is in between the two. Amara is the lowest, and the
lawanna is between the two. So Amara is the one that incites to
do wrong. It's the one that likes you to do desire, fulfill your
desire. That's why they're Allama, they mentioned the difference
between the shaytaan attacking you and you're not attacking you, you
can tell easily. Because what the shaytaan is the shaytaan is going
to make you try to get you to do anything. So he's going to give
you a thought. And if you say I will do below, whatever, he'll
come back with another thought of another sin, he just wants you to
do something, he's just pathetic. He's just like, just do something.
Right. But if the novice is like a stubborn child, waits one sin, and
it clouds your mind, even though you're in solids, and it just
pushes, pushes, pushes like that child who will not not stop crying
until you bring him out of the court. You know what I'm talking
about? I'm sure everybody's had one of those. Right Hamdulillah I,
that's Islam, that's our Islam being done by that child.
There's a woman, she kept complaining about
her child to her Sheikh.
And the sheikh thought, How bad must the child have been? One day,
you must have seen the child and they said, so Ha, this child has
been sent for your Islam, this is the way you're going to become a
Wilier a willy Willy of Allah through this child, because
everything helps. That's why they say actually, some women, they're
able to get higher spirituality than many men, because of these
kinds of difficulties that they go through, they go through. So one
of the shakes that he said that I've seen, I've seen women who get
a much higher realm of spirituality and get closer to
Allah subhanaw taala in a shorter time than men, because they have
more of a struggle sometimes, especially in their domestic
duties.
And then there's the softness of the heart, which which helps in
that case, as well. So that's the that's the nostril Amara,
the nostril Amara is your greatest enemy. If it gets to that level,
right? You see, when we come into this world, we're given a neutral
knifes.
It becomes an Amara, it's not like we have one Amara one this and one
that it's going to be in any one of these states. It becomes an
Amara by the shaytaan, prompting us to do things and we start doing
these things and then the knifes becomes habituated to it. So that
that's what it is.
The lawanna Then, is the one where it's the the one that senses you.
It's the opposite of this one, when you thinking of something
wrong, then it tells you no, no, don't do that loan. It makes you
blameworthy. It criticizes you it makes you feel bad.
Most of us are in between these two, most believers are in between
these two, sometimes this and then sometimes it's this, sometimes it
had a really bad time, there's more of the Amara. And if you had
a really good time, then the more of the lawanna, Amara still tries
to get in, but the Loma is stronger. You can only strengthen
it through the Dhikr of Allah. And by opposing it. That's why
generally in Ramadan, the lawanna becomes better and stronger for
some time, and the shaytaan then attacks to try to make it back
into the Amara. After after he comes out on a day after Ramadan.
So now, when
a person does wrong, and then makes a mistake for the lawanna
helps him to make that mistake far.
But generally, this is the state. This is the challenge that Allah
has given us. It's a challenge that Allah has given us. The
Bootsma inna is the one who's serious, it's comfortable, it
knows where it's going. Once you can qualify as motivation, and you
get into that category, then it's straight. Yes, it's still the
dunya. So still, it can go off track once in a while. But
generally it's going to stay very straight is going to be more
stocker in worship, and it's going to be it's going to accept the
Tofik for more good deeds, it's going to be very receptive for
good deeds.
Now
the only way to get to that is to do the good deeds and to do the
thicker and to oppose enough so that's the way to get to the
motiva inner. Now the thing is that in the Quran, Allah subhanho
wa Taala is only telling one knifes to get into Jana.
And so hon Allah this is one of those verses that are
that are quite scary. Allah subhana wa Tada says, yeah, a year
to hand Nestle moto inna era je la rhombic Radhiya to multi year for
the Holy theory by the way the holy Jannetty that's the only
enough that Allah subhanaw taala is addressing like that, not the
amaro de la Varma
what what what what chance do we send them if we don't have enough
cell multimo In a collarbone saline before we pass away?
Because that's the one Allah is saying. Oh Nuff said LaMattina
inna Oh satisfied, tranquil soul.
Era Je la rahbek Go back to your Lord
around the Meridia pleased and being pleased with so you're
pleased with Allah. This knifes is pleased with Allah and Allah is
pleased with this knifes both ways.
My inner the word it minor comes from the word intimate none. And
really, this is a description of the of the Earth. This is one of
the descriptions of the Earth has many descriptions, one half
either, both my inner means one favor, the low low Earth. So what
it means is that the Nuff said most minor you're going to get
very an effective means of achieving I'm not nostril
watermain is through Nevada.
It's through humility.
Just like the origin of that term is the lowly Earth. So the lawanna
and the Amara are not being announced or not being called to
go into Jana.
That's for the two money that's for the multiple inner.
So come we've made it permissible for you given you a ticket come in
and everybody's looking around.
So raw the in the dunya this knifes is so the raw the atom or
the raw there is a description that in this world the person is
satisfied with the outcome of Allah. No complaints ever. However
Allah subhanaw taala tells them to do they do. And Maria
This is a very this is a very high description. May Allah subhanaw
taala not deprive us of this state.
May Allah subhanaw taala also put our names into
the list of those who will be given nafcillin multiple.
You see in son has three three enemies, the inside has three
enemies, one is the shaytaan. One is the knifes and the third is the
dunya.
The Shaytaan, The knifes and the dunya. How do you deal with each
one of them?
You deal with each one of them. You know when you've got a when a
person has a sickness? What do they do?
You go and you check online.
The doctor tells you they give you this literature, avoid this, avoid
this sleep early, avoid this kind of dust or don't drink milk, etc,
etc. So I mean we never you know this is the stuff that we should
be Googling all the time. You're not going to find much up there
but if you know what I mean.
So the way to avoid the world is bizarre the fear is by abstinence
from the world don't make it too close to your heart use it but
don't make it too close to your heart. shaytaan you have to oppose
him I will do bIllahi min ash shaytani R Rajim and don't Don't
listen to him and oppose him that knifes by abandoning shoutouts
abandoning desirable things. That's the only way you're gonna
do that. That's why Ramadan is what teaches us that you abandon
Halal things to just get used to abandoning to getting control.
That's that's the whole point of it.
Some of the Hakama they mentioned that when he stole it early enough
so Psara see Ron Fisher where T Shaohua. Anybody who the knifes
dominates, he becomes a prisoner in its desires Subhanallah we
think we're enjoying our desires that we fulfill and these hakama
are saying that we are actually imprisoned. What a difference of
perspective. May Allah change our perspective? Massoud on fee Sydney
Hawa we are totally shackled in the prison
of his desires.
And that's why our heart can't accept good things so easily
because of that reason.
Another iron him said man Melaka enough superficiality lil haram
Elam used to be barely ill Muharram.
So you know we think well, I wish I just never even think about
haram. Well, the way to do that is that you have to take a step
first, and then
Step is that what did he he says that whoever controls themselves
from the chapeau for haram things so the full control I don't want
haram things you got control over that then no way will haram even
come into your mind
won't come into your mind or or how old am I you should you should
use Shaco a New Year coffee. Anybody who's going to keep going
around the boundaries eventually is going to fall in.
What is the medicine what is the what is the medicine for this what
the bully had the Toba to whatnot here on Neph seminar rather ill
the only medicine for this Stober continuous Toba
and
to purify the knifes from its evil traits.
That's why the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam used to say this
dua quite often. Allahu Allah Houma RT Neff see Allah Allahumma
attina FC Taqwa was a Kia and the hiraman Zika
and the windy you have amo la beautiful just the whole focus on
the knifes the 3d ones Allahumma RT NFC Taqwa
was the key
and the how you Romans
one the high Romans
under Willie under Walia wamalwa
What it means is, Oh Allah, give us give our knifes give my
enough's. It's Taqwa. Its protection is God fearing this.
Put that in minus. And then he said, was Akiha and purify it.
The way to get the taqwa is to purify it. Now we're asking you to
help us because it's so difficult for us to do it. We keep falling.
Because you're the best one to purify. You're the best chef you
can have the
best beer that you could have. Right? Allah subhanaw taala.
And the willie you have you are
the Wedi The Guardian and The molar the best patron, the best
guardian of the knifes that's why you're the best one who can purify
it.
So white hair. Unfortunately many of us we start getting white tea
doesn't make us think a bit but then we get used to it.
We get used to it. The body adapts so the mind adapts. Okay, fine. We
just get used to it.
That's why
a poet says aro 20 Shabaab you welcome to Houston Kemah Yari
annual waracle Kalibo are Becky two other Shebaa Bibendum a woman
NEFA al Buka. Well in Hebrew
and later Shabaab a year old young woman for the Ruby mafatlal mushy
boo
what he's saying there is
I'm now out of my youthfulness.
And now unlike a tree after in autumn, you know, when all the
leaves fall off, and you're totally bare, that's how I am
right now. I am crying over the loss of my youth, with the tears
of my eyes, but this crying and this wailing will never help me
It's of no benefit. And then he says, Oh, if only youth can return
if only youthfulness can return one day and then I will tell it I
will inform it of what old age did to me how bad old age is I'll tell
I'll tell my youth that
the prophets Allah Allah Islam spoke quite a bit about white tea
said man Shabba, mushy button fill Islamic Quranic Luna yarmulke
Yama, anybody who gains white hairs in Islam, so they are
Muslim, and they become old as as Muslims, then this will be an
order for them on the Day of Judgment. So be in order for them
on the Day of Judgment. Ibraheem Alehissalaam when he first saw
white in his beard, he said he Arabi Maha, what is this? Oh my
Lord. So Allah subhanaw taala said, have our car on this is
dignity.
This is dignity.
It's supposed to be dignity. That's what it is. May Allah make
it a source of dignity for us? So that the point is that white hair,
the changing of our hair color is supposed to make a person think
it's perfectly supposed to make you remorseful and repent on what
we've wasted of our time.
Because this is seriously it's the thing about why is it you can't
change it. I don't know if there's I mean, there is now hair
transplants for people who lose hair. But I don't know if
anything, I don't know if there's anything except covering up for
white hair.
You know, take some vitamins or something and it will give you
black hair again. And the problem with white hair is that if you've
got one here and one hand you pull it out
If it attacks you three come afterwards. Okay, you pull three
out, and then you'll get nine. So then you eventually lose the
vessel with them. That's the thing with white hair.
It's related from
Mohammed, Ursula Mulhouse. He says that I saw the axon in my dream
and I said to him, What did Allah subhanaw taala do to you? How did
he deal with you after he passed away? said how did he deal with
you?
So this is what the Kali your hypnotic some he responded he
said, aka funny back in a day he he made me stand in front of him
and he said, Yeah, shave a su Oh, evil shave. Or evil old man or
evil shave. Lola
che Yep, took a rock to Kobe now.
Had I
given you this white hair than I would have burned through in the
fire
for other Nima yet who the lab debate Anya de Mola well who she
had a year. So he says, I became so frightened, just like a slave
would become frightened in front of their master. And I fainted. I
became unconscious.
When I came back when I regained my consciousness,
he said it again to me, but this time, I had a bit more. I had a
bit more strength. So I said, Yeah, rugby Maha Cava Bella honey
and this is where your knowledge will benefit you. This is where
this person's Tofik of Allah subhanaw taala giving him the
Knowledge, not raw knowledge is more focus the Saulteaux fique can
you use your knowledge? This is where he benefited. He said Maha
kava Bella honey, I think this is not what has reached me about you.
The description that I'm seeing right now is not what has reached
me. And then Subhanallah look, he says warmer Bella vaca Annie Allah
subhanaw taala asked him What did what was transmitted to you what
was conveyed to you about me for call to her destiny? Abdul Razak,
and Martin Martin and his Zuri and Anna Sydney Malik, you know the
Allahu Anhu and the beaker and Gibreel unka ja Kareem Anika
Coulter, Marcia Abdon shea butter and Phil Islami illustre here at
Zebra who Benard
see his Hadith transmission did work that day. What did he say? He
said Allah said what what reached you? He said, Abdul Razak related
to me from Mama, who related from Zuri Ignosi Hubzu. Hurry, who did
he from undersuit. America the Allah one who related from your
prophet who related them from Gibreel from you?
Oh Kareem or benevolent one that you had said that no servant
becomes white in Islam meaning Whitehead in Islam, except that
Allah is speaking, except that I am embarrassed to punish him with
the fire.
So Allah subhanaw taala said sadaqa abdulrazaq
was sadaqa Makmur. At the result told the truth. Mama told the
truth was sadakazu Hurry. Imam Zuri also told the truth was
sadaqa Ennis was sada canovee was sadaqa Djibouti, all of them have
told the truth. And according to the lake, I definitely said that
in 30, Kobe, he loves Jana. Take him to Jana.
Take him to Jana.
But at the end of the day, you can't really I mean, you could
memorize this hadith and say, I'm going to use this hadith on that
day. And you know, it probably work, it would probably work. And
the reason I say this is that if you're going to take the effort to
learn this hadith, in you're not I mean, this hadith is not going to
come to you just like that. It's going to come to you by effort.
The effort is driven by tofi. You've got concerned Allah
subhanaw taala could give us forgiveness for that.
Allahu Akbar.
It's related that a young man in the Bani Israel he worshiped Allah
subhanho wa Taala for 20 years.
And then after that, something happened to him and then he
disobeyed Allah for 20 years. He got off track. He disobeyed Allah
subhanaw taala for 20 years.
One day, he looked at himself in the mirror, and he saw wiped on
his face.
He saw this guy who seemed to have a beard.
Right? Even the Fajr in those days had a beard. Even the
transgressors had beards in those days, because it wasn't it was
tradition. It was normal, it's fine. You didn't have to look like
an ALU.
So
when he saw that, it really made him feel bad. Look what's going on
in those mirrors all over the place. Nowadays we have mirrors
every room you know, you can't escape yourself. Right?
You have mirrors in your pocket.
Every every traffic lights
you
For some people
he became extremely concerned about himself. Well look what I've
been doing. So then immediately he spoke to Allah the best person the
best, the best in the best entity you can speak to.
You got a problem speak. He said Ilahi are taught to correct
sharena What I say to carry Shereena Sanditon I have obeyed
you for 20 years and I have disobeyed you for 20 years for in
Raja to a Laker a duck a duck bologna. Now if I'm to return to
you after these 20 years will you accept accept me? When you accept
me for her to fob he hurt if you're smart, so to who what are
your shock so he heard a sound an announcement.
He couldn't see who it was, but he heard a sound.
He said it said
Bob Turner. Bob knuck you loved us. We loved you. Tara Turner
photography now. Kanak then you abandoned us. We abandoned you.
While Satana for a malloc you disobeyed us, but we gave you
respite. We didn't seize you. We gave you we gave your time. What
in Roger Elaina copernic or Kaabil nuk. If you do return to us, we
will accept you.
Hola, hamaca Latina be Hannah Nika wa artifically. Or hamara him in
our likes. Apttus is one through your compassion, and your
clemency, almost Merciful of the merciful ones.
Now these are the kinds of things that are going through the
author's the author's mind, we can't say for sure. But these are
the kinds of things that are going through. Now. He says. So after
saying neither has a neither has myself prepared fair deeds in
hospitable welcome for a guest who has taken up residence on my head.
Such a beautiful expression. Then he said, local to Lm will aneema
walk you through who ketam To sell run badali mean, who will cut me?
What's he saying? He's saying, had I understood?
Had I known that I'm not going to listen to it. I'm going to be so
patient on. Right, I'm going to be so bold, and I'm not going to
listen to my I'm not going to take advice from my white hair. He's
saying so this way isn't had I understood that I would not have
honored it, then I would have you used the custom dye to hide what
it disclosed that expression,
I would have dyed my hair. So at least it doesn't seem so bold,
that is white, and I'm not doing anything about it, if I just knew
that this is how I was going to treat it from before.
So this is obviously his confession now. Right to the other
person, that this is what my sense is, you know, this imaginary
dialogue that's going on, if I knew that I was going to have so
many shortcomings, and I'm going to be excessive in my
disobedience. And none of you know, I'm not going to do
anything. I'm not going to prepare anything, I'm not going to send
anything forward. I'm not going to honor this guest that's that's
there with good deeds and so on. Because essentially, he's saying
that
generally it's understood that when a person becomes white head,
then it should create some kind of concern, dignity and remorse, and
a worrying grief.
And that I should start making Toba now, when this is happening,
and when it does happen, then eventually it should take away all
of these desires from my heart all these desires that I've had until
now, but I'm finding that I'm getting 40 years old and it's
becoming worse Subhanallah is becoming worse.
So I initially got happy this is like is going on in his mind
initially I got very happy that this is all that's going to
happen. Now that the White House will come this is what's going to
happen I got really excited because generally whiteness is
people become Saudi Hain in those in the age then
and people do Toba people repent.
So when it did actually come then with all of these desires that I
had, and then it attacked my head, its forces just to cover
right says well, fascia for ROTC or screw its army just took over
my head. Why not soberly, hottie Bill was a member who and he also
put up its member to start preaching. Allahu Akbar. Rockin to
knifes rockin it enough so l MyLSU. that the problem is I
didn't listen to this hotbar every Friday, I didn't listen to it.
But I went into more and more into my thoughts into my desires.
And I didn't pay any heat whatsoever. So now if I knew that
that is what I was going to do to it if I knew that this is what I
was going to do to it that
And, and I knew then what I know today of how I would respond to
it.
And how my enough's is not going to listen to it. Let's stay to
mean Allah He woman and nurse, then I would have become
embarrassed from Allah and from the people.
And
I would have quickly rushed to keep it covered, so that when
people see me they don't think I'm so old and I'm still messing
around. So that's what I would have done, I would have dyed my
hair.
But I was hoping for something else. And unfortunately, I failed
in my hope and my dreams and my desires.
And my Tofik is now only with Allah subhanaw taala.
Now, just as a side point, we have actually discussed this in the
Shama in that for a person who has starts getting wiped here, should
they cover it or not. So the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa
sallam he told a whole bucket of the Allahu Anna's father to
change, to cover to to change his color, and told him to abstain
from Black. Some, most of them agree that Black should be totally
avoided. However, there were a few aroma few Sahaba as well, that
thought that that was very particular for him. So they've,
but generally, the understanding is that black should be avoided.
Now, should you should people use it or should they leave the White
terror or not? So there's both opinions. You know, from the
Hadith, you understand that it's a sunnah. But then you had others
who left it, especially when the prophets Allah Himself is saying
that white is the norm of the believer. So then why change it?
Maybe he told because he actually the Prophet salallahu Salam
mentioned about overcrowding, he was extremely white all over and
maybe it would be better that he changed it. So what the alumni
have concluded from all of this as a simple conclusion is that it
depends on the trends of the area, because you don't want to do
something that's going to make you be boastful.
Right, or look like something that you're not supposed to look like.
If you're white hair looks dignified, then keep it white.
Because some people they have a silvery kind of white where it
looks very mashallah honorable and dignified. It gives them much more
Waqar and respect. When people see them they think mashallah, you
know, and for some people, it makes them actually look wispy. It
makes them look, you know, maybe lightheaded or weird or whatever
the case then they should change it. So it just depends. That's
essentially the conclusion here.
So the final, the final one will read today, after confessing all
of this, giving his nasiha in between. He says manly beard
Dejima him in Hawaii at ha comma Euro Dojima hula Haley Ben
legitime
manly beard Dejima him in Hava comma Yara Dojima hula Haley, Ben
legitime, who will now help me curb a bolting rebels willfulness
in the way that a rebel stallion may be curbed with drains. Now
he's going and totally speaking about a different metaphor now.
You see, what it is is that you have a very trained stallion it
generally remains very straight. But if it does go wrong, it
becomes if it does become wild again, it becomes extremely
difficult to get it back on track. So now he's seeing that this is my
state that I'm like this wild standing Subhanallah that's many
of us are like that.
We go through this turmoil in our mind that we want to try we want
to become better become better for a few days and it goes back we
become better for it. It goes back. That's the problem.
So Gemma, Gemma have means to holla but it means to overcome to
dominate. So it's the
easing who will help me curb a bolting rebels willfulness in the
way that a rebel stallion may be curbed.
So,
when the knifes becomes totally associated with love that with
desires and it becomes totally engrossed in them,
haram mcru Hurt etc. It becomes very difficult to now rectify it
is difficult to take it away from what it's so used to.
It's very difficult unless in La Quwata Minal medical Cadiz unless
you have assistance from Allah subhanaw taala then it becomes
easy. So dua is needed an opposition is needed to the nurse.
So it's necessary to do the jihad on knifes. And to try to dominate
it from what is become so used to so you have to deprive it from
that you have to rehabilitate it by first depriving it from the
alcohol or whatever it is that they do.
See, the problem with the horse is that if it does become wild like
that, and he bolts then it becomes very difficult to deal with it.
Now the thing is that the horse you can still work with, but the
knifes is supposed to be worse than that.
verse
because you need the assistance of Allah.
Right? So there's nothing tangible that you can work with unless you
call Unto Allah subhanaw taala. So there's no just practical steps
that you can just take, you have to ask Allah subhanaw taala as
well. Because with the horse, you can receive it or whatever.
That's the way animals work.
See, he's saying this on a question that arises after he
said, like, you knew he was so bad, you know, you knew you're
into all of this. So why didn't you respect your white hair? And
why didn't you prepare something for the hereafter?
So now he's saying that, look, this is my dilemma. So what he's
trying to say he's trying to impart to us is that the knifes is
like that. At the last minute when your white hair comes, you can't
just suddenly change it. So you understand why he's going on to
this now? Because the question that arises after all of that,
okay, you knew this was all bad. So why didn't you just change it?
He said, Well, I was helpless now. Because for 2030 years I've been
engrossed in and my nerves is so habituated to all of these things.
Now I see the white hair, although I feel bad about it, but there's
nothing I can do because I'm so in the hole. So that's what he's
saying that it's like the horse has bolted it's it's you know,
it's become a rebel. That's what the problem is. For men Libero
Decima Han who is going to help me now bring this back together. Okay
for automatic V sofa he won't just will IG zine. And I'm the most
feeble feeble of players in this How am I going to be able to who's
going to help me unless Illa beta e,
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only thing that can help is support from the one who's
Dominions include the heavens and earth.
What shakable has an usher that he mentions. He says that whenever a
person has
gone into the deepest recesses of following the enough's and now the
knifes is not going to help him to become better, because he's a full
of soul Amara full on an absolute Amara. Now he's got two options.
This is a person who's a believer still, he's still got belief. So
you got two options now. Right? The two options are
one is to understand that all the bounties that are still coming
from Allah subhanaw taala the health we have the money we have
the life that we're still living, all the naira from Allah subhanho
wa Taala that Allah has given him they still got his Iman, the
person still has Iman, the dough heat, which Allah subhanaw taala
has made beloved to his heart that's why he won't give up his
toe heat. Yes, he's doing everything wrong. But he won't
give a bestow he'd he still is a Muslim and a believer at heart. So
it's to take it from you know, because what what is the strand
that he can take when he's okay Allah has still given these are
still net more of Allah on me. He has not taken everything away from
me. I've still got these bounties. So is to take the bounty route
acknowledgement of the bounty routes, that Allah subhanaw taala
has made Tawheed adorned in my heart, beloved to my heart, and
Allah subhanaw taala has made kufr and for Sukan a Seon hated by me
even though I do it, I don't want to but Allah has made it hated in
my heart, even though I do it. So then he should say yeah, Rob be an
AMTA Allah Yeah, Bihar there was some Madani Rashidun for K for a
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So now you talk to Allah subhana wa Tada. And you say to Allah, Oh
Allah, you've given me all of these bounties.
Iman Tauheed you've given me all of these bounties. You've called
me a person who's guided, more guided than those who don't have
Iman, right? How can I now become despondent from you? Despite the
fact that you're still helping me so much, but at least keeping my
Eman preserved is not that Allah subhanaw taala just give somebody
Iman and then he takes a backseat.
Allah is giving permission for the Eman to stay with us at every
moment that it stays and that does not tie him. So Allah you're still
doing that. Oh Allah if I'm,
if I'm behind, I want you to still accept me. So Allah subhanaw taala
loves it when we recognize what he's given us. There are so many
people who are in this state, they feel totally helpless. shaytaan
makes them feel like that. But they should just focus that Allah
still has given them bounties. This is the way of hope. So that's
one thing he can do. The other way is
just to show absolute need to Allah subhanaw taala just to show
him that I am in absolute need to you always so he says Yara be
Salam Salam. Oh my Lord, just just
how do you translate this
Just give me safety give me safety as all I can say I got no way
there's no way I can gain safety except through you through you.
And then he says that there is nobody who has been overcome by
the knifes which is obviously based on the decree of Allah
subhanaw taala there is nobody that this is that is going to get
out of this who has been cut away from OBEDIA except with these two
ways because that's all they've got to go on now.
to either take into consideration the bounties you still have and
say Oh ALLAH you're still giving me the means I've got hope you can
give me more and the other one is oh Allah I just asked you for
safety I've got nothing else to show.
And if a person then wastes these two opportunities as well,
then for chakra to wholesaler, then it's then it's wretchedness.
Then it's an it's misfortune.
Well, dualism then there's going to be distance from Allah subhanaw
taala. Well
maybe we'd protected from that. So we'll we'll we'll stop there. But
the next one
is now it's full on now. He's giving a now he's just preaching
now. You know that this whole love thing is finished. So now listen
to the next one. He says, Follow Tom Bill mousy cast Russia who at
her in Toriyama. Yoko Risha, who attend near me think not to break
unlawful whims by satisfying them. Don't think you're gonna break
your bad habits by continuing to do them. Food only increases a
gluttons desire. The more you eat, the more you want to eat. When not
to cut deftly in Tamil who Shabbat Allahu Akbar Rodolphe were in
tough Tim who yearn for Timmy. The ego is like a child neglected and
it will grow up still suckling. Only if you win it. Will it be
weaned? What are you whoa here Phil murli sir Emerton. We're in
here's the handler filmora for that fella to see me. God it as it
grazes in the pastures of deeds and should it find the grazing
sweet linear Let it not roam and we'll be covering those in detail.
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just Allah who I know Muhammad Mo Oh Allah forgive us our sins. Oh
Allah we are extremely sinful servants of Allah we've come to
you with dark hearts of Allah. We're sitting in the masjid here
but we have darkness in our hearts. We have sins that cover
our hearts for many many years. or Allah Our knifes is constantly
telling us to fulfill our desires. Oh Allah enough says exactly as
the author has mentioned here, Oh Allah, Oh Allah we have had many
many different types of remainders in the form of white hair in the
form of accidents in the form of losses in the form of
shortcomings. Oh Allah, Oh Allah these things may start to last for
a short while but then afterwards we go back to thinking that it's
all fine and so normal. Oh Allah, Oh Allah make these signs that You
give us make us pay heed to them and and to to really take them
seriously of Allah because if you don't this Sophie can only be from
you. All were confessing we're self confessing sinners here. Oh
Allah we confess that there's no way we have absolutely no other
strategy except through you. Oh Allah we understand that it's just
pure Tofik Oh Allah we understand it's just pure assistance from you
is just pure support from your side of Allah. There is no way we
don't have any other means of doing this. Oh Allah we don't have
any other strategies. We don't have any other tricks up our
sleeve. Oh Allah this. The only way we can do this is to ask you
and that's why will we we are confessing this Oh Allah you love
it when you're seven confesses to you because it expresses our booty
and our servitude of Allah. Even though we're saying this we say it
with a dark heart. But oh Allah take it for take it at its face
value of Allah even though you know very well what's in our
hearts and you know the floss and the absence of it in our hearts,
or Allah or Allah except our good deeds of Allah turn us away from
our evil deeds. Oh Allah make us an accepted beings before we dive
in before we die, oh Allah so that we could be in the company of your
messenger Muhammad sallallahu alayhi wa sallam in the high
levels of genital fear dose of Allah the signs that come to us,
Oh Allah, we've had many signs we've had. We've had gruesome
accidents. We've had many many issues of Allah this could happen
to any one of us, and we will be unprepared who Allah we will be
unprepared. Oh Allah, Oh Allah grant a softness in our hearts and
obedience in our hearts. illumination in our heart. You
know in our hearts of Allah accept us all in the fullest manner of
Allah accept us all in the fullest manner. Grant is genital filled
dose of Allah pick us up like a mother picks up her soil child and
purifies in wishes that child
And then brings it close close to her. Oh Allah we know you have
more mercy than that. While we asked you to also pick us up who
are in this state of sinfulness state of darkness of Allah and
purify us because under hiraman zurka You're the one who is the
best of purifiers of the HUD. Grant us our grant our knifes your
taqwa God fearing this your fear of Allah and because you're the
best one to purify our hearts. Oh Allah, you're the patron. You are
the caretaker. Oh Allah, you are the guardian. You're in, in
control of all of these things. Oh Allah. Oh Allah. Oh Allah. We
can't ask anybody else. Oh Allah, we ask you and make it easy for us
to live the rest of our life, but make it that we live it now in
your obedience rather than in your disobedience Subhanallah because
believe it or not, you'll see fool wa salam ala l Mursaleen.
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