Abdur Rahman ibn Yusuf Mangera – Qasida Burda (The Mantle Ode) Part 6
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Bismillah al Rahman al Rahim Al Hamdulillah Al Hamdulillah. He was
Salatu was Salam o Allah so you didn't know how many more either
early he was the he were Baraka was a limit to Sleeman cathedral.
laomi, DEEN underbar.
So I love mobile city. After starting this discourse between
the two individuals, first he wasn't speaking, he was just
crying
out of his love. Finally, the other person persuaded him to
start speaking, for Steam, in fact, and when he started
speaking, he hasn't stopped. So first he started speaking about
why he shouldn't be really blamed for his love and so on. And then
he moved on to how bad he's been, and how he hasn't really dealt
with this life in the way that he should have dealt with it, and so
on. Now, he's at the point where he's speaking about the main
reason why many of us fail to be,
fail, fail to be extremely righteous in this world of
challenges that are faced by righteous people. So that's what
he's been saying. And he's telling us some of his experiences. He's
actually revealing to us some of the secrets of the knifes in the
way the lowly soul acts against us. So then he said, for the
throne Bill mousy cast Russia, who at her in Toriyama, Yoko Risha,
who attorney Hemi oneness suka pitifully in Tamil who Shabbat
Allah hookbait Radha a were in two of them who yearn for TV. What
where are you? We're here Phil early so imagine we're in here
stay a little further to see me.
Foster if hubba hubba will have your unto Alia who in the house in
the lower Murta will use him? Oh, you'll see me.
Come GM has Centella Viton lilmar ekati lettin mean haolam Yatri and
assume if it does me so that's what he's that's what we covered
last time. Basically what he's saying is think not to break
unlawful whims and desires by satisfying them. Because food only
increases a gluttons desire. The ego is like a child neglect it and
it will grow up still suckling only if you win it will it be
weaned God it as it grazes in the pasture of deeds and should it
find the grazing sweet then don't let it roam too much frustrated
swim be wary of giving it power for whims pollute or pervert
whatever they control is basically saying don't ever trust enough if
you start getting too interested in something like that example I
gave you of the person who was being told to go in the path of
Allah for jihad. And then he really asked himself why what was
his real intention motivation for going then he says many a delight
has it approved which proved murderous for some do not know
that fat also contains a poison.
So they think that it's all okay it's okay they can just keep
eating but they know that it's actually poisonous for them
sometimes there's poison in there. And then he and then this is where
we get to today he says workshop DESA is I mean do in women Sheba
in for Obama has certain showroom minute to HMI just in case
somebody thinks that we shouldn't eat too much. So let's starve
ourself. So he immediately corrects us and says that that's
also another extreme problem. For those people, some people eating
too much is that is the problem and is the challenge as in the is
the case in the modern world. But then he says on the other side, on
the other hand, not having anything is also a problem,
because that can lead to many problems as well. So then he says,
Fear the insidious snares of hunger
and of say shitty, so, fear the nets of being too full, after
stuffing yourself, or of not having anything and being
extremely hungry.
Because being hungry is sometimes worse than having
worse than having stuffed yourself. That's worse. In fact,
the Prophet salallahu Alaihe Salam, he said, God will follow
through and you're gonna go from it is very possible that sometimes
poverty leads to gopher
infidelity.
Disbelief, because then a person thinks I don't have anything.
Allah is not looking after me. You just need a few people with Bibles
and food telling you this is from Jesus
as they do
and then that's it, you will go because you're just thinking while
nobody is looking after you, you just need somebody to play on your
emotions at that time and convince you and so many people then leave
the faith without realizing that it's a trial and with every
difficulty eventually comes ease as well.
So he's saying here workshop the SIR so he's been very
comprehensive it's not been one sided isn't it workshop DESA is
mean jus in the SIR is means things that will ensnare you
attacks ploys stratagems. So be careful of these kinds of ploys
and snares of both jus which means hunger, extreme hunger. And Shiva.
Shiva means the opposite, which is to be totally satiated, totally
stuffed and satisfied. Be careful of both of them.
Because in some cases mock Messiah, as the word is used in
the Quran as well, Messiah 10 means extreme need, when you have
nothing, when it becomes halal for you to drink wine, if that's the
only thing that's available to just keep yourself going to eat
haram anymore. That's the kind of situation we're talking about an
extreme need. situation, sometimes that situation is worse than
stuffing yourself or having stuffed yourself. That's what he's
saying. So what he's saying here is just like you should, you
should avoid eating too much.
Be then moderate, moderation is important.
Moderation is important. Without because, as we know that too much
hunger
is extremely harmful to the human being as well. There's many
calamities, because number one will weaken you, it will weaken
you, it will make you feel always agitated, because you don't have
the vitamins you have deficiencies. A lot of the time
deficient people acting in strange ways, hormonal issues, it's all
because of certain deficiencies that come about when you take
certain things, it calms you down. So
that's another problem. So it creates that issue, then, the
other thing that it creates, is
it then leads to it will weaken your body. So physically, you will
be weakened as well.
Then eventually, it will start attacking your main organs. So you
will start becoming diseased, start attacking your kidneys,
because not getting enough nourishment, your heart
and other parts of the body.
So then
that will then
your imagination will start getting start running wild and
amok. Because then you're just wondering how to deal with things,
you're not sensible anymore, you can't think reasonably, because
there's all of these deficiencies in a person's body, then
obviously, then that leads to sometimes debilitating diseases,
it leads to all these problems.
So any kind of hunger that's eventually going to reach this
stage, it's, he's saying that is going to be worse than stuffing
yourself. Because stuffing yourself can never be that bad. It
will eventually be, or it could eventually be, but this is worse.
So being stuffed, and filled and satiated all the time, that also
has many problems. And what what does that do, that also kind of
takes your mind away, because you're too you'll be so satisfied
inside and so stuffed that your brain is not active anymore,
because your brain needs room. But otherwise you all these gases are
coming up all the foods, right? And it hardens the heart increases
your sleep, you have didn't relax too much and sleep. And of course
then that leads to its own
sicknesses and illnesses and diseases.
And the thing is actually fun. He also uses this as a means as well
to get into the human being, and
increase and strengthen his strengthen his
his his sovereignty and his control over the human being
through this. So then the person who just sits back and doesn't
want to do worship because he's just too much enjoyment if he
starts to forget Allah subhanho wa Taala
Yeah, he knows Zachary. Yeah, it's related from your hypnosis career.
That once he had a
encounter with the shaytaan he actually mentioned that earlier on
she told us to actually come and speak to people just kind of you
know, mess around. Speak to people have a discourse with them. Right
blatantly and openly. He still comes in meets people but
surreptitiously inside but now that he would come before like
that, so
yeah, yeah. Hypno Zachary asked him that what are all these things
with you? He said, Oh, these are all the snares. These are the
shower told the desires. These are all my ploys bag of tricks that I
use.
to hunt the human being. So yeah, he had no, as the Korea said that.
Is there anything in there for me? Have you got anything that will
work against me that you're going to use against me? Right? Which
one is for me which trick? So he said shaytaan said to him, No, I
don't have anything. But the only thing that I can get you with is
that, you know, some days, you fill your stomach, like you eat
too much, you fill your stomach,
and then you kind of become a bit heavy, and then you don't feel
like doing in a few extra cards and so on. That's how I get you.
If that's the only way he's getting him, he wasn't what he was
getting us with Soheila. That's all he is capturing him with just
eating too much a few times.
We don't have I mean, subhanAllah that the problem with us is that
we have access to food all the time.
We have access to food all the time. And that's a big problem.
Because you can keep grazing like animals, because they do what they
do is graze all day, but then they produce milk the cow does, you
know
Subhanallah
I went to a cheese factory. And they showed how much? How much
would you call it? A cow grazes in a day compared to the human, you
know, compared to a human being regular human being. And it's a
massive difference. But then they produce milk.
So the problem with us is, you know, in the early days, you had
like a cold kitchen with cooks or something like that. And there'd
be food that would just be brought fresh, or whatever meat or some
vegetables you'd pick enough to make it up. There was no processed
foods, there was no none of these packaged chocolates and sweets and
stuff like that. It was just Jenna.
Like Like in India, I mean, you go on the trains the sending us,
they're sending you these different types of lentils and
chickpeas and stuff like that.
So you couldn't keep grazing on stuff. The most you do is going to
have some water.
But now, every time we've got our fridge, we've got things in there,
you know, everything from cheese sticks, to graze on,
right to everything else as nicely packaged chocolate bars, crisps, I
mean, which house is devoid of these things? So you just keep I
mean, those of us who have the problem, let's keep grazing. It's
what you call it, you call it grazing.
Anyway, so then
you have no Zekeriya immediately he made a vow in front of
shaytaan. He said, I've in the Linde here I had an Allah Akbar a
burden. I've just made a promise to Allah subhanho wa Taala I'm
never going to say shake myself I'm not going to eat to my Phil.
Never. So shaytaan said to him, and now I make an oath that I'm
never going to give. I'm never going to reveal any of these
things to the human being.
I'm never going to tell the human being how I captured them.
So shaytaan apparently made.
Then, look man, one of his wasa to his son was even taller than
tolerated murder. Namath. Hilfiker Mahara settle hikma, Waka Dettol
Allah O'Neal Eva, when the stomach becomes full. Your brain goes to
sleep and your wisdom. It becomes dead and it becomes dolt. So you
can't really see into things because you're so stuffed and your
limbs, they just retire. They sit down from worship. They don't.
They don't do any worship.
Imam thought he used to say yeah, I'm actually moody in Kulu
cathedral for the shabu, Kathira and fatahna. We'll get here on
Fatah siru Kathy run
a group of aspirants people who want the path of Allah.
The advice to you is do not eat too much. So then you have to
drink enough them.
To calm down the heat of the foods makes you dry. You need to drink
especially certain foods like that pizzas like that. I just having
pizza without coke does it work? After an hour you have to have it
just the way the food is.
Then after that, you have to drink too much. If you drink too much,
you have to sleep too much then. And then if you have to sleep too
much then you will be in loss. What are the biggest problem is
that when you get stuffed when you people are stuffed with food, then
they don't realize how it feels not to have food and then you
forget those people like that. That's why use of Alehissalaam
despite the fact that he was the agricultural distribution manager,
the minister in charge of distributing the food in the time
of drought. He used to stay hungry. Despite the fact that he
had all the food at his disposal. He used to stay home
Greece somebody said to him mylocker, the Jew one Dinah Huzar
in a lot of, you've got all of the treasures of the earth here,
you've got all the supplies, the storerooms, but yet you stay
hungry. So he said a half one a Shabbat, one soldier. That's a
true prophet speaking. He says that I fear that if I feel myself,
then I will forget the person who is hungry. So from this, we
understand what the author is trying to say that both sides have
its problems. That's why what the Prophet sallallahu sallam said,
which I pray to Allah subhanaw taala that Allah gives us the
Tofik for which as he said, The most you can do is one foot 1/3
for food 1/3 For for water and 1/3 for the air. That's the Mac that's
the maximum. That's why NSO the Allahu Anhu
and you've got all that hadith that we covered in the Shamaya and
recently, however, when food came then the Sahaba did eat as well
but that was sometimes they were these invitations or sometimes
that's when they ate it wasn't just normally everyday that they
had loads and loads of food that's that's the way it was.
So it's completely fine to have a good decent meal or stuff yourself
once in a while there's nothing wrong with that. It's happened
that's why the brochure Lawson was told him to drink and he says I
can't drink anymore and UK told him to drink
right then the next time he says what stuff really dumb I mean I in
in Kadeem teller at middle mahadi me welcome him yet another me.
Well heard if enough so a shaytaan watse Hema we're in Houma. Mahalla
can use half attack me, walla toto Minh Houma Hussmann voila
Hackerman for under 34k del hast me will hack me. So firstly, he
says, empty out the tears from an AI that has stuffed itself with
forbidden sites. Allahu Akbar is such a penetrating, insightful
poem. He says what stuff really dumb I mean, I in Kadeem Tala
Minal Maha Remi worldsim him yet another me empty out the tears
from an eye. Like just cry so much that your eyes have no tears lifts
from eyes that have stuffed themselves with forbidden sites,
hold hard to a diet, hold hard to a diet of penitence, of remorse
and regret
of what you've done in the past. This is his Naseeha. So he's kind
of you know, he's using you can say medical speech. Because what
happens? Why do people go and get cupping done, they get it done
because they feel that they have blood that is too thick, or that
has some issues in there. So it's to clean it out, detoxify the
body? Why do you go and why are operations done? To take a cyst
out? To take something out? That is bad for you? These are
detoxification that that people do. Likewise, why do we go to the
why do we go and relieve ourselves defecation and urination is to
take out the dirt from our body. I mean, it would actually be very
nice. If you only had to do that once a year. It would save a lot
of time.
Imagine if you just had to do once a year, Get yourself cleaned out
nicely. And then you're fine for the year. That'd be very nice. But
unfortunately not.
But to tell the truth. I mean, nowadays if they say that if you
don't go once a day, it's bad for you. You hear from people there's
some of the taboo in like ignore ignore be Leyla used to go once in
every 15 days.
He used to defecate once in every 15 days. That's because of the
amount of food they ate. Everything was used up. There
wasn't so much that had to be then excreted because you got too much
in your body be stuffing, you know it has to be in fact, what the
research shows is that we actually carry a lot more inside us that
just stays there. Because of the foods kind of foods that we eat.
That's why sometimes they recommend these foods, certain
types of foods that allow everything to kind of be cleaned
out. Otherwise our colons are normally stuffed in like when you
have the pipe of the basin suddenly, you know it takes less
water and less water and then you know that there's some things
stuffed it has to be cleaned out similar similar to that.
It's just we are living in a time of these processed sugars and
processed foods and, and it's just, I mean, think about it 20
years ago what Tesco would have offered. And today what you can
what's on offer. In fact, what's on offer today is not even
everything that's possibly available. It's amazing.
It's not because the supermarkets can only just look at the I
remember when I went to American in 2000 Right I used to look at
the shelves nowadays to have two whole aisles of drinks. And I used
to look at the variety they had. You know everything from dilute
drinks to soft
drinks to the you know, these Hawaiian Punch and all these kinds
of stuff. None of that was in England. I remember, in our local
supermarket, there were only three, two or three shelves for
drinks. Right? Because I remember that very clearly. When I went to
American I saw two whole aisles or one whole aisle, I can't remember
exactly. I was shocked. Surprised look, look at the variety that's
on offer here.
When I came back in 2008, England was the same. It caught up, go go
and look in any supermarket, you're not going to have just two
racks of shelves are two row in two columns. As such, it's going
to be whole aisles now that are full of drinks.
And manufacturers have to compete to put their products there. If a
product doesn't go too well, and there's not enough promotion
behind it, they will take it on board another product. There are
so many cereals that are possibly out there. I went to one Chocolate
Factory. That was that's, that's a subsidiary of Nestle. So it's not
even Nestle its own brand like called Nestle. This is called Kia.
It's in Switzerland, they had more than 150 chocolates on offer that
you could buy
more than 150 chocolates on offer. That's one company that's a
subsidiary of a major company.
That is kind of the production that's taking place today. And
it's available for us to use. And so it is extremely difficult. And
day by day I mean now you go to these supermarkets you have this
specialized even in our as the here, right especial aisle for all
foreign foods. So you've got your, you've got your Arab foods, you
know your hummus and all this kind of stuff. You've got Polish food,
you've got Hebrew, kosher Jewish food, you've got Halal sections,
you know, and you've, you've got from all the different countries,
everything.
So there's just so much out there, and it takes a it takes a very
strong
discipline knifes to avoid all in other words, you just feel like
you just feel like you want to buy the shoe if you like you want to
buy this is try this. Let's try this. Let's try that. So we spend
a huge amount of money, and then we eat it. That's why there was no
obesity before.
It's a recent thing that's in England is catching up. In
America, believe me, there are massive people that and England
never had that. So you just see all these massive fat guys.
In America, it was just always the case in California, our arms are
sitting there. I was like, wow, when people are big here, come
back to England and it's catching up.
Everything's catching up. So what he's saying here now, finally,
going back to normal, you know, going to another point. He's
saying cry, weep. That's your detox certification for the sins
that you've committed. Nothing else is going to help. This is
gonna help to make yourself cry and weep because tears are very
powerful. Allah subhanaw taala loves those tears that are shed
out of his fear. And that is what will clean everything out for us
to feel the remorse and to shed these tears. That's why he's
saying is suffering for all means to make it empty, cry, cry, cry so
much that you can no longer cry anymore. So he's not saying just
weep, he's saying is suffering which means just totally, totally
empty it out. That's the word he's using in Arabic at them. I mean, I
in from an eye, which has been filled with Muharram filled with
Haram is different types of firearms.
And that's why
that's what he's saying here.
The Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam said the Zina of the Zener
of the eye is is looking. And the Prophet sallallahu sallam said the
first the first sight the first glance that you give to something
haram by accident or whatever. Imagine that to be he said is some
woman see how misshapen it's an arrow from the arrows of shaitan.
consider that to be an error, what would you do if somebody is firing
at you?
And I'm going to look at it and says, yes shoots me.
You know, you're going to run away, you're going to look around,
look away, to protect yourself. May Allah give us this picture in
our mind when our glands falls under haram, that it's an arrow of
the shaytaan
if that consciousness just comes in, we protect ourselves. That's
why he said Thurman Taraka who, now it's bad for us, so we should
be turning away anyway. But Allah subhanaw taala is so kind that a
Prophet sallallahu sallam said, Whoever avoids it Kofa Minh Allah,
out of fear for Allah subhanho wa taala. Allah will give him such
Iman that he will feel its sweetness in his heart. So you
will be rewarded for it.
saving yourself. How can you get a more merciful Lord than that?
He tells us what's wrong for you. And then he tells us that when you
avoid it, I'll reward you for it. And I'll make it better for you
but you have to try.
Subhanallah
such a merciful Lord, such a merciful Lord and we forget the
aspect of His mercy. It says one Nether aura a dual ma see what
burrito Shaohua to Well, how was suberb ala Katell Calbee. He's
saying that the glance is the preliminary to discern
disobedience says it is the postman.
It is the postman for desires. That's why one of the poet says
we're indicating ourselves the Torah Cara Eden, Lena fck, Yeoman
Abbot Kalmar. Now zero or eight the lady writer lady local law
Kulu and Takada Runa Allahi, wa ala and baldy and disorder.
So, when a person
has a sincere Toba sincere repentance, then they will feel
remorseful over what they've done in the past, man, look how many
years I've spent doing that, I wish I am forgiven for this, he
will then start to cry over what has been lost of the past until he
is then purified by these tears, water purifies anyway. So this is
what Allah subhanaw taala has given us to do that the tears
perform many, many functions. So whatever has been corrupted of our
eyes, whatever has been adulterated, polluted and soiled
of our eyes, from this, the dirt of these, of these disobedient
says that the eyes, the tears that flow from our eyes will will
eventually clear it, and will purify it, and we'll remove the
stains from them. And that's why dot hero will iron Xenon be taught
here we'll call and the purification of the eyes. That is
a sign of the purification of the hearts, the NL Buka you as you
know been not me well SF, because crying is signals that a person is
remorseful, if we can cry. If we can't cry, it means we have no
remorse, crying, if you have remorse over something, it's just
Allah has given us human nature that like that, that he makes you
cry.
And that's what knifes needs to go towards doba and return to Allah
subhanho wa taala.
The fact that tears stay inside, they don't wake up and come out,
then this shows that the heart has a problem. And there's no tilba
That has happened. So you can't gain Toba without crying a few
tears, essentially, that's a sign. That's a shame. It's a sign unless
Allah subhanaw taala wants to forgive somebody. Now, if a person
never cries, then the nurse will stay like that. So crying a few
tears, you know, some of the best time to cry is just about getting
the eyes to cry, right? Water helps. So for example, when they
want to milk the cow, they sprinkled some water there, it
creates a natural, it's a natural thing that it just helps to.
Likewise with women who breastfeed who nursed their children, it said
that sometimes they find it difficult for the milk to start,
they should open some water or drink some water. And it helps.
It's just this ajeeb system that Allah subhanaw taala has created
in us. So likewise here as well. That's why when the we were given
laxatives to clean out the body, what what is really beneficial is
that, you know, if you see something that is very emotional,
that is very evoking, for example, some really bad scenes from Syria
or gruesome, and they make you feel soft hearted, allow yourself
to cry, and then sometimes use that to just think about your own
situation, go into your own meditation about our own states,
and then cry, because once the eyes are flowing, then it's much
easier to keep them flowing. It's just the initial stage of getting
into that is very difficult. So that's another way to you to turn
those situations into something that is a benefit and to be a
value, or we're going to do just seeing pitches all the time. You
can make to offer them and we can make to offer ourselves. In fact,
I think making dua for ourselves and seeking forgiveness will be
benefit to them because the sins of ours is what creates these
problems in the world. And so Halladay just a shield, you know
that they're just a shield.
Many of those people are probably so much better than us. And Allah
subhanaw taala just has his own timetable and his own way of doing
things. So maybe they're just a shield from that punishment for
coming to us. Maybe we could be next May Allah protect us. So for
the AI to be able to weep and to pour out, it gives the same that
the heart is also pouring out to Allah subhanho wa taala.
Of course, if the issue is to do with somebody else, we've taken
somebody else's right then that has to be purified. Before the day
comes when you will have no money to pay with you'd have to pay with
your sins with your good deeds and then their sins will be put onto
us.
And then he says well, some him
yet anatomy him here is what the doctor tells you stay away from
this stay away from the stay of him the regimen to stay away from
things. So he says that you make remorse your regimen. So be
constantly remorseful because that is that will that will keep you
going. Now the question is that we're told that Eman is actually
between hope and fear. So why is he telling you always to be
sorrowful when you only sorrowfully means that you think
Allah is not going to forgive you? So you're saying no, this is just
saying it in a way that most people are just got too much hope
they think nothing's going to happen. In fact, they don't even
have hope. They just don't even think about it. So this is to get
them to think about that.
Right? The next two poems were heard if enough so shaitana What
see Hema we're in Houma. Mahadasha news have a Tahiry wala to take me
in Houma. Hussmann wala Hackerman for under 30 Okay, they'll ask me
well, how can me? So what's his what he's saying here now is
disobey your knifes. Just totally oppose it. And the devil, the
devil and the knifes always oppose them,
dispute with them, argue your case with them.
Right always oppose them and disobey them, suspect them both,
even when they seem to offer you true counsel. Even if you're
thinking even if you think that they they are apparently giving us
true counsel, true Naseeha. suspect them even in that because
they can never give you true counsel, as we saw from the story.
That's what he's saying. Then he says whether they come to you as
an opponent, or whether they come to you as a judge to decide
between you and something else.
Right, disobey them.
Generally, as an opponent, you're going to disobey them, you're
going to go against them in this dispute with them. But what about
when somebody comes to you as an arbiter? As somebody who's a judge
between you generally you look up to them, you want to listen to
them, but not when it's enough. So the shaytaan if the knifes and
shaytaan seemingly is trying to tell you, you know, do this one
against this, you know, in your dispute in your, this is your
turbulent mind deciding whether you should do this or that and
then this third voice saying, No, this one is better, right? Just
disobey them even in that. I mean, these are true feelings that a
human being has, he's just getting to the core of our psyche. That's
what he's doing. For under 30, voc Adel hast me well, how can you
because you know, the ploys that your opponent is going to use and
what certain arbiters use especially when the arbiter is the
devil, or the knifes. So that's what he's saying here. Now, the
word shaytaan. I mean, we know we talk about him all the time, it's
it'll be very nice to know where his name comes from. So shaytaan
comes from shaitana.
And SHODHANA means Baroda to be far and distant. So shaytan is
essentially the one who's been distanced from the Rama of Allah.
So his name
is that it's like a Bucha his name was AmeriGlo. He Shan but who
knows him by that even the orientalist? They call him a puja.
* today, the father of ignorance, even though his title
at that time was Abdul Hakim. So that's what he's just gone down by
that. So this guy, his name was something else. But then he became
shaitana became the shaytaan.
Right? That he's distant, he's far from the Mercy of Allah. That's
why it would be wrong to call somebody shaytaan.
Because you're saying that you're far from the Mercy of Allah. You
can see doing shaytani x, right x that are going to deprive you of
the Mercy of Allah.
There's another possibility that it's not from Chateau Anna, but
it's from chateau, which means Halacha, which means to be
destroyed. Either way, they both make sense with imperfectly
and who is the shaytaan. Now, the car fit of the gym, a specific
category of the gym, because shaytaan is originally a gym. So
he's a specific category of the gym. Jin is a general term for all
that category of creation, which we can't see. They can see us we
can't see them. That's why they actually call gin. Because gin
right means is from Jana gin. No.
Which means to be concealed,
means to be concealed. They're concealed from us. So their name
is given. Well, I don't know what they call themselves. Right?
Because you know, sometimes people call themselves something we call
people from. It's kind of really weird, isn't it? Because languages
are different, different perspectives of what people call
different people.
So we call them gin. I don't know what they call themselves.
But gin comes from
would you call it being concealed?
That's why Janine is the embryo because it's concealed in the
stomach?
That's the word gin. That's the way it comes from. And the human
in sun and Jana, of course, it's a garden that's concealed from us.
Then you've got in sun, where does insaan come from them. Inside is a
human being why we call him Sun if gin is called gin because it's
hidden. Why is the insulin called insulin?
Exactly because insulin from this yawn, which means to forget, this
is this is a quality that we have.
Too much of it is bad, but having it is important, imagine if you
had no forgetfulness. Imagine if you could never forget what would
happen
then every problem we had in this world every grief, you'd remember
it, and then there would be more and there would be more it'd be as
fresh as yesterday. The benefits is even in being able to forget as
long as you don't forget too much. So sometimes these origins of
meanings of words and titles and names they're really thought
provoking
should think about what your own name is and whether we're living
up to that fact or whether it's even a good name or a bad name.
Because sometimes parents call the children these fancy exotic names
that they want and the poor son or daughter will you know grows up
and
that's my father gave me that name. Yes.
They get worried. Now see how what does not see me not see advice. It
means earshot get peripheral awkward, it means to guide
somebody to the best of ways that's what not see her is not see
her.
Right? You know how Kim Hikmah wisdom Hakim, that all comes from
hacker Murthy double O Hakima. T dub, which means you know when a
an animal is saddled and girdle to write upon. So it's like it's put
under control. It's controlled.
That is where this word comes from. So it means that it controls
if a person has the wisdom and has hikma it controls him from
deviating. It tells him the best way. That is what wisdom is all
about. Wisdom is about showing us the right way and withholding us
from sight stepping into the wrong places. And may Allah give us
wisdom.
So in here what he's saying Rahim Allah,
that everybody
who wants to listen to his Naseeha he's telling them go against you
enough saying everything that it orders you to do or that a
prohibits you to do, because it is the worst of your enemies. Because
what it does is that it comes in the form of Your Beloved, it comes
so so close to you. So it comes like that as though it's your most
closest friend and intimate and it makes the evil look good and it
makes the good look evil.
So totally go against the oneness in Updata ha Na,
ma na crabble, Usha la even though it's the closest thing to you,
make sure that you
overcome it with lots of Maha Sabha introspection, make sure now
the shaytaan his
enmity for the human being is old. It's ancient Allah subhanaw taala
says in the shaytaan hola como I do when the ducky do or the
Washington is your enemy, take him as your enemy.
Despite all of that he has been allowed to cause through the human
body like the blood does. He is the brother or the sister, he is
the associate of the knifes inside.
They want the human to fall into sin and to to be wrong.
It's sufficient for you to understand its enemy enmity to the
human being by what's been mentioned in the Quran. In the
Hadith, the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam said it does
suggest that Adam when the servant of other mixes such than
prostrates it does not have shaytaan will yep key shaytaan
goes aside begins to cry Yahweh Allah, O'Meara, Adam be suju the
first agenda for the whole Janna and he's like, really agitated
saying, the human being was told to make such that he made such
though
I was told to make such the and prostrate and I refuse and for me
is hellfire. So I'm going to make these people I'm going to sort
these people out. That's why he tries to make a sleep at leisure
time, he puts these knots and our head doesn't let us wake up. And
then after that he urinates in the ear, for those who missed Fajr. So
he stops you from waking up, and then after that he comes and does
something in the ear as well when you're like haha, you know, this
is what I've done to you. I mean, you can just imagine how these how
some people would say this in you know, in slang, that hola hola
cote La Villa. He runs away from the Athan when it's given. He runs
away from the Athan when it's given
and so on.
Now, the question is that it's mentioned that when the attorney
has been given he runs away, but he doesn't mention that about
solids.
So there's always a question that arises that salt is more powerful
than a van. And how come in a van he runs away but when it comes to
solid, there's actually one that comes to you. Hooliganism, who's
going to give you bad thoughts in which record Am I in make you this
is a special shaytaan was designated for that was called
cleanser. But in Asana, you're protected, but when it comes to
solid, he the challenge is there. So why Salah is supposed to be
superior than Adan? Why is that the case? That is a question that
had been in my mind for a while as well. So the reason is,
that that's just something Allah has given a special quality to
earn for.
It just it doesn't make it superior. But it's a quality that
some something slightly inferior will have a particular quality
that the superior one doesn't have. Doesn't make a difference.
For example, to give you an example about how these things
happen, Amara, the Allahu Anhu. It's mentioned that she turned
runs away from him. He goes in another street when him Alma
resulted in one street that's not mentioned about a walker, the hola
one, even though everybody agrees obika The Alon is superior to
Omar, or Amara, the Alana shaytaan runs away from him. But he does
not mention that Siddiq or the Allah. So this is just the kind of
partial quality or one quality that he has, which the other one
doesn't have doesn't make him superior. But it's just to show
that these kinds of things are possible. One reason they say that
why he runs away when the Athan is given is because
other than a shadow Allah, Allah, Allah, Allah, Allah, Muhammad
Rasul Allah. So he's hearing the Shahada. He doesn't, he doesn't
want to witness it. So on the Day of Judgment,
he doesn't have to say I heard the Advan I heard a peep. I heard
somebody bearing witness to Allah subhanaw taala.
I just don't even want to hear it so much enmity, so much enmity.
The other thing is that obviously, as soon as a man is given, you see
people making wudu or going to the masjid, they're rushing, they
stopping everything, he just doesn't want to see that scene,
because that's just a bad scene for him. That's why the Sheikh is
saying here, just avoid him. Understand that regardless of what
he tells you just go against what they do. Don't Don't listen to
your knifes or the shaytaan.
You see, what it is, is that if the in son
is dominant over himself, then his knifes, you see he's saying that
don't trust them whether they are opponent or whether they are the
arbitrator where they are the judge. So how is that possible
that the knifes becomes an arbiter, your opponent or your
judge? So he's saying that if you've got a if you've got a
person who's mashallah got control over themselves, then the next to
him is going to be an opponent trying to argue the case with him.
But if a person is dominated by his knifes, then the shaytaan and
the knifes is going to be the Hakeem not the opponent is known
for not wanting your one over your controlled subdued. So it's the
Hakim, the judge the King, the sovereign, telling you what to do.
So regardless of what situation you're in, which level you're at,
just go against him. That's what he's saying here. Now, the thing
is this, there is no way that you can oppose them
by arguing with them, return to Allah subhanaw taala the only way
you can do it is through Allah subhanaw taala That's why Allah
subhanaw taala declares openly in the Quran, in who lays Allahu
Sultan on Al Madina, Munawwara behemoth our Cameroon shaytaan
will not have power, his Sultan his power he does not have over
those who believe and who trust their Lord.
These are the people who shaytaan will not have power over. See
shaytaan said I'm swear he said to Allah, I'm swearing by your might
and your greatness that I'm going to continue to mislead the son of
the son of Adam,
as long as as long as he lives. So you know what Allah subhanaw taala
turned around said he said by my is my jeweler by my majesty and
everything, I'm going to continue to forgive them until they seek
forgiveness. So Allah is never going to let shaytaan overcome him
by saying that, okay, you know, if somebody is asking Allah for
forgiveness, he's gonna forgive them because he's promised it he's
not gonna cheat on when
Subhanallah if not, artha Allah he says either Unimed under shaytaan
Allah for lunk when you realize now that shaytan is never never
going to rest from you is always going to be on your case. He's got
so much of a force that he's got. It's like saying like, you know
this the CIA has got one person for every person here they've
they've basically hired one person for every single
Individual, can you imagine? Right? Then have to have somebody
on top of that. But what we're trying to say here is that you
know that the shaytan is on UK shaytaan is worse. shaytaan has
the police, he's got one person with every one of us all the time,
all the time. So when you know that shaytaan never ties of you,
then why do you tire and are negligent of the one who controls
your entire being in existence? shaytaan such a crook, but he's
always on your case is fulfilling what he said. And we as human
beings, we become negligent of the one who, whose
our entire existence is out to him and is in control of him is in
control is controlled by him? How can we? How can we ever be
negligent of him?
It's it's shaytan is explained like a dog? What happens if you
start fighting with a dog?
It's gonna it's gonna get something on you, you know, it's
gonna either tear your clothing, it's going to wound you somehow.
Right? Somehow it's going to it's going to wound you somehow. So
that's what shaytaan will do. You start arguing with it. And you
start thinking that you can argue with the shape and it will affect
you, somehow, it will put you down.
But if you turn to whoever owns the dog and the dog, and the dog
owner calls it away it will dog is very faithful. So likewise,
shaytan is like that as well. You have to turn to Allah subhanaw
taala
now that
you get a question, the no no mystery, he said that
shaytaan can see you, whereas you can't see him coming. So you don't
know whether it shaytaan telling you to do something.
But then Allah subhanahu wa taala sees him and he can't see Allah.
So the only way you can deal with this is to ask Allah.
Literally, we are dependent on Allah. That's the way Allah
actually wants it, that we be dependent on Allah to keep us away
from Shaytaan. Because if we were not, then we'd forget about Allah
subhanaw taala. And we tried to defend against the shaytaan
ourself, shake the rock, he says,
What is the wisdom of having the shaytaan? Over? On us on our case?
What is the wisdom behind that? Why did Allah make it like that,
and the knifes on the inside as well.
It's to express and display that we have a need for Allah subhanaw
taala
that the only way we can avoid them is by Allah subhanaw taala.
So that's why Allah subhana wa Taala made it like that.
What do you do?
When you're fearful of your enemies?
What do you what do people do, they go try to get some support,
they're not gonna get support from somebody that's weak, they're
gonna go and try to find the friend that's the most
that has the most energy and power. So likewise here, if we're
going to try to get the support against the shaytaan, from things
that are weak, you have to go to Allah subhanaw taala. And another
reason that Allah subhanaw taala has created it like this, is that
Allah subhanaw taala just wants to see those who are going to do good
and who are going to do bad and who are able to, to help keep to
ask Allah for assistance, he likes to be asked for assistance. There
are four things that we have to deal with. The first thing is
people, they're going to take us off once in a while they're going
to plot against us, they're going to speak against us. They're going
to stick some fingers up against us. It could be anything they're
going to say or do something against us. So one is that we're
defending against people, right? I mean, who's ever lived a life in
which he's never had a problem coming away from anybody.
One is that you don't reciprocate you what is that you don't do
anything in return. But there's always going to be something that
will come whatever that is. So that's the first thing. Number two
is
I mean, the wisdom, the wisdom of that is just to show that how weak
the human being is that he's always going to have problems
that's going to come he's vulnerable is to show his
vulnerability. You always gonna have problems with people. So you
have to turn to Allah subhanaw taala one of the wisdoms of why we
have these things coming from human beings and fellows is
because if it didn't ever come then you'd be so satisfied with
the human being.
That you'd forget Allah subhana wa Tada. So this is to show you that
this is not your main support. This is not the one these are not
the creatures that you need to be taking your tank or getting your
tranquility from it should be from ALLAH SubhanA wa Tada. And then
Allah subhanaw taala the world is just full of setbacks.
It may not be no but nobody else that's doing it.
You think to us, but it's just a setback.
We fall down. We get pricked. Something happens to us, so the
world is full of it. So if it's not somebody else and you're
living alone, that is just the nature around you that dunya is
like that. That's two things. The three is the shaytaan constant was
was that and whispering sort of shaytaan is attacking us through
whispering if the worldly problems aren't bad enough, and problems
from others is not bad enough than the shaytaan and then it's the
knifes knifes is never straight. Sometimes the feeling this way,
sometimes feeling good. Sometimes it's feeling bad, sometimes
feeling hungry, sometimes feeling desire, the constant, this is the
nature of this world.
Once you look at it like that, can you ever rest in this worlds? Can
you ever relax in this world? You can't and the world was not made
for that. Then he explains after all of this what the NEF says he
says the knifes is the ruler.
Others say that knifes and rule has separate things.
But he explains that knifes and rule are the same, except that in
the beginning stages called the rule, the Spirit the soul that
keeps us alive. How do you define spirit or soul? The way there are
Allama have explained that Allah subhanaw taala mentions in the
Quran, they asked you about the rule. Tell them it's from the
command of my Lord and you've been given very less knowledge.
However, there are certain orlimar who have given a definition of
knifes. Based on what we understand of knifes, they
essentially say that knifes is this subtle matter, it's a subtle
matter that is infused into the human being just like moisture and
water is infused in a fresh twig. You know, you got a fresh twig.
Water is infused in it in a way that it's just like part and
parcel of the whole thing. And the body is alive as long as this
subtle matter is within it. And when this certain matter is not in
it, then the body is dead. That's the definition.
So when somebody confronted somebody who'd given this
definition that Allah says that Walmart will teach them, you know,
your waist Aluna Can you row column row Herman, Amelia Robbie,
Yama, Ott, mineral, mela Karela.
So how can you be defining knifes, it's already defining the roof
when Allah says that, you know, you've only been given a bit of
knowledge. He said, this is the bit of knowledge that we've been
given. This is all we can say we can just the observable, I mean,
we know that the drug is in a person when they're alive. We
can't extract it. You know, like, Okay, I'll, you know, let it bleed
out. You can't do that. And when it's gone, it's gone. can't
capture it.
And believe me, they have tried as wild as that sounds, they have
tried to figure out what is it that makes the human tick that
keeps them alive? Is there something we can encapsulate
but of course, it's it's it's an
impossibility right? And
there's
we'll leave it here. But the the next point and he's finally gonna
get into the Sierra, he's got three poems left and then he's
gonna get into the sealer so he says,
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I'm also Lisa for the one I'm assuming. He says I ask Allah as
pardon for words not followed by deeds, all this Naseeha that I've
just given you, I've given you all of these subtleties, I've given
you all of these really complicated matters of how the
human psyche and the knifes works, and how the they ensnare you and
what you should be careful about, and how you should never trust
them. And I've told you their reality. I've opened it up for
them, I've revealed their secrets to you. But you know what my own
state is? Although I'm the one who's telling you all of these
things, my own state he says, I ask Allah as pardon. I seek
forgiveness from Allah for words that are not followed by deeds.
You think that if I'm telling you all of these things, that I must
be particular I must be obedient, I must have no sins and I must be
fulfilling good deeds all the time. He says no, I seek Allah's
pardon for words not followed by deeds. For by them did I attribute
progeny to a sterile man? It's very complicated to understand
that.
Essentially, what I've done is I'm giving you the indication that I
must be fulfilling all of this because I'm telling you the
secrets I'm telling you. The reality is like, I'm a specialist,
so I shouldn't be perfect. But you know what I've just done. I've
just told you that that man, or that family, that husband and wife
couple who can't have children. I've just associated children to
them.
To understand, how can you associate children to a barren
woman?
Some woman who can't give birth poor woman, right? And you think
she's got children?
Isn't that blasphemy? Isn't that like really, extremely
unconscious? To do that, that's what I've done. I'm trying to tell
you something by which I'm indicating that I'm very obedient.
But it's just like I'm giving myself children when I can't even
have children.
So it's a big metaphor. Then he says, I commend goodness for you.
I've been commanding your goodness, why not confirm
conforming myself? I haven't. I can't do that for myself, being
crooked, of what uses my command to be straight?
What uses it that I'm telling you to do good things, and I'm
speaking for myself here as well. And then he says, No optional
devotions? Have I accumulated?
No Knuffle prayers, no extra deeds. Have I accumulated ready
for my death? No, have I fasted no prayed more than the minimum
required.
So he's not saying that I'm missing my father it. I'm
fulfilling my obligations, but I'm not doing anything extra.
So he's telling you himself, and then he goes into the next
section, Ludlum to SONET balama Illa, and is stuck at Adama who
determine what I mean. And that's when he starts from Rasulullah
sallallahu Sana, so this was his whole introduction to start
praising Rasul Allah salAllahu Salam. So he said, I've wronged
all of these wrongs that I've done. I've run the example of him
who revived the Black Knights praying until his feet complained
of painful swelling.
And then he starts from a pseudo Lasala ism he says, we're shut
them in Zagreb. She says I've been Asha who what our title hedgehog,
Marathi kashfian neutrophil, a dummy over his belly and soft skin
he placed a stone tightening a belt over it to lessen the hunger
pangs, high mountain sought to tempt him by turning to gold, but
he showed them he showed them lofty heights upon height. And
then he goes into that, so that's gonna get really interesting.
That's how it is. So may Allah subhanaw taala give us the Tofik
to understand and to reflect and to change our lives for the
better. every bit counts, every bit counts, the more I see how we
get, the more advice that we hear, that we listen to, and that we
ponder over one day it will have that effect slowly, slowly chips
away and it makes us better people Insha Allah, may Allah subhanho wa
Taala make not these Majelis and these gatherings we have to be
redundant and to be wasteful. May Allah subhanaw taala allow benefit
to come from there. And may Allah not make them to be just idle talk
and discussion with totally devoid hearts hearts devoid of Your mercy
may Allah grant us His mercy.
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wa salam ala Sayyidina Muhammad What do you say you know, Mohammed
you are vertical Salam, O Allah, O Allah, Oh Allah. Grant us baraka
and blessing from being in this house of yours. On this night of
Allah here we are discussing the ploys of the knifes and the
shaytaan, who you've made our enemies.
Oh Allah grant us the true insight and realization and the
recognition of them and don't allow us to ever trust them. Oh
Allah, Oh Allah, Oh Allah grant us control over our desires and Allah
knifes, Oh Allah, how much more are we going to fulfill our
desires and continue to dis dishonor you? Oh Allah, despite
the fact that you're constantly watching over us. We forget this
fact. Oh Allah, we forget this fact of Allah if you can give us
your consciousness, our life you can give us your consciousness.
Whenever we take a foot wrong, we take a step wrong. Whenever we
were whenever we have a glance at the wrong thing. If we can just
have that consciousness of Allah that will be extremely helpful for
us and beneficial for us. Who Allah we, we ask you an employer
to grant us your mercy and your love and the love of those who
love you of Allah grant us the company of your loved ones, and
allow us to benefit from that. Oh Allah, you've said yourself in the
Quran, that be with the truthful ones, oh Allah. Let There Be
truthful ones among us that we can benefit from them as well. Oh
Allah, human beings, they benefit from others. They benefit from
others of Allah grant is good company and protects us from evil
friends and bad company that seek to take us in the wrong direction.
That take us in the wrong direction. Sometimes many times we
don't even realize it. Oh Allah. Oh Allah. Slowly, slowly. We're
understanding these things. We're understanding how
knifes works and how the human psyche is and how we think, Oh
Allah but what about all of these years that we've spent without
this understanding of Allah when you've just immersed ourself
immersed ourselves immersed ourselves in sins and wrongs,
disobedience is Oh Allah, Allah allow us to cry. Allow us to weep.
Oh Allah allow us to empty our eyes out and cry over all the
times that we've cast haram glances. Oh Allah, Oh Allah, Oh
Allah, Oh Allah help us and assist us. Oh Allah, there are many
things that happening that are happening around the world. And we
don't take a lesson. Oh Allah, we're effected sometimes for a
small moment. And then after that we forget. Oh Allah, we forget.
Oh, Allah helped us and protect us and make us good role models for
the next generation of Allah help us and assist us and make us good
role models for the next generation. Our Allah Oh ALLAH for
ourselves so Allah we are going to stand in front of you when they
have Allah make that the best of our days of Allah don't turn away
from us. So Allah your messenger, Salah lorrison has mentioned that
there are people who Allah will not look at you with any kind of
compassion of Allah don't make us of those. Oh Allah don't make us
of those. Oh Allah, Oh Allah, we ask you to soften our hearts and
to to bring your light into our hearts of Allah those brothers and
sisters of ours around the world who are in despair who are in
difficult situations of Allah, grant them the tofi Go Allah grant
them Sobor grant them patience of Allah grant them respite and
delivery from these problems Oh Allah we ask you for wellbeing,
perpetual well being of Allah we ask you for complete well being of
Allah we ask you for the ability to praise you on well being of
Allah we ask you, that we ask You that You grant us the Tofik to
thank you for all the good things that you've given us. Oh Allah,
you've given us so many bounties that we can't even calculate each
one of them. Oh Allah, Oh Allah. Oh Allah grant us. Oh Allah grant
us all those things that your messengers, Allah Lord ism has
asked you for Oh ALLAH and protect us from all those things that your
messenger Silla, lorrison sought refuge from Allah don't make these
redundant Majelis and redundant gathering so Allah make the
benefit to come from them so that we can be illuminated and we can
become closer to you and we can stop doing things that we've been
done for doing before and we can be better, better than we were
before. Oh Allah, Allah Allah, we asked you to send your your
blessings on your messenger Muhammad sallallahu alayhi wa
sallam, and for us to be in his company on a day of judgment.
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