Abdur Rahman ibn Yusuf Mangera – Qasida Burda (The Mantle Ode) Part 7
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Al hamdu Lillahi Rabbil Alameen wa salatu salam ala Ruthie
Rahmatullah de la isla me in order to he will be here with our cover
seldom at the Sleeman girthier on Elomi Dean amerit
Mashallah, we're on that day of the week or the evening of the
week, which you dedicated to Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa
sallam for the last few years. May Allah subhanaw taala make it a
source of us.
Following the Sunnah of His Messenger sallallahu alayhi wa
salam drinking from his hands on the day of judgment from his pool
and inshallah being in his company.
So today, finally, the poet Allama boo city, after speaking about
everything else will be, will begin to speak about Rasulullah
sallallahu alayhi wa salam, to put us back into the picture. He wrote
this during a midlife crisis. He had many, many children.
Apparently, they say he had a difficult wife.
And he was extremely poor. He became, he was very sick. In fact,
he says he became paralyzed. So all of these things came together.
And he was in a very deep
form of calamity. So now, what's he going to do? After he's become
paralyzed as well? Somebody becomes paralyzed, what are they
going to do? But he had a poetic mind. And that poetic mind was
mashallah augmented by the fact that it wasn't shaytani because
there's many poets which are led by the shaytaan as Allah says, In
the Quran, we're sure Ara yet tiberiu Mohan and Andorra thorough
and equally worthy, he moved, they just went wandering around
valleys, thinking of weird strange things. Very clever things come
out of their, their mouths, but they don't seem to be much
benefits
for the people. So this person, his mind, though his body had
become idle, his mind was, of course, not idle. And he was
thinking of Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wasallam. But he has to
build a story first, in the way of poets, so he first starts to speak
about this dialogue that two people are having. And one is
complaining to the other one, why are you so sick and ill? And was
this love for? So he still hasn't revealed His love? But he finally
did confess it. And he did say that yeah, Hola, me, Phil, how
well are three year mark the rotten?
Mini alayka
wallow and softer lambda Leumi? Which is that, yes, you know, you
are censoring me for this love. But if you really knew what this
love was all about, then you wouldn't censor me. But he still
hasn't told us what this love is about. And then he starts telling
us his inner feelings. So then he starts telling us all of these
things about how he became old, meaning how the signs of
being old began to display on himself in his hair, and so on,
and how he gave it no regard. And then he speaks about how he felt
that he should have covered the grayness so that at least, it's
not embarrassing. At least it doesn't seem like he's being
boldly heedless and ignorance. So he continues to speak about that,
then he speaks about the knifes and he speaks about how much time
is wasted. And then he speaks about who will bring my knifes
back like, it's like a bolting horse, who is going to bring it
back and put it back under control. Clearly, you can see that
this is all things that are going through his mind. He's not writing
this for somebody else. Remember, this wasn't supposed to be public.
So you have to understand that this is not being written for
others. This is just his personal venting is just his personal
thoughts. So it is, I'm sure this is filled with a class and
sincerity and that's why it's lasted until today. And if the
story is true, that he just said it in and the Prophet sallallahu
Sallam came in his dream. And then the next day he met somebody who
said, who said to him, can you say the same poem that you read in
front of Rasulullah sallallahu some in your dream? And he says,
How do you know? He says, I saw Rasulullah sallallahu when he told
me to ask you
and the mental was given to him by Rasulullah sallallahu sallam, then
it became public. So there must have been some kind of our jeep is
lost that this was a private poem that he had written.
And it it reaches us today. Imagine he must be turning in his
grave Subhanallah
you know that his poem is being read read in London.
So ajeeb Can you imagine if we have something after when? After
six, seven
100 years, and somebody is talking about us
and saying, Rahim Allah, may Allah have mercy on him. Isn't that well
worth it? leaving something behind like that?
And you all can.
You just have to ask Allah for it and he'll find one something for
you. We can all do that. As long as you've got some desire or like,
Give me something I can leave behind that my name will be
remembered and somebody will make dua for me
after I've gone
and you know, there are so many people who during their lifetime,
they were known, they were not known.
Nobody knew this stuff. They actually became famous after their
death
or jeep.
There's some scholars in Yemen like Abdullah wheelhead, that he
would have preferred to have just stayed totally, totally silent
with homeowners they call it you know, totally hidden and
concealed. But Allah subhanho wa Taala wanted his words out there.
So it's not beyond Allah subhanho wa Taala we're only restricting
ourselves you have to remember that for Allah it's easy.
Well, Merdeka Allah, Allah, he be a disease that is not difficult on
Allah.
But it's only how far our mind goes.
And now you have no excuse. You've been told it's possible. When is
most of us don't even know it's possible. Our dreams don't even go
that far. We dream about everything else.
But today, you've been told. So may Allah accept us all.
May Allah accept us all for something with other in some
positive way that we can make a contribution?
And people can remember it. So he's still lamenting himself. And
you can see he's saying this to Allah subhanaw taala he says, a
stoke fear Allah hum in Colin Billa Emelyn la cadena sub to be
in Aslan. Livia hakomi ajeeb way that he's saying this this week
covered. This was the last point we covered last week. I asked
Allah's pardon for words not followed by deeds.
I ask Allah subhana wa Taala to forgive me for saying words of
nasiha to others, but I don't follow them myself.
And by that what I've actually done is I've attributed progeny
and children and descendants to somebody who's barren.
How embarrassing is that? I tell you so and so he's got all of
these children, poor guy can't have children. How is he going to
feel? So what I'm doing to myself is I'm saying, telling you to do
all of this good. Whereas I'm barren in terms of good deeds. So
I am attributing indirectly to myself good deeds and I can't
produce any. That's what we looked at last week. This week. He says,
a murder to call Hydra water came to me to be he was to come to
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I told you, I ordered you I commended you goodness, I was
ordering you to do goodness. But while I was not conforming myself,
and being crooked, of what uses my command to be straight to you. So
now he's saying that
I've been telling you to do all of this good. And I've been trying to
give you that. give you enough, see her, and so on and so forth.
Me myself, I haven't been able to fully follow it myself. And this
is I'm saying this for myself. You know, we sit here every week and
we say all of these things. So I'm saying the same thing.
I'm telling you to be Musa Hakim to be steadfast, I'm not steadfast
myself, I keep faltering.
And the person who cannot stay on the straight path and who cannot
stay serious, and who does waver here and there? How can he? How
can he give no see her to others? How can he advise others
whoever's own knifes is dominated, how is he able to assist others?
And so when he does give no see her, nobody's gonna listen to him.
He is not he is not going to be accepted. There's going to be very
less benefits from the Naseeha.
If the person himself is not acting on it, there's going to if
the person doesn't have those same characteristics, how is going how
is he going to assist others in gaining those characteristics.
However, if he did have those characteristics, if somebody was
righteous and pious, then when he said something it would then
effect the other person's heart his words would take flight from
his tongue.
because they would be coming from his heart, they would come be
coming from a body that fulfilled what they said inside. So his
words would take flight from his tongue and it would go to the
other person and enter the heart directly. And then that would
infuse the other person and he would encourage them to do the
same to do the to do the right thing. That is why a poet says
Allah you are gradually more a limo hero who has learned enough
Sica and that led me to see fit.
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run either you can run either you can file the other evil, what he's
saying, oh, oh man, oh person who's teaching others.
If only you taught yourself, if only you educated yourself, you're
describing the medicine for certain illnesses and certain
defects and problems. Whereas you yourself are ill and diseased with
the same problems. You're telling other people that this is what
this is what you should take for this problem. And this is your
remedy for this issue. Whereas you have the same problems. And those
remedies aren't working for yourself.
I see you that you are trying to disseminate the path of guidance
to our you're trying to adorn our minds with with guidance and
Naseeha whereas you have you have no guidance within yourself
guidance is absent from you. So start from yourself and start from
yourself and prevent yourself from the deviated path, then when you
have completed and when you have succeeded, then you are the Hakeem
then you have become the wise and the firm one, then when you give
Naseeha it will be accepted from you. And whenever your words will
will be articulated, they will be followed and they people will
listen to them and your team and your teaching will be of benefits.
Don't tell people to remove bad characteristics whereas you are
doing the same thing yourself what a great defect is it is it upon
you that you are acting in this way? It is related in the Sahai
from a surah allah sallallahu alayhi wa sallam that on the Day
of Judgment a person will be brought and he will be totally,
totally crushed in the fire. Just like a an animal like a donkey
goes around the mill and crushes the wheat until his entire
intestines and everything will totally be intertwined in each
other. And it will become like mincemeat. The people of the
Hellfire will come to him, others in the Hellfire will come to him
and will say to him Yeah, for land, also. And so wasn't you the
one that used to sit and give these gurus that used to tell us
to do right. And that used to tell us not to do this wrong. And that
used to give us all this nausea, and he would say yes, definitely.
I used to do a marimba roof, but I never did the things myself. I
prohibited from the moon curve, whereas I used to do the wrong
myself. This is or as Imam Buhari and others have mentioned that the
Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam used to be the first person
to do whatever he commanded others with.
That's why Allah says in the Quran attacked Maroondah NASA
buildability with and so on and forsaken that do you command the
people to do good, whereas you forget yourself? So may Allah
subhanho wa Taala assist us? We only we're only doing this because
there's not enough people to go around. So may Allah subhanho wa
Taala forgive our our ills, our defects, our inconsistencies and
our in competency and may Allah subhana wa Tada with his with his
power. May Allah subhanho wa Taala allow there to be benefit for all
of us and save it can safeguard us from the hellfire. The next poem,
then he says,
before he starts speaking about Rasulullah sallallahu even the way
he starts to speak of Rasulullah sallallahu Sallam is from a very
personal perspective, but finally he says here what does a what to
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I did not take any or
cumulate any optional devotions? No. knuffel Did I do and gather
together besides my fourth? One, I'm also Li. And neither did I
pray anything more than the minimum for the required and
neither did I fast except in Ramadan.
So I've been doing the bare basic, you can tell this person, he's not
speaking as a full sinner. But he's saying, I've been trying to
do the basic. So what does that mean? Many of us will be thinking
if I did that much, I'd be more than happy.
So what he's saying here, is that all my time in the past the past
3040 years that I've spent of my life, I haven't done much now I
feel I don't have. So I mean, of course, if we've been missing for
our IDs, then that's that's a whole different league. That's a
different story. Totally. I haven't prepared anything for this
journey of mine. In the hereafter when I'll be given according to
what I take with me and what I send for the investment I made. I
haven't done much of that. I've just been trying to just catch up
and just do enough to stay afloat. No solid no see, extra.
So for further who will be $30 jet Elmo carabin
Subhanallah His aim is at a different level. He wants to get
in that high League, and that's why he's saying okay with this I
may get into some kind of low league somewhere. But the more
carabin those who are considered to be the close ones, the intimate
ones the ones who will be in the forefront will have the best
rewards will be in the uppermost degrees of paradise. I've lost
that stages. So yes, maybe in sha Allah by the fact that we are
believers we will get somewhere in Jannah but if you want to get
somewhere Hey, and somewhere really nice and it's our only
option to get there is to do something now about it. There is
no upgrades unless Allah subhanaw taala wants but we must have some
excuse to be given an upgrade you can't just have absolutely no
membership nothing and you go in then you say can you please give
me an upgrade today they're gonna laugh at your face in a hotel
today. But if you've got a few cards and you know you've done a
few things and you've got a few miles and they look at you and
think okay, chill, let's go. Alright, that's fine. You can do
it.
They need something to give you an upgrade for so at the end of the
remind say Allah subhanaw taala is you and yes, ill person Jana fine.
But give us an upgrade to genital for those who have to do some work
for that. Now, we're not trying to diminish the Mercy of Allah
subhanho wa taala. This is what we learn from a sudo allah sallallahu
sallam, why is he doing so much? Let's look at this.
You see people in Jannah will be of different stages have different
degrees in different degrees. That's why it's mentioned in the
sahih Hadith from a sunnah allah sallallahu alayhi wa sallam in the
regime in a halal Jana Lyon through Allah La Rajouri phulka
who come on through a haidakhan il co kbv sama people in the lower
stages of Jana, we'll be looking at the people in the highest
stages, just like we look at the stars, that's how far away they
will be. Because there are 100 degrees in paradise 100 levels,
and between these two level is like between the Earth and the
Heavens. So can you imagine
Can you imagine where Rasulullah Salallahu Salam is gonna be and
that's what's mentioned in the Hadith that he was shown Jana and
then after he was told to look up and they right up there he could
see some lights or something is what is that? Is this your place?
Can I go there? No.
Not right now. You have to finish your worldly life, then then Allah
subhanaw taala will allow you so can you imagine how big displaces
and it's not big for nothing. It's big for something.
You know, you want to buy a house.
So you get one with high ceilings is considered to be big. In fact,
according to the Romans, all their buildings had high ceilings
because, according to their philosophy, living in places that
have higher ceilings, meaning higher roofs and ceilings,
actually helps you to think high. Can you believe that? That's
that's what the Romans used to think. It helps you to think high
when you're enclosed in our council houses, right to save on
the heat and make it more efficient. That's why they don't
make high ceilings. In fact, even in all buildings that have high
ceilings, we make suspension ceilings to make it lower so that
you maintain the heat ajeeb.
The one that we have intellectual crisis as well.
So these people will look up to the to the people in the above
heavens, in the above in the above paradise. Just like we look up at
the stars today.
The Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam
This is what he said, the prophets of Allah Islam, this is what he
said which was an impossibility. But this is what he said that this
is what I would like to have, that I would love to be killed in the
path of Allah, then brought back to life, then killed in the path
of Allah then brought back to life Thumma Oakton and then be killed,
because each of those martyrdom is worth a huge amount. Subhanallah
one of our scholars of this country is Dotties actually teach
here. He passed away in Madina Munawwara in that blaze that took
that that was last week or something is amazing. I can only
think that he's probably been making this dua, I mean, to look
at it positively. I can only see that Subhanallah he died in Madina
Munawwara he died as a Shaheed because dying in a fire is
Shahada. He died in the city of Madina Munawwara he must have been
reading that Allah hombre zakenna shahada and visa vie the equator
and moto Nabila Eurosonic Oh Allah grant a shahada in your path, but
make my death in your city. How can how is that going to happen
unless there's a war there?
Few people's doors accepted like this Subhanallah so all those
people who died their Jeep
he's laughing
he's gone from this world, but in Sharla he's, you know, a macho, so
he's laughing he's Subhanallah and we we feel so bad. I'm sure his
family are devastated May Allah subhanho wa Taala make it easy for
them.
So that's the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam despite his high
status, he wants to
be given martyrdom over and over again. So he could get a higher
state higher status as well. For the sake of Allah subhana wa Tada.
Now, if that's the Prophet, sallAllahu alayhi wa salam, then
what is our state? What's our desire? What's our goal in Jimena?
But for that we have to do a lot of work in this world.
Now the question that arises here for those who know Hadith, there's
a hadith of the Imam hypnotherapy. He came to the Prophet salallahu
alayhi wa sallam once, and he talks about the Fuhrer it's and he
said Wallahi la Z do rd Wallahi la azido ida wala Uncas I'm not going
to do any more than these for either. Neither am I going to do
any less than these for right, that's all I'm going to do. And
the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam said of lucha in Sadhak. He
is successful if he's telling the truth, meaning if he does this, he
is successful. No, no, he's not talking about any no afield from
the wording of the hadith is just talking about the far right. So if
he's only going to do the obligations and the prophets of
Allah, some saying saying that he is he is Fela, Fela is a very
aflofarm and Desica. Right, that's a very high level of success. If
he's getting that with just a follow up and he here I love abou
series complaining that he hasn't done anything extra he's not going
to be able to get this extra then how do you reconcile between the
two? Well,
he's saying that I have not Mr. Kim I don't have is the karma so
what he's saying I don't have his I don't have perfect district
karma. Of course, if somebody can do the follow it,
and he's regular, he or she is regular and therefore I then
they're fasting etc. Of course, they have a level of istikhara but
it's the karma. Camila complete perfect is the karma is when you
can do everything. And when you can do extra Noah, Phil and fast
Mondays and Thursdays, et cetera, et cetera, and do all of these
things regularly with discipline. That's perfect is the comment.
That's what he's complaining about.
Then the other thing is that you can't compare a Sahabi with an
unsavoury this the Imam hypnotherapy, His conversation was
with Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi salam, and the prophets of Allah,
Islam, his promise to somebody, that's more than enough for us we
have a bit more struggle to get to there because we don't have the
prophets of Allah Islam in our midst, but having the Prophet
salallahu Salam in your midst, that's another challenge on its
own. That's another challenge on its own, to be able to be
successful then, after having come from centuries of worship of idols
to come out of that and to have believed in Allah allah sallallahu
Sallam That in itself was a major, major challenge. So their rewards
are great as well that they accepted the suit allah sallallahu
alayhi wa sallam against all odds, essentially.
Because that's why the prophets of Allah some said about them, that
if they if we were to spend an entire mountain of gold in the
path of Allah, we could still not get the same amount of reward that
a Sahabi would get by them just spending a handful of something
because their level of class under the NIA and the intention and the
ambition and gold by which they're spending it is a totally different
story.
We understood this when we did the Shamal of what level of struggle
they're going through and how pure their minds are.
and they have it perfectly understood as to what they're
doing things for hours. We it's, it's, it's polluted, so it can
never be the same thing. So this is not an exaggeration. It's an
absolute truth for the prophets of Allah Islam is saying, so how can
you compare those two? The other thing is that
he
was the mom, even the third labor.
He was, he wasn't saying I'm only going to do these four, I
essentially he was saying it from a technical perspective that I'm
not going to make any changes to this. Exactly, I'm going to do
exactly as you've told me to do, I'm not going to add, you know,
like a different style of doing it and do better. Right? And I'm not
going to do less than that and think it's okay. I'm going to do
it the way you shown it. To me, that's what he meant, as the doula
Uncas was not quantitative. It was qualitative, that I'm going to do
it exactly the way you've shown it to me. So this can be all these
different reasons.
So obviously, Allama boo CT here is saying that I haven't just done
enough extra Nava filan salon to get the higher levels of paradise
and to be in the position that I would like to have been in. And
that is our state today.
Right now.
He says the second one, the next thing now he starts talking about
Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, look how he started off.
He's not telling you like a story, but he's showing again his
interaction with him. Ludlum do
I have oppressed? Sunita, man? Yo, valamar Illa Illa inish ticket
koderma Who don't ramen water me
out the whole life of Rasulullah sallallahu sallam. He's starts off
by talking about how he is oppressed himself. The word he is
using for that in Arabic is loon.
So to match the volume because his poetry to match the volume what
comes to his mind is Valaam. Loon means oppression. Villa means
darkness and the Zoom is an oppression is darkness. But he is
saying I've wronged the example I have done zoom of the example of
him who revived the Black Knights who enlivened the Black Knights
who brighten the Black Knights praying until his feet complained
of painful swelling.
So look how he brings it together his loom and the Prophet
sallallahu alayhi wa sallam taking home and making it bright. Taking
an aspect of it and making a break. He shows this juxtaposition
I mean Subhanallah what a mind. So welcome to Sunita men. Here Villa
Isla initial market. Kodama who don't Ramaswamy he didn't say that
I'm to Sunita Rasulullah sallallahu ism, I could have said
that, that I have oppressed the Sunnah of Rasulullah. But he
wanted to give us a message within this that I have oppressed, the
one who used to enliven the night so we should do the same thing.
That's how I'm not oppressing. So he wants to give no see her even
within this. This is what you call high class poetry. It's not just
straightforward prose that rhyme. Its meaning that makes you think
gives you more message than just what the one line says. Right? It
makes you think.
So what he's saying here is that I have essentially been oppressing
the Sunnah of Rasulullah, sallAllahu, alayhi wasallam, as we
all are, who used to make the 100 clear Malayan, he used to stay
awake at night, he used to make efforts despite the fact that he
had he was so busy during the day, he used to have long nights long
vigils. And this stayed for a very long time, such that his if your
your feet aren't going to swell by doing this one night
because something happens to them and after a next day you you heal.
The only way it's going to happen is if you do it so often that you
don't give yourself time to heal. That's what I would understand
from this. So he's that shows that he was doing this regularly.
And then how many hours is standing for every day that your
feet and he was a strong man?
So how long would you have to stand
to make your feet really swell? I mean, you can count mountsorrel
And your feet will not swell reminded
right they will not swell. So how much should you be doing to make
us well?
We did it every day maybe yeah.
Just to give you an idea that there has to be some kind of
regular effort that he's putting in for this to have happened.
So he's not saying that I have oppressed the Sunnah of Rasulullah
because he wants to tell us
a quality of Rasulullah Salah some that. He doesn't want to waste his
lines. That would have been just Sunita Rasulullah would have been
that's it.
But now he wants to give us no see her even within this that, okay?
I've oppressed myself but I'm giving you know see in the same
line here.
So it is as though he's saying that whoever in his worship is
like this, and this is his way hitting his Ariba and the
prophets, Allah Allah and he's saying that a Prophet salallahu
Alaihe Salam is the one who's making the light, the salam, the
night, bright.
The Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam. We've in our Shamal de
Roos, we talked about how he used to stand up at night and used to
pray for how many records and how many, how long and what he used to
do. We're not going to go through all that again. But just to give
us two examples. One is what alphaB nomadic relates that once I
was with Rasulullah, sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, he made Miss
Sivak. He brushed his teeth and he made wudu. Then he started to
pray. And I stood with him. I thought, let me make Salat with
him. He became a bit adventurous, he says, Let me pray. He started
Surah Al Baqarah.
The Prophet sallallahu Sallam started recite Surah Baqarah
every
ayah in Surah tillbaka. He wasn't just like, I need to do shorter
bucket. Let me just zoom through it. It's a big surah I need to do
it. It's an accomplishment to read Surah Al Baqarah. So let's do it
fast. No, every i in which Subhanallah the tsp of Allah was
mentioned he stopped and made the speak.
He stopped and said Subhan Allah or however he was sub Behala
whatever he said, Every eye that required Allah's refuge to be
asked for he did that. So he stopped in all of these places. So
it was a relaxed journey. It wasn't like the Zoom did off and
got to point B, he stopped at every one of these places. Every
place where there was an eye of mercy, he stopped and he asked
Allah for mercy. Then he made ruku.
And then after that, when he stood up, he said, subhanAllah dirigible
rooty, well Mallacoota will Allama then he made such the, and so on.
And then he second record, he started reciting Surah, earlier
Imran, which is also a long surah. And like, like that he did, like
likewise, he did how many hours This must have been him, I'm gonna
say he has related from Khalifa terminal Yemen or the Allahu Anhu
that once I prayed behind the Zulu, allah sallallahu alayhi wa
sallam, he started Surah Al Baqarah. I said, you know, after
100 If he'll stop, he'll, he'll go into school, we would say after
the first ruku will like a whole move the whole
he's gonna go into court because that's what we generally do. And
he thought, okay, 100 I had because they used to do me in they
used to do hundreds. So it's 100 yards, but he carried on. I said,
Okay, maybe after 200 He'll stop. And he carried on. Then he started
sort of to Nyssa, then early Emraan, as well. And again, this
B, he made this B and the rules, and so on and so forth. And then
in his record, he said, Subhan, Allah below him. And in such days
Subhan Allah bailarina.
So if his Salah is not fast to just try to complete the Quran at
night, you know what, it's slow, it's relaxed. It's with all of
this, then you can then you can imagine, of course, he probably
didn't do this every night. But whatever he did, because people
want with him every night to what to pray with him. So we don't know
what he read every night. And his response when somebody felt sorry
for him and said, you know, why did you do this when you've been
all forgiven anyway? He said, Well, shouldn't I be?
Shouldn't I be a thankful servant, that if Allah has given me all of
this, and I should show him that I am a faithful servant, I'm worthy
of this.
I think that's where we're messed up. That's where we don't we don't
get it. We want to do a bit and just get lots and lots of reward.
We want to go into a shop and look for a big deal like you know,
something really expensive for five pounds.
So we want something worth 100 pound is going for five pound
that's what we want. The Prophet sallallahu Sallam used to give a
lot of the rib, the prophets Allah some used to encourage the Yama
lane.
That tahajjud
Rasulullah sallallahu sallam said, Yeah, Abba Herrera,
Toledo and takuna Rahmatullah haga haga Norma yet and Makoto marulan
God,
He said to Abu Huraira the Allahu Anhu that would you like the Mercy
of Allah subhana wa Taala to be showering upon you, both in your
life and your death, both when you're in your cover, and when you
rise on the Day of Judgment instead, of course, he says come
in a lady or Saliba under 2d during the Arab read Arabic Yabba
Herrera suddenly fees via basic your code no robotic of his semi
economical cover cube. He said, for that you should stand up in
the night and you should pray. And your only reason for doing so
should be that you want the satisfaction of your Lord Abu
Huraira pray in a corner of your house any corner of your house and
the light from
Your prayer
will be in the heavens, just like you can see the stars. So your
house will give off light to the inhabitants of the heavens. When
the prophesy blossom used to wake up, he's to look at the heavens
and used to read the ayah. In the hope is somehow it will already
work, the lovely lady went to her. And the entire which is all about
the cosmic system. Allah saga, the professor was amused to read that
at the end of Surah earlier Imran so we should also do the same
thing. What are the benefits of clear Malayala? What are the
benefits of tahajjud SubhanAllah. These are such great benefits,
that we going to feel really bad if we can't do it. So may Allah
give us the Tofik. We asked, we mentioned this photography job. So
we can be persuaded to do this and to be given the Tofik but we ask
Allah for the Tofik. The first and foremost reason for doing tahajjud
is I want to do what your most what your most grateful servant
did Rasulullah salAllahu alayhi salam. So that's what I want to
do. Number two, the great rewards and the great pride on the day of
judgment that place is going to be given. Then in the Hadith, he
mentions my brother, Salah Timothy F. Don mean to me, Elaine, after
the fluoride, there is no Salah that is more virtuous than the
Kiama lay.
In fact, some of the stuff used to say I mean, can you imagine what
kind of pleasure they used to have if they could make this statement,
they would say Lola Thea Malayan ma to DACA fifth duniya if there
was no TIAMO Lael, I would not have any pleasure in living in
this world.
Now somebody can only say that if they're getting something out of
it, if it wasn't for so and so I wouldn't be here. The problem is
that we're not going to get that feeling by just doing it once if
you could then it'd be really nice because you just have to force
yourself to do it once and then after that you've got the feeling
will drive you to do it the next day. But believe me, the more
Quran you know, and the tahajjud that you can do, it's our job. I
just want to mention I met this molana who was actually with us in
Madras, he was ahead of us move to safer Islam from Bradford. I spoke
to him and Masha Allah, Allah subhanho wa Taala has really used
him for his service. So he says, yourself and your children you
should just have the ones they have heard of the Quran you should
just tell them to recite one Jews of the Quran in tahajjud every
night and you will never forget your Quran because once you get
busy it's very difficult to find time to read your Quran. But you
have to do tahajjud anyways to do he says that he sleeps every day
at three o'clock from 12 o'clock as 12 o'clock Yeah, I don't know
if I should be mentioning this but he says yes 12 o'clock he has tea
at night and Midnight's and then after that he he studies he does
his preparation for teaching the next day etc for two hours,
whatever it is, I used to write until three o'clock and then he
goes to sleep and then he wakes up Fudger then he does some more,
some more review and preparation and writing whatever it is and
then he sleeps again at
nine to 11
from nine to 11 and then after that until the heart is with the
family and then from after the heart to six o'clock he's dealing
with people's questions and you know, consultations, etc, etc. And
then after six he starts teaching the island class. And he teaches
until 10 o'clock And subhanAllah there's a number of things that
he's been able to produce and may Allah subhanho wa Taala give him
moto fique and more strength and more him. So really productive.
This guy was one guy, this guy him and this other Molana Maulana Azad
is nameless as addley he's the teacher in Medina toolroom in
Kedah minister I used to go to him to prepare my Buhari lesson the
next day because I would have to read that a Baba and know the
meanings etc. So I would go to him. And both of these guys
they're from Bangladeshi background. They came into mothers
are not knowing a single word of who they came into mothers are not
knowing a single word of audio.
And I used to go to him to learn translation we had to learn it in
order to from the Arabic
difficult difficult words, he would just know what their
translation is in order so he would help me prepare. He is the
only guy that I used to see in the classroom. You know, we've just
come back on Sunday from a holiday you give it you know, you have
holidays for five days holiday, whatever it is. You come back on a
Sunday, your classes are going to start on Monday. When you come
back Sunday, you've brought all this food and stuff with you at
home, you just meeting your friends now you just have a good
time. He's the only guy that I used to see sitting in his
classroom on that same Sunday evening, after he's come back from
home preparing for the next day. He's the only guy that I used to
see. They started off with not knowing what to do, but they used
to always come first and second in the class. And now mashallah one
is teaching one of these Hadith books in a he is a very low key
person in Kidderminster the other one has just taken Bradford and
mashallah he's got many, many projects going on down there. And
a number of older working people doctors
etc have become Haarlem by studying under sis IgM how Allah
subhanaw taala can take you from not knowing something to
Mashallah. So these are unima One of the Salafi said that if there
was no keyamo Leila wouldn't want to live in the carrier living in
this world. They would wait for that time because it was private
time. You know, it's like you wait for that time to be with her or
him.
You know, like, you look forward to that time. These people they
love Allah subhanaw taala so much that they just can't wait for
everybody to be asleep, so they can start. They just can't wait
for that time. You know, the pleasure that people get like
that. That's why I mean, what do I mention SubhanAllah. In fact, what
some of the other Ma said is, you guys don't know. He said, You
know, the pleasure you get from pm or late from tahajjud. It's not a
worldly pleasure. That's actually one of the pleasures of the
Hereafter that is being bought in advance in this world. That's why
it's so great. Is not a pleasure of this world. Because you know,
pleasure of this world could be that great. Allah has just brought
it forward in advance for his Olia that's the Hatchard Junaid Al
Baghdadi who everybody agrees on his greatness. After he passed
away, he was seen in his he was seen in somebody's dream. And
somebody asked him for Allah who BiC. What did Allah subhana wa
Taala do with you?
And this statement is a very famous statement of his. He said
da had telecoil issue routes. What Mahalla telco a Bharat
woman defer to Ellerbee Ruqayyah tin can to Ricardo Hafiz Sahara.
All of that in depth discussion about this, that in the other room
sciences and everything that all flew away, you know, a benefit
fitted with a few records that we used to do in the middle of the
night. That's the thing that came to benefit all of this other
discussion, and then teaching and studying and all of that all flew
out of the window. That is what benefits but the problem is that
you can't get to do this unless you study properly.
So you can't say in a shallow minded way, I'm just going to do a
few rockets and I'm not going to study anything, you won't get the
trophy. You won't have the quality. Those fewer cars that
he's talking about the quality he gets in them is because of what he
studies and he teaches Allah subhanho wa Taala has praised
those people who stand up at night he says Colonel Kadena Mina lady
may add your own or bill as Harry whom your stuff your own. Allah
mentioned that in Surah 230 yards. So Little do they sleep at night?
Well Latina Joby tuna, the rugby him Sujatha Wakayama, those who
spent the nights in such that understanding for the Lord's
right, another benefit. So this was another benefits of clear
Malay another benefit of it is that a person will be
corresponding with the time that was mostly accepted, because the
door was accepted and the last portion of the night. So when the
person is in salaat, at that time, his doors are going to be accepted
as well. So he's found that you know, he's, he's corresponding
with that same time. The other thing is that that's the time when
Ramadan when many many mercies are being descended. Rasulullah
sallallahu alayhi wa sallam said that Allah subhanho wa taala, your
Lord, He descends in that last portion of the night, and he says
that, is there anybody that's calling that wants something that
has a need? And I will respond, anybody who wants to ask
something, and I will give it to him? Is there anybody to make a
stick for, and I will forgive him? That continues until the fragile
time.
The other thing is that it's a time of his loss, because only
unless you go and tell anybody afterwards, I do the hedge, but
you don't have to do to tell people, you can just make it up.
I mean,
why would you want to wake up and, you know,
punish yourself to show off, you might as well just make it up and
say, I do touch it every night. I mean, I'm not telling you to do
that. But I'm just saying if you are going to do that, then you
might as well keep it to yourself as a secret between you and Allah
subhanaw taala people will just be able to see it in your face. You
don't have to tell anybody. So the only people that the only people
who are actually going to give preference over there sleep are
those people who have complete Eman
because it's difficult, especially in this country when you have
these volatile nights that go from Fudger at two o'clock and 115 to
eight o'clock in the morning. It's a tough one. But you will get more
reward for that. Those people who are close to the equator and the
hedge that is one time only around I think will get more reward than
them if you can do it because upsetting your system is an
additional hardship.
Additionally, another benefit is that you will have Baraka in your
life, and there'll be an increase in it. Why?
Well, of course, Allah subhanaw taala will give the baraka but
another Baraka is that when a person sleeps, it's it's like it's
a sister of death. Because you are idle. You are unproductive. Yes,
you're in a default state where you're not harming anybody, and
neither are you benefiting anybody. Right? So you're a
default state. But at the end of the day, it's the sister of death.
Being awake is life.
So when a person stays awake, of the time that he would be
sleeping, or that others are sleeping, then he's just increased
his life. He's increased his useful part of his life,
beneficial part of his life. And if he sleeps at that time, then
obviously he's decreased that much. Because the night now he's
talking about the night when there were no artificial lighting, so
you had to go to sleep. It was nighttime generally fell asleep.
One of my teachers he says that in Africa when he was living there,
after mercury, they start feeling sleepy. They couldn't wait for
Asia.
They couldn't wait for Aisha to happen so they could pray Salah
and go to sleep.
They were feeling tired, but they used to wake up later right
now it's difficult. I mean, Asia, Africa, you know, Asia is now past
six.
So whoever does sleep the entire night, then he's just taken half
of his life in sleep. Whoever then stands out of that. Then he has
stood up for half of that time, for the sake of Allah subhana wa
Tada. That's why a poet says something very interesting. It is
either I shall fantastic Tina Howland, Furness, fuller Omri.
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MRI Arman Anwar Harrison, where Shalom Bill Maka CB will eyerly
Woba killer only as Carmen was able to do Luanda in de Cali.
When, if a young man is to live for 60 years, half of his life,
the nights will take up and eat up.
Then half of the half will pass by, he doesn't know due to his
heedlessness his right from the left. This is the time watching
YouTube and wasting time on Facebook, etc. That's a quarter of
your life. Half of the half. You don't know your right from the
left. Exactly. You're wasting your time. It's all the time waste that
we do.
And I don't know why we keep blaming Facebook continue. I mean
watching football and that is also the same thing, isn't it? Why do
we keep blaming Facebook for I don't know at least you're talking
to somebody in phases in football, you just watching
and you can't even do anything. You just have to watch. They're
doing all the running around. You're just watching. And he's
saying yeah, go and go and go and they can't even hear you.
He visited a friend of mine, he was invited to somebody's house in
this country cricket, fingers cricket. And the grandmother,
she's sitting there, the mother, the mother, you know, 4050 year
old woman, 5060 year old woman. She's a Montana, Montana darker
acreage, darker acreage.
I won't say which country, but I'm sure you can understand it's one
of those countries.
So I mean, that seems to be a waste of time playing Of course,
you're helping yourself. But I mean, just watching I don't know
man will fulfill and then he says, then 1/3 of the rest. So you've
you've taken one half, you've taken another quarter, then he
says out of that quarter 1/3 This is all desires, goals, fantasies,
you know, and, and occupation in terms of your earning and your
family. So that part is all you have to do that. You know, just
things that you have to do your daily occupation. So what's left
now he says whatever then is left is all diseases is all becoming
old, and all calamities or difficulties and, and things like
that, which eventually tells you that you're going to be leaving
from here. Well, Berkey laundry, Superman wash Avon, whatever turn
that du loup Allah in TikiLive that's what it is.
Right? Now the benefits of tahajjud do not end yet. This one
is an amazing one. You know the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa
sallam we've been told to make dua after every event, that Allah
subhanaw taala gives him that Muhammad Muhammad, the
praiseworthy station which is only for him, which is only for a
pseudo Allah settle. Now why do you send them and he told us to
pray for him that he gets it so that we can benefit by this dua.
Now, one of the main secrets of Rasulullah sallallahu awesome is
His standing at nights. So although we have no opportunity of
the McConnell Muhammad Al Muhammad Muhammad of this praiseworthy
station because
Is that is very specific to Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi
wasallam but because it's got a link with the TIAMO Laila of
Rasulullah if we do clear Malaya and tahajjud as well, inshallah we
will get some kind of honor on the Day of Judgment. Just like the
prophets Allah will be given the highest honor of all McCollum and
machmood. Another benefit of the original Tiama lane is Badgett to
wedge hilker M, which is that a person's face becomes illuminated
that's why the prophets Allah some said man Kathrada Salah to be lady
hacer una wedge who who when the hara
whoever is salata at night is in abundance, his face will have that
ready radiance in the day it'll become excellent, beautiful. And
another benefit of his a Yatra to the amino acid
it removes him. This is the experience of some of the some of
the people who've been doing this they say this this may not be from
a hadith but you're saying that it will remove it will remove
illnesses from you
will mean her Salama to whom in bola shaytaan. You will be
protected from the shaytaan urinating in your ear. You know
the Hadith about the shaytaan urinates in the ear, you will
never because you'll be awake. In a hadith it says in the lab that
either Nirma a call the whole Mullah Agatha Murad for any
stakeholder wakame Anita Hi Judy, we're in La Bella shaytaan of the
ordinary.
Another thing is that Fajr is the time when the angels come down
just like after Asana as well. You know, because there's the changing
of the shifts in the Quran and Federica Masuda.
Now that's for sure time. So they obviously don't just come straight
official time they're coming from beforehand, however it is, but the
angels listen to your era.
And they are happy with that because it's only you have a voice
out there and the voice of the drunken people who are coming back
from parties. May Allah never make us one of them.
May Allah subhanaw taala give us the trophy to stand for him and
have these vigils for him. May Allah give us that Tofik May Allah
give us that Tofik
Allahu Akbar
and then the next line he says so he says Lord I'm too soon the
chairman of Allah Illa initial market either initial market
Kadima who don't Ramin what me and then he says worship them in
Serbian Asha who what our title hijab Marathi Kashia neutrophil
Academy so now he's talking about something totally different he
says over his belly and soft skin he placed a stone tightening a
belt over it to lessen that lessen the hunger pangs and I have been
doing zoom of this person sooner. So inshallah we will continue with
that. The next one he says is what are what the total jiba Lu Shu
moment there have been an FC he Ferrara Yama Shama me, high
mountain sought to tempt him by turning to gold, but he showed
them lofty heights upon heights. He totally denied you totally
rejected them. He says, I don't need I don't need this.
So now this is where he started in the Sierra. He's just picking
things from the Syrah speaking about Rasool allah sallallahu
alayhi wa sallam. Allah Alaikum and salaam Inca Salam debabrata
heterogeneity with the Quran, Allah Who May or June Vaticanus
study, Allah who may 100 On Yemen la isla learn the Sahara Anika,
you know, couldn't Amina Lonnie mean, just Allahu ardonagh
Mohammad Amir who
Allahumma salli wa salam ala Sayyidina Muhammad wa ala Sayidina
Muhammad you are very clear Salam, O Allah purify our hearts, O
Allah, O Allah bring some light into our lives and our hearts and
our Allah make us of those who can stand up and who have the Tofik to
stand up at night to stand in front of you and to enjoy it like
this set of solid used to do. Oh Allah, Oh Allah, some of them used
to live for this. Oh Allah grant us the taste of that at least once
so that we know how this the leather and the taste of it Oh
Allah, Oh Allah grant us the trophy to stand in front of you
and to give preference over our asleep. Oh Allah give us a trophy
to do this and to fulfill our prayers and to observe them all
the time. Oh, Allah, just like the author said here that
he has oppressed the Sunnah of Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa
salam. O Allah, we thank you for making us Oh Matisse of Rasulullah
sallallahu alayhi wa salam. But Allah we have taken this for
granted. or Allah we've taken this for granted.
And we haven't fulfilled the rights of our messenger sallallahu
alayhi wa sallam we we give preference over his similar to
other things of Allah we give preference to other things over
his Sunnah of Allah allow that sunnah to be enlivened in our
lives and in the lives of all our Muslim brother and sis
says around the world of Allah bring us back onto the straight
path of Allah purify our hearts, because we have years and years of
sins and in our hearts Oh Allah we ask you that you make all your
obedience is Beloved to us. Oh Allah we asked you that you make
all of the good deeds, beloved, to assume that we want to do them and
you give us pleasure in our iman and you give us the sweetness of
our faith. Oh Allah, you make this easy for us. Oh Allah we ask you
by the baraka of this, measure this by the baraka of your
messenger sallallahu alayhi wa salam, O Allah, O Allah, O Allah
grant us closeness to your messenger sallallahu alayhi wa
salam in the hereafter. Allow us to drink from his hold of Allah
allow us his company in gender to a fair dose of Allah O Allah allow
us to be true Muhammad is in this world of Allah allow us to be true
Muhammad is in this world of Allah forgive us our sins and turn us
towards trying to satisfy you in instead of satisfying everything
else. Oh Allah, our whole life is in the love for something else. Oh
Allah, our entire interest and our dream dreams and desires and
gaining pleasure from other things. Oh Allah make us grant us
pleasure. Only in seeking your happiness and in obeying you. Oh
Allah, don't ever don't ever find us. Absent in a place where you've
told us to be and don't ever find us present in a place where you've
prohibited us from Oh Allah, protect our gaze. Oh Allah protect
our ears Oh Allah protect our sight. Oh Allah protect our feet
and hands with what we touch. Oh Allah make everything Halal about
us. Allah make everything lawful about us and guided about us of
Allah grant us your Baraka in our life of Allah and everything and
remove any difficulties that we have, oh Allah preserve us and our
children preserve all the Muslims around the world. Oh Allah grant
us peace in all the votes around the world and all the countries
around the world and the time that we live in, Oh Allah, we ask you
one final thing that you send your blessings on Muhammad sallallahu
alayhi wa sallam, and you make the best of our days, the day that we
stand in front of you in the hereafter grantors gender to fit
those gender to fit those Subhan Allah because Allah is that your
mIRC phone was Allah when Allah was setting? Well, hamdulillah
the point of a lecture is to encourage people to act to get
further an inspiration, and encouragement, persuasion. The
next step is to actually start learning seriously, to read books
to take on a subject of Islam and to understand all the subjects of
Islam at least at the basic level, so that we can become more aware
of what our deen wants from us. And that's why we started Rayyan
courses so that you can actually take organize lectures on demand
whenever you have free time, especially for example, the
Islamic essentials course that we have on there, the Islamic
essentials certificate, which you take 20 Short modules and at the
end of that inshallah you will have gotten the basics of most of
the most important topics in Islam and you'll feel a lot more
confident. You don't have to leave lectures behind you can continue
to live, you know, to listen to lectures, but you need to have
this more sustained study as well as local law here and Salam
aleikum wa rahmatullah wa barakato.