Abdur Rahman ibn Yusuf Mangera – Revive Your Dead Heart How to Remember Allah and Gain Fulfillment
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My dear respected brothers and sisters.
What we need in the world today
are people with with bright minds, active intellects,
people who have
a seeking mind that wants to go, and people who want to go
do something, contribute to the world, make some changes,
positively effect change.
And mashallah, we have a number of people like that even within the
Muslim community.
I don't want to praise you in your face. And I don't know if this is
praised. But if being in Cambridge University mean something, then
maybe it does, I don't know. I'll leave that to you to decide on the
listeners to decide them. Right. So I guess I'm just going to use
that as an example.
You've come here, obviously, and chosen this university for a
particular reason.
You didn't kind of end up here to be in a party school. I used to be
in Santa Barbara, California before which was on the beach. And
that was a proper party school because the parties used to start
on Thursday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday, and you went
into that area. And it would be quite crazy. But I'm sure
Cambridge is not like that. We disturb your neighbors with lots
of drinking and
lots of music and sound and so on.
So essentially, what's required is that if we've got a lot of Active
Minds within our community, the problem is that a lot of them when
they get to a certain level, we lose them
this
fervor for Islam
this concern want to do something for their Deen
that's where we have much less out of this. These number of people
that are mashallah highly accomplished, educated, qualified,
have great ability. The problem is that very few actually tend to be
really focused on the deen. Yes, we see a few bad images coming out
of Syria, some horrifying footage that makes us think for a while
and then after that we lose it because we go out to mashallah we
live in the glamour of the world. Everything is orderly here. We
don't have an issue. We don't see too many problems except our own
individual setbacks that we feel.
What is required is a person with a burning heart, a heart with
love. Very interesting Hadith thats related by the Prophet
sallallahu alayhi wa sallam from the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa
sallam related by both Buhari and Muslim, the Prophet sallallahu
alayhi wa sallam said method will live he is guru Rob Well levy
liars good karma Farrell. Hi ye Wilma yet the example of the one
who remembers his load and the one who doesn't, is literally this is
what he said is like the living person and the dead person,
the living person and the dead person. Now, a very interesting
twist to this. I was in Zambia a few months ago, and there was a
South African individual who is reading from a book and he was
reading this hadith. Now in South
freaka especially those in the Johannesburg area, they say their
eyes like a you. So for example, 50 becomes 50, not 50 becomes 50.
Right? 60 is 60. So it's kind of they raise it slightly. So this
one, this person was a bit more pronounced in his accent. And he
said, he read the Hadith. And then he said the example of the one who
remembers his Lord and the one who doesn't is like the loving heart,
or the loving person and the dead person.
Which isn't wrong in the sense because a living heart is a loving
heart because it loves Allah. It's connected to Allah subhana wa
Tada. So, it was unintended. He meant living but really, that is
how you how a heart is going to live is by loving Allah subhanaw
taala because that's the only way for it. If the heart doesn't love
Allah subhanaw taala then it will love everything else. There's only
place for one in the heart, and that's why the Prophet sallallahu
Ellison's dua related from which is very powerful. We should make
it part of our dua which is Allah humara zakenna Hogback will hook
Dominion pharaoh now who endlich right if you want to repeat it
once with me, at least you read it once. If you memorize it, it's
good. Allahu Merzouga hubback
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what that means is, Oh Allah grant us sustain us or is Allahumma
zakenna risk is sustenance, which is so essential to us. Risk is
very essential. That's what we live by. So we're always the last
one used here. Oh Allah, sustain us with Your love.
Now status with your love, it becomes much easier to gain love
for Allah subhanho wa Taala through company through loving
company. Right because the human character, the human, the human
self is such that we steal from others. That's what Josie said.
Hassan he said the same thing. Among Zadie in Josie. They both
said the same thing. What they said is that human temperament
Imam Ghazali says this in his begotten hedaya Beginning of
guidance. I am ignorant Josie says this intel BC bliss. They both
said that the human person is a human character is a thief. What
that means is that we steal surreptitiously, from people
around us. So when we're living among people, when we're living
among people, we will steal their bad habits as well. We won't be
able to notice that that's why Imam Shafi said travel because
travel has five benefits. One of them is that you learn a HELOC
How'd you learn a HELOC when you travel is because sometimes when
we admits people, we become so used to the wrong o'clock and the
bad character that may be prevalent that we adopted as well,
because we're humans we take we emulate from others much more than
we will, from their speech, we take from their behavior much
more. Right? So we will assimilate this character and we won't even
be sensitive to its evil until we go to another area and we see how
those people don't do that. And suddenly we see things through the
opposites we see three see things through the comparison.
Right? That's why mom does it. He says that the topic of the human
being, it steals from the tip of others. That's why role models
should be should be well behaved as opposed to just giving good
speech. And may Allah subhanaw taala make us all good role
models, rather than people who just speak and don't act.
And that's why Imam Abdullah Josie Rahim Allah He mentions is that
read the lives of the pious, the pious before us, because there
that's what if you can't travel essentially Imam Shafi will tell
you to travel. But if you can't travel and you're you're sitting
at home, or you're sitting in your own area, then at least read the
stories of the pious individuals of the past because you learn from
there.
So this is all about taking from others. Or going back to our
original point, what we need is we need people with Active Minds, but
with a burning heart as well, to do something, there needs to be a
balance in the two, because a very active mind will gain a lot of
Maluma data knowledge. Google is the biggest ally. Right? In that
sense, right? But at the end of the day, if there's not a heart to
balance it, then arrogance will creep in
there because every new bit of knowledge that you study, when you
come out of that class, and you've understood something, how elated
Do you feel the people around you don't know what you're talking
about, but you feel like somewhere else, you just feel like wow, I
got that. Right. You feel like you've just like got a
breakthrough or something that leads to arrogance. Sometimes, if
there is no loving heart or living heart, then that is to temper that
and to to die.
erected, then the active mind is going to essentially
provide the wrong conclusions in this world because we, the human
being and Subhanallah, although Muslims have been talking about
psycho neuro cardiology, since the inception because that's what the
professor Lawson said the whole basis of it is the hadith of Rasul
Allah Allah is and famous Hadith, which is in the villages that the
Buddha in Asada had suggested to Kulu, we've got a piece of flesh
in the body, which if it's sound, the whole body will be sound,
because the, and then he said, if it's facet, if it's, if it's
unsound, if it's sick, if it's defective, it's going to cause a
problem with the whole body. We know that from a cardiology point
of view that that's absolutely the case, you've got a weak heart,
you're going to have problems in your movements, and so on and so
forth. Right, you eventually will need to do something to correct
it.
Likewise, what's only discovered about 2030 years ago, by a new
science called psycho, psycho cardiology, neuro Cardiology is
that the heart also has similar cells to the brain, where the
heart also does something. And it's not just an organ to pump.
And that's a relatively new area of study relatively new, although
I was called as I've been speaking about it for years, because this
is a base it's based on the hadith of Allah basically lay on a
interlocutor, just the mood of the hadith of Rasulullah sallallahu
wasallam. So the heart and the mind in fact, the Quran speaks
more about the heart than the mind. The actual is intellect is
mentioned very few times, whereas the heart and the heart is used in
different ways. Caliban Salim and
fie he modeled, speaking about the illness in the heart, not talking
about, you know, a heart problem, meaning a heart problem, right, if
you know what I mean by a heart problem that we speak about today,
right where you got some vessels closed or valves closed or clogged
up. It's talking about another one. That's where Allah subhanho
wa Taala says, Allah, may Allah be Tobin's Salim, the one successful
in the hereafter is only going to be the one who comes with a Salim
heart, setting a sound heart that's not polluted by the by the
dunya. And what's in there that's been able to overcome that. That's
the importance of it. Now let's talk about something. Let's talk
about it in a related way, Allah subhanho wa Taala says in the
Quran, yeah, you have Latina amaranth, Kuru Allah, the Quran
kathira.
Or people who believe speaking about anybody who believes, right
believes in Allah remember Allah abundantly. Remember Allah
abundantly.
Now, then he says first kulula Cathedral. Remember, this is
another verse. The first one is from Isaiah, the second verse is
from sutra Juma. First guru Allah was good Allah Kathy Guthrie, Ron
la isla come to flee Hoon? Remember Allah subhanho wa Taala
abundantly so that you may be successful?
be successful in this world and in the hereafter. Ask anybody who's
got great success in this world but they don't have Allah. You
feel I'm talking I'm talking personally. You've got all the
achievements in the world. You've got all the positions you want,
masha Allah, Allah has given you whatever you want, you've got your
money, you've got your house, you've got your, your degrees,
you've got your children, you've got this, but there's a sense of
emptiness. You don't you don't feel like how would I stand in
front of Allah. So now I'm talking to believers here and that's why
we're speaking about it from that perspective. Imagine if were to
stand in front of Allah subhanaw taala how accomplished would we
feel? Would you feel comfortable, would that be the best of our days
that we've ever because the day that we meet Allah subhanaw taala
for a true believer that is supposed to be the best of their
days that have ever experienced in their life,
life of this world, or the life of the hereafter. That's why there's
a dual Rasulullah sallallahu and we check these days, oh Allah.
Make the best of my days, yo mama Alcock.
The day that I meet you, that won't diminish any of the other
days, you could still have a great life, but the best of those days
will be the day that I beat you. It's all relative. So by asking
that we're not going to diminish our days of our life or in our
life of this world. But it's just that I want this to be nice, but I
want the best day to be the one i in which I meet Allah subhanaw
taala May Allah give us May Allah give us all that. So Allah
subhanaw taala is telling us you must remember Allah subhanho wa
Taala abundantly,
then
to such a degree if you look in the Quran, and you just look for
the word vicar, you'll see it over and over and over again. For
example, in another verse, Allah subhanaw taala says both kulula pm
and will corrode and weither Jr. will become remember Allah
subhanho wa Taala standing, sitting and on your sides,
right standing sitting in on your sides, very interest
thing. When is it just that should just dispel from our mind that
vicar is some kind of formal thing you have to do? Right where you
have to find time and you just sit and have to do it in a particular
way.
And the end of the day solid as Allah says in the Quran, RPM is
salata. lithic, re established solid for my remembrance, the
whole purpose of the Salah, the formal ritual movements that we do
is for the remembrance of Allah. Now many of us what's happening is
that we do an autopilot Salaat where Allahu Akbar, we've made the
intention to be a Salaat Allahu Akbar, and then we're gone.
And the next time you remember, we're still here is a ceramic. Oh,
I've just finished we're so professional in our prayers.
Right? We're so professional, we're not learners, that we start,
and we can do everything on autopilot. And then a cinematic
Warahmatullah hamdulillah reached, right. I mean, it's a sad case of
affairs. But that is is our salad at the Prophet SAW Allah subhanho
wa Taala says establish pray for my remembers where was the
remembrance in this way, just fulfilling an obligation. So
another thing sometimes we seek we want to do some DSP Subhanallah
Hamdulillah we think we're doing some vicar, what are we getting
out of it? Subhanallah so sometimes, you know, we're going
to sit after the prayer and it's
like, let's get out of here quickly. I mean, there's there's a
Persian point which is very into anybody speak Persian here. Farsi?
No, SubhanAllah.
Okay. Anyway, the Persian poet says, for his time, now, look how
times have changed. He says, the resu Bantus be the dill go home.
Each you need this be good.
What that means is on my Zubaan on my tongue is that SB of Allah, I'm
saying Subhan Allah Al hamdu, LilLah Allahu Akbar. But in my
heart is the cows and the goats. Look how simple that is. For us,
it's our Facebook page, there's an update, let's check it out. There
must be five updates by now 50 likes, right? Let's check our this
account that account our email, let's see if we've missed any
calls this other than the other, that's when we like quickly, you
know, this, these are the better ones among us to actually sit and
do the speed. Right? If we can call them better, you know, you
know what I mean? Right? And so he's talking about he says, on my,
on my tongue is the TSB. So I'm saying it, I'm uttering it, but in
my heart is the cows and cows and goats and things like that. We you
know, for us, it's our cars and other things.
Then he says each you need this be clear data. How can these this we
have any effect?
Have any benefits have any effects? They're going to have a
benefit because people like human misery, they've said that the word
Allah
taking that name of Allah subhanaw taala. That is small, Jelena, this
name of majesty. It is so powerful that you can take it with all
negligence and it will still benefit you. That's the intrinsic
benefit in the name.
Right? No merit on our part except that we've Allah and to tell the
truth. If you look at what if not, Allah says, it says that if you've
been given the Tofik to and take the name of Allah, it means ALLAH
has given you that trophy. You didn't do it by accident.
You didn't do it by accident. If you if we have been given the
trophy to sit down and do some flicker of Allah or to remember
Allah subhanaw taala in any state, it's from Allah. Take that as a
good sign. thank Allah for it. Let in Chicago to Allah as Eden. If
you thank Allah subhanho wa taala. Allah says in the Quran, let in
Shackleton if you are thankful and grateful, will give you more or
less even though we will increase you.
But you can only thank Allah subhana wa Tada. Because he gives,
He gives opportunities. And these opportunities will come until we
take them. For example, if young kids, if you've got an auntie that
comes always brings you a gift. And what you do is as soon as she
comes in, you're waiting for that gift because you know, she always
brings gifts, you grab it and you run to your room and you start
playing. You don't even say hi to her. You don't say salam alikoum
you don't give her a hug, you don't do anything you just run
off. She might bring it to you next time testing you out again.
But if you do that the second level is going to think Man, I
don't want to get taken these got ungrateful kids. Right? Because
every time I take them something,
they just grab it run. They don't even give me a hug. They don't say
thanks. They never come and talk to me afterwards. I don't see them
again. What do you is that right? You think they would act like
that? But your auntie is better than that? Well, Allah subhanaw
taala is better than that. Right? Well, you're probably not that bad
or you probably say good to your auntie in it.
So,
see the kids see I mean they need to feel relevant because we're
speaking on some other levels we need to make it relevant for them
because they hear they've got mashallah they're sacrificing
their time I need to we need to pay attention to them. Allah
subhanho wa Taala bring you closer to him. Say I mean
what does that mean mean?
It means Oh Allah accept. Alright, so when you say Amin after any
dua, it's like you're part of that door.
Right? That's a secret. Okay?
That everybody's heard about now. Because of you. Okay? So, look at
what Allah subhanaw taala Allah is sending us do lots of vicar,
because that's what we created you format. Hello, hello. Hola. Hola.
tiljander well into Ilaria Abdul. This is all from the Quran. I
mean, the Quran lays this out for us. We only created the human and
the jinn to, to worship us. How do you do that? 24 hours a day. How
do you fulfill that? How do you do vicar abundantly?
Because that's what Allah says with God Allah Vikram kathira.
Remember Allah abundantly? How do you do that? He says do it
standing sitting on your sides, which means it's not a formal
thing that you have to sit to do because you're not gonna do
something like that lying down like that. It's essentially saying
whatever state you're in. Another thing that said is in the Quran
generally speaks about lying on your side, because that's the
Sunnah way of lying. It never speaks about lying on your back is
very interesting on your stomach for that matter. Right? She turns
sleeps on his stomach that says a shaytani way of lying, right? So
you should avoid doing that. But it's on your side that's sitting
on the right side, it's pseudonym.
So it's a thing that make it so informal, that you're always doing
it. I'll give you an example. You've got a
any women or children here?
No. Okay.
All right. So are any guys with children that have to babysit?
Sometimes? Yeah. So you're cooking,
or you're doing something and your child is playing outside?
Allah has given us disability that although we're focused on our
cooking, or whatever it is that we're doing. But our one part of
our mind is on our child, we're listening, is it? Can I still hear
him? Or her? Is she crying?
Is she still there, you know, especially playing in the yard or
something like that they've gone out, you're constantly away, even
though you're so focused, and the whole that is what you call
conscious attention on something else, because you've got concerned
for them. Imagine if you can have concern for Allah subhanaw taala
like that. That's probably what's meant in this verse, that kind of
an attention, not that we must just sit somewhere like a hermit
and just do this. Because that's impossible. Because we're social
creatures. That's how Allah has made us Allah has made us social
creatures where we interact with people. So we need to have that
interaction. But the secret is of all of this is that if you have to
look at any book of dollars, and there are many, if not tml Josina
you've got even a Sudanese you've got Imam no worries, numerous
books of doors massive, you know, like with an awful need every
occasion in the day, a prayer supplication an invocation for
nearly everything of the day, from entering the toilet and the
bathroom to eating and sleeping, to, to you know, to many mundane
things is $1 for there's a special dollar for drinking milk, whereas
there's a dolphin for for eating normal food, but then there's a
special dollar for drinking milk. How focus must have the Prophet
sallallahu some have been I should have the Allahu Allah related to
the Hadith in Sahih al Bukhari she says that, Corona rasool Allah He
sallallahu alayhi wa sallam Yes, the Quran, Allah, Allah Kalyani.
He used to remember Allah subhanho wa taala, in every state of his at
all times, essentially. Does that mean he was just sitting, that's
what he was doing. Now we know that he wasn't doing that we know
that he was actually speaking to people, counseling people, leading
people, commanding people, guiding people leading the prayers,
teaching, doing welfare work, he was doing all of this. And yet she
says that every state of his he was remembering Allah subhanaw
taala that means we need to really, really understand the
meaning of vicar and how it should be done.
That's essentially what this is all about. Because when Allah
subhanaw taala tells us to remember him abundantly. There's
another thing that he says about a certain group of people, when I
have karoun, Allah Illa collibra who they say that about
they don't remember Allah except a bit. Is that us?
Right? I mean, the description does fit us but that's not who
Allah is talking about in the Quran, Allah is talking about who
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neither the neither on this side and night
Are they on this side? They are.
They are in limbo between the two. These are the minority of the
time,
because they couldn't make up a decision to be complete. girthier
are a complete believer. So they would also remember ALLAH, a show
that they're remembering Allah because it was part of the Muslim
men thing to do at the time. But that's what Allah, Allah describes
them by saying, when I have Kuru and Allah Illa kalila, they only
remember Allah.
They only remember Allah.
In small amounts, they hardly remember Allah. That's a
description of the manavi team.
And may Allah protect us from being
from that fitting onto us? Because Allah tells us remember Allah
abundantly.
Now, another thing that has to come in mind is why don't we
remember Allah? This is something that we need to really analyze.
Because this is really what gets to the crux of the matter. And
there are a number of verses again in the Quran verses which really
frightened me. For example, Allah subhanaw taala says,
is that what Allah He was shaytaan? For answer Homewrecker,
Allah
shaytaan has become dominant over and has overwhelmed them. And thus
he has caused them to forget the remembrance of Allah.
Because if he can't remember Allah subhanho wa Taala What is the
reason there is only one, there is only one way that we cannot
remember Allah. The reason is that we've come from a pure realm, you
know, people talk about Kulu, the Nullah do and fitrah that Allah
who you have with Danny, oh, you know, see Ronnie he, and so on the
prophets of Allah, Allah some said, which is that every child is
born on the primordial nature. Many people like to translate this
as every child is born a Muslim. That's not what the prophets of
Allah Islam said. That's why then they say that people revert to
Islam.
Right that to tell the truth, I don't get into this argument,
Revert, convert, it's all the same, really. Because at the end
of the day, you're still a convert you or something? I mean, it will
use something else you've converted. If you look at the
immediate and if you look at maybe the beginning of natural faith,
then yes, you're revert. So there's some people who insist
don't call them a convert, don't call them a revert. It's it's just
it's still our hearts. Right? It's just terminology doesn't matter.
The main thing is that you've got Islam, whether you're born with
it, or you got it afterwards. Generally, the people who get it
Afters tend to be stronger.
Because they've they've they found they were missing the road. So
they went to the right direction. The other guys are just commonly
going somebody who goes you know, wants to go to Glasgow, anybody
from Glasgow here?
Edinburgh, okay, let's say Edinburgh than anybody wants to go
to anywhere we're going. I imagined some guy who wanted to go
to Edinburgh. But he got on to the ambulance in the wrong way. And he
went, started going to London,
suddenly discovered, hey, I'm going the wrong way. After driving
for an hour. He's leaving London a This is London is not Edinburgh,
right? So then he turns around, and now he's on his way to
Edinburgh, he's going to be he's going to have a lot more
persistence. He's going to be on a mission, because he went the wrong
way. Now he's turning the right way. He's going to be a lot more
diligent about it than the person who knows this when he's just
going just relaxing, stopping over service stations, this admire this
one. Let's admire that one. Let's see if there's a masala in this
one, you know, and so on.
So every child, every newborn is born on the fitrah the primordial
nature because they've come from a situation where a particular
incident took place when Allah subhanaw taala created Adam
Alayhis Salam, as mentioned in the Hadith, I mentioned the Quran as
well. Then Allah subhanho, wa Taala manifested himself to all of
creation, they were all brought up in the form of ancestors, the size
of ants, they were all from the first person to the last person
that will ever come into this world. And then Allah subhanaw
taala manifested himself and then he said, Let's to be Rob big room.
And they all said better. Of course you are. Then people come
into this world, according to the time that Allah has allotted for
them. They come into this world, from an embryonic stage through
the embryonic stage, they're born into this world. Now. This is why
Imam Abu Hanifa in his work, but he says, People are created, not
with acquired faith, because you acquire for your faith after you
become mature. But you are with natural faith. That's what is
this? This fitrah you've come from a state a situation where you
confirm Allah subhanaw taala. That's why babies infants,
children will never deny Allah. If something no believing, generally
because they've just come from that realm. They're pure
unadulterated, but then we adulterate ourselves and we
change.
So now, you start with that I know he will. shaytaan so that's why
shaytans mission is to stop us. Because there's a hottie
Within Muslim which mentions that every time a child is born, any
new person comes into this world. A shaytaan is stipulated for this
person is designated for this person. And this shaytan then
influences this person as he grows up and tries to mislead him, that
they asked the Prophet sallallahu you even had one? Did you have one
as a human being? Did you have a che plan as well? He says, Yes, I
had one as well, but for Osama Osama, which essentially he said
Yes, I had one but he has come to me Oh, he's become a Muslim. So
the prophets Allah Islam was an exception, in that sense. But
every human being has that. That's why Allah says in the Quran,
cultivate openness means collaborative, your openness.
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seek refuge in Allah in the Lord from the evil of the one who comes
and whispers and then he retreats. he retreats when the name of Allah
is taken. So the only it's either you've got Allah or you've got the
shaytaan
so we have to fill our hearts with Allah subhanaw taala now how do
you do that?
The reason why this is so important is because another verse
that really frightens me is what made your idea that victory
Rachmaninoff aka yet level Shavon for whoever who Corinne which may
look at the beauty full way the prophets, Allah subhanaw taala has
mentioned this, you see Allah uses different names of his, in the
Quran. According to the situation. It's not done in a haphazard
manner. There's some Orientalist who said you know in the last time
you were in it in the last I mean, your embassy, Allahu Allah
condition in Cadiz. These are just flourishes. You know, you put a
little flourish here, it says these are just versions of the
Quran, right? They have no meaning they have no relevance. So the
verses just felt like doing this one here doing this one here, and
that's totally wrong. If you're looking at fc like Badawi you'll
notice where there's a reason for every single one of them why it's
chosen for that particular place. Here. Allah says, out of all of
the names of his that he could have chosen, he says, woman you
are in undeclared Rama, whoever ignores turns away abstains from
the remembrance not of Allah and say Allah, He says Rahman, from
the Most Merciful One, essentially trying to direct our minds to the
fact that Rockman Bismillah R Rahman Rahim Al hamdu, lillahi,
Rabbil Alameen Rahmani Raheem, right. He is the Most Merciful One
that has bestowed us with everything we have in this world.
And then we are ignoring his remembrance despite the fact that
he's told us to do so. So whoever does ignore the remembrance of the
Most Merciful Noca ye Allahu shaitan and we will designate a
shaytaan specially for him. This is not talking about the general
shaytani the but this is that you will give him power over us. We
will stipulate the shaytaan ke loca, you know, shaytaan for who
and who Corinne, he will become His intimate. Now you can't do
anything.
Because she binds with us all the time. But obviously this has
happened because we're not making the thicket of Allah subhanaw
taala.
Allah subhanaw taala says in a hadith could see that all of you
were misguided, except the one I guided. So ask Me for guidance and
I will guide you.
This is a very important statement made by quoted by the prophets
Allah son from Allah subhanho wa taala. Because, you know, those
people among us and people around who become depressed with their
life, and they just feel like they can never gain guys, because they
just seem to always be doing the wrong thing. And they just can't
turn around and do the right thing. And they just always going
towards evil their friends about the the drinking the you know, I
don't want to mention the evils but you know, they just don't feel
any comfort in their heart. They just feel they're always going
wrong. ask Allah for guidance, because this hadith mentions that
he says, None of you are guided except the ones I guide asked Me
for guidance and I'll guide you. So ask Allah for guidance. ask
Allah for Tofik ask Allah for correctness of of opinion of
action, then he will give it to us. But of course, if we're
involved in so many sins that we are going to have to purify our
hearts to take us out of that. Now.
This is the verse that really frightens me. Because if we're not
doing the Dhikr of Allah, does that mean we have a shaytaan as
our very close, intimate accomplice, who's always with us
and not going to allow us?
That's scary.
That is scary. That is why I mean, let's take a few examples. One of
the biggest problems today in this world, in this new age of the
internet, and internet on your phones, what do you think is the
biggest problem today
People in general are complaining about that is something related to
the internet. Not just Muslims are complaining, families are breaking
up. Wives are complaining. Sometimes husbands agree mostly
it's the wives that are complaining. What is the problem?
Subhanallah man, you guys are like Oh Leo or something.
Whatever, they you go *. That's a massive problem today.
The amount of emails that we get, I've got this problem. I mean, oh,
SubhanAllah. This guy, he wrote me such a long email. And he's
telling me, You're not going to be able to help me. But I still have
to ask you this.
This is my problem. This is my problem. I just can't get away
from it. I just can't get away from it. I just can't get away
from it. It is such a big one. You can do what you want. People have
done something they've stopped from a month, two months, three
months back on track. It is such a big problem. There are people they
know their wives that know about it, but they can't help it.
Right, they they feel remorseful after they feel ugly. They feel
despicable. After they've done it. They feel like suicidal, but they
still can't stop.
It is such a big fitna of this time, as I would say is probably
one of the biggest plagues we have this time. Because it's so easy.
You can sit in a masjid and do it La Jolla go to level on your
phone, as unfortunately people have said they have done.
It's just it's they just need to do it.
And the way that people do it. Now, why am I talking about that
with vicar, I'm just trying to give you an example of, you'll
understand what I'm saying. There's one guy, he says that the
way I do it is that even though my parents, my father has put
parental locks on the computer, I know exactly how to switch it off,
do what I need to do, to turn them back on, wipe everything clean, he
won't even know. In fact, I was shocked when this was brought to
my attention.
Because as soon as you start doing Zina shaytan is going to help you
plot best strategists. He says, and I hope nobody uses this, you
know, later, you know, some not you guys, but you know this being
recorded. I hope I don't give bad ideas. Allah protect us all. And
protect everybody that listens to this and protect all of us. He
says,
he's, he downloads whatever he wants to puts it in a folder, and
then he deletes it.
So what you're like, Okay is deleted it, then what he does is
when he needs to,
it's got the locks on it, all he has to do is he's got an undelete
program.
So then he undelete that folder, does what he wants to do, and then
deletes it again.
So you know, he's, you can't each time go in and do your surfing and
collect images and so on. And then after that, wipe everything, it
just takes too long. So he does it once. And then after every time he
needs to do something, he deletes an undelete with undelete program.
Some young guy, we're not talking about, you know, a geek. I mean,
he is a geek, right?
How would you get rid of this? That's the question. The only way
you can get rid of this is through Allah subhanaw taala. And that is
to strengthen. The reason we're here is because it's an addiction.
You hate yourself after you're doing it, you're willing to commit
suicide. Some people are, you know, willing to do that. But you
still can't get away from it. You can think about whatever you want.
The only way you can probably avoid it is somebody's watching
you there and they're even then you'll go and find a place to go
and do it without that. The only way is to strengthen your heart.
This is a sign of the diseased heart. The only way you can do
this is to do an abundant with God Allah has the Quran Kathira
because it's only with the news of Allah subhanho wa Taala in our
hearts, that we'll be able to gain the ability to avoid this kind of
stuff.
That's the only way to do it. To just cut it out completely. And
remember Allah subhana wa Tada. That's the only way to fortify
ourselves with this. There is no other alarge or cure for this kind
of thing. That's just an example I mentioned. There are many other
things or maybe have a lighter scale or even a worse scale that
we're involved in. And we can't get away despite the fact that we
would like to we'd have to we'd love to have a pristine life.
That's why Allah the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam said
Hadith equally che in scicon. atone for everything is a Polish,
it needs to be polished because it gets worn out it gets corrupted,
it gets adulterated, polluted, corrupted. Luckily che in Sakana
for everything is a Polish was a kind of tool. Kulu be the gorilla
and the polish of the Polish of the hearts is the remembrance of
Allah subhanho wa Taala That's why Allah subhanho wa Taala can
declare so openly Allah be Vickery Allah He taught to me in Norco
lube that know that with the remembrance of Allah do hearts
find contentment, there is no way else you can find contentment, you
might feel really satisfied after watching something that you really
like watching, or going to a restaurant and eating a dish that
you'd really wanted to go and eat, or having your favorite chocolate,
but you tried to then give that same person, a third bar of
chocolate, they're gonna say, Man, I'm sick of it. Now. That's the,
that's the last. That's the desires of the world, the
pleasures of the world, what they do the pleasures of the world, the
instant, they give you a high, but then there's a major drop, and
then you get tired of them, you have to wait. And then unless you
get something even more intense, that's the way of all of these
things.
Right? Whereas with the remembrance of Allah, and the
worship of Allah subhanho wa taala, the benefit of it is
initially small, but it's enduring. So you need to continue
and overlap and overlap until the heart becomes clear. And then
after that it will perpetuate. So the good thing about doing some of
dhikr of Allah is that eventually it will become easier to do it,
because it will become part of our life to do it, because our hearts
will become alive again. The sign of a dead heart is that we can't
avoid sins. The side of a dead heart is that we feel we feel
totally wrecked. When a small things happens to us. We feel
depressed, we, we get setbacks, and we feel like it's the end of
the world. We constantly become grieved by problems in our family,
in our children, in our with our parents, with our friends, with
our university, with our studying with our marks, with our house,
with our computer with our car, this kind of stuff. It says Allah
subhanaw taala either punishing us or trying to just wake us up a
wake up call. We just have to be able to decipher that in the
correct way and to get closer to him and use everything to get
closer to him. Once a person is content in the heart, they're
relaxed.
They're relaxed, law, hopefully Allah him whatever he has an old.
That's what Allah says in the Quran. They have no fear and will
they never grieve. This doesn't mean they won't have problems, but
they will be able to deal with the problems. That's why the old the
Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam had so many calamities so
many difficulties, but he was able to deal with it. Never did you
become depressed. I was once in an interfaith I was once with a
clergy group. When I was in America, we had a local clergy
group.
There were some rabbis and
lots of Christian pastors, priests, and so on church leaders.
So I remember one of them who I knew he lost his job at the local,
his place of worship.
And the next time I met him that he was so depressed, I just
couldn't believe it. The level of depression he was going through
for losing his job. Many moms lose their jobs all the time. Right?
It's not a big deal. You don't find another job. It's from Allah
subhanho wa taala. You decipher it. That's why the Prophet
sallallahu alayhi wa sallam said, I genuinely mean, you know, such
an amazing state of affairs, it is for the believer, if a calamity
overcomes him, and he makes supper that is good for him. And if he
gets prosperity, or if something good happens, and he does, thanks,
he is grateful, then that's good for him, gratefulness and
patience. That's our life. That's how we live. Like, I was just
trying to comfort him. I just couldn't believe the level of
depression. You're a leader. You teach people I didn't say that to
him, obviously. Right? But I just couldn't believe because I've
never seen
any educated movement in the state that I saw him.
Subhanallah
so we need to get to do the vicar of Allah subhanaw taala now how do
you remember Allah subhanho wa Taala the Roma see the time Rasul
Allah, Allah, Allah Islam is very simple, because in that time,
being in the company of Rasulullah, salallahu, salam, the
neuros there all the time. So your hearts were polished? I mean, you
see Sahaba, if they made a mistake was very easily corrected.
It wasn't a big problem. Did you ever hear of any Hadith in which
depression was mentioned? For example? These guys went to
battle. So many battles all the time. Did you see any of them with
some trauma when they came back? And subhanAllah you've got more
people dying in America, American troops then dying in the war every
year, from depression from other problems, is ajeeb SubhanAllah.
This is the power of the remembrance of Allah subhanho wa
taala. This is the power of remembrance. So the other man
mentioned. I mean, this is what I've benefited from, and this is
what I'm going to tell you, right.
Number one,
I'm not going to tell you too much because it's a prescription. In a
sense, that's what the talk is about how to do the vicar of
Allah. There's many ways of doing the kind of Allah right. But first
and foremost, there are two things one is how do we get this state of
remembering Allah all the time, or abundantly? How do we achieve
that? We've already understood that if the prophets Allah Azza
was always remembering Allah but he was always
Active in other things, that means he probably didn't sit and do the
ticker. That means the vicar he was doing was part of the part of
the activity. So, let's split this into two sections. One is where
you sit and focus on something purely for the sake of Allah, we
cut away from everything else, and you're focused on Allah subhanaw
taala for the vicar. Right? So let's formal,
you know, time set aside for remembrance of Allah. The other
one is how do we incorporate it in our lives. So as I mentioned
earlier, for everything, there's a DUA, if we start remembering and
memorizing the doors that have been taught to us, before eating
after eating, you know, going out of the house, coming into the
house, before we study, et cetera, et cetera, just saying Bismillah
before you start things, that is how you will, we will change our
act into into for Allah subhanho wa taala. So we're going to eat
anyway, we're gonna go and study Anyway, you've already moved to
Cambridge, you're studying anyway. Right? It's not going to diminish
that in any way. Just change your intention. I'm doing this study,
get your intention, right, as long as your course is correct, right.
And it's, it's not problematic.
So you get an intention, you think of an intention, this is why I'm
doing this, I want to inshallah be able to help somebody with this,
or this is what I'm going to do with it. I'm going to earn a
living for myself for my family in a halal way. So I don't have to
beg I don't have to do scams, I don't have to do the wrong things.
And so on so forth. When you eat, I'm doing this to make myself
healthy. Just remember the doors. If you can't remember the Arabic
doors, at least learn their meanings. And at least think of it
because at the end of the day, they all for reminding you of
Allah, start eating Bismillah wabarakatuh Allah in the Name of
Allah, I begin in the name of Allah with the with the blessing
of Allah. I finished Alhamdulillah Hilary Otto, I'm Anna was upon
with your Alana Muslimeen. Right all praises to Allah Who gave us
to eat and to drink, and made us believers made us Muslimeen. When
you go to sleep, same thing, it's just about trying to remember
Allah. Now, you know, when I give you the example of the when we're
driving, for example, I give you an example of when you're driving,
we could be listening to a lecture.
And we're driving at the same time, we could be talking to
somebody on a hands free kit, and we're still driving, things kind
of become semi conscious. But yet our attention is on the road.
We're noticing things, but at the same time, we're also in this
heated discussion with somebody else.
This is what we need to inculcate in our lives. This is called woof
Albee. It's called attention of the heart or consciousness of the
heart of Allah subhanaw taala all times, like the like you're
cooking, and you're thinking of your child outside. So your mind
is in two places. How can we do that for Allah subhanaw taala give
you an example. A group of young kids, when they heard about this
concept, they went to a Sheikh and said, How do we attain this? We
can't understand how to do this. So they went to the Sheikh and the
sheikh, instead of answering the question directly, he started
telling them jokes.
So he's giving them joke after joke after joke for about half an
hour and they're laughing, holding their sides and they're laughing.
Right. Sorry, I don't know too many jokes, right? But he just
they laughing and after half an hour after they were like totally
in tears. He says every moment of the time that I was there, I was
remembering Allah subhanaw taala my focus was on although I was
telling you jokes, but I was always remembering Allah. So I was
telling your Halal jokes, for example, because of course he
wasn't used to joke as well. So in anything you do, you just remember
it is just to think, is this halal? What's the Sunnah way of
doing this? Which way will Allah be pleased? If I do this, for
example, cooking, it's such a mundane phase, like come on, slap
bang quickly, let's get it over and done. We we got work to do. No
start with Bismillah
that food will have Baraka in it. Subhanallah there are there are
some of that we've had in the past who wouldn't eat food if they you
know, subhanAllah if Bismillah wasn't taken on that food, they
were they were women in our history. Right. And I say women
because generally women cook. Right, generally I'm not
stereotyping. It's just generally what happens, right? You have to
be politically correct. In Cambridge, so
they would read the scene when they could when they were cooking.
Can you imagine the baraka in that food?
When you read the scene over it while you're cooking, that's where
you're doing a mundane task, but it's becoming spiritually
fulfilling.
Everybody who eats that, they're going to benefit from that you
know what, you know, you know what it is men, they have, they should
go to the masjid to pray. They go to the masjid take some of the
Mercy of Allah Lord of Allah, they bring it home. That's the baraka
you get of making a salad in the masjid. How do the women do that?
You do that through the foods
right? You read some thicker you do thicker while you're cooking
the food believe me man, you won't have to worry about your children
anymore.
They are nourished on food that is cooked in the name of
Have Allah subhanaw taala just imagine that
you don't have to worry about your kids. If your kids are growing up
their body is being nourished by the remembrance of Allah Subhan
Allah that is amazing. Simple thing, why don't we think about
it? Why don't we do it? It's as simple as that. That's how we turn
our life into always memory Allah, Allah, Allah Allah the Quran
kathira.
Remember Allah subhanaw taala abundantly. That's so that's the
general one. Now let's talk about a focused vicar. How do you do
focus, vicar. There's many ways of doing that. Right? So we'll talk
about three different ways. Firstly,
consider this a daily regimen, a prescription, but it's only as
good as you, you take a dispensing and take it right we could give
lots of prescriptions and you could get you know, you could
compile them in your house from your doctor and you still got a
problem you keep going back to the doctor man did you get go to the
chemist, then you go to the pharmacy. So at the end of the
day, these are just very simple and because we're very busy people
these are these are simple acts.
So aside from this general consciousness of Allah subhanaw
taala let's read some Quran a day. The Quran is absolutely it's
it mentions from one of the great aroma of the past he said that I
used to be, you know, studying Hadith and so on. And I used to
feel that is a very shortness of time. I don't get enough time and
it is not back in the day. I mean, I'm sure we all feel feel that
right the day just goes. So somebody told me I should read
Quran. So I used to read a bit by started increasing. The more I the
more I read, the more time I got, the more work I got done, amazing.
So he says, I carried on I went up to 10 Jews a day. And I got that
much more benefit in the baraka in my time. That's how much more I
got accomplished. At the end of the day. When I moved to America I
felt after I finished studying and then I moved to America. And I
just felt like the day was just whizzing past I called one of my
shakes. And and he said spend some time during the vicar of Allah,
because time is in the hands of Allah. Time is in the power of
Allah. You give him some time he'll open up your time. That's
why people like Imam Shafi died when they were about 40 something
and they are still remembered by us. Imam Hassan, he died at 55
Omar Abdulaziz he was around 40 or 50 as well. And he's the majority
of the first century short lives and great accomplishments because
the time had been opened up for them by Allah subhanaw taala
because of their remembrance, and that can happen to us as well.
Believe me, you try what I say just for three weeks. And then as
I guarantee you'll be you'll be you'll be content, you'll be on
the path. So as I said, try to concentrate on Allah Allah time,
read some Quran, how much Quran should you read? All I'll tell you
to do is every day pick up a Quran and Musa pick it up. Don't just
kind of when you're going somewhere Oh, I know you're seeing
by heart I know. One lady that I have shot by heart so I'm just
going to read that No, it's not about its openness. And then after
that, read half a page if you have to read one ayah if you have to,
but open it and do it.
That is a big problem in our lives that the Quran in Ramadan and then
it goes so take down a Quran right whether it be on your phone or
somewhere else but open it and read it even if you're a half of
the Quran. Yes if you have a you can read mashallah, then that's
fine. But otherwise open it and read us there was one person there
was one woman, the Sheikh said to uh, you must read some Quran every
day was giving a similar kind of, she's I can't read I got more
time. It says okay, just read one verse. You know, she said, he said
to her, how much can you read, said I can read one verse. She was
just trying to get out of it. I can read one basis, no problem.
Just read one verse, pull down the Quran, read one verse, today she
loves. That's one that she is way beyond that. But that's what I
would say at least read two verses of the Quran. Right? May Allah
give us a little fee because the newer from there is amazing,
right? It's the words of our Lord.
And they can't be divided baraka and blessing, whether you
understand it or not, if you can understand it, you will increase
it many fold that will be quantum that will be a compound that will
be much more right so some Khurana day number two
is still far 100 times a day that's what a stock fear Allah
Robin equilibrium to Ghana Rasulullah sallallahu Sallam
yesterday Pharaoh Sabrina Mara frequently is Hadith promised a
lesson is used to do is take FAR remember, seek forgiveness a 70
times or 100 times a day. So we're just saying ticket this week. Just
for the remembrance taken you know if you don't like the bead ones,
right? Take the digital one count how you like any apps, the speed
apps on the phone
might be a good idea. Anybody app developers, this be a
good idea. Let's see one. Anyway. So it's just to count. Right?
Because you know, when you're counting on your fingers, you have
to concentrate. You start thinking of something else, your hand goes
down and then you forget, if you've got the speed in your hand,
then even if you do drift away, oh, I was I mean, carry on. That's
the benefit of it. So 100 is Stefano de stockfeed. Allah Rob
Beeman Cooley them they want to add, I seek forgiveness from my
Lord, Allah, my Lord from all sins, and I returned to him 100
times that's it. It takes about two three minutes, but try to do
it some concentration. If you're driving if you're commuting, set a
time in the day. Number two, number three Salawat on the
Prophet sallallahu sallam, we owe everything to our messenger
sallallahu alayhi wa sallam rasool Allah Karim sallallahu alayhi wa
sallam. So do solo out on him 100 times in the morning 100 times in
the evening Allahumma salli ala Sayyidina, Muhammad wa ala Ali see
that Mohammed or Burdick was 700 times in the morning 100 times in
the stick for just 100 times once a day. But the Salawat twice a day
won't take you that long. Quran half a page, how long is it going
to take you?
Right, maybe two, three minutes is too far, it's going to take you
about three, four minutes. Salawat take you maybe five minutes, we're
talking about 10 minutes, 12 minutes there. And then now, the
concentrated decree, all of this will give you a reward problem is
that our hearts aren't strong enough to get the concentration in
our tsp and in our Quran reading and in our silhouettes. So we'll
be reading them, but our minds will be somewhere else. How do we
develop concentration? How do we strengthen our heart?
Right? If you could concentrate when you're doing the speed, that
should be enough, but that's very difficult for the majority of
people to do here today. How do you do that? That is why there's a
very powerful thing which will mention that and we can even try
it and then is to do Morata
Morava in Allah Raqib
Allah subhanho wa Taala is in constant watch. maraca in Arabic
comes from word MUFA Allah
which is to do something mutually. So we realize that Allah is
watching us and we are now remembering Him. Many ways to do
Morocco but meditation, you can do Morocco of your death. You can do
Morocco of the bounties Allah has given us you can do Morocco, but
of the sins we've done, how disobedient we are how, you know,
we can do lots of types of Morocco, I'll give you one
Morocco, which is very powerful. Right, which is you sit down and
you look down and be in a place where nobody's going to distract
you. All you need is about five minutes to begin this all you need
is about five minutes to begin this. So you just literally sit
down, look down, and then you
close your eyes, empty your mind of everything doesn't matter what
you've got going on. Just empty your mind of everything and just
imagine that the Mercy of Allah subhanaw taala that is constantly
available. you've tapped into it and the mercy is now descending on
your heart.
Right? The Rama of Allah is descending onto your heart. With
the heart, the heart is beneath the chest. On the left hand side,
the spiritual heart is there as well. That's what the relevant
mentioned, right? Because that's where our physical artists, so
we're focused on the mercy of Allah coming down on our heart so
you can imagine it as a light however you only imagine it
at the end of the Allah subhanaw taala says in the Quran, Anna in
the owner in the van near appdb Hadith al Cozzi say that I am with
my servant as he thinks of me. Now the Mercy of Allah is always
there. We just need to tap tap into it, the Wi Fi is there, just
get the password and get on and you're connected. Right. So I was
in a hotel in Makkah just now. And there was Wi Fi but I couldn't get
on. Because there are too many people that were already on there.
You'd have to keep trying until somebody got off in the unit.
That's not the Mercy of Allah. Everybody has lots of Mercy of
Allah. So you're never going to be kind of, you know, there's never
going to be bandwidth problems. It's as much as you want to take
you can pull as much as you want. Soak it up. Right. So we just
imagined that the Mercy of Allah subhanaw taala is entering our
heart. And then the heart just begins to call out to Allah,
Allah, Allah, Allah. This is not a vicar of the tongue, where you're
just saying, Allah, Allah, this is your heart saying Allah is just
going back to its creator. So you're not going to do it with
your tongue. The thicker of the heart is more powerful, because
the reason you do thicker of your tongue with your tongue is to
benefit the heart to strengthen the heart because it's the heart
that benefits from the thicker so this is Derek vicar of the heart.
And basically law he thought my inner cola you will gain content,
maybe just try that for five minutes. So essentially, you just
burying your head, and that's what you're doing. That's what we'll
try a bit later. Right. So that was
We talked about keeping conscious of Allah subhanaw taala and all of
our mundane affairs, reading some Quran today 100 is thick 400
Salawat delusory salawat and officer was a morning and evening
number five was
the maraca the meditation.
And number six, if you can find somebody to help you, right,
somebody accomplished to help you or to guide you in this regard,
right, somebody has accomplished themselves. I mean, there's a lot
of people out there who unfortunately, say their guides,
and they're in there for the money, or influence, or whatever
it is, you have to be really careful. If you can find an
accomplished individual to do that, right. That's, that's where
you get that benefit from. But the maraca part of it is,
when you do Morocco, you will feel the benefits of it immediately.
Because your heart it's the most powerful aspect of it doing doing
this, you know, you're like, it's an intravenous directly into it.
The speed is good, and it's powerful. But when your heart is
in it, then that is the most amazing feeling, you will feel a
warmth in the heart, right? You feel satisfied, you feel like
you're getting somewhere forms, your heart will feel alive, you
will become that living or loving heart, right? It literally become
like that, and you constantly do.
You constantly make dua to Allah subhanaw taala that he gives us
his closeness. Because then then the you become successful in this
world, you still close to Allah subhanaw taala now, Allah Allah
have mentioned I don't have the time today. But Allah Ma has
mentioned different Vickers different forms of meditation that
they found to be beneficial for different diseases.
Amazing. This particular one that I mentioned earlier mentioned, is
that this is very good to curb your desire, desire for eating a
lot for chocolates and desire for all the other haram things. So you
know, haram desires. So you might then think a question might arise
that if it kills my desire, I won't be able to fulfill my halal
desires then.
Right?
It's a question isn't if your desires killed? And what about
husband and wife? What about just desire to eat food man just to
have a basic plate of food. Now, these are smart, this is smart
liquor. This is not pathetic. This is smart liquor. Which means that
Allah subhanaw taala has made it such that's why one of the sheiks
he said that those who gain real love Allah subhanaw taala. They,
you you think that if you become bill, if you love Allah subhanaw
taala more than anybody else, then how do you fulfill love towards
your parents who have your children, towards your wife,
towards your husband, right towards the spouse.
What the other mentioned, those people who've reached that stage
is that when you've tasted real love with Allah subhanaw taala,
because with Allah, you can only have real love, there is no
artificial love, and you can't display love and not have love for
him. If you've got love for Allah and you've got it, it's real love,
you will become a better lover in this world in the halal ways, you
will become a better lover, for your spouse, to your spouse,
towards your spouse, and to your children, and to your parents and
to others. Because you know what real love is all about. I know
this is kind of getting into the deep end here. But these are just
some secrets that people have revealed to us. Not my secrets.
These are secrets of the people who've got that love. Right who
reckon they have that love. So
there are certain thinkers that if you've purpose in his very
arrogant, then they focus their concentration, their maraca, they,
it will turn them down. And believe me, I've seen this.
Because I've seen certain individuals, and they're very
accomplished, but I don't see any pride to come. They're not wild.
Right? They're humble. Like, I used to wonder that I noticed that
they do vicar. vicar has a benefit for them. There are certain things
that will curb you of your jealousy. If you've got a jealousy
problem, you can't see people having better things than you.
Right. There are thinkers that will get rid of
arrogance, there are thinkers that will get rid of love for the
world. So you're focused on Allah subhanaw taala will become easier,
but you have to start somewhere. And this is where we start. Right?
So you will feel this accomplishment. And that's the
benefit of it. And if you think you've got no time for it, this is
what I see. Sometimes I feel like I want to do thicker. I want to do
it. But then I think man 20 minutes is a lot of time to give.
But have you ever been online and you check the YouTube video out,
and then you just checked another one else, and then another one,
and then another one. And then by the time that's one hour. It goes
so fast. I'm talking about conscious people who want to use
every minute of their time wisely wasted waste a lot of time during
these mundane things. So then I started telling myself that let's
just imagine this is like that. I'm going to waste time somewhere
the other in the daytime doing something like that because not
every day is so efficient where I don't waste the minutes
It was difficult for human beings to do that, although we'd like to
do that, especially those of us who are like really workaholics.
Right. But then so I'm thinking to myself, this should be part of my
day. I know it's going to be tough, but I have to sit down for
20 minutes, or half an hour or one hour and do this maraca. Yes, I'm
going to think of the whole world in it. But I have to sit and do it
and keep coming back to it. So when you do this Morocco, what
you'll notice is that for one or two minutes, you have
concentration because you're fresh, then after that the shade
plan will attack, every vessel is going to leak things that are in
it. So you're going to start thinking of all of these things.
But that's fine, come back, sit for five minutes. shaytaan hates
it, because you're dedicating yourself for Allah. So yeah, he's
gonna try to the worst thing you could do is get up and say I'm not
doing it because I don't feel the concentration, you don't leave
your salad because you don't have concentration Do you? So similar
kind of thing. Eventually, when you do this for three, four weeks,
you'll notice that five minutes will become a joke for you you'd
like you'll just get into it, you'll want to do more. It is so
powerful meditation is really powerful. Let's try it for a few
minutes before we finish, just so that you can understand now what
we're going to do is you just look down, close your eyes. And you
just imagine the Rama and mercy of Allah subhanaw taala is coming
into your heart. Right? And
when a person looks into their heart
with total isolation
and opens up the windows of their hearts to themselves, then the
true form becomes apparent to them. Just imagine the Mercy of
Allah is coming into your hearts and then your heart begins to say
Allah Allah Allah don't say with your tongue, your heart will say
it but you have to project it onto your heart until it becomes it
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I don't know if you were able to get any concentration. But
if you do this, more secluded alone, you'll you'll see that
you'll see the benefit of it. It's it's just about just being with
ourselves, which we just so much mystery, because we're just always
distracted. We don't have time for our own selves except our external
selves. And that's the problem. So may Allah subhanaw taala give
So Tofik May Allah subhanho wa Taala give us the connection with
his Quran. And we open up the remembrance, open up his
remembrance for us.
The verses I read just in case, you know, it's from path well for
me Majeed, the very,
the very powerful verses if you want to go and check them up and
read the translation afterwards, essentially Allah subhanaw taala
is saying, And indeed We have created man, and we know what he
owes we what his own self whispers to him, we are nearer to him than
his jugular vein. Remember that the two receivers the recording
angels receive each human being one sitting on the right and one
on the left to note his or her actions. Not a word does he or she
utter but there is a watcher by him ready to record it. And the
stupor of death will come in truth. This is what you have been
avoiding, and the Trumpet will be blown.
That will be the day where of warning had been given. And every
person will come forth along with an angel to drive him and an angel
to bear witness, you will be sent to the cities. Indeed you are
heedless of this. Now we have removed from you you're covering
and sharp is your site this day. And his companion angel will say,
Here is his record ready with me. Allah will say to the angels, both
of you throw into * every stubborn disbeliever hinder of
good transgressor. adulto, who set up another ILA a god with Allah,
then both of you cast him into severe torment, his companion,
Satan, the devil will say, Our Lord, I did not push him to
transgression. But he was himself in error. A stray shaitaan will
say I didn't do anything.
I didn't do anything. I didn't force him.
Allah will say dispute not in front of me today. I had already
in advanced sent you to the essentially the threat. The
Sentence that comes from Me cannot be changed now and I am not unjust
to the slaves. On the Day when We will say to hellfire Are you
filled, he will say Are there any more and Paradise will then be
brought nearer to the moon. It will be said this is what you were
promised it is for those of returning to Allah, who's have
time for Allah go back to Allah in sincere repentance and those who
preserve the covenant with Allah by obeying Him in all what he has
ordered and worshiping none but Allah Allah, who feared the Most
Gracious in the unseen in the rain, and came with a heart turned
in repentance. That's the heart we want. And may Allah give us it
absolutely free from each and every kind of polytheism and to
you there in in peace and security, with Hulu happy, salam,
this is the day of eternal peace. There they will have all that they
desire. And we have more for them
than that. You know Allah subhanaw taala give us that heart. May
Allah allow us to, to preserve our heart. Let's make a quick DUA and
then you can ask questions in sha Allah Allah Mantis Salam wa Minca
Salam tomorrow the other jewellery with the Quran. Allah me Are you
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early so you didn't have many more vertical Salam? O Allah we've
gathered here purely to understand your remembrance. That was the
topic of the day and that's exactly what we're here for. of
Allah. Don't let any of us turn away from here without having your
vicar without having your thicker running our hearts without every
part of our body.
Running with the thicker of with your thicker of Allah. This is
what we came to learn about and our law open up your love for us
and grant us your love and the love of those who love you. Oh
Allah grant us the love that your messengers had for you. of Allah
grant us the love that the Sahaba had for you. of Allah grant us the
love so that we can gain conviction in our faith and which
will help us to have a bid to do obedience and to refrain from
disobedience. Oh Allah make all obedient acts of love to our
hearts of Allah make all disobedient acts despicable to our
hearts so that it's easy for us to refrain from them. Oh Allah, you
yourself have said in the Quran and Tamil for Cara, that you are
poor, you are needy. And you've also said that in the Masada
Cotterill for Cara, the very
southern part and charity is for the poor. Oh Allah here we are
asking for your charity, charity, in the form of remembrance,
charity in the form of the things that we don't have, Oh Allah,
you've given us many things of this world but when it comes to
your love and obedience to you, oh Allah we falter of Allah. We've
committed many things in our lives of Allah, we are submerged in sin
of Allah, we putting our hands out to you as sinners, but Oh Allah,
we want you to treat us like your Olia of Allah. You're so powerful
that you can turn a sinner into a weenie and into your close your
close associate in a moment of Allah for you. That's not
difficult. Oh Allah for us. It's a lifelong effort. And sometimes we
don't
even succeed because we become misled and waylaid by other things
around us. Oh Allah make our our surroundings conducive for our
worship of you and our obedient to you and our connection with you of
Allah all the obstacles we have in our life whatever form that may
take that blocks us and prevents us from your Allah remove them of
Allah removed them well this is what we've come here to study and
to learn. Oh Allah don't take us back empty handed. Oh Allah when
people go to a poor poor man's when a poor man goes to a rich
man's place and he stands any asks and he asked eventually he's
turned away with something. Oh Allah, we want you return us away
with something. Oh Allah, we can only expect the best from you
because you are the greatest of give us the most generous of
Allah. Oh Allah give us a bounty that's worthy of your Olia even
though we're the greatest sinners in the world. Oh Allah, despite
the fact that we're our hearts are dark and filled with all these
years of sins and we don't repent to you and we don't turn to you.
Oh Allah treat us like that. And oh Allah grant us the Colima La
Ilaha illa Allah on our deathbed and our Allah make the best of our
days the day that the day that we stand in front of you that we're
happy to see you and you are happy to see us. Oh Allah don't turn
away from us on that day. Don't turn your messenger away from us
that on that day, oh Allah allow us to fulfill the Sunnah of your
messenger Muhammad sallallahu alayhi wa sallam so he gives us to
drink from his from his watering pool and doesn't turn away from
us. Oh Allah, Oh Allah, we can only ask you because there's
nobody else we can ask. At the end of the day, even the worst of us.
When we do pray, we pray in front of you and we bow our heads in
front of you, not to anybody else. Oh Allah. Oh Allah. Oh Allah, look
at that part of it. And Oh Allah, give some value to that even
though it may be totally done without any loss of sincerity. It
may be just done as a ritual, but still we do it for you, of Allah.
Even when, when when children, when they make up a crying face in
front of them, the mother will go in, their heart will melt and they
will give them Oh Allah, we're doing this in front of you of
Allah. Oh Allah, you are more merciful than all the mercy that
there is in this world of Allah we can only expect a great amount of
Your Mercy of Allah don't turn us away empty handed. Don't turn us
any of us away with any sins lingering of Allah. Allow us to
lead a change life after this and to remember you so how not to be
Grobbelaar. Is it your mercy foon wa Salaam Alaikum wa salim Al
hamdu Lillahi Rabbil Alameen