Abdur Rahman ibn Yusuf Mangera – Sha’rani’s Etiquette of the People of Allah General Conduct Teachers and Others
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the person they have been following. The importance of respect for faith and respect for people who have the right to use the Internet is also emphasized. The importance of avoiding false accusations and avoiding double-standing is also emphasized, as it is crucial for everyone to show their true values and avoid double-standing. The speakers also touch on the importance of reading books and taking a sustained mindset.
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I find it sometimes very uncomfortable. Sometimes I'm
giving a lecture and is
somebody who's taught me you know, one of my teachers who taught me
in mclubbe in the local mock them and they'll be sitting there and I
find it very uncomfortable even though you know, sometimes they
just the half is of the Quran.
But for me, that's very important that you respect them.
In fact, I think you should feel the same respect even for your
school teachers.
You know, to some level that they've taught you something
useful.
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people of Allah subhana wa Tada. He continues and he says women
either be him that Aleem Oda or ADAMA, Muhammad Tao de manera
anima will homiletical Quran Kareem Maha button fear Rasulullah
sallallahu alayhi wa salam in the home Hamlet to Sharia and Mata
hora. So in in this one he is saying that among the etiquette
and the other than the conduct is that they are
reviewing of the aroma they respect and honor or Dhamma What
am I means people who have the knowledge of the deen and who
practice that knowledge of the deen and who are encouraging
others to
practice and who teach others so they have great respect for their
own ummah. And they have great respect for anybody that carries
the Quran that carries the Quran here refers to the whole fourth,
those who have memorized the Quran who are memorizing the Quran.
It's not just referring to somebody who's carrying the Quran
meaning as a book, but this is just the way that they carry the
Quran in their hearts spoken about people who have memorized the
Quran. So the aroma and those who have memorized the Quran, they do
this out of love for Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi salam
because the love for us what Allah Salah lorrison means that you love
everything related to him, and because are the inheritors of the
prophets. So they are inheritor of Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi
wasallam
Leanna home hemella. To Sherry It Mota Hara, they are the ones who
are bearing the responsibility of the pure faith of the pure sacred
law. That's why you must respect them. If you don't respect people
who have the sacred law, that we're not respecting the sacred
law.
For our Islam to be successful for any person's Islam to be
successful, then we need to obviously, respect everything
related to it. Because Islam is not some kind of separate entity
that has a life of its own.
Allah subhanaw taala is a separate entity, Allah subhanaw taala is
independent. But the Sharia that He's given us, is only as good for
us as we make it.
It has all the beauty in it. But if we don't revere the Sharia, if
we don't revere our sacred law, we don't respect it. We don't hold it
in high esteem. We don't defend it, we don't understand it. The
biggest problem with the Sharia law today for most of us is that
we don't understand it.
We have more knowledge about other things than we have about our own
Deen.
And then after that, we are challenged about our faith, and we
can't respond. Because we're confused ourselves. This is the
case with many, many Muslims around the world.
They haven't studied the dean, the dean is just the fact that they
are born into the face. So they carried with them based on how
much they've learned from their fathers, their mothers, and maybe
from some teacher when they were young, at a time when they weren't
mature, and they couldn't really pick up and maybe the teacher
didn't do a good job maybe. So that's the extent of a lot of
people's faith. So when they challenge the upside in this
challenging world of this time, then they become extremely on
edge. They don't know how to respond. And this is what creates
a crisis in faith for many people. This is basically the crisis of
faith for most people today.
People who are confused about their faith, they don't have the
conviction, they are keen. The conviction and Yaqeen is lost
because they never had it in the first place.
New Muslims do better than many born Muslims. Because they've
they've this is something that they've been seeking and they
found and it's won them over.
It's given them something to adopt that they didn't have before it's
provided it's completed for them something in their mind and
hearts. That's why they've taken it on. The rest of us have been
extremely fortunate that we didn't have to do this seeking. But then
we've stopped short and haven't really understood what Allah
really wants from us. Unfortunately, most people's Islam
is based on their culture. It's a cultural form of expression of
their faith. That's what it is for most people, not to say that
culture has no place in Islam.
But just cultural Islam with no Islam with no proper Islam and not
understanding its real essence. That is a problem. But if somebody
understands Islam very well, and they continue to assimilate
aspects of their culture that have no contradiction with their faith,
and that's understandable. What you have today is two extremes.
You have certain people who think that all culture has to be just
dismissed, whether it's neutral aspects of our culture, humans
have culture, from based on where they come from, the British would
have a culture, the Indians will have a culture that Pakistanis
would have a culture that Egyptians will have a culture and
the Senegalese people will have their culture. But Islam is
something that can be enacted in all of these different places. You
can't say that you can have an Islam that's devoid of any kind of
culture, because they will be some culture, they will have to be some
culture, they will be an environment in which that Islam is
practice. And there is an allowance for that culture. And
yet, there's other people who are fully cultural Muslims. So much so
that if they were shown a hadith that kind of that contradicts some
aspect of their, their cultural Islam, they will be very, very
much surprised. And they may even initially disregard that
narration, thinking that this is impossible. I've been taught by my
forefathers and my culture, this Islam and this Islam, that you're
showing me, this other Islam that you're showing me seems to be
foreign. So this is the crisis of faith today, for the most people,
for the majority of people. Now, what happens is a lot of these
people who haven't understood their faith properly, and
sometimes there are edge, they are in a sensitive time of their life,
maybe they are in a crisis, maybe of some sort, whatever the case
may be something may have gone wrong in their faith, and they are
a bit
they are seeking seeking something. Now in this particular
void as such, you have these people who will come with an
extreme sense of faith, saying that most of the people that you
know of your faith are lazy people, they're not willing to
stand up for the rights of the believers. Remember, for a lot of
people, this is vulnerable time when they feel the aggression
towards them, the aggression towards the Muslims in general. So
there's an opening in their hearts, they want to do something.
So now you have this extremist elements that come and take
advantage of the situation. So they show them that the faith that
you have been following until now the bit of faith that you've been
following this culture of faith is not real Islam, the real Islam is
taking up arms, for example,
is going and doing something for the believers that matters that
will make a difference that will make a big bang, making a
difference means making a big bang, and make you huge cry. This
is how a lot of these people who are in this form of crisis can be
taken advantage of. Whereas people who are strong in their faith
they've studied the faith from the Quran, and Sunnah directly and
through good scholars, then very, there's a great, there is a very
small likelihood that they will ever go to an extreme because
they, the faith in its original form gives a great amount of
strength and conviction. And that conviction is difficult to shake.
It's when you don't have that strength, then it becomes
difficult to shake. So here just part of maintaining our faith is
to respect and revere their orlimar because they're the ones
who are doing the job of trying to maintain the faith and explain the
faith preserving the faith. That's where he said, This is the adab of
the people of Allah subhanho wa Taala that they will do this. In
fact, even people who may not be Allah ma, but they are just half
is of the Quran, because they actually priests helping to
preserve the Quran. See, in our communities, we have many, many,
many who fuzz of the Quran. So when somebody new becomes a
harvest, it's not a big deal for many of us. We think it's just
another one. But this is not the the normal state of people around
the world. If you look at the majority of Muslim communities
around the world, they don't have as many profiles of the Quran as
we do. And for them, if there's one half is in the family or in
the community, it's such a big deal that it's such a major
achievement. It's a massive achievement, and that this is just
the nature of human beings and when they see too much of
something then they don't respect it as much. It's just the nature
of human beings. But we need to go above that communal nature that
people have. We need to do things for the sake of Allah which means
to respect what he wants us to respect
Regardless even if there's hundreds of them around us, so we
must respect our father in our demo. The next point that he
brings up is warming Adobe him.
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loca or Imran at a matter and what are we alone Allah who will leave
at an ISIL or was Ilana what also it will be her Liana who abou
roar. Now, this is probably very specific to the days in which this
was written. But to give it a modern understanding and saying
that, I'll give you the literal meaning first, it says that the
adab of the people of Allah is that they do not
pass by
mounted, if they're on a horse or a camel or something, they will
not pass by somebody who is not mounted, who's ever taught them
even a bit of the Quran. So any teacher of theirs that they have
benefited from, even in the smallest amount, they will not go
past them writing, they will get off and walk past them just out of
respect that they're not higher than that person. Now, none of
this is funneled, it's not haram to ride while you know your
teacher is seated. But this is just out of respect for the person
from whom you gain your knowledge, the knowledge that you gained is
actually from a pseudo loss of Allah yourself through his
teaching from the sahaba. But this final connection, the tap that
gave you the water was this, this teacher of yours, so they wouldn't
do this. So now in a modern sense, I mean, we generally don't have
that kind of thing. Above and walking people walking in people,
you know, it's generally a matter of convenience cars, and things
are accessible to one on already. So it's just about not being in a
superior state, trying not to put yourself in a higher state than
somebody that you studied with.
I find it sometimes very uncomfortable, sometimes I'm
giving a lecture, and is
somebody who's taught me, you know, one of my teachers who
taught me in mclubbe, in the local mock them, and they'll be sitting
there. And I find it very uncomfortable, even though, you
know, sometimes they just the half is of the Quran.
But for me, that's very important that you respect them.
In fact, I think you should feel the same respect even for your
school teachers,
you know, to some level that they've taught you something
useful.
They've taught you something useful. That's why he says that
this is how a person should be that, even if the person who is
speaking about has become one of the greatest scholars of the time
now. But he should still, he should still be humbled in front
of his teachers, even if they have a lower status. Now, they are
where they are, but he's grown up and he is become extremely
knowledgeable and alarma, and so on. They shouldn't walk in front
of him.
He shouldn't walk in front, they should walk behind them. He should
never forgive him in terms of giving him an idea. Or thanking
him and praying for him making the offer.
So you should always thank them for that because you're benefiting
from the seed that they planted. Although you've gone beyond now,
you studied Sahil Buhari, he's only taught you though, the how to
read as an old cover it, for example, Noorani Kaido, you know,
whatever it is,
and now you studied Buhari somewhere else, doesn't matter,
the seed that was planted for your, for all the studies later on
came from this individual.
He then goes on and says, you know, Allah, Mashallah. And he
goes really to the extreme in many of these things, he says, And he
shouldn't even marry a woman that he divorced. I mean, this, these
kinds of things generally don't happen in our communities. But
this is speaking about the community when divorcees would
never have a problem in marrying again. Now in nowadays, a poor
divorce, he is lucky if she ever marries, again, because of the
stigma that's attached to our in our communities. So he so this
probably doesn't apply to us. But it gives us an understanding of
what he says that if the if that Sheikh died and he left a widow,
you shouldn't be marrying that widow,
which tells us that that was a possibility in those days, but not
anymore.
Likewise, if they had a position somewhere and they had to leave
that position, for some reason, you should not take their position
out of respect. If it's a position that they did not abandon
themselves, but rather they were like, evicted from it or they were
given a notice or something of that.
nature
because this is where you're getting your spirit from. That's
why That's what he said. Now, again, it would depend on a lot of
these situations, if, for example, you were in that situation where
they had to leave that position for some reason or for started
that position, if you didn't take that position, then somebody not
very worthy would come there, then you know, to save that position.
So all of these are general guidances. Just to show respect,
the underlying point here is to show respect. So for example,
there's a xenophobia through the hola Juan, you heard of Zaytoven.
With habit, he was one of the older he was older than Ignacio
the Allahu Anhu. But he was considered to be one of the great
orlimar of the time.
He is considered to be one of the great aroma of the time, he was a
category where he very close to Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi
wasallam. Anyway, he approaches one day on a mule. He approaches
one day on a mule. So I'm delighted our bus was now later on
consider one of the greatest orlimar among the Sahaba as well.
He
suddenly stands up, takes hold of the reins of this mule, until he
helped Zaytoven The Hobbit or until the advent of Italy, Alana
came off the moon. So say the Allahu Anhu says that, why are you
doing this?
He's younger than Abdullah Abbas is younger than him anyway. But
Zaidan with habitat is saying to him, why are you doing this?
You're doing this and you're a cousin of the Prophet sallallahu
alayhi wa sallam. Now he's showing respect for the family of
Rasulullah sallallahu sallam, even though that family member is
younger than him. So even our Basilian says, haka.
omiana, enough. alveolar miner, this is how we've been commanded
and instructed to act with our Ma, that we respect them like this.
So then they don't have it to the Allahu Anhu said, Tim, come, come,
come closer. So he brought him closer. And
zero, the alarm kissed Abdullah and I busted the alarm said, so
I'm delighted are busted. Why did you do that? Why did you do that?
You know, what's the reason for that? Out of respect, they
generally can't give them a kiss on the forehead, or on the hand.
This is the way of respect like, like Abu Bakr, the other one came
and kissed the forehead of Rasulullah sallallahu after he
passed away.
So they didn't do that. We said, Why did you do that? So he said,
This is what we have been told. Sorry, Abdullah Abbas asked, Why
did you do that? Why did you kiss me? He said, It's because this is
what we have been commanded to do with the family members of
Rasulullah sallallahu with the household of the prophets of
Allah, Allah yourself.
So you see, the respect is both ways each person is finding an
excuse for or has a reason for respect of the other person. This
is the beautiful oho and brotherhood in Islam.
That's why there was a shake was a Shamsul shamsudeen a de rooty. He
was one of this, he was actually one of the teachers of the author.
He was an extreme ascetic, and
known for his great devotion and his worship. But he had a lot of
awe and respect. People would be really overawed by him all the
time.
The author mentions the author mentions about this teacher of his
that when he would give his lessons in Azhar in the in the
University of Missouri at the time.
His gatherings would be filled with people that would just be
constantly weeping and crying. That was his effect on the people
at the time.
Anyway, so it's mentioned about the Shake Shack shamsudeen de
rooty.
Once he passed by a jurist, a scholar of the Sharia, and he
quickly got off his animal. And he started them
driving the animal in front in front of him, and then he kissed
the hand of this jurist, and then until he hadn't passed by a
distance from this jurist, from this jurist, he didn't get back on
the animal.
Even though he was such a great scholar himself, he would respect
other scholars like this.
He had actually written a commentary of one of the great
Shafi books, Ullman Hodge. And the jurists that he was just going
past showing all of this respect to was just the normal jurists
that were teaching the markups of the time in the local madrasahs of
the time, whereas this man was a specialist, but he still had this
respect for others. But then as the author says, we're cut for
condominium
Under the Arctic, if you had as a man, there's very few people who
would show respect to that level. So again, this is just an example
that he's showing here.
Okay, this is a another aspect, which is probably more related to
people who are advancing in their Sharia studies or in their worship
and so on. He says lightly soon a little mushy. Whoa, what are we
still mad at him? She wrote to her iLab ethanolamine Allah Allah Amin
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salam I mean, alpha t mostakbal is the man while Murad Bill Ethany
Minh Allah, Allah al her Masai, another of the etiquette is that
they will not sit to become a sheikh.
So somebody goes and studies for a few years, somebody goes and stays
in the company of a great Sheikh, for some time studies with a few
scholars here and there one year, two years, or in their summer
holidays, right from the university and they come back and
they become a chef. It's happens often, many people like that read
their bios just says they've studied with some of the greatest
scholars of the world. Right, they probably studied in their summer
holidays, or maybe taken a year off, you know, a gap year from
university to go and study with this and they come back. And
because around them, there's not many people who are very learned,
they become the learner people don't because because they learn
to speak in Arabic a bit, maybe they can quote a few books,
they've studied a few books, they've you know, they've covered
a bit of ground, and they sit to former Shiva, which means they sit
in this official capacity in a sense. So in a formal capacity as
a as a shape. He's saying that a person should not sit like that, a
person should not take up that position. Even if he has all even
if he meets all the conditions, even if he meets all the general
conditions that he has special authorizations in Quran and Hadith
and in Tafseer, and in Akita and so on and so forth, he should
still not do so.
Now he's talking about somebody who's gone and studied well, and
then the person goes and takes up a position like that. We're
talking about our situation when people haven't even studied well
enough.
Haven't even studied well enough. And they do this. So he's saying
that somebody who studied well like that now should they take up
that position, he says, No, unless they have permission from Allah,
how you're going to get permission from Allah, where you get a
special, you feel a special inspiration that I must take this
job. And you find it difficult not to say it's a divine kind of
intuition.
inspiration that you get from Allah subhanaw taala, not from the
shaytaan. Or you see Rasulullah sallallahu Mihnea dream, and he
tells you to do something like this, or one of the great sheiks
who are in tune with Allah subhanaw taala, they instruct you
that you must do this, because the people here are in need. And you
must do this. And even though you feel incapable,
you do not feel capable at all. You do not feel yourself capable
to do this. And the person who's accomplished will never feel
capable, because they will all feel always feel small in front of
Allah subhanaw taala. That's why you need this instruction from
someone else.
Because if you do do it, after this kind of instruction is
received from any of the sources, then in that you will get baraka
and blessing in your work. And you will be safe from efforts you will
be safe from calamities. Otherwise, a person gets into this
position, and he gets intoxicated by the respect and everything that
people will give him. Now, for many of you, this is one of the
signs that you must look for in people who consider themselves
scholars.
You know, how much have they studied? And who have they been
authorized by otherwise today in this world of the online world,
it's everybody can say something.
Everybody can say what they want.
And everybody for everybody, there's going to be somebody that
they resonate with, and they're going to follow them and they're
going to have a following.
In fact, the crazier you are the bigger following you will probably
get on YouTube. That's the way of YouTube
the crazy you are the crazier things that you do.
The more outlandish things that you say.
Then you attract that kind of a crowd who's just looking for an
excuse. Allah preserve us, Allah protect us. So He says that this
is the way where you will get Baraka in your work and you will
stay away from calamities for the future. And this is this is very
important. Allah help us Wamena W him. Another of the etiquette is
lions who don't have a dunya Illa Lakonia mucholder they lie to
Allah.
You know, this whole we before this, we had this course about
the
The Record course which means the softening of the hearts course, in
which talks about the dunya, and its nature and so on and so forth.
So now if a person wants to cut himself away from the dunya, What
should his intention be?
Like, if you just get tired of the world, what why is your tiredness
of the world, a worthy
practice?
That's what he's saying. They do not
abstain from the dunya.
Except for one reason, because it is not liked by Allah.
Dunya Mahood do dunya is not something that is beloved to Allah
subhanaw taala what it means by Beloved, you still have to be
here. But it's not something that Allah loves us to be after. So for
that reason alone, Lally in Latin okra not for any other reason.
Bring him in raw Tibetan. I just don't want to work anymore. I
can't bother. You know, I don't care. I don't want the money.
Because I can't bother. I'd rather rest and sleep. That's the wrong
reason. Because we're told not to do that we're not told to be lazy.
Of the Fifi, hey, Serbian. I mean, subhanAllah, what are thoughts? I,
I'm going to have less of the world because I don't want to have
too much to answer for on the Day of Judgment. Like I don't want all
these other businesses or whatever, because I don't want to
have to fill in extra tax forms. You know, because you've got a
simple income, then that's it done and dusted. But if you've got two,
three income sources, then you have to fill in more forms. So
it's like that on the Day of Judgment. Now, I don't even know
who would have that kind of thought today. But I'm assuming
there will be some people who will think that way. That's why he says
not for that reason.
Likewise, they should not abstain from what other people have,
except to fulfill the command of the Allah subhanaw taala, that
they should avoid looking at what other people have.
So they shouldn't do it. Because if they do that, then people will
love them. So you just want to attract the love and reverence and
respect of people. That's why you do that. It should be purely for
the sake of Allah says, this is all about correction of intention.
So the reason should be that I'm doing this because this is what
Allah saw. Somebody told me, then people will love me for that
reason, right? People will love me for the reason. And then on the
day of judgment, they will intercede for me. If it's for that
reason, then that's a praiseworthy reason. That's a praiseworthy
reason. But if it's for, oh, I'll become more respected. People will
say, Oh, look at that guy, he is cut away from the dunya.
Now, in this world, that in this world today, we have received, we
revere people who have made it big.
But then there are a lot of people who revere people who don't care
about the dunya, either. When other people will look down upon
them, what has he done for himself, that's what they say.
They just don't understand that the person is so happy in his
absence, the person is so happy in his small possession that he has.
But there will be some people who respect that idea who've got some
faith in their heart, they will respect that idea that the person
is not into the dunya. So you shouldn't do it for that reason.
The next point he makes, he says is that it is also of the
etiquette that they keep away, they keep a distance from anybody
that they see among the other ma who do not act on their knowledge.
So there are scholars who have studied, but they seem not to act
on their knowledge. They do transgressions, they say things
which are bordering the reprehensible. They are giving
fatwas that seemed to
be permitting things that have been well known to be haram or
wrong or frowned upon. So they stay away from such Allah Ma, ma s
and Yvonne Nabi him. They keep a good opinion about them within
themselves. They don't think bad about them, but they stay away
from them.
That's why he says one of his teachers say the ideal worker said
The other man was so adorable either Nassim and Iblees. The evil
scholars are more harmful to people than the Iblees.
Evil scholars are more harmful to people than a bliss, the shaytan
himself how is that possible?
A bliss is the worst. So how does
a corrupt scholar, an Evil Scholar?
Whatever you want to call that scholar, Allah protect us from him
becoming that or from being misled by one. That person that scholar
is worse than the Iblees. Then he gives his explanation. His
reasoning he says because he believes
If he gives a whisper he whispers to a believer to do something
wrong, then that believer will understand that this Iblees is my
enemy. He's a clear enemy, as Allah says in the Quran.
And if he does end up following that whisper, if he does end up
falling for that whisper, he will know that he sinned.
At the end of it, most of us will record if we if we don't recognize
that this is an evil thought from the shutdown, and we actually go
and do the evil. After the evil is being done, we do realize that
we've just done something wrong.
We know it's wrong. So then, the person will try to make Dober he
will try to repent from it. So he knows he's done wrong. And he will
try to do is too far to his Lord. Whereas when an an Evil Scholar
will corrupt the truth in front of you, show you the wrongest truth
that Oh, it's okay to do this. There's nothing wrong all these
other scholars, they don't know what they're speaking about. This
is the rhetoric that you hear nowadays, from certain
individuals. This is what you hear, Oh, this is completely
right. This is the proof of it. This is the proof of it. And these
other guys they don't know they just dry scholars, they just like
hermits, they have no idea what they're doing. They're not in the
true world. They're not in sync with things. This is what this is
the way they go about you will be soon unhackable bottle, they
confuse the truth with the
with the falsehood where you are Ronal Agha Allah with a lot of
him, we are to him. And what they do is they twist
the rulings according to what they think it should be, according to
their corrupt worldview, because once you've developed a worldview
about something, then you will twist everything to conform to
that. One is that you're mistaken genuinely mistaken about the
ruining of something. The other one is that we're you've developed
a philosophy that you want people to follow, and then you will
corrupt everything for them. Thurman, Athol our home builders,
anybody who follows such a, such a scholar, such a leader, then all
the efforts are in vain. All the efforts are in vain. What were yes
he will under him, you know, in a sunnah while they will be thinking
that they're doing good And subhanAllah there are people like
this in today where they were decent, practicing individuals
stay away staying away from many undesirable aspects. A lot of this
is to do with the kind of gray areas a lot of the corruption
starts with the gray areas before it goes into haram it's very
difficult for somebody to take a complete haram and make it halal.
Having a girlfriend is halal for somebody to say that is extreme
but then they'll start off with other things like free mixing is
okay as long as you keep you know you do this or you have a pure
heart or whatever the case is, you know dressing in a particular way
is okay for men and women as long as they do this that or the other
they they will try to make things they will try to give
the extreme possibility in that regard
so this is where people will think they're doing the right thing
that's why so many people who are fine and started following such
authorities as such have have lost themselves which their neighbor
whom he says so stay away from them what could Masada you know
always be with the truthful ones for in negative stuffy admin hula
Amel Bianca Midian becolourful moot notify hippin for in a
calendar stuffy admin who will that will earn what the Cobra al
Muslimeen stay with the truthful ones because they from them, you
will get the true impetus for good action. Whereas if you're with
those people who are just expressing their virtue, rather
than having the real virtue, then the only thing that you will get
from them is that they will claim to have a lot of knowledge. They
will claim to have a lot of knowledge and they will just be
they will just have this arrogant
approach to the muslimeen.
In regards to that, he says the next other the next etiquette that
he speaks about is kufra to inky baldy him. phenol fusi him either.
Oh, I'm Ron Mohali Felicia, this is a test of somebody's faith this
one.
This is that it's from the etiquette that they will feel an
extreme level of internal tightness
when they see something that is opposing Michela
when you become used to seeing things that are opposing the
shitty and it doesn't matter to you anymore, it doesn't provide
any kind of restriction.
It doesn't provide any kind of bad feeling and it's like, okay, big
deal. You know, it's it's okay. It's the times that we're living
in. It's alright
which eventually happens when you get exposed to it too much. It's a
natural kind of development, that you eventually become totally
desensitized to evil when you've seen it so many times.
And then those things so can so easily come into your own
practice, because one is that you just have to remove the taboo of
it. You have to get used to it. And then after that, it becomes
easy for us to assimilate that practice.
That's why our doors to Allah subhanaw taala should be that, Oh
Allah, show us the truth as the truth and allow us to follow it
show us the wrong as the wrong and allow us to abstain from it. And
to seek forgiveness for all those sins that have come into our life.
And we don't we no longer even think they're wrong any no longer
feel that they're wrong.
That is probably a very, very difficult one is you we know we're
doing something wrong. The other one is we don't know that we're
doing what we're doing is wrong. So anyway, he says that this is
another of their attitudes is that they are constantly feeling
extremely
restricted in themselves, and bad in themselves when they see
something that is against the Sharia.
Why because they have so much respect for Allah, so much
reverence for Allah, that something is going against Allah
subhanaw taala. So even though it's happening every day, for
them, their respective Allah is so much that they see this as
disrespect to Allah subhanaw taala.
And they feel compassion for the person who's doing it that the
poor guy is involved isn't involved in this and doesn't
realize he does make a clarification because maybe he was
dealing with a lot of these juristic thinkers. So he says
that, they don't say that this is also an act of ALLAH because ALLAH
is behind every act. So this is also an act of Allah. So why
should you feel bad about an act of Allah? You know, because
everything is from Allah. But that's just taking it to the other
extreme, because he says, you know, gentlemen, that's pure
ignorance.
Because the Prophet sallallahu ala ism, he says, used to get angry,
when the Allah subhanaw taala has rights are violated.
So yes, it is everything Allah is giving the power behind
everything, providing the power and strength behind everything,
even the evil that goes on in the world in a sense, but that doesn't
mean that you must be satisfied with evil that goes on in the
world because it's wrong.
That's why the earlier might have mentioned that a believer should
have
multi level perspectives, multi level visions, different ways of
thinking of things. One vision should show him every issue by the
he should be looking at everything that is happening in the world,
from the divine perspective of how Allah subhanaw taala is behind
everything. What is his recognizing that Allah has power
behind everything. But that shouldn't confuse for him good and
evil. Evil done by the perpetrator is still an evil. So his other AI
needs to recognize that fact. While is one it needs to
understand that Allah is behind everything. But don't confuse the
two things together.
It's a very sophisticated understanding that needs to be
there.
So he needs to understand that Allah is behind everything. And
there's a wisdom behind all of these things. But yet the
perpetrator, I'm going to look at him from a different perspective,
because he's a criminal at the end of the day. Otherwise, the
murderer is never going to be culpable. The murderer is never
going to be guilty. Because if you think Allah is behind everything
anyway, so why should you punish the murderer, the murderer is
punished for what he did with his free will.
The next point he brings up is hot duel buzzer and for dueling
another.
Another of the other of the people of Allah is that they keep their
gaze away from things that are redundant to look at, that don't
concern them from extra from things that are beyond their need.
They don't try to get into everything that is around them,
but they avoid all of these things. Well, it's about Phil
Mishima Sakina. At the same time, the other thing that they do is
they try to move forward quickly with their life and in walking,
etc. But with tranquility. Number three is Allahu that will beam.
They're trying to constantly reconcile between people. If some
issues taking place, they try to constantly reconcile between
people, what Turanian are up nurse and they become blinded.
They make themselves unaware of what people's defects are. So
they're not focused on the defects on people. They are purposely
making them putting blinders on. I don't want to know why do you tell
me this? Why should I know? It's not affecting me. Why do you tell
me of
He's doing this, that or the other? How is it going to affect
me? Why do I need to be told. So to me, to me means to do something
by force to pretend you are blind by force.
To make yourself out to be having to have blinders on, you don't
want to know. And then if you do find out then to conceal it,
to rather
spread the virtues, unless the person is an innovator,
unless the person is guilty of reprehensible innovation, then you
need to tell people that this person is guilty of these things.
Stay away from him. You do this out of compassion for believers
that they don't also fall into that.
It's also actually actually out of compassion for the person who's an
innovator that you tell people about his bitter, why would it be
out of compassion for them.
And this is the reach of this person's thought of the author's
thought it is to warn people of a person's innovation is compassion
for the innovator as well, because when a person innovates something,
and he expects people to follow him, he's getting everybody sin.
Because he says, Manson, as soon as sent sooner than a year, Adam,
whoever starts and innovates, a new evil path, and people follow
him, he gets a set of all of these people. So if you want people,
then there's going to be less people that will follow him and
thus he'll get less sin,
because he will have less followers.
While I asked him what I had him be Sebby, and also other people
will not become sinful, because of his reason. Now, it's only a
person who has compassion for even the sinner that would think like
this. Otherwise, where would we think, in that regard?
This is something that's probably very contemporary, right, but it's
a very historical and traditional thing. Anyway, another of the
debates that Adam was sub Bill Gulati were in djaro
they do not really take recourse to swearing, cursing, saying bad
or giving bad names to their leaders, even if they are
oppressive.
You know, Bush is like this, and Saddam is like this, and this
person is like this. And Clinton was like this and Blair is like
listen, and just just go around swearing at them and Kritis and,
and saying bad, giving them bad names.
Even if they are oppressive why?
Because he turns it around, he says the end the whole muscle tone
early and homosalate tone of Olive and other ear or masala tuna or a
banana or A or B has to be at Maliki money Yachty generally, you
get such leaders over people because of the people's own
actions and their intentions.
Very difficult for a lot of people to stomach this
because people are so geared up but this especially in many of our
Arab countries, unfortunately, some of the some of you say at
Morocco and Morocco, your actions your deeds or your leaders, how
your deeds will be your reflect that they will be reflected in
your leaders what Kamata Kulu you Allah they come the way you will
be. That's kind of that is the type of person that will be put
above you.
Then there's the question is that ma he'll fatty the whole module
and Sybil wallet. What are you going to get out of swearing at
Blair?
He's a effing this an effing NDA, as some people might want to say,
what are you going to get out of it?
Is it polite to say if it?
What does it mean anyway?
It doesn't mean anything. But you know what I'm talking about.
Some people get mistaken that you know, we're supposed to do nasiha
even for our leaders. So they think swearing at the leaders
Ignacia is an advice is advice and counsel. So he's saying that look
at the what's the why Jim, for people, for ilm, for example, is
that he should give Naziha
when you give Nasi hand counsel to somebody you expect some benefit
to come out of it because you're saying some good words. When
you're swearing at somebody cursing someone,
then would you get out of that you're probably going to get a few
swears back or you're going to get worse back. So what do you get out
of that? Likewise, he says, Well I you che infill and shaytani when
FC su you were duniya wa the Kula shadow map.
What do you get out of swearing at the shaytaan? Or the knifes
the Iblees, the dunya, whatever?
You don't get anything out of that. So why would you swear at
somebody for no reason. So taking a bad word to your tongue is not a
good idea. That's why the dua of Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa
sallam was ALLAH Humala to Selita
Elena Bizu Bina mon liar hamona Oh Allah do not put over us, do not
put over us because of our sins.
Those that will not have compassion for us. Those that will
not have mercy on us because of our sins, He says. So he's saying
that we are have sins, but Oh ALLAH still do not put people
above us for that reason, because that's a punishment.
And this is what
might sound very pacifist, that there will be exceptional cases
where this doesn't apply. Maybe. But in general, this is the case.
That's why even when people came to Hassanal bacilli Rahim Allah,
He told him not to fight against the hijab, because he said that
her judge may be a punishment against you, and how can you fight
with the punishment of Allah with your swords? Her judge may have
been sent to you as a punishment. So why do you fight how you're
going to fight against the punishment of Allah with your
thoughts?
That's why for the love not yards, set makes a statement, which is a
very, very far reaching statement. Very insightful statement. He
says, Lo Kennedy that word to Mr. Job. lum Ajala Illa, Phil Imam, if
I had one dua that was guaranteed to be accepted, if I was given
that one wish, as such that was going to be accepted, I would make
that for the imam for the leader. Because if he becomes right,
everybody will be in peace. So if I was to give $1, one $1, I
wouldn't use it for myself, I'd use it for the email.
That's how important this role is. And that's why we need to change
our actions to have a better person above us. May Allah help
us?
I think we'll
finish here.
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