Abdur Rahman ibn Yusuf Mangera – Sha’rani’s Etiquette of the People of Allah On Loving the Noble Family of the Prophet
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That's why he says that my shake ideal haha so Hema hula used to
say that it is a rite of the chauffeur upon us that we
are willing to sacrifice ourselves for them. And
we assist them in every aspect that we can because of their
status with the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wasallam. And he mentions a
number of other things he says that it is also out of the adab.
And I know some people may consider this to be quite extreme,
it is out of the adab that a person none of us should marry a
female descendant of the Prophet salallahu alayhi wa salam, unless
they recognize within themselves that they will be under her
command.
And he would be willing to respect her and honor her for what for who
she is.
A haven says even stand up for her when she comes.
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In this next section,
Imam Shalini is discussing
our interaction with any descendants of the Prophet
sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, the short of the seeds. Family of
Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi salam.
So he says women either be him muhabba to whom literati literati
Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa sallam.
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Another of the etiquette, the etiquette of the people of Allah
is that is the love for the family of Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi
wasallam, even if those family members may not be completely
steadfast, even if they're not necessarily always on the path of
righteousness, because at the end of the day, they're still a part
of Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wasallam. And, for the part in
terms of love, and reverence and respect, it should be you give to
the part that what you give to the whole, so he's looking at looking
at it from that perspective. That's why he says
one of the scholars said it is part of the rights of the short of
these honorable people, the descendants of the Prophet
salallahu alayhi wasalam upon us, even if they are now distant from
the prophet Elijah in terms of
in terms of the generations that have passed that we still give
them preference over our own desires
and our own once and we respect them and honor them and we don't
sit on something while they're sitting on the ground for example
because the flesh and blood of the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wasallam
is in them
that's why he says that my Sheikh ideal haha so Hema hula used to
say that it is a rite of the shore of
upon us, that we
are willing to sacrifice ourselves for them. And
we assist them in every aspect that we can because of their
status with the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam. And he mentions
a number of other things, he says that it is also out of the adab.
And I know some people may consider this to be quite extreme,
it is out of the adopt that a person, none of us should marry a
female descendant of the Prophet salallahu alayhi wa salam, unless
they recognize within themselves, that they will be under her
command.
And he would be willing to respect her and honor her for what for who
she is.
Here even says even stand up for her when she comes.
Now, I know this seems extremely complicated and extremely
difficult.
And what I actually have in mind is a should not be stingy in
spending on her, unless that's what she wants.
Now, in certain cultures, they give see it in such respect that
sometimes then some people take advantage of that as well. So the
people who are taking advantage of that those who may be descendants
but they're taking advantage and abusing that rights and taking
advantage of people then that's wrong for them. Just because we
have to respect somebody or we should respect someone it doesn't
mean that they are they have the right to abuse
They will be sinful for doing that, if that's what they're going
to do. So in some cases, in some places, it does go a bit
overboard. And it's leads to a sense of abuse. But I think that
what this is trying to tell us is that do not
just think of them like anybody else. Alhamdulillah after reading
a lot of these kinds of things, whenever somebody tells me they're
a seed, and there's many seeds in the world, and I'm not sure how
many of them are true, and how many of them are not true, but at
least I tried to be careful.
I tried to give the honor that I can, especially if they're
respectable people to start with,
they have certain qualities as it is anyway. So
the main thing is that, just be careful with these things, because
we have a right towards the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa
sallam. And when the Prophet sallallaahu Salam is so foremost
in somebody's mind, the respect for him, then clearly, the respect
of anything that's attached or associated, is also going to be
there. And that's why you see him speaking the way he does, because
of his extreme intense love for the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa
sallam that filters down to everything else. Now, it is not
something that we may all be able to understand and relate to. Some
of us may even think that this is extreme overboard. But this is a
personal thing. He says that this is how the people of Allah act
with them. So you can't deny somebody wanting to give other
people respect. If you don't want to do it, that's up to you, but
don't dishonor them at least.
So I'm just trying to put it into perspective. These things. People
have their have a right to express their love for something is not
saying it should aim for to do this. But he's just saying that
this is what is encouraged.
Another of the, another of the adab, he says is
that they generally try to visit the people of the household of the
Prophet sallallahu alayhi salam and they don't stay away from
them. What that means is, he's now talking about when you go to
genital bhakti, for example, and you have the 100 Babies who are
buried there, the wives of Rasulullah sallallahu Alexandra
buried there. Go to Egypt, there are some buried there. And when
you go to Damascus, there are some buried that these are the three in
Damascus in Cairo. And in
in Madina Munawwara you've got the family of the roots of lots of
buried there. So that's why he's saying that, especially when he's
talking to the people in Egypt of his time, probably because there's
a number of graves of the family of the Prophet sallallahu alayhi
wa sallam. So he's saying that they should not avoid going and
visiting these graves and doing some reading there. He's saying
that now this is getting a bit
in depth, but he mentioned so I'm just going to go through this for
those who are interested when they go to Egypt, it's up to them they
can you know, maybe use this information
is saying that it has become known to the people of unveiling that
Satan as Xena said, See the Zainab or the Allah Juana, Xena or the
Allahu anha is the granddaughter
of the Prophet salallahu Alaihe Salam. So this is the daughter of
Fatima the Allahu Allah. So Fatima, the Allah one has daughter
is Xena.
And her two brothers Hasson Hussein, they were the brothers.
So he's saying that say dinar Xena or the Allahu anha
the daughter of value to the Allahu Anhu who's Fatima? The
Allah one are you the Allah one day daughter? She is buried in a
place called carnality a CBR. Without doubt that's her grave? An
altar a C bar. This is in Cairo somewhere her sister Sadie now say
that say that a year or the Allah one
is
in a nother place that's close by
it's close to Dar Al Khalifa Ameerul Momineen.
That is very close to the masjid of Abner to loon. If not to loons,
Masjid is I think it's just from this from this. It's it's in the
middle of Cairo or somewhere. I visited the Masjid. I'm not sure
if I knew of this grave at that time. But that's the sister she's
buried there.
Let's say they say the rugby player is
her mother wasn't Fatima the Allah Juana.
Her mother was OMO Habiba Osama attack Libya
she'd actually been a slave before
Which ally who are you ready Allah one who had purchased from how
they didn't worried
so she was another daughter of it are the Allah one but not Fatima,
the Allah Juana.
So her resting place is close to the jam era German of April to
noon and evening to Elon Musk is a very interesting it's a very large
complex, the middle of Cairo, very large complex. And what's unique
about this mosque is that it's minaret is separate. And it's one
of those turrets. It's one of those ones that has steps going
around it, like some of those in Samara in Iraq. So if you look at
those steps, there's quite a few steps that you'd have to go all
the way around like this of the outside of the minaret to get to
the top and then used to go there for every prayer.
You're very fit, man. So that's the distinctive minaret of this
mosque in Cairo.
Issues it says that along with her there's another a number of other
al Bates who are buried with her as well. Then you have say that
Sakina or Sakina, or the hola Juana I think it's Sakina or the
Allahu Arna.
Although in another version of this book, it mentions Nafisa
instead of Sakina and I haven't been able to verify this myself.
If it's Akina, it's, she's the daughter of Hussein or the Allahu
Allah.
Hussain, the Allah one mother was rebab.
She was a very, she was a leader of the women of her time, Musab
Abu Zubaydah had married her first
and she was a very, very strong woman. She wouldn't fear anybody
says what kind of gelada Latasha I hadn't, she wouldn't be anybody.
Very strong woman. She passed away in 117. So they say dinner. They
say that say you the Sakina the Allahu anha
daughter of Hussein or the Allahu Anhu is
in the Zarya which is close to the doorknob. Close to the place of
her auntie by the Dulhania again this is close to that Edmontonians
Masjid.
Then you have say that Nafisa Radi Allahu Ana is also in that place
without any doubts.
Say the FISA is
the daughter of Hassanal, the allawah.
Daughter of Hassan, Abu Zaid IGNOU saidin al Hassan so it's actually
the grand granddaughter of Hassan of the Allah one
when Imam Shafi came to Egypt for the first time,
and he used to go and visit her
since she was alive at the time used to visit her.
And upon his when he was in his terminal illness when he was about
to pass away before that, he asked her for dua, as well. They said in
an essay than the FISA so she said
her daughter to him was May Allah subhanaw taala grant you enjoyment
by being able to
acquire the beatific vision, which means May Allah allow you to see
him
his his noble countenance.
It is mentioned here by Amanda Hubby, Amanda Harvey writes this,
remember he does mention that
the people of Egypt of his time they had these really overboard
extreme beliefs about this grave or about her that just goes beyond
so that there is a lot of
exaggeration. There is a lot of exaggeration and a lot of bit out
that can take place in these places as well by certain
individuals.
However, his This is Amanda be writing the Aza accepted by her
grave
with Dr. Mustafa Boone and acaba de Aza, accepted by her grave. She
died in 208 Hijiri
Imam Shafi died in about 200 foiling
because the Mon Shafi was the Majid of the second century. So
let's say that the feasts are the Allah Juana is also in that area.
Then he says what Anna say they are Isha.
Not actually the other one had the main one, but this is another
issue. I wish I had been to jail for a Saudi. So one of the
descendants job for a Saudi crown. Ignore Mohammed Al Bakr, ignore
it. Zayn Liberians, Xena I believe in the Allah one whose grandson
and zoom Abilene is the son of Hussein,
grandson of the Prophet salallahu Alaihe Salam
so that's Jeremiah sodic. Her brother was Musa Alka
Have him the other famous
the he's the son he's the son of
Jaffa sodic so after Jafra Sadiq is Musa al Calvin. The she has
considered them to be part of the 12 Imams
She is buried in bubble Karratha in Egypt. She is buried in bubble
Karratha in Egypt she's passed away in 245 So it looks like this
family was there. His children are hassling him because there was a
lot of turmoil during it to the Allah one last time.
I'm going to be speaking about earlier the Allahu Anhu soon in
seven kings because we're doing a series on the 10 Ashram mashallah
and
it really allowed her and eventually gone out of, of Madina,
Munawwara and had gone to to Kufa and then all of these other
places, and it looks like number of the family settled in Egypt
afterwards. So that's why you have these people buried here. So this
Seder has Aisha who is the, the now her name is Aisha and you get
the shades of today who hate the name Aisha you you probably won't
find a sheet you his name is Asha or Omar Abu Bakr. That's why it's
a bad problem in Iraq and other places today you can if you're if
your name is one of these people, I've had to change the name a lot
of the Sunnis have having to change the name just to be able to
stay safe. This is how bad things have become. But yet,
the sister of Musa al Kadhim, his name is Aisha, the daughter of
Mohamed El burka, so they had absolutely no problem. So these
are all afterthoughts of the issues. So this see the Isha the
daughter of Imam Jafar Al Sadiq Radi Allahu Anhu uma is buried in
by the masjid that is by the short minaret.
Allah Yeah, Saudi Marina huge Minar Romain La Ilaha will
Karratha anybody who wants to anybody who goes out of the
remailer towards Bible Karratha, which is a famous place there. And
firstly, I forgotten all of these names. I did a big tour of that
area. Once Bob xwayland The whole of old Cairo, behind the US as
Harlan behind gemelos in the other side, all these old complexes, but
anyway, it's by bubble karamba bubble Karratha is well known.
Then he says one neuron societal Hussein or the Allahu underfilled,
covered in maruf Bill Mashhad Caribbean in hernial, led Billa
Schuck. So there's a famous Jameel Hussein there it is in front of
the other on the other side. Next today is a hotel photocall
Hussain, I remember we stayed in that hotel.
This Masjid is very, very important for a lot of people.
They come there because they says that it says here that the head of
Hussein or the Allahu Anhu is there.
Just like they mentioned that the head of unis Ali Salaam is in the
umahi Masjid that the OMA admis mosque in in Damascus is a small
structure in the bang in the middle of the masjid or to the to
the left hand sides slightly, where they say that the head is
there. And here they say the head of Hussein or the Allahu Anhu is
there.
It was brought to Egypt. It was taken two years 11 years it was
hitting on it. They chopped his head and taken it holdover La
Quwata illa biLlah so they say that the head is here that's where
this Masjid is very famous for a lot of things happen here. It's
near the famous Heinle Halevi is very famous.
The hull hull is a weird place you go in there and you feel like
vomiting because all you can smell a shisha
or you can smell Ashish is going through and it's all these
foreigners doing Shalonda and I don't know that she shot that
sweet smell of shisha is just so nauseating. Sorry if it offends
some of you who are into it but it's it's really harmful.
I remember I asked some of the young men that we met up with
these young guys they're just you know said what did the other man
consider this is haram. So the other night in Egypt consider that
to be haram and so did the other MA in Saudi. They consider shisha
to be haram
I remember we actually had one of the brothers with us who had a
beard and everything and he's doing a shisha down there. He
didn't think it's a big deal. And these guys, you know, we were
going to go out with them afterwards when he met up with
them. We asked I asked him I said what do they think here? You know,
and he said, No, this is haram. You know, these guys didn't even
have beards for example. So it's kind of very interesting.
It's not my fatwa that It's haram. It's what the other mothers say.
Anyway, he's mentioning about this Seder Aisha that she was placed
there by Tala Ignazio.
or IGNOU Zurich
who was the vizier of Cairo of the time?
He was an awfully
but he was a nice man they say she sorry didn't place a place the
head of Hussein or the hola Juan that's what that's what he meant.
Is says that it's in a green bag of silk green silk on a kursi made
of a special kind of wood
and he laid under it musk and other fragrances.
Then he says Say it Mohammed Al Anwar is another family member.
Mohammed Al Anwar immunoassay ze there are the Allah one.
He is the uncle of Satan, a FISA the Allahu Anhu that we mentioned.
Also German Abner toowoon close to the hardest place of that time.
He says you can go down there using some steps. I'm assuming the
steps are probably still there.
And his brother has said Hasson the father have said and the FISA
is close to the masjid of Allah Ambrym loss of the Allah amber
glass of yellow one so that's in a different place.
And then he mentions a few other things. He says in the head of
Imam Zainul IV Dean.
This is Imam Ali is a non obedient hustler YBNL Hussain, Amina
Muhammad said and it may be thought about the Allah one says
the older one. He died in Karbala with his father.
When he says the head of this Zayn and Ibn Al Assad and the head of
say it Zaid is in the dome or in that covered area, this is a
criminal Hussein or the Allah one.
So, they these, the heads of these two individuals is in a Koba.
Close to majority color
and the head of said Ibrahim Ibla say it Zaid is in the masjid that
is outside of the area close to an Lotteria close to the Hancock
Hanukkah.
And he says that he is the one because of whom Imam Malik went
into hiding.
And what is that about?
There's a bit of an issue here about whether this person's name
is Ibrahim Ignacio Zaid
because
according to the scholars that deal with genealogy and ancestry
in the family, I said that they have not mentioned anybody with
that name of the children of Zeytinburnu Holly, whose name
would be Ibrahim.
However, they do mention that the one whom Imam Malik fought with
alongside not with but alongside
and gave birth to was Mohammed whose title was The MACD ignore
Abdullah Al MACD ignore Abdullah.
Now you know we're waiting for a MACD. But there's been a number of
believers in the past his name was Maddie.
Right part of the Abbasids, the homemade muddy There's a wonderful
book that is being produced right now by Torah called Lessons in
Islamic history. It's by the same author, an Egyptian scholar
Muhammad Hodari, Buck, beautiful. I really like this author, he is
the one who did it man will refer feces within Hola, which means
the four beliefs book that Toronto has published, which is which is
already available. It's been around for the last two years or
so. So now this is the other book that they're publishing. It's
called Lessons in Islamic history. And it's not one of those big
condensed complicated books. It's very brief very simple. So he
talks about a brief Syrah brief for whole alpha then he moves on
to the Omega words which means the SOFIA needs and then the Marwan
it's so my we are the oldest children and then Marwan and all
of his children, Abdul Malik, number one discusses all of them
briefly. Right. And there's a number of
would you call it mind maps and everything to help. And then it
goes into the Abbasids. And then it speaks about all of the other
little dynasties that were dealt with at the time.
So if you really want to get some idea of who is who in history, and
learning some aspect of it, then I think that will be a very good
book to start with.
So he actually wrote it for students to study so that's why I
call it lessons. So it's lesson one, Lesson two, lesson three, but
then he discusses all of them in detail. So it'd be nice to know
this. So anyway, says that Imam Malik fought alongside him, gave
it to him
He is Mohammed Dolan's call on MADI and Abdullah. So it may be
that this Ibrahim is speaking about is ignore Abdullah Al
Muhammad, the brother of Mohammed Al Mahdi, who died in 145 Hindi,
but Allah knows best. And then he says, Now remember he's speaking
in Egypt. So all of this these places were close by. And he says
that this is what comes to me at this point. Among those who have
among those of the hallowed bait were buried in Egypt. He says this
is what I recall at the at the moment for an AKA he busy arati
him. Brother, my brother, he says you should you should visit them
and walk the walk them Hallas era equally wealthy and famous.
You know the tradition in Egypt to go and visit the graves of the
Olia. He said that you should actually give preference to
visiting these people over the other Olia of Mr.
axioma Ilan. He says this is the opposite of what generally what
people do. They go to the Olia instead of the these family
members of the peninsula La Jolla Santa for Kala and Tara had the
medium here at NBC reality I had him look here. Okay, Tina, ABC, RT
Belleville majority job major VB, he says that very seldom do you
actually see that somebody is very particular about visiting these
people that have been mentioned, as they will as their regular
visit to even some of these Mizzou individuals is kind of lost
individuals will have them in Joomla till generally. And this is
just part of the the compound ignorance that people are in.
Anyway, that was his little
guide the tour of of Cairo, and the places there.
Maybe you can refer back to this when you go to Cairo. When we
adopt the Himalaya, me Runa Edo shaman our early him this is the
next point he moves on to he says that it is also of the adab that
if anything interesting happens because of their worship to them,
like Allah gives them some Kurama it's something unusual, they don't
focus on it. Because that's not the purpose of it. The purpose is
the worship of Allah that Allah is happy with you. Now if on the way
something good happens to you, you don't start getting excited about
that. It's like you're driving to Manchester, for example. And on
the way, you know, you've got to get there at a particular time,
you know, in good time, but you see some nice things and you just
stop over, then you stop here, then you stop there and you
decide, let me just stay here and enjoy this, then you're gonna get
mixed up. So though you may see things on the way they're not
supposed to be focused on. That's where he mentioned that they do
not incline themselves towards any of their good deeds, by thinking
that oh, I've got so much class and sincerity.
Well, oh kashfian with oak, and even if they've had some invading
or whatever the case is, that's why I say the ideal house he says
used to say, Do not get excited and exalt of what you have been
given of some karama that might happen to you, or some knowledge
that may be given to you, or some unveiling, or whatever the case or
some states that come about you until the veil is opened. Because
you need to know whether you did really deserve this or not. And if
you just start getting excited about these things, and it will be
extremely detrimental for you.
It'll be very, very detrimental for you.
Another of the another of the other, he says is that they are
always looking at perfection in their brothers, they always look
at their brothers as being perfect. And they consider
themselves to be incomplete and defective.
Whoever does that carry hold Roseland in us, then people aren't
going to avoid people. Whoever thinks that other people are good,
and I am but you know, that is just the way to stabilize things.
We see a lot of evil in others, but we don't see it in ourselves,
essentially, that's the norm, right? So if he's saying that if
you start off by thinking of other people as good and perfect, and us
as defective, then we will balance it out. Because by nature, we
always love ourselves more than we love anybody else. So it's just
about creating a balance and harmony. Then he says because of
that you will stop avoiding people by thinking oh, what a bad person
he is or what a bad person he is. Unless you've got a sharp reason
to avoid somebody, for example, you think that if I go on mixed
with this crowd, then I'm going to harm them somehow, but they're
going to be affected by my nuisance, my nuisance or my
problem.
Another of the other which this one, he says that they are
constantly aware constantly regularly that Allah subhanaw
taala is more compassionate and merciful to them than themselves
or than
anybody else. That is why they will never have despondence in the
Mercy of Allah subhana wa
Attala at any given time, they will never lose hope in Allah.
Because they always know at the front of their mind that Allah is
more merciful than anybody else. What a wonderful thoughts and what
a wonderful belief, Salah is their present. That is what is going to
stop anybody from depression, that Allah is there to help me and he's
compassionate.
Another of this
they are dub and they're the etiquette is that they are
extremely, extremely careful
to it says a minute Dasom to the level of fanaticism sometimes
zealotry in a sense in a positive sense in their love for any of the
Sahaba all of the Sahaba or their children because it's why Jeep
upon everybody that they love the Sahaba because that is just a
subsidiary of the love for the Prophet salallahu Alaihe Salam. So
you have to love their children as well. And of course we are going
to go into put forward the children of Fatima the Allahu anha
over the others because they have another for Lila with them. He
says that Sheikh Abdullah Pharrell Cusi, who is one of his
companions,
or one of his teachers, actually, is that
he had a friend this Sheikh Sheikh Abdullah follow, Uzi had a friend
who was from the great amount of the time he died. He died, he
passed away. And the Sheikh Abdullah foresees this early, this
great alum of his time was a companion of his in his dream.
He asked him about the deen of Islam, and the person was a bit
hesitant in his answer. He wasn't, he didn't answer with full
confidence. So he said, I said to him, isn't it the truth? Isn't it
the truth? He said, Yes, it is the truth, it is the truth.
But I looked at his face, and now it was dark.
Like tar because ZIFT like tar, he was It was dark. Whereas this man
originally was supposed to be very bright and white.
So I said to him, if the deen of Islam is the truth, then why is
your face dark? Now this is all happening in a dream. Why is your
face dark? So then he responded with a very, very in a very low
tone. Is that going to cut the MOBA or the Sahaba to Allah about
in Bilbao, Serbia?
That unfortunately, in his life, he's talking about I used to give
preference to some Sahaba over the others, just based on my own
desire, and my own
my own persuasions?
Not out of any reason. Okay, he's a greater alum, so I give
preference to him, you know, like, you got certain executive no
therapy to have delight, numbness or with Abdullah Muhammad. But no,
just because I felt like it, probably talking about things like
why we are the alone Hassan Hussein and all of these XLR
Fatah, it really alone, so on and so forth.
Yes. So he says that, that's what I used to do. And that's why my
face is appearing dark like this right now. Another of the other
is that they are always particular, about providing some
benefit to the person who's sitting with them in every
instance. So it's not going to be just a meeting devoid of benefit,
but somehow they want to benefit this person.
Even if that person hasn't come to look for some benefits, they're
going to provide some benefits.
He says that there was some of them, who if they couldn't provide
them any benefit, couldn't give them some Naseeha or whatever the
case is, then they would at least sit down and have a modulus of
liquor with them,
at least to sit down and do some thicker together.
And then after that, they would turn away. And that's where you
would say that whoever
I can't benefit with some special points of knowledge and they're
ill and so on, then at least you can benefit from the Dhikr of
Allah subhanaw taala essentially, the only is trying to be useful.
Another of them, another of the other which is definitely
relevant, very relevant to us. In fact, they would never visit
anybody or eat their food unless they knew that they were very
particular
about
what is found in here he says what is found among the people of their
time, which means the food that's available, very particular about
the halal and haram audits. Very careful about that.
Though Harrison, Allah Hamid rotten hygiene, very particular
bonus.
The reason for this is that a lot of people they find it
embarrassing to find out or to be concerned about this.
That's why I wrote a note
sequela Bob this because this was a constant issue, especially in
America where the concept is that as long as it's from a Christian
or Jew, it's halal. And then he doesn't even get that far. They
just say, because this is a supposedly and it's not an
officially there's a difference between separation, complete
separation of church and state in America. So you don't even know
who's cutting your meat in the supermarket's it could be an
atheist or Buddhist or Hindu, it could be anybody for that matter.
Right. In fact, how are they? Are they just killing it outright,
just shooting a bolt in the head or whatever the case is, but they
just because of this general idea, and they take a lot of photos from
scholars in other countries, especially Arab countries. And one
thing you'll find a lot of Muslim countries is that they think all
of these countries are Christian countries.
And so far from the truth is that fact, yes, there's a lot of people
who are nominally Christian, some practicing Christians, but a huge
amount are just absolutely of no persuasion whatsoever. So you
can't just go with that. Even among Muslims, if you find that
somebody is not slaughtering property, you wouldn't give them
the benefit of the doubt. So why would you give non Muslims the
benefit of the doubt, just because some place may look kosher,
whereas there in America itself, there's over 20 organizations that
certify kosher, and not even all Jews agree with all of them?
Because I remember once I
purchased some yogurts or saw some yogurt, and there was kosher
gelatin,
so for some reason, it wasn't the ultra orthodox union certified it
was some other organization. So I contacted the orother. It didn't
say kosher gelatin, it said gelatin. So I contacted the
company, Albertsons brand yogurts, and they said, Oh, this is kosher.
And so I said, So when she looked at it a bit more, she said, Yeah,
this is kosher, but it's made of pork. I said, How is that
possible? said, Well, this particular kosher group certifying
group, they believe that it's only the flesh, which is not kosher,
the bones and the skin is kosher. Because gelatin is made of bones
of skin, that's where they get it from. Right? Not from the flesh.
So for them, it's okay. But that is not okay for the ultra orthodox
union, which are more trustworthy than them understand. So you've
got that issue as well. So if you find that a Muslim has just been
knockin an animal on the head and not sacrificing her and killing
it, you'd say that's haram. So why would you just eat from any kosher
outlets, or any what you think is a Christian outlets? Because
what's been allowed of Christian and Jewish meat is because they
would sacrifice it in the proper way. If you look at the Bible, the
Old Testament, especially in the Corinthians, it's mentioned how
they cut their meat. That's why it was allowed, because they cut it
in a similar way to the Muslims. But now all of these ways are
different. So in America, there is this fatwa. It's halal. That's why
in America, if you go there and you want proper food, do not ask
for Hello. Ask for the beha. That is the halal.
So they have a distinction. A clear distinction is this is
halal, but it's not there. We've been to so many places, mustards
and other places. And I would never ask, is this halal? They
tell me, this is all halal. But this one is the beer. The beer
means sacrifice properly. Right. So this is the beer. But that in
fact, I've been to one place this is the this is halal, this holla
that's not halal. He's talking to me in his opinion, you know,
according to now he's talking to me, according to my opinion.
Right? So it's a really weird situation. We had to be so
careful. That's why HMC in this country is an absolute blessing.
And all these people who keep poking things on HMC as well. But
there's no system in the world that's going to be perfect.
Because deception and problem from individuals is an absolute
possibility in any of these situations. But when you see in
other countries, where there's a massive problem, and you have to
be so careful, right? To go drive two hours for your meeting, so on
these red HMC boards in this country as absolute God blessing,
blessing from Allah, that's why I close my eyes and go into HMC and
eat.
Right? Because seriously, how much more can you do? How much more can
you do? These are respectable arrma are part of these
organizations. I know many of them personally. May Allah reward them
abundantly for this work that they're doing? Yes, there's gonna
be some mistake here. There are the other it happens as human
beings, especially as new organizations the way it is, you
know, without the kind of resources that you know, they
would really they could have and they could benefit from it. So
it's an absolute blessing, especially when you come from
these other countries and you see that it's an absolute blessing.
Every time I used to go to LA I used to have to call the my friend
a local Mufti there that which shop can I go on?
Buy my meat from this time after every month or two. And then he
would say this shop and I would say, but
last month, last two months ago, it was the other shop you sent me
to. He says no, you can't buy from them anymore. I caught them mixing
because Halal is always more expensive. So they, they buy some
halal for a while they give you some confidence that and then
after that, they just start buying from elsewhere. And he caught the
mixing. So it's a massive, it's just a massive problem. There's a
lot of money to be made in meat. And people are going to make more
money when they can.
And sometimes it's not the shop owners it's not really their
fault, because they're told by the supply that is 100 100 100% halal,
and they don't know what but when you know, the industry like I do,
it is very difficult.
This well hamdulillah I'm semi vegetarian, I can go without meat,
it's not an issue. When you get good meats and Hamdulillah we eat
it, but otherwise be semi vegetarian hamdulillah like the
province of Lausanne was anyway.
That's, that's that's the situation.
So here, they would be very, very careful about eating at somebody's
face unless they knew that they were very particular about this.
Okay, this is another one. He says among the other bits, that you
know, you've got to shake who has mureeds meaning was the students,
they would not rush to respond to
an individual who wants to be their students, they wouldn't rush
to accept everybody like that, yeah, come and be my money, I want
more money, just, you know, let's set up a campaign you got more and
more followers, they wouldn't do that.
That's why he said that, in the previous times, there was this
there was a saying that if in the entire life of a shave, he had a
single, truthful muddied,
then that would be more valuable, then I'll keep Rita llama, red
sulfa
is extremely valuable, because you could take your agenda.
If you if you help somebody to reach that status.
He says that the characteristics of a true modied
I'm going to summarize it for you, he says, number one,
true love for the CHE.
Because without that, you're not going to listen to them, you're
going to have to have true love, then obeying the orders that are
surely related. Not go on, you know, would you call it do my
business for me for the next year or so, you know, come and work in
my farm or something like that. It's all of these things have
happened before,
not to keep objecting to things and
to give preference to their preference over your own
preference, because if it's a serious shake, they won't do any
they wanted to do anything wrong.
Anybody who says who has all of these four qualities, then really
his his seeking is correct.
Then he says another thing, another of the rights he speaks
about is that they are constantly careful and cautious and
suspicious about their own self, when they find that they can do
certain deeds very easily.
Very important point this this is a very important point. You know,
if we overcome the shaytaan and start doing good deeds, do you
know how he comes the second level you know how his attacks are at
the second level, then he will get us engrossed in things which are
inferior worships to the superior worships.
So for example, he may get people involved in something and that
which is difficult going to the mosque for example, or sit reading
Quran, but it's easier to listen to a lecture. But to sit and read
your own Quran is more difficult than they'll do that. So there's a
lot of things that if you find that you find that easier, but if
you're still finding it difficult to do something else that you know
is like salaat,
vicar, Quran these are essentials, right? You find those are more
difficult. This is more easier. Yet the homeowner new Fusa home
film noir, liberty, animal hide, it would be constantly suspicious
of themselves about their regular the regularity over a certain type
of higher and goodness and virtue, while majority is a vicar because
he says that. There's very few people
who are regular on some kind of good deed.
And people see him like that. And he still say stays
Saved from all forms of calamity. This is a bit complicated, but
he'll clarify it. Because he says that, you know, the knifes which
we're trying to subdue, and correct, it's the state of the
knifes that when it gets used to people honoring you, or mashallah,
look, is it when does this medical is always in the masjid, he does a
lot of speech every day, he sits five times in bright, he's always
in the first surf Shala. He's been been doing a van for this many
years. All of these kinds of things.
This is a complicated world we're living in, by the way, right? The
dean is very sophisticated. The path to Allah is very intricate.
And it gets more intricate as you get there. But you build up that
ability to take care of the intricacy to more purify your
worship, that's what it is just become more refined. So this is a
person who's been giving us harm for the last 50 years, for
example, somebody for the last two years, they've been insulted.
Tasbeeh whatever the case is, when the nurse becomes used to being
honored for some of its worship, then it will find it difficult to
leave that worship or leave that act of good.
Why will they find it difficult to leave that good? Because they're
getting honored, that honors going to be gone.
Not because they find it difficult to leave sitting with Allah in the
Presence of Allah. But
because of the other benefit that the side benefits that they're
getting with sometimes becomes the main benefit. Now this is what it
is. That's why he said that the seeker must
test themselves.
If he sees that he feels embarrassed when he doesn't
mention a particular worship in front of others, or he doesn't
show it that he gets embarrassed. Then he should know that all of
this is ostentatious and showing off.
Its why do you want him to make doba and it's too far.
If he sees that, no, it's no embarrassment at all, that he
should think Allah subhanaw taala but then he should he should not
become fully safe and think that it's all it's all fine. Now. He
says that for one of the Sabbath. He used to pray all five prayers
in the means of in the first off for a very long time. One day, he
missed out and he was behind. And he found extreme embarrassment,
embarrassment. What are people going to say? Not I feel bad, I
didn't get it, I'd lost the rewards. But people are gonna say,
do you know that is the point.
So all those salads he performed for all that time beforehand,
after he realizes he repeated all of those, he did color on them.
Now, this is not for the rest of us to understand. Because a lot of
people they look at this literature and say oh, you know,
this turned out and I'm gonna have to pay me 10 years of prayers up
and then they're struggling anyway. This is something he did
for himself self discipline. He repeated in all of those prayers.
And he said we're in the mccannon more liberty area and was so
Martin. It says my regularity of being in that first gulf war now I
discovered was just ostentatious and show for fame.
That's why
see the annual Hawassa Himalayas to say that anybody who finds in
himself some kind of embarrassment when he abandons revealing how
much Quran he reads a day or how much fasting he does Muhammad zody
has a helmet silence he does or whatever the case is. Then all of
his actions are Rhea and summer fame and show arrogance. Lie rgdp
Sahiba demeanor che in Yama is not going to find any of this in his
book of deeds on the Day of Judgment.
That's why I say the ideal motif he says
it is not appropriate, not appropriate at all, for any person
who's on this path, that he started gathering people together
in a miraculous until he knows for sure that he has come out of the
disease or addiction of loving leadership.
Otherwise, he's going to destroy himself.
He says
I have met numerous of these kinds of Allah Ma, who would never never
never
be bold enough to sit
and give others
in a gathering
until they shift date.
Or he told them and permitted them to do so. After he recognized that
yeah, these people are capable
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told them you cannot give anybody on
for not for quite a while for quite a period of time. Just you
can't go on give any public speeches,
another of their characters while we're on the same topic of these
people who become BICC when you start practicing, these kinds of
issues will come up. These are just the pots, the just the issues
that come along. Right. This is another one is that they do not
take great pleasure out of, you know, when when they become close
to Allah subhanaw taala they start acting very humbly, they have a
lot of humidity and so on. So when they have that state, they don't
start taking special pleasure from it. Because it's not something to
take pleasure from. You're doing it for the sake of Allah subhanaw
taala that's why Omar Abdullah dobre, the Allahu Anhu once he saw
a man praying, making solid, and the way he was praying was I go
like this, like showing himself overly humble. Like completely
like something like this villa or annum exactly, I was doing it. But
Dhamaka te fi, it brought his two shoulders close together, like
really trying to show something. He beat him. He struck him. And he
said, listen, who show haka.
This is not reverence. This is not fearful reverence in the man who
feel called
it's in the heart. So don't show it outside like this. Maybe for
some reason, he decided that this man was just overdoing it. Right?
You know, unless you can't help it is different story. But he's just
good to show in the he made a lesson out of him. So Imam, Shah,
Ronnie dances, oh, my brother, be careful that you don't fall into
the same thing. But if you see somebody else doing it for him in
hula and hula hoop, don't stop being suspicious of him that he is
doing it out of RIA or whatever the case is, just consider that he
is being overwhelmed. And that's why, you know, give him the
benefit of the doubt. Another of the other is that they get very,
very angry internally, when they find people who are making false
claims about certain things. In turn, they get very angry, but
outside, they act amicably towards this person, so they don't go and
express it straightaway. Then they tell him discreetly about the
untruth. So generally, this is going to happen public. So they
might get very angry inside, but they'll keep a nice aura about
them. But then in private, they will go and tell him that this is
wrong. So he says basically, what you're trying to do here is we're
trying to combine a layer of Leela which means the special feeling of
esteem for Allah subhanaw taala that this is wrong or happening,
that's wrong, but and usefully vertical art, but your goodwill
towards the person himself. You're trying to combine those two
things. So you have to get angry for the sake of Allah, that's
internally, but then outwardly, you still have goodwill towards
this person. That's why you do it this way. And he says very few are
able to bring these two conflicting emotions together.
This is what we're learning from this book, How to deal with these
kinds of conflicting emotions that seems to be so contradictory
and let's do the final one here is along with among the other genetic
it's also that they will only seek their needs from the Door of Allah
subhanaw taala not from the door of anybody else. They won't even
look at another person's door
except in the way Now this doesn't mean they've never asked anybody
for anything. If they do look at anybody else's door. It's in the
way that this is basically just the pipeline from which the water
is sent through. So it comes from Allah but it's just being sent
through this person. So even when they have to ask go to somebody
else for whatever the case is, it's that Allah is going to give
through them
fall for the rhodium and Azure Alma, Phil planets, they're just a
pathway of spring
piping, right? The the real formula and the virtue is for the
one who allowed the water to come from the source into these pipes
in the first place. Learning cannot not the piping that's just
a means. That's why I say the Abdulkadir Gilani used to say
the army
your archaeology heard Hello taller bigger hydrothermal robic
blind yourself on my brother from all other from all other
directions. When you want some your need from Allah subhanho wa
Taala
And he will open up the door His grace for you. Otherwise he will
not open up the door His Grace To You let her know who to allow her
urine. Because Allah subhanaw taala is a very, very
self dignified being, that if you're looking at somebody else to
get it from them, why should Allah give you that's why just focus on
Allah nobody else. And Allah subhanaw taala will give you
because Allah subhanaw taala is Allah yield?
For example, it's mentioned that this person went to the Governor
of his time, and said that so and so this wealthy, not wealthy, but
this very influential, respectable individual. I am so and so to him.
And he's given me his word or whatever the case is, which he
hadn't, he just used his name. And he asked him for something.
And this person finds out, so he goes to the
the leader, the governor, whoever he was and says, Yeah, can you
help him out, please? And the reason reason is that if somebody
has this kind of hoping me that he has to make up my name and use my
name, then I shouldn't let him down. This is the kind of self
respect somebody has they using my name, I should do something about
it. Because obviously the person was in need. He wasn't deceit. It
wasn't. It wasn't this kind of selfish deceit, but it was for
need He was using his name out of a need.
Woman let me also say that early from Eliza Hoonah axioma the other
as well we will move on we will recite him tournament with Erica
shitcan. And he says basically to do it in any other way and not to
focus on Allah subhanho wa Taala then that could become sick in a
sense.
That's why this hadith
that is related by Imam bazar
he said it's a Hassan Hadith from Anasazi Allahu Anhu this will
allah sallallahu sallam said that every one of you should ask his
Lord for his deep for his needs, for his need, or all of his needs.
In fact, so much so that he should also ask him for the strap of his,
you know, shoelace, if it breaks.
You should even ask him for the assault that he needs.
So even the most basic thing you should ask Allah is not like oh,
like how can I ask this to Allah? Because we are in need of Him even
that soul comes because Allah wants us to have it.
And then he says that, also be careful that you do not remove the
thinking about the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam in
your times of need. Be many you can do tawassul through him.
Because if you don't, then it's bad other with the Prophet
salallahu Alaihe Salam.
In that case, he says that you'd rather you'd be an innovator not
not a follower. So understand.
Okay, we will stop here. But as you can see today, it was a lot
about the prophets of Allah, Islam and the family of the Prophet
salAllahu alayhi wasallam. And then just basically about
sincerity and an honest focus on Allah subhanaw taala. May Allah
subhanho wa Taala grant us that work on that one and hamdulillahi
rabbil Alameen.
The point of a lecture is to encourage people to act to get
further an inspiration, and encouragement, persuasion. The
next step is to actually start learning seriously to read books
to take on a subject of Islam and to understand all the subjects of
Islam at least at the basic level, so that we can become more aware
of what our deen wants from us. And that's why we started Rayyan
courses so that you can actually take organize lectures on demand
whenever you have free time, especially for example, the
Islamic essentials course that we have on there, the Islamic
essentials certificate which you take 20 Short modules and at the
end of that inshallah you will have gotten the basics of most of
the most important topics in Islam and you'll feel a lot more
confident. You don't have to leave lectures behind you can continue
to live, you know, to listen to lectures, but you need to have
this more sustained study as well as local law here in salaam
aleikum wa rahmatullah wa barakato.