Abdur Rahman ibn Yusuf Mangera – Sha’rani’s Etiquette of the People of Allah On Respecting the Mosque and the Prophet
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One Masjid I went to in Zambia. And there's a clear notice. That's
the cool side. And this is the hot side. Because it was wintertime.
And they'll open the windows, no heat is there. But if you close
the window, it gets warm enough. Because of the heat of the of the
people there and the other side, they'll keep the windows open. So
it's Choose your side. Are you a cool person or a hot hot person?
So go according to that, it's not like everybody's there. And then
there's a constant argument of put the AC on, put the AC off. We need
to really think these things through because I went to a I had
to lead Jamar in a masjid last week. And as I'm doing the bar,
and I realized that there's some problem with the microphone, it
keeps cutting out.
And then in solid, sorry, then during the hot water, same thing.
So after the hotbar before the salad was about to begin before I
was about to listen to start the prayer. I said, Have you gotten
you know, is there something else have you got another microphone?
But the people there? They said, Oh, it's okay. It's alright. Now
they've got a floor above and there's probably 1500 People 2000
People in that machine and then a woman section as well. So I
thought okay, but I'm the it's an hour away from here. So I don't
know the ins and out of the Masjid. So I thought maybe they
know what they're talking about. But because I've had that
experience before, I asked, Do you have another microphone? Can you
sort this out? And I said, Look, some people make sure they do tech
beers, so that people in other places can hear. But apparently
this was the first time we were experiencing this or whatever the
case is. The sound was not reaching the top. So I remember
when I started my prayer, before I went into Roku, I heard a
commotion at the top, which means that they did the Roku and search
that before I did I that's what I thought in my prayer. And that is
what it happened. There were about two or three different sources of
information upstairs. One person had put on his phone to see if he
can broadcast it through there. And another person thought
something else. So they had various different people leading
the prayer up there.
So a lot of them ended up having to just repeat the prayer with
her. Because they actually did it. They didn't know whether they did
it with the imam or not. That's why for a Friday prayer, it's that
one prayer when you get your biggest crowds.
That's why there needs to be three microphones here.
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This one requires a very high level of debacle in Allah subhanho
wa taala, to pull this one through. What he's saying is that
it is another one of the etiquette of the people or Allah, that they
do not.
They do not seek revenge for themselves.
They don't try to avenge themselves.
The reason is, he says that it's a very difficult thing to go and
take revenge, to go and try to do something in return to what's been
done to you try to get your own back, as they say, is something
that is full of difficulties. It's fraught with difficulties. And the
person who submits this and consigned this matter to his Lord,
then his Lord can help him without there being any
family, or without there being any supporters around the person.
So Allah subhanaw taala has the ability to help a person because
his net millimolar when we're near him and nos Eve, he's the
the best of he is, what a excellent Lord He is, and what an
excellent assistant. He is somebody you can seek assistance
from. So that's Allah subhanho wa Taala say saying that, for
somebody not to take any kind of revenge and leave it to Allah
subhanaw taala that is the high level that is something that is
considered to be one of the
the qualities of the people of Allah subhanaw taala. In fact,
what the Sufis say, is, isn't the sort of Sufi literacy Why, what
our job is, for who or what Terrazza
is saying that anybody who considers himself to be a Sufi
You know, I'm saying a serious Sufi here, not an exotic one
or a degenerated one. So, anybody who considers himself a Sufi and
then he goes and he tries to respond himself, then him and the
soil is the same.
He and the soil is the same.
So they have a high level of terracotta and Allah subhanaw
taala the next one of the etiquettes that he mentions is lie
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Verde, Manisha within half a year. Now, this is another level, okay,
he doesn't go and avenge for himself. He doesn't take any
action himself. However, what about praying against the person
cursing the person making dua against the person is saying that
it's also from the other that they don't pray against those that
oppress them, you don't even make dua against them.
And they don't even seek assistance from Allah subhanaw
taala against them.
Because they know that Allah subhanaw taala doesn't like that
from them, doesn't like that from them, because they're on a very
high pedestal very close to Allah subhanaw taala. And they should
understand that Allah knows everything, and Allah will take
care of it for me, that's the level of token. So if anybody is
going to fall below that level of Tawakkol, for where they, they,
they are supposed to be, then Allah dislikes it from them. Now
for a person who's constantly taking revenge, revenge for
himself, then the superior for him would be to stop and then connect
himself with Allah. Leave it to Allah, which means to ask Allah.
But the higher you get, then even seeking revenge, even asking Allah
for it, even asking Allah is assistance in that regard.
But this is again, on a very, very, very high level. And he
says, The reason is that, to ask for assistance from Allah subhanaw
taala, against an oppressor is actually from one of the hidden
desires of the heart.
Because it's enough thing, it's like you still want something, you
haven't consigned yourself completely to Allah subhanaw taala
that he will take care of me. That's why it's related about
hygiene that alone the famous Alia of Hindustan of India, once he
became sick, and he, this is what he said to Allah, Oh, Allah, you
know, I'm sick. I'm going to leave it completely to you. He didn't
even ask for Shiva.
He didn't even ask for Shiva says Allah knows. I'm going to do Radha
Bill causa, which means to be satisfied with what Allah subhanaw
taala once. So if he wants to keep me safe has no problem. And again,
this is a high level of work. A lot of people they come and they
ask these kinds of questions. Should I do this? Should I do
that? Should I just do this? Or should I take means or whatever?
And we're generally my answer to all of them is, I relate the story
of Ibrahim Ali Salam, Ibrahim Ali Salam was picked up, put into a
category that was specially built for him to be thrown into the
fire. As he is going through the air, he mentioned in the tafazzin,
that the angel comes to him and says, I'm the angel of the window,
the fire or whatever the case is, I can tell me what you need. And
his response is that I leave it to Allah subhanaw taala. So when
somebody is being flung into the fire into this blazing fire,
and at that time, they say, I leave it to Allah, he's watching
anyway, that's what you call a high level of tobacco.
So a lot of people have these kinds of questions where they hear
a story like this, and they think I should have this type of code as
well. So it kind of confuses them a bit.
But we're not at that level. But we need to know this level. So
that it's something that maybe we can aim towards one day. But don't
expect that you're going to be doing this tomorrow. I don't want
to s underestimate anybody status here. But do not expect that you
will be doing this tomorrow.
But if you have that Tawakkol and you think you're ready for it,
because remember,
when you leave it to Allah subhanaw taala he may want to test
us and there may be a month of a test or two months of test. Look
at the test of a you Valley he's losing pretty much everything
including his health
and then gaining it all back.
But that's a profit and that's a profits test. So these are things
to be put into perspective. I'm not trying to deter anybody from
terracotta and Allah subhanho wa Taala but do as much the vocal as
you can bear. That is why when Abu Bakr the young came with
everything in his home to donate 100% The Prophets Allah some
accepted it from him.
When there were others who asked, Can I donate all of my wealth? No.
Can I donate half of my wealth? No.
He only agreed to let him donate 1/3 of his wealth.
Because different people have different ability because there's
going to be difficult if you donate everything from your house,
it there's going to be some difficulty. Can you bear that
difficulty? Can your family be that difficult?
Not everybody's made up for that. These are stages. So go according
to your stage. And wherever you're confused you ask somebody and you
ask Allah subhanaw taala for guidance. Wamena Dobby him liat
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mustards are places houses of Allah, where Allah is worshipped,
it's a place of worship, as the Hadith mentions that the these are
places in which you read the Quran and you do Tila you perform the
prayer. So they have a lot of respect for massage and that's why
seeing another one of the other of the odia of Allah subhanaw taala
is that they do not enter the masjid with the intention of
sleeping or resting
you know sometimes I mean nobody comes to the masjid to rest here.
But you know sometimes if you're traveling and you want to get away
for a while and just relax right let's go and relax in the masjid
it's the only place that's generally open in the middle of
the day. You go to Morocco, you go to India you go to Pakistan or
somewhere like that in the middle of nowhere you go and you want to
just relax somewhere for a while okay, you have to make your Salat
as well. So go with the intention of Salah not the intention of
resting yes after if you want to relax there for a while, do some
thicker etc. And you like the
you like the serenity of the place. I was in Bombay recently
and in Old Bombay which is just just filled with everything from
motorbikes to people walking and you know, you can just about get
around and mashallah you go there's a masjid there called the
Jamia Mosque, which is, you know, really really old but over 200
years old, and it's in the middle of this huge market, just
pathways, small alleyways just congested with all sorts of
things, but you go into the masjid and mashallah it's actually built
on top of a small lake so that it's built on a platform on the
lake that small lake which is now the hold this fish in there and
you just do will do from there, and wonderful construction, but
you go there and there's a lot of serenity there. So if somebody
wants to go and take sanctuary there for a while, it just depends
I want to be with Allah for a while that's a good intention. I
want to go and relax for a while away from the hustle and bustle
not to do liquor but just to be away from everything maybe just
relax for a while and I can go somewhere else i Can you know go
home so let me just go and have one hour of relaxation now the
intention should be correct because it's a place to be
respected it's a place to be respected.
So do not enter the they do not enter massage it with the
intention of sleeping in there or resting
doesn't mean that they can't rest in there that that's not the
intention to do so. And they obviously did not pass wind
in a very careful about these things they'll actually go out to
do that if they had to what I had the feeling of here now that's
kind of strange kind of a sentence or
a clause for the UK because these places there's no air in the
masajid here it's it's all heat and it's always you know I think
massage in the UK need to have some extract defense sometimes
especially in the summer. It's crazy because in the winter as
soon as winter begin they just they don't realize that you need
some heaters but there is a concept of you know a certain
moderate temperature even in winter so they put the heaters on
and then people come in and they generate their own heat and then
it just gets overboard so the heaters are on people on and there
is this boiled kind of you know smell in the air and there's no
extractor fan and I don't think we've got it yet I don't think
we've understood the way of
regulating our heat especially in the especially in the winters in
the summer. It's understandable, right you can use the ACS but in
the winter, the heaters are on and people's heaters also there. So
one Masjid I went to in Zambia, and there's a clear notice. That's
the cool side and this is the hot side because it was wintertime and
they'll open the windows no heat is there but if you close the
window it gets warm enough because of the heat of the of the people
there and the other side they'll keep the windows open so it's
Choose your side. Are you a cool person or a hot hot person? So go
according to that it's not like everybody's there.
And then there's a constant argument of put the AC on, put the
AC off, we need to really think these things through because I
went to a I had to leave Jumeau in a masjid last week. And as I'm
doing the br and I realized that there's some problem with the
microphone, it keeps cutting out.
And then in solid, sorry, then during the hotbar, the same thing.
So after the hotbar, before the salad was about to begin before I
was about to listen, start the prayer. I said, Have you got to
you know, is there something else? Have you got another microphone?
But the people there, they said, Oh, it's okay. It's alright. Now
they've got a floor above, and there's probably 1500 people, 2000
people in that machine and then a woman section as well. So I
thought, Okay, I'm the it's an hour away from here. So I don't
know the ins and out of the Masjid. So I thought maybe they
know what they're talking about. But because I've had that
experience before, I asked, Do you have another microphone? Can you
sort this out? And I said, Look, some people make sure they do tech
beers, so that people in other places can hear. But apparently,
this was the first time we were experiencing this or whatever the
case is, the sound was not reaching the top. So I remember
when I started my prayer, before I went into Roku, I heard a
commotion at the top, which means that they did the Roku and search
that before I did I that's what I thought in my prayer. And that is
what had happened. There were about two or three different
sources of information upstairs, one person had put on his phone to
see if he can broadcast it through there. And another person thought
something else. So they had various different people leading
the prayer of there.
So a lot of them ended up having to just repeat the prayer with
God. Because they actually did it. They didn't know whether they did
it with the imam or not. That's why for a Friday prayer, it's that
one prayer when you get your biggest crowd.
That's why there needs to be three microphones here.
In any mercy, there used to be three microphones. In our
massager, we just don't have a microphone, man. It's like some
guy in the committee who just takes it and thinks he knows
everything about it and takes a crash course. So it doesn't even
take a crash, he thinks he knows about it, we seriously need it,
you go in any other functional into a church or any place,
they'll have a person for that they will test it out every week
before the function. And in joules, we need to test our
microphone beforehand. Because if you mess up somebody's Juwan, the
experience of even the bayaaN or whatever the case is, that is
really detrimental. It's a worship, it's not, it's not just,
it's not just a normal occasion. It's not just an entertainment,
it's worship, especially if you've got more than one floor, and the
person the Imam cannot be seen. So in every masjid, they should at
least be three microphones at the front. So if that one goes in,
they should probably be even a second amplify just in case one
goes down. It's a crucial moment as 20 minutes or so very crucial.
People should really have that in place.
And I don't know, it's just
people are used to it. It's okay. JLJ it's alright, you know, people
will understand. I don't think people will understand anymore,
because when we go outside, it's very professional in many other
places you go to, why can it not be like the why is it always in
massage and that the microphone keeps going off? It's because we
don't have professionals doing it. It's some volunteer doing it. May
Allah bless those volunteers. But come on, go and take a course if
you're going to be a serious volunteer, go and learn about it.
You know, maybe it's asking too much to have all the committee
members gone. Take a course on what it means to run a charity are
a nonprofit organization. In fact, for every committee member of any
masjid, they should take a basic course, on running a charity and
running a nonprofit, because there are certain ways to do that, that
there's a whole science behind, there's a whole theory behind it.
Otherwise, that's when you get problems with Imams and
communities and committees and all that because everybody's just
doing their own emotional little thing.
So we need qualified people. So okay, fine. Let's start with the
microphone guy.
Then we move on to the rest.
But that's very important. You don't want to mess up. You don't
want to you don't want to spoil somebody's jaw opera.
Because after joins so many people came to me, I said, Look, this is
what happened. We didn't know and says, Did you do your thought
after he says yes, he did. I will tell her after that Hamdulillah.
But for somebody to feel that they missed their Jumeirah.
And their Joomla are spoiled as a big deal.
That could start a revolution in some places. That's how bad it is
that I'm not saying go and start a revolution but that's how bad it
is.
And you know what? masajid have money. It's not like they don't
have money to buy a microphone, but they don't have the expertise
for that microphone. So every committee member who has access to
the it's a good job if it's actually locked away. Otherwise if
it's open, then every person that comes into message keeps moving on
I want a bit more echo and a bit less echo. I want a bit more tone.
I want a bit more pitch
See, they don't even know what they're doing and just keep moving
it around.
Right then the next point he makes is what I had to had. Yes, I was
saying that our massage had you know, there, it started off with
the fact that they so enclosed and insulated and so on so forth that
you know, this letting off wind as such in other countries where it's
all open, you know, big massage, and so on so forth. People may be
a bit more lacs about this. Because it's kind of like an
outdoor kind of in the courtyard or whatever it is it know that you
need to respect that. You need to respect that. Of course, in
takeoff, this issue comes up as well, sometimes what I had the
thought and if he heard me shake him and emanate dunya and they
don't sit in the masjid and just talk about the dunya they go
outside. They avoid that because they try to respect the masjid for
what it is, which is the vicar of Allah. And they tried to make it
that when I'm here, I'm trying to be connected, right there should
be no disturbance in my collection.
What I am doing here are julabo In fact, the other thing that they
don't do, they do not extend their legs in the machine either because
it's seen as a kind of a lazy gesture or lazy kind of position.
It's not seen as respectful. So don't sit then just just relax.
You know, as even though if I feel like doing that right now I can't
cheat you understand? It's disrespectful. Well, I have for
all of you swallow and of course, they do not raise their voices in
the masjid. If their political opponent is there, they don't they
do not raise their voices.
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Allah save us, Allah help us.
Another one of the Adobe's.
This one is about how they mentioned the Prophet sallallahu
alayhi wa sallam. So this is the etiquette of
how you will take the name of Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi salam
some of it is to do with the Arabic term so I'm going to miss
that part out and then he says that one is Karuna smo Sharif il
ma masala Huberty lovely CR, V gemmy, il mawatha. They do not
take they do not make mention of the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa
sallam except by also using a Sayed
our Leiji Lord Our Master
say you say you didn't rasool Allah said Allah say you do now
Rasul Allah said the Lord is our leader sudo Allah salah, our
Master Rasulullah sallallahu Sallam
Lyra Tierra within what Allah and of course they don't do that in
the afternoon session once a year the NAMA Muhammad Rasool Allah
because that is specifically a shadow No, Mohamed rasool Allah,
you know, and of course in the Quran, you can add that into the
but it is known that the respect and and magnification of the
Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam revering a sort of Lhasa
Lhasa is forbidden OMA
and taking his name without saying Say you deny Muhammad or just
Muhammad. You know, that is extremely disrespectful and it
goes against respects
we'll see him in other work a little higher. Because there's no
chastity and modesty person isn't.
Doesn't have a feeling of chastity in front of Allah subhanaw taala
or bashfulness or shyness that they're taking this name like this
with negligence. One man If Allah Cooley V Noren, but of course, he
said that this is not this is only not going to be hidden on those
people who are illuminated.
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methylene al Fatiha to Linda via sallallahu alayhi wa sallam
which I love him? Well, because our other visa if it also relies
on the Lausanne thing that Martin Mattila who assala these are all
very particular things. Maybe they related to Egypt to a certain
degree because he was from Egypt, from Cairo, right? Maybe this is
what they you know, because this kind of stuff doesn't happen
everywhere. It's a cultural thing is dealing with, right. So maybe a
lot of these things we may not understand fully, but he says this
thing he says that people should not say this is a fatty half of
the prophets of the Lord is now what do we mean by fatty,
fatty her in the Arab world is where you read Surah Fatiha and
you invoke by the baraka or blessing. That's why in many
countries in the Middle East and other places you do too ah, and at
the end of the day, they'll say alpha t, but they'll do tilava of
the Quran and then sell 30 Ha, which means everybody recite
Fatiha, because Soto Fatiha has great baraka and blessings. So we
do the door now everybody refer to us so that our door is accepted.
So it's a way of Baraka, it's become a tradition they just do it
all the time. So now if you're saying we're going to do Fatiha
for the prophets of Allah is Allah
He's saying this is bad Adam. The reason is that the profit and loss
is the highest of the high, he doesn't need more reward from us.
In a sense, he needs our thankfulness, our drew that was
solid, salatu, salam, and so on and so forth. But he's saying
that, for example, to say, Oh Allah give the reward of this, put
the reward of this act that I'm doing or whatever it is, in the
records, and the deeds of the Prophet sallallahu sallam. Now you
have to understand, right? That anything that we do any good deed
that we do for our deed, thinking it is, then already the promise of
awesome is benefiting from that. Why? Because it's his investment,
we are his investment. Investment means that I've taught somebody,
I've delivered the guidance, I've educated somebody taught somebody,
now anything they do, I'm going to get rewarded for that. If they
continue and teach the Sahaba taught the people after them, they
all have this reward I'm accumulating, you know, that's
what it is. I'm accumulating, so everything that we do, any good
deed that we do, is going to the profit and loss of anyway. So now
for us to say, oh, Allah placed this in there. It's like bad Adam,
is bad Adam, because he is the origin of all of this anyway, he's
getting it anyway, he's the most Beloved of Allah subhanaw taala
anyway, so what are you trying to say?
So, these are very deep things, these are these are very deep
things that, that kind of give us an idea. Though, you know, these
are not things that we may be doing, or guilty of, or, you know,
falling into, but it gives us an idea of the parameters of how we
need to be with the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam.
Just going back to the point above, when we spoke about they do
not defend themselves and they rather leave it to Allah subhanaw
taala.
Let's look at a verse according to that. Allah says Allah you belong
to Jehovah be su e miracoli, 11 and vollem waka and Allah has sent
me an Idema
into higher on how to who out there who and sue in the in the LA
Ghana or foreign pudiera. So in this verse, it tells you about
the ability for the oppressed person, the ability of the
oppressed person to respond. But then Allah says, if you express
goodness,
if you express goodness and virtue, or you hide it, or you
forgive and pardon the, from the evil that was done, then Allah
subhanaw You will find that Allah subhanaw taala is also the one who
pardons and the one who's able. So this indicates that it is
permitted to make dua against an oppressor because it mentions that
in the verse that it's permitted. It's a rasa. But while I for
Korba, Illa, Allah, but to forgive is even a closer deed to Allah
subhanaw taala.
So yes, you have the right. But to forgive and leave it to Allah is
even a higher deed.
Because that is the way of Allah subhanaw taala. I've been thinking
about this. Imagine you run a company, you've got a little
business, and you expect the people, let's say it's a food
business, you expect the people to come clean, dressed in a
particular clean clothes. And then to follow certain procedure of the
way they were. They had the way they were the clothing, aprons,
the way they clean the knife and everything like that. spoons,
cutlery, pots, etc. In the restaurant business, for example,
right? Or a catering business, whatever it may be. Now, you've
got an employee that comes and he does everything quickly, quickly.
You're not you have room to doubt. In fact, you've seen that he is
not very hygienic. He doesn't do things properly. He doesn't put
things back properly. He doesn't place things properly. He cuts
corners. He throws in a bit too much salt. He's made a lot of
mistakes like that. How much patience will you have with that
person?
How much patients will you'll give him a warning is messing up you're
getting complaints. You're you're receiving complaints from your
clients. It's too much salt. This is a bit burnt. This is
undercooked. This is got too much ginger in here. Do you know what i
This seems imbalance. This is tasteless. Now it's this guy who's
doing all of this.
What are you going to do eventually?
Now we imagine our worship. How is how do
how do we follow the protocols of odo? Do we just do it quickly? Do
we even follow the protocols of stingier properly sometimes
Subhanallah Do we follow
The protocols are what our mind should be where we should be
thinking, what our salad should be like, how we should be dressed in
our salad, the adverb of the masjid, we are cutting so many
corners. But because Allah doesn't give us an A clear
report at the end of the day, that this is where you're going wrong
and so on so forth. But can you imagine how much forgiveness and
pardon that Allah has that he doesn't get us for every small
thing that we do? Otherwise, where would we be today?
Allah forgives us more than he punishes us in the rahmati subaqua
Javi.
Truly, truly, His mercy is great, which he reminds us of each time
we read a Rahmani Raheem Bismillah R. Rahman, reminds us of that.
And if it wasn't for that we would have we would be in a different
place right now if it wasn't for the Mercy of Allah subhanaw taala
because we cut so many corners were worse than the employee that
I just described in front of Allah subhanaw taala if our children was
such that he wasn't getting up on time, constantly late to school,
not doing his homework just about managing it. The his bed is always
unmade. His wardrobe is all over the place. He keeps his dirty
clothes in the house in his room, and then eventually when he's got
no clothes, and then he goes and brings them and gives them to the
wife to to the mother to wash. Right? How would you deal with a
child like that? Now what are we in front of Allah? subhanaw taala
when it comes to our deen, we may be very disciplined in the dunya
when it comes to our deen, where are we industry? God?
That's, I think of these things. And I think Subhanallah what
clemency and forbearance and patience that Allah has.
That it's it's it's only it's just so much sugar to Allah that we're
still even living and we still have what we have otherwise. We
don't deserve anything in our servitude the way we are. I'm not
even I'm not even using the example of a slave because we
don't have slaves. Anyone just talking about a person we pay.
In fact, Allah doesn't even have to pay us. You know, because he's
given us everything. That's the payment he's already given us.
Would you there.
The next point he makes is
well, I mean, Derby him
muhabba to haunt him Al Muslimeen Mohabbat what in what Iman in La
Habra to top it in what a sudden
they add up another one of the etiquette and behavior
is that you know the one Muslimeen I don't mean the one Muslim. I
mean, the Muslim Muslim brothers brothers in Islam. That's what it
means. Muslim Brotherhood. Everybody's a Muslim brother. But
I've just taken that name you know, like we all Abdullah's and
you get somebody who's in Abdullah says like that one was me. So my
habit to align him and Muslim imam Shalini he's Egyptian but he
wasn't alive when the one Muslim mean if one Muslim he came up
afterwards. Right. I wonder what he would be saying today. You know
about the one was a meme, you know. And his his sentence here.
So he says to love your Muslim brothers.
A love of brotherhood and Iman. So your your love for others should
be purely for the sake of Eman and for brotherhood. Love muhabba
tuttavia in USA and not just because you like somebody you love
them. Okay, I like this guy. I'm gonna love him. I like I don't
like this guy. So I'm not gonna love him he's a Muslim is a decent
guy but for some reason I just don't like the color of his shirt.
Or the look of his face or just the way he does things. So I'm not
gonna like you
know, your love should be for the sake of Allah for the Iman and for
Brotherhood's not just because you don't feel like it. Tobin not
because you just don't feel like it. What else zanin And not It's
not based on favors. Somebody is good to you. They did your favors
and I love them because of that reason. Of course that may help
you increase in your love for somebody but you should love
everybody nevertheless. Nevertheless, even if they don't
do you any favors because he's a brother
women see you the woman will see it you see the Abdulkadir will God
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is saying that one of the council's of our Sharif Abdul
Qadir jeelani, Rahim Allah the great humbly scholar have
bothered. He said that he says
is if you find in your heart that you dislike someone,
you know, you just emotionally dislike somebody.
Right? It happens. This is a challenge that plays in our
hearts. You know, there's certain people, we don't know anything
about them. I just don't like that guy.
Now, the foolish person will voice that and say, I don't like you.
Like for what? I don't know, I just don't like you. Nobody. Not
many people say that. But you know, the foolish man might even
say that the one who is bold and who's just has that kind of
attitude where he doesn't care about anybody or hurt somebody's
feelings. There's people who say that kind of thing.
If you do find in your heart that you've got a bit of a dislike or
you like somebody you have some love for somebody for some reason.
Sheikh Abdul Qadir is saying that now take his actions and weigh
them in the, in the scale of the Quran and Sunnah. If you find that
he is disliked in the Quran, and Sunnah because of his deeds, then
it's fine, it's understandable that you're the reason is
justified for your dislike, you're just you're disliking him for his
deeds,
not because of the way that he looks, not because of the way that
he eats. But there's a short reason for you to dislike that
person. So this is the way to justify or rectify, and likewise,
if it's, if he is completely according to the Quran and Sunnah,
okay, then it's justified for you to love him for that reason. He
says, The reason why you should do this is so that you do not just
love somebody based on your desire and emotion. And you just don't
hate somebody out of your emotion, just arbitrarily for no reason
whatsoever. Because Allah says, Do not follow Caprice, ego,
and your emotion, your raw emotion of that nature, because it will,
for you didn't look at answer be the law, it has the ability to
cause you to deviate from the path of Allah.
And then he mentioned that, look, there's, we've already mentioned
in this book, we've had the whole initial section about the reality
of love for Allah subhanaw taala and hate for Allah subhanaw taala
and he said, at that place, we already mentioned that love for
love for the sake of Allah will not increase just because somebody
does your does your favor, or it will not decrease if somebody is a
bit of estranged from you
because it's purely for the sake of Allah subhanaw taala
The next one is a very interesting point.
He said I mean other be him have loaded with demon occurred when
the hubs and other cool in the whole mill and
this is talking about real faithfulness in the sense of real
affinity to something
they will preserve
friendship
with the person
whose home they've eaten whose food they've eaten, or whose salt
they have tasted
if somebody's done you a favor you've eaten by them they've
provided you as less as much as just salt then you will remember
that
you will remember that
what did you say nama Cara right that's a that's a statement they
use in order which is that you eat somebody's food his salt whatever
you know and then
you go against that person and you have absolutely no give it no
significance whatsoever and you are disrespectful.
So he gives a gives a beautiful example for this which I found to
be quite fascinating. It says that say the ideal house is shaker
Rahim Allah He mentioned once a story of even the characteristics
the conduct of evil thieves of his time.
Thieves of that particular time a robber robbers we're talking about
this was during the reign of Sultan tight by Sultan tight by
his one of the famous Sultan's I think he may have been Mameluke
from
his complex the kite by complex is there much of the architecture
that people will go to see in I think in Alexandria as well and in
Cairo, it's Sultan kite base. Now, his he was so done okay, so Solon
tight by a Jirka Shi al Mahmoud el Ashrafi. Some vahidi He ruled over
the diorama Syria, the Egyptian provinces, and he was a
magnificent man. He was
Always looking for virtue kind of Machiavellian either ama didn't
hide. He was always a person looking for virtue cathedral
arriba, abundant in his worship, abundant cathedral, very just more
abundant for Cara. And he loved the poor, he loved the poor and
more Caribbean Villa Maui has an atom in Hassanal, to dark. And he
was very close to the other man who would assist the OMA as well.
And that's where Allah Zahawi in his adult learning, has mentioned
the big biography of him and so on, so forth. Because
he, he was a, he was a contemporary of Allah Mojave, as
well. So one of those exceptional rulers that you get once in a
while, so he was one of those. So it mentioned that during his time,
and it had to be during his time because whenever the ruler is
great and virtuous, there is this effect that comes down to the
people. Right, there is an effect that comes on to the people it's
observed in many places, because most of us said, you will be ruled
by the way you are, the way the way you you are. So it says that
there there was a really famous robber of the time was it was her
more I think his name was her more Kabiru Lusas is one of the big
robbers of the time when I know the Hanamura and Allah turgid, BGV
German Homer, Ruby Misawa, who always amaretto once he gets into
somebody's house, close to Germany and Hungary, the home of the
masjid, so he enters his house, he gets in there somehow with with
his men. And they got right by the into the bedroom of that person
where he was sleeping right by his head. So her mood, told him
straight, he says, Look, don't fear, we're not going to do
anything to your Hajah ohada We're not going to do anything to you.
For Sybian in the microphone, I'm in color.
Aloha pocket, the my boys, all they want is they want to grab
some food from you. You know, they want to grab, they want to just
take some some possessions from you. So immediately, this person
wakes up and he says come unto him, how many are you? He says, I
shot over 10 of us. So it's for karma, what Atitlan Blvd. Now, he
came and he brought 1000 dinars for them as a huge amount of money
gold pieces. So he brings 1000 gold pieces. He says here you go.
And after that he added another 400 dinars. So 1400 dinars, he
gave them just like that. Right? So humble said Shaka Allah Who for
the luck, may Allah you know, may Allah accept your grace, may Allah
accept your grace, your Hajah Makana Amma Luna figa Kula, we did
not expect all of this to come from you. We didn't expect all of
you to give us all of this.
For what I Kulu Ah, he didn't know Siva houfy JB, so every one of
them took his share. And he put it into his pocket. What are our
hidden minimum then suddenly, one of them sees a box or a container
that was shining, it was on one of the shelves in the house. So he
couldn't help it. It takes it down and he opens it and he sees
something very soft, some sweets or something of that nature or
some savory. He sees something very soft in there and he can't
help it. He goes and takes a morsel of it. And he says minhang
This is salt, or this is salty. As soon as he says that humble hears
him the leader and he says now Ruth Duma American. Everybody give
back what they've taken. Like, hold on, hold on, everybody. Take
it out. Give back what you've what you've got. For inner Sahiba come
the caminhada alhaja because this partner of yours this man of ours,
he's just tasted the salt of this Hydra. He's just tasted a salt of
this Hydra ma Bucha you're Amina Su and mudita HYAH Tina. And now
for the rest of his life you will never see any evil coming from us
so you have to give back your money.
That's a thief of the time that's a robber of the time
for a dual mal Kula, they returned everything for UK Somali human
Hydra and Yahoo me at the dinar in and the Hydra he's giving them an
oath please, please I swear by Allah take at least 100 dinars at
least take 100 dinars for Ebola, but they're refusing now we won't
take Allahu Akbar
what robbers and what person who is being robbed. So remember the
salt you have at somebody's house. There was something very
interesting that I learned in Bahrain, I was in bombing with
some with some friends and he's he's a consultant, business
consultant. And he says that I'm dealing with these this Yemeni
company from Saudi and he says what they do is to find out
How you are, you know what they do you know how they find out if they
should work with you or not. Let's take you for ombre. Come on, let's
go to Umrah together. They take you for an omelet trip. And they
see how you act there. And that's how they decide whether they're
going to do business with you or not. That's what a lot of them he
says they're very shrewd in terms of the way they do business
because all the big businessmen in in Saudi like the bin Laden and so
on, they will Yemeni Originally, the old Yemeni originally, in
fact, you'd be surprised. But even Abu Dhabi's family that resides
there originally Yemeni, that's why they paid to have that big dam
as of Adam, you know, the ones mentioned in the Quran that was
destroyed and so on, they paid huge amounts of money to have that
built so that it can benefit a lot of people down there. So they're
originally Yemeni as well, in fact, many Arabs are originally
from Yemen. But this is a very good in fact, another thing he
told me is that this is also another good idea. If they want
somebody you know, if there's a proposal, they take them for
ombre, you get a free omelet cheaper out of it at least. And
they check you out in that to see how your behavior is on. So
anyway, that's probably a good idea. If you're, if you've got a
guy who comes for your daughter taken from Rwanda,
and say, Okay, now you know, in comes to Christmas time or the
winter holidays spring, if you're going to come from Monrovia this
way, or just just, you know, take your phone, I'm not promising you
anything, it's going to take your formula.
Of course, from the it's much easier, isn't it?
Let's take a drive to Makkah.
In terms of what we are speaking about, he says another of the
other bits, they're very careful of thieves of thieves. And Ha,
what's a heart in
an unfaithful person, personal, non trustworthy individual. So
they, they they abandoned such people, they don't stay close to
such people, because they're very dangerous, and they will not allow
such people to be among them. Well, then he decides to explain
the difference between a thief and a non trustworthy individual by
saying that thieves you probably understand, but the non
trustworthy individual is in worse in a sense, because he says that
the thief will steal something that has not been placed in the
trust. They will go and steal something that is not placed under
your trust. But the non trustworthy individual is the
person who somebody puts something in their trust. And then they take
it. They deny the rights of the other person. That's even worse,
he says.
And that's why it says the other must say that he Erna
and this
untrustworthiness and taking from somebody else's rights,
takes away all the baraka and blessing from the wealth of a
human being
from the inside, and it takes away the baraka of his life. So then
diseases, illnesses, his wealth doesn't have any Baraka as well.
And he says likewise, obviously has to do with stealing as well.
Same thing happens. And he says from Arjuna, to Saudi Illa well
baraka to mum who got me mad, he was hammering, we've never seen a
thief
who,
who has blessing in their wealth, meaning any thief that we've seen,
we've seen that they have no blessing in their wealth or their
life.
Both of that deteriorates.
And likewise, another another person they avoid is the cut verb.
The cut cut that means the flagrant liar, the one who
constantly lies, it's got a habit of lying.
Or a shot of the Allahu Ana said that nothing was more hated to the
messenger of allah sallallahu alayhi salam, then a layer of
fragrant layer of that sense. And
he, this is what he relates here that she said he would.
He would abandon a person for one statement of untruth that he
mentioned for two or three months.
Not sure where that hadith comes from, but there is a Hadith from
Imam Tirmidhi. Related from narration of the Allahu anha. She
is relates that the roughest. She relates that there was nobody more
despicable in the sight of Rasulullah sallallahu than or
there was nothing.
There is no character. There is no character trait that is more
despicable in the sight of a sort of person than untruth. And a
person may have said an untruth in front of the Prophet sallallahu
alayhi wa sallam, and that would then remain with the Prophet
sallallahu alayhi wasallam until he read
until he found out that the person had made Toba. So he would keep he
would remember that this person had told an untruth is something
very despicable, very upholding the Sharia. Okay, so, we inshallah
stop here. And may Allah subhanaw taala give us the Tofik to
inculcate this great character in our hearts. May Allah subhanaw
taala. Bless us, may Allah protect us from evil characters, and Allah
subhanaw taala grant us the company of the righteous on the
day of judgment, and in this world war with Iran and Al hamdu Lillahi
Rabbil Alameen.
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