Abdur Rahman ibn Yusuf Mangera – Sha’rani’s Etiquette of the People of Allah Preparing for Worship
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Another of the other job. And again, some of these seem to be
extremely, extremely delicate, subtle, extreme in some senses for
some people. One of the another of the other is that either wedges
wedges, or julu, middle core fossa.
I've always wondered about this before until my last hedge. And
what happened is you read in the books that it was known that
people sat with a hammer. In Arabic, this is basically sitting
on your two feet or on your bottom with your tooth, knees drawn up,
and sometimes with a hub, which is this cloth that they would tie
around them, so that it was like sitting on you on one of those.
You can see those
travel chairs or portable chairs. So basically it's sitting like
like this, but with something on like that with something, a rope
or a cloth that would be tying you from the back to here. So that
means you don't have to hold yourself. You're held in that
position and then a person is
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This is a very interesting other, that when a person is reciting the
Quran, are engaged in reading the Hadith, a Sharif
and then they want to talk to somebody else. So while they're
reading the Quran, then you decide you want to speak to somebody
else. In our case, most likely we're probably distracted by
the beeps of the phone. When reading Quran send you get a
message, although we should be ignoring it at that time. But for
whatever reason a person wants to interrupt their reading.
The depth of their understanding tells them that they would
actually first seek permission from Allah subhanaw taala and his
messenger before moving away from that now what that means is, they
will probably they say to themselves with their heart that
I'm going to be speaking to, I'm going to be distracting myself for
a while.
So when they want to speak to somebody else for any need, they
will not speak to that person until they've asked Allah subhanaw
taala and his messenger with their heart
and with their tongue, that they want to speak to that in son. If
they somehow forget to do that, and they engage in that discussion
with somebody else, then they will make so far to Allah subhanaw
taala
until they feel that Allah subhanaw taala has forgiven them.
So this is a very kind of a personal way of saying, I want to
I'm going to be speaking to this person is is this conscious
decision that you are going from something very superior to
something that is inferior. It's more about that consciousness
that I'm engaged in this blessing act. And yeah, Allah I'd love to
be continued to bless to be engaged in this but now I'm just
moving aside to speak to somebody else. It's this confession in the
tongue with that. It says that Sheikh Abdullah Deen once began to
speak to somebody while he was studying Hadith. He says before
seeking permission from the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa
sallam clearly that
sounds extremely controversial and questionable. How would you seek
permission from the Prophet salallahu Alaihe Salam,
my understanding of it
is that you send blessings on the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa
sallam, and you just feel that I'm going from the superior act to
this inferior act. So once he did this without this consciousness,
so he sought forgiveness from Allah subhanaw taala 70 times he
felt that this was wrong. It's like I'm speaking to you, or I'm
speaking with somebody who's very
honorable in my sight. And then suddenly I just turn away to
answer my phone. You know, and you're set. You're sitting with
anybody that's respectful and then somebody gives you a call or
something. You will seek permission first, in the sense of
I just need to take this call. Now here, of course, you're not
the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wasallam is not necessary.
me in front of you here. So how do you seek permission from the
Prophet salallahu Salam. So I'm understanding this is a
consciousness of this fact that I'm moving away from reading the
Hadith such a blessed thing to something else.
Another of the other is that when AThon is going on, they are so
they have so much etiquette so much respect and honor for the
other than that they will not engage themselves in anything
else.
Because other than is from the shower of Islam, shower means the
salient features of Islam, although that in itself is a
sunnah, and your Salat will be valid without Adan technically
speaking. But it is one of those things which in an Islamic state,
proper Islamic State, if group of people decided we're not going to
do Advan, then that can be imposed on them that they must do that
because Iran is one of these open,
outward features of the religion that are very important in the
deen.
That's why it's related about
a woman among the prostitutes, that she, for some reason, was
seen by somebody after her death in their dream, or whatever the
case was, to be in a very good state, a very pleasant state.
Everybody knew her to be
a woman advice, but then she's seen in this really good situation
after her death. So then the person asked her, How is this
possible, she said, once the more other than call the other man. And
we were sitting there, discussing something raising our voices just
going about our discussion. And well, I told my friends to be
silent until the event finished. I just told him, Look, let's be
silent, until the mall has been finished. So Allah subhanho wa
taala, forgive us because of that.
Allah forgive us because of that, this is one of those examples of a
certain act, done in a moment of truth and realisation, respect has
so much value.
Of course, such things cannot be used. And somebody does this once
thinking that because it happened to this woman, it should happen
for me as well. So if I want to stay silent, once I tell people to
stay silent, when that is going on, then I will also get this and
then I can just lead my life.
Not as bad as this prostituted, but you know, I can do a few sins
here, and then it should be fine. These are all very selective
things that Allah subhanaw taala likes from a certain individual
based on the state of their heart at the time. So these are very
selective things. It may work for her, it may not work for us. It
has worked for her apparently, but it may not work for us. Because
everybody is in a different state with Allah subhanaw taala. But
that also tells us about the Mercy of Allah that we can definitely
look forward to.
Another of the adab and again, some of these seem to be
extremely, extremely delicate, subtle, extreme in some senses for
some people. One of the another of the other is that either wedges
wedges, or julu, middle core fossa.
I've always wondered about this before until my last hedge. And
what happened is you read in the books that it was known that
people sat with a hammer. In Arabic, this is basically sitting
on your two feet or on your bottom with your tooth, knees drawn up,
and sometimes with a hub, which is this cloth that they would tie
around them. So that it was like sitting on you on one of those,
you can see those
travel chairs or portable chairs. So basically it's sitting like
like this, but with something on like that with something, a rope
or a cloth that would be tying you from the back to here. So that
means you don't have to hold yourself, you're held in that
position and then a person is that's obviously you can get used
to that. So when I was in Hajj this year, I'm met this brothers
from I believe they are from Oman. So he had this thing with him in
solid. It was this really, it was like a belt, but very broad, soft.
And then after solid he set like that and put that around him.
And I asked if I could try it because I'd read about it so much.
So
I managed to try it. So I saw that that's obviously probably a modern
iteration of that you had it was quite soft. That really made it
very comfortable one, this would be any cloth. They could use the
shawl take it off and just tie that. So when sitting like that it
was generally you'll see lots of people sitting like that. It's
this it's the way of sitting that is very
You can say a way of servitude, it's very humble that position.
But sometimes if they do get a bit tired of sitting like that, then
they would still not, they would not extend their feet, they will
be very considerate about extending their feet until they
ask Allah subhanaw taala. Again, the same kind of thing, you know,
it's just this other of always feeling that you're in front of
Allah subhanaw taala. So I don't want to extend my feet.
He says, similarly, there will be careful about not extend their
feeding feet towards Medina, a Shiva or towards another way of
Allah subhanho wa Taala in somebody's direction. I mean,
forget to well, you have Allah anybody's direction, it's
considered to be rude. We consider it to be rude to even point in
somebody's direction. I mean, extending the feet is really a
blasphemy in that regard.
The and then he says, the reason for all of this, coupled with
Article issue who they him and him being a light on, this is because
of the observation and they complete presents with this
feeling that they are in front of Allah subhanaw taala.
Or that there in front of the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa
sallam, now being in front of the settlers, and just this feeling
that, how would I act? If I was in front of the province, that alone
is
not that they necessarily seen the process of loss in there. But if I
had to act,
if a person has this presence that I was in front of, as Imam hasn't
even mentioned that if a person wants to rectify themselves, they
should they should think, would I do this in front of even a
respectable person in my community, or in my family? Would
I do that? So this is about having shoot.
I met a brother was yesterday, I believe, I was walking in white
chap, and I met this brother.
And he got talking to me.
And he started discussing Islamic garments, talking about the
problems of the Muslim of the world, Muslims of the world. And
then he went on to Islamic garments, thinking that they're
not necessary. And I said, Look, I agree with you that it's not
necessary to wear these garments. But then I could see that he was
having a bit of an attack on them. So I said, Look, I completely
agree that they're not necessarily they're not fun to wear this
particular type of garment. But you must not judge people who wear
them. Because you don't understand what their situation is. For, for
me, for example, even if they're not necessary, and I could wear
something else if I wanted, as long as it's covering myself
properly. This is I feel one of the most respectful garments that
I can wear, because I believe that is close to
what the Prophet salallahu Alaihe. Salam was, so that's my emotional
understanding of it. I'm trying to tell him that nobody does this by
force. People do this because they have love for Rasool allah
sallallahu alayhi wa sallam.
So he was trying to say that this is not necessary. I said, Look,
nobody says it's necessary. He says, no, no, no people in Moscow
saying this, I said, look, there may be an individual who might
tell you it's necessary. But that's him and his. That's his
point of view. But this is not what the case is. And many people
who do it, they do it out of respect, they do it out of
emulation of Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa sallam. So it looks like
people on different extremes, they need to hear the experiences of
different individuals so that they can get it right. And they can
open their mind. In fact, there's people who think their minds are
open, and yet it becomes restricted in the opposite sense.
They feel that they want to open the minds of people who wear
hijab, for example,
is something very difficult. What I'm realizing is that one of the
reasons there's, for example, a writer,
a journalist, who is generally positive about Islam in general,
she is very well aware and everything, but the one thing that
she can't get her head around very difficult challenges, you can tell
that the challenge is the segregation issue. I think a lot
of it comes from the fact that of how extreme segregation and issues
like that were in the western world before under the Catholics,
and the different Christian denominations when they used to
rule. There was an extreme, women were not supposed to beautify
themselves at all. Women were not supposed to beautify themselves at
all. There were some really extreme things of that nature,
extreme things, whereas in Islam, that's not the case. In Islam,
you're just not supposed to beautify yourself in front of
others, but you can do it at home. So a woman has her place in that
sense. So they just find it very difficult. They find it just
middle age, or old fashioned, extremely old fashioned. I think
everybody else has been liberated. How come you guys aren't
liberated. They just don't understand that the women do it
for themselves. And these are professional women who still want
to do it for themselves that they want to wear their hijab. They
want to cover
themselves, and they want to exercise some kind of segregation.
But they just can't understand that. So they think they're doing
everybody a favor by fighting against it is just that that is
where you see that their mind is closed that they can't understand
from somebody else's perspective, because they're just relating it
to some kind of medieval practice that they think was medieval. And
it's only place is there. And it's has no place in the modern world,
whereas they don't realize that in much of the world, there is
segregation. So it's just that you have closed minds everywhere. You
even have closed minds, in the very people who think that they
are open minded, because they don't appreciate what somebody
else. One is that you can agree to disagree with somebody and say I
understand where you're coming from. But I agree, I disagree.
That's fine. That's understandable. But then to think
that it should be different. And I can't respect your opinion that
gets that basically destroys the whole basis and ethos at which
they are working.
The next point he brings up is
you mentioned at least two individuals who
did just extend their feet without any kind of conscious other. And
after that, he says that they were actually told off spiritually,
they felt some kind of effects of this and that's why for the rest
of their life, they never extended their feet again.
They will is didn't sit like that.
Another of the other is that they are very regular
on seeking forgiveness
is still far three times
reciting the Quran AYATUL kursi. The end of sorbitol calf Alia you
will calf your own girl who Allahu Ahad and the MOI with a 10
Kilometer Euro bill for the color of the European nurse when
sleeping before sleeping, before sleeping they will do is stick for
at least thrice. Recite some Quran like AYATUL kursi, sorbitol calf
Kalia your calf Iran Kohala, who I had, without the proper cloth
robbing us as you call them, the four calls as they say.
And so they would do this when a before sleeping, and then doing
the C 33 times that made Al Hamdulillah 33 times and Allahu
Akbar 34 times because of a hadith that's related by Imam Agudo and
Imam tell me the hustle attorney law you see her Abdon Illa de
halogen Navajo Maya see, there are two things which any servant does
properly regularly, except that he will enter Jannah and these two
are very easy. I mean, yam will be Hema, Colleen and but whoever does
them, they're very less people who actually follow this.
Which is that after every Salaat you do at least 10 this be the
more famous version is 3333 34. But there's also versions of less
than that.
So 10 times this be 10 times Alhamdulillah 10 times Allahu
Akbar.
But what Elphaba hum so me fill me Zan, but you get 10 times that
amount. So he's calculating his multiple multiplying that by 1500.
In the Mesa so even say 1300 in the mesa,
multiplying that by 10 times.
And then when a person goes to his bed,
he should do 33 times SubhanAllah 33 times Alhamdulillah 34 times
Allahu Akbar, that is 100 times that one is right. And 1000 in the
marathon in the scale that works out to 1000 Because every deed you
do is multiplied at least 10 times. He says the Prophet
sallallahu alayhi wa sallam said
how many of you in a daytime do 2500 bad deeds?
Basically, this is 2500 rewards you're getting How many of you do
2500 bad deeds
so
meaning that so much more you're doing of good deeds and bad deeds,
it's an encouragement.
So they said era swell hola que Furla you'll see her How is a
person not going to be able to do this property then? Meaning who
would not do this? These are Amal these practices who would not do
it they have so much reward caveolar your see her Why would
somebody not do this? So then the prophets of Allah some explained,
he said yet he had to come a shaytaan shaytaan will come to one
of you will who have he sadati while he's in a solid
and he will say let's go together with Gorka remember this? Remember
that put all of these different thoughts. Oh, yeah. D here in the
Manami he for you in a women who?
Basically put those thoughts in your soul
So immediately after solid notice be nothing you run off, because
somebody's called you and the line is blinking on your phone.
That's why you won't do it. It's so easy to do 10 times after
Salaat How difficult is that? But the first thing that we that we
sacrifice, when time becomes constrained in our mind is our
worship.
And then he said, Oh shaytan will come to you in your sleep and
we'll put you to sleep.
That's why it doesn't happen.
That's why I remember once I believe it's when this hadith was
the epitome the
somebody said to the sheikh, but why is that not possible? He says,
Yeah, you get married and then you'll find out why it's not
possible.
That was one of the things because the person was like very adamant.
He said, This is so easy. And the Sheikh is saying the process
Rossum is very right. This doesn't always not that easy. He says How
is it not easy.
He says you get married then you'll find out.
The next other about sleeping is shifted to karate him and no Mala
Hadith in Akbar or Hadith in Assam. So inshallah this, we hope
to make this our memorial, we hope to do this, we have to make this
our practice and daily devotion and regimen. Before going to
sleep. They say that if you do these 3333 33 This was actually
given to Fatima, the Allahu anha to make her more energetic,
vibrant, and so that her work gets done. They said that this was
superior to having than having a servant. This is what the proposal
was prescribed to 41 of the Allahu Anhu which was at the sleeping
time. And it's mentioned that if you do it at your steeping time,
you'll actually feel more vibrant and healthy in that regard. So
let's do that asleeping time and then AYATUL kursi qualia, the four
colors as we call them, because the point of the focal the qualia,
you will carefully rule this is just to say to Allah that I am
exonerating myself from shake. This is the benefit of this, you
know, the reason we do the four call the call I will be available
for Aquila robinus is actually for, Hey Father, it's for
protection. Sometimes go to Allah Who I had is also added to that,
though will Allah who is also an expression of Tawheed of ALLAH
SubhanA wa Tada show that oneness of Allah, and without qualia, you
will care for your own the whole point of qualia, your coffee role
is to sell a show exoneration from Schilke and polytheism. So, that's
why this is a very comprehensive, it's like we're going to sleep
asking for Allah's protection and also reiterating
our faith so that if we're today in sha Allah, we day in the
protection of Allah subhanaw taala. And regardless of what we
said during the day, that will be the benefits. The other thing that
is very beneficial to read at night is
or at least once a day is the last verses of surah baqarah and not
Rasul aubema on ZTE Mirai. Robbie, he will be known Kowloon Armineh
Billa, Houma la Iike T wakatobi, Hebrew Saudi until the end, the
benefit of this is that Rasulullah sallallahu sallam said in the
Hadith, whoever recites this laka who they will suffice him one of
the meanings of suffice him is that there will be a good
protection from him. Number one, the meaning is that you know, we
have a right towards the Quran that we must recite the Quran. So
if you did forget to not fulfill your rights of the Quran in the
daytime, you forgot to read it or you think you didn't read it
properly or whatever the case is, then reading Armand Rasul
inshallah helps you to fulfill the slot of that day of your Quran
reading. So it doesn't mean that if you've read Quran, you don't
read this, if you read this, then you will still get benefit from
it. But if you did forget one day to recite Quran, then at least
recite Armand Rasool,
before you go to sleep.
The next other that he speaks about his shift that to karate him
and know him either had nothing I had nothing so far. They have
extreme dislike for sleeping on
either being in a seminar Lee defiled state or without wudu.
Basically, they don't like to see where that withdrawal wasn't.
So even if they did come into a 70 defile state, they would make it
looser before they go to sleep. It's not necessary, a person can
sleep in that state. But they wouldn't like to do that because
their state their sleeping and impurity, they won't even see
without will do. They will make sure they do will do before going
to sleep. There's great benefits of sleeping with will do as far as
possible a person should do that. should try to keep the entire day
on wudu as far as possible. It's a wonderful state. It's a state of
production state of closest to Allah subhanaw taala and a person
stays protected. A person should really try to stay on will do as
far as possible. It's of course then easy, especially if you're
out work or whatever. It's easier to press a lot as well in that
regard.
That's why
If,
if it's that where a person should become in a state that when they
are praying or when they intend to pray Salat, they know their own
will do.
As opposed to I have to make sure I have to go and do
it's good to make wudu before each solid as well refresher will do.
But when you're at work and you can't do that, then you should be
able to pray.
May Allah give us that Sophia.
In fact, this is now the state of the higher ones. He says, my
Sheikh Ali Al house Rahim Allah used to say that iya Cantana Allah
Hadith in the hidden Oh belt in him, in my habit, it duniya Asha
Hawa to
completely avoid sleeping on any external filth, like don't sleep
with any kind of filth, or bout in him or even the internal filth.
What that means is with love of Allah, or sorry, with love of the
dunya, or its desires in your heart. So see with all of these
ideas of the dunya in your heart, tried to clear your heart by
reciting these doors that will hopefully help to clear the heart.
The time of sleety sleeping is a very important time, it's like
we're going from this world. Sleep is the sister of death. So we want
to go from here, just in case we don't come back, which is a
possibility in this state, so it's a preparation time. If a person
prepares when going to sleep for the sister of death, then they
would most likely be prepared for their main death.
If a person is prepared when he goes to sleep and has a habit of
being prepared to sleep with all of these dogs and so on, then in
sha Allah Allah will not keep him half ill before his death
because they both sisters, they both close.
So he says that yes, if a person does go with this Mahabharat of
the dunya in his heart, then maybe Allah subhanaw taala is take his
room at night his spirits at night that night, and then he meets
Allah subhanho wa Taala where Allah is angry with him. In a
hadith it mentions your shahrul Maru, Allah Dini, Khalid, a person
will be resurrected on the deen of his friend for Leandra Hadoken
menu halal, you should be very considerate about who you make
your friends. Because generally, when you make somebody your
friend, you start taking on habits from them, you start doing things
together. So that's why it's very important that you decide very
carefully who your friends are, because we're going to be
resurrected with those kinds of people are in that state.
It also mentioned that since the day Allah subhanaw taala, created
the dunya, he never looked at it. What he means by not looking at it
is Navajo radon, and who he never looked at the dunya with, with the
sight of satisfaction, because he didn't create it for satisfaction.
He created it as a test. That's the point here.
He says otherwise, of course, Allah subhanaw taala looks at the
world in terms of planning and so on, otherwise, this world wouldn't
work. So Allah subhanaw taala takes care of the world.
That's why he says that whoever, whoever goes to sleep
with the thought of the love of dunya and he dies that night, then
he will be gathered among the people hated by Allah subhanho wa
taala. Because Allah subhanaw taala didn't look at the dunya
since he was created, why should he look at the people who love
this dunya who go with this love in their hearts.
They make all of these connections Subhanallah they make all of these
connections. He says in this time and age, there are so few people
who even
know about this, who have even thought at this level, which is
very true. It's something we're probably hearing for the first
time
by the Hollywood naskila Your I do Mahabharata dunya zambon. How true
is that? He says the majority of people don't even consider the
love of the world to be a sin. They do it all the time.
That dominates us. These are the just thoughtful words. Malik Abner
dinar mighty America. Medina was one of the great debate. He is
very, very one of the great Zohar, he would say he was from Basra.
Where hustle and bustle era The Rahim Allah from an early Messiah,
he then was very, very, very scrupulous. Zahid island. So he
would sit with his companions and he would say, Come on, let's make
a stick far from
let us seek forgiveness from that sin.
which most people are avoid dis
distracted from, which is the love of the dunya.
Have we ever sought forgiveness from the love of the dunya that's
in our hearts? It's just opened a whole new VISTA for us.
The next adult that he speaks about is that they make
all our efforts to purify their hearts from hatred for someone
Ranco hatred, these kinds of thoughts they tried to clear from
their heart, Leo Slee who lead the whole hada rattle Ilahi ality
here. Ashraf we're off dominar Jana.
The reason they want to do this
is because they want to prepare for the Akira.
They want to prepare for Jana. Now we know in Jana, you can't go in
Genoa hatred in your heart. So they want to remove that hatred
here. So that they can be prepared to go into Jannah it's a
preparation.
So in the de Hoolahan, Muhammad Allah man vehicle being
relationally I had the mineral Hulk.
That is why it is this is because it's haram for anybody to enter
Jannah who has hatred
Ranco towards anywhere anybody among creation.
Now, we know that there's going to be some kind of extracting
mechanism, which will remove the kind of jealousy and hatred from
everybody's hearts. But that will be obviously for those people who
Allah subhanaw taala wills that they that he does that for them
who've tried to prepare themselves in this world. That's why there's
a famous Hadith
from andasibe nomadic or the Allahu Anhu which he mountain with
he has related
Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa sallam said to him Yeah, Buddha,
yeah, oh, my son, if you can spend your morning and evening without
any hatred for anybody in your heart, so in the morning, you're
clean in the evening, you're clean. If anything happened in
between, you cleaned it up by night, if anything happened that
night, you've cleaned it in the morning.
There's some people who are happy with their friends in the daytime,
when it comes on. They're unhappy with their wife. They spend their
night in turbulence in hatred Ranko. And they spend their day
like that. Those are the haters of the world. Those are the
complainers and the haters of the world. Their mind has been rewired
to do this all the time. They think that by doing this, they're
benefiting themselves. Recent research shows the more you
complain, your mind actually becomes wired like that.
The mind is in constant flux and change.
So the more effort we put into wire it in the correct way with
love and compassion, then that is what will happen complaining
doesn't get you anywhere.
So that's what he said here, if you can, the Prophet sallallahu
sallam said if you can spend your morning or evening without this
hatred in your heart for anybody then do so. Then he said Yeah,
Buddha Yeah, this is my sunnah. And whoever
enlivens one of my sunnah than it is as though he has enlivened me.
He has given life to me, because the Sunnah is the Prophet
sallallahu the doing the Sunnah in this world is like, the Prophet
sallallahu Sallam is still among us,
that we are all representing him properly in the Sunnah.
And whoever enlivens me, then he is going to be with me in Jannah.
This is the reward for this.
That's why some of the Shijo said that to take hunger
and be patient upon it is easy, is difficult. But it's he's saying
that is easy. What is difficult is to
is to remedy your bad character.
And to purify the bad habits a person has sought Bucha deed that
is very, very, very difficult.
Because you see,
having to bear the burden, and the pains of the pangs of hunger
that's forced upon us, you're not going to be hungry for no reason
is going to be a state of
a state of force, where you can't help it is helplessness. So you're
going to have to it becomes easy to deal with that situation. But
to try to alleviate the bad character, that is difficult.
Because that's not Foster. That's a purely a voluntary act. What
does he mean by this rubbish, not having this rubbish in the heart?
It says a little well, heck the world Buddha will have said, those
who have done all these things where you feel bad about somebody,
when you have a bad thought about somebody whether that's jealousy,
bad opinions about somebody. And this just Ranko and hatred, and
jealousy, all of these things. And he said, The only person who has
the ability to purify the heart from these things, is the one who
doesn't care as much for the world. Because a lot of these
things they come because of love for the world is generally in
competition with someone. When a person frees himself from the
shackles of love of this world and of leadership, then he can purify
himself of these things. For him number 30 Coming Home bit dunya
Because the source of all of these evils is the love of the dunya,
and love of leadership.
And he says, This is why those people, the Sufis and the Zohan
and those people who try to abstain from love for the dunya
and focus on the hereafter, this is why they Felina is so great.
This is why they are holding on to the right there holding on to the
right, the right chain to Allah subhanaw taala. Another of the add
up
and again, this will tell us how advanced This is because for us,
you'll say Okay, the other is to do Tahajjud prayer. These people
are so professional in their Tahajjud prayer that what they do
is they adapt is that they start their PR Malayan if we can get
even two quick quick records of three minutes. That's really bad
for us. That is an absolute bounty of Allah. These people are saying
they are dub is that they start their whole procedure of Dr.
Malayan and tahajjud with two short light records first, they
did this just the preparation record preparatory records. The
whole point of this is in the first one. They're reading this
verse, while unknown Ivana mu and Fusa home Jaya uka festival for
Allah was stuck for Allahu wa Rasulullah Allah Azza wa Rahima
that if they come to you when they come to you, after having
oppressed themselves, if they if they oppressed themselves, and
then they come to you, and
they seek forgiveness from Allah subhanaw taala and the messenger
seeks forgiveness for them. Then Allah subhana who they will find
Allah to be very relenting forgiving, and very merciful. This
is what they start with to express their sin and express their
helplessness and they need to Allah. In the second record, they
read woman YAML Su and yelled at him enough so who through May
Estelle fairy la Yoji de la hora Rahima that the one who does an
evil deed or oppresses themselves. And then after that he seeks
forgiveness from Allah subhanho wa taala, he will find that Allah
subhanaw taala is extremely forgiving, and very merciful. So
they just starting they're setting the scene, they're getting their
heart into it. They're telling Allah what they want from their
worship of the rest of the night. That's what they start with. He
says know that the the people of Allah, they dislike sleeping in
the last third portion of the night, more than they dislike,
open since
like singing openly outside, that is lighter for them than sleeping
in the last portion of the night. That's why there was one other
shoe who for 40 days that time he never slept. And somebody else
said about him. He says honey and Lebanon was in his name was when
he says that all glad tidings for April more than he has. He has not
been deprived of any of the bounties that have been descending
in the last portion of the night. That's the time of bounties. He
has always had a portion of those bounties that come down at the
lowest he's never missed those that portion, what a rich man is.
When those handouts are given, he always takes a portion.
Another of the other is that they do not use, they do not use
medicine due to any sickness. Unless it gets very intense.
Unless it gets very bad in the sense that it then distracts them
from being complete in the Presence of Allah subhanaw taala
only then say they use Dawa it's only because the state of
sickness has taken them out of being focused on Allah subhanho wa
taala. So he says that as long as they can keep with Allah subhanaw
taala in the presence then they won't they won't use the word.
Now one thing is very important to clarify here.
Is it better to use the word or is it better not to use the word when
you're sick?
One thing I'd like to clarify before that is that, taking food,
It's haram not to eat if you're gonna die.
That would be sinful, because that's like suicide. But if you
think you if you don't take medicine, you're gonna die, then
there are two opinions here.
And a stronger opinion is that you're not obligated to take
medicine, food, yes, but not medicine. Just in general, whether
it's better to take medicine or not. There's two opinions about
that. If knowledgeable humbly mentions in his Jameela, Jamil
Hichem, in Hadith 49 That Roma have differed
is it superior for the person who has been afflicted with some kind
of sickness to use medicine or not to use medicine?
It's all based on our Quran Allah subhanaw taala. He says there are
two opinions famous
opinions about this. He says, what seems to be apparent from uma
Hammonds opinion? Is that the worker for the one who has the
ability to do the work? So if you're the worker is that is that
that level where it's not going to affect you at all? Then yes, you
don't take the medicine you just keep it with Allah subhanaw taala.
But if you don't have that, then take the medicine there's nothing
wrong with you about in taking that.
Now, you know, there's I got my I was asked a question recently,
that there's a hadith about those very, very special people special
small group of people who will enter into Jannah Billa haisa been
without any kind of question, or reckoning, they are the people who
do not do even raka they don't even do rakia, they just complete
the circle.
So a lot of people who are not at that stage of Torkel my
understanding of that hadith is that these are the very few people
who are so reliant on Allah subhanaw taala that they gaze
doesn't waver away from him. For example, even when most of us who
may be religious, and who understand that Allah subhanho wa
Taala is the one who effects everything. If you are taking
paracetamol.
Do you think that Allah will benefit you at that time, when
you're eating? When you're hungry, and you start eating, the reason
you eat is what
the reason you eat is because it's going to fill you up. And when you
start being filled up with the food, you're very hungry, you go
and you start eating and then you start feeding. Do you think that
Allah is removing your hunger? Or do you just realize that the food
did it? Is our gaze on the food? Or is it on Allah subhanaw taala
at that time, the majority of us will be such that we don't even
think about Allah at that time. We think the food has done it.
Do you understand? Yes, Allah has made it in this world that you eat
food you generally feel
sated. But do we think of Allah subhanaw taala at that time,
these people will think of Allah only at that time, the food is
just merely an instrument there in between. Now, for us, our focus
goes on the food. Not that, you know, it's,
we believe if somebody asks us, we're gonna think it's Allah. And
we're gonna say it's Allah, but at that time, we don't think about
Allah. These are people who nothing of this affects them. So
that's why when this person asked this question, Should I do rakia
or not?
I said, Of course you can do the rakia, the Prophet sallallahu was
encouraged this, the Sahaba did it. So what it is, is that your
focus is not on that rakia. Your focus is Allah subhanaw taala all
the time.
So that's why, if no hedger alas Kalani, he mentions that the
meaning of abandoning rakia and abandoning branding or any other
of these kills, is that you have full full
reliance on Allah subhanho wa taala, that he is the one who will
remove this sickness from you.
And then they'll be satisfied with whatever the way he keeps you.
Because obviously, it's not to say that you can't use these things
you can't use it's not to say you can't use these things, because in
a hottie sahaya, they have been established from the south side,
and from the south side, and they've been established.
That's why Allama Shah and only then carries on and he says,
when you do use medicine, and you do seek a cure, then you should do
it, while having the right intention. So what should be the
intention when you are trying to seek a cure with medicine? So
the reason you do it is that you are fulfilling the rights of Allah
subhanaw taala
that Allah subhanaw taala has descended a cure. So you're using
it, you're not doing it for selfish reasons. You're saying
this is what Allah wants me to use. So that's how you do it. So
you will think of Allah subhanaw taala
you will understand that it is the hack of Allah because he is the
owner of our body. He it's our body is in his control. He's told
us to look after it. So I'm not doing it for myself and doing it
because this is hack of Allah.
Now look how they think. And look how we think.
So they will do the work here man be wired up hockey, rugby,
just to fulfill the the rights
of the wajib rights of the Lord.
When I came to her in law, early moon, and the only people that
will understand this are the ones who are true irlams Who truly
understand this. For him, he says, May Allah subhanho wa Taala give
us this deep insight and practice on these deep, deep insight. May
Allah subhanaw taala raised us among the earlier the Day of
Judgment working with that one and in hamdulillah
erupted I mean
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 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. JazakAllah Heron salaam aleikum wa
rahmatullah wa barakato.