Abdur Rahman ibn Yusuf Mangera – Six Steps to Spiritual Progress
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Ramadan has just passed. And generally people tend to change
their lifestyle, their practices
their efforts to get closer to Allah subhanaw taala increase to a
certain degree during this month.
And mashallah, we find an increase in this during this month of
Ramadan. But then, once Ramadan finishes, and the shaytaan comes
back out, it almost feels as if we can go back to our previous
lifestyle and whatever we learnt in Ramadan, Shere Khan tries his
best, and is that most to try to totally erase and eradicate all of
that. So many of us sometimes actually come out of Ramadan, and
we've erased everything that we've tried to accumulate and change in
the month of Ramadan.
Then comes Muharram Ashura, then comes
other times of the people, or there's other incidents that take
place in our life, maybe a death in the family, maybe somebody
becomes extremely sick, maybe a setback, some kind of calamity,
maybe an accident, Allah protect us. So these are different times
when we said suddenly increase in our we suddenly increase in our
level of spirituality or connection to Allah subhanho wa
taala. How great would it be if we could have a constant state of
piety in our lives, and where we have this constant state of
closeness to Allah subhanho wa taala, which can only increase but
doesn't decrease. And we constantly feel comfortable, and
we constantly feel good about ourselves, we constantly taste the
sweetness of faith, the sweetness of faith is something that if we
taste, then
it takes away the sweetness of any other lusts and worldly desires
that we may have. So if we could be constantly in the states that
were in Ramadan, or very close to it, how beautiful would that be?
In order to achieve this state, there are ways to do it. And
if we're to try to practice these things in sha Allah, wherever we
achieved during the month of Ramadan,
what do we achieve, and the closeness that we feel and
experience during the times that we are in need, or we feel that
we're in need of Allah subhanho wa taala, Allah subhanho wa Taala
will continue to give us that state throughout, then we can only
increase when we do additional things. So in that regard, there
Allah have mentioned a number of things, you've already heard of a
number of things from the previous talk, I'd like to mention that
there are six things out of which on two things I'll spend a bit
more time and the other four things because we only have a
short amount of time here. So I'd like to focus on two of the things
in a bit more detail. And then after that, the other four things
that are mentioned as well.
These are four things that have been tried to the six things have
been tried and tested over many centuries, to try to constantly
give a person a human being man or woman, the state of presence, a
presence of mind, a state of mind that makes them close to Allah
subhanho wa Taala that constantly makes them feel that they close to
Allah subhana wa Tada. And that's very important that if you can
have this perpetual state, the first step then which was probably
spoken about briefly before as well in the first talk, is about
this concept called constant presence with Allah subhanaw
taala, or woof, woof, woof, lb a constant presence of the heart
with Allah subhanaw taala and what that means is that we're
constantly in this mode that Allah is watching us. It's it's like a
state of besom that we're constantly watching Allah, we're
constantly in this frame of mind that Allah subhanho wa Taala is
watching us and that we're focused on him. We're focused in gaining
his pleasure. We're focused, focused in gaining satisfaction.
We're focused on doing things that are that will bring about his
satisfaction. Now
A person may ask that how is it possible for a person to go about
their daily work the daily deeds, the daily tasks, and still be
focused on Allah subhanho wa taala. A number of examples that
we can explain this with, I mean, if anybody is a driver here,
they'll know that when you're driving, you are in this mode
within driving mode. Or when you're driving, most people are
focused completely 100%. You know, where they're not speaking to
anybody next to them, where they're not thinking about
something else, where they see a signboard and they reflect on it,
they see something around, they see an accident, they see
something, and they reflect upon it, you know, there's constantly
there's a dual kind of thought process that's taking place. Even
though a person may be in complete thought, and reflection about
something else, while they're driving, they'll still be shifting
the gears, they'll still be braking at the right place, right,
they'll still be doing all of these things, because it's just
such an experience. And it's just so well trained that a person will
generally do that, you don't have to remember where to put your
hands on the wheel, or where the first gear is that a second gear
is I mean, you become eventually accustomed. Yes, when you first
pass your driving test, you're trying to wonder where the first
gear isn't, you might put it into the third gear, you might put it
into the fifth gear by mistake, you might put it into reverse. And
you might do these things. But eventually all of these things
become second nature. Another example
is, for example, if your child is playing outside, and you're
inside, you're doing some task inside, whatever you may be doing,
whether you're cooking or whether you're doing something as your
child is playing outside. So at the same time that you're doing
your cooking and everything and you know you're doing a decent job
that your mind is going to be focused on that your mind is going
to be focused also on your child that's playing outside, you're
going to be listening out to see if he's going to cry, if if you
can still hear his noise if he's still around, he hasn't run out of
the gate. He hasn't opened the gate, somebody else's and come in
this these kinds of things. I know this sounds like an example until
you don't experience it. It's very difficult. It's very difficult to
actually believe it to maybe do it but this is the state that we will
be seeking. Inshallah, that if we're constantly in this state,
and the way to seek this is to constantly think that Allah
subhanho wa Taala is watching me and I am in the Presence of Allah
subhanho wa Taala My heart is constantly with Allah subhanaw
taala we understand this from the Quran Allah subhanaw taala says in
certain Aqsa Yeah, you had an enamel of kulula decurrent
cathedra oh people who believe remember Allah subhanho wa Taala
abundantly with abundant remembrance, how is a person able
to abundantly remember Allah subhanho wa taala. The one thing
that comes to mind is that you drop everything that you're doing,
and you spend hours and hours, right? I was in I was just sitting
in doing the thinker of Allah. The other way that comes to mind is
the concept of Okwu of Calbee, which means this presence of the
heart and despite whatever you're doing, you're still in the
presence of, of Allah subhanho wa taala, for example, a group of
people came to a particular Sheikh, and asked him how this was
possible, how this work of Kobe was even possible. So what he
started doing was, instead of answering their question, straight
forward, in a straightforward manner, he suddenly they were all
sitting in front of him, and he suddenly started telling them
jokes, religious jokes, make them laugh. And they were all in
stitches. They were all laughing right throughout for about half an
hour, 40 minutes, he made them laugh all the way through. And
after they finished laughing, and they were wondering, like, when's
the answer to our question, you know, we asked you a question of
how a person is able to stay in the Presence of Allah subhanaw
taala despite doing the mundane daily activities, so his answer
was that during the entire time that I was telling you these jokes
and making you laugh, I was in the Presence of Allah subhanaw taala.
Right. So he demonstrated to them that you could be even joking, a
religious joke of course not, you know, not haram jokes that many of
us sometimes do, but a religious joke or permissible joke because
prophets Allah used to joke as well. But at the same time, my
heart is connected with Allah subhanho wa taala. The heart can
be connected in this sense in in a way that I'm doing this for the
sake of Allah subhanaw taala to show you how to gain more golf
Kobe, even in this state. So essentially, even while we're
eating, if we pray the DUA at the beginning, and the whole purpose
of the DUA is to create this work of Kobe is to remind us about
Allah, before we eat, we start in the name of Allah and with the
baraka, the blessing of Allah Bismillah Baraka Tila start eating
then when we finish eating and during the course of our eating a
single hamdulillah on the nevertheless providers. So again
we have woof Calbee so we're eating but our mind is that Allah
has given me this food so essentially what we're doing is we
are including Allah right? We are including it Allah in everything
that we're doing and then when we finish we thank you well
hamdulillah in the the arm and what support which are anonymously
mean, right, all all praises to Allah Who gave us
to eat and to drink and made us Muslimeen made us of the
believers. If we're eating at somebody else's house, we give a
relevant dua but again, Allah is put back into the picture. Allah
was given Sakana Oh, may Allah Oh Allah give to eat those who gave
us to eat and give to drink to those who gave us to drink. When
we drink the milk, there's a particular to offer that when
you're entering the toilet, again we go with the name of Allah when
we come out we go we seek forgiveness for not being able to
remember Allah while there, our heart is constantly connected to
Allah subhanaw taala and that is how we can follow this idea of the
Quran. Yeah, even kulula Vikram kathira. So let us take out of our
mind that you have to sit for hours and hours. I mean,
obviously, if that's that's even a better state where you're
constantly focused, but that's very difficult for most of us who
are going about their daily chores, their daily work, even in
your work, if you can just turn that around and to bring Allah
subhanaw taala in there to do your work for a good intention to help
others provide a service for others, the thicker the thicker
aspect will be included in there as well. So yeah, you will Adina
and with Paula Pickering cathedra Allah subhanaw taala says another
place so to Joanna when the Quran Allah Cathy urine, lie level
TUIfly hula, remember Allah subhanho wa Taala abundantly so
that you can gain so that you gain success so that you will be the
witness, you will be the successful ones. That's the only
way of success because true success is the success of the
hereafter. Allah subhanaw taala then says that loveliness, Google
Allah has the urban walk through them who are allowed to be here,
those who remember Allah subhanho wa Taala standing, those who
remember Allah subhanaw taala sitting and those who remember
Allah subhanaw taala lying on their side. So there are three
states here, which are the general state of any human being, your
understanding, you're sitting or you're lying down, knowing here's,
here's why they're juubi him right on your side, because that's the
Sunnah way of sleeping is on your side, on your right hand side.
Now, how can you do this? If it's if we conceptualize, you sit and
you do for hours and hours, which is also there? The how would you
do it on your side? How would you do it standing. So in that case,
what we understand here is that this concept of vicar from the
heart, this presence of mind, the mind that by being associated to
Allah subhanaw taala, whatever we're doing, so even when we're
going to sleep, and we've laid down to go to sleep, we're
attached to Allah subhana wa Tada, we're reading the doors when we go
to sleep. Oh, Allah, I'm
with your name, do I? Do I sleep? And do I die? Right? Do I Do I
come back to life do I like you know, because the sleep is a
sister of death. And there's many other doors like that relate at
the time of at the time of sleeping. So it's this presence of
mind that if we can achieve it, right, just generally walking
around doing our chores, cooking, working, whatever we're doing,
changing our children, helping them out with their schoolwork,
all of these things, we get moved Colby, and that is the highest
level, what the Allah mentioned is that it's very difficult to get
this state, right, all of a sudden were 24 hours you're able to stay
in this state. When I say 24 hours, you probably thinking what
about what about our seven, eight hours of sleep? Well, seven, eight
hours of sleep, if we've slept in the Name of Allah, and we wake up
in the name of Allah. Then because the two sides are encompassed with
the name of Allah, that entire time of sleeping will be rewarded,
as also being in the states in the state and presence of Allah
subhanho wa Taala even when you're sleeping as well. So you can
imagine the rest of it as well. The Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa
sallam said as related from Irish to the Allahu anha. That will
actually the product actually Allah relates that Rasulullah
sallallahu alayhi wa sallam Ghana youth kulula adequately used to
remember Allah in every state of his, whatever he was doing. He was
remembering Allah. Clearly. If he's talking to somebody, how is
he remembering Allah? He can be talking to somebody and saying
Subhanallah hamdulillah Allah, Allah, Allah, Allah Allahu Akbar.
At the same time, you can't be doing the two things we only have
one tongue.
Right? We only have one mouth to utter these things from so clearly
he must have been in the presence of mind. That's the vicar is this
dhikr of staying in the state of presence with Allah subhanho wa
taala. Even when you're speaking to someone, when you give him a
hookah, when you're praying salata when you're in a state with Allah
subhanho wa Taala Inshallah, this kind of state will increase our
prayers as well our solid, where we feel that we don't concentrate
our prayer, that's the time for concentration. So if we're going
to do everything for the sake of Allah, then our prayers inshallah
our doors will our solid and will also improve inshallah and become
much closer
Now, as I said, it's very difficult to do this all the time.
But the way to deal with this is, is that you try for one hour, you
set yourself a goal, okay? In the next hour, I'm going to see how
much I can kind of keep in the Presence of Allah doing my
cooking, for example, you started cooking and say, Okay, I'm going
to try to stay in the Presence of Allah. So you start off thinking,
Okay, I'm cooking for my family, which is a good deed, which is a
good, you know, it's something I must do, in a sense that I'll get
great reward for it, they get the strength to do worship, they get
the strength to do their daily tasks, and I get all the reward
for it. Right. In fact, the, the women of the past from our slab,
they used to actually do the Dhikr of Allah when they cook, they
start with Bismillah, the 3dr scene in some cases, that's how
you get Baraka in your cooking. Right today Subhanallah I wonder
what many of us are doing when we're cooking, you know, whether
it's listening to music or something else, sometimes people
are in that kind of a state. You want Baraka in the food because
food is extremely important, right? For our upbeat, our, our
children's upbeat upbringing, well being our nourishment, our
sustenance, it's, we relate very heavily to food, we need food as
the essential essential aspect of our, our life and such as our
sustaining ourselves
and our keeping alive, if we can infuse that with the Dhikr of
Allah subhanho wa taala. So clearly, what you could do is you
could be doing something or verbally when you would when
you're doing that, if you can't do that, right, it's difficult for
you then get into the prisons, by thinking of this good intention
when you're about to start cooking. And then every time you
try to just try to remember Allah subhanho wa Taala in between. So
after every few minutes, after five minutes, you remember Allah
again. And then at the end, you remember Allah and you will see
that these kinds of things will constantly happen. When a person
does this, the right amount mentioned, if a person worships
Allah subhanaw taala will last for 40 days. Then his heart, Allah
subhanho wa Taala were given great wisdom that will come from their
heart, right? We wonder sometimes where you know, when we can't say
anything useful or beneficial, right? It's because we don't Allah
subhanaw taala hasn't opened up our hearts for that. So you try
for an hour to get into the presence of Allah subhanaw taala
and once that happens, then you can increase it and increase it. I
know it's gonna be a struggle, but it's something well worth trying
because we'll be rewarded for even trying, and if we attain it,
inshallah for our entire day of Hamdulillah that gives us great
reward from Allah subhanaw taala number two. The other thing that
we would like to talk about today is that if we don't do the Dhikr
of Allah, woman Arada and decree for in Ella who by Isha tan banca
what actually drew Yun Murthy, with the atma Allah subhanaw taala
saying sort of bar, that the one who avoids ignores turns away from
my remembrance, then they will have a very constricted life.
That that is if we're feeding problems in our life, our
situation with our husband isn't doing well, right, our children,
our, our work our neighbors or whatever it is just general
problems, then this is what Allah subhanaw taala says that whoever
ignores and avoids my remembrance, then they will have a constricted
life, a constricted way of life, what I should who yomo Thea but
Yama, so even though you may have a lot of materialism, at your
disposal, you will still feel constricted inside, you won't have
satisfaction with all the money that you have. With all that you
have. You will you won't feel satisfied. And that's that's the
whole point of this markeesha to long call. Well actually, we are
here with the AMA and we will gather them on the Day of Judgment
in a state of blindness so they won't be able to see on the Day of
Judgment they won't have any life which is the difference between
person that remembers Allah and the one who doesn't, is like the
person who's alive and the person who's dead, a living person and a
dead person. There's a interesting poet poem in Oregon, where the
Pope says kidney to skin hair was started in ARM caissons kidney the
skin hair was started in Arkansas, Nene Carter baby agility hair
around caissons kidney the skin hair was started in Arkansas, neem
cart tuck Toby B GRP Aram ke saath that means, how much satisfaction
how much tranquility and peace and comfort is the associated with
your name, that when the thinker is done, how much comfort and
tranquility we experience that we could even sleep on thoughts in
total relaxation, because of the level of comfort and satisfaction
and tranquility we feel by your thinker we could even see
Get on phones. Now obviously, that may be a bit of an exaggeration,
but it gives you an indication that with the name of Allah,
that's how much tranquility a person gains that summer
satisfaction in the hands of person gains. So even if there are
calamities, apparent calamity surrounding a person, the concept
of tranquility, the tranquility that a person feels will still be
there.
And really, if we're unable to remember Allah subhanho wa Taala
throughout our day, and we just about make our salats then this
verse of the Quran is really frightening. Allah subhanho wa
Taala says, is the one that already he will shape on for
uncertain vicar Allah is that whether it was shaytaan for
uncertain vicar Allah, that the shaytaan has become totally
dominant over there. shaytaan has gained preponderance over them
shaytaan has gained control over them and thus made them to forget
the remembrance of Allah cause them to forget the remembrance of
Allah.
In fact, in another Quranic verses, woman Yasha, and Vickery
Romani. nucleolar Who shaytaan for Hula, hula Kareem. So it's not
like Allah has said about the shaytaan on us because he just
hated us for no reason. But no Allah subhanaw taala says, Well,
me Yeah, sure. I'm thinking the Rama wherever avoids the thinker
of Allah. Weber stays away from the Dhikr of Allah and shuns the
vicar. And remember, so Allah, Luca Hitler, who shaytaan we will
appoint a shakedown over them, we will stipulate and designate a
shakedown over them, for whoever who Corinne and he will become
your intimate, he will become your close associate, and that's when
it becomes difficult. That's why the vicar of Allah subhanho wa
Taala will eventually extract ourselves from this curried and
this associate of the shaytaan and will give us this tranquility of
the heart. The shaytaan will tell us if he's very close to us, that
the that your satisfaction is in worldly desires. That's why I'm so
interested in worldly desires. But if for somehow we're able to rid
ourselves of the shakedown and increase our thicket of Allah
subhanho wa Taala then we'll see that the pleasure in the vicar of
Allah subhanho wa taala, will be many fold more than the pleasures
that are gained through worldly worldly lusts and other means of
desire that a person uses. Finally, the second point that I
want to mention in a bit more detail was concept of meditation
and reflection. concept. The concept of meditation and
reflection on maraca, right maraca, how does a person to
maraca right we've heard this so many times Morocco but Allah
subhanaw taala is Iraqi Bonati Allah subhanho wa Taala is ever
watchful. maraca means to be in the presence that Allah is
constantly watching us and Allah is the regime. As Allah mentions
in the Quran, he's the rocky, rocky means the one who's always
watching us, the one who can constantly see us. So Morondava,
which is an Arabic, an Arabic term, where you do something
mutually, it's like I am in the prisons. And I know and I have
this sense that Allah is my rock, even Allah is watching. So to have
this presence and to connect ourselves with Allah subhanho wa
Taala there are a number I have mentioned numerous ways of Morocco
by the province underwater, some used to do constant Morocco. There
was no Salah before Islam, you know, there were all of these
physical worships as such, what did the Prophet salallahu Alaihe
Salam used to do in the cave before he received his revelation
for months on end for days and then weeks and then used to take
his food up there and used to stay there? What was he doing? A form
of meditation, a form of Morocco. And that's why there's numerous
types of Morocco but that the aroma, teach the Messiah teach
this Morocco to remote where a person just sits the Morocco of
death to sit and think that I have died, what's going to happen to
me? What's happening to me? What would people think about me?
What's going to happen when I face the angels? What's going to happen
in the grave? What's going to happen on the Day of Judgment, to
take yourself through this journey to meditate through the journey so
beneficial for meditation? These days, there are many different
types of meditation fear,
what do you call it? Many therapies, meditation, hypnotism,
all of these things are related to the same thing where you
concentrate on something where you focus your your whole heart on
something, until you get into that the world of that thing, what
better than to be in the world of Allah subhanho wa Taala which
means to be in the presence of Allah subhanho wa Taala and to be
constantly thinking about Allah subhanho wa taala. So ALLAH
SubhanA wa Taala says in Allah Kana MerKiVa, Allah subhanho wa
Taala is ever which watchful over you, that's a fact that's
mentioned in the Quran. Now it's just about whether we can
concentrate and to focus on whether we realize that he's
always in he's always focused on us or not. Now to tie this in to
our previous that's what could be destined in our general daily
affairs. We are still connected to Allah but
Now is saying is that let's take out, let's take out a few minutes.
Let's take out a short time from our life to do this special
Morocco. As I said, there are many types of Morocco by now. So now
the way to do this Morocco is that you sit down, relax yourself, you
either sit down cross legged, or straight forward facing the Qibla.
And then you empty your mind,
you face that you face the qibla, you have to do if possible, right
as well, you're in a state of purity possible, even if you're
not in a state of purity, you can still do Baraka, right? You, you
face the qibla, you put your head down, because then you have your
head up, putting your head down puts a form of humility, it brings
you closer to your heart, right, so you put your head down. And
then you just try to empty your mind from anything that may
trouble you. Or take your attention away any kind of grief
or worry or the next task on hand is clear your site as well from
all of these things. And then after that you focus on your
heart. Allah subhanaw taala says in a hadith pudsey, other in the
one near appdb, I am with my servant as he thinks of me, I am
with my servant as he thinks of me. So now what we want to do is
we want to look down MTL mind of everything. And then just focus
that look, there's no sky, there's no heavens, there's no human,
there's no animals, there's no shaytani ever. So we just free
ourselves from any other beam that's in creation. And we just
totally are in this blank space, just it's us and Allah subhanahu
wa taala. And we start to think that the Mercy of Allah, so we
start this off with thinking of the Mercy of Allah, that the Mercy
of Allah subhanho wa Taala is entering my heart, that you could
visualize this as maybe a shower of Mercy just entering into our
heart is on the left side, right of our chest. So on our left side,
just below our chest, the left side, that's where our heart is,
we have to focus on that part because it's to do with the heart.
So we're thinking of this mercy, the shower of mercy, coming down
onto our heart envelope and cleaning it of all the evils that
we have in our heart, and the blackness of our just imagine that
this mercy is cleansing our heart polishing our heart, all the evil
is going away, all the sins are going away, the desire for sins
are going away. And there's there is this whiteness, and then
suddenly, we recognize that our heart connects to Allah. So this
is the jumpstart this is like it's a jumpstart to think that the
Mercy of Allah is coming to our very powerful when you do this,
you'll find that it's extremely powerful. So then what happens is,
then your heart begins to say, hola, hola. Hola. You're not doing
this with your tongue, right? So you don't say hola with your
tongue, you literally is you're imagining that your heart is
saying it as though the heart has a mouth or whatever it is, the
heart begins to say Hola, in thanks to this gratitude from
Allah subhanaw taala this fade from Allah, this outpouring of
mercy from Allah subhanaw taala. Your heart is just saying Allah,
Allah Allah. Now, of course, if we've never done this before, you
will be able to do it for two minutes. And then after that, the
thoughts are our life will suddenly attack us, right? Because
there's a saying in Arabic Kulu in Russia Bhima fie that every bowl
of slo you know, if you've got a bottle of something Coke, right,
or an orange drink, and you put a few holes in there, what's going
to come out is Coke, or the orange drink, whatever is in there is
going to come out. So when you get when you do this kind of
meditation, you're eventually you'll you'll be overcome, right,
you'll be overcome by all of these thoughts. But then you have to
reorient yourself, you have to re reset yourself, and then start
thinking about so even if you start with a few minutes, but
eventually within a day, if you can do this, right for about 20
minutes to half an hour, or even an hour. But even if you can just
do it for 20 minutes, even if that's 10 minutes in the morning,
10 minutes in the evening, or whatever the case is, you will see
that they will have a marked change in your life. It's a very
powerful form of liquor. Right? It's a very powerful form of
liquor. And it will give you that heart satisfaction that you're
connected to Allah subhanaw taala, which we so crave, and it is so
powerful. It's actually powered by Rome, I mentioned that this is
more powerful than sitting and doing the speed, because this is
dhikr of the heart. This is called vicar Calbee the heart of the
inner vicar, right vicar of the heart, which is more powerful than
thicker of the tongue. The reason is that when you do the cut of the
tongue, you're saying the name of Allah, you're saying Subhanallah
Alhamdulillah, but it's supposed to effect your heart. So when your
heart itself starts doing vicar, then you don't need your tongue
anymore. In essence, we're not saying that you have to stop your
liquor of the tongue that you're doing. But do this and you'll see
that how powerful this is, even if it's just five to 10 minutes that
you do this. You'll notice that the first day you will probably
have more of an attack of these different thoughts but the next
day you'll get a bit better and you can only get better and better
and better. Now in order to do this, you know you you just you
just start doing this and
What we'll do is,
if you want to do even more, what you could do is
you have to remember that you might think that will my heart is
very hard. But have you thought about a hard egg that a chicken
sits on a hen sits on, and after a few weeks of sitting on that hen,
what does that have the hand sitting on that egg, what happens
to the egg, a life comes out of it. So it becomes a living being
this egg, which was just, you know, just a mixture of different
things suddenly becomes a living being. Because there was a focus,
there was a heat that was transferred, we're talking about
transferring the heat of the remembrance of Allah subhanaw
taala to our hearts. So it doesn't matter how hard our hearts are,
how bad we have been, how sinful we have been, what kind of bad
thoughts may be, you know, included in our heart and filling
our hearts and, you know, overtaking our hearts count this
constant decurrent penetration in sha Allah will soften our hearts
to the degree that will make it a living hard pulsating in sha Allah
in the vicar of Allah subhanho wa Taala and that this is what we
inshallah going to try today. But I just like to mention that the
four other things which we don't have the time to speak about, but
generally they spoken about, these two things are less spoken about
this way with these two big more. The number three is listed for let
us try to do at least 100 is too far in the day. And as simple as
stuff your Allah or staford Allah humming goodly them we want to go
in the we want to say numbers but the artillery used to do it used
to sit, put a clock over his head. And he used to cry when he used to
make this a stuffing Allah ham in column B with a two I seek refuge,
I seek forgiveness in Allah subhanaw taala from every sin, and
I returned to Allah subhanaw taala so you're doing this 100 times in
professionalism used to make a stick for 100 times in a day
number four, to make salawat and Abraha Lauricella the profit and
loss was favors upon us more than anyone else more than our parents,
in fact, right. So that's why we must do the root Sharif and same
salutations on him 100 times in the morning, 100 times in the
evening, salallahu Alaihe Salam, Allahu Allah, Allah, wa Abraham,
but we're burning for Salam, whatever Salawat you know,
whatever Guru, the salutation, you know, 100 times in the morning,
100 times in the evening, it's just about getting into the habit,
and you'll see that it'll become easy. Number five, is the law of
the Quran. Do something about we've just come out of the month
of Ramadan. The Quran is not just for all
it's for outside of Ramadan. So even if you're reading two pages a
day, that's sufficient, if that's all you can manage that start with
two pages a day,
there was a person who came to shake and you know, and became
associated with the Sheikh and said that I can only read one ayah
today, the person thought this woman thought that she was so busy
that she couldn't read any more than one, you know what I have
today? So she said, Okay, fine, just read one today. Today, she
obviously does much more than that. But the point is that you do
something regularly. So if that's just reading half a page or one
page a day, open the Quran, read something of it, write something
of each day. And number six, try to stay in the company of some
pious individual,
get a be associated with a pious individual and try to get in the
company, at least, you know, once in a week or whatever the case is,
which means attended classes, attend the lectures or some other
however you are being associated with them. It's important because
the Promise of Allah subhanaw taala tells us in the Quran, yeah,
you will be able to move outside the team of people who believe be
with the truthful ones. The truthful ones, are those who have
shown their piety to Allah subhanho wa Taala that
accomplishment in that regard. So if you'll be with them, you will
also benefit from them. Just just as the Sahaba benefit from Azula
sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, and this has been going on throughout
throughout the ages, that you benefit from someone else, it's
very difficult to do things alone. But if you do it in the presence
of others, or with the guidance and supervision of others, it
becomes much more easier to do that. So if you bet with a shaker
hamdulillah if you're not, you know you could consider finding a
sheikh to you know to associate yourself with that's, you know,
that's another option as well. Hello amygdala. allotment is
struggling with a lot of the other generic Winneconne along with, you
know, videos
going around.
Oh Allah, Oh Allah we call on to you, although the hearts are
black, Allah but we are servants of Allah. Our hearts are filled
with sins of Allah, our hearts are filled with darkness. But at the
end of the day, we're your servants of Allah. You're the only
one that we can. We can oh you Oh Allah, you're the only one that we
can put our hands to. Oh Allah, the fakirs of the world. Oh Allah,
the beggars of the world. They have many people to ask, Oh Allah,
they go from one door to the other. If one doesn't give them
the next one does, Oh Allah, somebody will give them but Oh
Allah, there's nobody else that we can ask. Oh Allah, you're the only
one who we can come to Allah. You're the only one who we can ask
Send our hands in front of Allah despite how we are, however weak
we are, Oh Allah, despite how sinful we are, and how how
ungrateful we are, Oh Allah, you're the only one that can give
us and that's why we come to you. Oh Allah, this is an expression of
our servitude to you and I was an hour slave to you, oh Allah we are
your slaves and were your servants of Allah We know our hearts are
black and dark of Allah from the years and years of sins that we
have committed. Oh Allah, cleanse our hearts and purify our hearts.
Oh Allah. After this month of Ramadan has passed, you gave us
the trophy to do the thicket of Allah. You gave us the Tofik to
remember you. Oh Allah, You gave us the Tofik to recite your Quran
of Allah too fast for you in these difficult days and you made it
easy for us to fast for you. You gave it you gave us ability to do
our daily chores, despite our fast Oh Allah, You gave us the energy
to do all of these things. Oh Allah, your mercy and your
greatness and your bounties upon us have been great and immense. Oh
Allah, Oh Allah, we take this as a good sign that you love us and
that you have the all the best for us that you have all the best
things in mind for us. Oh Allah. That's why we asked you that
although the shayateen have now come out. Oh Allah, the shaytaan
have been released after the month of Ramadan, that you still turned
to us with Your mercy. Oh Allah, the mercies that we enjoy during
the month of Ramadan. That gave us the ability to read more Quran and
to avoid the sins and the wrong things that we'd been doing before
Ramadan on Allah to read the tagit prayer and to make dua to you in
the increased amounts that we did during this month of Ramadan.
Allah Allah we asked you for that same kind of Mercy of Allah O
Allah Yong Yong, giving us mercy is not going to decrease anything
in your in your treasures, or in your supply of Allah wherever
mercy you gave us during the month of Ramadan. Oh Allah give that to
us. O Allah, Oh Allah, Oh Allah grant us. The grant is the lives
of those who enter into Jannah and Paradise. Oh Allah protect us from
the actions of those who will enter into hellfire, oh Allah
fulfill all of our permissible needs. Oh ALLAH forgive ourselves
and our parents and our teachers and our students and our relatives
and all those who asked them to sort of draw from us or Allah or
those who have right upon us. Oh Allah accept us. Oh Allah accept
this weekly gathering that we have, oh Allah accept all of those
who make this weekly gathering a possibility and a success. Oh
Allah reward all of those who come and speak to us. Oh Allah and
reward all of those who come and listen. Oh Allah, Oh Allah give us
oil acceptance in the fullest manner. Even though we are asking
you and we are only giving you a small amount. Oh Allah, the
brothers of use of Ali salaam came to him with a small amount with a
decreased amount of payment and yet he gave them the full amount
the full amount of wheat and supplies Oh Allah, you are more
generous than any human being. You're more generous than use of
it salaam you're generous and even Muhammad sallallahu alayhi wa
salam. O Allah we ask you with this generosity that you give us
this Rama in our hearts and give us the ability to remember you at
all times. And give us the ability to remember you and ponder ponder
your name. Oh Allah, grant us Tofik in this life, and grant us
the gelatin Fritos in the hereafter. Subhan Allah rob the
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