Abdur Rahman ibn Yusuf Mangera – Staying Spiritually Charged
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There's a hadith which is related by Imam armadillos Muslim and
ignore a burn a number of others. The Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa
sallam
said, my unit the love will be higher on Istanbul
or freeway I think I said
wherever Allah subhanaw taala intends Goodwick. He
uses him. Istanbul uses him in another version. He says I said,
okay, they are sort of Lama I said, Alma Istat mellow. So they
asked you so what does that mean? How does he Astaire man or ISIL?
How does he use them? So the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa
sallam said, you are fearful who they are Hamelin Saleh and Pablo
Monti, he Yoda and woman have a level
of yoga and who giran who is various versions that Allah
subhanaw taala gives them the tofi
that means divinely enables them
facilitates for them to do something before their death
before they die,
that people around them will be satisfied. And we'll remember them
in a good way that mashallah, look what they did for the deal.
So,
one of the secrets of doing things for the right reason not to do
everything you do for the right reason is to have the best goals
in mind.
If your goals, the purpose, you're doing whatever you're doing, if
that is praiseworthy, then all the means that you adopt to do that
thing will also become praiseworthy,
even some of the mundane actions,
even some of the normal everyday actions, so what happens is that
when you come to an Islamic Academy, you get Mashallah. a
boost of Imam, because you're in the environment, this is what it's
the purpose of this place, is to create that hamdulillah and more
people more places like that should be established, because you
need people to be able to access these spaces in all cities.
For the for this to happen.
Our way of living our way of Islamic living, has to come with
our element education, Amanda hubiera, Hema hula was one of the
our greatest amorphous Muhaddith he
he he he was asked what is the greatest alpha and problem that
people will generally deal with? Probably create the biggest
problem for them.
What is the greatest alpha for what is the greatest problem that
Muslims will generally face? What do you think it is? People will
say attacks, internal attacks, external attacks, fit and etc,
etc. But to be honest, that's just the nature of the world. The world
will do its thing, you will have problems you will have
selfishness, you will have
murder you will have cattle you will have tyranny in the world.
Now, human beings, human beings or as Muslims, we have certain
commands
Awami as they call in Arabic, you must do this, you mustn't do that.
These are things that we are we have a choice. So we're told
Aquino Salah established prayer, we have a choice. Do we want to
pray? We don't want to pray. That's a choice, right? Of course,
we want to take the choice that we should pray lattice noon, or that
Acropolis, Xena do not get close to Zina. Again, it's a choice. Do
I want to do it? Don't I want to do it? I'm at work.
And there's a lot of
you know, there's a lot of flirting a lot of horror,
horrible. Zina, it's a choice. Do I should I do it? Should I not do
it just because my wife is not watching me? She doesn't know. So
it's okay. Well, what about if she finds out? You know, that's a
choice. So those are the x we have where we choose a way. And we're
expected to use choose the way of the Sharia. Then, on top of that,
there's another layer
of things that happen to us where we don't have a choice.
For example, a difficulty arises
a problem comes about
you have a problem with your car. You have a problem with something
leaking inside the house.
You suddenly lost your job
or some other loss took place in life. Now there you don't have
choices. You it's already happened. So they're our
responsibility is a different type of responsibility. That's where we
must make sober
That's where we must be patient. And Allah subhanaw taala has told
us the province of Assam has told us how to act in both of these
situations. So in the first ones, we're supposed to listen to the
Command of Allah subhanaw taala command of the Prophet salallahu
alayhi salam, and do the best that we can.
Just because we can't always do it or sometimes we fail, sometimes we
may miss a prayer.
That shouldn't make us feel that it's not worth it.
Because Allah subhanaw taala says, First up, Allah must talk to him.
Fear Allah as much as I think can the challenge many of us feel is
that where you're not living? I think the biggest challenge and I
will let you ask questions, which are laughters. But I think one of
the biggest challenges people feel is that if I'm not fully doing
something Islamic, then that means I'm not being Islamic.
And while some of that is true, we get so engrossed in our everyday
life, we get up in the morning, we have to get ready for work, we
rush for work, we do work, and our work is just sometimes you you
enjoy it, sometimes you don't. Because it's sometimes you're just
doing to make some money to make a living. And sometimes you may even
feel a bit ethically Is this the right kind of job should me as a
Muslim be doing this job or not? These are some of the challenges
that we're facing, then we come home and then if you're married,
if you have children, you've got those demands, you've got demands
of doing shopping, you've got demands or paying bills you have
demands of maybe there's relatives, and we feel that the
only time we can be properly Islamic is if we go to the masjid
or if we come to Islamic academy or something like this. So when
we're not here and getting the Imani boost, we feel like we're
not getting anything. And if we're not getting anything that it means
that we're not getting closer to Allah subhanaw taala
that's why the best way to actually stay close to Allah
subhana wa Tada all the time, is to make everything that we do,
including the everyday things in our life, whether that be cooking
or cleaning, or looking after the children teaching, going to work,
all of that if that is Islamic, if we if we make that Islamic, then
all of that spiritually, we will feel inshallah close to Allah
subhanaw taala all the time. You see Allah subhanaw taala says in
the Quran Lavina Quran Allah has Diem and what Kuru then what Allah
Gob those who praised Allah praises these people who remember
Allah subhana wa Tada, standing, sitting and on their sites. Now,
if you look at it, that if generally a lot of people think
Viken remembrance is to sit down and read, ticket the speed, and do
a certain amount of wealth that is bigger. But thicker is more than
that liquor is the presence of the heart with Allah subhanaw taala.
That's why some of our machete from the past, especially when
you're talking about the Nigerian bees, for example, if I if I take
that name, they have the concept of
your hand is on your action. And you have your heart is with Allah
subhanaw taala. In Persian, they say
this because they will buy our dust Bakar they'll buy our
dispersion, which basically means dust means hands. And dust by car,
car means work. So when you're working, you're you're engaged in
work, whatever that is, you're an engineer, you're a mechanic,
you're cooking whatever work, but your heart is constantly thinking
about Allah subhanaw taala. Now that's obviously a wonderful
state. It sounds great that whatever I'm doing, I can be
thinking about Allah subhanaw taala The difficulty is how do you
achieve this state
because then it becomes a harvest. That becomes your state second
nature.
But obviously, the way to do that is to
there's a methodology for that.
The other thing that they say is the concept of Hallward Anjuman
these old Persian terms, I don't know if they're from other
languages as well, but definitely colored is Arabic anyway. So it
means solitude, even when you're sitting among people. When you're
sitting on people, you're still connected to Allah subhanaw taala
connection to Allah subhanho wa Taala that's what you call true
spirituality is something that we need to achieve wherever you are.
If you can think about Allah subhanaw taala wherever you are,
whatever you're doing, then you will not feel that shaytan is
overpowering you because as soon as you do dhikr of Allah shaytaan
retreats. So then inshallah because look, you're going to have
to earn a living. You're going to have to do mundane jobs in your
life. The shaitaan is tricking us to make us feel that when that's
happening. I am not knocking
accede to Allah, I can only be connected to Allah when I go to
the masjid.
But because I cannot go to the masjid and nobody can sit in the
masjid unless you're in Africa, but you can't do a decaf all your
life you have to you got responsibilities. Earning a living
is also a reward is also a job as long as you're doing it for the
sake of Allah.
Earning and earning a living for yourself is also for the sake of
Allah subhanaw taala if you do it for the right reason.
So
shaytan makes us think that we are disconnected and we are
disconnected until we can bring Allah subhanaw taala in our lives
for everything. So the way to bring Allah subhanaw taala in our
lives for everything is to
first have a daily schedule.
If you don't have a daily schedule, we everybody has a daily
schedule, but is this This schedule is the main things of the
day. So what would be your schedule, you get up in the
morning, you pray Fudger hopefully insha Allah and then you go for
work and work very important or school, if your student that is
school.
For some of our women, it will be that I need to get the children
ready and take them to school. Right? Or I need to eat breakfast,
or I need to prepare lunch or or, or dinner or whatever the case is,
I need to wash the clothes, I need to do this, I need to do that.
Those are all responsibilities that we all have.
We can't get away from those responsibilities. These are
responsibilities, everybody has a responsibility.
Along the Sunday, I'm gonna say
what we need to what we want to do is, as he monitors earlier,
releases,
that make sure you have a time allotted for everything you do
want to let the title make sure that every time that you have is
organized
will be he told her robotica tool Oh God of gods. And if you are
organized and you have a time for everything, only by then will the
blessing in your time appear.
Time is there time is from Allah subhanaw taala. If you organize,
if we organize our time that this time, I'm going to do this this
time, I'm going to do this this time, I'm going to do this and you
make sure you keep to that time as much as possible, then you will be
able to get more in because you will know whether you have time
for something or not because you've already slotted in within
your time, every day whether you can come because some people if
you ask them how often do you go to come to Estonia, let's say once
a week, maybe twice a week, right? How often can you go to the
masjid? Very few people. Unfortunately, you can go to the
masjid five times a day. That's an accomplishment. But at least tried
to go once a day for any prayer whether that Fajr Asia, whichever
prayer is convenient for you at least if you don't live too close.
I'm not really sure how of how close people live here. But in
London, Mashallah. There's maybe 200 mustards in the city there are
million Muslims.
And lastly from my house, five minutes walk so you don't have to
use a car or anything. So we try to go more than once a day you
have to go 234 times a day as much as possible. Where you can go to
the masjid then you do a Jamar home, you congregation at your
home with your with your with your family. So inshallah you will get
the bulk of jemar. And that's more than that you get more reward of
doing that than to pray alone.
Even when you pray alone, when you pray with your family, like
husband and wife. If there's children or just husband wife, you
get the reward for HMR which is more than so according to one
reward, it's at least 15 times the remote Masjid is 2527. But to pray
anywhere else with a Jamal is at least approximately 10 or 15 times
the reward as mentioned by Edna hijab. Rahim Allah. So we need to
how long are we going to wait for this utopian idea that I'm gonna
be able to be in a masjid all the time. Right? That could take years
until you retire hopefully. So what we want to do is we want to
change every day what we do, we want to make that Islamic
so that we actually feel the spirituality and everything that
we do. So some suggestions is that at home because physically you
know if you want to come to the masjid or you want to go and to
adults,
everybody should try to have at least some dogs as much as they
can fit in because as I was saying, let me finish off Amanda
hubby's opinion about the HMI was mentioned that one of the biggest
calamities that this OMA will deal with is going to be Gen ignorance.
Ignorance is a very, very dangerous thing.
As some of you who are here in the early class.
You know if you just had heard the Hadith of the Prophet sallallahu
Sallam in certain situations
about avoiding disputes, why you should avoid a dispute because you
get reward a place in paradise. And Bernie will be salami buddy,
who middle keeper, the one who says salon first is free of pride
and arrogance, when you know these things, then you can just leave
lead a better life. When you don't know, then shaytaan creates all
kinds of problems in our mind, create all kinds of confusions in
our mind, turbulence in our mind, we don't feel good.
There's some people, they want to study Islam.
And they've had this idea for a long time. But they want to study
in a Muslim country,
saying I need to go to Egypt before it used to be Syria, may
Allah make it May Allah bring the stability and goodness to Syria,
and to all these other countries.
But right now I can't go because I've got family commitments, I
have to earn a living, I have to do this, I have to do that. So
they end up not doing anything.
Mashallah, locally, whatever you have, you take the benefit from
that. Just because you can't get something fully doesn't mean you
have to abandon it completely. As the saying in Arabic,
Allah, you Trakula youth or Kulu or judo, you can say, Yes,
whatever you can't fully acquire, you don't fully abandon it,
either, you get a bit, I've seen people for so many years, up to 10
years, I need to go out. And then finally, they say it's never gonna
happen. In this time, had they just studied locally or online,
they would have been somewhere.
These are all ways of shaytans exceptions, if he if he allows you
to even think about it, he won't allow you to do it. So shaytaan
will use various different types of deceptions to limit to what we
do. And it'll keep making us feel bad, but we don't do anything
about it. Somebody wrote to us recently, he said that I had made
a vow, another vow
another to share that, if such a thing happens, then I will become
a scholar. I will become an island.
But Alhamdulillah that thing took place.
The whatever I had asked for hamdulillah took place. Now how do
I fulfill my vow of becoming an island because I don't have time.
I've got obligations, I've got responsibilities. Now this is a
bit of a complicated, tricky issue. But number one, this is
this another is not valid. Another vow is only valid for a bar.
That's right. So for anything like sadaqa, because there's a there's
a carrot salad, because there's you know, there's for prayer,
fasting, hygiene, things like that.
But then what we told him is that you under your understanding of
our our limb is Sheikh Salahuddin, like somebody who's gone and
studied for this many number of years and got each asset. Now that
is an item, of course. But an iron is also somebody who just learned
some more,
and you've got your whole life ahead of you. Just because you
can't do something right now, doesn't mean that you're going to
leave it.
So the idea is that we are getting older,
where our time in this world is short. So every year, every week,
every month, every year, we want to do something, even if that's a
weekly course, even once a month course so that we can say at the
end of every year that I know that much more than I did last year.
The way we do is let's take take stock of ourselves that how much
how much different am I and Ramadan is a good time to do this?
How is this Ramadan better than my last room about? How am I this
year better? What happened? What more what more did I learned this
year than last year? What more have I introduced in my life than
last year I make closer to Allah than I was last month or last
year. And in every year. We want to do that until we die. Can you
imagine if that's our focus, just month to month, year to year? By
the time in the next 10 years? Can you imagine how much you could
increase? Because believe me there are so many people I've been
watching them. And I'm not judging anybody. But I've been watching
from my local community when I was seven, eight years old. And these
are people who've lived in the same community. If they've been
coming once a week to the masjid for Joomla even though they live
just down the road from the Masjid. Still, there's some people
who are still only coming once a week to the masjid
which is on July. I'm not judging that they're not praying or
anything, but there's no improvement.
See what I'm saying there's no edition, only supposed to be
getting closer to Allah every year. So the the ways to do this
is that
we want
to increase our knowledge, if we increase our knowledge, we will
want to do more action because how are you going to know how to get
closer to Allah, if you don't increase your knowledge, there
could be simple ways. When you're sitting at home, when you're doing
your job at work, that you could be turning all of that into a
reward for free. And you don't know because we don't have the
knowledge. So we're losing opportunities. Right now it's
coming to the end of year. So there's a lot of sales, a lot of
offers a lot of specials.
In England, we have a website called
Hot UK deals. So you go on this website, and people put on there,
all the special sales and deals. Now, the only way you're going to
find out if there's a deal is if you go to the website. So the more
you learn, the more deals you'll get. That's the benefit of
becoming an island.
Now, don't think that I must spend five, seven years to become an
island. If you can't do that, that would be ideal. But if you can't
do that, then just take one course to course. Take a book, read it at
home with your family. One of the best things is to create the
environment at home, especially if you're going to have children, you
need to get them used to reading
the right things. A lot of people ask how do you how do you get your
children into reading.
The way you get your children into reading is that you read to them
first. From the age of one two, you read them a story book, and
that you know the story books you read, you can read any story book
as something with good morals and character and ethics. And, but
this is the time when you can reach them the stories of the
prophets and even salatu salam, because anything you read to them
at that time, is going to stick in their mind. And for us as in our
deen, we want to come in the name of Allah and we want to go in the
name of Allah. That's where when a baby is born, you say, you give
the adult in the right and the column in the left ear, because it
comes in introduced into the world with the name of Allah. And then
hopefully,
whoever's last words, Hirokawa, Mihaela, ILAHA, Illa, Allah, so in
between that you want to read to them. And if you read to them, you
see, a lot of people they say, I don't want my children addicted to
watching. They don't read, we have all these books, but they don't
read well. How are they going to read when you didn't show them?
What the benefit of reading words? How do you show them the benefit
of reading, you read to them from a young age. So then they will
associate good stories, good morals, excitement in a book,
because you read to them from a book. So then they'll want to pick
up books and read them. So these are small, small things that we
can do to make our home environment better. So what we
told this man is, look, whether you're another is valid or not,
you've got your whole life, all you do is just dedicate yourself
to reading more. So you come to your home or your your scholars
and you ask them what books can we read at home daily, right?
Actually a number of people this marriage that they've started
reading with husband and wife, not children, just husband and wife
that let's do tidy from here. There's other simple, simple books
that you can have where there's no confusion in those books. The
other side of it should be okay. But there's, you have to avoid the
because you don't want to start until you've learned more. And
then you can you can take a course, then you can maybe teach
that to your home. Basically at every time every day, just try to
be doing something whether you're at work or whatever the case is.
Now at work. One thing is that you want to increase yourself and
enhance yourself. But the other one is that there's two things
right one is you want to do good deeds. The other one is you have
to stop bad deeds.
So stopping bad deeds is you have to avoid places of fitna avoid
places of temptation. Avoid places of sin.
Now, many, many people, one of their biggest challenges is at
work, because you have to go to work. And you can't always find a
job. I mean, sometimes you do have crazy people once this woman she
called me. And she said that I'm in a situation where my husband
cannot find a job where he can where it's no free mixing, like
towards the hull, you know. So because of the hidden forces me to
go out to work.
She was an ecologist forces me to go to work. I said, that's crazy.
So you have strange people like that. But what we need to
understand maybe this is moving into the marital issue a bit. But
it's important because if you if you don't have stability at home,
how are you going to have stability stability is very
important. And one of the big complaints that women have is that
my husband flirts too much with people. He has WhatsApp messages
coming from coworkers. Now the thing is that in the husband's
mind, he thinks this is harmless.
It's just a colleague at work. It's just a few banter in English.
We call this banter. It's just the
Few innocent messages. But are they innocent? You know, you may
think that this is my boundary, I don't want to commit Ceylon. This
is just, it's just a laugh, it's just a bit of a joke, right?
Because it's a bit of a situation with them for men or women, you're
going to work, you're using seven, eight hours of the freshest time
of your day. Right? And you're, you're going to get dressed to go
to work, because you have to be presentable at work. So people
spend time, you know, making themselves presentable in
different ways. They go to work. And then what happens is, they
using seven, eight hours of the most productive, freshest time of
the day with colleagues, now what happens is that if I'm working
with chicks on something, and we mashallah get success, we're going
to feel Hamdulillah, you know, there's going to be a feeling of
emotion closest to you, you don't do high fives, right, right.
You know, they do high fives, and this is a way to just show, hey,
you know, we did this together. And if you fail, you have a week
you have a problem, then, you know, when you do something
together with somebody, it creates a bond, you start learning about
one another. So now, if you're, if you're at work in a project with a
man is with a woman, right, there's going to be some emotion
there.
And a lot of marriages, they have problems because of this,
then you come home, you're tired, seven, eight hours, tough day at
work, you come home,
you want to get into more casual, comfortable clothing, right, or
pajamas.
And you got no time for anything else. So then
you can see the difficulty in this. And this is where
Subhanallah from the feedback I get, I don't work in that kind of
environment. But the feedback I get that this is where a lot of
people have a big issue.
And then sometimes what happens is that the waves become paranoid
about this.
And that's a difficult because then they start looking through
the phones and emails, watching who is he going with.
And sometimes there's nothing. And sometimes there's a bit but not
they the men think it's not, for it's not going beyond the limits.
But this is where it creates a lot of difficulty. That's why we want
to do the best that we can. We want to do the best that we can
and we want to you have to avoid, avoid the wrongs and focus and
invest on what we have at home. So that's why Jehovah and ignorance
will be one of the biggest calamities because with ignorance,
we can improve our character. With ignorance, we can't improve our
worship. With ignorance, we cannot improve our purity or anything
else for that matter. Because luck, right? We, as I mentioned
earlier, but there's new faces here. We're all created with
different character. So for example, our brother has son he
may be very generous by nature. Right? Some of us some people are
very generous, but they're very angry. Meaning they get angry
quickly. Some people, they're very calm, but they were very stingy.
So they got one positive, they got one negative trait, right? Allah
creates all of us with different traits.
Now, if we understand what's good and what's bad, because there's
some people who say that's how I am, I'm not going to change, US
change.
We all need to change and the reason the profits or loss of
encourage good character is because it's something that can be
improved. There's some people that are very arrogant. And what they
do is they they basically control everything wherever they go.
Everybody else has to just sit back
I've seen such people that sometimes you know, they actually
even say I'm not going to change this is the way how I am you
better take it or leave it right if you don't then tells his wife
you don't I gotta give you a divorce doesn't get if you don't
want to live we get out of here. You know, they act like this, like
a like a tyrant Subhanallah I've seen such people they've
contracted the disease.
They get cancer or something and you see they become totally
different people.
They become so humbled
that you know, then you're like, is this the same person? Why are
we waiting for Allah subhanaw taala to
basically bring us to that level. We can change. We can definitely
change. Where I benefited the most from is to read these books by
Imam Ghazali Rahim Allah these where they talk about the day he
speaks about the issue.
For example, I had, I was imam in place in America, Santa Barbara
for eight years. So how many how many weeks in how many July's in a
year? 1552 56.
As far as I know, it's about 52. Right? So I was the only imam in
town. So I had to give 52 talks Jumada cream at least at least 45
to 50. So I started reading him Amazon is a * of a theme. The
section on Alpha to Lisa.
There's 20 Alpha 20 calamities of the tongue he mentions.
And he explains each one, from Hadith from Quran from Hadith from
stories, and then the cures and stories and everything like that.
And it's huge benefit you get from that. Because he talks about the
various different no one is libre one is an amoeba, right tail
bearing backbiting,
swearing, cursing,
the shuttlecock Phil Kalaam. I mean,
the pretense of speaking and all of these things. If you don't know
we could be doing these things. And we don't know. So we don't
know it's bad. And others are not willing to tell us. Because not
everybody is so honest. Not everybody is going to correct us
properly. And when people do they criticize us. So we think it's
wrong. You have to remember anytime somebody criticizes you,
there's going to be exaggeration in there, but minus 30 40% At
least 50 60% should be correct. Otherwise, why would they
criticize you they can't criticize you for nothing. genuine people
criticize you or insult you. It generally there's a bit of truth
in there and a bit of exaggeration.
So we have to learn from these things. So in sha Allah, that will
make us better people in our luck in our character and that is
Islamic. I don't know how to give dower to Muslims. Like when you're
sitting with somebody, you just can't start speaking to them about
it several others you must you must become Muslim and it's the
wonderful deeds some people mashallah they do this naturally,
I find that difficult. So I used to be worried a long time then I
thought Subhanallah there's one that will we can all give to non
Muslims, whether at work or whatever, which is to basically
just improve our behavior. And our conduct people are looking for
good content.
Good Conduct will be will be witnessed, noticed and
acknowledged and appreciated wherever you go, doesn't matter
who it is. When you have good good character, whether that be in your
dealings in just closing the door behind somebody and opening the
door for somebody asking somebody wants a coffee, simple, simple
things like that. You do it for the sake of Islam for the sake of
Allah subhanaw taala and you're rewarded for it.
See what I'm trying to say? Take this example. The Prophet
sallallahu sallam said there are 70 Something branches of faith 77
also brought 70 Plus branches of faith short but I'm sure I will
show up with email.
And in the he said, our Allah Kadima to La ilaha illAllah. And
De La Hoya is emitted to other imata to another and italic will
hire Oh, sure, but two minute human. So only three things I
mentioned here. There's 70 Something branches and some Allama
they've tried to put them together like you might be happy to explain
all of them and so on. Says the highest one is to say La ilaha
illAllah Muhammad Rasulullah that's the highest branch of human
the branch of iman means that once you have Iman as the essence of
your belief that these are the branches branches that it will
sprout. These are the you can see the actions that will come out of
it. So obviously La Ilaha illa Allah I declare, you know my goal
amendment Dara it Allah what me decided? What Carla in the new
middle Muslim, who better in speech?
Right? except the one who invites to Islam. And at the end Allah
says, And who says I am from the Muslims proudly I am from the
Muslims, both in statement in coal and amble in action. So that's
caramel iodide, Allah, the lowest degree is to move something aside.
That's going to harm people.
So for example, yesterday, I was in a party in London, and they
have you know, these bikes you can hire. So one had fallen
and it was rainy.
And there was a lot of mess there. So we're trying to go pass now we
had to jump over it. So at that time, we thought 200 That's the
Hadith the Hadith says this is other people are going to want to
go pass. So we picked it up. It was quite heavy. We picked it up.
What the What the thing right here is that this is the lowest branch
of iman.
And if you're going past and you don't and you don't pick up
Something which could be harmful to somebody. And you can't even do
that. And that's the lowest branch of human. What made it the
strength of your Eman B.
If that's the lowest degree of your Eman, well higher or shorter
wait a minute Hema. And then the prophesies speak specifically
about higher, higher in English is very difficult to translate
because you need concepts.
You need concepts. And if people have lost the concept, there's no
word for it. For example, in Arabic, we've got a term called
Shama to Florida, which means to get happy when your enemy is being
afflicted. You know, if your enemy gets afflicted, somehow you get
excited that good for you, you deserve it type of thing. Of
course, Shemitah.
We're not supposed to be rejoicing when your brother becomes
afflicted. Now in English, apparently, there was no used word
for that. So they took it from German.
Do you guys have a word for it in Swedish?
That's short on Fridays German, by the way. Right? So he took it from
English. That's what's used in English. But actually, you know
what's interesting. There is a word in English is about 300 years
old, which is archaic. We actually have it, but they've forgotten it.
So it's in the dictionaries, but now they're using a German word
because they've forgotten that it's a concept.
So likewise, hire. Some people translate it in English as
shyness, modesty, bashfulness. But none of them work perfectly for
the concept of higher. And the reason the price is higher is Iman
it's one main branch of Ema is because higher if you have, it
will help you EMA. It's one of the most effective aspects of
increasing your email. But now what I want to explain is that
let's just say there's somebody who's shy by nature, introverts.
Anybody like that here?
Somebody who's introverted, who's shy, who doesn't speak much in
public.
Right? There's a few people like this.
Do they get reward for the shyness, natural shyness?
Will they be real? Is this higher?
Will they be rewarded for this?
What do you think?
So let's just say that there's an opportunity to do sin. The only
reason they don't do it is because they too shy.
They don't want to push themselves forward. Nothing to do with Islam,
nothing to do with fear of Allah. They're just too shy to make a
move.
Will they be rewarded for this?
They're not rewarded for that they're going to be sinful,
because they didn't do anything. But they're not going to be
rewarded for either. But if you stayed away, because at no La
Hawla, wala Quwata illa biLlah This is wrong.
And
you stayed away you shy to do it, because you know, Allah is
watching you get rewarded.
You see the difference? So now let me explain something higher. Visa
is higher Fitri which means that I'm just naturally a shy person,
naturally an introverted person. I'm not. I don't curse people. I
don't respond to people. You don't get rewarded for that. But if your
shyness is for the sake of Allah, then that is higher, because
that's higher Imani. The way their salaries, this is higher Fitri and
higher guestspy. So one is just natural. That's just the way I am.
And the other one is where you have acquired this hire or you've
implemented it. But to be honest, if the person who is naturally
shy, can learn about this, then much of his life can become higher
Imani because then he'll be doing for the right it'll be easy for
him because that's how he is anyway. See the difference? So
there's so many things like this. Another one is when the Prophet
sallallahu alayhi wa sallam said to Almighty Allah and who's the
most beloved to you? So he said that you know you are more beloved
to me than everything except myself and so on the promises and
said that's not enough. So then he turned around for a bit and then
he said, okay, yes, now I can say you are more beloved to me than
everything including myself and everything. So then the prophet
Elijah said to him, you know, now you've got the true EMA.
Again the same thing what is Iman
sorry, hope there's some things which you have a natural love for.
That's called Hooked.
It's just a natural love I have for something.
If you have no natural love for prayer, or solitude or liquor,
then we need to create that
destiny you call that
how to create love for something?
Because inshallah if we can create love for them.
That becomes easy when you do something out of love, how to
create love for something
If
you look at his qualities, earlier on today, we discovered that the
way you love something, what is love, love is an inclination
towards beauty.
Love is an inclination towards something that you will benefit
from. That's where you can love. So now if you can convince
yourself that Islam emaan, Allah subhanaw taala is beneficial for
me in this world in the Hereafter, you will automatically become
inclined towards it.
But how you're going to understand that how are you going to create
that with knowledge, the more you read, the more you read the Quran.
The more you read that hadith the more you read, listen to the
Guru's you start seeing the beauty, you start seeing the
benefit, that is only Allah that can hear helped me, for sure in
the hereafter. In this one, I think lots of people can help me,
really, it's Allah, but we only we look at a spark via so in the
hereafter. So the benefit of that is that even a medicine that you
don't like that is bitter.
If you start looking at the benefits of it, slowly, slowly,
you will start to like to take it. And this is the way the world
works. You have to get yourself to love something, to prefer
something for you to be able to bring it into your life. So now,
what we want to do is in our life, we want to try to introduce some
of God in our life, because Allah basically lied to me.
To be honest, the heart needs the vicar of Allah. And if we don't
have it, then we're going to be like a fish out of water. But we
still don't want to do a thicker because we just don't realize that
because it's difficult. Shaytan doesn't want us to do it. However,
it's difficult. We tell you that you know, all you have to do is
100 is too far in the morning and evening.
100 Salawat, under Promise of Allah Islam in the morning and
evenings, the prophets Allah Islam has done so much for us. Can we
not even do a bit of Salawat in the morning and evening for him?
Whereas our whole Eman if we see the value of it, it's because of
him.
A bit of Quran in a bit of Quran.
A bit of meditation. That's all you need to do. But it's difficult
to bring that in your life because there's too much competition.
The competition is too much everything we do we already have
enough time that we do this. What do you think the majority of
people spend and waste the most time and
one of the biggest waste time is the phone today.
I remember once I had to get somebody's phone number,
and a SCOTUS phone number.
And I haven't saved it. But I know he's on a group I'm on.
But that group is one of the few groups that actually read all the
messages. And there were 2000 messages.
Yeah, 2000 2000. But it was after Ramadan, I think. So I haven't
read them. And I tried to read all the messages. But that's the only
one I like, okay, I'd really one day. Now I need his number. So now
I have to look at the messages, make sure I read all of them.
Because you know, otherwise, they go to the bottom and you have to
go back up to look for them. So I started about 11 o'clock at night,
I said, Okay, I'll quickly read it, and I'll get his number. So I
can contact him one and a half hours for 2000 messages.
And if you actually do a search, if you actually look depending on
how many groups and messages you're on, it's hundreds and
hundreds and hundreds and 1000s of messages a day. That's a big waste
of time. A lot of people they can't believe me, there's I don't
have time for the team. I want to do it. But I don't have time to
read Quran, I don't have time to do this.
And you know what they do have time. They just have, they just,
they don't have time, because it's all occupied, but it's not
occupied with the right thing.
If you really put your hand on your heart, you will notice that
we waste too much time nowadays. It is so easy to do it, somebody
on WhatsApp sends you a video of something useful may be
interesting. So I start looking at it.
And I finished a video there'll be 10 other ideas that pop up. And
that's and this it's very clever the algorithms they know what you
watch, they know and it'll be generally things that you've seen
before. So your knifes will go back to it, you start seeing that.
And now let me just see this one, then let me see this one. And a
few hours have passed just like that. And we say we don't have
time
as exactly where it's just we just don't have time because we're just
too occupied in wasting our time.
And, you know, 10 years 15 years ago, 20 years ago, if you wanted
to waste time, you'd have to actually call someone
or you'd have to go outside to the cafe or for roads or outside the
masjid or whatever. Now you don't need anybody to waste time with
because you've got enough time to use them. So it is a new
challenge. It's a new challenge. So
these are lots of disparate ideas. Because the brother told me I
asked him What's your
Oh, what's your objective of this title of the talk?
So, he said well, this is that a lot of people are feeling
challenged and so on, so forth. So, this is what we want to do.
So, to conclude, let us stop wasting too much time
and fix the time for everything. Then the broker will come in our
time. Let us introduce in our life a number of Gods simply put, just
believe me if you do this, this is science by the way. If you do this
for three months, and it doesn't work, you come and tell us
but if you do 100 is too far in the morning but stuff for Allah
has not been cool. It can be one or two with 100 times in the
morning and evening. The benefit of that will be that if you only
do it in the date in the morning, all everything all the wrongs
you've done from the nighttime inshallah will be forgiven. When
you do it in the evening, all the day's wrongs will be forgiven. So
we're constantly like taking two showers a day.
Right. That's purification. Then you do salawat and the Prophet
sallallahu sallam. He said, When Salah Allah Yahweh had some
Illawarra he'd be hashanah where we sent one blessing on me. Allah
was intent on him. Even one blessing upon us is Subhanallah
that's amazing. So you do 100 salawat and you get 1000 Blessings
on you.
Right? And we need that because that's like perfuming that's
blessing morning and evening. Then you read a bit of Quran Quran has
a huge bollock. It's shift. It said, what is it?
It's a healing of the heart. It's a light of the eyes. And without
the Quran will be nowhere. And there's a special bollock in the
Quran. So you read some Quran every day, even if it's one page,
half a page, whatever it is, and then just spend five, seven
minutes with Allah.
You saying I'm praying. The problem is that if our prayer is
mechanical, then we're not really spending time with it. We're doing
the motions. So how would you force yourself to learn that
and the phone call and concentration and devotion and
focus.
Just sit five, seven minutes a day, just sit
and do some kind of meditation. There's many, many different types
of meditation. One I will suggest which is very powerful, very
useful, you can try it and you will feel the contentment. You
just sit close your eyes just look down make sure nobody's bothering
you. Put your phone off or silent or whatever or beeps, lights on
your phone off. And you just sit down close your eyes look down.
Just focus on your heart. And just imagine Allah's Mercy is
descending on your heart you because Allah's Mercy is always on
you just want to attract some of it to your heart. And then you
just heard says, hola, hola. Hola. Hola without your tongue, just
just with your just with just with your heart. It provides so much
peace.
Allah says with charisma with charisma, Arabic, remember the
Name of your Lord? You say I must remember Allah, how do you
remember Allah? What are you going to think of when you remember
Allah?
You know, people say you were told, remember Allah and people
like what do I think of?
You can't
put Allah in a form. What Allah tells us is with charisma, Arabic,
remember the Name of your Lord.
So you think of Allah's Name and Allah will give you from there.
Just taking the name of Allah is so beneficial. La ilaha illa
Allah, Allah, you don't have to make any major movement of your
tongue.
Just look at how easy this word is. This term is law. Just Just
look at my tongue. La ilaha illa Allah not a movement, you could be
sitting on a bus on a tram however you go to work as in La ilaha
illallah nobody even needs to know but mashallah de you are connected
to Allah.
La ilaha illallah Allah so anyway, you sit for five, seven minutes
and you just think about this. The benefit of this is that it's so
powerful when you do thicker with your with your tongue on a test.
But if I take at the speed and I'm saying Subhan, Allah Alhamdulillah
Allah Akbar, it's wonderful. It's wonderful. The only issue is that
our mind may be somewhere else. We're doing the system good. It's
still better than not doing it. But when you actually do this five
minutes, it will focus it will force you to focus on Allah.
And a lot of people will find focusing even for five, seven
minutes very difficult because we're in a we're in a distracted
generation, our generation very distracted, because the phone is
distracts us multi you know, just check this no, do check that one
from here from the very distracted. So just five, seven
minutes, just focus. Every time you get distracted, come back and
focus just five 710 minutes maybe and you will soon see inshallah
that the light of Allah will
Come in your heart that will improve our prayer. Our salad we
can constantly practice we it will benefit us in every other way
inshallah.
But this will be very difficult to introduce in our life, you may do
it tomorrow, right because you've just heard it right now you may be
pumped up, you might do it tomorrow, you might do it the next
day, but then after that, you won't.
So the way you do it is that as if not I thought you love him. Allah
says he says that you force yourself to do it first. You have
to You see, you have a TV in your life in your daily routine,
everything you do, okay, this time is for YouTube, this time is for
soccer, this time is for you have now we need to push it in. Once
you push it in, then it becomes part of your your knifes becomes
used to it, then inshallah it'll be easy.
So that's why at least once a week, you should also listen to a
spiritually motivating lecture. Because you will start feeling
down again, when you feel the spiritual motivation if you come
to the modulus if you come to the class, and if you're not, if
you're somewhere else, you can't come physically then listen to
something online.
So in sha Allah, as I said, if for just a few weeks, you do solo,
still for Salawat Quran reading and some of these meditations
and you still don't feel close to Allah.
Unless you bring lots of sins. You have to try to avoid sins as well.
If you don't feel close, or come and come and tell us
but this is guaranteed it will work in sha Allah because the name
of Allah has this has this blessing. So if we inshallah in
bring that in our life, and we learn more so that we can make our
work for the sake of Allah for the sake of taking care of our
families, whatever mundane jobs we do at home or whatever the case
is, that insha Allah that will take us closer to Allah and we
will feel inshallah much more connected. And anybody who feels
connected to Allah subhanaw taala he's, he or she is an inspiration
for others.
Otherwise you're complaining or we're so far from Allah, we so far
from Allah, that in itself is a bad complaint. It's a good thing
that you feel like that. But we want to be closer to Allah
subhanho wa Taala so we ask Allah subhanaw taala to really bring us
close to him, grant us His love. Allahu Merzouga hubback Wow, but
my environment now boring. That is a door that we should always make.
Right? Allahu Merzouga which means Oh Allah, grant us your love, and
the love of those whose love benefits us in your court. That
will insha Allah Allah will then surround us with people who will
not take us away.
So that's all I have to say for today.