Abdur Rahman ibn Yusuf Mangera – Strengthening the Dead Heart
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Smilla Rahmanir Rahim Al hamdu Lillahi Rabbil Alameen wa Salatu
was Salam ala so you did mousseline what are the early he
was soft. We hear about Rocco seldom at the Sleeman cathedral
Elomi. Dean a mother. There's a concept of Islamic medicine that
generally people speak about.
And what is Islamic medicine? There'll be many hackings, etc,
that will be going around saying that this is Islamic medicine. But
what is Islamic medicine? That's
so there's a few things mentioned by Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa
sallam mentioned in the Quran, etc, about what of benefit was not
a benefit.
Now, taking a simple example of the Quran talking about honey, so
any fee she felt on lameness, but I saw a person, for example, who I
know has diabetes, you knows he has diabetes, and
the honey there, the big Costco bottle of honey,
mashallah, I don't know how many. It's quite a volume. And he's
pouring it into his tea, and he must have poured like a quarter of
the cup was honey.
So what are you doing?
He said, I know you have diabetes as well, he goes, Shiva, this is
fine. I mean, you can't expect to drink a whole pot of honey and
sage, Shiva, Shiva in a particular proportion. Whenever somebody say
something, they obviously mean a particular
level of it not just indiscriminately do as you please.
So it's understanding those balances. Our whole life is
supposed to be about a balance, whether that be in terms of our
behavior, whether that be in terms of our health, about our
consumption, and everything else, it needs to be over balanced. And
Imam Ghazali explains it very well. He says it's the prophetic
equilibrium. The prophetic equilibrium is the price and the
lorrison was the most balanced in everything.
Having said that,
anything that
is supposed to be good, is going to be committed considered, can be
considered this to be Islamic medicine in the general sense of
it, we are allowed to take from wherever we find good, the Prophet
sallallahu sallam said that there is no every sickness or illness
that has come down onto this earth as found on this earth, there is
also a cure for it. Now the Prophet sallallaahu Salam didn't
highlight a cure for every single type of disease, or problem or
sickness or illness, because many diseases in sickness illnesses are
later, or something that happened later, or have been found later
discovered later or have a new, so that means its cure has to be
found as well. So us finding the cure, then that would become
Islamic in a sense. But you can't claim that this is what the
previous law isn't used himself, because there's very few things
that he used. And the other thing is that we're living in a time
when we get things from around the world, not just from what's around
you, most of the things that Rosa Lawson probably used were things
that were found around. And that was the perfect balance. Because
the reason it was the perfect balance is because the food that
you ate was local.
You know, there wasn't much that was being brought from afar. There
were some things maybe, you know, in their caravans and things like
that, but generally, and also that was natural at that time, anyway,
very natural at that time.
So you had a natural diet to start with. And then you had natural
antidotes from locally. Now what we have is that we eat foods from
around the world every day. I mean, if you think about any day
of yours, you just look simply at the masala the spices that you use
in your, in your food, and they're from around the world. You know,
they're gonna be from India, or Pakistan or South Africa or
somewhere like that. So it's going to be from around the world. You
look at the fruit that we eat, there's not much that's British
now, you know, it's going to be Spain, Venezuela.
And South Africa, oranges, you know, from different places. So
we eat things, and that's I'm talking about the natural stuff so
far. And then there's a lot of the additives that we eat. So now it
becomes a bit more difficult for these natural things that surround
us to be a full assistance to us, because we are then going beyond
that limit and using chemicals, additives and other things,
derivatives of things. So then that's why the United medicine
though it's supposed to be very good, doesn't work as well or as
quickly
and we want fast results. So that's why paracetamol is faster,
because that's a chemical dealing with a chemical.
The Hakim's job is to balance
the food and balance our system and the work on the pretext of
Hot and cold. And these are Aristotelian concepts. These are
Hellenistic. They're not Muslims didn't come up with them. That's
why this, the method of tip that we say, which is they call Islamic
medicine is really not Islamic. This hot and cold though you do
find that some observe this thing as well. But that's not where we
made it up from I'm sure. Because if you ever been to a hockey team,
and you look at the heroes that they have, meaning the medicines
that they have, you will see Amira goes above and you'll see Hamina
jolliness, which is a Greek name from Hakeem jolliness. He was some
physician, right? So this is his potion that he made, and it's
beneficial for this than the other. So it's just been a slam
aside, in a sense, it wasn't developed. It's not prophetic
medicine didn't occur. Yet Rahim Allah has a prophetic medicine
model, a book based on what the Prophet salallahu Salam, what's
been revealed, related from the previous lesson that he used and
so on. But it's useful, whatever it is, it's useful, and it's
beneficial.
Now, in spirituality, so hockey medicine is just about the body
to, it doesn't deal with your heart, except from a cosmological
perspective. To just make sure it's pumping well, there's no
blood clots there thin the blood out. That's how that's what
medicine does with the heart.
And in most of in most of the analysis, provided by the
philosophers,
into the mind, etc. It's all based on the heart doesn't play a part
in it. So the occult, this is what they deal with, they deal with the
mind the occult, they deal primarily with the occult, because
it's all mine and cognition, and they deal with the knifes to a
certain degree.
What we mean by enough says, knifes will Amara be su which is
the biggest problem that we have. And there's enough Salomaa
most people are in a state, and most people who try they are in
between the nostril Amara and lawanna.
That's what they're in between. We hardly ever in a state of Montana
inner, which is a very tranquil state, which is a very high state
of the high Olia and the prophets, we can touch the state sometimes
and we hope to get the insha Allah. But generally, if even if
we're in the lawanna, that's a good stage. But then there's
nothing Amara, which is generally what we're dealing with. So
nostril Amar and Nestle Amara is the one that is the evil inciting
soul. And if so, lawanna is the admonishing soul, or the soul that
tells you have don't do this, it's the voice inside don't do this.
And sometimes they both at work. And then, depending on how strong
your heart is, it will make that decision.
So if the heart is weak, then the nostril Amara will always get get
its way, because it's always more persistent. And
you're our self, which is the knifes obviously, we like to do
that. So there's an advantage for the self to do that. But if the
heart is strong with the vicar of Allah subhanaw taala, then we will
give strength to the lawanna side of it. And we will strengthen it
so that you will overcome the Amara, regardless of how anybody
is there's going to be fleeting thoughts that will go through
their mind of some haram. Sometimes they will just go
through and he's gone. He was just giving him a notice it that's how
that's how it is. Sometimes it comes in settles for a while
longer, and then it goes, then the third stage as it comes in, it
settles, then you take it out.
In the first two, eventually, when it lingered for a while it was
there only for a short while. The third stage is that it lingered
for a while and then you pushed it out. That's an act that you just
did. But it was easy, maybe. Now, up to there, it's fine. When it
gets beyond that when it stays in the mind and you have to kind of
fight with it a bit and eventually get rid of it, then that's still
dangerous because you may lose one day, the heart isn't strong
enough. They know that the heart has to be strong for this to
happen.
And the fifth one is when you resolve to do the wrong that's
what you call them.
Resolute intention to do something that means lawanna has been this
is when he talking about negative thoughts of course, you know, the
same thing can happen with positive thoughts. Positive
thought comes in an idea comes in, which is ill harm there's an angel
just like there's a shaytaan to give us evil insinuations with
every human being and our shaytaan noses more than anybody else,
including our parents.
Our own shaytaan noses more than our own parents are your best
friends. Will you tell everything to
because there will always be things that you haven't told your
best friend even. Even if you said I've told you everything they will
not be the case because the shaytaan has been with us
From every every second of the way since October, so he knows
everything that we've done everything we're prone to
everything were weak, too. And we're vulnerable to, so he knows
the best way to do it. So against such an enemy that is, so well
versed about you the full details, then we're gonna have to be
really, really strong and to outwit that and there's no way to
outwit the shaytaan with your own logic because shaytaan
although yes, faulty logic, which didn't help him, which caused him
to be the Renegade, but negatively uses it very well. So his logic
was, was faulty in the sense of his working for him positively
when Allah subhanaw taala told him to bow down to you to other Malays
we are the Ashraful mahalo cards in the sense that though were made
from the soil, Allah subhanaw taala raised us in such a way that
he told
the purest of creation that never sins that never does any wrong
never any opposition to bow down in front of this hollow being of
other Malays ALLAH SubhanA wa Tada because of the rule that we have
inside us. You have the insinuations of the shaytaan but
then there's also an
an angel that does ill harm that inspires us with good thoughts.
And they come from Allah subhana wa Tada.
Now the heart is the processing plant for all of this.
And where most of us are failing is because our hearts are dead.
Materiality Yes, good. Rob bahala de la cama Federal High, you will
meet the one who remembers Allah and the one who does doesn't, is
like the dead one and the live one. But we just can't tell
because there's no way to the only way to deal with the heart and to
understand the level of the heart. And the state of our heart
is by seeing how much we can do and how much we can't do. That's
the only that it's clear. But the reason it's a bit more deceptive
is that when our heart is ill, there's an enjoyment of worldly
enjoyment. When our physical body is ill, there's no worldly
enjoyment, there's a pain. So we force ourselves to go and get a
remedy to cure ourselves. But the fitna here with the knifes is that
when our heart is ill, we enjoy it, because it's a DUNU enjoyment,
which is bad for us. So there's nothing to push us except Tofik
from Allah subhanaw taala except that Iman in the hearts that then
will still call out once in a while, after you've had your
pleasure and then you will get the remorse, etc, etc. But then we
have to strengthen it to such a level that
right from the beginning, we can go the right way, not even get
into that spot.
And we've been praying all of our life, and we've been making this
be hot all of our life.
We've been reading Quran our life,
it fails to provide that same impact.
Because you get the SP
off the salaat use your fingers 3333 34 times Subhanallah
Hamdulillah. So even though you we may have no concentration in what
we just read, we just said Subhan Allah subhanaw taala and many of
us are very regular on this as well. So one last one, we said it,
we read the Quran, we read it made solid, we did it because there's a
physical activity involved. And there's a start and a completion
and a procedure and we just did that procedure we started. We did
the procedure we completed that's an accomplishment. Do you
understand? So we felt like we did something but we didn't do
anything really because we didn't do what it's supposed to be doing
for us up to me salata Lee decree, that decree never took place. We
just did our Salah to fulfill the format of it. In fact, most of us
when you think about salah, unfortunately it's to fulfill the
for namaz Purnia we got, we're gonna miss numbers, we're gonna
miss numbers.
That's our attitude, isn't it? We're gonna miss out quickly.
There's only 10 minutes left, hurry up, let's finish it off. So
we it's just something we need to get in and just do. Our attitude
is not if the attitude was that I had to do it for Allah, then it's
going to be there's no way you would leave it until 10 minutes
before.
So
even in TSP, when you've done 3333 You've you've achieved something.
So you feel like you've done something you feel like it's
beneficial. And there's no doubt that there is some benefit in all
of this, that we do some benefit.
But it's not providing the real the high benefit that it should
do. Now you can were speaking to somebody the other day just
yesterday actually. And somebody said you know,
they're looking for something more that will really make them turn to
Allah. So another person is saying just read the Quran.
Right? It's very easy to say that make Torah gods have nothing to
get off with 100 Do you it has to be hard. We
say that all the time problem is that that we've been doing that
there's no fault in that the speed, there's no fault in the
solid. And all of that is we're not doing it properly. So we need
some kind of training, that solid will become like that, that this
be will become
more spiritual and the reading of the Quran will become like that.
That's why you do the Merkava. That's why I find it the most
effective. So it's not even with the tongue that you feel like
you've accomplished anything, the only thing you've done, the only
deception that you could have in here is that I've spent five
minutes sitting for Allah. That's the only deception you can have in
here.
Because if you have to sit and do a loud because Subhan Allah
Hamdulillah, Allah will you still felt like you did something,
though, you may have had no concentration. But when you do
maraca, you know whether you've done it or not. Do you understand?
Because, you know, have I had concentration for this five
minutes? Did I think of something else? Did I really get anything
out of that or not? Now, if I had concentration for that, let's just
I'm just saying five minutes, is too less. But just say five
minutes? I know that if I had concentration, and did America
properly, it would be definite.
Right? It would definitely be effective. And if I don't, then I
know and I'm not going to deceive myself that Oh, I did 10 minutes
on Monaka. I know I didn't do it properly.
That's why I find it so powerful. Because there's no deception in
Morocco. You either with it or you're not, you know, you either
did it you either connected to Allah or you didn't. And once
you've learned how to connect, and of course, it takes a while. It's
not something that it's going to happen overnight. Otherwise,
everybody would be doing Morocco. But you know, if you could just
sit down and cut everything away. We our lives, especially living in
London, maybe if you're living in the north, but believe me, they
even have problems. And we've got people from the Raven, our
problems. London is a very fast moving city, you do many, many
things. Your doors are closed, because everything has to be
appointment, you go up north to Blackburn. And it's silly for you
to stand outside and knock on the door, you're supposed to just kind
of ring and walk in because the doors are open. It's like India,
or Pakistan or whatever. You know, we're very fast moving. So it's a
bigger challenge for us.
Oh, Morocco is like fit into time. Quick, you know, we need to do it
this time and move on. So we're thinking about the next thing. But
once we get in sha Allah or Morocco, right? Then you can use
that concentration you develop. And of course the heart that you
develop in the in your salon and everything else. That's why
whenever, you know whenever you get the reports from people of
what they've done, the Morocco was always the one that suffers. I did
my test b i did my Quran reading. I did this I did that and
everything. The work of Lb is what matters because you can't get well
who can't be without doing your Morocco. If you're distracting in
Morocco, there's no way you're gonna get more calm. The whole
point of Morocco is to get rid of Kobe eventually. Right? Because
you'll eventually in your lessons, you'll actually move beyond the
Morocco but then it'll just be thicker anyway. But the whole
thing is to develop the state of just being conscious of Allah all
the time. So if you can't do Morocco, forget about real work of
Albi.
Right unless you focus into it temporarily for a particular
amount of time.
So we just have to work on that Morocco now. You know after this
experience, you understand why the shield that's what they say that
Morocco but that's everything else is easy, because you feel like
you've accomplished something. But you know when you do maraca, you
haven't accomplished anything
if you haven't done it properly. So the point is to use every it's
a second show well it's it's an exercise against your willpower
against your knifes. This is such a strong Morocco that is so
strong. That's the whole point of it, that you are overcoming your
knifes your mind your desires, all of that is taking place that no I
want to cut away from all of that and just focus on Allah. That's
why when the sheikh when he says Morocco, Morocco Bacala you know,
he says dunya dunya or dunya Mujjo he'll say hardcat que you know
apne up,
lower your head and
just focus on Allah subhana wa Tada. So that has to be done there
has to be an you know, a way to do that. Because you need that
ultimate Allah I'm gonna shape on your resume if that helps, and so
on. And then you start but you can't miss Morocco and there's
there's there's no exception to that. Don't deceive yourself by
doing everything else and not maraca.
If not, I thought Allah he says Allah Emanuel sewaren. Imagine
what Urwa would you do Cyril a philosophy.
very succinct, but it embodies what you've been saying. He says,
A man who swore on imagine what are wha hoo ha would you say real
philosophy her actions are lifeless forms. But the presence
of an inner reality of sincerity within them is what endow them
with the LIFE GIVING SPIRIT.
Because any action that we do, whether it be your Salaat or your
Quran reading or whatever,
It's an external form, there's an external expression to it. There's
a method procedure beginning and an end. It's a package a physical
element to it. So most actions are like that they're, they're
lifeless forms, meaning you can do them in a lifeless way. So the,
we're, we're hoo ha, it's rule. And its spirit is the presence of
the secret of Eclass in it. And he calls it a secret and just say a
class in it, because it's very complicated. And it requires a lot
of exercise to get the class in it.
It's built up over time. One mustn't leave it just because you
don't think you have it. You have it, flossing something, you have
to build a floss and you will build it a few percent at a time
until you get 100% glass.
Okay, let's
go to Morocco. And after the maraca, I'm just going to allow a
few minutes if anybody has any questions about the Morocco
because Morocco is something that you get better at as you go along.
It's there's a lot of different things, because we feel different
at different times. So it's always helpful to have a modulus on this
right? Is this wrong? Because there's always a lot of confusion
about maraca I mean I've had to ask so many times that this is it
what about this what about this can you do this? Can you do that?
So it's helpful along with this unknown person and develop the
originality of the Quran Allah Me or her you have the human dogmatic
studies a lot of me I had no money I'm and I know you know, he
learned discipline again, local nominal learning and just Aloha.
Aloha, my son he was so you didn't know Mohamed Vida and you say you
didn't know Mohamed Rico Salim
hamdulillah Anil island will have our Oh Allah, Allah, we are Your
servants
of Allah, You created us and you've given us everything.
Oh Allah, all the bounties that you've given us with all the
favors that you've given us.
We have still disobeyed you.
And most of the time it's with the same bounties that you've given
us.
O Allah, we ask You for full forgiveness of Allah, we ask that
your ask doesn't descend upon us. Or Allah, we ask for protection.
We've asked protection of you from your anger and from your Wrath
of Allah, we ask that you treat us with Your mercy.
You make us of those who your mercy covers, in all states in
this world of Allah without your mercy and your compassion, your
enablement, your tofi We will be unsuccessful in this world
of Allah we ask you for ultimate success,
both in this world and in the hereafter of Allah except Talador.
Us or like September gathering here. Well, Allah on this Saturday
morning,
this gathering we've come to do.
We don't want to say that it's our own achievement, because only
you've enabled us to do this to dedicate this time for you.
So we thank you. We're grateful to you for enabling us to sit for
this hour
to remember you, oh Allah. And we ask that you accept it. Oh Allah,
we have good hopes. Because you've enabled us to be here.
Without this being unnecessary gathering to come to
it's something purely
out of choice. We thank you for your enablement. And Oh Allah,
we're extremely grateful to you for allowing us to do this. And we
ask that you accept us in the fullest manner. And you forgive us
any shortcomings. And you allow all the remembrance
to permeate our hearts and to assist us in the days to come in
this world of Allah, keep your vicar alive in our hearts of Allah
keep your vicar alive in our hearts of Allah keep our hearts
constantly in remembrance of you.
Allah Houma Jana car and Lakeisha Carnac This is a dua of your
messenger sallallahu alayhi wa salam, O Allah make us of those
who frequently remember you and who are frequently thankful of you
are constantly in thanks a view of Allah make us of the Shaqiri Allah
make us of the shackling make us of them stuck, serene, those who
make a stick far and Toba to you and who returned to you because
the ultimate physical and spiritual
and return is eventually to you. But Allah allow us to return to
you in this world, so that we can prepare for the final return which
is inevitable. Our law makes our life easy in this world and
totally conducive to that which pleases you. Oh Allah, this is our
ultimate game, ultimate
objective from focusing on this path of Allah you
put us on this path. We ask that you take us closer to you. And you
advanced us in this path and you remove any obstacles in our path.
You give us concentration. In our Morocco, you give us full
immersion
in the vicar that we do have your name and allow us to go from your
name to you. of Allah allow us to go from your name to you. Our logo
that was to go from your name to our Allah in existence there is
nothing but you are Allah. Allow us to understand that and
comprehend that and make that a firm belief in our heart of Allah
we ask for you is in everything that we do in this world, in our
married lives, with our families and our children with the work
that we do outside with our health
and with everything that we do, oh Allah keep us on the halal and
avoid the Haram or lucky person the halal and allow us to avoid
the Haram in drawn to success in all of our permissible needs. And
grant us to carry my La ilaha illallah on our deathbed and allow
us to go in a state that we are longing for you. We are longing
for you and allow us to go in a state that we have no sense of
loss of this world of Allah, allow us to breathe our last.
Allow us to breathe our lost without any form of loss or sense
of loss of leaving this world of Allah detach us detach our hearts
from the love of this world grant us love of you and everything that
is beneficial in that regard. Oh Allah grant us your love and the
love of those who love you. And the love of those acts which take
us closer to Jana. And hatred for those acts which take us to
hellfire of Allah We ask that you make the best of our moments of
existence the day that we stand in front of you in the Hereafter. And
Allah grant us the company of your beloved messenger Muhammad
sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, and sent abundant blessings on our
behalf to him. And Phil. granting your blessings and compassion in
your mercies forever Subhanallah because tabula rasa termina Yossi
foon was salam and only more sunny or hamdulillah