Abdur Rahman ibn Yusuf Mangera – Sufism in 30 Minutes
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If you're practicing the soul as well, the the various different
things to do with the earth car and everything. If I'm getting up
in the morning and doing my car, if I'm doing my car and I have the
right idea of what the soul is throughout the day, and then I
study Hadith, I'm going to get a lot more out of it.
Because Hadith said a word of Rasulullah sallallahu sallam.
Quran is the words of Allah. If I have just managed to open up my
heart to Allah subhanho wa Taala and become close to prophets or
some through the soul, then that means I'm going to benefit more
from my Quran and Sunnah.
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So my session is regarding answering criticisms to to solve.
And I don't want to just list criticisms here. And then mention
them because they may actually not be criticisms that you have in
mind or that you may have even heard. And then we're just going
to be opening up a can of worms for maybe no reason and wasting
our time. So firstly, just to add on just a few points. I mean,
there was a totally thorough discussion
by our dear friend started earlier, so I don't need to repeat
much at all. And I don't want to do that. I'm just going to mention
a few things because the solf Sufism, whatever name you want to
call it, this whole practice of trying to be better believers and
trying to reach Allah subhanaw taala that's essentially what it
is just trying to be better believers and trying to reach
Allah subhanaw taala that's the way I look at what the sofas think
is similar. Except that that relates more to very absolute,
halal and haram sounds. And the sort of just relates to how better
to observe that halal and haram. So fic and jurisprudence, it's
about this is halal. This is my crew. This is discouraged. This is
reprehensible. This is absolutely mandatory and a pillar. And this
one is recommended. It's better if you do it, but it's okay if you
don't do it. So what does the soul do? It just makes you do whatever
is necessary or preferable in a better way, a deeper way, in a
more fulfilling way. And it just makes it easier to avoid what's
wrong and what's haram. So it works in tandem with all of these
things.
Then that was with fifth that's the way the soap works with
jurisprudence. The way the soap works with the belief system of
what we need to believe about Allah subhana wa Tada about the
Prophet sallallahu Sallam about the hereafter. It just makes it
more realistic and refined. So in our Kedah, we know that Allah is
One.
And that's an absolute basic Aqeedah we have to declare that
Allah is one after knowing that he is one and so on. What the soul
does is it gives you the various different methodologies to really
really in our life, recognize in practice that Allah is one and
declare that so to do to hate all the time.
When we're making dua, it sorts out our dua so that we're actually
doing Tahitian our dua, we're actually implementing the Tauheed
in our dua, were implementing Tauheed in our Salaat. So it
enhances the practice of it. So all the so have does is that it
takes every science
and it makes it deeper and more realistic and beneficent,
practical. Look at Al Hadith, L with FCF. Same thing.
If you are practicing the soul as well, the the various different
things to do with the earth, God and everything. If I'm getting up
in the morning and doing my car, if I'm doing my car and I have the
right idea of what the soul is throughout the day, and then I
study Hadith. I'm gonna get a lot more out of it.
Because Hadith saw the word of Rasulullah sallallahu sallam.
Quran is the words of Allah. If I have just managed to open up my
heart to Allah subhanho wa Taala and become close to promises on
through the soul, then that means I'm going to benefit more from my
Quran and Sunnah.
that's what that's what the soul does, the soul just adds. It's
that's that's why in the Hadith that was mentioned earlier the
hadith of Gibreel, Ali Salaam.
There was the idea about exon what is ehsani Rasul Allah.
And the prophets Allah has been responded by saying it's that you
worship Allah as though you see him, you can't really see Allah.
But yes, you can worship as though you see him as though you see, he
means because Allah is part of everything behind everything,
administering everything is not absent anywhere. It's just that we
make him absent because we focus on other things. So if we get to
this level of being able to practice this, by doing lots of
the code and so on, then we'll actually start doing that. So
that's it. It's just the beautification of the faith. It's
a perfection beautification of it. So donning the faith, that's what
the soul is. Now, how is this done? Scholars throughout history
have figured out ways to do this, because it's different practices,
following the Sharia, avoiding the Haram, that Sharia that you have
to do that anyway.
But what the Allama have figured out is that if you do this, and if
you do that, it will help you do. It'll help you observe the Sharia.
So they've provided that they've provided different ideas that that
if you sit and do a vicar for this long, or focus on this particular
type of vehicle sitting in this particular way that will penetrate
your heart more to do thicker is the sooner they just show you how
to do the thicker.
And then they just open up for us. For example, imagine this, a lot
of people think that Vica is something formal that you do, I
must sit down, let me find a clean place to sit down when nobody's
going to bother me. Or if I'm travelling in a train or a bus or
whatever, I'm going to take my ISP and do they come.
But what about when you actually start your job, you get to your
job and you start working? Is there normal, thicker afterwards?
Is there normal thicker when you're eating?
Is there no thicker when you're playing?
Can you not remember Allah them is Allah to be remembered only when
you sit down to particularly do it.
So for example, one of the great so called Sufis of the past,
behold the next one, he came up with this idea that
this double car deal by our it's a Persian term, he's from
Uzbekistan, Turkic background, but Persian was the language, the
lingua franca of the time. He said, what we're trying to achieve
through all of this dhikr and everything is that my hand is
occupied with the works on typing away. On my tongue is telling a
joke, we're having a banter about something.
But my heart is always with Allah.
That's an amazing idea. I mean, what has the soldier's done for
you there?
It's just brought Allah closer to you. You believed in the Oneness
of Allah.
But now, you really understand who Allah is. And you're really
connecting to Allah, if you don't even know that, that when we're
sitting down and having a little permissible banter, telling a few
jokes, just reminiscing over past times, you know, when we were in
school together madrasa together when we used to work together in
the London Underground or wherever people, you know, work.
In the middle of that you're still discussing your remembering Allah.
He's keeping you grounded, that thought that idea is keeping you
focused, so you don't go overboard.
Subhanallah and it's not just for that. It's just that you can't
help but remember Allah because you've made yourself so attached
to him.
Imagine you've got an issue, some big issue, let's just say that
there's something you know, you're going to achieve very soon. It's
coming. You ordered it.
Right? It's going to come very soon. You're very excited about
it. Right? You're very excited about it's going to take a week to
come every now and then you're going to start remembering it. Oh,
it's gonna come looking forward to it. Looking forward to it. Just
about thinking about Allah subhanaw taala like that.
He said another thing he said, Hello, what the Anjuman that's a
really interesting idea. Again, another Persian term.
He said, You might be among lots of people, but you have your own
solitude with Allah.
Doesn't matter what people are saying.
That's why the way Hasson Busey Rahim Allah, he describes the
earlier generation Sahaba he said that is a jealous of my lava feed
in Cote Remmina verkeerd him. These are people that these are
the people with iman al McMann. He said they are the people if
they're sitting with people who are distracted, they are going to
be of the luckier they
We're going to be the ones who are still in remembrance of Allah.
So you might be sitting among people playing football sorry
watching football. I'm getting really excited. They don't care
about Allah that points.
Actually, I saw a clip about some Moroccan woman not doing diaries
and all sorts the Rukia and all sorts when Morocco has.
She is doing DUA and you know against I don't know what team it
was. Sivan Allah has a notion
that's the model so for her know what that is, Savannah Allah, and
then actually one Morocco
Subhanallah by the way, Morocco has a lot of Sufis, if you go to
Fez, and Marrakech, there's lots of Han cars of various different
tariqas traditionally has been very Sufi place until the last
70 100 years when new fitna came in and try to eradicate all of
that. So that's the idea of it. He says, You're among people who are
distracted. But while you may be part of that distracted state,
apparently, you're remembering Allah subhanaw taala. And then he
says, We're either jealous or mad there Corinne, Cathy Berman Al
Mustafa, Kareem and you're sitting among people who are remembering
Allah, you're doing so far. You're always on a higher level waiting
to stick far when people are doing thicker, just so you don't show
up. I'm sitting among these dedicatee in Orange County. I'm
there. I'm their staff are with the biller. This is a shocker of
Allah that we are sitting here today, when all of these matches
are going on. Really. It's a shocker that we're sitting here
today.
Trying to do this program tomorrow we'll see.
The reason I say is I didn't know about these so they were supposed
to do a program and it was supposed to be I don't know when
was it tonight? Tonight? He said no, no, we can't do it tonight.
We'll have to do it tomorrow. So we've shifted it to tomorrow.
So good, the Bermuda could be minimal stuffy and Wahaca can have
an OBE sallallahu alayhi wa sallam he says this is exactly how the
Prophet seller license companions were a will file a will have a
call biller here as the origin
one after the other until he met with Allah subhanaw taala.
That is really what the sofas, anything wrong with that.
You don't have to call it that name. But that's exactly what it
is. Initially, they used to call it zoo hood. That's why you don't
really hear about Sufis of the earliest generations. Nobody said
to a Sahaba he's a Sufi, or, you know, because it just wasn't the
term used.
Even the generation of the tambourine and Tabata Berrien
recently, Torah has just published Abdullah hymnal Mobarak Rahim
Allah Subhan Allah that name is just awesome. And the person was
awesome and his mashallah his knowledge was awesome. His guitar
was good.
guitar was good. That's what it was initially referred to all the
earlier they call it Tsar he then Canazei Ganesa he then Canazei.
Once inside
Zahid means abstinence from the world focused on the hereafter.
Doesn't mean that they lived in huts, or they might have but they
didn't live in caves and didn't use anything. No, they were in the
world. But their focus was the Hereafter they were not distracted
individuals by the world, their main focus was that the Sahaba
will always in that sense somewhat more than others, and will their
radiance considerably more than others, right sometimes to an
extreme level, maybe in this way, the other Sahaba they would give
them fatwa sometimes that you can't have any more than your one
day's sustenance, you can't have anything for tomorrow in your
fridge, for example, you know, if I'm, if I'm translating his
opinion correctly, that's essentially what the sofas use
called Zewde. Before usually that's what the book says overdo
it. Then after that it changed to love for a while that it's about
love, focus on the love of Allah. The Tsar heads also had love for
Allah but now just the, the whole focus became you need to love
Allah. Now loving Allah men obviously abstaining from haram as
well, doing Halal doing vicar and so on, same thing, but it's just
the focus. And then after that, eventually it became known as the
solstice gear axon, and so on. And that's what that's the legacy
we've received. That's essentially what it is. That's, that's what it
is. If you go around the whole world, the whole world was Sufi.
Because it was Islam. That's what it was. There's only the last 100
years they say that there were two blows to this number one, by the
colonizers, especially in Turkey, Turkey was mashallah Sufi, in
fact, until now, that's probably the only one of the only countries
in the world where you go, they don't just ask which Madhava you
they asked which study you're in. They still do some of them. Right
nowhere else like they're gonna say, well, the Witch Tariqah you
in the soul. They say which month have you might be interested in
that. But Turkey still has that because they've had that
tradition. But then with Ataturk
And also they found that the Sufis were very well organized. Because
you know, you have a sheikh with 1000s of followers. He just has to
give the command and you know, there you go, you know, so they're
very scared about that same kind of things you happen in Nigeria.
Much of the Islam that spread in Nigeria was to dissolve likewise
in India. Moinuddin Chishti, Rahim Allah.
We don't ascribe every Islam every bit of Islam to him, but 1000s
hundreds of 1000s people became Muslim as his hands. Likewise,
Ahmed bin foodie SHEIKH AHMED danfo, do they call him in Nigeria
literally is we hundreds of 1000s of people becoming Muslim on his
hands.
Nigeria has a lot to solve. I've been to a Hong Kong for example,
in Mauritania, I've been to Hong Kong us in
the next country,
Senegal.
I've been to Hong Kong was in Morocco. There I've not been to
Algeria. But Timson had huge amount of Oh, Leon concours, the
India, Pakistan has a number of them.
Madina Munawwara, Makka mukarram. And now they all underground but
before they used to be lots of Han cars there.
Likewise, in Jerusalem, people used to go there for a retreat.
And let me explain to you how that comes into. It's where does this
calm car business come into it? You see a lot of people they say
to solve, so this is what they say, the soul is the grave
worshipers.
But that's a really big criticism. And that's a very strong
criticism. And it's a very effective one. Soon as you know,
somebody gets drawn into the soul. Somebody's going to come along and
say, you know, Sufis, their grave worshipers, and nobody wants to be
a grave worshiper. Right? That's not really something anybody wants
to be.
Right. And the overwhelming majority of Muslims are not great
worshipers at all. Right? We're seams aren't great worshipers. But
this is a slur. It's a swear word. Right? In fact, forget Sufis, they
they say duben, these are great worshipers. Have you ever seen a
dupe in the grave worship?
And the other person doesn't really know? So they just like,
oh, okay, God, I don't want to be with these guys. You guys agree
worship equity? What kind of grave worship you're talking about? I've
now been worshiping in the grave. It's this constant thing. It's
constant. It's just totally unacademic. And it's just a swear
word. Unfortunately, everybody does this kind of stuff, they just
find like the worst possible swear that you can try to apply.
Nobody's going to check it.
Right. Nobody checks the news. You know, unless somebody tells you
otherwise. This is the problem. Most people are sheep, they just
listen to whatever it is, or the grave worshippers.
Kubernetes.
Right, as though you know, let's get the you know, I mean, you go
to grave, you hardly see anybody there.
You know, the the poor and what they'd love to have somebody would
come and read something. But, you know, there's sometimes on a
Sunday, you might have a few people.
Yes, there are people who are Sufis who do stuff at graves, some
that the majority don't.
There are some that do some dancing. There are that do some
other strange things. There are a few. And the self is very dynamic.
So it is definitely open to abuse.
It's definitely open to abuse. So there's definitely charlatans,
imposters, degenerated ones, exotic ones, weird ones, no doubt.
But the good disobey is not like that.
And somebody generally asked which tariqa is the best that doesn't
have any deviance is very difficult to say, because
unfortunately, many paralegals are going to say most study because of
the good and bad among them. It just needs a guy who was a Sufi to
have messed up, he still has,
he still has the connection from before the shakers died, so he
can't disown him anymore.
And his fellow colleagues, they, they, if they try to disown him,
he just calls them jealous. So that's how some evil can creep
into this. That's how it is I don't I don't want to get into
that too much. But there can be a problem like this, because there's
no overarching body. Like, for example, in England, if you're a
lawyer, then you have to be a member of the bar, you can be
thrown out of the bar and so on. Right? There's a constant. In
fact, forget law. If you're a guest safe guy, every five years
or something, you have to go and get a new certificate, so that
they just managed to get rid of all of the rogue guys who just do
jobs for nothing. You understand what I mean? And which is nothing
like that for the so that's the that's the problem in that sense,
but what are you going to do about it? So that's why we have to be
careful who we find. But the benefit of that is amazing. Now,
let me give you an idea of what actually happens in a Hunt Club.
So I've been to the Hunka in part
underbone
tunnel bound was amazing, because the person who had established
that originally was * Abdullah, and maybe somebody before him, and
then he had to go to macromol karma because of the British
problems. So that handcar after hygene double la Rahima hula had
become kind of neglected and desolate and empty. He sent one of
his students Hakimullah Hakeem, and I'm gonna share with you Tommy
who was actually originally from there, he says, You need to go and
revive that. And did he revive it Subhanallah and that man was an
individual that even today that there is a Maulana the Amana, who
they for his name is a young man, he gives you a tour of the place,
and he really brings it all back for you. So he shows you the
Masjid. Right. He shows you upstairs. That's where the rooms
when he says that one mufti, Sheffield's money used to be in
that room, right, and move the so and so all the big qualified, that
was their room, and that was his room, and they were they would
come. And then on the side, there are two small rooms they call
Khaled, gah, that's a Persian term. Hallward go with us in Urdu
as well, essentially,
a room for solitudes it's literally the size of a grave.
And that is where they would sit hygiene dollars is there and I
think half is domine Shahid is there. And I remember I saw the
original that had not been, that was amazing. But then I think it
became quite bad. Because it's been over 100 years. So they
decided to renovate it. And now it doesn't look it looks too, too
new. But amazing. You can literally like a space of a grave,
it's a room close the door. That's where you sit and you do your
vicar because the Sufis in their Hunka had certain exercises,
a Hunka, they call it a retreat. It's you can imagine it's like a
clinic, or a retreat that you go there for 10 days, 15 days, 20
days, 40 days or whatever. And they give you certain ADKAR to do
in that time. It's like a crash course that they would give you to
do. For example, at that time, Carita yum. Rahim Allah who was
the principal of dataroom duben. One of the, you know, the biggest
mothers in India, right? And he's the principal of that so you can
imagine where he was in the sight of everybody and his position. He
went there to learn. What are you going there to learn? You're going
there to learn what I said in the beginning, you're going there to
learn pure Tawheed how to put in practice, I believe this I teach
this, but how do I put it in practice? How do I get my knifes
to obey? How do I get my limbs to obey? How do I get my uncle and my
intelligence to feel and believe in this in the way that it will
now Empower everything? So how do I get my intelligence, my heart
and my knifes to all be on the same page of the true believer.
Very difficult to do that in the outside world because there's just
too many pressures, and too many distractions and attractions.
That's why it's a good idea to do a retreat. Imagine sitting in a
masjid for 40 days, or in a handcart for 40 days where you've
got a regimen that this time you have to wake up and do the vicar.
This time you have and you only you know sometimes they also
minimize the food not always sometimes they minimize them
because Food plays a part. So they made us do struggles that was the
idea of it.
So what he told carita himself to do hazard monotone we Rahmatullah
here today is I want you to do something very simple, just
straight and everybody's slippers
you know, maybe they didn't have these proper shoe racks at that
time in that place. So is there just straight in everybody shoes
and people just come in they just their shoes chapel, their slippers
all over the place, just see the curtain or like just straighten
them? I mean, he is the principal of darlin Belbin. So, and he had a
bit of refinement in him like is a bit sensitive about touching dirty
stuff, as most people do. So he would only touch the nicer shoes
or slippers, monotone, we saw that and he made him do the other ones.
And he said when I did that, all that ego went from my heart. I'm
originally just a simple person. See all of these things outside a
bit of money that you get
the house you may have the job you may have the handsomeness you may
have, or whatever else that you have, it distracts us it gives us
this false sense of security of independence. So this just brings
you back to be connected to Allah. Now when you stay there for that
long and then you come out you just renewed person.
Then you have to carry on doing certain card it's never going to
be the same as it is in Hong Kong. But that's the way it was. Then I
was taken from there to a disk
So we
were you have to it takes like 1015 minutes walk he hadn't that
was on the outskirts of the village at that time. Now they've
built a big madrasa there and everything.
And there was another building.
He said, that's for some of the Marines for some of the students,
patients that used to come in.
Jin ki Islaam, wahana, yo TP uncle Johar beige, as
those who could not be reformed, they're in the main complex, they
will be sent here for 40 days, given a small amount of food.
And they just have to do certain UScar, and so on. And they could
meet anybody else.
That just helps to just break all this data, all this attachment to
the world. I don't know of any place that still does this kind of
stuff. Right? As much because people can't just deal with it and
there's distractions in your one thing you'll have to do is take
your phone away. Right, that would be absolutely necessary, because
that's where a lot of the issues come.
That's what they used to do. You sit and do this much I've gotten,
I've been to the Hong Kong of right poor, and what an amazing
place it is in the middle of a mango, gross, totally serene, I
wish I could stay there like you go there, your heart just feels a
longing that I would love to be here. I was studying in southern
Buddha at the time. So I was in Madras, I couldn't be here. But
you could tell that whoever. And I'm interesting, I met a brother
there from England from Preston. And he was there just doing record
with the sheikh. For I don't know how many months
that sometimes you do that as a clinic or a retreat. And of
course, if you I mean, if you most people aren't going to stay there
forever, they, but that's what you would do. So the idea is that you
learn this, so that each time you learn more, and you build
yourself, you go out in the world, and you just got more fortitude,
yeah, you lose a bit, just like in Ramadan were very good. And then
after that, we lose a bit of it, and we need another Ramadan.
That's what the purpose of these Han cause was. And it had them all
over the world. They had them throughout the world just had to
have a good shake, they they will have different amounts of effect,
depending on how powerful the shake was. And his system was some
shakes were less rigid, were less strict, and some were very strict.
So it depends on how who you would get along with. That's what it
was. That's how it all started. So
Maulana Tonry I mean, if you if you want to understand I mean,
this book, he explains in the beginning, this whole first
section of the book is what is the soul? What is the need for it, and
then he reduces the soul essentially, is struggle
to
free yourself from the distractions of the world. And to
focus on Allah. This does not mean giving up the world.
You have many Sufis who are very wealthy.
So it's not about giving up the world. It's just that you're not
allowing the world to get into your heart.
And you're just not obsessed by it. Even though it's coming to
you, the world comes to you can't stop it.
But you're just using it in the right way. And your focus is
always Allah, regardless of what's going on. Your focus is always
Allah. That's what you're constantly trying to do. So in
here, he talks about the pledge. What's all this about the pledge,
then you have to give yourself to someone or pledge to somebody that
the pledge idea comes from the sooner because the promises can be
used to take pledge from people he used to take the first pledge was
when people would become Muslim. So you take a pledge. So right now
we don't necessarily take a pledge from new Muslims do we just make
him read shahada, but he would take a pledge, those pledge for
jihad as well. And then there was pledge for October, to revive
October. And this is what she had to carry Gilani, the great humbly
scholar of Baghdad.
He kind of revived this. So then many people after him started
getting built the way he said that if people come to me, and
informally, I'm teaching them, that's one thing, but if they sign
a form, that I am their teacher, then that's a bit more formalized,
isn't it? So the same as taking the pledge. So I've taken a pledge
with this guy. So I'm committed to you, you're committed to me. So it
becomes a relationship and a responsibility in that sense.
Then he discusses who is the right shape? And he gives a number of
criteria. If you read that criteria, you'd hardly find
somebody who meets all of that criteria. But you do it you you
basically do with the best you get, because that's the kind of
world we're living in. Right? You do the best that you get. So
that's the whole idea of it. And as I said, you know, the simple
thing is that, yes, there's been some bad and there are some bad
sheep in the family here. And because of that, some people have
just gone overboard and they're very loud. They're a minority.
But they're very loud online. So every time we do a search with the
so what are you going to find his criticism so to solve
the people who are Sufis, they were in their hand because it
looks like I'm not really worried about what anybody did this was a
problem.
But now, mashallah, when you start searching online, you're going to
find a lot more about the soul, there's still a lot more work to
be done. So don't think of it as some kind of
strange idea. It's a very, very organic idea. It's just about
emphasizing the deme that's all it is, as long as you find the right
shape to do it with and you must find a shake who is well rounded,
who the best of the shakes are those who have studied the Quran
and Sunnah in depth? Who are orlimar. Not to say that you can't
have a sheikh who has not studied them in depth as long as he
understands them sufficiently well, because without that, there
is no dissolve. The greatest of the like Junaid Baghdadi and all
these Rahim Allah, they said, If anything goes against the Sharia
can call it the soul Wolf, or whatever you want to call it, it
won't be the soul because the soul essentially is just the Quran,
sunnah. And the fic. in its full glory, that's what it is. So let
me let me stop here. The point of a lecture is to encourage people
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Rayyan courses, so that you can actually take organize lectures on
demand whenever you have free time, especially for example, the
Islamic essentials course that we have on there, the Islamic
essentials certificate, which you take 20 Short modules, and at the
end of that inshallah you will have gotten the basics of most of
the most important topics in Islam and you'll feel a lot more
confident. You don't have to leave lectures behind you can continue
to be, you know, to listen to lectures, but you need to have
this more sustained study as well as aka la harem Salam aleikum wa
rahmatullah wa barakato.