Abdur Rahman ibn Yusuf Mangera – The Best Most Insignificant Deed (How to Attain Absolute Sincerity) [Hikam 51 and 58]
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own, uses a Quranic verse here what does he say? Let not any
obedience make you joyous
I mean you should let obedience make you joyous. He says, Let not
any obedience make you joyous because it comes from you. Don't
be happy because it came from you.
But rather be joyous over it becomes because it comes from God
to you.
That's why you should be extra joyous now because I did it
because Allah made me do it.
Bismillah R Rahman Rahim Al hamdu lillah wa Salatu was Salam ala
Sayyidina Muhammad wa ala alihi wa sahbihi edge Marina beret.
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The author of these aphorisms is absolutely beautiful etheral
aphorisms May Allah subhanaw taala enlighten his grave and may Allah
subhanho wa Taala allow us to follow in the footsteps of these
great people and allow us to get the same understanding that they
had.
So this is a pinata Elon is canneries, book of wisdoms that
we're covering. So the next one is number 51, which is on page 101.
And it's number 51. We're going to do Yeah, 151 page, sorry, 101 and
51. This is what he says. He says, I'm an allah God localu Human
Amylin, yo liwan cashew Who were your duck or wine, deca, whoo,
judo,
you'll have to think a bit deeply about this one, he says, There is
no deed more fruitful
for the hearts
than the one you are not aware of.
What kind of deed must that be?
A deed that you're not aware of. You don't pay any significance to
maybe, and yet it is more fruitful for the heart.
We need to find this one out.
And which is deemed even poetry by you, what you consider to be
insignificant. What deed must be Subhan Allah.
So let us dive into this to try to understand what this deed this is.
So maybe we can get more of these deeds in sha Allah. Essentially,
what he's saying is beneficial for the heart. Remember, we've been
discussing this the philosopher's sincerity is what actually gives
life to any deed that we do. Otherwise, it's just the form.
It's like having a laptop, that doesn't work, because it's process
it is gone.
So it's a nice beautiful laptop, it looks perfect, doesn't it?
There's not a scratch on it, but it's processes gone.
The car, no scratch, but it's gone. The engines gone. So based
on that the saying that these are the deeds which will give life to
your heart. And you don't know that it's doing that. Because you
don't think it's significant enough.
He says that these are the ones which
by Allah, and for Allah.
You're doing them because Allah allowed you to do them and you're
doing them for the sake of Allah.
Now, you might think what's the difference between those two,
there will be some deeds that you might do for Allah, but you don't
believe they're happening because of Allah. You think they're
happening because of yourself. So you're patting yourself on the
back.
Allah doesn't want you to pat yourself on the back. He wants you
to realize that whatever you do, it's by Allah anyway. And you're
doing it for the sake of Allah, meaning everything comes from
Allah, everything goes to Allah, and you care for nothing else,
essentially, you nothing else matters for you except the fact
that all Hamdulillah this has come from Allah, and it is for Allah,
nothing else matters. It's just Allah, Allah, Allah. So what what
the main distinction in this is that this is the one in which you
don't think that you had any part to play in this.
I made the effort I woke up, I came, I did this, I strived.
I undertook this. None of that matters. None of that is even in
the picture.
So you totally have no, no concern about the fact that you had
anything to do with this. It's just that oh, man, it comes from
Allah. That's all that matters. You don't even think that? It's
not like you think it comes from Allah. And I mustn't think it
comes from myself. Eventually. It's just like, it just comes from
Allah. I'm not even thinking of myself.
I mean, there's a probably a
build up to it, but eventually that's where it's supposed to be.
So you're just thanking Allah. It's just a state of thanks,
essentially.
So it's actual form and everything becomes very, very small in your
eyes. Because for you, it's just that Masha Allah, Allah allowed me
to do it. So the bigger idea is that Allah is allowing me to do
something. And Allah has given me the trophy to do something. So it
doesn't matter how much you're donating in the path. Even if
you've donated 10,000, which a lot of people might not be able to do,
makes no difference to you, because you're just like, oh,
Allah allowed me to do this. He gave it to me and allowed me to do
this. Oh, I've donated 10,000. Wow, no, that doesn't even appeal
any, it doesn't even come into your mind anymore. You can tell
this is a very high level we're talking about. But if we never
know about this level, we may never even strive for it. We'll be
happy with the lower level. And that's the problem. We don't want
to be happy with the lower level. Why does this happen? How can this
happen? He says, it's because finally you've got to a stage
where the greatness of Your Lord has finally found its way into
your heart. So that's all you can think about. It just subsumes
everything else. It just veils and covers, and just totally dissolves
all other thoughts. That happens with the number of things. You
think certain individuals are important when you get to the
highest gay like, Okay, forget these guys.
Not like forget these guys, it didn't matter anymore. Because
your focus is now the person at the top. And in fact, if you did
go to somebody lower level, the guy at the top would get a bit
angry. He's like, You got direct access to me, why do you have to
go therefore. But you wouldn't, because you've developed that
relationship at the highest level. So the armor and the greatness of
Allah and the Majesty of Allah. And everything about him is just
so clear in your mind finding you've recognized them that
nothing else eventually matters.
He says that these are the kinds of actions that will really give
you a boost and live in your heart and be give it life. Others may,
but to a lower level, this is the one that will really give it the
life of your hearts.
And that is how you will eventually be able to be
witnessing your Lord, wherever you are. And whenever the situation
wherever you are. And whatever you're doing.
That doesn't mean that you're going to start seeing Allah
everywhere because Allah can't be seen in this world. But you'll
start noticing him thinking about him and seeing him behind
everything.
Imagine
that we can't avoid
in this country and many countries in the world now, you can hardly
avoid your eyes falling onto something that we're not supposed
to look at.
Now, wouldn't that be very? Wouldn't it make life very easy
that if you did happen to notice something that is absolutely
attractive and stunning and beautiful, but how long for you to
look at that rather than
looking at it sometimes or that that would remind you about Allah
straightaway, because he's the creator of that. He's the one who
created that beauty in the first place. So as soon as you see that
beauty like Allah created this beauty or what Allah doesn't want
me to be looking at this so
that that would make life easier. Rather than like, oh, no, this is
haram. I can look at it. I can't let me stop myself.
That's why the Olia, they just find these things easy. Even if
they confront a fitna confront a challenge. It's just easier for
them because Allah just makes everything easier. Because they
always think about Allah.
And they love Allah so much. They never want to upset him or they
never want to be on the wrong side of that. So they see something
beautiful, like, okay, Allah created this. Do we think about
Allah when this happens? No, it's just enough's enough enough that
like beautiful wow, you know. So he says that this is actually the
spirit of conviction. This is the proper essence of conviction. This
is when you when you reach this state, and this is essentially
what gives life to the hearts of the knowers of Allah subhanaw
taala this is their state. They, we you know, it's me and no one of
Allah walking around, he'll look at things differently. I look at
things differently. Then we processing seeing things
differently, we'll be processing things differently.
So that's why he says that when Allah subhanaw taala wants to give
this person this kind of closeness and openness and consciousness,
then his actions that he does the person doesn't give them the
weight. It doesn't mean he stops actions. He's doing actions but
he's just doing them in a different way now is like Allah is
allowing me to do so he's just constantly focusing on Allah, and
in his eyes, the action becomes small meaning his part
Then the action becomes totally small.
It is an afterthought. The fact that I did it always just goodness
is happening in the world. You know, there's beauty that's taking
place in the world and actions are happening and the Sunnah is being
followed my parts in it doesn't matter, he is just an
afterthought. Say you did it? Yeah, I guess I did it type of
thing, if not even less than that. So a person can't reach this stage
until you make an effort with your limbs and heart in the beginning
to start doing this. Because once we get used to doing good actions,
then we can correct our intention. Because the actions are there, it
does take a lot to produce an action, you know, all the effort
in the all the effort that we have to put waking up, doing wudu
spending, whatever it is, all of this is difficult, no doubt. So he
says that once a person continuously does this,
eventually, they will come to a state where it won't matter that
dated it will All that will matter is that there is goodness and
obedience that is happening with Allah, you know, for the sake of
Allah subhanaw taala. So essentially, what will happen now
is that all you're going to be focused on is the greatness of
Allah and that Allah is being glorified. That becomes your
focus. There's a one of the scholars this is what he said, he
says, mean Allah Murthy Mantova. Allah Who, who law who he actually
he is had a taxi, Rafi classy. How do we know where the stage he says
that one of the signs of the one who Allah subhanaw taala has made
his willy right, the one who Allah subhanaw taala has befriended and
taken in his full care like that, because they say they've strived
and gotten to that level. Now Allah you know, the Hadith says
that you have to fulfill the Fuhrer of the obligations, and
then you will get essentially, that you will reach the boundary.
Without the following, you can't even reach the boundary. After
that, you keep making an effort with the optional acts. And then
he says A time will come and Allah subhanaw taala will become the
hands by which you hold and touch and the eyes with which you see
and the ears by which you hear. What does that mean? That means
that you will be fully then protected and guided. Not
necessarily like the prophets. But as much as any other human being
can be. That means you become a weenie, that's a weenie of Allah,
the ones who are divinely protected, you know, in most of
their affairs. So he's saying that, how do you know you're at
that level? Following he says he had a taxi, Rafi classic. You're
constantly suspicious about your sincerity.
You're constantly were like, Have I got full sincerity? I don't
think so I need to work harder.
Because the lie is infinite. So you want to you know, you can
never get this perfectly right. As as Do you think it's only up to
Allah to accept it and forgive the little or the big issues within
and forgive it? Number two, will reflect a feat of Korea.
And you're constantly worried that you're not remembering Allah.
And you see that from the Prophet sallallahu Sallam that when he
came out of the bathroom, the toilets, he would say, well,
franak, you'd seek forgiveness because I'm not allowed to be
doing some kind of vicar in the bathroom. That shows that he was
always doing liquor and then he felt really bad when he came out
he sought forgiveness.
That's the province of awesome state. When look sign a few
Siddiqui and deficiency in your veracity and truthfulness. Am I
really true and honest in what I'm trying to do? While photography
Mujahidin
and a weakness and incompleteness in my efforts?
I can do much more.
Not this is not to a level that
you become despondent say forget it. This just drives you further.
It's a different level. Right? You don't want that level, which just
makes you stop doing everything. I can't bother with this anymore.
It's not done. And this is the level of beauty where it's just
perfection. Because any artist, any any specialist in something,
they enjoy what they're doing, but they want to get to perfection. So
they always critical of their own work.
They're always critical of their own work. This is not that novice
who starts and is like, Oh, I can't bother with this. I can't
get to it. Those guys never succeed right? But this is the the
artists to is always trying to make it better. What could little
morality fuckery the person is worried about the shortcomings. In
his advice. Am I expressing enough need to Allah?
As much as I should be doing because I am needy? Am I becoming
too independent? Am I relying on my own devices too much?
Am I acting as the slave as I am supposed to be a slave? Or am I
now getting to satisfied with what Allah has given me which gives me
a false sense of security and independence.
It's
so he says for Turkey the corner Jimmy are actually hearing the Who
are your Ahmadiyya.
That means he's never set it satisfied fully with his own
deeds.
He's never fully satisfied. He said, I can do that much better
and top this I can make this better. Where's the difficulty on
it Allah He cost the he was saying he had the yagna and condition in
Duna. That's how he progresses in this. That's how he progresses he
says, and he will then increase in his need towards Allah subhanaw
taala in his intentions in his travels, meaning to Allah subhanaw
taala in his path until finally, ALLAH SubhanA wa Tada will make
him independent of everything besides himself besides Allah.
Okay, now, you know, he, whatever that feels like Allah subhanaw
taala knows best.
So that's essentially the deed we're looking for.
May Allah subhanaw taala granted some of these deeds. And you know,
sometimes we're had an example of this, if you don't have this fully
something like there's a deed we do. And we just feel so humbled by
it that, you know, Allah gave me that ability. Like, if that even
comes a few times, that's good, because then we get the taste of
that and understand that, but it's not something you can just
it's not easy, I guess. You we make the effort to keep asking
Allah for a class and sincerity and eventually, this will come
about, and then imagine there's going to be so much goodness in
the world, and we don't take credit for it. So selfishness goes
out of the window.
Then there's just goodness, there's just goodness. And there's
goodness, that's why there was so much goodness in the time of the
Sahaba, because they'd reached this kind of stage. This is what
Sheikh Abdullah can go he says about the he says that the deed,
he's got a slightly different look at a slightly different way of
looking at this. He says that the deed that has the greater
acceptance by Allah Most High is an act, that the servant
understands to be from Allah, you know that this comes from Allah,
he discerns it with his heart, and does not attribute it to himself.
By viewing with the hearts, I he says that if Allah Most I did not
wish that I rendered this deed, Never would I have been able to
accomplish it. I think that's something we can definitely do.
Because it's a reality. We would not be sitting here today, if
Allah had not chosen us to be sitting here, we could have been
somewhere else
going out for dinner with a friend or just chilling with the family.
Or, as they say, in Trinidad lining, or having fika. In Sweden,
you know, these are the different words of people just chilling out,
as they say. And it becomes like a culture, you do this. And in
England, we've got a major culture of going out to eat now. And for
desserts and for China. Like you can't have tea anymore at home.
These are major distractions. 20 years ago, 10 years ago, this did
not exist, but it just shows disposable income that people
have, otherwise you couldn't have teashops the way we do, right? You
wouldn't have desert Palace to in every street, if you didn't have
that disposable thing, it just shows you where the community is,
may Allah allow us to use it in a in a good way. So the fact that we
could spend time sitting together here, talking about the awareness
of Allah, thank you Allah.
Half halfway there thought, you know, Hamdulillah I did this
instead of that, you know, and that was
that was where we attributed ourselves, you know, that was when
we would be attribute to ourselves but no, we want to say, Allah
allowed us to be here. In fact, I think they go beyond that. They
don't even say Allah allowed us to be here. It's not even a thought.
It's just Allah this there is no thought beyond that. It's not like
even I could think of this that thought does not even arise anyone
because just so Allah subhanaw Inshallah, one day we'll have that
very quickly inshallah. So then he says,
By viewing with the hearts I he would say, if Allah Most I did not
wish that I rendered this this deed and never will I be able to
accomplish it. He should subsequently not regard his deeds
as being of such significance whereby he guarantees for himself
the attainment of divine proximity.
I've done this I'm definitely close to Allah. That guy doesn't
do that. All of those guys don't do that. Right. I'm here I went
away from my friends and I sat here they're probably having a
good time. But you know what, I'm gonna get jammed up because of
this for sure.
In sha Allah to get gender is okay. But I'm definitely going to
get January this will be look, I'm the only guy who is doing this
here
on the country from his perspective, you should consider
unworthy of acceptance.
Because Are we really fulfilling the rights a little bit we've
done, Masha, Allah, you know, since it has emanated from
himself, now I'm talking about this at an advanced level. I mean,
you're not going to go and tell somebody who's just starting off
the dean. You know, starting
In practice, you're going to tell him this is going to be lower.
That's just beyond me. Well, you'd be surprised. But yeah, this is
not for everyone. This is for people who are already on the
path. They've already kind of figured it out. This is the this
is the upgrade. This is the further upgrade. When deeds
possess such a balance between hope and fear, they readily find
acceptance in the Divine Court. The next one, he says, lead to
free thought to the bar as admin. So this is the next aphorism that
he's doing, which is on page 102, aphorism number 58 Wisdom number
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minimize your own, uses a Quranic verse here, what does he say? Let
not any obedience make you joyous?
I mean, you should let obedience make you joyous. He says, Let not
any obedience make you joyous because it comes from you. Don't
be happy because it came from you.
But rather be joyous over it becomes because it comes from God
to you.
That's why you should be extra joyous now because I did it
because Allah made me do it.
And then the verse is say, that in the Grace of Allah and in His
mercy, in that they should rejoice, it is better than that
which they hold themselves. That verse tells you pretty indirectly,
that what you have nothing. It's what comes from Allah. That's
what's great, both in terms of this world and the hereafter. So
how do we understand this, let's look at this in a bit more, in a
bit more detail.
So don't get too excited because of worship came from you, rumba
beginner, they should get excited, because you know, they might not
be able to make that double step. But this is. So there's a hadith
that we've already read before we said that men Serato Hassan atta
was to say, to who for whom augment whoever's good deeds, make
them joyous and bad deeds, make them unhappy, or feel bad that
they are true believers, right.
Now, what does this joy mean? And what the other might say is that
people are on three different levels with regards to joy. Okay,
in terms of when you do a good deed, and you get joyous about it,
there are actually three levels of this.
See, the more we read of this, the more intricate, it's becoming, you
know, the other in the other session, about two sessions ago,
we learned about the three different levels of class, right,
and we probably found ourselves at the first level, and then we're
like, oh, there's actually two more levels or higher levels to
go. So he's saying that even the kind of joy that you should feel
there are three, three different types of people in that regard.
This one group, they are very joyous, that when I do a good
deed, mashallah, I'm going to get blessings because of this. And
again, that's great. For the first level, it's not a bad level, it's
just the first level, there are further levels above this, don't
stop here. There's other levels you need to write. And, oh, it's
also going to protect me from the other than the punishment. Right,
I didn't miss my dress is going to protect me from the punishment.
So I see these people, if you were to analyze their state, they think
that I've done this myself, I've achieved this myself, and I've
protected myself. So they think of themselves still too much. You
need to go a bit higher than that.
So essentially, what they've not freed themselves off yet, is that
I did it, they still think their energy and their power and their
ability is still part of this. And yes, for an hour from for an
outsider, clearly it is because, you know, you don't do things
automatically. So you do have an effort. But the point is that in
terms of Allah, it's, it's actually all from ALLAH. So he
says, Now this might be a bit difficult. He says that these are
the people who just stop at a yoke, and that will do.
We worship you.
Right, that's where they stop.
The next level, he says, are those people who are joyous and excited
and happy when they do a good deed? Because they realize that
Allah is going to be satisfied now, and he's going to accept and
this is going to cause me to become closer to Allah subhanaw
taala
is a totally different reason, isn't it? You're not worried about
being just protected from hellfire anymore. You're worried about
satisfaction of Allah, which is a higher level,
but it's not the highest one.
And they realize that this must be a gift from Allah because he's
happy with me. So he's, he's allowing me to do so getting there
now. This must be a gift from Allah that he's enabled me
To do this,
so these kinds of actions, when you feel that kind of joy, it's
going to get you closer to Allah and into His presence. When you
start thinking about him,
they don't, they're now not really considering their own actions in
there.
Okay as much because they realize that they must do this and Allah
is happy with me. So then you can see that they're becoming a bit
blinded towards their own effort in this. Right? Not fully, but
they're getting into this.
Because what they're thinking is that I'm just glad that Allah has
chosen me for this now. He's, he's empowered me. So you see, it's not
about them anymore. It's more about Allah is empowering me. So
Allah is fully in the picture.
So he says that these are the people who have gone beyond ear
canal boo to wear ear canister in. So not only, Oh Allah, it's only
you were worship, but we asked you for assistance. So they've
realized that you can only
it only comes from Allah and you need Allah. So these are the
people of Iraq, Afghanistan.
Now, before we move on to the third category, he says that the
people of the first category you can that will do category, their
worship was for Allah. Clearly, right? It was for Allah.
But the second people there, their second group that will their
worship was for Allah, but it was always also through Allah, they
recognize that they couldn't have done it themselves, that is
through Allah only. They've got that additional package with them.
So it's not just I'm doing it for Allah, I've done it for Allah. No,
Allah allowed me to do it. And of course, it's for Allah.
I mean, if Allah if you think and Allah allows me to do it, who else
is going to be for?
So they realize that, that it's only through Allah Qudra. And he
says that they know who Mr. Farrakhan can be, there's a
massive difference between those two levels.
Okay, now, the third group is those who become excited by an
action. They're just excited by Allah, nothing else comes into the
picture here.
They don't, they don't even they absolutely oblivious to even
themselves in this regard, mashallah, I'm doing a you know,
this is a good deed is taking place, not that I'm doing it
necessarily, a good deed is taking place, and Allah is allowing a
good deed to happen.
They're constantly in the, they're constantly conscious of the Lord.
So, if a good deed takes place, with them, it's allowed allowed it
to happen. And if they ever do do a wrong, because they can still do
it on their nonprofits, they might
get stuck in the wrong place at the wrong time. And they might
make a little mistake and slip up, then
they seek forgiveness from Allah out of Adam.
While they're supposed to actually think that everything happens
because of Allah, they're not total fatalists they're still
realize that my job is to seek forgiveness here. So they're not
totally gone crazy in that regard that oh, I'm just like a leaf and
because that's not our worship, that's not our belief is it out of
respect for Allah, they seek the they excused themselves and they,
they seek forgiveness for that.
So essentially, now the at such a level that this state does not
change.
They, they just everything is happening for them. They just so
connected to Allah that they're doing everything of the world, but
their state does not fluctuate too much. So then he says they are the
IDP they are the true recognizes of Allah subhanaw taala.
So, he then says, a person who's striving to get close to Allah.
Don't get so over joyous when you do a good deed, because it's come
from you.
Right?
Why? Because you will be doing shift with Allah.
That's a surprise. How to shift come into this. Again, don't ever
say to somebody who's just starting.
I'm doing a good deed. You're telling me you're doing shift.
You're ascribing partners to Allah. Well, you are because Allah
is the One Who allowed you to do it and made you do it and enable
you to do anything and you did it. So aren't you thinking that
somebody else has the ability to make you do a good deed yourself?
Aren't you becoming a partner so Allah
did you ever think of shit like that? And this is this is an issue
Allah wants pure monotheism, pure monotheism
that's why the Prophet sallallahu sallam was like nothing but Allah
that's it, it was nothing but Allah. They they had this as a
Reality Masha Allah was easy for them they were the prophets Allah
is Allah. But Allah reward these, these writers who tell us these
things, these knowers of Allah subhanaw taala because without
them we will be lost. So then he says, then you will become a
mushrik with your Lord. Because why this is further if you if you
still have any doubts, he says for in Allah Tala ne yo Nan, Allah
subhanaw taala, totally independent of you, it doesn't
need you
or your worship. So if you think that a worship came from me when
Allah doesn't need that worship from you,
Allah wants you to realize that he only comes from Allah. That's what
he wants, that you just fulfill what he told you to do in this
world. You earn your living, that's obligation, but you don't
forget him. And then you realize that everything you do, you're
earning you get and the worship you do, it's all from him. And he
is so independent, that he would need you to even worship Him. So
you should think well, he doesn't need me to worry because it
doesn't increase him in any way. So that means I'm just thankful
that I am where I am.
Allah subhanho wa Taala says woman Jah has to fit into my Yuja he
will enough say in Allah Hello Honey, you and Angela Levine
Salthill Anka booth, verse six, whoever makes any efforts, whoever
strives whoever undertakes hardship to get anything done,
they're only doing it for themselves. Allah is declaring
that in the Quran, because Allah subhanaw taala is surely totally
independent of all the worlds he means nobody at all.
The Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam also said and this is a
Hadith kotse where he relates from Allah subhanho wa Taala that Allah
said, My servants
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che, it's a longer Hadith but this is the main part that he wants to
bring here. He says, if if the first of you from the first man to
the last of you, and not just men, but in San and Jin humans and Jin
kind, if they were all on the state of the most righteous man
among you. You know, the one was the greatest Taqwa everybody was
on that level.
It will not improve and increase in my kingdom, even the slightest.
I have what I have already, I don't need your worship, I'm doing
this for you, because I wanted to do this.
So
at the end of the day, the excitement you feel at a worship
is a gift from Allah as well.
Right? At any level, it's a gift from Allah subhanaw taala. And it
just indicates that you have now become essentially a place
for the manifestation of Allah's blessing.
Right? There's different people in the world, some and some people
are just more of a place of show and manifestation of Allah's
blessing than others. So just happy that Allah has chosen me to
be a manifestation like that.
So the for the happiness you have, is just that you're receiving
Allah's Father and His Son, because Allah says, We and it's
fine to be happy with that because Allah says you must be inserted
unis. Verse 57, or 58, Allah says, all we father Allah, He will be
rahmati he for me, daddy cavallier For who who are higher minimizing
our own
what I've seen, he says, say that with the grace of Allah or by the
Grace of Allah and His mercy,
that is what they should be excited about. If you want to be
happy and joyous about something, then be happy and joyous by the
Grace of Allah, if it comes and His mercy that is truly something
to be thankful for, and to be joyous about and that is much
better than what they're gathering as much better than what they're
gathering.
So what exactly is the father of Allah and what is his Rama?
Allah says, that's what you must be. That's what you have a right
to be joyous about right? So what is the funnel of Allah? And what
is the prophet of Allah? So what is what we generally just
understand, but here I'm gonna give you views from different,
different other minds to what they said it was. One view is, Allah's
father and grace is his guidance and his enabling somebody to do
what's right, to showing us the path and then allowing us to do
it. That's his father. And his Rama is that Allah subhanaw taala
has chosen us and brought us closer.
Number two,
they all make sense they all it's just different ways of being the
father of Allah is that Allah gave you Islam, the ability to submit
and the Rama is that you have the Quran
because the Quran provides you the whole guidance in that regard.
The another opinion says the father of Allah is that he has
guided you to the faith.
And his Rama is actually paradise. Others go a bit deeper, deeper.
And they say that his father is that he's given you the pure
understanding
of evidence is for Tawheed that you've got a pure understanding of
that. So you are fully monotheistic, you don't do shit,
even with yourself with Allah subhanaw taala.
And there's number of other opinions. So that is essentially
the where we need to be. And hopefully, that, now that you see,
if you want to get anywhere, you have to have a knowledge if you
don't know a place exist, that is so beautiful, you won't ever
unless you stumble upon it. And some people Allah does, if they
don't even notice, Allah just gives it to them very few people.
But for the rest of us, we need to know about it. Everything starts
with oil, with knowledge, if you did, if we didn't know these three
levels, we'd be satisfied where we are at the basic levels. And they
realize, hey, there's a lot more products here, you know, you've
got a really great jacket. Right? Because everybody's talking about
the you got the basic level. And somebody says, Oh, there's some
higher levels, you know, there's we can get more customization and
then like, oh, that opens up your eyes for the dunya right. So same
thing with the Ashira with Allah subhanaw taala. Now let us read to
you how Sheikh Abdullah Bongo, he explains it.
He says
remember that this was let not obedience make you joyous because
it comes from you, but rather be joyous over it becomes it comes
from Allah to you. So say in the grace of God and His mercy is that
they should rejoice. It is better than that which they Hoard. When
the servant gives vent to exhilaration and feels proud of
his acts of worship, thinking that he has rendered these by virtue of
his own choice and will then he will be guilty of displaying
ingratitude, he keeps it light, he says in gratitude. The other
explanation said that you'd be doing Shrek
the happiness of the seven accounts of having practice
righteousness should be really because he knows that he was able
to render this deed by virtue of Allah's grace, mercy and aid.
That's why he expressed his gratitude to Allah Most High, who
enabled him to execute the deed of virtue.
And once you learn Shakur, and once you learn that Allah is
behind everything, then every time you think of this, you will
eventually say
Alhamdulillah Alhamdulillah Alhamdulillah there's just going
to be so many things to say Alhamdulillah for any little deal
you do you think about second hamdulillah
Allah, all praises to Him because He allowed it otherwise we would
never be able to do it.
May Allah subhanaw taala give us his reality and to feed He's given
us the knowledge of it. We expect that if he's giving us the
knowledge he wants to take us further in sha Allah. That Werner
Anil hamdulillahi rabbil Alameen alone and to Salam on because said
on that agenda everyday Quran Allah me, are you yoga yonder
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Allah Ya Allah. We thank you. Yeah, Allah, we can't thank you
enough. Oh Allah we ask you of Allah we can only ask you, we ask
you from your mercy from your generosity of Allah. We are so
grateful that you have made us Muslimeen you gave us existence in
this world and chose us to be believers chose us to at least
understand you.
To some degree of Allah grant us increase in that recognition of
Allah grant us a better understanding of you and better
understanding of what we want. And oh Allah enable us to do what
pleases you. And Allah enable us to avoid what displeases you, Oh
Allah, allow us to value your pleasure and allow us to value
everything that comes from you, and to recognize that it all comes
from you, or Allah reward all of these scholars who have shown us
the way send abundant blessings and our messenger Muhammad
sallallahu alayhi wa sallam for guiding us in this way and for
leaving this guidance, Know Allah bless our orlimar for guiding us
and our Allah we ask that you reward our parents for bringing us
into this world and bringing us Oh Allah allow us to be true, true
believers. Allow us to do our job. Now if we are parents, Oh Allah,
if we are spouses of Allah, if we are whoever we
Allow us to fulfill our roles properly, allow us to fulfill our
roles and to be equipped to do this, oh Allah you have given us a
manual of the Quran but we constantly neglected. You have
given us much commentary in the words of your messenger Muhammad
sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, and we don't take it seriously. Have
Allah allow us to follow in the footsteps of your messenger
Muhammad sallallahu alayhi wa sallam follow his sunnah and make
his sunnah beloved, in every deed of ours in every way of ours, of
Allah, allow us an understanding of that, and make us better by
each day so that our the best part of our life will be the final part
of our life. And Allah, allow us to die with the Kenema allow us to
day in earnestness to meet you, and to be with the company of our
messenger Muhammad sallallahu alayhi wa salam to drink from his
hands and the hold and the water reservoir, and then eventually
enter paradise and be able to see you. Oh Allah grant us the trophy
you can the value of these things and make our life easy and
conducive for this fact of Allah you have blessed us abundantly
more than so many others in this world, but our Allah, we take it
for granted. And sometimes we even use whatever material you have
given us. whatever resources you have given us, we sometimes even
use it for your displeasure, to disobey you and to do things which
disobey you for just our personal satisfaction of Allah allow us to
overcome our knifes allow us to be on this path. But above all, just
make it easy for us for you is just a little decision you have to
take for us it's a lifelong toil and and struggle of Allah make it
easy for us and grant us Apphia and grant us protection from the
disgrace of this world and a disgrace in the Hereafter,
especially the disgrace in the hereafter. Oh Allah bless us in
what you have given us and forgive us all of our wrongdoings until
today, and allow us to be protected in the future. Oh Allah,
Oh Allah, we ask that you bless these masajid and bless our automa
and send your blessings upon messenger Muhammad sallallahu
alayhi wa sallam Subhana rahbek herbalist at yamnaya seafood, wa
salam ala COVID Mursaleen Al Hamdulillah.
The point of a lecture is to encourage people to act to get
further and inspiration and encouragement, persuasion. The
next step is to actually start learning seriously to read books
to take on a subject of Islam and to understand all the subjects of
Islam at least at the basic level, so that we can become more aware
of what our deen wants from us. And that's why we started Rayyan
courses so that you can actually take organize lectures on demand
whenever you have free time, especially for example, the
Islamic essentials course that we have on 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 live, you know to listen to lectures, but you need to have
this more sustained study as well. JazakAllah Heron salaam aleikum wa
rahmatullah wa barakato.