Abdur Rahman ibn Yusuf Mangera – The Enemy that Corrupted Shaytan
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sisters Hamdulillah we gathered here on the Saturday night for
some very important discussions sha Allah Sheikh Hassan he should
be coming up soon as well.
Now one thing that I want to focus on is
our enemy. When we say our enemy, you can think of many different
things. Generally, when we say our enemy, we're speaking about
shaytaan our who bIllahi min ash shaytani R rajim. I seek refuge in
Allah from Shaytaan the accursed, however, I want to speak about an
enemy that may be even closer to home than the shaytaan. In fact,
even the enemy of Shaytaan, The one which actually turned shape on
into shaytaan. And you're probably wondering what that may be the
enemy that turned
a worshiper for many, many years, who intermingled with the angels,
whose name was as as him
and made him the shaytaan. Forever. What What kind of enemy
must that be that made shaytaan into shaytaan. And all of our
focus is on the shaytaan. And yet this other enemy which condemns
the shaytaan to this state of being the accursed one until the
Day of Judgment, that enemy is so close to us, that we're actually
dealing with more times and sometimes even the shaytaan that
is even more difficult to avoid than the shaytaan. And that's what
we want to speak about today. Because if we get to grips with
this, then life becomes much easier. And it becomes the road to
success becomes suddenly a bit easier. So what is this, the
knifes the lowly soul, the lower soul the ego, the desire within
man within any living being, that is the biggest enemy. And shaytaan
works in tandem with it. It was the same enemy that made shaytaan
who he was shaytaan was a worshipper. But this desire for
for arrogance, this feeling of superiority, I made from fire,
thus I rise and I'm elevated as compared to somebody who's made of
soil and who's lowly and humiliated. And thus, this desire
this slowly sold this knifes makes shaytaan into this arrogant being
and then mix him into who we know him today as shaytaan the Iblees.
So this is the same knifes that we're speaking about.
This is the sameness and that is the first ever crime in existence
that we know about. Historically speaking, the first crime ever
take place is shaytans crime. And the second crime that we know the
second crime that we know is Kerviel killing hobby the son of
the sons of Adam it has Salam again that was based on knifes and
desire. He sees the wife of his brother Hubby, and he reckons that
she's extremely beautiful. He feels a pang of jealousy. He
covets her. He has a desire for her and he kills his brother to
think that he will get his wife and today the same kind of the
same
kind of murders take place, and all the sins that anybody reaps
from any murder that takes place. It all goes on to the head of head
of Kabita as well. But again, it's the knifes which is the culprit
that has been found in the culprits. So you can say that
today, this these are the findings of another investigation that the
real culprit behind all of this is actually the knifes and we've been
blaming shaytaan all this time. shaytaan is definitely a culprit
as well. But there's knifes is a bigger culprits. And I'll, I'll
explain later why that is the case. That's why Allah subhanaw
taala to show the evil of the knifes in the Quran, he could have
just mentioned it as he does in many places. For somebody to
mention that something is bad. If the person who's mentioning it is
an important person is an authority is a specialist is
somebody that is respected. And they mentioned something everybody
is going to take their word for it as though that's a word of
authority.
Now, if that person then wants to emphasize the point he will swear
an oath and say this is the way it is this is the fact so when you
swear an oath, it becomes suddenly a bit more emphasized. Now what
happens if Allah subhanaw taala is the one who's stating this fact,
for Allah subhanho wa Taala to state something that is
sufficient, but when he uses an oath, and not just one oh, he uses
seven oaths to establish the facts to emphasize the fact to drive
this point home that our knifes and our desire our lowly self and
ego is extremely dangerous. And thus Allah subhanho wa Taala says
we're shims you ought to have one Comrie either at Allah one hurry
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so now you've got Allah subhanaw taala swearing in of Worsham see
what to her by the sun.
And it's morning light was shrimps are Shamsi water will come on the
moon, when the heart of the day and then we'll lay in the night
was summer, the heavens, the sky, the heavens.
What arose and the earth, all these mighty cosmic realities
Allah subhanaw taala is speaking, Allah is using all of the most
mightiest proportions of what we can witness in this world, the
heavens the sky, the night the day these are major phenomenon. These
are major phenomena that Allah subhanaw taala is swearing by and
after these six things then he says one of suwama Sawa and the
knifes and then specifically speaking about the knifes he says
called a flow Hammonds occur.
That successful is the one who has purified it. Walk out the harbor
man the sir. And at last is the one who didn't purify it.
We let it stray who let it go and do its own bidding and will. And
this is the state that we are speaking about today. See, it's
very interesting the word called a flower. The word of law comes from
further and further means to reveal something that was hidden.
Until now it wasn't available for you and suddenly to reveal it.
That's the That's what means of law. And when Allah subhanaw taala
says got a flat Hammonds occur. The reason why this success is
spoken about is that anybody who purifies the knifes in this world,
then in the Hereafter, ALLAH SubhanA wa Tada will reveal all
the great bounties through his benevolence and all of the great
gifts and all the endless bliss that Allah subhanaw taala has kept
hidden that no eye has seen until today. This is what it means by
Fela, Fela just doesn't mean success. Just getting a Shahada.
We're talking about endless success hear success of the
Hereafter is of an absolutely different proportion. Success in
this world is okay you get a nice certificate, you get a nice job,
you get a nice house, something tangible that eventually you can
get tired of that you can tire of that you can get that can get worn
out. The 60s were speaking about that comes when this gear is made
when purification when purification is undertaken of the
nurses, Allah subhanaw taala says, then that is Falah in the
hereafter which is perpetual, eternal, it is endless. It goes
into the far reaches into the far reaches of the future with no end
because Allah subhanho wa Taala that is what he will provide and
he will continue to provide in the hereafter. But this the
purification needs to take place in this world.
So that's the meaning of Villa. Now how does a person
get Fela, Fela means a complete success. You know what kind of
success we're speaking about. We're speaking about a success, of
the which there's no failure. In the world we have successes, but
it could be followed by a failure in something else, or sometimes in
the same thing.
It gets worn out, but this is a success, after which there is no
failure. What else is it, it is also honor after which there is no
humiliation, it is honor and dignity, and then elevated status
after which there's absolutely no degradation or humility, totally
unlike this world. Think of whatever success you've had in
this world. It's followed by something else, it's up, down.
That's the way you win some you lose some in the world, but in the
hereafter for those of purified, it's a win win situation all the
way through. Number three, proximity to Allah subhanho wa
Taala proximity to Allah subhanho wa taala. After, after which there
is no distance, it just gets closer and closer. In fact,
in this world, you're successful with somebody you love.
You hit the right spot.
You fall in love.
But eventually, there's going to be a loss, there's going to be
distance, whether that be through death, or through some other
calamity. But in the Hereafter, once you've been successful with
Allah subhanaw taala there is no distance. That's the real love,
and that's real success. So success in bliss, success, endless
success after which no humiliation, honor, dignity
closest to Allah subhanaw taala.
How do you get this?
You get this through three three things. And again, we will invoke
the Quranic verses. Everything we say will try to take from the
Quran because Allah subhanaw taala says three things about the knifes
about Fela in the hereafter What does Allah say? Allah subhanho wa
Taala says, What to boo Illa Allah he joins me and you help me know
when Allah Allah come to flee who were to boo Illa Allah hmm era
return all of you to Allah. Turn all of you to Allah Dongba Toba
means to return to Allah returned to Allah doesn't mean that I die
and I go back to Allah which is inevitable. This is a purposeful,
premeditated, intentional return to Allah subhanho wa Taala after
seeking forgiveness for all the sins we've committed. So doba is a
stage after is still far is still far is when we seek forgiveness to
something wrong we've done for our disobedience, once we've done a
stick for them to return to Allah by giving up the love and our
focus and our aim and goal for anything else and make our focus
Allah subhanho wa Taala to return to him. Why do we say return to
him when sometimes we've never even been with him. The reason we
say return to him is because we are for Allah and to Him we will
return. It's just if we do it voluntarily, then there's the
success comes from that we're from Allah because he created us
Subhanallah there's a very telling small anecdote, the oldest two
brothers, an older one, and the younger one, one is two years old.
The other one is nine and 10. Yet nine or 10 years old, the older
one has asked that Where did you come from? Who made you, my mom
and dad?
I mean, seems like a decent answer. Quite a logical answer.
They asked the young one who had been told about Allah subhanaw
taala. He says, Allah made me.
He said, Allah made me. So now the question is asked that how can you
give this answer and he gives this answer. instead? Well, I've lived
in this world a bit longer, and I start becoming attached to the
world. So I'm looking at the worldly means. Now it's an
anecdotal incident. It's just very telling that when we come from
Allah subhanaw taala babies do not ever reject Allah, because they've
come from that divine realm. And we will return to him eventually.
So that's going to happen in LA we're in LA here, Raji rune. The
question is that do we want to voluntarily return to him in this
world, and thus, have a more fortunate lifestyle, closeness to
Allah subhanaw taala that is filled with bliss in this world
and definitely plus in the hereafter. You think all of these
types of individuals, that the Olia of Allah subhanaw taala, who
spent so much time in the Presence of Allah subhanho wa taala. You
think they do it for nothing? You think they don't get any pleasure?
You think the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam when it's quoted
that he used to stand for long periods of time at night, despite
the fact that he's been given the guarantee that he's been forgiven?
Anything he's done prior, and anything that he may do in the
future, and yet he still stands for hours until his feet become
swollen? Was there some kind of pleasure that he
was feeling and some kind of sweetness that he had in he was
experiencing that we don't experience and that's why we can't
understand that and that's why we don't feel comfortable standing on
the Masada. There must have been something for such an intelligent
human being like the Prophet salallahu Alaihe Salam, yet he
could have thought I'm going to go out into the streets and I'm going
to talk to people I'm going to help people. I'm going to, you
know, do something else or I've done enough in the day I don't I
can sleep at night I need the sleep. I need this many hours of
sleep but no, he stands in front of Allah subhanaw taala that's his
way of comfort. May Allah subhanho wa Taala give us some of this
sweetness if even a minute of what the prophets of Allah some felt,
forget the hours if only one minute of what the Prophet
sallallahu Sallam felt we were to be given in May Allah subhanho wa
Taala grant us that joy and that sweetness, then things will become
easier for us. Things become easier for us. Oh Allah we asked
you to give us just the spark of that to get us going. Because it's
easy for you to do this for us.
So Allah subhanaw taala says to boo il Allah Hi Jimmy and uh you
help me know Allah, Allah come to flee home, all of you together,
return to Allah, voluntarily yourself? Are you home in on all
believers, people who already professing to be for Allah,
already submitting to Allah to return to Allah, looking to fill
the hole.
Maybe you will then be successful in the hereafter. If you're
returned to us is good, it's full, it's complete, it's sincere, then
you will be successful.
Number two, then Allah subhanaw taala also says
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successful is the one and again keep in mind what I mean by
success the three points that I mean, that's what I mean by
success, not just any success. Keep that in mind. We're talking
about the ultimate success is for the one who's purified themselves
who gains purification man does occur. So first is Tober number
two, it's this gear number three.
Allah subhanho wa Taala says, But Meena Allah Xena whom fie Salah to
him harsh, your own
successful are those believers successful are those believers who
are in their salats they are fearful and trembling and treating
their loads.
So now we have Allah subhanaw taala telling us three ways of
success. And in this order, this is the logical order that needs to
be followed, though by needs to be done so that we shed ourselves of
the sins that burden us. If you're going to go for a run, you're not
going to carry lots of keys and coins in your pocket and thus be
jangling all over the place. You're going to wear clothing that
is tight that is close to you so that nothing is an obstacle,
you're going to try to travel as lightly as possible. Thus, with
sins is the same thing to make Dawa helps to shed these things.
Number two is to gain purification. Men does aka gaining
purification. That's the tough part. That's what I'm going to
focus on at the end. How do you gain purification in this time and
age? That's what I want to focus on how to gain purification this
time and age. And it changes from time to time. Because our
challenges are different. The obstacles to any possible form of
descale too much fitna around us, how do we deal with that? Number
three, then is then in our solids, we'll get this issue, we'll get
this humility, we'll get this reverent fear that when we started
standing solid, that we actually think that we're standing in front
of Allah subhanaw taala. And if you think that you've been trying
this for a very long time, and you don't know how to do it, then this
talk is in sha Allah, that's, this is the discovery that I want to
share with you
of how to gain that in your solid where you can just start and you
realize that you're standing in front of Allah subhanaw taala and
he just makes it a totally different solid from all those
that we've been praying before.
That's why Allah subhanho wa Taala says clearly, about Jana about
paradise about the gardens Allah subhanho wa Taala says whether
Nika Jessa woman does occur. That is the ultimate reward for those
who have gained this skill, who have done purification, who have
gone through purification.
see another example of that when a person goes for Hajj. When he
comes back. The Prophet sallallahu sallam said when a * comes
back, shake his hands before he enters his house. Ask him to seek
forgiveness for you because he has come back forgiven. Why is he
coming back forgiven? He's just coming back from a spiritual
washing machine.
The Hajj is a spiritual washing machine tumbling from one place to
the other suburb patience, difficulties, food coming late,
jostling with people, not finding a decent place to sleep. Run from
one place to the other your your sleep is disturbed.
eart your timetable is all over the place. And you share the same,
you share the area with so many other people. But when you come
back, it says that if your hedges accepted, you have come back
forgiven. And thus other people can even take better. But before
you enter the house, before he enters the house, he enters the
house mix along with him and ask him for forgiveness. Because once
he enters the house, that he gets back to the world, and suddenly
the corruption began begins again, all that pure state that he's come
back from disappears, well, that he could Jessa Omen does occur,
and the Paradise is the ultimate reward for those who gain
purification. Now let's meet let's move on. Let's speak about
ourselves.
What are our challenges? Every single person sitting here, every
single person listening has a different challenge. Allah has
made us all differently. And each one of us has a very unique
challenge. And that's the interesting part here. What is the
challenge for me is not necessarily the same intensity of
challenge for you. Yes, there will be certain challenges that we all
share living in the same country, there'll be certain challenges
that men face more than women. And yet, there are challenges that
women face more than men. So we all have these different
categories of challenges. Now, the one thing here is that all of this
comes from the fact that our origin is from the four elements,
the four elements, the foreign at the four essential elements that
this whole matter is created from, as they say, In this world, which
is you have your water, you have your fire, you have your earth and
you have your heir. So depending on when Allah subhanaw taala
created us, depending on what dominated or what had a bit of an
excess, then the effects of that will be what we sense within
ourselves. And that is what we have to deal with. So each one of
us has to deal with something else. For example, let's take the
first one, which is
the first one, let's take water.
Water is something that runs very cleverly, very intelligently
through whatever water will find its way, if there's a leak on the
third floor, it will find its way down, right you will find a corner
you will find a small, infinitesimal amount of space and
it will go through it. That's water for you. Water has this
ability to to go around and do things. So water, essentially what
they say is for a man in Ganga, Rama Ufa who will be been if
somebody is water is dominant, if somebody has a bit more amount of
water percentage of water within them. Right, then he's going to be
Labib. He's going to have intelligence, he's going to he's
going to be witty, he's going to be smart. Now, the question is
that that's going to be there in everybody. This same person can
subjugate this wittiness and use it for the positive. How many
people here reckon that they have witness about them? They're
intelligent, they see matters, they're able to work things out.
They're not so dull. They're not the dumb, you know, they're not
the bluntest, you know, pencil in the box. Rather than the sharpest
pencil, they reckon themselves because they've seen themselves in
success. But now it's how you use that you have some of the greatest
criminals who are extremely witty and intelligent. If they went to
university, they'd be able to probably gain a few PhDs, if they
started a business, they probably be able to do very well. But no,
they've chosen a life of sin, a life of using that witness to
fraud people to defraud people to steal people's credit cards, to
send viruses to evil, to, to go and rob places, to to swindle
people to deceive people to rob places, you know, with the
intelligence, you need a bit of intelligence to be able to,
otherwise you're like the robber who comes in who comes into robber
place and you leave your wallet there.
Right so that they can find you this mean robbers like that, that
you hear about. So with intelligence, what it does is that
it makes you sharp and intelligent. But then now you can
become deceptive and you can become sly. And you can use your
witness to do the wrong things and to take the wrong advantages. Or
you can use it in the correct way to help people to make your life
better to make your hereafter better to assist people to
contribute to the world. It's your choice. Everybody who has written
us about them who reckon that this is their characteristic. Were you
using it? Are you using it? And there's some people who are Donald
they don't use it. They have wittiness but they have laziness.
Their challenge is to overcome the laziness and to become active with
that. Number two, we're in Catherine now room. We're in
Catherine our who for Hua Harrison, the one who has more of
a fire element within them that he is going to have greed
contentiousness, he's going to always want things his desire is
going to be great. This is just like fire when fire cannot be
controlled fire will just take everything in his path. It will go
right left it doesn't have one direction. It will go in all
directions. That's what you call fire. This is the same kind of
situation within a human being the one who has the more fiery element
than for them. They are greedy. They will turn left right and
center
center, they will go around whatever it is that they can get.
And they will be deceptive. Obviously, if they've got also, if
they've got the watery element with them, they'll use their
deception for their greed. And sometimes both of these things,
they come together. I'll give you an example. There's one person
during the time of the turbo team, he was extremely greedy. And he
had an obsession and I'm sure the, I'm sure the psychologists,
psychiatrist would probably give, you know, some kind of term for
this. He was so greedy, that when
that he was pathetically greedy, pathetically greedy, in the sense
that he just loved he had a lot of desire to gain things. So once
these children, they surrounded him that were you know, why are
you like this? They will, you know, be he's known for being
pathetic. So they were making fun of him. So to get them away, you
know what he said? He said, you know, Salem, Salem, he's giving
out something. He's, he's, you know, he's distributing something.
So quickly go and get some. So the kids they want, they want
something, sweets are being given somewhere. So they quickly ran
away from him to Salem, you know what he does? He follows them.
So they got to serve Him. And they found out the Salem is not giving
anything, Rahimullah. He's not giving anything. So then they turn
around and they find the same individual there. You said Sonny
was giving us something? He says, No, I just said that to get you
away from me. So why did you follow us? He said, Well, I
thought that maybe he might be giving something. So I'll come and
get it. That's what you call intense greed. Where at the
smallest, when you're going after something, that's what you call
greed. Covetousness show extreme greed like this. So a person who
has a fiery nature, they're going to have a lot of desire, they're
going to want to consume, you know, whatever that may be
consuming any anything. That could be sexual consumption. They could
be food, gluttony, and just desire for wanting things and articles,
food, clothing, handbags, scarves, pens, cars, whatever the case is.
Number three, we're in authority, you know who we're in authority.
For who mutawa if the soil element is dominant,
then that's a praiseworthy thing. The person is going to be humble,
but it doesn't have to be praiseworthy, because it could
lead to cowardice as well. So all of these things, they're all
challenges. Because what does soil is something which is proven by
everyone, soil humbles itself to such a degree that he tells you
tread on me no problem. That's the nature of soil. If that's dominant
within a person, the person is going to have to avato Now if
that's for the sake of Allah subhana wa Tada to avoid arrogance
and pride, ostentation humiliating someone else thinking you're right
all the time, if it's for pious reasons that the world who is
expressed the next exercise, mental world or Isla Rafa hula,
that whoever is humbled for the sake of Allah subhanho wa taala,
Allah will raise him. But then if it's for the person thinks I can't
do anything, and they lead to cowardice, where the person
doesn't even stand up for his own right doesn't defend what is to be
defended, then this is cowardice. So that could also be morale, that
could also be misused. Number four. But in general, the person
who has the world is definitely going to have a positive aspect,
he's got less of a challenge. Number four, we're in category
HuFa motor cabin, that's the opposite of the soil, whoever, the
air element, now you see an air The best example for air for those
people living in the UK. Right. And this might be a better example
of North who are more obsessed with the with a football is you've
got this ball, and it has air in there. All it is, is a piece of
you know, pieces of leather sewn together with air inside, but you
kick it in martial law go somewhere, it goes very far. And
then the air comes in, it can blow it this way. And you can do
various things with it and it's blown around and then it goes
around, it's very volatile it it jumps from here to the next. It's
extremely unstable, because it can be pushed and pulled and kicked
and thrown from one place to the next. That's what you call that
the effect of air. So now, this is a volatile person who has an actor
who has the influence of air within him the element of air he
is going to be very volatile. What that means is he could look like a
very pious, decent individual, but try just just get on the wrong
side of him. Or the the family just does something strange.
immediately he'll get angry.
He flies off the handle.
Does that does that sound familiar to any of us? Not willing to
accept somebody else in a leadership position? When you see
threat coming from somewhere else of somebody getting more
superiority than you something being better than you? Better
handbag, better clothing, better job, whatever the case is a better
car suddenly you fly off the handle. Suddenly all your demeanor
is gone, or your common decency flies out of the window. That's
what you call abundance of air with
In a person. Now,
the thing about all of these things is that we are born with
whatever it is, we have to discover what our issues are. At
the end of the day, the knifes is where all of these things come to
rest. And that is how all of these things are effected. It's about
regulating them and purify purifying them. So, all of these
things relate to the knifes for example Allah subhanaw taala says
again, Allah says in the Quran about the nurse, what are comfy
touch the heat and fusuma What are comfy hamata their own for you? In
this world for you in it is whatever your knifes desires, you
have what your knifes desire, Allah has made a correlation
between our knifes and the pleasures of this world. So
there's a natural inclination towards the pleasures of this
world that's what Allah say so welcome Fiamma, attach the
impossible so desire comes from the heart. Sorry, Desire comes
from the knifes number two
stupidity. It's also a part of the knifes because Allah subhanaw
taala says so he said, Allah says in lamb and Sufi Han AFSA except
the one who uses his knifes foolishly. Who's foolish? He's not
acts in a foolish way. Number three stinginess comes from the
knifes as well. Allah says what are the rattle Enforcer? Sure
contentiousness extreme greed has been made extremely close in the
presence of the novice, the novice has extreme greed. Number four has
the envy and jealousy. Allah says hacer de min in the unfussy him
again next plural of Gnosis anfis hacer de mon nd and fusi him all
of these attributes are related to the knifes Allah subhanaw taala
does in the Quran. Number five, arrogance Laqad is stuck about
roofie and fusi him they were certainly arrogant, within their
lower selves. So arrogance also is coming from the knifes which one
of us has the chance these challenges and he's able to
identify this. And one rule that you must remember is that we have
a heart and we have enough the heart is a positive aspect unless
it's corrupted by the knifes. Now the one rule to remember is that
whenever we indulge our lowly self, our lower self and our ego
and our knifes the heart will become corrupt. That's the rule,
the heart will become that much more corrupt. The more we push
down on our nerves. That is how much we are assisting our heart to
become better. It's a simple rule. Now let us think in our life what
we've been doing, have we been giving ourselves up to our nerves
and thus our hearts are quite diseased, our hearts are quite
weak because the nerves is going to govern the hearts and that's
going to be as Allah subhanaw taala says in the Quran, on the
tunnel of use of it he said former Uber OFC in enough Salah Amara to
be su
I'm not exactly exonerating myself, the knifes is definitely
the one that continuously commands the evil.
So that is what effects the heart that we have
to pay him Rahim Allah, he mentions the following signs for a
diseased heart. If we want to recognize that we have a disease
card, then these are the signs that it will take him has
highlighted. I think these are extremely important for us to
reflect over number one. He says that a person gives preference to
inhabiting this transient world despite the fact that he knows
that it's going to end or he's going to end.
Whether the person has depth in their mind or not. They inhabit
this world, they embellish this world, they work to adorn this
world that means adorn themselves and adorn their homes and adorn
their lifestyles at the expense of the hereafter and they make the
hereafter Desilets they leave the hereafter desolate. That's why
when Salima Dibner Abdul Malik when he asked about housing, the
great scholar of Madina, Munawwara he said why is it that we the
mother Nacra hole Mote, why do we dislike them? So he gave a very,
very straightforward answer. He said it's because a marina dunya
Anna, Amana dunya Anna will hiragana Akira Tana, we have
adorn this world.
But when it comes to our hereafter, we've left it desolate.
Why would we want to go to a desolate place? If you know that
you have to migrate or move you'll be forced to move from one place
to the next. You've been given a piece of land that look before you
have to go you could go any time. You've been given a place to do
something with it. And you think
I'm here right now, let me enjoy this place you leave that
desolate. Why would you want to even go there? But you know, what
we're supposed to do is we're supposed to start adorning that
place so that our desire for there gets stronger and stronger. So if
you're going to move house and you buy a place, right, you buy a
place and it's kind of broken down. It's another area, you're
moving from one place to the next voluntarily, you buy this house,
you have to do it up central heating, new electricity, new
carpets, day by day, you start seeing it built up and adorned and
you start doing everything. Day by day, you're gonna want to move,
come on, hurry up, the builders, you're going to tell him to hurry
up and hurry up. Because you don't do we need to do that with our
hereafter. So the first sign is that number two, he says that a
sign of the heart being diseased and dead is that there's no
weeping of the eye or heart.
There's no weeping of the eyes or the hearts. It's very difficult
for us to weep.
When a person finds that the heart cannot cry, and the eyes cannot
shed any tears, then that means that heart has a problem, because
the ability to cry is an ability from the heart to release the
floodgates. And if that doesn't happen, it means the heart is
diseased. It'll say him themselves. The third thing is
that a person remembers meeting people. He remembers his meeting
with people, but he never remembers his meeting with Allah
subhanaw taala. Let us ask ourselves today.
Do we remember our meeting the last meeting we had with Allah
subhanho wa taala. When I say meeting is not a fleeting meeting,
when you actually sat down with someone, that's when you remember
that meeting? Yes, I sat down with him. I spoke to him. This is what
we discussed. When's the last time that you remember meeting with
Allah subhanaw taala we get a chance to meet him five times a
day. But do we remember any of those meetings where we actually
spoke to Allah subhanaw taala we actually felt his presence
actually felt that he was in front of us. That's the question to us.
If we never do that, and we've been praying for years and years
and years, then it means that our heart is a problem. And number
four, then he says is that the person is actually frightened of
meeting with Allah, a person even when in the Presence of Allah
subhanaw taala is just can't wait to get out of it. Can't wait to
leave. Can't wait to finish And subhanAllah this is probably our
state when it comes to solids. We go for solid suddenly after the
gym is finished. It's almost like the prison has been released and
half the masjid will leave without even praying a sunnah. There was
extra football today And subhanAllah we've spent extra time
then they'll go outside and they'll start talking.
They will make the Sunnah they say that the way to tell if a person
is close to Allah or not and this is a self test that we can do. How
do you feel on your masala
if I say in the masjid then sometimes women don't go to the
message so this example won't be exclusive inclusive How would you
feel on a masala even at home? How long do you want to stay on there?
Do you feel like a fish out of water that you just can't wait to
get off it that you have to do your tour cards do your tour cards
put them down hundreds finish and move for the next for the next job
we've got a disease hearts if we don't enjoy sitting on the on the
masala Subhanallah that is really a really something to think about.
Another thing is
do we enjoy doing Vickery? Do we enjoy doing maraca? Do we enjoy
doing Maha Sabha? Wherever told to do it? Have we ever done any of
these things? How long do we spend in doing these things? I give you
a personal example. I'm thinking that okay, I have to sit down for
half an hour, Barack Obama.
And it feels difficult. Half an hour, 30 minutes, I could do so
much in that time. So all of your obligations are the things that
you need to do calls you need to make emails you need to send.
Basically having your lunch, whatever it is all comes to mind.
Then I am on YouTube.
I'm watching something. And suddenly I'm watching something
else. Then I'm watching something else goes from one to the next one
to the next. I put my phone on and his WhatsApp is on I see that I've
got about six groups that I'm on. I'm not 100 on six groups, but six
groups that I'm on, I check one is 50 messages in that one. I go
through that one. I go to the next one. I know there's something
nagging me that there's something else to do. But I need to go
through all of this. In fact, every five minutes I need to check
it.
Where is our heart?
Where is our hearts? So when I noticed that, that I can spend
time on YouTube online on the internet on WhatsApp.
Then suddenly, when I realized that half an hour to sit in front
of Allah subhanaw taala became easy, because I felt guilty.
So you have to think in these ways to try to realize the best test
for ourselves is this. How do we feel sitting doing thicker? Five
minutes? When's the last time we actually did something
He was thicker. We felt the presence of Allah subhanaw taala
you think it's too far from you? Believe me it's not.
It's not you can feel the pleasures of liquor as though when
you when you do as specific types of liquor under guidance,
especially from those who are accomplished in this regard, you
will gain the pleasure of your liquor as well. You will feel
closer to Allah subhana wa Tada.
Let's talk about something else quickly difference between knifes
and shaytaan. Very important, we talked about the knifes being the
actual culprits that actually led shaytaan to becoming shaytaan. It
was his knifes. So we have this knifes within us as well. Let's
understand some of the nature's of knifes and the shaytaan. First and
foremost,
knifes is our internal enemy. It's the internal accomplice of the
shaytaan shaytaan is the external enemy. You will see Sufis to do it
in US northeast colorblindness. Because if the shaytaan was to
have whispered directly into the hearts, we'd have no volition of
our own, we'd have no ability to decide on our own. But he he does
it in the sudo in the chest area around the heart. So it's our we
have the ability to thwart it and not accept it. Number one. So the
shaytaan is an external enemy number two, while the shaytaan is
a very clever enemy, extremely sly, fire. Extremely courageous.
The knifes is very pathetic. And therein lies its danger. It's very
pathetic. What I mean by that is we've been told that if you make
vicar of Allah, the shaytaan will run a mile, but then he will come
back shaytaan is like a dog, Shoo it away. It goes away. The
cowardly. That's why Allah subhanaw taala says in the Quran
about shaytaan in K the Shavon he ganador ephah that very shaytans
ploys are weak,
very intelligent, but he can be shooed away so he's very weak and
thus Allah subhanaw taala says that the shaytans ploys are weak,
but when it came to the knifes Allah subhanaw taala says, In
Kedah COULDNA, Aleem the verily you're referring to
the women during the use of rds salaams time that you know that
the wife of the the wife of the leader at that time, he said Allah
subhanaw taala says in a que that could not Aleem that verily, your
ploys, your deception is mighty, it is intense. Shaytan is weak.
This one is mighty, but this one is pathetic. And this one is
clever. Now the other way to tell the difference between whether is
shaytaan attacking me, or is it my noster is attacking me? How do you
tell the difference? One difference is that when shaytan
gives you an IDC shaytaan AX University, he wants you to do any
sin. That's his idea. He wants you to do any sin, he'll give you an
idea of one sin and you mashallah defend yourself against it, you
defend against that attack, you read some thicker, you do some
thicker shaytaan goes away, he'll come back with another idea.
I can't do that he'll come back with another idea. He just wants
you to do some kind of sin. When you notice, though, that you're
trying your best you're doing vicar you're doing a stick fall
you're doing Toba but you get the idea of the same sin over and over
and over again. In fact, you get it in solid now, you get it in
such that you are in a state of vicar in front of Allah subhanaw
taala. But you still are planning a sin that you need to do that
desire has overcome you to such a degree that you just want to do
your tour godson jump on line, or wherever it is that you're sent,
you know, wherever it is that that is where the opportunity lies,
then know that if it's the same persistent nagging for the same
sin, then that is your knifes because it has now become
habituated to it. It's no longer the shaytaan your thicker will not
work just like that. You will need a lot of liquor to control the
knifes I'm telling you things that are really get down to the reality
of these things. And if we focus right, we can sort these things
out. That's the great part of being the you know, that's the
great part of this Dean.
That's why the other distinction they make is I said shaytan is the
dog than what is the knifes like the knifes is like a stubborn
child. When that stubborn child Have you ever seen stubborn
children, they want to be taken out of the court and want to come
and sit with you. Those who are parents will know this. They will
not stop. You can say whatever you want. You can do whatever you
want. They will cry for two hours and three hours.
That's a stubborn, pathetic pneus that's the way it is. That's why
Allah Magoo CD, he says, Enough Soukup to flee into Milou into
Milou, who Shabbat Allahu Akbar Rodolphe we're into theme who Yun
Fatih me. What that means is that the novice is just like a stubborn
child.
If you avoid if you if you leave it, you let it go, you let it do
what it wants, and you keep indulging it like that, then it
will actually this child, if you allow it to stay
feeding of its mother's milk, then it will become a youth still
feeding of its mother. But the good thing is that as mothers will
know that when you try to wean a child off the, when you try to
wean a child of the of the mother's milk,
it's difficult, but it does work eventually, it does take some
time. That's why it says waiting to 3 million for TV, that if you
try to eventually win it, it will be when the NEF says the same
thing, you have to work on it. Otherwise nothing's going to
happen. Now.
Just two more points to make. We all have desire within us. That's
a given. We all know what our desires are.
Now desire is not something you can totally eradicate. That's
another thing. If you think that you can totally deprive yourself
of your desires, of expressing itself, then that's a
misunderstanding of the way the universe works. So the knocks, the
desire is there, it's going to be had now rather than having a
desire for *, having a desire for eating, having a desire for
good things, worldly things, indulgence, and whatever else
there is that we do in this world. If we replace that with a desire
with a vision, let us change our vision today. If our desire today
is that we become weenies of Allah, from the earlier you hear
about a great scholar of the past Great, well, your new thing,
that's where I want to be like, you find a role model. You think
that's what I want to be like? Is it going to harm you to think like
that, but you're going to give you an offset desire, a permissible
desire, what we want to do, we want to distract the knifes away
from worldly desires to permissible desires in an effort
to redirect it. So if it's a particular sin that we desire all
the time, let us now think of a particular worship. Let us think
that I can become a woody of Allah, let us think that I want to
also wake up with 100. That's my desire that I want to wake up
vertiginous. That's my ultimate goal. Let us desire that I want to
follow a life of sunnah. Let us design that I want to get to Jana.
Let us desire that I want to become most of the job with that
words, that all my doors whenever I make a DUA, Allah subhanho wa
Taala accepts my dua, that I want to be close to Allah, my desires,
our agenda to fit those so many desires, but we just have to have
it at the forefront, when you have a desire, we're naturally going to
work towards it. So just shift from our evil desires for the sins
that we make so close to us to these great desires. That's why
what we have to realize is that the North Sea desires, they like
salt.
In bread, if you've got no salt, that bread is going to taste awful
that food is going to taste over this country is bland, boring. But
how much salt do you need? Do you need in it to make it effective to
make it tasty, a small pinch. And what's the most amazing is that
you put these few granules in there. And it has this ability to
permeate the entire loaf of bread, or that entire dish of food.
That's the ability of salt. Desire is like solid, it's going to
permeate every aspect of our life. If our goal ultimate desires are
wrong, every aspect of our life is going to be focused in that
direction, because it will permeate every aspect of our life.
And if our goals of our desires are pious to become an a person
accepted dua, etc, etc. Then our full lifestyle would turn into
that direction. How would you do this? And that's the question. You
might be thinking I've done vicar for so long. I do Subhan Allah
Alhamdulillah and Allahu Akbar, I sit down and see La Ilaha illa
Allah, I make my salads, but I still commit my sin. The reason is
that we have no concentration in these things. That's why it's
happening.
Now this is where the difficulty comes. You might be saying I do
all of these things.
You see, if you see a person who seems like a what do you have
Allah one day, he's got his, he's got his mama on. He's got his
clothing on. He's in the masjid. And then the next week he you see
him somewhere else, then that's volatile.
That's not it's the karma is the chemo. You have to be streets. And
the way to do that is to work on ourselves. That's why the Adama
from after the second third century, they discovered that
people they're doing thicker, but there is no taste in that vicar.
There's no Halawa in that vicar. As one of the poet says that until
there is a Bantus be there they'll go for each unit that weekend.
Each unit has to be speak Kidada it's a Persian poem. He says that
on your Zubaan is your destiny you're saying Subhanallah
Alhamdulillah Allahu Akbar, but in your heart, according to that
time, your cattle and your cow
I was in your goats. That's what you're worried about. Today,
you're worried about the thing on your phone, the blink on your
phone. Right? And you should listen to Sheikh mana Hassan and
he's been on that it's very effective.
It's got a campaign against WhatsApp, which is very good. So
if that's the thing, then what kind of an effect is this, this B
going to have on you. That's why they're orlimar. They develop
different ways of the speed that you do. The La ilaha illallah that
you utter and that you read, have more of an effect on you.
Right now this is what I'm saying is they call this by different
names, organize the scale, the soul of Sufism, whatever you want
to call it, that's exactly what it is. You Some people they ask
themselves, the Sufi Sufism seems to be all better, fine.
If you can become connected with ALLAH SubhanA, WA Tada. And your
the speed can become a source of sweetness for you, closest to
Allah subhanho wa taala, then carry on, when you read the Quran,
and it impacts you then carry on. But for the majority of us, where
it's very difficult because we have such distracted lives, then
this is where a guide helps a spiritual guide. This is where the
guide helps, because they've accomplished in this regard,
they're able to tell you that these are different means of
doing.
And this is what will be your benefits. Do you know that there
are Vickers maraca buzz meditations that you can do
specific ones that can help you with your desire problem. If
you've got an overly sexually active mind or feelings, there's,
there's liquor that you can do in a particular way that will help
you to curb that desire to direct it in the right place. You won't
eliminate your desire, because Halal desire is unnecessary. It's
a must. But it will take you away from the halal haram thoughts. And
I'm telling you this is the case, then there's another place that
you can, there's another liquor that you can focus on that will
remove your anger, if you've got an anger problem, if you've got a
severe envy problem, a jealousy problem, there's a thicker you can
do that can sort that out as well. These the Allama, who are
accomplished in this regard, they're able to deal with all of
these things. They've shown the ways and they are effective, but
they need to be done.
So for example, that's why you have these different methodologies
used by the next one these the trustee is the show that he is the
code that is the surah what are these? These are essentially the
same foreign alien names, but all they're doing is they're trying to
find the same Allah La ilaha illallah, these ADKAR? How can it
be more effective to your heart, essentially, that's all they're
doing.
So they're showing you a means by which this is effective.
At the end of the day, if we're going to go to Allah subhanaw
taala and we know from ourselves from you know, from from listening
to this, that we feel so uncomfortable sitting sitting down
and doing thicker, then there's a problem. And if this has been the
case with us for the last five years or 10 years, when is it
going to change you think is going to change later on in life? No,
the nurse only gets stronger than the tree's roots get deeper. This
needs to be this needs to be changed. So may Allah subhanaw
taala give us
to realization of ourselves and allow us to benefit from all of
these discoveries that have been provided to us by these only have
Allah subhanaw taala to get our goals right, and to make our
desires in conformance with what Allah subhanaw taala is pleased
with and make obedience beloved to our heart and disobedience, ugly
in our heart so that we want to we want to avoid it. So as as
promised and as requested by the organizers do is just three
minutes. We'll try some Baraka.
What you do is we're not going to shut any lights out because when
people shut lights up people say it's a bitter although I think
lights are better because they will not none of these bright
lights and terrorists will have lots of allies and there were few
lamps. Right. So really that would be closer to the Sunnah, but just
not to make it too mystical for you. Right and to make it too
complicated for you. What we want is
just look down.
Just try to clear your minds of all thoughts, desires and
everything. And just imagine that the Mercy of Allah subhanaw taala
as Allah subhanaw taala season Hadith Guzzi and our endo Vanya
appdb I am with my servant as he thinks of me. There's Mercy of
Allah subhanho wa Taala that surrounding us, we just need to
tap into it. So what we're imagining is that the Mercy of
Allah subhanaw taala, a shaft of light of mercy is descending on
our heart. The heart is on our left side beneath our chest on the
left hand side, that's the heart. So we're just imagining that this
is happening. We know the heart becomes darkened by sins. So we're
imagining that this mercy that is coming down, it is clearing our
heart, it is removing our worries, it is removing our sins, it will
it is having this benefit when a human being looks into his heart.
He opens up
The windows of his heart, then he sees they see their true self.
When you feel this mercy coming on to your heart, then after that
your heart should start to say hola hola. Not your tongue, but
your heart should say hola hola. So it's like your heart is
remembering Allah subhanaw taala not use your tongue.
If my Lord asks me, Have you no shame in disobeying me. You hide
your sins from my creative beings, yet full of disobedience you come
to me.
So how will I answer?
Well to me,
who shall protect me?
I keep distracting my soul
with false hopes,
from one time to the next.
And I forget
what is to come after death?
What is the after I am wrapped in my shroud?
It is as if I'm guaranteed to live forever.
And that death will never come to me.
Then the harsh pangs of death overtake me, who will now protect
me.
I look at the faces. Is there not among them? Who will ransom me?
I will be asked, What have I sent forth in my life to save me? So
what will I answer?
After I've been neglectful in my faith, Woe to me. Did I not hear
the words of ALLAH according out to me?
Did I not heed what has come in sort of in your scene?
Did I not hear of the Day of Gathering of assembly and
retribution?
Did I not hear the color of death, calling me summoning me. So my
Lord. This is a slave who has come repenting. Who shall grant me
refuge other than a generous, forgiving Lord, to the truth he
will guide me, I have come to you. So have mercy on me and make heavy
my scales and lighten my reckoning for you are the best of those to
reckon with me.
That's what you call meditation. That's where we finished. It's
what you call meditation. You should do this whenever you can.
It's just the heart thinking about Allah subhanaw taala you use the
initial phase of thinking of the Mercy of Allah subhanaw taala
coming to you just to get the hard working to say Allah Allah. And
once the heart starts to say Allah subhanho wa Taala you will see
that the benefit of this is that your desire will for haram things
will become less. This is very powerful. It's called maraca ban.
There's no doubt about it, since the very clear thing, and the poem
that I read to you it's actually a translation of a poem that made
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he says that he started crying like a child cries, like a child
cries. We need to become like a child, you know when an infant is
crying, and it will not go by anybody afterwards. When it goes
into its mother's lap, stops crying. That's how we need to be
with Allah subhanaw taala we want to be with Allah subhanaw taala
these are obviously very high level things that we can only ask
from Allah subhanaw taala but there are possibilities as long as
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