Abdur Rahman ibn Yusuf Mangera – The Fascinating Journey of Humans [Hikam 97]
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So, to continue our series our series on the HECM of ignore auto
Illa the book of wisdoms page, page 198. We are on wisdom number
97. This is a very simple wisdom to read. But it incorporates a
very elaborate
and a very complicated, sophisticated idea rather about
Allah subhanaw taala has
nurturing the human being, in fact nurturing all of creation. So this
is what Ignatov Allah says, he says, near Mahtani Maharaja
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ejabberd OneNet metal endured. So when you hear it, it's going to be
quite simple. The there are two graces there are two graces.
He translated as great as it could be two bounties, two gifts, from
which no being can be separated.
Meaning there are two gifts of Allah subhanaw taala that is for
every single being, whether he's a disobedient being disbelieving,
being rejecting, being denying being whatever it is, there are
two bounties and two graces from which no being at all. And that
means humans or otherwise, can be separated.
And they are inevitable for every creature, like absolutely
necessary, because without that, the creature would not be a
creature, the creative being would not be a creative being, it
wouldn't be existent.
It's the very thing that allows it to be what it is. Otherwise, it'd
be nothing,
it will be an existent, it wouldn't come into the realm of
existence, it would never be known.
What are these two, the grace of existence.
And number two, the grace of sustenance.
In simple words,
the gift of being here, the gift of having been here, if they've
gone, the gift of being present, being existent. And number two,
the ability to continue existing.
So the ability to exist, and then the ability to continue to exist
until your time comes to an end. This is something which obviously
it's very simple idea
that everything as long as
you have a belief in Allah subhanaw taala is the creator,
then that's everything. There's nothing that is beyond the
creation of Allah subhana wa Tada. So anything that is in existence
would have been graced in this way in both of these ways. So now,
let's open this up a bit and understand how this grace comes
about, and how these gifts and how they manifest and the purpose for
which they manifest.
So what this is referring to, the first part is net metal EG, eg dot
O, J, ug, do II Jarden, which essentially means to bring
something and make it modular, to make it exist to make it come into
being. Now that means that Allah subhanaw taala has allowed this
object, whether it be this microphone, this book, or US or
the jinn or whoever it is, allowed them to become manifest and appear
from
the universe, the Hidden Universe, from wherever we were before,
into this universe, where we can be witnessed and seen.
So before you were here, you were in some of the universe. Being in
this universe, now you can be seen, we can be recognized.
Another way to separate those two concepts out is
we come from the universe of the Command of Allah where things are
just waiting for the Command of Allah.
Allah hasn't given it the command of couldn't have be. So there is
nothing yet. Right? All of us were there before
Where we were nothing. So we were still suspended under the command
of Allah. And then Allah subhanaw taala allowed us to come into the
island will Hulk,
the domain of
creation, after Allah said be,
this is really essential stuff. This is really, really basic
ideas.
Another way to look at it
is that Allah subhanaw taala had us first in Ireland when Urwa in
the abode of souls.
And then Allah subhanaw taala allowed us to come into this
world, this abode of forms. Number Number four,
we came from initially we were within the abode of Allah has
power, meaning something that Allah had power to create, but had
not yet created, had not exercised his power on, but had the ability
to do so that's where we were first.
Until we came
into this world of Allah's Wisdom, what wisdom is there in you an AI
being created, coming out of that place that about into this vote.
And yet, there's another way to look at this, Allah subhanaw taala
is the one that took us out of the abode of predestination, we're
just predestined to be, and allowed us to come into the abode
of being
where that predestination now has been realized. And we have decreed
to be here. So essentially, before we came into this world, there are
two things, I'll just repeat them. Number one, we were before we came
into the world where you could be witnessed, we were in the unseen
world.
Before we came into the created world, we were in the world that
was waiting for Allah's command.
Before we came into this world of forms,
we were in the world of just souls, where it was just the soul
and there was no form, before we came into this world,
for whatever wisdom of Allah subhanaw taala, there is in
creating us, we were in the world, or in an abode that was within the
realm of his ability, but he had not exercised his ability to bring
us in this world yet.
And likewise, before we were in this world of being, we were in
the world of predestination. So that's kind of complicated, but it
just gives you an understanding of where we where we were. And the
fact that we're here means there was a decision that was taken for
us to be here. That's the net metal ejabberd. That is the first
one that he talks about, which is the grace of existence to allow us
to exist. Then the other one which is about him, that which is a
continuous one, that after Allah allows us to be here, he is
constantly supplying us, constantly giving us the energy,
giving us the allowing the blood to cause through our body,
allowing our us to take breaths, allow us to take in air, allow us
to having to have the nutrients allow us to consume food, allow it
to be processed, allow it to give us energy, allow us to continue to
see and to do what we need to do and live this life and allow our
heart to beat and our mind to function that is all endured. That
is basically where Allah subhanaw taala has now taken
responsibility, after he lets us come into this world to look after
us and to keep giving us that life
to continue supplying us until we're gonna die. And that's
anybody and everybody, these two these two types of graces, they're
for everybody, for the denier for the believer, for the rejecter for
the grateful one, and for the ungrateful one they for everybody
and they for everything and every object. So,
the human being what sets them apart then, if this is a grace
provide to everything. These two graces are provided to everything
then was it what is it that sets the human being apart the insan
apart? Well, ALLAH SubhanA wa Tada in the human being has gathered
and combined two opposing forces
were constantly fluctuating and can fluctuate between these
forces.
So I was saying that while the wisdom sounded very simple, but it
can be really opened up and you have to pay attention to this one,
right. So it really
He tells us about our Genesis, what makes sense the human being
apart from the lights on that wall, from the structure around us
from the chandelier, you know, from other other creatures. Allah
has then added two components, the ability to vacillate and
go between fluctuate between
two opposites, light and darkness. Believe me, there's a lot of
people today that are in darkness. They're in a very dark world.
They're in a very dark place. And that doesn't mean that they're in
a dark place. In a sense, they have no light.
They don't have lights, they can turn on, they have all the lights
in the world. They're sitting in front of lights all day.
But the light is the light.
The darkness is the darkness of misery, of
despondency,
of concern of grief, of worry, of feeling helpless and hopeless,
feeling good for nothing, feeling, no accomplishment,
feeling, at loss defeated, to very bad place, or being in sin, that's
another dark place to be constantly engaged in sin. So
there's no light in their life.
The other one is,
human beings. Another two things Allah puts in human beings is what
you would call
his subtle nature of the human being, the delicate nature of
human being, and what you would call the opposing factor to that,
which is to be heavy, in a spiritual sense to be heavy, and
not to be light in their burden. Human beings, if they were not,
provided these two first benefits these two first graces, then we
would have remained in an existence we would not have been
here.
And we would not have been able to benefit from this form that we
have this creation that we have, we would not have had even a soul
or anything of that nature. So how does the human being supersede
everybody else all other creations? What is the quality
that Allah subhanaw taala has provided in the human being, that
gives them the ability to surpass all other creation, and then to
have a life beyond this world because it will only be human
beings and the jinn that will finally have an eternal life,
paradise in sha Allah, or otherwise hellfire, everything
else will be turned into dust, or will just not even appear in the
Hereafter, animals will appear but then be turned into dust and other
things, objects, they probably wouldn't even be around. So what
is it that human beings despite the fact that we all share in
those things. So that is what it is that Allah subhanaw taala has
fitted a component in us, that allows us to recognize him, it's
the component of ability to recognize their Creator, the
ability to actively recognize their Creator.
And that is where the quality of the human being the merits of the
human being comes to light. And the way to achieve this is with
efforts is with efforts,
different types of efforts, whether that be mental effort,
physical effort, in terms of worship and devotion, and, of
course, psychological and spiritual efforts to get the mind
right first, without knowledge, this would be very difficult
because there's only with knowledge and understand what to
do and what to avoid, and what to make an effort to do. Then comes
the efforts. And that's the physical efforts.
A person a human being then with the efforts will eventually reach
a stage where they can witness Allah subhanaw taala and
everything which is the reality of this world. We just said it at the
beginning that Allah is the One who has graced everything in this
world with existence. And then continuation.
And the successful one is the one who's realized that who's finally
figured out that yes, this is only there because of Allah subhanaw
taala
you come out of your house, right? You come out of your house, you're
going to take a walk to the masjid. It looks overcast. You
think it could rain, but
the app tells you that it's not going to rain is exactly what
happens. Right? And as you start walking, you don't have a jacket
and suddenly you hear you you feel a few drops anything it's gonna
rain, and I'm going to be soaked by the time I get to the masjid.
So you start praying Allahumma Hawa Lena Wallah. Elena, which is
the other the Prophet sallallahu
have made of Allah around us, not upon us. That's the DUA the
promises are made for rain. He people that there was a drought so
that they can complain to the province allows him in Juba
prophesize, a made dua for rain. So then it rained and it rained
and it rained. So those people came, there was a person who came
the next Friday says, yes, we'll all have this as just, you know,
being submerged and there's just too much rain. So the persons and
okay Allahumma Hawa Lena, wala Elena, oh Allah around us, not
upon us, upon the mountaintops, and so on, because we need the
rain, but we just don't want it upon us. We don't want to drown in
this. And we don't want everything to be destroyed in this. That's
exactly what happened. So you read that dua, and suddenly the drops
don't continue.
Right? They don't continue. So you start thinking, that's because of
me. I read this dua, then you start thinking, What am I, Allah,
the whole Nirvan. And the whole system he has, I'm a little out of
all of these creatures, just within 100 feet around me, there
are so many creatures from insects, you know, to human beings
and everything else. And Allah is looking after all of them. And
they each one of them is important. So what does it mean
that I make a deal, and this happens. And then you think, of
course, if Allah wanted, he could just let it shower. And it would
be soak in a human, then you carry on, and you're just about 100
steps from the message of hamdulillah reached, of nearly
reached. Now if it rains, and then you think, Allah, if He wants to
let it rain and shower and just let it go. And as they say, just
chuck it down, you would be completely drenched. Even if you
had just one 100 meters to go.
That's the equivalent of Allah that you have to constantly be in
touch with.
That's the Quran of Allah, that's the awareness of Allah. Like
there's just a bit of awareness of Allah subhanaw taala, that you
have to be in touch with.
to constantly be remembering him to understand his power, then His
grace and His power and His grace and His mercy. And you have to be
able to feel that and interact with that. That's what Allah wants
from us. May Allah make it easy for us? Because there's a lot of
distractions. So that's what he's saying that Allah has given the
human being disability to do this. So he's saying that as soon as you
become blind of Allah subhanaw taala is Madiba. It's like you
become your spiritual illness, your spirituality rather,
it gains a thick cover, there's a thick veil. And every time you
make an effort to recognize Allah and know Allah, that veil thins,
and thus it's easier for you to recognize Allah subhanaw taala.
The only reason we can sin is because that veil becomes very
thick. And so we we don't see him, we don't focus on him. We're not
aware of him, so then we can do the wrong. But if that veil is
thin, then how can you sin when you seeing and knowing somebody's
watching you.
So it's this law prophets, and cosafa. That's what you call this
a thickness. And this thinness, right of this veil, you can call
it and that is directly related to the light and darkness as the veil
gets thicker, the darkness increases.
Even if you're in a room full of light, and disco lights and
everything, that's darkness, it's not the right place to be.
So every time the darkness lessens, which means the light
will increase and every time the light will decrease than the
light, then the darkness will increase. This is very different
to angels. They're in a more static state. Human beings are not
in that static state, except maybe prophets and so on. Or anybody
that Allah's grace, but we are not innately like that. That's not our
intrinsic state. But angels are like that. They're made of light
and they're constantly in that state, very static, of awareness
of Allah subhanaw taala as Allah says, Laya sunnah Allah, Amara,
whom they never disobey Allah in what he's commanded them with
Aluna maroon they do exactly what Allah has commanded them. Then in
Surah, to Salford 164 Allah says Alma Mina about the mullah Iike
Alma Amin Illa, who MACOM Omar Allume
there is none of us except that they have known
station known place.
Now, you see the difference is
there are glass, you've got glass. Now glass doesn't take too long to
polish you polish a bit and then it's polished. Because the very
simple idea glass is a very simple idea. Right?
And
as opposed to that, you get certain gems like the diamond and
the Ruby. You polish it a bit and Mashallah. It's shine
comes out. And as you continue polishing, it actually becomes
better. And it becomes superior. Right? I don't know if anybody's
in the gemstone business, but it's very different to glass glass is
very easy to do, and it's done. But when it comes to, and then it
can't go any further, you can't get glass to look any better than
it is, there's a limit to it. Whereas when you get the special
gemstones, the more you polish them in certain different ways,
the better they become, the superior they become.
What that means is that the angels are like glass, they're very easy
to polish. But that's it, there's just one simple level for them.
Whereas for the human being, Allah subhanaw taala has made it that
you can actually continue to polish yourself until the Day of
Judgment, until you die, and become even better and better and
rise and rise and rise, because you're going towards Allah, and
Allah is infinite. So there is no limit
of how close you can get to Allah because Allah is infinite. I know
that's a bit of a complex idea. But that's when it's to do with
Allah, it's infinite, because Allah is not limited in any way
insan the human being, if a human being had stayed in that world, in
those
first abodes and not been brought into this world,
then you would not have been any more superior to anybody else.
What difference would there have been with an animal or anything
else, it's only the fact that you've been able to come in here
that you can make all of this difference and reach that high
status. The people we're speaking about here are those who make it
to the electric group.
When you're comparing angels and human beings, then it's not really
a straightforward comparison. So the way they've made a comparison
between humans and angels, because you've got Jibreel, ra, salam, and
so on, I mean, how do I compare to Jibreel? Larissa, doesn't matter
what I do, right. So, the understanding here is that the
discussion here is in stages is in levels. So the elect and the
highest level of human beings who are they?
The prophets, the messengers, the Ambien messengers, they are
superior to the highest angels. So all prophets, Musa alayhis, Salam
use of Artesia Mohamed Salah lomi, Brahim Ali salaam will be superior
to Jibreel, Mikhail Israel and all the elect angels, right, that's
the hierarchy. And that's the status. However, those elect
angels like Jibreel and so on, they will be superior to those
humans
beyond the prophets who are considered more carabin and the
close ones to Allah subhanaw taala. So those angels will be
superior to the nonprofits who are mashallah up there.
That's the Mikado ravine as Allah talks about the three groups of
humans sort of the rocky For example, The Mikado ravine, and
then in general as herbal Yameen, even Surah two Rahman, there are
two paradise mentioned those for the Maccabi in Serbia and those
who are ahead of everybody else, the elect group, the winners, the
champions, and then the others who are righteous thereafter that
these higher human beings, after the angels as after the prophets,
you know, the very close ones, the IODP in Makoto Rabin, they are
superior to the rest of the angels in general.
Right, because they've, they're the ones who worked hard to get
where they want to get right, then the general angels are superior to
the general human being.
So when you are comparing a general human being that has not
tried huge, make a huge effort to recognize Allah and so on, well,
angels are going to definitely be better than them because they've
never disobeyed Allah. And these people are probably disobeyed
Allah.
But then you make an effort. And you become a wreck. No of Allah,
and suddenly you become better than the normal Angel.
But the elect angels will always be better like God daddy, salaam.
They are only surpassed by the prophets. But that's fine. That's
good enough. Right? There's no competition between Jabril I
sometimes get these questions.
What about if I'm jealous of the Prophet sallallahu Ellison's
MACOM? Is that Cooper? It's like, how are you even jealous? Like,
where are you even getting this idea from? How can you be jealous
of the browser? Everything you've got is from him. So how can you be
jealous of the product you can't be? It's like being jealous of my
father. That is my father and I wasn't his father. It's like a
crazy idea.
Why did you even get this question from
Allah subhanho wa taala. Now now put put it in perspective. Allah
subhanho wa Taala first graced you Oh in sun by giving you the gift
of existence. And thereafter Allah subhanho wa Taala was caught
I'm passionate with you. And Allah cared for you, he loved you. So
that you would increase in your quality that allows you to become
superior to other other creations. And you're the Allah, the bounty
that Allah the gift that Allah wants to give you the full gift
Allah wants to give you that can be completed upon, you're not just
the gift of constant sustenance and existence, that's just basic
to everybody. The additional bounties that Allah subhanaw taala
has given you after existence after the mere existence. Let's
open that up a bit. And this is quite amazing. So Allah subhanho
wa Taala provides everybody at two levels.
Well, can provide two levels. One, I think everybody has the second
one, not necessarily everybody. The first grace that Allah
provides everybody in terms of sustenance is the physical one is
the one that you can feel and so on. That is essentially, you know,
your mere existence, flesh, blood, life, breath, heart, beating,
blood, everything until you die. But the other one that he
provides, which is of essence and substance, right, is the
sustenance of the rule, we people forget, it's the body, we're
focusing on Hamdulillah, my body is fine, and I'm fit. And I'm not
unhealthy. So we think we're fine. But what about the rule and the
spirit? That's the only way that is what gives us takes us out of
the darkness and gets us into the light. So
what is the sustenance and nourishment for the soul? It is
your pain is the light of conviction that yes, there is God,
and I am a servant, I am safe. I know I am here for
I'm not here just to enjoy myself. I'm here to No, I'm here. Because
it's a sojourn between, you know, where I came and where I'm going,
and I've got somewhere further to go, I can enjoy myself, while
while I'm on my purpose, as long as I know my purpose, then Allah
provides him with knowledge, with science, with
knowledge of the sacred, it's a sacred science is actually that
which gives you a better understanding of who your life is,
and what it is right. And, and gives you more understanding of
the secrets of this life. And the best way to get things out of this
life and so on. Now, this gets a bit more complicated. As I said,
Allah provides the sustenance in two ways. One is the physical, and
the other one is the spiritual, and I've just described the
spiritual physical is our body keeps us sustained spiritual is
the knowledge that he gives us the EMA and he gives us the Yaqeen He
gives us now that is also split into three different categories.
So don't lose it, right? So the spiritual assistant that Allah
gives us in grace He gives us is split into three different
categories.
to different people, I guess, the one category is the one which
neither increases nor decreases, stays quite Stan stays quite
stable, you could say, and that is what he gives to the angels.
Remember, we're talking about all everybody here, not just human
beings, we're talking about everybody. That's what it gives to
angels. Angels are very, very stable. They can't disobey Allah.
But they can't increase further either. Like they're quite steady
in where they are, and they are happy with that. And then after
that, it's that which can fluctuate. That's not the angels
that's going to be human beings, humans can fluctuate. I said that
right from the beginning, humans can fluctuate, they can go into
the depths of darkness,
right depths of darkness, in terms of their belief in terms of their
practice, in terms of their feeling in terms of their
relationships, everything, or they can go into light, they're making
a mistake somewhere if they are going into darkness somewhere. So
that's why they have to come into the light, that is the human
beings, general human beings. Now among them, obviously, among them
also there is this the most stable one, which is to the special human
beings that have made an effort, just the same as angels, he gives
it to them so they stay relatively stable. Angels can never
fluctuate, these people become stable because Allah allows them
to be stable, but they could fall this is human beings, they always
can fall back down. But Allah grants them stability. Now among
them, obviously, those who are messengers, the prophets, they
don't fluctuate at all. They don't fluctuate much at all they have,
though the human beings they don't fluctuate. But then the Alia the
huge Olia the big earlier the very close earlier, they become the in
that same category that they don't fluctuate much, either. Now,
anybody who's related to these people who follow these people who
stay with these people who love these people, they're also going
to continuously increase
That's the beauty, we will Insha Allah, we will continuously
increase. Allah subhanho wa Taala
has constantly been with us now just think of Allah's grace. And
I'm going to open this up and hopefully this will give us a
better understanding of how Allah subhanho wa Taala is so focused on
each one of us, how he's designed the whole system, to allow us to
be where we are and inshallah to be even further than where we are
before we die. So this is what it is.
Allah subhanho wa Taala took care of everything. He designed the
system in which he could bring us into existence. And then he
designed a system in which we could be nurtured and we can
continue and we can be sustained. So we started off where Allah
subhanho wa Taala created us in these little minor forms. And then
Allah subhanaw taala manifested Himself to us, as Allah mentions
in the Quran, surah Allah, Allah of around verse one, verse 172, or
so
Allah extracted the progeny of otherwise salaam from him. And
then he manifested Himself to them and said, Aren't I your Lord,
allow us to be Rob become? And they said, Of course we are. Of
course you are. You are our Lord. There was no way they could have
denied that because they were in a very pure realm.
So that's what happened first that Allah started off on that, on that
note that he showed us who he was. And he made us recognize who he
was. That's how he started, every human being off, right.
So Allah gave you recognition of him and you recognize them. Allah
manifested Himself and you witnessed him. Allah subhanaw
taala then makes you gives you the ability to speak and confess and
believe so then you can believe in Allah. And you can confess that He
is you're going to say, Allah, Allah, Allah, Allah, that's a gift
of Allah subhanaw taala to be able to say that
Allah Subhana Allah so that was all done in that covenant we took
when we were still, you know, in this other realm. Now, what
happens is that ALLAH SubhanA, WA Tada, places us, places our seed,
right after that experience, other Muslims time. Then he placed
everybody seeds in the loins of Adam Alayhis Salam, and Allah
subhanho wa taala, then
looked after all of these generations, these hundreds of
generations from either Madison arm all the way down, protecting
our seed, and everybody see it as it goes down in the system,
beautiful system that he created, constantly throughout and all of
these people, Allah subhanaw taala was providing them, Allah was
sustaining them. So long journey, and Allah has looked at that
looked after us, you think we just came out of nothing. If we came
from either Mali Salam, many, many, many, many generations
millennia ago, Allah has looked after, for all of these millennia,
all of our forefathers, suddenly were a bit bigger than we thought
we were, were suddenly inshallah more significant than we thought
we ever were, are going to be. Then after that, finally, Allah
subhanaw taala allowed us to be inserted into the womb of our
mothers, finally, it's going to be the time for our arrival in this
world. So that seed finally Allah knows exactly when he says, okay,
it needs to go into the mother.
Then after that, ALLAH SubhanA, WA Tada. Now, there's a very special
attention. Maybe there Allah was taking care of lots of people
together, lots of seeds together. But now, when you're in your
mother, it's only one person or two, if it's a twin, or three.
So Allah subhanaw taala now sets the whole system up. During that
fetal stage, that embryonic stage and the womb of the mother, Allah
subhanaw taala makes the womb
completely facilitated for this.
A place where you can grow,
a place in which you can get your sustenance and your life can
develop there. Allah subhanho wa Taala then has the egg and the
sperm meet in that very cozy place. In that perfect system.
Allah subhanho wa Taala allows them to come together, many come
together but then they don't survive or many just don't come
together. And that one came together because that was the one
Allah subhanaw taala wanted for you to come into the world with.
Then after that, Allah subhanaw taala allows that to grow and to
develop into a clot of blood and then from that into a piece of
flesh. And from that Allah subhanaw taala starts shaping you
how do you get shaped from just the rough clot, rough clump of
flesh, and suddenly you start seeing within four or five weeks,
you suddenly start seeing these arms protruding out and legs
protruding and there's a torso and there's a head and so on.
Thereafter that comes a time and Allah subhanaw taala
A finally takes your soul that he'd already created before your
form in the
domain of souls and he
designates the right one for this body that's going to be yours
about when is this about 120 days or so, in the womb,
then after Allah subhanaw taala, has made provisions in the womb,
and allows the women in fact, has the women set up for this, that
every month they have a cycle, right, so that they can remain
healthy inside for them to be able to have the babies, you know, to
be able to sustain the babies that Allah subhanaw taala will allow
them to grow in themselves.
Now Allah lets you stay in there until you to strengthen you in
there until you become strong enough to survive in the world.
So your limbs and that becomes stronger, they become better
formulated and so on. And until finally, you can come out into
this world and appear in the world where you can finally speak for
yourself and recognize Allah, you can finally come out after all of
that huge journey.
And then you can start seeing things and see Allah subhanaw
taala. See ALLAH SubhanA wa Taala manifesting in his attributes
everywhere. And then you can recognize, wow, wow, Allah has
cared for me from that time until now, I'm not just somebody who
appeared 40 years ago, or 30 years ago, I am much older than that.
Then Allah subhanaw taala, when he Allah allows you to drop into this
world appear in this world, Allah subhanho wa Taala knows that you
cannot eat rough foods. He knows that you can't start eating rough,
you know, whole foods that all the people eat, you don't have teeth
yet. So
Allah subhanaw taala, then creates in the mother,
all the beautiful women of the world, that's huge purpose of
their creation, Allah grants them the ability to feed you with pure
milk
with pure milk.
And not only that, Allah places in the mother
a special compassion, a special mercy and a special ability.
When women see children who are hungry, other people's children,
Allah has given them this amazing quality, this emotion, this
feeling that they would want to, you know, they'd be willing to
feed that child, Allah has given that ability to them. So Allah
allows them to produce this milk to be able to feed feed us. Then
after that Allah subhanaw taala gets the father more involved.
And he better start earning a living and start preparing and
facilitating providing a home, providing a cozy place, a safe
place, a safe abode.
The father's responsibility has always been there to prepare for
that. And to do that, even while the mother was carrying the baby.
Allah places in both the father and mother, that special
compassion and sometimes the prophesizing we even talked about
that becoming a fitna or Well, I do much better to Napolitan
that children can sometimes become a source of your miserliness
because you want everything for your children.
There's some people today who are completely settled in terms of
having homes that are without interests, you know, that they
own. But for their children, they are taking huge interest loans.
themselves, remortgaging the house and taking upon them the Wrath of
Allah. That's extreme. Now what is all of this except Allah's mercy?
Can you not see through the mercy that a mother has for her
children, that our mothers inshallah had for us?
And our fathers had for us? Can you not see how Allah is merciful?
And this is all part of his compassion that he didn't have to
do this. And all Allah subhanaw taala has told you to do after
that is just recognize his Rubia
just recognize that he is the rob the Lord that's allowed you to
come from all the way back there to now. So now suddenly, our lives
have become a lot more richer than 40 years old, or however old
people are 35 years old or 20 years old, or seven years seven
years old or 60 years old. It's a lot you know, the planning was
from a much earlier.
So in reality, all Allah subhanaw taala wants from you is to just
recognize what happened, the reality what you went through. So
his Rubia which means his nurturing of
us, his Lord His Lordship, and he just wants you to understand that
he is the one that you should be turning, turning to.
So anyway, then Allah subhanaw taala has made it a responsibility
for the fathers, not the mothers, the mothers have done their job. I
mean, they still have that rate, they still continue to but the
biggest responsible now is to provide for you, which means hard
cash, money, sustenance, Allah subhanaw taala made fathers
responsible to then sustain you until at least you become mature,
and for girls until they get married. That's Allah subhanaw
taala makes a responsibility. Allah subhanaw taala also
obligates the father to have that compassion, and to look after the
children to do the best for them.
And most fathers do, some don't.
And any person who has not had that compassion from their mother,
or from their father, they are generally very destabilize they
have a lot of rage, they have a lot of problems.
That's why it is so necessary and but people mess up. That's the
problem.
Now, the other thing Allah subhanaw taala also did after we
came into this world is that Allah subhanaw taala said, we're not
going to write anything against you from what you do until you
become mature,
gave us a grace period to learn to observe, to be taught, gave the
parents responsibility teachers. So Allah subhanaw taala said, give
you a grace period, until you're 1314 years old. Now, even after we
become mature and we become responsible, Allah subhanaw taala
then continues and he's continuing, this is where we are
right now. Right most of us are in that stage now until we become
old. Allah subhanaw taala till we become middle aged, Allah subhanaw
taala continues to bless us, nurture us and sustain us.
Now when we finally get to old age synodality, right, decrepitude,
maybe old age, then
then Allah subhana, WA Tada will want us to, eventually we will be
buried, we will die and will be buried. Our time in this world
will have finished then will rise on the day of judgment. And you
will then be driven to Allah subhanaw taala you will be
gathered. And then Allah subhanho wa Taala will then want us to
stand in front of him.
Finally, after that lat long journey, and Allah knew every
single one of us from other money from before. And finally we're
standing in front of Allah subhanaw taala.
Then after that, if we're very lucky in sha Allah, and we've
worked well, and Allah subhanho wa Taala gives us safety and delivers
us from His punishment. And in sha Allah enters us into the abode of
His rewards.
And then after that, we're still not there, we still haven't had
our full satisfaction. Remember that?
Because if anybody who's recognized Allah like this, they
are still not going to be satisfied. They can have the best
things of this world, but they will not be satisfied, because
their satisfaction is the ardent love for Allah. So they want to
see their beloved. That's why they go to the Mecca.
Why do people go to Mecca? You can worship at home, but you go to
Makkah to show your devotion that's why you do things there
like a person in love. You wear two garments, you go around the
house of Allah, who else is then going around the house of Allah
is just like a person who loves somebody, they're going to go into
the area, just walk around them.
Do you understand what I'm saying? That's what you do. You stay
hungry for Allah. That's our fasting. We pray five times a day
but then once a year, Allah wants us to stay hungry for him.
And those who understand this, they they get the best out of it
because hey, this is what we wanted. This is mashallah, this is
what I wanted. I'm close to my beloved. So then eventually when,
in sha Allah, everything is successful in the hereafter. He
gets us into paradise. We've got everything in paradise. And Allah
says, what else do you want? Well, even the last person who is going
to come out of hellfire, the biggest sinner, Allah subhanho wa
Taala eventually lets him go in paradise said all of that is
yours. And he turns on to Allah. It's mentioned a hadith of mercy
and says, You're the Lord of the womb, you're messing around with
me. Like you're rubbing it in. You're saying that is all yours,
but it's not mine. I'm like a sinner. So no, this is yours. This
is all yours. In fact, we're mythical Houma are 10 times the
size of this world. That's the last person out of hellfire who
had some believe who did that recognition who had that
awareness, but never did any goodness besides them.
So
eventually, when everybody's in paradise, or when people are in
paradise and they enjoying everything, then Allah is going to
come to him and say,
Have you got everything you wanted? Yes, we have. Do you want
anything is no you've given us everything you got more than
because everything Allah has given them when they go into paradise
for so many years, they just going to look and be dazzled.
They're not even going to start using it for I don't know,
hundreds of years in that time, then they're going to start
getting used to it. And then Allah is going to say, Have you got to
Yes, we have join anymore. No, we don't need anymore. But then
that's when Allah subhanaw taala will finally remove the barriers,
the veil and allow us to see. And what it mentions in the hadith is
that that will be greater than anything that I've experienced so
far. Because you finally seen your Lord.
Can you understand the importance of Alana
that is what the whole system has been made up for. To recognize
Allah so that eventually we can
see Allah subhanho wa Taala and then every Friday you will be able
to see him and that will be your day in paradise in paradise you
everybody is mesmerized by paradise, everything in paradise,
but the highlight of paradise are those Friday meetings with Allah
subhanaw taala That's why Allah says in surah to cover in Burkina
Fijian to female car do you see do you keep the Maliki mo culture
there? These are these are the mata ki these are the righteous
one may Allah make us among May Allah make us among them. So now
think about it. Which one of the bounties of Allah? Can you deny?
As Allah says in the Quran now that you've seen so many bounties?
And which of the bounties of Allah? Can you even thank him for
which one are you going to start thinking of her from the time of
other Molly's Salaam? And before that,
to now all of those stages?
Which one are you going to thank him for? That's why intro to Nahal
Allah says wanna become me NetMeeting Fermina Allah, any
bounty that you have, any bounty, every bounty that you have, it's
from Allah subhanaw taala.
So just know that you can never come out. Nobody can ever come out
of Allah's grace.
Right, nobody comes out of Allah's grace. I don't care what the
Atheists say. They just turn a blind eye to how the world came
into being. That's what they do. That's the way they deal with it.
But if you're going to really be true to yourself, of seeing where
everything is, and the purpose and the, the rhythm, the system, the
perfection, there's no way you can deny that they're just denying it,
but denial doesn't change the reality. That's why majority of
the world are always believers. Right? Because that's the reality.
So which one can you deny? Can you ever be out of the axon and the
blessings of Allah subhanaw taala. So then, just to finish this off,
I said, that part of the spiritual benefit that Allah provides, right
is going to be the net metal Islam, net metal Ehsaan, Allah
subhanahu wa Tada constantly blessing us with the feeling of
mercy, the feeling of being blessed, and the feeling of being
close to him, the feeling of ecstasy, the feeling of a
spiritual high, and all of this thing that Allah subhanaw taala
grant grants us while hamdu Lillahi Rabbil Alameen May Allah
subhanho wa Taala be pray praise for that. So that's what this
means. Now, let's see what Imam Abdullah Al GunVault he says about
this, how he sums it up for us in a few words, he says, The Grace of
Allah Most High limitlessly descend on every creature.
However, there are two graces that are common to everything. The
first is the act of creation, everything was non existent prior
to its existence. by the generosity of Allah Most had the
gift of existence was bestowed. He thus created the object and
eliminated the non existence. Secondly, after coming into
existence, by way of creation, everything is wholly dependent
dependent on the aid of Allah Most High for its endurance and
sustenance. For this need, it is dependent on Allah Most High in
every moment of its existence, should Allah Most High will hold
his aid, everything will again return to the state of non
existence. He has created different ways and means for the
existence of different objects. For example, for animals and
humans, he has created water, food, etc. But remember, as we
highlighted this existence didn't start from when our mothers gave
us birth, started a very, very long time ago. Now I've never
contemplated it that far. Right? That just suddenly makes us much
more important people, much more important creations of Allah. But
Allah Allah allow us to understand that importance and to fulfill the
importance so working with that one and Al hamdu Lillahi Rabbil
Alameen Allahu men to Santa Monica Siddhanta Barak the little jewelry
with the Quran Allah who may hire you Yeah, they you your automatic
unnecessary Allah Houma, Johanna Yamuna, La ilaha illa and Subhanak
in no kidding me nobody mean just Allahu Allah Muhammad Allah Allah
Ya Allah have mercy on us. Yeah Allah Ya Allah have mercy on us
yeah Allah forgive us. Yeah Allah purify us yeah Allah cleanse us.
See ya allah Pardon us? Yeah Allah overlook our misdeeds our
transgressions of Allah, our distractions, our denials of Allah
We ask that from the for the rest of our life we become closer to
you than we've been before our every subsequent day allow us to
recognize all that you have granted us, allow us to recognize
as much as we can your true position of Allah yo makan of
Allah allow us to understand how much of a value you have provided
for us how much of an opportunity that you have given us. How much
of an honor that you have given us the ability to attain over other
creatures in this world of Allah do not allow us to be among the
deprived ones of Allah. Despite the fact that you've given us this
ability to surpass other creatures of Allah do not let it be that on
the Day of Judgment, we're worse than those creatures. Oh Allah we
worse than those other creative beings. Oh Allah allow us when we
stand in front of you to want to meet you and you want to meet us.
But Allah above all, allow us to be in general for those and
finally, experience the Beatific Vision, experience. Our meetings
with you on the Fridays have Allah allow us to do that, and allow us
and make and facilitate that we constantly try. But yeah, Allah we
try in the morning by the evening we have failed. We try in the
evening, but by the morning we have failed of Allah strengthen
us. Grant us steadfastness, grant us understanding.
Bless us with beneficial knowledge. And oh Allah allow us
to repent for our past and make the rest of our life better than
the previous part of our life. Oh Allah bless all of those who are
here who are listening, those who have facilitated and Allah those
who assist in any way shape or form, Allah grant the best to
their families and to all of our progenies of Allah keep Eman in
our hearts and allow us to be aware of you. Allow us to become
of the elect human beings in your sights. Elect human beings in your
sight of Allah there's a rush in this world right now. To become
high achievers from a worldly perspective of Allah grant us
attention to become high achievers in a spiritual perspective from a
spiritual perspective. Oh Allah make this easy for us and
facilitate for us our life except our donors. souhan Arabic Arabela
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