Abdur Rahman ibn Yusuf Mangera – The Importance and Effects of Dhikr
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If you look at
many of these Earth gar that we've just read, you have Allahu Allah,
you Latina, um, no, you have Allahu Allah, you will mean. So
this is saying the same thing in two different ways.
It saying that Allah is the Welly of those who believe Willie means,
although we've translated it here as friend, because that is
probably the single term that is one single term that gives an
impression of what this word means. A friend is someone a real
friend, not just an associate, not just an accomplice, not just a
colleague, not just somebody, you know, for convenience, or for
NYTimes. But somebody who is really, really your friend.
And we don't generally understand that level of companionship even
between humans anymore. Because what it is, there's a book of Imam
Ghazali, which is actually, I read it as a translation, first by, I
believe, Mater, Holland, who did a translation of one of the chapters
of the hero lumen theme.
And it was about the etiquettes, of brotherhood. And it was quite
amazing that the level they were speaking about, they were talking
about,
he spoke about different types of companionship, which then
translates into a partnership.
And then then what it brought for me, memories of Kitab Sharika. In
fifth, which is there are different types of partnerships.
And one of those partnerships is where two people make an agreement
that everything we both own, becomes shared. And I could, you
could never understand that. The only manifestation of that I've
probably seen in some families where the brothers are all living
together, and they share everything otherwise, for two
strangers to it was, but that those types of things did take
place. So we're talking about really being there for the other
person, like as though they are you, they are you. So if anything
happens to them, you will feel it, you will do something for him.
Now, when Allah subhanaw taala takes on any kind of role, he is
going to fulfill it in the fullest and most perfect manner. So if
Allah is and he's saying this is a declaration, and he said in two
different ways, Allahu Allah, you will mean and Allah, Who will you
live in harmony.
Allah is the Wali that means the friend, The Guardian, the patron,
the caretaker, the assistant, just imagine everything that you can
think of. And he's not just another friend who may sometimes
be in need themselves, who may sometimes have a bad day, they may
have fallen sick, they may be in a vulnerable situation. But Allah is
always independent, perfect. So he's always going to be there. So
that's the declaration that Allah is making on his side. The problem
with us is that we don't reciprocate that. We, though have
empty words that we are His servants, and we make our salad.
But it's not really in the real spirit of connection and
friendship and association. For example, if you are a, if you're a
teacher, if you've ever been a teacher, or taught anything to
anyone, and the student or your child, whoever it is, comes in
front of you and
or the student just comes in, sees the lesson, you can tell by their
body language, that delivery,
what kind of interest they're there, they are showing in what
they're doing, you can tell whether they really got their
heart in it, whether they spent time behind it, whether they mean
what they're saying, Are they just doing it just to get away, you can
tell by their body language. Now, look at our body language with
Allah subhanaw taala solid is where we should be doing this, we
should be showing him this is where we're, where we're basically
submitting ourselves. So you think Allah is? No The thing is that we
can tell these things with students, though we don't know the
unseen. We just gauge these things. And we could be wrong.
Sometimes we could be wrong sometimes somebody there are
people who have this kind of externally, seemingly apparently
careless behavior, but they don't really mean that inside. But that
those are the exceptions, those exceptions I just want to give
that allowance because that is a possibility. But mostly we judge
everything from the external behavior and external science.
Allah doesn't just look at the external he knows the internal, so
he knows how we're feeling. And yet, you know, we can just quickly
go and put down a few rockets just to fool
and these are the religious ones. Right? You know, there's these
other religious ones who actually do pray. Then we do a quick dua
after Salah we put our hands together. It's just like somebody,
they have to read the lesson. They just came in, they blurted a few
words and then run out again. You have absolutely no, you know, you
can't do anything to them. You're gonna definitely think that this
guy is such a kick this guy he just came in and you have, you
will have no attention towards the student. Think forget him. So if
Allah subhanaw taala does that with us that forget this guy?
What's the point of him? Look at his approach. Look at that other
student look at that other servant. When he comes, when he
does pray, look at the way he prays, he really means it. He
really expresses it.
When he does dhikr he really means he's really like concentrates.
Okay, read, you know, read that chapter. So just kind of read it.
But our minds are somewhere else to maraca. But our minds are
somewhere else. We can't help it because we have no, you know, we
don't have we don't concentration is a is a premium nowadays.
Because nobody can concentrate in this world, we're so distracted
with all of the different things that are taking place around us.
The
because this is obviously a very specific measureless. What I've
discovered after, you know, having these majorities for seven, eight
months.
And of course, you guys are here, but it's been recorded for those
who are unable to come.
Because there's lots of people outside London, they can't come.
But what I have noticed is that being in the software, because
that's where, because all we're doing is we're doing it based on
the Sunnah of Rasulullah and the Sahaba sallallahu alayhi wa
sallam, the greatest benefit that you actually get is to be in the
Mejlis. Because that is what rejuvenates you and makes you
stronger and feel revived, so that you will go back and do thicker,
when you haven't been in good company.
For a while, you start slacking out. That's the whole point of the
rabbit hole system that we have like it's hardwired into the six
points, right into the six steps. It's hardwired rabbit is very
important. Most rabbit holes in the world take place by attending
The Mentalist that's Arrabida, the shake sees you Day sees you know
what's going on, we get together
nowadays, because that's difficult. And people are around
the world. And you know, the world is a much bigger place. That's why
we use email and phone and all these things right now. But what
happens is, let's just say that you haven't done anything. So
before I used to say three weeks, let me know in three weeks, but
three weeks is not long time, three weeks, four weeks was the
difference. You just feel you lose track. So I'm saying now every
week, because if you really want to be serious in this, then that's
the way it's gonna have to be many, many people will become
worried I've observed this with many other Sheoak many, many
people become worried sometimes the hype of it, right? Because
whoever the person is, you know what I'm talking about other
people, they're very famous, like big, you know, internationally
acclaimed, show you Pearson cetera, they'll become bad because
somebody else did or whatever. But at the end of the day, the shaky
doesn't have time to go on to everybody's like, where are you?
Where are you? Where are you, you know, the, the serious ones will
be a percentage. So if you're serious about this, you have to be
that percentage that benefits because that's the only way you
will benefit. This is all about talab. It's all about Bob. And one
of the most effective things that I have seen is the machinists,
because I know that when I have gone into ethical, or when I have
met my chief during high jaw during a visit to him, or
whatever, that will help me now for the next few months, it just
charges the battery. And if I haven't, then I know it effects.
It's a Jeep system, it's an IGF system. Because at the end of the
year talab has to be shown from you. There's no magic in this way.
So what happens with the rabita is that you haven't you know,
sometimes we haven't been very regular. So you think I can't
right now, but that's not the point of the rabbit rabita is not
to show you a success stories, the rabita is to show your stick to
whatever it is the whole point of the shake. If it's just about
okay, I've you know, this is my accomplishment and then you tell
them, then he's not there to just listen to your good times. He's
there to to the pressure is there that I have to report at the end
of the week, I have to be there in damages, I have to respond to an
email or whatever it says. So look, I haven't been able to do
anything this week. You feel that guilt and say it. So next week,
you know, you might feel less guilt, you might feel that you
have to do more to not feel guilty next week, so that you will
actually do something so it's very important keep up the rabita very
important.
We commit sins and the shaytaan will then tell you okay, because
of your sins, you can't do your liquor.
You know sometimes I can do my
This be hard they easy to do, because I can do them. When I'm
driving or walking on the bus, they're easy to do, you pull out
at the spin you do, you don't have to have too much concentration,
meaning you should have but meaning you can get away with
them. But maraca, you can't get get away without concentration,
because that requires concentration for it to be a
proper maraca, right? So you have to really try and that you have to
exert No, we're not used to exerting pressure on ourselves.
Everything has been made easy in this world for us in the current
time and climate. So unfortunately, we're a product of
that. So people think that just because I'm sinning, now, we all
commit some kind of sin or the other there's failures that we
have.
Because of my sin, I can't do my thicker. Absolutely, there is a
connection, there is no doubt about that. But how are you going
to stop yourself from saying, Are you going to stop yourself from
sinning first before you start doing your Morocco by regularly?
Personally, I believe it's the other way around very strongly,
because the whole point of the Morocco and understand the dynamic
here,
when a person doesn't have a strong inner dimension, that is
not connected, that is not connected to Allah subhanaw taala.
If a person is not connected to a lot, that means that we can say.
Now when they're approached by a sin, because they've got weakness,
their willpower will be very, very low. Their willpower will be very
weak, because they're not stronger, because there's no inner
strength. The heart is dead, or malnourished. So there's no way
you can avoid this in very difficult. You may temporarily do
it because of some something that happens. Some Ebro something that
happens, something bad that happens or something that really
hit you for a moment, but the effects of
generally, the effects of incidents don't last for too long.
They last for a few days, and then you forget we have the faculty of
forgetfulness. One of the detriments of it is this, those
that though there are benefits of it as well. So until we don't
develop our insight by doing the UScar, then there's no way we can
avoid since because we'll always fall prey to him.
Right even after do not have gotten that you will still you can
still until you reach a very high status where, but at least you'll
be able to get up and go. And
how much liquor do you have to do? There's no set amount. Like
somebody might say, Well, I do one hour of maraca, but I still commit
sins. And that's absolutely a possibility that sin may be so
ingrained in us for 1415 2030 years in our life, or five years
or whatever. Well, it may not just go straight away because the
knifes is very strong. So we're going to have to keep working on
it. And Allah has given us the life for it. While we might die in
between without accomplishing, but that's fine as long as our
intention is right and we're trying and if we get caught by
death in training, Allah will look at eliminate murder, we'll have
our team in normal armor Labine yards. So all of these come into
play. And the most famous story we have that which is so often quoted
that everybody knows it about the person who killed 99 people and
the 100 people and gross crime, major crime. It's not just a crime
against Allah, but a crime against humanity. But he was forgiven. And
in fact, Allah subhanaw taala you can say, doctored
the situation, so that it made it positive for him, because Allah
goes by the knee yachts. So that's the thing that we have to realize
that we may die struggling, but that is beneficial, more
beneficial and praiseworthy than giving up and not die struggling.
Our life should be about struggle, because that's the nature of this
life. Right? But generally, if you work hard enough, there is the
status of Wilayat where the Hadith sahih Hadith mentions that Allah
subhanaw taala that the My servants they can't get close to
me except by fulfilling the Fuhrer it
that I have imposed upon them. That's just to get even into the
boundary, the photos. So then Allah subhanaw taala says in a
hadith could see then after that, they draw closer and closer and
closer to me by the Nawab feelin additional acts that they do after
fulfilling the obligations, that obligations are necessary just to
get into the boundary. But after that, it with the Noir from the
extra earth, God etc, they'll get closer and closer and closer. And
when we say closer, there is never there is no limit to that. That
closeness, which is then the journey to Allah into Allah.
There's it that's infinite because Allah is infinite.
So we will never reach the Prophet salallahu alayhi salam, but that's
not required from us. That's a special
All gifted state hours is an acquired state, whereas prophets
are gifted. Right? So we just have to keep trying, then Allah says,
Then I will become the hands by which they hold and touch and
their tongue by which they speak and the ears by which they hear
and the eyes by which they see. So that's a high level that has to be
proven. We do thicker for six months, one year, and we think
we've got that we Why aren't why haven't we got this to? Why isn't
it easy it?
You understand? The main thing is that we have to take satisfaction,
in fact that at least we're trying, but we need to keep
trying. And it's quite amazing that the more we do, the more this
will open up in terms of its complexity. Most Muslims, they
don't understand the complexity of the spiritual system. They think
it's a very straightforward, do a deed and you get a reward.
They don't take into all of these. Most people don't, don't take into
factor some people they will take into factor the floss aspects. But
then what near should you have in your worship? How many people
think about them? Besides the intention? Like am I doing this
for Allah? Am I doing this for Paradise? Am I doing this to avoid
hellfire? What's my focus, the more we get into this, the more it
becomes more refined, that my gaze is now not just on Paradise, but
it's on the pleasure of Allah. Paradise is a carrot
in the sense that it's a reward system.
The real system is if the person is just focused on Paradise and
focus on Allah, then he's missing the point. It's still a good thing
and help him but the real point is to focus on Allah subhanaw taala.
So the more you get into this, you'll be amazed. It's a very
complicated system. But unfortunately, in this world, the
majority of us
for everything else in this world, we're very refined in our tastes,
we improve our tastes we get particular about things what we
want, what we need, the sophistication, when it comes to
our deen is grabbed the first thing you see on the shelf, the
shop brand generic what everybody else is doing. That's what I'm
doing. I think this is the biggest malady of the Muslim ummah, today
when we fast the Muslim ummah fast, but they fast an off the
shelf fast, just a generic fast, when you make our tarawih it's the
same thing when you make our salad is just a salad. Okay, some people
probably salad They focus a bit more because martial law rewards
executive raise for the LaMalfa. So that really does emphasize and
this creates, so we will maybe focus more on this a lot. But then
they miss the fact that they don't understand what they're reading.
So they missing out on 50% or more of the benefit that they could
gain in their Salah if they knew what they were reading. If you
know what you're reading, you know what Allah is saying. And you're
saying that that's the whole point of it. So I would really suggest
that we know what we're saying in the Salah that every SILAC should
know that every Saudi should know the sweetheart of Salah and you
should take our two weeks to go through the goods slowly, slowly.
One day just learn Subhanallah Bill Allah subhanaw Bien, I'll
leave.
You know, because hon Allah we,
the test we have just learned them this focus on them, it'll take
it'll take a few days, but eventually will just become second
nature Subhanallah below him, I know what I'm saying you don't
want to have to translate, you just understand it, you know what
you're saying. So it's very important. So it's maraca out of
all of the earth card that we do. The whole, the strongest, most
beneficial and most powerful is the maraca because that will then
provide the
the necessary class, focus and concentration even in the Salawat
that we do. And in the stick for that we do otherwise we'll just
have to fit a lot of beam and column yoga to various stuff it
alone we'll just say 100 times is done. But then that is what
because that would force us to concentrate there we learn
concentration, then our salads we can be you do maraca for you get
to about half an hour or something. And then after that you
see that you can you can take that into salad you can't do Morocco
and salad by the way. Even if you're behind the Imam and you're
not doing a you're not allowed to like be then you know be doing the
official you know that the formula Morocco is not allowed because
that's a different act. Salah is a different act, but you are doing a
type of Wanaka in Salah that's all fine rates will do in front of
Allah so the Morocco you're doing Salah is that is of solid, Allahu
Akbar, Allah is greatest you and then suddenly you've just
constrained yourself to Allah for those four records or two records.
And then my heart is connected to Allah subhanaw taala that meaning
I am worshiping Him. So it's not this Morocco, you can't do the
work with the Colombian, you know, you can't do all of that in
although you might, you know, a lot of people are tempted to do so
because you think well, you know, this is the perfect time for it.
But you can use the concentration that you gained through Morocco
here.
Right, and that's one of the purposes of that. So generally in
the self, each speaker
Generally speaking, we'll have something
that is there to help develop the concentration. Because the crux of
everything is concentration.
Because without concentration, it's devoid it's spiritless. It's
without rule. So the concentration is there. So, the trustees we have
the system of la ilaha, il Allah again, that is to develop a focus
and get Allah subhanaw taala into the heart, that actually when
these they have the corollary, then you have other 30 acres that
have different things. So that is the one of the main things and
sometimes those methodologies that they use. They are innovations,
though, saying La ilaha illa, Allah saying, Allah, there's,
that's been said, Allah, what you'll what you'll find is that
there's a lot of people out there, most of it taken from immuno Tamia
that to say just Allah Allah is a bidder.
And they read when I first time I heard that it just really defied
my mind, like, how can you say that? But their reasoning is that
because they're so literalist, though so vahidi So literalist,
they say that there's never clearly mentioned in the Quran or
Hadith that you can just say, Allah, Allah, Allah, it says you
should say La Ilaha illa Allah Subhana Allah Alhamdulillah Hola,
La Quwata illa Allah we never say Allah Allah.
So
okay, maybe not, right? We haven't necessarily come across any Hadith
says say hola, hola. Hola, like so explicitly like that. But neither
does it ever prohibit it? So from a purely or solely perspective,
from a principle based discussion, it doesn't prohibit it. But not
necessary. It doesn't necessarily explicitly state that that is the
way to do it. Or that is a way to do it. But neither does it ever
prohibit it, or anything even close to it.
In fact, there are some verses and of course narrations, which
indicate that this is completely fine. So the positive so in to do
it, there's more deleting. Right, just because you don't accept that
implication of that, or the indication or doesn't mean that
it's not allowed, like you don't do it if you don't want to. But
clearly, Allah says, with charisma robic what does that mean?
Remember the name of Allah. So how do you do that?
Right? How would you remember the name of Allah?
With charisma? rhombic. Remember the name of your Lord? That's what
Allah says in the Quran. So what? You know, when you read that, what
does that give you as an implication? How do you remember
the Name of your Lord?
Right, it doesn't say read a formula of vicar.
Right, was Kelly Mehta. Vickery or something like that doesn't
mention that. It says, Remember the name of your Lord, numerous
places, right? Is Mira Big East Mira big the Name of your Lord,
the name is powerful. So the other might have understood to be the
case from history.
Right? So what's wrong with that to say hola, hola. Now with the
way that we're generally doing.
I mean,
we're thinking about a liner. It's a Nia that our heart is saying it
so there can't be any problem there anyway. But generally, for a
lot of Sufis, it causes a big problem from the spirit because
they so loud about it. And it all comes from even a teenager that
I'm not sure if he's the earliest person who said that, but
definitely, he's one of the main people who's pushed that idea. And
then these people, they just vocalists, they just pure blind
followers of that. So that's why they don't think about the
different deals. Because once I did have a discussion with
somebody about this issue, and I said, look, but Allah says this.
So although you could tell that his heart was saying, Yeah, I can
see that. But it was very difficult for him to accept
because he's a Merkel lid. They do more taqlid than they do as much
tech lead in fact, sometimes probably more likely than other
people.
But anyway, that's a political issue, which we don't want to you
know, focus is the spiritual, but just just to make you feel
comfortable that if you're ever questioned about this, number one
Alhamdulillah.
Though, Inshallah, we have the baraka and the blessings of both
the GST and document data because the only reason we use the
Naqshbandi Way is because it's a bit more organized in terms of and
it's probably a bit more in sync in a way that you can get away
with doing it wherever you are, you can be sitting on a bus, you
have to go to Finsbury Park from here, 20 minute, right? Well,
what's the point of just sitting there looking around, or reading
the standard or the metro? Just sit there and do 20 minutes a
maraca? Who cares? People are just going to think you're slumbering
hamdulillah but if you have to sit and do some other kind of vicar is
difficult
is very powerful, other types of things that are very powerful as
well. But this has the power. In its silence, it's amazing, it's a
very sober way. And if you read the history of the system from
about the next month, it's, they say,
dust Bakar deal by er,
your hand is, is active, meaning your physical self is your outer
self is active in work. But your heart is connected to Allah. That
is, that is what we're hoping for. So it's a very modern form and
procedure of the self. When I say modern, I don't mean of the 21st
century, I just mean modern in the sense that
it's not about asceticism. You know, the next one, these are
hardly ever ascetics. When either other tissues, the tissues are
even more out there, right. In terms of the aneurysms and knots
and things. I mean, you will find this in all of the 30 cars, but
the Tariqa by itself is very sober in that sense. And the whole focus
of it is get on your work. That's why you'll see that
there's a lot of successful people that will also be connected to
Allah subhanaw taala, the big businessman but the connected
that's why the fifth point of the six points is the work of Albee
the whole point of number four the maraca is to get a cough called
me. And once you get woof Colby and the lessons very interesting.
I mean, most of you you're probably on lesson one or two or
something. But the first seven lessons the first seven lessons
they all Morocco but on the different lotta if once you pass
that the next two, they are too because not until now you've been
doing
vicar of the Name of Allah. Allah Allah Allah inside. But the name
of Allah is not Allah.
Right the name of Allah is not Allah. So then the next two
Vickers, the next to spark subox lessons, they are of what they
call the daleel the Halle Lissoni and daleel Colby, which is La
ilaha IL Allah, there is no God, there is no deity there is nothing
worthy of worship except Allah. So it is to take out even the name
and just focus is good. It's to go from
the the name itself to the named. That's our MCSA after the ninth
lesson. All the other lessons are not maraca, but they all Ficker it
goes from the vicar to Ficker where you just sit and contemplate
matters, of course, different ones, and it gets really, you
know, more complicated in that sense. But that's the whole
purpose of it.
Right? Because it's a proper system, very well thought system
by accomplished individuals. Was that okay? This is what you do
first is what you do, and then it's been tried and tested over
the centuries. But you have to work hard, though, the work for
that to benefit from to enliven the lava, if, as you say the
subtleties, because that will give you the warmth, you can have all
the successes in this world. But if you feel devoid inside then
it's a spiritual crisis, and what's the point?
So the most important thing is that we feel that warmth inside
then who cares what happens in the world, we're connected to Allah.
That's the main accomplishment if Muslims can focus on that the
ummah will change. But we're focused on Islam of the outside
without Islam of the inside. So we are essentially corrupted.
You can say corrupted, Rusty systems that are trying to improve
the external system. When you're messed up inside the apple is
rotten inside, what's the point of it, the focus should be on the
inside and of course on the outside, but the focus has to be
on the inside. So individually speaking, right, individually
speaking, it doesn't matter when Maddie comes. Because our death is
closer to us than any Maddie can come. Because it could be in the
next minute, we're gonna have to stand in front of our Lord. There,
we can't complain about anything. So it's about getting the inner
system proper.
So this is just to revitalize us, Ramadan was a very good time.
Hopefully, we've come out of it with a pure heart with more
control over our knifes than we had before. But it's your maraca,
that's going to continue that strength and build that strength
of the heart. And then you can deal with it.
It's like for example, a submarine it has certain amount of fuel,
then it goes into the water is surrounded by all that pressure.
You know, there's a lot of pressure inside, but it's got the
fuel, it's got the fortification when it loses fuel and what's
gonna happen, it can't travel around it's gonna have to come
back up. So our system is get enough fuel
lasts longer
and that's where you keep getting refueled for the majority listen
to you at the garden thing that you just keep going. We in fact we
can stay underwater forever. We have to rain the world that the
world is our auto is surrounded by it. But we just need to keep
refueling we have a system of refueling inside the water which
is just keep your car going and going and stay strong. May Allah
subhanaw taala give us that Sophie