Abdur Rahman ibn Yusuf Mangera – The Multiple Benefits of Worship [Hikam 91]
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The importance of pursuing a main goal in one's life, achieving the d union, and finding a support system is emphasized. The need for personal health and well-being is also emphasized, along with finding a job that makes one feel comfortable. Representatives discuss various levels of survival, including working with Allah subhanaw taala and fasting to benefit from others. The importance of understanding and appreciating Islam is emphasized, along with training on staying healthy.
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There's nothing in this world that could really represent gender for
you in this world except what the optimal look, those people with
that special adoration for Allah subhanho wa Taala find in their
hearts at nighttime, from the sweetness of intimacy with Allah.
You know, at nighttime when they can speak to Allah in their
tahajjud if that really becomes perfect for them and they achieve
it, that's better than there's nothing else in dunya greater than
that, because they've got money for Allah. That's why they can be
that way.
Bismillah al Rahman al Rahim Al hamdu lillah wa salatu salam ala
sayyidina. Muhammad wider early he or Safi or the raka was seldom at
the Sleeman kefir on ala yo Medina and Marburg.
So dear brothers and sisters, dear friends, dear seekers, the
aspirants Allah subhanaw taala allow us to gain his marriage,
especially with the month of Ramadan coming up. So we are going
to look at the next one today, which is on page 103 Is the
aphorisms of ignored by Allah, this country may Allah subhana, WA
Tada has have a great number of blessings on him and mercies on
him show his blessings on him. So the next one is in sync with the
previous ones that we were discussing. Very interestingly,
that people they do a good deed, and then they hoping for a reward
from that, which is fine, they can hope for a reward. But they need
to realize that when they've done a good deed, they've already been
given a reward, which is the fact that you've been able to do a good
deed in the first place. Because there's a lot of people who don't
get to do any good deeds. So the fact that Allah has chosen us that
is an advanced reward already. It's it's very interesting. Now
Allah doesn't just choose us. But then whatever this devotion is
that he chooses us and cylex us for.
There's multiple benefits that come from this. So when we pray,
and when we fast, and we do any other worship, what is going on?
What else are we getting out of it? What's the purpose of that?
And what what are the steps to what is that a means to so there's
multiple other things. A lot of people they just reduce it down to
reward. I'm doing two records of prayer. I've done my pleasure.
I've done my VA harasser. mcgurrin I've made my first I'm gonna get
reward now.
That's very reductionist, that is not enough. Allah has much more to
give.
Allah's generous, Allah's infinite, he's got a lot more to
give away. Just keep focused on that. When you know there's so
much more you can get and Allah gives according to what you
expect. Allah gives according to how you think he is and how you
think he's gonna give you and if not, is teaching us what else
Allah will give us. So this one is slightly more complicated, right
compared to the previous ones in the sequence, but may Allah give
us an understanding of it. So this is what he says. So
he says
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It suffices as a reward for the doers of good that he has inspired
obedience to Him in their hearts.
Number one, and brought upon them the existence of his reciprocal
intimacy. Sounds a bit complicated, it's not really very
complicated. Essentially, what he's saying is that in the
previous one last time, the last session we said that it is
suffice. It suffices as a reward or recompense for you for the
obedience that you do that he's just judged you worthy of
obedience. That was the first one. Now in this one, he's saying, it's
also suffices another reward that you get from this and it should be
sufficient as a reward for any DOER of good, that he inspired you
to do obedience, he made you obedient.
Because that's the purpose of this world is to be obedient to Allah
subhanho wa taala. So if he's allowed us to play our part, and
not get distracted, Alhamdulillah and number two, on top of that, he
has brought upon the Dewar's of good the existence of his
reciprocal intimacy, which means that
you know, if you have somebody you love, and somebody you're
interested in somebody you love, you want to get close to them. So
you get one chance to speak to them, you caught them somewhere,
you bumped into them, you got a chance you really enjoyed that.
Mashallah, then you want to do it again. But they're elusive. You
don't find them all the time. Right, the very busy or
If
there's too many people trying to speak to them, you know, it could
be multiple formats that could be. If you get to speak to them again,
don't you get to know them a bit more, and they get to know you a
bit more. Just imagine any relationship that you've had,
where you've just got to know someone, you met them. The second
time, you had a chat, you figured something out about them, you
reveal some things more about yourself, third time, fourth time,
fifth time, and then eventually, you get to know them, right? And
they get to know you. And now there's less awkwardness, you can
be slightly more less formal, right?
And you can become more personal.
And if they're a good person, then you feel good every time you meet
them. They're just certain people, every time you meet them, there's
just something about them that just makes you feel good,
makes you feel warm, makes you feel human being content and
fulfilled. That is supposed to be with Allah subhanaw taala. So the
fact that he's letting us even speak to him, and devote ourselves
to Him, and offer ourselves to Him in whatever worship and doing
whatever worship, it's all an offering to Allah. Then were
revealing ourselves to Allah, so he knows about us anyway. But
hopefully, we're getting to know Allah more in that. And the beauty
of this book, may Allah reward this author abundantly for this is
that he has really opened up the multiple aspects of our devotion
and worship. Otherwise, we just basically go by, oh, we're getting
reward for it, we must do it. Otherwise, you're going to be
sinful, we're going to be punished, you're gonna go to
hellfire.
That is just for the absolute basic. That's the basic starting
point. But it goes beyond that, where there's an enjoyment and
Hello, and sweetness and contentment that should be that
should be reached. So that's what he says he's going to give you
these two other rewards. So let's see. Let's understand that a bit a
bit more.
So firstly, when he says that it's sufficient for any DOER of good as
a reward, that he is going to open up their hearts for his obedience,
right? Because the heart can only be for one thing, you can only
fully devote your heart to one thing. And you will see that in
the world as well than anybody. I've seen multiple business
people, people who like to be very enterprising, right? Some people,
they just really focused on one job, they have an employment, or
they have a business, that's all they do all their life. That's all
they focus on at once. But there's enterprising people, what they do
is they'll dabble in this and they find that opportunity to start
doing that, then they start doing this. And then you see that when
they start doing this, and that this first thing, which is
supposed to be a main thing starts taking a hit.
You can't focus on multiple things at once, fully,
unless you're very smart and organized, and you've delegated,
and you've got the right people to do it for you. This is what the
issue is. That's why what is our priority in this world? Is it to
attain Allah? Or is it to attain the dunya if it's to attain Allah,
he'll give us that through the dunya. And we'll get the dunya as
well. But it is to attain the dunya you can't get Allah through
that. That's the thing. So you can't. That's why he's saying that
if he's already allowed us and put in our hearts, the love for
devotion and SubhanAllah. That is something to thank Allah for. And
the more you think you the more you get. So it's about thanking
Allah for every little thing. Don't look at it as a big picture.
Look at it, break it down now and understand everything that Allah
is giving us. So then he says that, what exactly will Allah put
in your heart? What how do you break that down? What are you
supposed to get from worship? We never even probably thought about
this, like, what am I supposed to be getting out of this worship?
You may know about it, because you read books about how the Sahaba
felt in their prayer. And in their fast. When you read those stories,
you you see that they all felt these special feelings. They had
these special experiences, they
got this strength and they had that experience. And then they did
this and they felt like this. But nobody's put it together for us.
So that's what he's doing today. He's saying that when you're doing
an action, there are three things that you could potentially end up
with. Number one is Maha Mudra. That you feel you're in the
Presence of Allah.
Allah has ever present right Allah has ever watchful ever seen. And
there's nothing that he misses. But now you will actually start
feeling that Allah is you're in Allah's Presence. If we can get
that in our prayer that would sort our prayer out right. That's what
everybody is looking for. So you will get Mahadeva then you get
Morocco.
Abba. Baraka is a slightly higher degree than Maha Maha. That means
that you just have that I'm present with Allah. What Alka is
more like more seeing him. You don't see Allah physically, but
it's like, I start seeing Allah's effects everywhere
you start noticing it, you start meditating on that it's deeper.
And then the highest level is more shahada, where you can witness.
Everything is a witness to Allah. Because everything is a witness to
Allah. You see anything is like, oh, that's made by Allah, that
must be Allah, that has to be Allah. So these are higher levels.
So it's more harder, presents maraca, which is meditation, a
deeper form of reflection, and then it's more shahada, which is a
witnessing.
Now, he tells us that the first stage I mean, do we know what
stage we're on? He says the first stage is for the totally mean
it's for those who seek now once you're a seeker, you're gonna
start feeling a presence at least. And if you're not even a seeker,
you just doing it. I mean, I'm sure everybody is a seeker at some
level is going to pray, right? So that's the basic level, then
that's the Mahabharata. If you want to get to Morocco, but you
must be serene, like you must be now on the path, you must have
full focus, you've done your preliminaries and you are on the
path. And then most shahada is for the Vaseline meaning this is for
the people who've done it for a while and they've actually
mashallah broken through by really going against the enough's doing
proper fast that Ramadan has boosted them, the other worships
have boosted them. And they finally recognize Allah subhanaw
taala.
Like they've got a good enough recognition of Allah subhanho wa
Taala to allow them to really be at that position. They get them
they get the most Shahada.
So essentially, what he says is that the Mahabharata are the first
part where you just feel the presence, that's for anybody and
everybody who ever wants to start, they get that position. The Moraga
position is for the special people now, do we want to be special
people, and then we shahada is for the special of the special people.
Right? That's much harder to receive. But that's possible. And
at the end of the day, there's one word that describes all of these
states, which is her shoe.
We've heard of her shoe in prayer comes from the concept of
Hershey.
There's a level of fear, but it's not fear that you want to run away
from something. It's this loving, reverent present,
consciousness. It's more about that.
Who shoot for Allah, it's like a humility actually. It's like this
feeling of humility. When you recognize somebody, sometimes for
person has a bit of arrogance. They want to try to put the
arrogance in front of everyone. Because some people are just
naturally arrogant, they've been taught to act tough.
Some people come up with hard lives. So they've been taught to
act tough.
Sometimes you see little children on buses, and they just like,
touching at you. In front of their parents. It's like where do you
learn that from? But I don't know, it's just maybe you're in some
part of London where it's tough life. So it's have to learn to be
strong and be a bit vulgar and you know, Allahu Alem. Now, even such
people have noticed something that tough with everybody and then
suddenly they find somebody who they respect. You know, somebody
greater than them then suddenly you just see that whole change of
humility. That all that toughness goes down that
what they put up
Eastern, the toughness or Eastern toughness, or I don't know
whatever you want to call it, right
Subhanallah it's amazing how you see the transformation how
somebody couldn't you always see them in a particular way and and
now suddenly, they're in front of their shift. They're just like,
like total servitude. Like wow Subhan Allah
La ilaha illAllah. Who Xiu with Allah. That's what we have to do.
These are all levels of crucial. May Allah give us the high levels
of shoe? How do you define who shoes This is a bit complicated,
but I'm gonna give it a try. It Rasul Allah besotted Najwa mystic
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It's about understanding the secret, being able to knock on the
doors of the secret
with a level of intimacy.
But you have to be able to fully understand the ore. You have to
fully gain the ore of Allah. You can have Khushboo
in front of someone that does not strike you with or
someone can only strike you with oil. If they have certain
qualities, then you're going to be struck with or otherwise why would
you be and then to just totally melt
in front of that Oh, is too
mountain in front of that, that humility just overcomes you. And
then he says he explains that when you get to the highest level of
this that's what you call Cora twine. You know the Prophet
sallallahu sallam said that
the joy of my site is in prayer. He had that full level of course
you you fully experienced and loved that, that experience of
just standing in front of Allah because
one of the highest levels you can reach in this world of being
connected to Allah is in your salon,
which we do five times a day.
Everything else that we do the liquor and so on is all to just
get that deep presence for Allah and improve your prayer as well.
So if you do meditation, you're learning to focus so that in your
salad, you can focus because if you focus in your salad, if we get
focused and consciously now salad, then you get your ascension. Not
like the professor Larson's ascension, but a spiritual
knights. That's because that's your discourse with Allah salah,
this Menagerie. The skeletal Fatiha is like that. You read one
verse, Allah responds, you read another verse, Allah response,
everything, it's multiple ways that you're speaking to Allah and
salaat that this be that that could be that that made the
thinner it's just that vein is like multiple thing that's the SMI
like everything's in solid is the one go to place where you can get
the highest level of experience may Allah grant us that
experience. La ilaha illa Allah Now, imams the rule, he said that
when a person it looks slightly slightly different. He says that
when you're in worship, whenever you're doing any kind of devotion
to Allah, your salata, etc. He says that there are three states
that you could achieve. The first one he says is would you do ons be
PHY her be Rory UC Berkeley?
What does that mean? What is that you, when you when you start to
offer a worship to Allah, you should feel you should. That's why
you need to stop doing it just for avoiding punishment.
You can't even get onto this path if you can't get over that. That
must be at the back of our mind to just deter us from missing. But
really, it needs to be for love.
That's what we're doing, then everything just becomes easier.
Everything if I'm going to you got to do this job because I'm gonna
get told off if I don't.
I want to do this job because I really want to make him happy. And
I want them to be happy with me, right? It's a big difference in
those two things. So you're supposed to have only once means
familiarity and comfort and this feeling of you know, you said you
talk to somebody a few times and then you get comfortable with
them. No longer do you feel that scared. You start seeing their
love, you start seeing their affection towards you.
He says what usually happens from that is you get a softness in you
afterwards, there's a gentleness and humility that will create be
created in you.
And you will see this in somebody who again used to act tough and
then they started on a vicar regimen. Right They do vicar
regularly you will see that they will become softer people, people
who do vicar they usually are supposed to become softer and
gentle. Because they have to develop humility with the name of
Allah because if they do they can properly that means they're
remembering Allah you can't agree in front of Allah.
Right?
The second thing he says that you're going to get through a
through your worship or we should be getting through our worship is
would you determine look, by in a day, the concept of thermal look,
if you look up modern Arabic dictionaries, they'll tell you
splattery when you're just trying to flatter someone, but if you
look at the classical Arabic dictionaries at dumbell look is to
behave in a loving, affectionate
and coaxing way with adulation and admiration for someone. You can
only
the modern concept of negative concept of Thurman Lucas flattery,
are you just trying to flatter somebody so that
you get into the good books? But that's disrespectful with Allah
subhanaw taala because flattery includes falsehood, exaggeration,
and make up things with Allah subhanaw taala. You don't need to
make up anything he is much more than what you want you can even
think he is. So it's in that more classical concept of thermal look.
It is to behave in this affectionate loving
and undulating and admin admiring way all of that comes into it.
That's what we should be insular.
But you see, the only way you can get there is if you know Allah,
and the more Siefert and the more characteristics you can learn of
Allah, then you can feel like that. We don't know Allah and
we're still praying. We're fulfilling our obligation but that
can
communication and connection is not happening.
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the third thing he said you could get his hasura HMI will survive
me. Well Ilana Tila duniya ality Bihar UTRA collusion, or yet Roku
coalition, that eventually if you really get very close and Allah
will start giving you the subtleties and the secrets and
special bits of understanding so that when you see things around
your neck confused by them, you won't be deceived by them.
You won't fall for things of the dunya so easily because No, that's
wrong, I don't get I don't need to do that that's
it's not worth it, it is not worth it. See, there's multiple levels
of something.
One is you get the dunya for to be functional.
To survive, to be functional, there's multiple levels of dunya,
right? One is you're just surviving. And some people are
happy with survival, they don't want luxuries, they just
surviving. And that's enough for them. The second level is you want
to survive, you don't want to just survive, you want to be
functional, to make it comfortable for you to be able to do your
deeds of this world. So you want comfort, but only functional
comfort.
Right.
And number three, and again, these are just broadly speaking, number
three is you want functional and you want luxury.
And you want luxury so that you're happy. And you're impressed, and
you feel very good.
Was that necessary? No.
Functional was necessary for most people, because very few people
can survive on the absolute basic survival mode, just enough food to
stay stay alive. But then, like for example, you get a place to
stay and his absolute basic one mattress if you're lucky. And
that's it. The other one is that you have a you know, you have a
decently comfortable functional place to live and a functional car
to drive.
And the third one is, you want a luxury car, not just functional
car, but you want something that you can feel like I've got
something like beyond what a lot of other people have, for example,
house decoration wise. And then of course, then that just carries on
where you want it so you can show off to others. And
these are different levels that we're talking about.
So
when somebody focuses on the Acura,
then I don't think they will definitely not want the last stage
I talked about which is to show up for others, because that's just
not in their mind, that's just useless.
Would they want the luxury, if they're just getting it, and
they're not because some people just get it because that's their
lifestyle. That's the family level. And that's where they live,
that's what they are, we would we are considered to be the top 10%
of the world in our lifestyle.
What kind of Zumba is that? They would say, but you can still do so
head here. Because what we have here, which equates to the top
five to 10% Tear of the world in lifestyle. That's just normal for
us.
So in life, always think about functionality. Remember, I don't
know if you know, you've heard this idea before the be
functional, rather than over the top, then you're constantly Oh,
he's got that car, I want that car as well. He's got that house,
there's always going to be a bigger house, there's always going
to be a bigger car, a bigger pen, a bigger laptop, bigger phone
better clothing is always going to be that it's never ending. So be
functional, fine.
Right? If you can't deal with the basics, which is difficult, the
function
is difficult. It's difficult. So when you move into a new place
you're decorating. It's complicated. Somebody's saying you
need to have a feature wall.
This is where you'll bring your guests you'll have to a feature
wall you get special paints and special wallpaper and designs for
that
just needed functional.
I have time for all of that
it's just functional.
I'll put my tabs there that'll become my feature will
just no ending. There's just no ending. I just spoke to somebody
you just got a new house some time ago and he put special sockets
there's no interest special sockets and now it's like I wasted
my money.
is saying that after a year or two is like
it's just you know, because I guess if every visitor visitor
doesn't come and say oh mashallah nice sockets. That is like what's
the
La Ilaha illa Allah I'm not against functionality if
functionality cost money because that's what you need.
IT spend it.
But otherwise, you can spend more that's not apply as long as not
haram. And it's not it's rough, it's not shutting it off. But at
the end of the day, you just get worried that it's the, the, we're
not straining our enough's and our heart, we're just giving up to
what is not really what you should be. And I think, if we're going to
go look, I mean, because you know, you don't just get the best
sockets. Just like that you have to actually do research as at what
are the best sockets, that's a time consuming, you've just spent
time doing that avenue
unless you just got the better because your friends at these are
the best. So you just get them and you said Bismillah close my eyes
and get them you know, everything requires effort.
And we don't have time in this world.
So you will eventually understand the reality of things you will
understand what is needed, what is not needed, what is extra, what is
sufficient, what is beneficial, what is harmful. When you can get
that criteria, that's when you have fun. That's when you have
understanding and comprehension of ALLAH SubhanA wa Tada and your
worship should get you to that level if you do it properly.
I think that's very, very useful. Okay, so Han Allah is one of the
scholars he said that fit dunya agenda. There is agenda in this
world like this part of gender in this world paradise. What is that?
Mandala? Harlem Yasha Elijah de la Hera. Wow.
There's a part of paradise in this world he says that if you get that
any experience that paradise you won't want the paradise of the
year after?
What must that Paradise be like that you get that in this world?
That you don't want the paradise of the hereafter?
La ilaha illallah wa you know she
you won't need anything you won't want anything after that if you
get that well I'm you're still here other than you will never
feel strange, alone.
You will never feel strange and alone or without assistance.
dilemma here what is it that you're talking about column Marisa
Tula?
Once you know Allah, then you just have that always comforted feeling
that you're being looked after? Doesn't matter where you are. Yes,
you will undergo troubles and difficulties but you will be fine.
It'll be fine.
May Allah grant us mad if America is superior to the agenda of the
Hereafter because once you know Allah you're with Allah Yoda with
the creator of gender you don't care about gender anymore? It of
course give it to you.
But you don't you're not worried about the universal I've got Allah
now. I've got the maker of Jana, the creator of Jana, designer of
Jana. What do I need?
Some anima say that
there's nothing in this world that could really represent gender for
you in this world except what the optimal look those people with
that special adoration for Allah subhanho wa Taala find in their
hearts at nighttime. From the sweetness of intimacy with Allah
you know, at nighttime when they can speak to Allah in their
tahajjud if that really becomes perfect for them and they achieve
it that's better than there's nothing else in dunya greater than
that because they've got money for of Allah that's why they can move
away from
you is like then you're willing to stand all night for the first
iPhone.
I mean, that's what we do in this world, right? The promise asking
us to stand all night until his feet get swollen for something
greater than iPhones. Right?
Can you not course I mean, there's no comparison but you know what I
mean? There's no comparison. But why would somebody stand to lay
feet get swollen?
Like shorty is I can I get that's not what God wants from me. Now I
just I feel something I'm doing this for myself as well. For Allah
of course. Not for my service for Allah.
That's why some scholar says that feeling this adulation and
adoration for ALLAH SubhanA wa Tada through that
special discourse that you have Allah subhanaw taala with Allah in
the world is not the world. That is not the word that's from the
accurate that Allah gives somebody. May Allah give us from
that.
Who are mineral Jana of Hara who have Hara hula hoop in dunya. It's
from Jana. Allah subhanaw taala has just revealed in this world
lady who Allah home base, it's nothing that you're going to
understand only those people who get it will really understand what
they're getting from that. What I actually do see where home Rohan
there could be him or Rohan they could be him. They're the only
ones are going to get get something of that.
And then another thing that you get from your worship.
These are some of the benefits of worship. Another thing we get from
our worship is a summary. What
are the
rewards, what are the rewards that you get? What additional rewards
do we get? What are the additional fruits of worship other than
that's where he says is that Allah subhanaw taala will allow you to
feel his closeness. Allah will allow you to feel his closeness.
Now, how do you get this closeness and this familiarity he says, One
familiarity and comfort you receive is indicative of Allah,
when you start remembering him, you start feeling that experience.
Now these can, this can only be achieved by those people who have
literally allowed themselves to perish from all worldly desires,
then you will get that feeling. Otherwise the world is constantly
distracting us. That's why we don't get it because we're too
involved in that world, like the worlds in our heart. And then he
does, he says, the second one is this familiarity or intimacy of
closeness that you will feel with Allah subhanaw taala. And the
third one, he says is the one where you will feel the intimacy
of witnessing Allah so it's a similar thing, that
but it's just this closeness that you will feel
he said, the first one, if you get that you won't.
You won't want to be you want to want to be with people too much
anymore. Initially, because you're, you're just get so
involved with Allah subhanho wa Taala that you won't enjoy being
with people.
That's what it'll do. I'll Ferrara meanness is you don't think
they're gonna get, you know, there's somebody you really like
you think and you think they can get you something, give you
something, then you find somebody who's even who who's got more
influence, what happens to the first guy
suddenly loses that respect in your eyes, right?
Because you've got somebody bigger now. So that's the same thing with
Allah subhanaw taala.
Then he says that, then after that, what you will do is that
when you become mature, when Allah subhanaw taala, then you will
start becoming closer to people.
But you will be careful of them as that you don't want them to taint
you, but you cannot deal with people.
And the third one is that you will start mixing with people because
you're going to help them they're going to be benefiting from you,
they won't be able to harm you anymore, because you become fully
matured and connected to Allah subhanaw taala. So initially, when
you get connected Allah you want to be away. That's why the benefit
of Attica if we have and solitude and so on, they make you do that
first so that you can focus on Allah and not be distracted, then
you can go back and be with people. And you see, you know,
these pious Salah that we have cited here that we have, if you
read their biographies, they usually for a lot of them, they
come through a time where they just didn't want to be with
people. And then suddenly you see them at the end of life, they were
people again, but now that with people on their terms, people
can't affect them, they're affecting people, people are
benefiting from them.
And he says, the way you receive this is that you have to make an
effort. It's like you're climbing on a mountain pass the first
mountain pass, if you mashallah climb up and get across it, then
you get to the next stage and then you get to the next day that is
relevant to that to finish this off, essentially, is that Allah
has given us an opportunity starting in a few days of Ramadan,
that is the time when Allah subhanaw taala literally makes it
so much easier, because shaytaan is out of the way those paradissa
opened, and he concentrates the rewards in every moment of
Ramadan, so that you can get and then Allah subhanho wa Taala is
just telling you Look, I'm here to give you every night I'm writing
people to be freed from hellfire. And then he says, I'm going to
increase your rewards. And then he's going to say that it's much
easier to get closer to him. Allah is generous people are generous,
that is reflective of Allah's generosity. So that's why last few
things that are mentioned is that hamdulillah we've been fasting
every year right? I don't see anybody here I don't think there's
anybody here who for whom is going to be their first Ramadan. We have
veterans in Ramadan. So why
how is this Ramadan going to be different? The way this Ramadan is
going to be different sha Allah is that this Ramadan is going to be
for Allah and only for Allah.
Like every Ramadan is for Allah. No. telling me something how many
of us have fasted for Allah?
What that means is that multiple times during the day you remember
that I'm fasting for Allah
I mean we fast Alhamdulillah we fast because everybody every
decent Muslim class and every nun decent Muslim fast. I hate that
comparison. But you know, even people who don't pray five times a
day, Roseate or a TV like you must be really messed up not too fast.
No monster knee printing. five daily prayers. Whoa, it's okay.
But Crozet are a clever way. You know, you have to fast
So hamdulillah hamdulillah right
but
the Prophet sallallahu sallam said in one amazing Hadith he said man
sama Ramadan Iman and why the Serbian author on the whole matter
condemning them whoever fast Ramadan with iman and so with iman
okay that's that's what caused you to fast I mean so I better fast
right? Okay. But the second part the Serbian
looking for some himself from Allah that's from you
right that's from you like I'm fasting because I want something
from Allah
then his past sins are forgiven
so
simple when we're fasting every time you feel tired every time you
have to wake up at all times, every time you have to sleep or
times then you have to stand and the Tarot is long mashallah right
and the quarry sub is reading slow,
right?
Like I'm doing this for
now I'm gonna go and tell him afterwards when we need to go to
work tomorrow.
Muhammad Mustafa up
we need to go to work tomorrow
I'm doing this for Allah. I'm doing this for Allah. Other people
have done so much more. This is a little bit we can do believe me,
your fasting will change. Your fasting will change that will be
when you got Allah through your fasting. And through your worship.
That's what this is all about. We've got a time to train
ourselves every time you feel tired, thirsty, weary.
I said long Tara, whatever, whatever it is.
Dry mouth. It's for Allah. It's for Allah. It's the vicar. That's
what we want to think that our fasting should because that's what
our fasting is we're doing it for Allah. Otherwise, you can just
eat, eat, eat inside, and just tell everybody you're fasting
outside. Just don't eat in public. So if you can actually avoid
eating a genuinely, it must be for Allah. Who else is it going to be
for because if it was for anybody else, I'll just secretly eat. I'll
just show everybody on fasting. That means they were already doing
it for Allah. But now let us be conscious. And you'll see that
your your whole life will change. Right? Several times a day you
feel these things.
You feel tired, you feel hot.
You feel
weak. You feel bored. You can't do this. You can't do that aren't for
Allah. I can't go and do this. I can't go and enjoy that. I can't
watch this. I can't see this. I can't talk to them. For Allah.
It's for Allah. It's for Allah. It's for Allah Allah, Allah Allah.
And you'll see that insha Allah the fasting will change our whole
Ramadan will be changing. And that is an upgraded Ramadan with mighty
for of Allah subhanho wa Taala then Allah subhanho wa Taala will
still still get will give us more so we ask Allah Tofik to allow us
to remember him much more dissimilar than we've ever
remembered him before Allah Salam developed
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Allah your mercy, yeah, Allah your forgiveness. Yeah Allah your
forgiveness, your kindness, your generosity, your benevolence, or
Allah showered us with Your Mercy of Allah bless us during these
final days before we can enter Ramadan Oh Allah allow us to enter
Ramadan allow us to take the greatest benefits of Allah make
this Ramadan better than any Ramadan before it's Oh Allah allow
us to reach you. Allow us to attain your on your Maddie for
during this month of Ramadan that was to be closer to you than we've
ever been before. Oh Allah allow us to be close to you. Oh Allah
allow us to know you. Allow us to recognize you and allow us to love
you more than anything else in this world. Allow us to remember
you more than we remember anything else. Oh Allah, let your
remembrance infuse every aspect of our life. Let your remembrance be
everywhere that your remembrance be everywhere. Allow us to witness
you everywhere. Oh Allah allow us to witness you everywhere. Oh
Allah, Oh Allah, we are extremely grateful. We can't thank you
enough for allowing us to be here. To know this to learn this Oh
Allah allow us to learn more so that we can understand you more of
a low reward this author of Allah reward all of those who have
allowed the dean of Muhammad sallallahu alayhi wa sallam to
come down to us of Allah allow us to also be instrumental in
allowing this theme to reach other people, whether that be through
the masjid or a madrasa of Allah or through scholarship or through
assistance or through donation, oh Allah make us all part of this, oh
Allah do not deprive us, make us of your chosen ones, make us of
your beloved ones of Allah, accept us all for the service of God,
give us greater him, give us greater aspiration, protect us and
grant us your such satisfaction, comfort with you and familiarity
with you. And so that we do not have to fear anything else that we
don't fear anyone else. Oh Allah grant us Apphia and grant our
brothers and sisters around the world, except whatever little that
we're doing, and we are thankful to you for allowing us to do it in
the first place. Now Allah we ask that You grant us all of these
other rewards that you have granted to your religious, your
righteous ones, your close ones, Oh Allah, we ask that you forgive
us and totally purify us and make us worthy of your Rama and your
mercy Subhan alembic urbanicity on my OC phone. What's going on?
We'll send him well hamdulillah here on
the point of a lecture is to encourage people to act to get
further an inspiration and encouragement, persuasion. The
next step is to actually start learning seriously to read books
to take on a subject of Islam and to understand all the subjects of
Islam at least at the basic level, so that we can become more aware
of what our deen wants from us. And that's why we started Rayyan
courses so that you can actually take organize lectures on demand
whenever you have free time, especially for example, the
Islamic essentials course that we have on the Islamic essentials
certificate which you take 20 Short modules and at the end of
that inshallah you will have gotten the basics of most of the
most important topics in Islam and you will feel a lot more
confident. You don't have to leave lectures behind you can continue
to live, you know to listen to lectures, but you need to have
this more sustained study as well as local law here and Salam
aleikum wa rahmatullah wa barakato.