Abdur Rahman ibn Yusuf Mangera – The Ray of Hope in the Darkness [Hikam 197]
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this aphorism is very important for.
For us when we think that Allah subhanho wa Taala doesn't have the
ability to help us and assist us. We don't really believe that. But
we sometimes start to think that we don't think of it directly.
This is the implicit thought in our
approach. The reason is that when we try
as much as possible, when you try a lot to stay away from sins, and
to get onto the right path, and to avoid hot arms, and so on, and so
forth.
And it doesn't work for us. And it becomes difficult, and we
constantly relapse and fall back into it, then implicitly, we start
losing hope.
We ourselves feel that there's no hope we keep doing the wrong
thing. We keep going back to our old ways.
But what that shows is that we don't have enough trust in Allah
subhanaw taala because at that moment, we should be still
constantly thinking of Allah, that he still has the ability to stop
us. But we stop thinking about Allah, we start focusing on
ourself. Allah wants us to focus on Him even in that status. So
generally, we will start thinking we're so weak, we're not
complaining about Allah. But we are thinking that we can't do it.
But it's not us. It's not about us. Yes, we've got a problem with
our knifes, but the person who
wants to get closer to Allah subhanaw taala, he should be
thinking,
I can't do it.
But Allah subhanaw taala can make me do it. So even at that moment,
the gaze should be on Allah subhana wa Tada. This is probably
what makes the difference. And essentially the difference between
a weenie of Allah and somebody who is not already of Allah, somebody
who's has the mighty fur of Allah and somebody who doesn't have the
metaphor of Allah, because the one who doesn't have the metaphor of
Allah, we will just think about it ourself as though we're cold, we
don't know, we have no ability to do anything.
We will just assume that we won't think about Allah subhanaw taala.
Whereas the if the person who knows Allah subhanaw taala because
Allah is always
foremost in their mind, they will think even when they fall down and
do wrong, that Allah subhanaw taala can get me out of this. That
is a very powerful thoughts. But it's very difficult to think of it
in that in that moment, because we just start become a shaytaan makes
us self condemning and wanting us to give up. So this is the
approach that we're speaking about. That's why he's saying here
that many struggle, rubber, and unity the hula hoop in Shehata he
is staggered up by means, who thinks it's a hurry, hurry in
Arabic means our jeep. Unusual.
In a we in order to and other languages very means poor. But
that's because the poor person is generally unusual. But hurry
actually means unusual.
So whoever assumes it is unusual that Allah subhanaw taala could
save him and extract him from his showered from his desires. What
can you hold your home in? Would you do flirty, and Allah could
extract him, yank him out of his forgetfulness.
Whoever finds that astonishing, forgot the strategist will could
rattle ILA here, then he has considered the divine power to be
weak and feeble.
He started Jezza. Again, to think something, somebody's urges, I
just means feeble weak in a
unable to do something. So then this person has deemed the divine
power to be weak. And Allah has a power over everything. What can
Allah who either coalition, what Khedira Allah has power over
everything. So it's trying to correct our mind in terms of how
we understand these things.
So there's no doubt that Allah subhanaw taala cannot be enfeebled
by anything. Nothing debilitates him. Law your Jesus who shaped
this is our Arcada this is part of the creed of anarchy that the
highway Says law, your Juju shape. Nothing can debilitate her. Well,
who will hardly bother me he he is dominant over every matter that
there is in the world.
The hearts of the people are in his hands.
He can turn them as he wishes, he can
manipulate them and administer them as he wants. So whoever is
submerged in the shower the
negligence
and absolutely immersed in the seeds of the desire, they should
still not think that Allah subhanaw taala could take them
out.
It's an absolute possibility.
Allah subhanho wa Taala could extract them out of it, yank them
out of it. If a person doesn't believe that, then that is a
problem with his Iman.
Called the Hun fee Imani. This is a blemish on his faith is faith is
not right. How can that be astonishing, that Allah has the
ability to do so? When Allah Himself says, what kind of Allah
who are the militia in mokdad era that Allah has ability over all
things?
And we are either accordingly che
what can Allahu Allah kuraly che in shape means everything. We all
have those things. So Allah has the ability over us as well. Allah
subhanho wa Taala says with regard the disobedient ones Yeah, but the
Alladhina SIR for Allah and fusi him la takana to me Rahmatullah.
Oh, my servants who have transgressed against themselves
who have committed excesses against themselves, do not become
despondent of Allah's mercy because Allah forgives all sins,
What is Allah telling us to do here? If a person is sinning, and
then becoming despondent, becoming hopeless, because shaytan is
making them like that they are allowing the shaytaan because
they're not thinking of the Mercy of Allah at that time.
They're thinking of the Wrath of Allah.
But they're not thinking of the Mercy of Allah subhana wa Tada we
what we need to do is when we commit a sin happen to commit a
sin, then it is better than to think of the Mercy of Allah
subhanho wa Taala that he will forgive us, because if we don't,
the sin stays with us. It beckons to more since
the beauty and benefit of seeking forgiveness straight after a sin
is that our were wiped clean and where the burden has been removed
from us, the evil influence of it insha Allah will not continue
because sin is such that when a person commits a sin, it beckons
to more sin. It's tasty, the sick taste lingers. So as long as the
Toba hasn't made the taste to linger,
we won't have enough ability to push it away. If we make the Tober
and we're sincere, then that Dagobah becomes stronger and we
push away the taste that is lingering from the sin. And even
if it does come back, our Toba is strong enough to dismiss it in our
mind. Otherwise, the biggest problem we have is that the
biggest problem most of us have are with sins that we're
habituated to, not with necessarily nuisance.
And if it's a new sin is generally related to the old sin.
So
we're stuck in a rut, it seems with the same kind of thing
happening over and over and over again.
So if we make Toba sincerely, then, and it's strong enough, then
it will help us to overcome these things. That's why Allah subhanaw
taala says, oh, people who have transgressed against themselves do
not become despondent of Allah's mercy. Essentially what he's
saying is think of Allah's mercy at the time.
Allah says from a dub I mean, the Zulu me he was a Salah for in
Allah who you're to barley, that the one who makes Toba doba means
who returns to Allah. So there has to be the act in one's mind. I
want to get back to Allah. And the way you do that, you feel oh, I've
just become distant from ALLAH SubhanA wa Tada. This sin has made
me distant from Allah. So I want to return to Allah. I want to be
his again, whoever does Toba. I mean, the whole me he after his
oppression and oppression is against oneself here. You know?
And obviously against others as well depending on situation, what
are silica and reforms?
He does an act of reform. He goes through it with his mind he does
sadaqa he does something. Then for in De La Jolla to Bali then Allah
subhanho wa Taala will also turn back to him. Allah the Prophet
sallallahu alayhi wa sallam said, Whoa, Neptune had doubleu hood,
Hatha Yoga coma Anna Anna summer. If you sinned, until your sins
reached the levels of the heavens, the heights of the heavens Thumma
took tune and then after that you sought forgiveness. You did Toba,
you went back to Allah that Allah Wa alaykum
Allah will come back to you, Allah will take you back in.
These are all matters to be believed in. These are all
reiterations of that re emphasis of this. This is what we have to
live by basically, because our lives are like that we have to
live by these things. We have to be constantly hearing them to
refresh our you're keen to strengthen our team.
And
it's a good idea to think of all of those people who
started off as people of off law of negligence, absolute
negligence, maybe worse of the mistakes we're in. Then they
became a little more Shahada. They became such people who could
witness Allah subhanaw taala. constantly seeing Allah subhana wa
Tada. They were thieves.
And then they became
specially connected to Allah subhanaw taala.
They, for example, you see people like Ibrahim ignored him.
Ibrahim, we've not had him for the loop nor Ayyad, a highwayman,
robbing people so notorious that people would not want to go
through his area. And today we know him as Arab Middle Haramain.
The worshipper of the two sanctuaries, Abuja as a number of
these individuals, so many people, there are so many people in our
history that show that
think of the person in the Hadith who killed 99 people the oft
quoted narration, though it's oft quoted so many times. It's
something that will always give us hope. He went and then asked a
worshiper, Allah Heba hermit, whether there could be any Toba,
he saw this hermit as a pious individual. So he went to ask him,
this just shows that when people are in desperation, they go to
whoever they think is righteous, but those righteous people are not
necessarily always
competent enough to assist others. They're doing their own worship,
but they don't have the knowledge to assist others. They don't know
the intricacies of Allah's Rama and mercy. They're enjoying it,
but they don't know the limits of it, and how it applies to others.
So he says lotto better luck for you. There's no Tober so he killed
him as well because he was angry.
This is his state. He was just into killing, you could see that
he was kind of a serial killer in essence, so he killed him as well.
And then after that, he went and found an island. He happened to
come across an island him when he asked him the island him told him
that you must make Toba. He told him how to make his Toba and that
he should go somewhere else to have to get sober.
To go to a place where there are better people where he could
benefit from their company.
So then he went there, died in the died on the path. And the mother
Equateur Rama took him. The hadith is known it's in Buhari. Then you
have another person who was a thief.
He was a robber.
He asked an Arabic again another worshiper. Hello, halimun Toba. Is
there a Tober for me? Can I become better.
And for some reason this Ira made fun of him.
Maybe he had some arrogance, maybe whatever the reason was, he was
just the worship but he wasn't an heirloom as well. He made it he
started making fun of him and mocking him what kind of Toba
you're gonna get, look what kind of bad things you've done and so
on.
The way he made fun of him was this. He took a dry, a dry
piece of wood, a dry branch dried twig, and he gave it to him. And
he said to him take this. When it becomes green and fresh,
then that means your Toba would be Sahai.
So, this poor man
he believed in he was mocking him. But he believed him he took hold
of the he took it.
And he began to worship Allah subhanaw taala. He dedicated
himself to worship.
And he would keep watching this thing, this twig, this dry twig.
One day it became totally fresh.
Achieve. That just shows the conviction.
It's all a matter of conviction how much you can. That's what
Allah wants to see of us. This is the secret of the whole thing. If
Allah wants to see from us, that's why Allah
sometimes we commit sins, because when we're not committing, when
we're committing minus and sometimes we don't think about
Allah, we think we're fine, where we're going on a nice line. We're
not getting any closer to Allah, we're kind of stagnant. Sometimes
we commit to sin and the reason for that sin is to
Give us some kind of s us
and take us back to Allah subhana wa Tada.
So sometimes after a sin you actually become better,
higher level, you don't commit a sin for that reason, it's better
not to because the sin might just take us down completely. It's a
risk is a bad risk to take.
One person came to hijack hydrogen, the use of as you know,
when he was going past somewhere, and he saw a blind man making dua
Oh Allah, give me back my site, give me back my site. So Hajaj, as
you know, he was just a very bold rabbitbrush kind of individual.
You went up to him and gave him a little shove. And he said, Do you
know who I am? So the person said, no, no, he says, I'm had judged on
the use of the blind person must have heard of hijab, of course,
that he's just willing to kill anybody, like crosses his path and
gets him on the wrong side. So he said, I just told him, I'm judging
the use of, I'm going to this place. Tonight, I'm going to come
back. And by that time, if you don't have your sight back, then
you're dead.
I'm going to kill you.
Now, what do you think this man did? He started really praying to
Allah subhanaw taala. He really started praying to Allah subhanaw
taala. By the time had judge came back, he had a sight.
And this is what the judge told him, he said, I saw you making
this kind of dua.
And I thought the only way to get you to make serious DWIs this
judge was a knowledgeable individual, in a sense, he had
this problem with immediate, you know, the psychosis or whatever it
was that he had. But, you know, these were learned individuals at
the time.
But this is the Yaqeen when you know, you're gonna die,
then then you make that kind of dua
because nothing is beyond Allah. It just shows us nothing. Nothing
is beyond Allah. It's just our Yaqeen is not there. This is what
all of this tells us.
Even though our Jeeva mentioned that, I know numerous people I
know numerous people who are totally negligent, they used to
miss solids, they were abandoning solids. They did not know what the
Dean was, they did not know even main things with children knew
about the dean, these were totally negligent people brought up like
this, and they were just involved in the dunya negligence and so on
and so forth. They have no idea of the Husi way, they didn't even
have an idea of the the general way of the muslimeen. You know,
that's how far they were from the Dean. But they became it theme
from the house they became when they tried and made the efforts is
is I found people who have been totally immersed in sin,
absolutely disobedient,
committing excesses against people, oppressing people and so
on. And they became from the greatest of the Salah Hain and
he's saying that these are people I know. We've seen so many people
like this is when he said that I've even seen the Nosara of
scepter. CELTA is
it's in Morocco.
You've got it's on the north, Eastern north eastern tip of
Morocco, it actually belongs to Spain. But it's in Morocco, on the
Morocco in the within the Moroccan. So
he says that we used to have the chroma chalice. And some of these
big ones, you know, big ones and some of these Masada, these
Christians, they would come and from outside, they would just feel
the variable, whatever it was, and they would be there.
And they became really attracted to us. They became really
attracted to us.
But eventually what happened is, I think it was separated and they
were no longer able to. So if it continued like that they would
have no doubt become a Muslim, just because of the experience
that we're having. With this. He says
it talks about a number of other individuals and then he says that
generally, this mostly happens when a person comes upon the
Sahaba and the company of the one who has this magic, when you say
magic means who has this alchemy, who has this remedy? Who has this
baraka from Allah subhanaw taala to make this difference?
And he says that these people are available at all time.
In all times in all generations, these people are there. And
there's no doubt about them because Allah subhanaw taala has
these kinds of people, there will always be some people who will be
like that.
And anybody who rejects that such people are available that can
benefit them, then it is like they are denying or rejecting the
shining of the sun. Despite the fact that the sun is out
There's no doubt about such people because we know so many stories
about these things of people becoming good.
However,
those people who are rejected have this rejecters of the path.
They say,
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Sometimes an eye that has cataract, will reject the shining
of the sun, just because it can't see it, though it's there.
Likewise, sometimes the mouth will deny the taste of a certain item,
just because it is ill and sick. So when sometimes when you have a
bad flu or something, you have no taste buds. You don't say this
tastes bad, whereas it tastes good to others. That's why Allah says
in the Hello terminal episode, what I can determine Kulu will
Latif is to do, it's not the outer eyes that are blind, it's the
inner hearts that have been blunted and blinded so that they
cannot see.
And this means they have been blinded of the way of the pious.
Some people are too involved in academics to such a degree that
when I say academics here, I'm not talking about academics as a
worldly occupation, I'm talking about even some orlimar are so
involved in academics to such a degree that they just don't
understand any other aspects of the deen. So for them, it's all
about science, science, knowledge, knowledge, knowledge, learning
more about Hadith, and Quran and Tafseer, and fit, and so on and so
forth. These are what we call the amount of volume that orlimar with
a great knowledge of the external sciences, they have no idea of the
internal sciences, and one is that they don't have but they want to,
so then they have respect for it, and they have a longing for it.
But then what you have is some people, for example, the other
day, I just heard somebody saying, one of one such item, saying that
one item saying, Oh, I saw this, the CHE he had his muddied sitting
around him and they were all low, lowered heads. It says what kind
of a situation is this? Now I can see where he's coming from. His
understanding of this is that in a teacher student relationship, when
it comes to sciences, when it comes to a room, there needs to be
a freedom of movement in the sense that the student needs to be able
to ask questions, to get knowledge, then it cannot be one
sided. And if you look at him Abu Hanifa situation with his students
as well, it would be more of a discussion as opposed to a one
sided
lecture. And this is where it benefits most when the students
are provoked, inspired, and forced to ask questions and really
discuss things because then it helps to clarify the situation. So
it's, it appears, and again, I'm judging somebody here, and may
Allah forgive me if I'm wrong. But the point is that if somebody's
thinking this way, right, it means they are applying the academic
sciences to the path of the soul. That just shows the ignorance of
the soul of the soul is a whole different game. It's a whole
different way of doing things. It divided demands respect, that's
why you've gone to the person. Yes, when you have a question, you
ask the question. But at the end of the day, there's a concept of
towards you, there's a concept of an outpouring that is coming
through the machine, if that is coming through the machine, like
from Rasulullah, sallAllahu, alayhi, wasallam, it is coming
through the machinery from the hearts of the shoe. And it's going
this is the whole point of the measureless, generally. So in a
measureless in front of your shake, you're supposed to be
sitting there with humility is not there to say boldly and you know,
is this not the point of it? Yes, if you're sitting in a gathering
of knowledge and the shakers teaching your Hadith, and so on,
you have to respect but there you're willing to ask questions,
you're willing to challenge in a in a polite, positive, positive,
respectful way, all of those things when it comes to the soul
for you, you have to give yourself up to that. But it's very
difficult for people to do that. Very difficult for people to do
that.
But that's what he's saying a bit. There's people who reject that
there's this possibility. And generally, this is where benefits
come from. People change because of the company and the software of
somebody. We call this Imagine this. In many Arab countries, they
call this a software.
Because software means being in the company.
And one of the only reasons we're doing this here, obviously,
because the machines have told us to do so. But the other thing is
that it's to everybody's benefit. We benefit from each other because
we've come here for a common benefit, which is the vicar of
Allah
subhanaw taala and the remembrance. So that's why Allah
subhanaw taala says, It's not the external eyes, which are blind
they see, but it's the inner hearts, which are problematic, and
they don't see. And
it's like,
you have a cockroach, who cannot see.
It sees in the dark, but it can't see or bat, a bat, it can't see in
the daytime, but it can see in the darkness. That's why they prefer
to stay in caves and things like that, because they can see it's a
place it's, it's their world, which they can see when they come
outside, they become kind of blind, and so they can't see
what's going on.
So sometimes we have to take that into consideration that some
people will deny something, because of that reason, that
doesn't make the denial and evidence that there's a problem
with the way and the path just because somebody can not see it.
And that's why generally what happens in this world to many
people is that they become involved in showers and desires
and in wrong deeds. And they feel they can't get out of it. They are
mon hammock, which means they are totally immersed in that sin. And
they it actually feels like they are in a prison of negligence.
That's how we feel that we're in a prison. We're imprisoned by our
negligence. So it's almost like we're enjoying it. But we know we
are confined. We want to get out of this. We want to be free. Being
free of sin is that the greatest freedom that you can feel? But
we're in a prison of a muffler. And
then Allah subhanaw taala gives you an extradition order gives a
release order by giving a favor
for that person to suddenly wake up
for a person to be awoken from his life of hafla and sin and he's
able to come out of this and free himself. And this is the greatest
bounty of Allah subhanaw taala.
That's why in another wizard in another aphorism, if not, Allah
says route Burma water that is Zulu morlich No route Burma water
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is will prevail upon you so that you can see the darkness from the
good and come out of it. This is all to give us hope.
This is all to give us hope. So we have great hope in Allah subhanahu
wa Tada that Allah subhanho wa Taala has good things in store for
us. This thought
is a beneficial thoughts because it makes us optimistic. It helps
us a lot to think that ALLAH SubhanA wa Taala has something
good in store for us. He will take us out from the awful lot. And the
signs of that is that he's allowed us to sit and do the vicar of
ALLAH SubhanA wa Tada.
And one final thing that I want to mention is that if Allah subhanaw
taala didn't like us, there's a lot of people who complain that
when they do vicar, they don't feel anything.
And they're doing vicar but they're negligent, their minds are
somewhere else. But this is a constant kind of a problem.
But one has to realize from that is that if Allah subhanaw taala
didn't want us to do the care at all, we wouldn't have even done
it.
So to sit there and even dedicate that 20 minutes, half an hour or
one hour, whatever it is, for Allah, when you're doing nothing
else, and you're trying to do the good. Even though 50% of the time
70% of the time you're negligent, that is still a very good starting
point. Because that time is still dedicated to Allah and Allah
sees beyond things. So though it's not as good as somebody who's
who's thinking and concentrating, but it's still better than not
doing anything at all.
So our job, to be honest, that's what the machines say our job is
to spend the time
you just sit and do do the ticker.
And keep focusing keep attempting to gain
attention within it and concentration. But at least we're
spending that time doing nothing other than that we're protected
from that at least. May Allah subhanho wa Taala give us the
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O Allah, O Allah forgive us our sins. Oh Allah forgive us our sins
there
Are we committed by daylight and not committed at night? Oh Allah,
those that we remember and those that we don't remember, Oh Allah
those that we forgotten those that we've committed by mistake and
those that we did boldly, oh Allah realizing that we're committing
sins of Allah, we ask that you forgive us our excesses, oh Allah
that You grant us our forgiveness. You grant us Miriam Your Mercy, oh
Allah without your mercy nothing is going to happen for us. of
Allah we ask that You grant us your mercy for without your mercy
nothing will happen for us. Oh Allah, Oh Allah we ask that You
grant us your compassion that you treat us gently. Oh Allah we ask
that you try to treat us with Your Mercy of Allah we're in need of
your mercy more than anything else. Oh Allah, we're in need of
your mercy more than anything else. Oh Allah, we're in need of
Tofik and guidance, divine enablement. Oh Allah, we ask You
for two feet. We ask you for tofi Oh Allah, we ask that you take us
by the four locks and places in the on the path of your earlier
and your close ones. Oh Allah, we've lived a long life on sin
away from the path of your,
your chosen ones. Oh Allah, we ask that You grant us closeness to
you. We ask that you grant us closeness to you. Oh Allah, we've
been so far we've been so far we've been so far. Our love but we
want your closeness of Allah. Allah we ask that you accept our
to us, that you accept her do us today you purify our hearts. You
grant us your note in our hearts of Allah, You grant us the Tofik
to sit and remember you. You grant us concentration in our
remembrance, you grant us focus in our remembrance of Allah, we ask
that you make our surroundings conducive for that. Oh Allah, we
ask that you take the evil out of our lives, that the wrongs out of
our lives, the disobedience out of our lives. Oh Allah, we ask that
you bring obedience in our lives, obedience in our approach to
things Oh Allah, that you make our mindset or mentality conducive to
how you will be pleased with it. Oh Allah, Oh Allah, we ask that
you make our hearts the way you want them to be. And that you'll
be pleased with us. Oh Allah, Oh Allah, we ask that you do not let
us die in the state of golf. In the state of negligence in the
state of loss in the state of Beeville bewilderment of Allah in
the state of deception, where we feel we're doing something but
we're not who Allah Oh Allah, we ask that you remove our deception
from us. You remove our deception, you remove our focus on the wrong
things, our Allah that you set us a right that you align us properly
into the right direction of Allah, you put us on the path of those of
Allah your miracles, know no bounds. There are many in the
past, some of whose names we took today and many others who started
off, maybe even worse than our situation. But Allah it gives us
hope to know that they could change completely so we can also
change completely. Our law we ask that you grant a state change,
that transformation, because you have ability over all things of
Allah we are part of your
we are part of your sovereign, we are part of your your your slaves,
your on your slaves among those things. You have full control over
our Allah, Allah we ask that you changes for the better you
transform us for the better. You draw us closer to you.
Oh Allah, Oh Allah, we ask that you give us a Tofik to constantly
ask you to constantly be aware of you to remember you even in our
worst moments of Allah to remember you and remember your mercy even
in our worst moments. Oh Allah, Allah, Allah, we ask that You
grant us genital fair dose. You grant us company of your beloved
messenger sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, you grant us immense love
for him in this world and send abundant blessings. O Allah to
him, O Allah, O Allah, we ask that you all the permissible needs that
we have in our life that you fulfill them. You fulfill them in
an easy manner in a manner with the well being of Allah you grant
us Baraka in our possessions. You grant us Baraka in our lives, in
our children, our Allah, especially in our iman and our
faith and our Dini outlook. Oh Allah, we ask that you accept our
dollars that you accept our dollars that you accept our
dollars of Allah otherwise, we're at loss, otherwise we're at loss.
So how not to become a biller is that your seafood was when I
didn't Mark Cerny will hamdulillah right i mean