Abdur Rahman ibn Yusuf Mangera – The Real Meaning of Zuhd (Abstinence)
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Bismillah al Rahman al Rahim
Al hamdu Lillahi Rabbil Alameen wa Salatu was Salam ala CD Mursaleen.
Or either he or Safi or Baraka was seldom at the Sleeman cathedral,
Eli Yomi. Dean. And
one of the very important discussions is about the nature of
this world.
Many times when you are listening to a violin or a hotel or
something, there's generally a lot of criticism of aspects of this
world or love of this world that's discussed. And then there's a
concept called Zoho, which is discussed. So what I want to
relate today to is one of the main Hadith, one of the main narrations
from the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam that discusses the
concept of Zoho renunciation of the world. And I'm going to try to
provide some understanding of
what is it that's required from us? And what exactly is it because
there's so much misconception about it.
A lot of the time, when you discuss renunciation of the world,
there are stories and incidence accounts of people who renounced
the world and who literally
survived on the absolute minimum.
So, generally, those are the stories that are showed that are
depicted to us to express what zone it is.
And sometimes that could be misunderstood. So that's why it's
very important for us to understand firstly, the narration
I'm going to mention to you
the narration which I'm going to mention here, is actually
considered by many scholars to be one of the four foundational
narrations among all of the Hadith corpus, if you were to take all of
the Hadith narrations and you're to distill it down to try to
figure out what who, which are the few generations that if we were to
last, if we were to be at loss of the rest, if we were to lose the
rest, these would still be able to provide for us the fundamentals of
our deen. So you can see it's a very profound narration and that
narration is one related by number of
collectors like IGNOU merger with a sound chain along with him
number of others as well ignore a ban Hakeem and so on and so forth.
A bill Abbas saheliyon, who sat at the center at saheliyon On
Saturday, the Saturday Radi Allahu Anhu is the narrator of it. And
what he says is that a person came to the Prophet sallallahu alayhi
wa salam, and he asked him a question. So the artists will
Allah O Messenger of Allah, de la Niada Emelyn, either emitted to
who have been in LA, what have been in us, that's everybody's
looking for this. He says, give me a deed, a practice, some kind of
work, which if I do, people will love me and Allah will love me.
If people love you, and Allah loves you, what else do you need?
People means your spouse, your children, your parents, and the
public at large. And Allah loves you as well. So Subhan Allah, if
everybody loves you, they can love you, because they're happy with
you for some reason. That's an elixir for absolute success. So
what did the Prophet sallallahu Sallam tell him, he said, is had
fit dunya your book Allah renounced the world, or practice
abstinence from the world. And Allah will love you. And practice
abstinence from that which people possess that which people have
renounced that. And people will love you renounce the world and
renounce what people have. So what people have is the world anyway.
But that's almost like just clarifying a further
clarification, because if you're renouncing the world, and what
people have is the world,
right? If people are telling you to do something for the archaea,
then that's not the world that's for the archaea. So that's
excluded anyway.
So as I said that this is one of the four really fundamental
narrations that tell us some really profound fundamental
principle of the deen.
So Allah will love me and people will love me, Allah generally,
when Allah, the idea of this is that if Allah loves you, then
he'll reward you, he'll be pleased with you, he'll be satisfied with
you. And if people are happy with you, or people love you, then that
basically means that they would have a natural inclination towards
you, so they probably will not harm you.
And if it's Allah providing that love from people, then it means
that it's going to be a balanced love because sometimes somebody is
obsessed with you, so they stalk you. So you could have an extreme
sense of love as well. Or you don't want their love and their
training, you don't want the love of certain people, because then
that could get you into trouble. So this is talking about positive
love.
Because obviously, if they if you're asking Allah to have them
love you in the right way, then it means that they're loving you for
the sake of Allah, which is the best love
because then that's not
unselfish love, that's more selfless love.
And there's a hadith which kind of gives an understanding of this and
how this works together in tandem anyway because when Allah subhanaw
taala loves a person he calls Jabril Ali Salaam.
So do you realize Sam is like a lieutenant in that sense and he
tells him I love such and such a person you love him. So Jibreel is
around he just follows order. So he loves and then his job is to
actually spread this among the angels. So they all begin to love
this person and then angels come down to the earth to perform
different deeds and functions and jobs and tasks. So then people
start to love that person because that spread and then mashallah the
love of that person. Positive love for the sake of Allah is then
entered into everybody's hearts, so we know that anyway. In fact,
it's also mentioned in the Quran, Allah subhanho wa Taala season
sort of Meriam
in the Latina terminal, what Emmylou salejaw Those people who
believe and do good deeds, sage, Allah Homer Rahman woulda
the Rama and the Most Merciful One will
designate for them love will create for them love will engender
for them love. So that's obviously means that you need to believe in
Allah and do good deeds in the right way, and that will inshallah
happen.
So what does he mean by renouncing the world, and that's what we want
to understand now what does renouncing in the world so Just in
brief first, renunciation of the world just basically means that
the world then holds no significance in your sights, you
do not consider it to be the greatest and most significant
factor in your life. And seriously, if that could happen,
that will make life so much easier.
Because what keeps us up at night, or what makes people concerned
even spoils their prayer is basically when can I get my next
shot of the world, whether that be the phone, or somebody or
something, or an asset or a position, or some kind of fame, or
glory, or influence, or whatever it is. So essentially, all of that
just diminishes.
Now, generally, you cannot diminish something unless
something else becomes more important for you. It's always a
replacement, because humans have this tendency to always focus on
something.
Right? If you notice, humans always they generally focus on
something. And if nothing else is there on depression, right, they
get obsessed with their own depression, and they all state
right? So the, the only way this is going to happen is if the
akhirah becomes more important that I need to worry about that
accumulate more for that, put away more for that invest in that set
forth, only then that's going to generally happen because that's
then a healthy replacement of the world. So
zoom within this world essentially means that the world becomes
diminished in our sights. We're no longer deceived by it. No longer
does it does the blink the blink and the glory of it the shine of
it,
beckon us in the same way, that's why Allah says Allah tahu Rhonda,
Kamal HYAH to dunya the life of this world should not deceive you
should not deceive you. Then Allah also says air Allah mu.
Animal higher to dunya Allah Abel wala
the your life of this world is full of, of clay and idle pursuits
was Ina and embellishment adornment. What a Farhan Boehner
come and a means of
a means of basically showing off between one another boasting
between one another what the Catherine family was allowed, and
who has more children who can accumulate a greater mass of
wealth.
That's basically the pursuit of this world. That's the nature of
this world.
So then Allah will love you, what does he mean by Allah loving you,
Allah loving a person in brief is essentially that Allah will then
be satisfied with you and he will treat you with excellence, he will
have his son, which is he will treat you with beauty. So we will
become beautiful souls. Some of us may be very handsome and have
outward beauty, but then our luck and character and our souls, our
behavior,
our emotions, empathy, all of that will become beautiful. So now, how
do you define zone we were giving a basic idea. Now let us see what
other animals are saying as to what zoo this. And we want to then
correspond that with other ideas that we've had in our mind about
what zoo is supposed to be generally for a lot of people so
it just means that you completely shun the world. And you basically
make do with the absolute minimum and and suffer.
Right? Is that the case? So one of the most profound statements about
Zoho from one of our great scholars is what am I
Cambodia no humble has related and he takes this actually from a
scholar before him whose name is Abu Idris a whole learning about
the hola Juan. So he says that Zhu Li says the herder to fit dunya
betta hurry mill Halal
wala a DA till mal right now this is you can say it's it's a
definition almost as a response to what he's seen. So it's not like a
positive definition that he just made up it's more of a repelling
definition trying to miss a try to remove the Miskin miss the
misunderstandings, he says zoom in the dunya renouncing the world is
not by making unlawful the lawful. That which is lawful for you to
have say no haram haram. Right.
And neither is it by wasting wealth, to have all of your wealth
and just basically literally just fling it away.
We're in numbers the harder to fit dunya to what is overthrown dunya
what is renunciation of the world according to abou Idris and how
learning he says that an akuna be Murphy ye de la he orthok Min Kofi
and eek we're in a sub Tomasi button. Quinta, Asha, the Raja
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So just bear with me, what that means is Zoho in this dunya.
renunciation of this world just means that you are more, you have
greater assurance and confidence in that which Allah possesses,
then in what you possess. So he's not saying that you don't, that
you don't possess anything, you can possess whatever you want, you
can possess as much as would give people confidence, but your
confidence actually through Allah not through what you have. So for
example, I've got memberships everywhere, whether that be
breakdown service, insurance, service, boiler repair service,
and insurances for everything you want. And I've got enough wealth
to deal with all of that I can buy whatever I want. I've got
everything at my disposal, imagine it. But that obviously gives
confidence. Right? Right. A lot of people who are very confident is
because they know they're connected. So even if an inquiry
comes, they know, they can maybe make a few, you know, few phone
calls, right? They've got favours as such, or they've got money to
buy things. If this happens, it's not a problem. We'll just buy
another one. What's the big deal? Right? I've got coverage, all of
these confidence give us. However, for this person, despite having
everything his debacle is in Allah greater, because he understands
that all of this could actually amount to nothing if Allah wills
and that happens, sometimes a person has everything, but
eventually nothing works. And sometimes it happens at the worst
time of your life, which is that the end of your life, look at some
of these world leaders are these powerful people where they become
degraded towards the end.
So that is what it is. Zuid is essentially a focus on what Allah
has and the hereafter, and renunciation of this world in
terms of its importance that it can't do anything for me without
Allah.
And
so essentially, what is being discussed here is that the
definition of Zoho here is basically three things, isn't it?
One is that it's, it's telling us that this has something to do with
the heart. Zoho is not an outward expression necessarily. Zoho has
something to do in the hearts.
That's why some say that you can't really test somebody for Zuid by
watching them because that has to do with the heart. Somebody could
be enjoying huge amount of luxuries. But they could be the
greatest hit in that area. Because they have no trust in any of this.
But they've got it Allah has given it to them. And you have the likes
of those in the Sahaba right are semana de Allah one who look at
the amount of wealth he had at his disposal. Abdul Rahman live now
tal hybrid obey the laws Wait a minute, I want they had huge
amounts.
But there was a hit.
So number one, it is a it is something from the heart. It is
not an action. Sometimes you may get an indication but otherwise
it's not done.
That's why Abu Salim Anna Dharani
Rahima hula, he used to say that LA desh Hadley had in bizerte
don't testify to anybody that they are reside for in the zoo. They
will count because it is in the hearts. It's your state. I mean,
it's in the hearts.
What does the second part of what abou Idris whole learning
mentioned the first one was that
the first point was that you're more trusting in what Allah has
than what you have, even if you have everything. And number two,
if you lose something you
says Wainhouse optimasi. But then if and we'll see what comes upon
you, if a difficulty comes upon you, Jerry difficult comes because
you've lost something, you don't have something. That's a
difficulty, isn't it? I don't have comfort, right car broke down,
lost the child, God forbid, lost my job, you know, etc. That's kind
of, that's a masiva. That's some of the greatest we'll see. But
that poor person, I lost my health. Now, can you see what I'm
saying? Right, it's a loss of something, whether it's your
health or money or position or whatever. So what he's saying,
Now, this is a tough one, this is, you have to understand this is
more tough. He's saying that if you do lose something,
your hope, its reward that you're getting from Allah because of the
patients that you're now exercising. So you're hoping the
reward that you're getting for that is far superior, and stronger
and more intense, then for you to want to have not lost that thing
and have maintained that thing. So what does that mean? For you to
have not lost that thing, whether it be a child or a job, or health
or whatever, this is much more tough, this is more tough than the
first one, right? There, your your knowledge of the reward and your
conviction in the reward you're getting for the summer that now
you have to do.
Right is more intense, you'd rather like that you've got more
hope in Allah for the reward of that, that is more valuable for
you, then had you not been in that state, and had continued to enjoy
the bounty.
That's not easy. That doesn't mean that you start praying that that's
what happens to you. Because there are easier ways to get to
Paradise. But if it does happen to you, then that should be your
state. That's what Zoom is.
So remember, we're not asking for that. But if that happens, and
you've lost something, then you've lost it. This is one of the best
solutions. This is one of the best suggestions and prescriptions you
can have, you've already lost it, no point crying over spilt milk.
But now if you can just understand that the loss, if it's going to
make you have supper and patience and trust in Allah, then that
means that's a good loss. That's a loss to bring you closer to Allah
subhanaw taala.
If a loss makes you wail and complain, then that is masiva.
That is basically a punishment. But if the loss is like, okay, I
can deal with this, I'm gonna get reward for it, Allah has given me
a chance to get reward, just another way of looking at it. But
it's a very valuable way of looking at it that he says that is
what it is.
Now, let's move on to a few other points.
So if you're an authority, I mean, there's numerous orlimar have said
numerous things about Zuid. From their perspective, we can't go
through all of them. But so if you have 30, I found his very
interesting. A zoo fit duniya carceral ml.
renouncing the world just means that you cut short your huge hopes
about the worlds. Yes, extend your hopes about the hereafter. But
your hopes of the world I'm going to get this and I'm going to get
that if it's purely worldly. Do you need to decrease that
otherwise that's not good. So that is just the way you manage your
ambitions of this world.
Lisa B Aquila Khalil, wala Billups Hill Abba. He says Zoho does not
by eating rough food and giving away good foods or giving up good
foods. And it is not by basically wearing costs, you know, close
costs over garments, and abandoning refined garments. Of
course, if refined garments are too much fitna for you, then you
should abandon them. Unless you can change your mindset or abandon
them for a while. So that the addiction goes
that you do a large one that you do as a cure. That you know, your
your shake may tell you look, you just abandon all of these things
for a while, just so that you can learn to live without it. There's
nothing wrong with it, but it's just that you're too infatuated.
You're too obsessed. So they might tell you, okay, just stop doing
that for a while,
like the shape of the duck euthanized, you're not gonna give
any speeches. He told him and his brother, you're not gonna give any
speeches until a certain amount of time. Why? Because that time is
unhealthy for you. And that's why you get you get a few people who
study a bit and then they start giving speeches because then you
become famous like that. Ibrahim Adham. I mean he's an authority on
these subjects anyway, because he was a great zealot. Remember the
whole concept of the solar roof before he became became known for
many years to solve a zoo? is actually called zone. So the early
Sufis were all called Tsar heads. Right? So Ibrahim, you've know
Adam, I mean, he's a master of this right? He's mastered the
topic. He said, the Zulu Salah to us enough, essentially, so he does
have three categories. Right? renouncing the world is of three
categories. And I've explained what renouncing the world mean
please take out of your mind that it means just shun everything,
give everything away, right. It's about the heart. He said First
off, don't forget don't there's one aspect of Zod wishes
For the obligatory like you must do was the hidden fatherland. And
then there's the excess level of Zoho, which is a virtue. And then
the third one is do Salam. Which basically means that it's
renunciation which will keep you safe. Otherwise you could get into
big trouble. So what are the three? It says the one that's
obligatory is to do fill haram, which has to be done anyway. It's
renouncing all unlawful things. This is haram This is not
permissible. You have to abstain from it. That's clear cut anyway.
So inshallah that much of what we're trying to do anyway. The
second one, he said a zoo.
Zoo will fadul is
a zoo fill halal? The the one which is meritorious. And the one
which is full of virtue, which is not obligatory is in Halal things.
So don't don't have too much of them. So if you can get by with
five pairs of shoes, which is quite a lot already, right? Don't
have a sixth one.
Right. I mean, when I say shoe, meaning sandals slippers, you
know, I mean, all of that. I don't mean like five pairs of shoes.
Although to be honest with some people, five pays less. So you
don't need a sixth one. Right? You have to cut down you have to
really prune there's a concept of digit lead. So this is halal
stuff. If I can get by by eating this much, then I should not eat
more. For example, that is Phil halal. That's virtue. And Zhu
Salam are the one that you stay safe. That kind of renunciation
you stay safe with is in doubtful matters. So you'd rather avoid
more than risk more. So it's a doubtful kind of case. I don't
have a fatwa for it. But I know it's doubtful My heart is telling
me is the average is avoid that Zuhal is what you practice there.
Imam Muhammad Rahim Allah Allah He also said that zoo These are three
types, three types which again, the first one is to abandon the
Haram and abandoning the Haram that much even the common fault do
I mean are expected to do because everybody avoids haram. Then he
says that he takes this as a higher level as compared to the
previous Division. He said the second level is essentially to
abandon all excesses in even halal.
As I said, you know that the next pair of shoes or the next jacket
or the next handbag, right or another phone, or whatever the
case is, or an extra dish of food.
So Terkel for dual millall. Halal is halal, but its excess was
horizontal House says if you want to get somewhere you want to be
somebody special than that, you're gonna have to do this.
Right, unless you want to just stay with the riffraff. If you
don't want to do that you want to be somebody special in the sight
of Allah, you need to at least do this. And he said the third, the
third one is Torkel, my Yashpal Anila. Anything that will detract
you from Allah subhanaw taala anything, even if it's halal,
right, even if it's halal, even if it's virtuous, but there's
something of greater virtue and the shaytaan is telling you to do
this, instead of that one, this Ibaadat instead of that one, then
that is the sort of the IT theme, only the very refined people with
understanding they know exactly what to choose and what not to
choose in that case.
Okay. The third subject we need to cover is what is it that will help
us with zords? How do you create so how do you instill so it how do
you increase your sword?
So there are several factors, right, because this is I think,
the most important point we all know the importance of zone Insha
Allah, we've clarified what God really is. Now, let us try to
understand what is it that helps us in sha Allah to imbibe
ourselves with zoot and how Syl l Hamill undeserved basically,
number one is the Durrell era. That is probably the most
effective thing. The fact that you can remember there's an era we
it's in our belief, by the way, it's a tenant of faith without
that we can't be Muslim. But it's about to bring it in the
forefront. Like it's hanging down in front of us all the time. He's
like, there's enough. There's enough. There is something to go
beyond this world. There's a paradise, there's a *, it just
makes life so much easy. Because then you don't see the world for
the world only you see it in comparison for the hereafter.
That's for me, that's the greatest benefits. When you see it in
comparison. Like for example, like you sometimes thinks, oh, hang on,
look at that person who's got that. I wish I could have that.
But you know that to try to get that it's going to take away from
your dean. Or it might not take away from your dean, but it might
take away from your service of the game. It may take away from
worship, it may take away it may may occupy you. Okay, I could have
done that business as well. Marcia, look how much money he
made during that business. Well, I could have done that as well. But
you know what I'm too
Teaching. If I get into that business I won't be able to teach.
See what I'm saying. So how does that help? The only way you could
actually use that as a sacrifice say, what I'm doing my teaching is
hopefully going to get me better in the hereafter is clearly not
better in the world, maybe because he's making more money than I am.
Right and he's got more luxury goods than I have. But if I think
of the Hereafter now and in gender, Masha, Allah, you know, or
for example, for men, a lot of the time it's about the eyes wandering
to other women. Right? They may even be married happily. But the
eyes wander because in the in Santa Holly Kadar Eva, right, the
human, the man has been created weak, and that's his week, the one
of the man's weaknesses. So how do you deal with that,
and then you hear so and so's got this and so and so's done this and
that guy's enjoying that and that guy's enjoying that the shaytaan
beckons you think of the Hereafter. And that's where the
powerful depiction of a holy in common, right, that's the powerful
depiction in the Quran, people who remain the pleasures of paradise.
Otherwise, how else would you sustain Allah has perfected it.
And that's the power of the belief in the akhira.
The power of the belief in the idea is that it helps to diminish
lusts and desires of this world that you can't have.
So that's why STLR will Akira will will go Hubei in a day highly TVO
will hisab you will just. And this idea for fear is that one day I'm
going to stand in front of my lords, my Creator, what am I going
to say? What am I going to say? That's an additional idea to how
I'm going to enjoy paradise. In order to get to Paradise, we're
going to have to go through a reckoning. What about that? That's
a fear aspect. See that aspect of Paradise is a hope aspect that
gives you hope, but you can't live cannot be all hope otherwise you
will do things which are wrong. That's why the fear has to be
there. And the fear is that I'm going to stand in front of my load
on the Day of Judgment. Okay, that's the first thing number two
is the Harar Anila verted duniya charlatan, colluvial nila to come
to this realization that everything of this dunya is the
has the potential to occupy you from Allah. It's a detraction.
Right. And every time you see something as a distraction,
suddenly it will diminish in your sights. And if if you don't see it
as a distraction, meaning you thought of it, it's not a
distraction, it means it's probably valid if you're, if
you're of sound if you're a sound human. So I've got a nice car and
it's not distracting me.
Right. So I was picked up by somebody in a in a city, I went to
give a talk and he had a nice BMW. And he you could tell he loved
this car.
Right. And again, I'm not making any judgments here. But he even
had it when you open the door at night, it would display this was
the driver's door on the passenger the display a bright BMW logo on
the ground, because he'd had the special holograms or whatever they
call fitted under the door. So when the door opened, then you
would basically step on to a nice BMW hologram. I'm sure that's not
by default. I'm sure that's something you add, right? That is
distraction, I think personally, unless he's not distracted. And
again, I can't judge that. But for me, that just sounds like it would
distract me. Because imagine, you have to find it. Check it, get it
get the best one man fitted a lot of time, man, for what? So that
you can step into a puddle of a BMW. You see what I'm saying?
Subhan Allah, right. And he's a religious guy. This guy was like,
you know, he's a religious guy. He's not like, you know, at
hamdulillah he's trying to be a religious person, but you just
have these love sometimes.
Right? Now if that doesn't distract your handler, maybe he
bought it like that. Look, I'm not judging him. Maybe he bought it
like that. He got a good deal. He bought it like that. Because you
see the verse in the Quran mellitus Aluna Yama, even and in
it, you will surely be questioned about your bounties, you're going
to be surely questioned about your bounties.
Allahu Akbar, Allahu Akbar.
If you just look at, you know, a Buhari thought of the Allah Han,
who said that once the Prophet salallahu Salam said that
us back the moment and how can you said have you spent this morning
as a true believer and
well, actually he said to the prophets I'm that you know, this
morning I feel like a true believer. So the prophets are
awesome said You know,
every moment
there's a truth judgment for him like you know, there has to be a
reality to what you say. So for my hockey got to eat manic
What is the reality of your faith that you're saying today morning
I've
spent it with truth you know with proper Iman. So Subhanallah he
said sawed off to an FC and it duniya
like I've basically turned my ego away from the dunya first hour in
the hija Ruhama the Ruha so basically everything of this dunya
is the same for me now.
What can the m zero Allah, our Shira be Barisan? And my vision is
of my is of the throne of my Lord. Totally the manifest and evidence
he's seeing this that's why he's saying that. What can the umbrella
Earl Jannetty fill Jannetty Yes Anna Amon and it is as if I'm
seeing the people of Jana enjoying themselves in paradise. I get that
vision.
Whatever. really nerdy nerdy you as a baboon, and the people of
hellfire. They're being punished in the hellfire. That's another
vision I'm having. So the Prophet sallallahu sallam said, Yeah,
harissa
are after Folsom, you've recognized it, you have it, you
got it. Like that's the reality. Now make sure you stick by that.
Make sure you continue to adhere to that. Now if that's our concept
hamdulillah
if that's our idea in the morning, may Allah give us this bounty.
Number four, to basically think the or the number three actually
number three cathro to terribIe with Zulu feet, acceded duniya.
Just ponder over all the difficulty and all the toil that
you have to undertake the hours you have to spend in acquiring
different parts of this world, especially the more refined you
get, the more you have to work behind it. Think of that why
where's it gonna get you get the dunya but this is the excess we're
talking about.
That's why Allah subhanho wa Taala the prophets Allah some said
locality dunya Terra delue en de la Hey, Jana Baroda, Masako,
curfew Ramona short betta Ma.
They had the dunya equated according to you know, to Allah in
the sight of Allah had equated to even the wing of a Buddha, what's
about with the mosquitoes wing? Even that much insignificant,
almost. You crush mosquitoes, you kill him. Generally that's what
they do and your buzz around you.
He said if they if it did, then he would not have fed the
disbelievers even a sip of water. The He does it because it's not a
big deal. The dunya is not a big deal. It's only food for basically
greater indulgence and further and it can just take you more away
from Allah. And number four is STLR under dunya maluna. In the
Hadith he mentions that
the world can be accursed. Right, it's a curse if it takes you away
from the hereafter essentially.
So Allah subhanho wa Taala says, to remind us well to Thirunal
higher than dunya you'd constantly give preference to the to the to
the life of this world whereas the the hereafter Don't you know, it's
perpetual, it's forever this one is 70 years old. 60 years, 60
years, 50 years full of miseries, maybe difficulties maybe ill
health, that one is going to be paradise. Call Mata duniya Khalil.
When after the Hydra lemony taka, as much as you may enjoy it.
Remember, the indulgence of this world is just for us, it's very
minimal. Again, you can only think of the other way. 70 years is a
lot. 50 years is huge, right? Especially if you're 30 years old,
or 40 years old, then you still think I've got 40 years, but when
you get to 70, then I don't know I haven't experienced that yet.
Right? But by that time you think like, oh, now what's left? Because
now you see it coming right? You're getting to the end.
That's probably why a lot of people sort themselves out at that
time, except the really weird ones.
So that's why it says at the end of the call Matera duniya Kalia
indulgence in this world is for a short amount of time and the hero
is superior for the one who fears his load for Lata who run the
common HYAH to dunya when I heard on Nakamura Hill Haroon right this
life of this world should not deceive you.
It should not basically deceive you about Allah subhanaw taala.
Now, what we have to understand, just just so, now, after you read
all of this, it gives this impression that dunya is bad,
right dunya is bad. So everything around you is bad
Subhanallah that is not what it means.
Right think about this is this is the crux of this. So firstly, What
is dunya for us, dunya is placed in time, right? Dunya for us is
essentially placed in time. So the place we're in which is the earth
and everything on it intrinsically is not bad. And time which is
basically every day that passes when the night comes and then date
comes the night comes again day comes, there's nothing wrong with
that. There's nothing wrong with that. So what's the problem? So
all of all the criticism of the world, essentially, is about the
way people react to the world. The way people deal with the world,
the way people treat the world, what people do with the world, and
what the dunya what they allow the world to do to them. Because the
dunya silence,
right? The food is there staring at you, the nice car is there.
It's not. I mean, I know you get smart cars, but you know, at the
end of the day, it's you allow yourself to be influenced by this.
So remember, the world necessarily is not unless it's pure shape on
and shape money, right? That's a different issue shaped on that's
bad. But otherwise, in general, your extra jacket is not bad. It's
what how we treat it. It's how we deal with it, what it allowed what
what we allowed it to do to us.
So, what helps us ignorable humbly?
He
says that, when it comes to the dunya, the humans are divided into
two categories in terms of the interaction with the dunya. The
first is the one who basically
who just deny the hereafter. They don't believe in the hereafter,
right? They think this is all the world is all you got. And you just
have a good time in this world. You make the best of it, and there
is no hereafter. Right? And these are who Allah subhanaw taala says
about in the Latina liar Jun Attica. Anna. What I'll do will
hayati dunya Wautoma and no beha like Verily, these are the people
who have no hope in meeting us they're absolutely satisfied with
this worldly life and they become fully comforted by it. Well Lavina
whom it now ha if you don't, they basically ignore all of our signs
will come up well home and now will be my kernel. eXe boon.
Right, because of what they used to earn. Their eventual end is in
the Hellfire that sort of unis, right. So that's the first
category. The second category, then he says, in terms of
interaction with the world is those who do confess to the fact
that there is a death there is turbine reward, the reward and
punishment. And these are basically any people throughout
history who've attributed themselves to a prophet of the
time. So the Muslims now the Jews before the Christians before and
so on, and so forth, those who are followers of the Saudis or moosari
Salam, however, the problem now is that this group like us, these are
then divided into a further three categories. Allah mentioned these
three categories in the Quran as well. Right? For me, in whom
volume will Lena
Amin hooked acid, and woman whom Serbia Campbell hierarchy in every
group, you will have these three categories. So the first group,
which is volley Mulliner, those who are oppressing themselves,
though they have this belief of the hereafter. They know this
world is temporary, but they are constantly oppressing themselves.
They're not giving themselves the best chance. They basically that's
why they're risking too much. All right. And these are basically
people who've just indulged too much in the world, that they've
allowed the world to affect them. They're emotionally attached, they
can't detach themselves.
Because they don't realize the magnitude of the dunya. They don't
understand the word of dunya can do they don't understand the
perils of the world, the risks of the world, they have not done a
risk assessment essentially. Right as well. The second group
is basically mocked acid, they're decent. They're passing through.
They're moderate. So these are the people who
understand the world to a certain degree. So they avoid the Haram
they don't allow it to over indulge them and they don't have
to. They don't allow it to mislead them. Right. But they are a bit
too much into the indulgences
permissible. So they too much food too much clothing too much cause
position, whatever is halal. It's not haram. So that's what they do.
They enjoy too much the editions
and the problem with that so what's the problem with that? And
this is interesting. Amara, the Allahu Anhu Abraham what are the
Allahu Anhu is this Sahai transmission from him? He says, la
you see what I had a minute dunya che and inland Okay, some
individuality Phil Hirata in the law. He were in Canada he karimun.
It says any additional thing you earn in this world beyond the
necessity that is how much of your level will be decreased in the
hereafter of paradise?
That's a tough one.
Meaning is a tough one not to think about that. Or to correct
that. Because we think we're not Alhamdulillah I'm not committing
haram. I'm doing my salad. I'm just overindulgent.
And that's why now Abu Bakr the Allah, one was once brought some
water, he wanted some water, they brought some water, and he drank
it and it was sweetened. Because you know, the water was always not
very pleasant. So it was a hit or miss so that certain wells which
are good, but so sometimes they would make an a beef, they would
add some dates or raisins or something to sweeten it. So he was
bought like a sweet drink is it I asked for water you know, when you
go to somebody's house, you ask for water don't give you water
today. They give you a drink, right? So he was given a drink and
he cried, says why are you crying for he says, I'm just worried that
I've had this excess here from his standard. So that much is going to
be decreased in the Hereafter. And you can never think like that
until unless the hereafter becomes a reality. Right?
And that's why another Hadith says in Allah the Prophet Allah some
said in Allah is a habit Abdon hammer home in a dunya como el
will do aliquam yami Salima who minima? Right, he protects you
from the dunya in the same way that if somebody is ill and he
can't touch water, you will protect him. No, no, you can't
touch water. It's like that if it's bad for you.
And that's why I dunya occasionally moment when little
coffee that makes complete sense now right that dunya is prison
further believer and
paradise for the disbeliever.
That was the second group. Right. Mokhtar said the decent. And the
third group is Sir Be humble Hira? They're foreigners. They're
pioneers. They're ahead of the game. Right? And these are the
people who've understood the world thought the facade is gone. They
know exactly the world. And that's where it really stands in the
middle. He's doing tahajjud InfinityEdge. And then he says to
the World War Riri Ubuntu key. Like I've basically given you
three divorces, right? With law, Roger atrophy, like no, no coming
back, like I've divorced, you're completely right, And subhanAllah
that's why they've realized that in the ger, eluna, Alia, Saeed and
Jurusan, all of this world and everything, which is going to make
it into completely an empty ground, it's going to be nothing
left, right? And all these verses and so on and so forth. The Hadith
of the Prophet sallallahu Sallam Mali, where it dunya What am I got
to do with the world I've just come, I'm resting for a bit and
I'm going to carry on, this is not my final about May these things
become a reality for us. However, this doesn't mean that you indulge
in nothing of the world.
Right? And where we are getting this wrong from the professor
lorrison. So now look at what the professor Lawson says. These
people they're savvy, humble Herat. But they do allow
themselves some of the pleasures of this world.
A person at this level doesn't mean that he has no pleasure of
this world. He just understands their reality. So he doesn't
indulge in them in this crazy way. But that doesn't mean that he
doesn't enjoy them. Give me a shoulder. Give me another one.
Give me another one. When he had meat, he enjoyed it. Right? And he
himself this is a Hadith narrated by Imam Ahmed Messiah. He says
that the Prophet sallallahu sallam said hope Viva la Yemin dunya come
and Nisa ova Thebe
from your dunya women and perfume has been made beloved to me.
Right SubhanAllah? Absolutely, you know, honest confession. I love my
perfume. And I love my women. I mean, you can't say that today,
can you? Because the only way you can love your women is we have
more than one wife. That's a difficult one. Otherwise, how are
you gonna love your women? Right? So the Prophet sallallahu some
could say that that's narration of variation of the Allahu anha.
Actually, this is another narration now, Imam Ahmed released
from Aisha the Allahu Allah, the prophets, Allah she says that the
Prophet sallallahu sallam, Ghana, you hit boom in a dunya Nissa T
Batam. There are three things that actually the Prophet saw some
loved of this world. That was women, food, women, perfume and
food for Osama bin Anissa Eva Thebe, he did receive a share of
women and perfume, while I'm USIP Minotaur am but not food.
That's why his food is very basic. But he had nine wives. And of
course there were reasons for why he had that and he used to love
his perfume and he had a natural perfume anyway, so he was given
from that but food that's probably maybe more harmful. Right even in
the permissible sense. Well, no, not necessary if you just have
good food at small quantities. That's okay. Right, but he just
didn't have that.
So, the now we shall shall Hawa till MOBA because the taqwa Allah
Tala, you'll see, you'll say, you know how thorough Fanatec
Willamina dunya. Remember that, but only the very attuned ones and
refined ones will be able to do this. That's why it's best that we
forsake it in the beginning. He says that, basically he's saying
that for people to
We get into Halal pleasures with an intention that they refresh
them and invigorate them to doing good and Taqwa and obedience will
make those same
will make them into obedient acts.
So, for example, being with the wife for a man to re reinvigorate
himself, for the right reason, is actually a source of reward, even
though it's an absolute act of pleasure.
See what I'm saying? Use good perfumes so that you remember
Allah and Paradise because Paradise has good sense.
That becomes rewarding act for you. But it can only be done for
the one who gets the intention rights. That takes a while
for Lolita Khun Mina dunya, then is no longer dunya for you.
Because remember, we said dunya is your interaction, not the actual
physical commodity of the world. That's what renunciation is.
renunciation is how you deal with it. But that's obviously a very
high level, fine tuned idea, right? It's a mastery of it.
That's why Hakeem relates that the Prophet sallallahu sallam said,
net metadata duniya Lehmann Tessa were the main Holly harati Hepta
Yarrow, Dora boo, right, what a beautiful thing is this dunya How
wonderful is this worldly abode for the one who takes from it
provisions for his hereafter. So indulging in indulge in this world
for the sake of the Hereafter, and that becomes
permissible not just permissible, it becomes a source of closest to
Allah. But it's very difficult to do.
Because we always do it for the wrong reason. Our hearts are made.
That's why Hatha Yoga Rob until his Lord gets happy, or bit set it
down. And how despicable is the dunya lemon sod that we hear and
hear it for the one who essentially uses it to block the
hereafter walk us through it began with Robbie and basically stops
him from gaining his load satisfaction. How do we then gain
the love of Allah subhanaw taala? How do we acquire the love of
Allah, the way we gain the love of Allah subhanho wa Taala is by
controlling the way we deal with this world.
So essentially, geezerhood you can say is controlling the way you
deal with this world and to do it in the right way. Right? Because
Allah subhanaw taala loves the people who are obedient to Him.
Loving Allah and loving Allah with it. So loving Allah and loving the
dunya is very difficult to do together. But then loving the
dunya for the sake of Allah is possible.
That's the That's the difficult part. So you see sometimes some
very people close to Allah. Right? And all the signs are there, but
they have the world. They have got the dunya Imam Malik Rahim Allah
used to a good clothing. Somebody came in comments like, that is not
right. You know, so and so he's like this, and he's like that. He
says, Well, we do this and we make Toba. Right? We do we stay far.
Imam Abu Hanifa could be known by the perfume that the trail of
perfume he left behind him.
So
that's why he's saying here that
the it's difficult to have the love of both because he just can't
come into the hot together.
Right? And how do you how'd you the other part of the Hadith, we
can ignore that. The other part was that he wanted love from
people, right? So we've been talking about love for the year
Allah for Allah, what about love from people? How did you get that?
Essentially stopped competing with them? That's what the Hadith says,
stop wanting what's in their hand. And what do they want, they want
the whole dunya. So when you stop loving the dunya, you are not
going to love what people want. So they are not going to think of you
as a threat. And I think of it right. There's a lot of people you
don't like just because you think they're a threat. They want the
position that you have, they want the to be of the same status of
having the same car have the same, whatever it may be. So that's why
you feel competition. So now, if you look around, and you think of
somebody that's just a nice guy,
right? It's just a very nice guy.
It could be many factors, but one of the biggest factors is going to
be that you don't see that person as a competition. He doesn't want
what you want. And if there's somebody who comes to stay with
his coffee, like hey, what about where'd you get that from? Can I
get some as well? It's irritating. Whereas you got somebody who's
with you. He just doesn't care about it. He enjoys it, but he
doesn't care about it. You think Alhamdulillah this is a nice guy.
Right? So that's a secret.
That's why hasn't bossy Rahim Allah says Allah is Allah Raju
Karim and other nurse Imam Yatta. Murphy Murphy a beam a person who
will remain honorable and noble in the eyes of people until he wants
what they want you
For Hina in your stuff on eBay, then they will start to consider
him despicable where Corona, Hadith or voodoo and a whole, I
mean, it could lead to this level
that's why a Bedouin said to the people of Botswana, somebody in
bossy says, who's your leader in this kind of in the city? So they
said has an bossley says, How did he become your leader? He's not
the official leader, by the way, right? So because people needed
his knowledge,
and he didn't need their duniya. So he's independent of them, but
they need Him.
May Allah make us so the bedroom is like marks in a diary, that's
wonderful. And to be honest, scholars have the ability,
right to be like that, until they mess it up. Because remember, if
you've got a leader, like a king, or a prince, or a
president or a prime minister, and they are a governor or minister, a
counselor, they have a certain position and a certain effect, and
a certain alright, but that's because they've been elected. And
you just have to sometimes, but when it Alama, they're not
elected. It's because of the knowledge from ALLAH that they
have. So they actually have greater power as long as they
don't mess it up. So we ask Allah subhanaw taala to preserve it for
us, and, and so on. So that's why to finalize this idea of Zohar
that you must just abandon everything and not use nothing and
just stay on the absolute minimalist basics. Right, that's
very difficult for the majority of people. And that's not for the
majority of people, the few people who would have liked that was on
meridian, who had the heart to be able to deal with that, then
that's there. So what if that's what they wanted. And the problem
is that the lawyers and but we've seen with the prophets, Allah
Islam, that he did have certain pleasures that he took as well. So
Alhamdulillah that gives us an understanding, we ask Allah to
help us and clarify and give us further clarity, and give us the
clarity of making everything we use in this world to be for the
sake of the Hereafter because that would make life easy for us. Well,
I could read that one until hamdu Lillahi Rabbil Alameen Allahu
Mantis Silla moving to Sudan tomorrow, January will Ekrem Allah
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Allah homophily and Muslim you know, well Muslim told me in a
minute I hear a minimal amount. Yeah Allah we ask you for your
special mercy. We ask You for Your forgiveness. We ask you for your
purity of Allah we ask You for Your guidance of Allah We ask for
your special guidance of Allah We ask for your acceptance of Allah
purify our hearts. Give us a life of purity and Taqwa of Allah we
ask that You grant us understanding, grant us
discernment. Allow us to see the truth as the truth and allow us to
follow it. The wrong is the wrong and allow us to abstain from it.
Oh Allah, we ask that You grant us truths ahead of this dunya you
allow us to see the dunya for its for of Allah you only allow us
permissible and meritorious pleasures of this world of Allah
and that you grant us sovereign patience from the Haram and the
Haram and the negative pleasures of this world of Allah We ask that
you give us a life of
a life of purity, a life of your love of Allah fill our hearts with
your love of Allah and fill our hearts with your love and grant us
the love of those whose love benefits us in your court of Allah
We ask that you make us keys have goodness and protect us from being
keys and forces of evil. Oh Allah we ask that you protect us from
all the ill traits, whether they be physical, whether they be
spiritual, of Allah, we ask that You grant us all the praiseworthy
traits in our heart, you remove our blameworthy traits of Allah
whatever people have come here for whatever people are listening for
Allah you grant them their permissible their permissible
needs of Allah bring us all close to you. of Allah draw
us all close to you. I won't lie especially on our deathbed keep
the shaytaan away from us. Oh Allah do not allow him to play
with mischief with us. On our deathbed, grant us the Kenema La
Ilaha illa Allah, O Allah make our spouses and our progeny, a source
of gladness and coolness for our sight of Allah O Allah, we ask
that you make the best part of our life, the final parts of our life
and the best day of our existence, the day that we stand in front of
you, and that you want to meet us and we want to meet you. Oh Allah,
Oh Allah, we ask that You grant us a good death, a good seeding
states and Allah you bless all of those who have passed away. Oh
Allah, those of our relatives, our connections who have passed away.
Oh Allah, we ask that You grant us an acceptance for the service of
your deen of Allah that You grant us a right and you save us from
the fitna and the trials and tribulation and the challenges
that we are surrounded with our Allah we ask that you send your
abundant blessings on the Muslim world and you remove whoever is
feeding whoever is experiencing suffering and persecution and
oppression of Allah that you grant them respite and you keep us
protected of Allah, we ask for the ease of the rest of this life and
life full with your satisfaction. Oh Allah grant us your
satisfaction. Oh Allah be satisfied with us. I would like
except our dollars and grant your abundant blessings on the Prophet
sallallahu alayhi wa sallam Subhan Allah be corroborated by Yossi
Fonasa Ramana I was sitting on from there