Abdur Rahman ibn Yusuf Mangera – The Sin which is Superior to a Particular Worship
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Bismillah al Rahman al Rahim Al hamdu Lillahi Rabbil Alameen wa
Salatu was Salam on so you didn't notice a lien what he was talking
about. This next one is a very subtle aphorism which discusses a
very special relationship between the way Allah subhanaw taala deals
with people. He says rob the mafia Holika burbot bar
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sometimes he opens for us the doors, sometimes he opens the door
of obedience for you.
So you start doing worship, etc, but not the door of acceptance.
Now how is that even possible in the minds of the majority of
people, if a person generally does a worship?
Everybody thinks that's a good thing. And it sounds like a good
thing. And it is a good thing in a sense. He is saying sometimes he
opens the doors of obedience to you, but not the door of
acceptance. So these are two different things.
Sometimes he condemns you to sin, and it turns out to be the cause
of arriving at him.
So sometimes that sin
works better to our benefit
than
the worship.
But just from the outset, it's very important to clarify here
that this is not a sin that a person, person cannot have this in
mind and embark on a sin for that reason.
Because it may not turn out that way. He says it may be
that certain sins that we become engaged in becomes a door to our
acceptance.
Sometimes it's people who are involved in a particular scene or
think about a particular scene
constantly in their mind, that's a great burden on them.
They have access.
They have feeling about it, in the sense that why do I think about
this?
If you look at the Sahaba, for the Allahu anhu, much marine when they
came to the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wasallam. And they said
that sometimes we're thinking of things that we can't even bring to
our mouths.
You know, there's no way we can explain them to you. So the
promise of love, some said that is pure faith. So tie this in with
that.
But sometimes, we may have in our minds, inclination to a certain
disobedience or a sin, fantasizing about certain pleasures or sins we
may have committed in the past, or whatever it may be.
But that gives us such a bad feeling.
Sometimes our behavior is so bad, we regret it. And it constantly
bothers us that why do we act that way?
Why do we behave that way?
So Subhanallah, what he's saying is that, that
may be
the benefit of this is that and maybe the reason is to bring you
closer to him.
Or sometimes a person is doing worship.
And he thinks it's enough. So let us see. Look at this in a bit more
detail.
Essentially, that you don't get much out of a worship. If there's
no Kabuli with it, there has to be Kulia with it. The worship is our
deed. Kulia is Allah's action.
And at the end of the day, that's what we're doing it for. You can
go and do the biggest shopping you want to go and give somebody a
gift, but they don't appreciate it, then you feel like everything
has gone in vain. If they accept it Subhanallah so Cambodia is the
main thing.
Likewise, what's the point of a question or asking or request to
somebody when it's not accepted?
If we request something that means we need we ask them for it. They
don't give it to us, then we feel that it's been a futile, futile
attempt.
Our worship in essence is an is a request for acceptance from Allah
subhanaw taala that's all it is.
Oh Allah, this is what we're doing. These are the various
different gifts we're providing to as Your servants, except them from
us.
Because thorough and obedience, worship is supposed to be
either was sealer it's supposed to be the
the means
of gaining love for the one who's being gifted.
Why do you give somebody a gift so that you can create some affection
and bond between
you can then
try to direct the attract that person's attention towards you.
So if Allah subhanaw taala is our Mopar, the one who we're directing
our obedience to.
And he doesn't accept it.
He doesn't turn towards the one gifting it doesn't consider it
anything. I think give somebody a gift and this is like this is
laugh at it, then they move on. What kind of gift is this?
How bad does that feel?
Allahu Akbar.
So what we really want from our worship is that Allah subhanahu wa
taala
opens the door for us to his coat.
He lifts some veils from between us and Him. So we can feel more of
His presence.
And he makes us sit among his beloved ones. He gives us a
position among these beloved ones.
So when Allah subhana wa Tada opens up the door of action to us.
When Allah subhanaw taala opens up the door of action for us,
obedience for us.
And you do everything to do that action as well. It's not that
you're just doing it absent mindedly you're doing everything
to do that action.
But
you don't finding it, the fruits of it. You don't feel anything out
of it. You have no sweetness out of it. You don't feel any
congeniality with Allah subhanho wa Taala you don't feel in the
presence.
You don't feel
disassociated
and washer disquietude from others
and you don't have that satisfied feeling in your heart,
then do not be deceived.
Because maybe he's opened the door of worship for us.
And
he hasn't opened up the door of Gulia for us.
So there is a difference between us worshiping Him and
the worship being of such a caliber that it's always accepted.
Because if he doesn't give us Kabuli then that means he doesn't
allow us to reach him, the will soul doesn't take place and the
whole MCSA of this path. The whole objective of this path is will Sol
il Allah reaching Allah subhanaw taala that's the whole mindset of
this path is to reach Allah subhanaw taala
such that you become totally reliant on him
that you feel good when you're in His presence. You feel good in
solid rather than out of salats
that's why some
some of them are shy have said
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but what that means is beware of be cautious of
the sweetness the pleasure that you get out of worship
because
that is
poison which is murderous.
It will kill you
because what it does is
the under her talk about Sahiba FEMA calm and hidden
why you were you heard him in McConnell muhabba
you get just satisfied with that worship.
So it clutches you, in the station of service, of just doing the sit
just doing the deed, but it prevents you from gaining muhabba
you don't focus on Allah as much. Oh Allah give me Kabuli I don't
feel his presence because you're so focused on the worship itself.
And he says there's a big difference between the one
Who is just
involved in the headmaster,
and the one who he has chosen for his love and his muhabba.
And he has chosen to be in the close modulus to him
in the close, in the close presents to him.
This is, as you can see, it's on a very high, very subtle level. This
is obviously for people who are already on the role of worship but
can't find
any kind of aspiration. But beyond that, they say that the worship is
not the hustle. The worship is not the hustle. You can't say this to
people outside.
You can't say this to everybody, otherwise, nothing. Where do we
go, we're not even at the first level yet, first get into the door
and start doing it. And then you get higher up. So it's a door,
it's a sealer, it's, it's it's the stepping stone. But that stepping
stone has to be done. You can't just get into the Hydra without
any worship, because there's no proof.
So this is only being said to people who are on the path who
have some understanding whoever focus to do this.
So there's a station above just doing worship.
So even if we're just that, that doesn't mean you stop the worship,
because the worship is the path to it. It's the proof of it. So
that's why what then he says, so sometimes, in that case, putting a
sin on someone, getting somebody involved in sin, works out
better for having the person really focus on Allah subhanho wa
taala, who am I disobeying he's watching me and I'm still doing
it.
While the worship that a person was doing sometimes acts as a
hijab,
to the next station, of Kulia, and true presence. That's why he says
what Obama called the alayka number for kind of suburban
philosophy. Sometimes, He decrees a sin on you. And that becomes
then your means to reaching and attaining him.
Because when a person wants to get to his Lord, when he's traveling
on the Path to his Lord, his intention is also to gain
closeness to the presence of His Habib of his beloved and his
satisfaction, then, sometimes what happens is that a person gets
bored, gets tired, becomes burden in that path. Or sometimes a
person gets lazy. Sometimes a person gets lazy. So then, now,
this is making a distinction between a person who's always
involved with sin,
that sin is hardly ever going to be unless the person gets
realization.
This is speaking about a person who's generally focused on Allah
subhanaw taala, but then ends up committing a sin.
Because what what's happening, he's saying is that sometimes when
a person is going and things become kind of routine, and he
kind of loses his focus, you know, you lose your energy once in a
while, then you need a pep talk. It always helps. In any field in
the world, you get a bit tired, you get a bit, and then when you
hear that Bian or you hear that inspiration, you hear that
motivation, or something happens and you kind of get up on your
feet and you get serious again. So this is what he's saying is
sometimes what Allah subhanaw taala does such a person who
generally doesn't commit sins, right? He involves him and since
then, he jerks him out of his dirty look, am I gone that bad
that I've actually not missed the federal prayer?
That's probably the biggest thing. That's probably the common thing
that happens to people that you miss your future.
Like, oh, no, I miss my future. And if you miss it twice, two in a
row, then you really feel bad.
La hawla wala Quwata illa biLlah How can I miss to Fudger then you
start thinking of all sorts of things.
So that's the purpose of that sin. That's, that's the purpose of that
action. So for some little hack, Chua, Lee Themen, Allah subhanho
wa Taala gets him involved in a sin
or his knifes overcomes him and he drops again.
Meaning does what he's
doesn't want himself to do.
But when he gets up from that,
then he's stronger than when he dropped him.
So whenever we do, we're, if we're trying our best and we do end up
committing a sin, then this is the way we need to think about it.
This is potential for me. Yes, we need to feel bad and all the rest
of it, but then we need to turn it into
good for us.
Then a person who gets up like that is going to start
really working towards his goal again, he's going to get out of
his negligence, his laziness, and now he's really going to want to
discover Allah subhanaw taala so these kinds of things don't have
to happen
until the person enters into the header of ALLAH SubhanA wa Tada.
For example, a person who is on his path somewhere is going to
Manchester wherever it is that he's going
on the way he stopped somewhere and was really tired, he fell
asleep. I only wanted a 25 minute nap so that I could feel fresh and
carry on because I need to get by four o'clock I need to get there.
But if I carry on driving like this, I'm you know, I'm going left
and right. So I stopped on the side service station, and I fall
asleep 20 minutes I put my phone on but I'm so tired. I don't wake
up after 20 minutes. I wake up after one hour.
And somebody causes a commotion that's outside that's when I wake
up.
And I see that my alarm clock is going on but I'm I didn't hear it.
Now what's going to happen?
All my laziness is gonna go, My meeting is at four o'clock I need
to get there. So then I'm going to really drive.
So that's this kind of similar kind of thing here.
That's why in the Hadith, there's a hadith which says that rather
than being at Hala Sahiba who Elgin, there are certain sins that
will take a person into Jannah.
A sinner con considered a mean person was constantly involved in
sin He is also behind Allah. It that's obviously not the point
here. The point here is that the person who doesn't generally sin
and then suddenly falls into a sin
Workiva rasool Allah, they said, How is that possible? How would
you get a sin that takes you into Genova? Jimson know what kind of
sin is that? Lie is that hooter? Even Farah Minho? Because the
person feels so bad that he is constantly making Toba? Then the
woman's coming back to Allah subhanho wa Taala and he then runs
away from this in Haifa, mineral B. And then he becomes really
fearful of Allah subhanaw taala Hatay muda until his death is like
this for you till origin. And Allah subhanho wa Taala just
entered him into gender because of that status.
In another Hadith from Abu Huraira, the Allahu Anhu
Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa sallam said, well let enough CBA
lolium to the Hebrew letter have Allah who become
the Prophet sallallahu sallam said by the one in whose hand is my is
who in by the one whose possession is my knifes. If he's if you do
not sin,
sometimes Jani Lahab Allahu become Allah will take your nation away
if this was a sin. If this was a nation of NO SINNERS, Allah will
take your rate while ajaw A be comin youth Kneebone and he will
bring a group of people who do sin for yourself Iran and then they
seek forgiveness via the funeral home and then Allah forgives them.
Allah's name is Rafa. He wants to forgive people. He is before he
wants to forgive people.
The Prophet salallahu Alaihe Salam also said about certain worships
that you do openly, but nothing comes out of them. Aruba saw him
in
Aruba saw him in Les Salah who means crme he, les sallahu mean
crme il ju were Aruba, Ka Eman, les sallahu been clear. I mean, he
Illa Sahara. There are so many fasting people who do not get
anything out of the abstinence. They're fasting except hunger. So
all they really get at the end of it is I've seen her stayed hungry.
I didn't get anything out of it. What was the point? You sometimes
think?
You jump through so many hoops. You spend so much money to get to
central London because there is, you know, a promotion or whatever.
So you actually spend money to go there. When you get there. You
don't get it. So either what's the point of all of this time and
money that I spent to get there I ended up I lost it.
And a person who there's so many people who stay awake at night
standing in prayer. We get nothing out of that except sleeplessness,
they just wasted their time. That's why that sin that a person
becomes engaged in sometimes that takes away all of this laziness
and negligence is much much better than good deeds that don't come
with a spirit. And if you look Subhanallah
most people are involved in sins, and the people who are in worship.
Unfortunately, the majority of them their worship is routine.
This is our state. Majority of our worship is just routine.
Majority of our worship is just routine. There's no spirits in it.
The other day I was in one of the Northern towns and what I
mentioned to everybody, and there were people from all ranges of
age.
Everybody even little kids to 50s
60 year olds I'm sure that how many of you know a little fatty
heart by heart. So pretty much everybody puts their hand up. How
many of you know what it means? Hardly anybody.
And then we wonder why we don't gain
the spirit of our Salah we don't even know we're reading sort of
the body is supposed to be a dua to Allah subhanaw taala and we're
missing that opportunity each time.
Athina Sirata nos takim there's no further in it. So, most of us
unfortunately where we don't have the spirit which is which is which
is our problem. So what this is trying to say is don't drop your
worship, but try to improve it the main focus is Gulia is to gain
acceptance from ALLAH SubhanA wa Tada
then he says Marcia tune
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Marcia tune Oh Rafa Dolan with the car and Hiram in part in our
theater is an rustic barn.
Similar kind of thing but phrased differently he says, A
disobedience that bequeath humiliation humiliation and
extreme need
a disobedient that brings with it humiliation and extreme need is
better than an obedience that be Queens self infatuation and
prayed.
So if by the worship, we becoming proud,
we don't want to speak to people who we consider sinners. And this
is a big problem. In some places, there is a class difference. You
know, like the rich people don't speak to the poor, and they have
no idea. You've got people who are in their niqabs and in their big
beards and masjid, and they don't want to even look at people who
don't cover but they're Muslim. So there is no interaction between
the two. And because of that, you get to separate classes.
And this is the problem. This is what I mentioned also in up north,
because there are some Hamdulillah. In London, we have
three classes. You have the middle class we're trying moving up. But
in many of these northern towns, it's kind of this barrier between
the haves and the have nots. And it's really sad.
So, you know, if a woman cannot do niqab Well, she can do start with
hijab, she can start sometimes.
A woman contacted me and she said, she wants to do niqab.
She's a convert, she wants to do niqab, but she works in the NHS,
she can't do it there. But can I do it when I'm not at the
hospital? And I said yes, of course you can do that you can
start off there. You have to start somewhere. It's a big, it's a big
thing to do. She said, Oh, but then there's people who are
telling me that that's hypocrisy.
And I explained to a hypocrisy would be for those who are doing
it culturally.
Because their family wants them to do it. Soon as they go into a
shop. As soon as they go into a restaurant. I've seen this lifted
up.
Because they're not serious about it. They're doing it because of
their culture and society. But you're trying to now do it.
So you do it when you can.
It's not hypocrisy. Hypocrisy is an aspect of the heart.
You want to do it but you can't.
There's people who don't want to do it and they are doing it. So
all of this is a very individual suffer individual, individual
journey. But every one of our individual journeys need to
progress.
You can't stay stagnant.
You have to move on.
So Marcia to an older for them been a thorn linworth decon
hiraman 13 out of the days and what stick Baron see a
disobedience
when it creates that feeling of need man, what am i What's wrong
with me this is this is the general complaint of any Moody's.
Any Moody's
you know in the path. This is the general complaint, I just can't
help this I feel bad about this. This is the the disobedience that
is created if the car need for Allah need for his attention, need
for his father and his grace. This is the case. This if this path
gives you nothing more than that will hamdulillah
because what's the point of continuously in sin and no regret
no remorse, no guilt. So if this path, the only thing that it gives
us is that every time we commit a sin, we feel bad about it and we
feel in need of Allah subhanaw taala then Subhanallah then that
is
really good.
If that's all it gives us even in sha Allah will give us much more
but if that's all it gives us the SS and this constant this focus
this, this feeling Subhanallah
This is superior to that worship which is
makes a person arrogant they feel they've gone they've reached
because that whole mindset of obedience is who do Reverend fear,
submission, submission, who Reverend fear, in appeared and
devil and in Kisara.
In the submission,
to feel free to submit yourself the vulnerable self humiliation
in Kisara self degradation. That's why the Prophet sallallahu sallam
said, enter in Delmon, Casiraghi Kulu, Minh agilely I am
with those people who, who whose hearts are broken because of me.
Their hearts are trembling because of me. They're feeling bad because
of me.
They're feeling at loss because of me.
If your obedience is devoid of these types of benefits of these
types of feelings, but rather they are associated with the opposites
of these feelings, where you feel confidence, security, I'm doing
good,
then
that sin
which brings about those good feelings,
is superior than this worship. Because he says there's no April
there is no there's no benefit in the external form of worship.
What's really
what has to be taken into consideration is what comes from
it. That's where Allah subhanaw taala says in the Lila and the
Rila, Swati como la isla Maliko, Allah subhanaw taala doesn't look
at your forms and your deeds, he looks at your globe.
This hadith underscores this. He doesn't look at your actions and
actions necessary, you know, but what this is getting to the real
depth of it. And it's the Sufis that bring out these kinds of
meanings that understand these layers of meaning that are
involved in here.
La ilaha illAllah La ilaha illa Allah. So then he says for some
Allah to thaw it here doula Well, in KSR, with Amara told Marcia to
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the true fruits of obedience is this feeling of
NSR humiliation and need
the, from from, from a disobedience the fruit is the
general fruit you get of a Massiah is cassava. Well, it's thick bar
is hardness of the heart and arrogance. So if out of your
worship, you're getting those fruits and out of your
disobedience, you're getting the other fruits, then what's going on
here has that worship become a disobedience and that disobedience
become a worship.
That's the whole point of it. Things are very complex in this
world. And this is part of that complexity. That you know one
thing happens but you're getting something else out of it.
That's why Mahasi B says are the Allah one.
Allah subhana wa Tada is objective with his servants are their
hearts. That's what he wants.
That's why when an alum or arbit is moto Kabir is arrogant, and Aja
Hill and a sinner is humble.
And he
humiliates himself out of all of Allah subhanho wa Taala and fear
of him, then he is more of a obedient person than that island
or halibut. shakable ibis and mercy, He says, any bad deed,
any bad etiquette with Allah subhanaw taala. That then creates
other for Allah because of your remorse, then that is not a bad
etiquette with Allah to start with, because it came out good
because it's remember Allah subhanho wa Taala doesn't
generally sees anybody at the first instance.
He always sees what what's happening afterwards, because he
knows
that's why Buddha Abbas mercy, his whole perspective was, he had a
lot of hope for people.
Because his whole focus was this
extensive
Rama of Allah subhanho wa taala. That's what his focus was on. So,
he had the and the more a person has that the less condemning they
will be of people, they will try to encourage them towards the
positive see in certain bounds is more of a condemning attitudes or
is the punishments are mentioned, always. Why are you doing this?
Why are you doing that kind of attitudes.
If you look at
In
the truly successful ones, their focus is generally on showing the
Mercy of Allah because people generally become associated with
the Mercy of Allah subhanaw taala. They want that mercy to understand
what Allah subhanaw taala is. So his constant thought was at the
mercy of Allah subhanho wa taala. And that's why he had a lot of
hope for people. And when you have hope for people, you can do more,
because the Brooks himself said that if you think that people are
corrupted and gone, then you're the worst of them, because you
have no hope for people. And you may have exaggerated in your
decision and your judgement about people
that have said to him, you know, of saboom in fact, a blockbuster
movie he's he's very then Iskandariyah, he's the shake of a
pinata Illa risk and that he is some really great. What do you
love? He says that kind of you creaminess, Allah, we looked at
him in the law.
He would honor people according to their status with Allah. So much
so that sometimes a person who's obedient would come to him, and he
wouldn't give him much attention. Somebody who is a worship or
somebody who's doing deeds will come to him and he won't give him
much
attention. And sometimes a disobedient person would come and
he would honor him.
Because he knew that he could see that that person who's doing
obedience thinks he has done his motorcade better.
Now, you might think, well, the true shuffleboard mean that you
need to help him as well, but this was the way of helping him to show
him that I'm not getting an EOB anything here that means there
must be something wrong here. It makes you think it does make you
think
that we'll use EAD or the Allahu Anhu says
no need to facility
It was announced in myself. I received an announcement has there
any ma'am Lu Mamdouh. A Tamil cinema
my treasures
are filled with kedma
for in aracena if you want us for Allah you can be the lead with all
that you will if detour.
If you want us then you need to submit yourself and you need to
have that lowly attitude. Rasulullah sallallahu sallam said
la lowland to the Naboo if you do not sin, la Kashi to La Kuma who I
shut them in the attic, then I fear something that is even worse
than that.
If knowledgeable humbly mentions this is what he says I'll urge
as either Buhari Muslim, and urge self conceit. start worshipping
you think you're done? Then you get self concedes. The Prophet
sallallahu alayhi wa sallam said Lola and Nov hydrometallurgy
mahalo Allahu Bina minion with them in a burden.
If it wasn't for the fact that them a sin is superior than say
conceit, than Allah subhanho wa Taala would never have made a path
between a believer and
sin. That's such a hopeful Hadith. There would be no path between a
believer and a sin if it wasn't for the fact that by just
obedience, sometimes it will lead you to concede that's why the this
missing of Fajr once in a while, right?
should provide this kind of benefits. If it's not done out of
negligence, of course you don't even set your alarm and you just
go to sleep. I'm just wanting my full eight hours of sleep. The
different story
that's a sin right from the beginning your whole night is is
if you do that.
Somebody has Junaid Al Baghdadi
as an elf
does an RF commit Zina? A person who has no sense of Allah can he
commit Zina? What do you think his answer is?
You think that's a possibility?
He said his answer was of a person. And if he says worker on
Amarula, he got there on Maduro.
Everything, all the matters of Allah subhanaw taala have been
decreed, basically saying that could be part of the decree as
well that that's a possibility.
There was a great Naqshbandi shake of
in Gujarat, but probably 150 years ago, 100 150 years ago, the early
times. Large bore
was a big shake. He wants some of it to have his moods. They went to
Burma. Lots of Muslims went to Burma, just like they went to
Africa and so on. So there's lots of majorities there. Right.
So this one would either have his he was there alone, without family
or anybody. He nearly got involved. He planned Zina.
As he got to the door of the house that he had
decided to meet.
As he got to the door, he felt a slap on his face.
And he sees his shakes vision forming, saying, how about $1?
Like, what are you up to? Right?
And he said that was just the just took him company he ran from that
place. When he went back to India and he went to a Sheikh and met
him. He said, I saved you didn't know.
Now, this is a heavy kind of story. You know, it's not
something that happens every day. It's not something you tell
everybody as well, because people don't understand is what is, you
know, what is shake knows everything, whatever, no, these
are possibilities that it can happen. It doesn't happen with
every if that happened with every shaken breed. Subhanallah that
would be wonderful. I don't mind getting a step every time I was
about to do something wrong, you know, but that's, it's not gonna
happen. It's just sometimes sometimes these things happen.
Somebody asked me a question yesterday, I went to Turkey to one
of the Naqshbandi Majelis. there and he says that tell us to
do the soul sheath
that for 10 minutes a day you have to just think about your shape put
him in your mind and think about your shape. So that isn't the some
nourishment is do that and I think the Mac side of it is that very
difficult for a person to put Allah subhanaw taala in his mind
because Allah is transcendent. So for as a practice, you see your
shake as a means to Allah subhanaw taala so you focus on your shake
and eventually then it then you just you then transfer it to Allah
subhana wa EBT you become transferred to Allah subhanaw
taala eventually, we don't do this because you know there's room for
it's controversial, right? So we don't do this. We don't You don't
have to do it you that's why that we have this other focus. And the
whole mindset of it is to start taking the name of Allah, Allah
Allah Allah in your hearts. So we start off with thinking about the
Mercy of Allah subhanaw taala that it's and then you give Thanks to
ALLAH by Allah, Allah Allah. So it's kind of to jumpstart your
heart to say that if your heart just is only thinking about Allah
subhana wa Taala you can say Allah Allah without the feeling, that's
completely fine. So that's just
that is not the Maqsood the this thought is not the Maqsood, Allah
Allah from your heart is that in fact, that's not even the MCSA the
MCSA is that you actually start thinking of Allah subhanaw taala.
But you can't do that until we start we go through the name of
Allah. And Allah says that in the Quran as well.
I was reading another Naqshbandi Sheikh, recently.
He used to say you sit
and you folk, close your eyes, and you focus on your heart, and you
will write the name of Allah on your heart.
So one in your mind, you write the name of Allah in your heart, like
on a board on your heart. And then your heart is just taking that
name. So as you can see, it's the same kind of objective is is how
do you get your heart to think about something?
Did you see what I'm saying? How did you get your heart to take the
name of Allah? Because it's a very abstract kind of thing. You're not
saying it with your tongue. It's a real presence of the mind, the
mind has to be there. So if you try that, that that works as well,
for many people, you know, you imagine that there's a Allah
written on your heart and you're taking Allah you're taking that
name, hola, hola. Hola. So these are just different ways that
differentiate you will tell you to do. Then another thing that the
brother asked me is that he says what I heard there was that if you
get into this path and everything, then the sheikh when when you are
being questioned in your grave, the Sheikh will help you.
Right, the Sheikh will come into your mind help, you know, it's the
way it said is wrong.
Understand, your shake will come and help you now you can't think
that that means he says but isn't that like has in Nazareth,
everything. I said, look, it's probably the way it was conveyed
to you or the way you're processing it.
There's many people who will have experiences in certain stages
certain times in their life, like the shade like this person who
went to Burma and got slapped. Right. This is all a possibility
that you yourself will feel that because in your mind, and of
course, there's a moment of grace there is but in your mind, your
reference of piety is your shake. Your reference of admonition, your
reference of correcting yourself is your shake. So you may think of
him at that time, do you understand? But can your shake
just come to everybody who's being questioned? They gave as he wants
and gone on so No, he can't chew understand. But then you can see
how this can be abused and thought of in that sense, how people may
think that this is where the art begin. Do you see what I'm saying?
This is where when people don't understand it carefully and then
the common theme becomes this.
This is where it becomes problematic. Now, another fine
point I want to mention taken a bit longer here today. But another
point I want to mention is that I went to West Africa, and you will
also see this in other traditions.
as well, they have this the whole massage and temperament is about
speaking about karma. That's the main focus of the of the
discussions, the Kurama of this warrior the Quran, and while he is
have karate in karate, you know karate metal Ollie, karate metal
Olia, you have gone. It's in our Kedah that Kurama is a hack. It's
a reality Kurama to do happen, miracles of pious people, you go
to the service, they won't even reject that as a theory. But they
will reject most Kurama that they hear of people. They will just
about begrudgingly even accept their own what are the Allahu Anhu
her voice was heard by Surya when he was in the other country
somewhere fighting an organ was in Medina, whenever you say yeah,
sorry, eligible, they will agree with that kind of begrudgingly
like yeah, that's allowed, because it's so he is now then everything
right? They are very particular about what they will accept. So
they will dismiss most grommets, then you got the other extreme?
Well, they will take every Kurama even the you know, the Brighton
one and everything like that. Like this case, you know what I'm
saying? Now, what we do as as our duben, this is we're kind of in
between, we agree with Kurama. We do have Kurama, but we don't
obsess over them.
So in our in the majority of the data, you're not going to hear
major media, yes, you will hear them once in a while. You will
hear them once in a while. But that's not the obsessive point of
our, our focus is the focus. But that's why if you sit with certain
people and they're going on about their karma, then you have to
understand that's their message. And there could be some level of
exaggeration, and then they're willing to accept it. For example,
I've heard many, many stories about our Messiah, some really,
really
extreme cases that you would probably have to see to believe.
Right? They are a possibility within the realms of
possibilities, but they are
incredible things.
But I've never heard and again, it's not an impossibility. But I
was in West Africa and they told me one about one of the things he
said that he used to have the presence of Rasulullah Salallahu
Alaihe Salam, yaka verten Yakata means in a wakeful state 24 hours
a day,
all the time, he could see the progress of the load isn't as
heavy, it's a possibility. But you know, as you can see that this is
the message of such people have such communities they live by
that. They live by that.
And I remember when I first went to America, I used to mention a
lot of these kinds of stories. And one friend came to me and he says,
Look, our faith is not built on these kind of stories. He you
know, he was he was a decent kind of individually says our faith is
not built on a few. We need the more of these kinds of stories you
mentioned to people we're talking not to villages here in America,
mostly, it's an educated crowd. They just don't get these kinds of
stories. So you're talking to the wrong crowd that in England, it
kind of works. It doesn't work in America.
In England, it works with certain crowds in the village crowd, the
normal mythology crowd. It works those kind of stories. Yeah. Wow.
Mashallah. They doesn't work with everybody. That doesn't mean
they're wrong. It's just that they're not the MCSA they're not
the MCSA Why'd you bring them all the time? Because our faith is not
based on that when you talk about them too much, then you're hoping
for that to happen, and it doesn't happen then you feel bad. And
they're not not an objective. In Allah subhanho wa Taala give us
the too few.
So anyway, I'll just quickly read to you what, what Chef Abdullah
gringo here says, he says, very often, Allah Most High opens up
the door of his obedience. Hence, one is able to engross oneself
night and day in acts of obedience, superiority, worship,
contemplation, devotional exercises, recitation of the
Quran, etc. However, because of the lack of sincerity of vanity,
or because of despising other Muslims,
here he gives reasons for why you could be doing an obedience as
many people are, but they're not getting closer to Allah and I used
to always wonder about this. Look at the Namaaz pre praise, look at
the solid he's always he does better than me five times in the
masjid. He does this, that and the other, but you don't see him
changing. These people stay the same. The blood does not change.
Otherwise anybody you see who starts doing vicar generally
soften the heart out who seems serious he starts doing it. But
otherwise you see certain people who are engaged in worship 24
hours all the time, the regular day in the masjid and everything,
they still have the sharp tongue,
they still how quiet is the very bad and he says that because the
door of acceptance is closed. Because of that though there
during worship you can this very easy to reconcile these things
now, because of lack of sincerity or vanity or because of despising
other Muslims the door of acceptance is not open, thus your
deeds remain unaccepted sins frequently emerged from the
worshiper, although ostensibly the sin committed is a cause of divine
rejection. On account of the exceptionally high degree of
remorse, regret and repentance. The sinner attains divine
proximity that tells us that when we do commit a sin I will remove
source must be higher than the pleasure we gain from the sin.
So that has to be combated, then it will become a benefit to us
afterwards.
Thus the sin becomes the medium of forgiveness. Therefore, the
servant should not look at the external form of everything his
gaze should be focused on the inner realities of things. If
Allah Most High has blessed one with worship and obedience, one
should not despise those who are not involved in acts of piety, nor
consider oneself to be superior. On the other hand, if a sin has
been committed, one should not despair of Allah's mercy by
viewing the enormity of the external form of this in
this short commentary, mashallah is wonderful. Sheikh Abdullah
gooeys commentary is just wonderful. A disobedience that
believes humiliation extreme need is better than obedience or
bequeath self infatuation and pride. The purpose of worship and
invocation is to become humble and to be wholly dependent on Allah
Most High, eliminating the rebellion and arrogance of the
ego. If a man commits a sin because of the frailty of human
nature and is then torn by remorse, a humility might result
that is better than the conceit that a man can develop as a
consequence of his acts of worship and piety. Self infatuation, piety
can lead a person to despise other Muslims, a dim witted person
should not now understand from this explanation, that it is
better to abandon worship and commit sins. The Evil of sin and
virtue and beauty of obedience are self evident facts at this
juncture the shakes, is simply obeyed, pointing out that the
actual method of reaching the Divine Court is by way of
acquiring true humility and dependence on Allah not through
sin, we seek refuge in Allah
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so think Allah accept especially something Oh Allah grant us all
sincerity. Oh Allah grant us all acceptance or Allah grant us all
acceptance. Oh Allah we're here for one Moxon one one maximum an
objective alone which is to reach you, which is to know you which is
to create a heavier muhabba and your love and your attention. Oh
Allah don't deprive of these things or not, don't deprive off
of these bounties. Oh Allah you've given us many bounties in this
world Oh Allah we have the clothes that we want. The places to live
as we want. We have the food that we want. We have everything Oh
Allah, we have security and safety of Allah we want safety of the
hereafter. Oh Allah grant the safety of the hereafter. Oh Allah
grant a security or law granted safety. Grant has your love and
the love of those who love you. Oh Allah grant us the trophy to do
your worship and to do your worship properly with sincerity.
Oh Allah protect our hearts from hypocrisy protect our eyes from
Oh Allah, Oh Allah Oh Allah protect us from all the evils that
out there protect us and our progeny of Allah protect us and
our progeny we ask that you turn your attention towards us that you
grant us your grant us your your bounties your love your affection,
your compassion, Oh ALLAH that Sophie to do that which pleases
you all the time the two Tofik to do that which pleases you all the
time. Oh Allah make our hearts the way you want them to be. Oh Allah,
on the turn our hearts towards you. Allow your vicar to emanate
from every part of our body. Oh Allah grant us concentration
devotion in our Oh Allah keep us doing your vicar until we die of
Allah keep us doing your thicker all the time. Keep us in your
remembrance keep us in your remembrance of Allah Allah if we
ever fail we ask that you forgive us in you pick us up in you allow
us to you allow us to get closer to you. Oh Allah. Oh Allah, we ask
for your closeness. We ask for your closeness. So Hanabi
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