Abdur Rahman ibn Yusuf Mangera – The Three Majestic Gifts of Allah [Hikam 256]
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The segment discusses multiple bounty systems, including a collection of multiple bounty systems, which have made Allah recognized as the most recognized of all time. It also touches on the bounty of remembering oneself and the relationship with Allah, as well as the bounty of being a good race. The importance of finding out who oneself is and learning about the history of Islam is emphasized. The segment also touches on the importance of remembering someone and finding out what they have to offer, as well as the reward and benefit of remembering someone in spiritual and caboodle context. The speakers emphasize the need for sustained learning and taking classes for optimal learning.
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This remembrance here is actually what's so interesting about the
bounties of Allah that each bounty comprises of multiple bounties is
not just like a one simple bounty, but it's actually a compound.
It's a collection of multiple bounties within it. So this fact
that he lets you remember him, right lets us remember him that
incorporates at least three bounties. So the first one is that
Allah has made you remember him? And how can a mere weak
lowly servant? Remember such a great Lord? How could they even
remember such a great Lord? Unless that Lord allows you to?
Had you not been? Had you not been worthy of this? There's no way
that Allah subhanaw taala would allow you to remember him
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to the brothers, the sisters dear listeners, dear friends so we
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With Sheikh Abdullah can go his commentary so we are on page 131.
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So on Allah,
He says that he ennobled you. He honored you with three
characteristic gifts, three charismatic gifts, he says
actually here, number one, he made you an Invoker of him, meaning he
made you remember him, he made you that you're somebody who does
remembrance of Him. And had it not been to show you how significant
it is that you can even sit for a few minutes, or even a few moments
and remember Allah subhanho wa Taala we think it's just something
we do out of habit or something. This is actually no, had it not
been for His grace, you would not have been worthy of the flow of
invocation of him in you.
This, this is just amazing. You know, the depth of knowledge and
understanding of the human psyche and the relationship with Allah.
And the purpose of Allah subhanho wa Taala in the world with the
human beings is just amazing. Had it not been for His grace, you
would not have been worthy of the flow of vicar of him in you. So
that's the first point. Second point he says he made you
remembered by him, meaning Allah remembers you, he doesn't do
thicker of you. The way we understand vicar because the
problem is that we understand the Koran, the thicker that we do, we
understand as in Subhan, Allah Subhanallah Hamdulillah that is
actually to make a permanent state or a frequent state of
consciousness of Allah. So Allah is conscious of us, of course he
is, at all times at every time in fact, in essence, right? So he
made you remembered by him, since he confirmed his relationship to
you.
Allah has now
basically by remembering you, Allah has confirmed his
relationship to you. Oh, he's got a relationship with me. I get
this, you know, when talking about different scholars and things? How
close are you to that scholar said, stop using the word close.
Close is a very relative, do you know him? Or does he know you? Is
that enough? Sometimes, you know, for these big scholars, just to
know us is enough, I guess. Like how close are you? There's a lot
of people they claim closeness to different scholars. That just
means that they meet him once in a while. What do you mean by
closeness? Right. So I found that a bit strange. The other day
somebody asked me that I said, look, it's just good enough that
he knows me. Right? And he might just say good word, or give me
some advice or make some dua for me. I think that's good enough,
then that he's close to me, you know, smart Allah. And then number
three, after him, being conscious of you and remembering you. He
then made you remembered by those with him.
So not only is that your, you know, you're in somebody's heart,
but now he that individual speaks about you to others as well. So
Allah subhanho wa Taala has made you remembered by those with him
angels and so on, thereby perfecting his grace upon you. So
by him remembering us, that was by just saying that I've got a
relationship with you, and then mentioning us to others, shows
that he is perfecting his grace upon us.
Absolutely Subhanallah Allah subhanho wa Taala grant is
conscious enough of this all the time. Otherwise, we trivialize
whatever little thinker were even able to do and Inshallah, if we
understand this, we want to do it more, because then we get greater
reciprocation from Allah subhanaw taala. So this is what we're going
to discuss first.
Today, Allah subhanaw taala has absolutely honored the human being
with actually multiple Grace's multiple benefits and bounties and
gifts and unique points and so many other things. But this one is
specifically related to ticker, right this one is specifically
related to that.
And that's why Allah says we're entitled to Namrata Hola, hola. Tt
are so high, you won't be able to enumerate even if you tried, what
are the bounties of Allah?
I mean, how many of us ever thought that this was also a
bounty, these three, even those who have been doing liquor Baqi?
You know, you never think about from that perspective, new
bounties that were always existing, suddenly come to mind
when they're brought up like this. That's because the verse says you
can carry on counting and you never completely encompass all the
boundaries of Allah subhanho wa taala. There's just too many. And
what's really interesting is that the greatest of bounties and
honors, the mightiest of them has to be the bounty of remembering
Allah.
That's the most potent, it's the most beneficial.
It's going to take us the furthest the remembrance of Allah subhanho
wa Taala the bounty that we have of a good intellect. If we use it,
well, that's good. If you don't use it, well, it's not good.
The bounty of beauty, the bounty of food, all of that there's a
benefit but it could also be a harm, but the bounty of
remembering him I can only be good.
It's just pure goodness. That's why it's the greatest of bounties.
May Allah give us more of this bounty
Allahumma Salli ala Sayidina Muhammad that's why there's the
narration that Mr. Moody has transmitted says ma'am in Yeoman
Illa Warilla he here near Amman, your name Allah who will be
Hyderabadi every single day there are multiple bounties that Allah
subhanaw taala showers upon His servants well now Anam Allahu
Allah Abdi he have done I mean, you will Hema who the Quran and
Allah has never, Allah has never showered a bounty upon his slave
never granted a bounty upon a slave that is superior to
inspiring him his remembrance.
Because that's just pure goodness.
You can't misuse that, can you? You can't miss us that
La Ilaha illa Allah. So the first one, the first of this now, this
remembrance here is actually what's so interesting about the
bounties of Allah that each bounty comprises of multiple bounties is
not just like a one simple bounty, but it's actually a compound.
It's a collection of multiple bounties within it. So this fact
that he lets you remember him, right lets us remember him that
incorporates at least three bounties. So the first one is that
Allah has made you remember him? And how can mere weak
lowly servant? Remember such a great Lord? How could they even
remember such a great Lord? Unless that Lord allows you to?
Had you not been? Had you not been worthy of this? There is no way
that Allah subhanaw taala would allow you to remember him only if
you tried only if you wanted to. But an Allah wanted to give you
that grace would you be able to do so? And anybody who wants to
remember Allah Allah will not stop him. The second one is that Allah
subhanaw taala made you remembered by him.
And where do we prove that from sutra baccarat verse 152/5 Caroni
of Quran remember me and I'm going to remember you
It's amazing when I've met, you know, really
dignified individual esteemed individual scholars and other
people and they say something so casual like that to you like you
You do all for me, I'll make dua for you. Right? It's like
Savannah, you're gonna make dua for me, Allahu Akbar. Allah is
saying, You remember me, and I'll remember you.
Were supposed to remember him anyways, given us everything. Why
does he want to remember us? Subhan Allah is utter kindness,
and generosity further kolonie as corkum That shows that we are not
cool, we are remembered by him. So, what,
if not, I thought, the point is making is that once Allah has
said, he's going to remember you, that means you've got a special
relationship with him because people don't remember people
unless they're special. How many people do you meet in your life on
a day to day basis? The only people you still remember
afterwards are the weird, quirky ones, or the very special ones.
I mean, the quirky ones you're going to remember? Probably not in
a very favorable light. But if you're going to remember somebody,
it's going to be that and it's interesting on my recent trip,
this one person, I hope I understood his question, right, he
says that, they think it's very hard to get to scholars, I guess,
that may have been his experiences, like how do we, you
know, like, get an opportunity to sit down and talk to something
like that.
So it's kind of weird, especially when you're traveling and you are
at your hosts, they're, they're very particular, you know, in
different areas, they weren't there, like a barrier, they won't
let anybody visit you or see you. Whereas if it was just yourself,
you probably meet a lot of people, I mean, it does get a bit
overwhelming sometime. So I told him that it was interesting,
because when I went to Bangalore, there was this individual, I gave
one lecture, it was a Joomla. After the Joomla, they love
meeting you. And that means hundreds of people wanting to
shake your hands and sometimes even embrace you, you know, a give
you a hug, and it does get a lot, right. Because
so I was meeting a few people. And then suddenly this guy comes
along, and I can't remember what it was, he gave me something. He
said, sure if this is for you just have it afterwards, said okay. And
I know it was something, he was some fruits or something like
that. I had a program that same nights, that evening, after the
program, the same guy comes along with a shake, and he's got a
bottle of coconut water. He's like shake this is for you just have it
afterwards, I started noticing this guy. I mean, I'm not saying
that that's what you should do. Otherwise, it's gonna get kind of
crazy. But I couldn't help noticing this guy. Then the next
day. Again, he comes with something else. Now I started
getting worried. I said, Who is this guy? I don't know this guy.
He's giving me the stuff. I don't know what's in here, you know? So
I asked the local brother said, find out who this guy is, man. You
know, I know what they're doing. Because so hamdulillah was the
then he the fourth time he gave me a letter. Right? Where he wrote to
me now I'm not going to forget that guy, obviously. But of
course, that's very difficult to sift through. So it's
your only you don't remember everybody and Allah subhanho wa
Taala with the multitudes of people not that he ever forgets.
He knows everybody, right? It's just I'm talking about from a
human perspective, that if he remembers you,
right, he's conscious of everybody. He knows he has a *
of everybody but this is special. You remember me and I will
remember you. Once Allah has said that he means Saba that he also
seems to care in the your special position. Your special position
has now become established by Allah subhanaw taala you have a
position by Alana
for a euchromatin other moving heavy what honor can be greater
and superior to this socket? How can this better holidayiq He's
established a relationship with you. He is established an
attribution to you. Hey, through us better local Hosea Wakanda
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Oh, my close one. Oh, my friend.
That's what you get from remembering Allah subhanaw taala
Yeah, where the way our Sufi, oh, my chosen one. Sabine aina. And
we're having him Misbah where could you have gained this
relationship with Allah?
Lola and Lola and Allah had the photoelastic if Allah had not been
so kind of generous to grace you with that, but most people don't
know Allah's grace. One of the biggest problems we have today is
people don't know Allah really, they don't they they know Allah is
under a few tenets of faith. He's the greatest one is the biggest
one is the most powerful one. They don't know the way he really works
and how kind he is and how generous he is. This is what he's
telling us. Had it not been for Allah's grace upon you, then where
would you have been able to get this attribution from Allah
subhanaw taala. That's why you know in spiritual and caboodle
verse 45, this verse, which part of us and well a vicar Allahu
Akbar. So usually we translate that as, and the remembrance of
Allah is the greater thing is the greatest thing. So the remembrance
of
Have Allah is the greatest thing. Some have explained this in this
context that we've just been discussing a while is whether the
Quran Allah Helios, the Akbar Roman decree lab the year
that Allah was remembering you is superior to you remembering him.
So you're going to remember Allah was remembering you is going to be
superior,
while the crew Allahu Akbar, but I think Rula here
and the third, the third on that would have been enough, that would
have been more than enough. But the third honor is that Allah
subhanho wa Taala makes you have the mentioned ones, by the close
angels, the intimate angels.
So you're thinking me, I'm just, you know, a basic guy, I'm going
to be remembered by the angels, all of these close Angel probably
Gibreel Ali Salam and the like. And I'm, you know, being mentioned
there wow.
It's absolutely amazing.
There's a hadith of Abu Huraira the Allah and all of this has
proven this is not made up. This is all proven from the Hadith the
Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam said, and are in the Vani
app dB. He starts off with that it's an amazing introduction.
Actually. I'm with you. I'm with my servant the way he thinks of
me. I am with my servant, as he perceives me so he perceives me
close perceives me benevolent I'll be like that for him. As long as
it's not like he genuinely perceives me benevolent but not by
messing around, do lots of things. They always forgiving anyway, he's
cool. He's alright with me. You know, that kind of gives gangster
like talk that doesn't work with ALLAH SubhanA wa, tada has to be
absolutely humility.
One, no matter who he is currently, and I'm with him, when
he remembers Me, I'm with him when he remembers Me. For in the Quran,
if enough see the car to hoof enough. See, if he remembers me in
his heart. I remember him in my heart. Allah doesn't have a heart
in that sense. But he's saying, internally, I remember him the way
he remembers me internally. I remember him what in the colony
Fiammetta, the character who female in hiring memory. And if he
remembers me in a crowd, in an audience among people, I remember
him in a much greater audience, which is that of the angels there.
That's the proof for it. We're in the corner of a mini Chevron
Takara Tomy Hurrah. And if he gets if he tries to, if he comes close
to me, just one hand span. I come close to him. arm's length, and
we're in the Cordoba mini zero and the Karatu in Oban. Sorry, that
was the current administration. That was a qubits. And if he comes
to me, when qubits length, then I come to him to arm's length, we're
in attorney MC comes to me walking a day to hardware and I go to him
running. And that's just all metaphor to explain how much more
he's willing to reciprocate and give back to us and reward us with
for the little Amiga, he just wants us to know him, recognize
him turn to Him and associate ourselves with him. There is a
another narration which says that,
in any gathering, in any gathering, and Allah make this one
of them, where a people sit and remember Allah subhanho wa taala,
except that the Rama will,
the Rama will come over them, the Mercy of Allah subhanho wa Taala
will envelope them, and then the tranquility descends upon them.
And then the last part again, was ACARA, whom Allah Who Femina end
and Allah remembers this gathering among the people among those who
are with him.
So in sha Allah, Allah make us a gathering of that nature and make
us remembered. Allah is sha Allah mentioning US allies in sha Allah
mentioning us, according to, you know, in
by the angels, you have no more Earth or the Allahu Anhu says to
people Yeah, as a fool ya Jehol Oh, absolutely heedless one, are
absolutely ignorant one.
Your life can become very extended, even though your days
are very limited.
In the sense that if you remember a lot more in there, the amount of
reward and benefit quantitatively and qualitatively you're going to
get for the hereafter is going to be massive, even though you have a
short amount of time in this world, but you could really do a
lot with that to earn whatever you want in the hereafter.
Allah subhanho wa Taala give us a Tofik he's promised it now it's
done. We just have to remember him now.
And thank him for when he does allow us and that he's allowed us
to do that. Now, Sheikh Abdullah can go he says to round this up,
he says here the Sheikh is addressing the obedient person of
invocation. He says that Allah Most High has confirmed three
honor
upon such a person, these honors collectively constitute a
limitless treasure of goodness and excellence for one another from
the immense Mercy of Allah. The very first of these honors is that
he has enabled one to invoke Him. Hence one is able to engross
oneself in his invocation, with tongue, limb and heart, if not for
his bounty, though the tongue, hearts and limbs would never have
been able to render the invocation of the Absolute Ruler of rulers.
When would not have been qualified through one's own effort to
worship the King of kings, because deficiency, inertia and indolence,
laziness, procrastination, today distraction
inherent in one's nature, it is through nothing more than his
mercy and grace that while keeping millions of his creation in
forgetfulness, he applied you to his invocation.
Alhamdulillah the second honor is that he himself remembers the
individual. Allah says in the Quran, remember me and I should
remember you. What greater honor can there be than the servant
constituted of a handful of just being remembered by the true King,
the Lord of all lords, the sovereign of all creation.
In this state people regard one as a saint of Allah and as the chosen
one of Allah. Indeed, this is a very ion high honor to be bestowed
upon a person in this day and age, if some puny, worldly king or
influential individual right, confers a title on a man, or
remembers you or mentions you, or tweets about you, right, he
becomes bloated with happiness is pleasure, boundless. Now, imagine
the high state of the honor conferred on one when the true and
eternal King proclaims one to be his friend. He says, Yeah, well,
he, you want to become a wealthy that's how you become already. The
third owner is highlighted in a hadith where the messenger of
allah sallallahu alayhi wa sallam said, Allah says, Whoever
remembers me in his heart, I to remember him in my heart, and
whoever remembers me in a gathering, I remember him in a
gathering, which is no better than his gathering, meaning the
gathering of the angels.
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