Abdur Rahman ibn Yusuf Mangera – The Transformative Power of Righteous Company
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The best of this ummah of the Republic, or the Sahaba, the
sahaba. That word comes from saga. Saga means companionship. So
literally they are named what they did their practice of being with
the Prophet sallallahu sallam, they call him Sahaba. Now, it
didn't stop there, the Prophet salallahu Salam departed this
world, the Sahaba were left behind. So now what happened is,
they were people who now follow the sahaba. They became close to
the sahaba. They studied with the sahaba. They stayed in their
company, they benefited from them just like they did when the
Prophet sallallahu sallam, they were given a name called the
tambourine, the followers the successes they will call tabby.
Then after that, they started the Sahaba started disappearing from
this world, the tambourine.
They became prominent Hassan Al Basilea, Hema hula sorry, Musa
Rahima, hula, all of these people, they became the next leaders next
righteous scholars. So now people started following them. The OMA
gave them a name at the bar with debating
the followers of the followers the successes of the successes
hamdu Lillahi Rabbil Alameen wa Salatu was Salam o Allah Murthy.
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so that Allah will love him. So my dear respect brothers, our
sisters, and our dear friends and anybody else who's listening,
Allah subhanho wa Taala bless us during this time, and all the
time. And may Allah subhanaw taala relieve our brothers who are being
oppressed, and, and massacred May Allah subhanho wa taala, protect
them and grant them their dignity. So the human being today, what
we're discussing is the success of
humanity, how humans can gain success in this world, and how
they can go about in a healthy way, righteous way, and in a way
that fulfills the purpose of their existence. The purpose of our
existence, is to be successful in this world for the sake of the
Hereafter do something for the sake of Allah subhanho wa taala.
So today, what we're going to discuss is the best way to do
that.
In fact, it's one of the only ways to do that properly, because it's
the way shown to us by the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, and
it's also something that we can understand from a lot of other
successful people. The human being Allah has created us not to be
alone.
Allah has created the human being
as someone who interacts with one another. That's why we have this
whole system of being with one another and the whole procreation,
to expand the Muslim ummah, to continue the human race, you have
to be together, only other Malasana was created from nothing.
And Eastside Islam was created from a mother only.
But it is important for us to be with other people. That's why in
Islam, were not encouraged to just go away for your whole life and
worship Elena, in a tent, or in a cave.
As Imam Abu Hanifa Rahim, Allah and others have said, as well,
that for you to live among people, interact with them, as a father as
a husband.
If you're a woman, as a wife, as a son, as a friend, as a brother,
and worship Allah at the same time, that is what is
accomplishment, because that's what Allah created us for. If we
were told to be alone, and the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa
sallam when he was in his cave, and he received that first real
revelation in the cave, he would go there temporarily. Temporarily,
you can go and stay away from people for a while just to detox
and that's fine. Even then, that is not what we've been recommended
to do. Generally. Our recommendation for a retreat is in
the masjid, in the Gulf, where you have other believers. So our
retreat is with other believers, because when you're in Attica in a
masjid,
you're in a masjid, you're still with Muslimeen who come for
prayer. There may be other ethical people in retreat, but at least
there'll be people coming for the five daily prayers. That's why
Dickov is only done in a masjid with five daily prayers as well,
so that you don't interact with anybody else. You just interact
with many believers mousseline who come to pray, because you need
that that's very important.
So, a human being, by their very nature, their very nature are
social beings. They need companionship. Humans don't
survive without companionship. That's the normal understanding of
human beings. So, now when Allah subhanaw taala intends good with
somebody, he gives them good companions.
He gives them righteous companions gives them pious companions,
because we benefit one another. I'll give you a very simple
example to highlight this, when you're with good people and
righteous people and pious people, it just becomes easier for you,
for us to be pious and righteous. I went on a very long road trip
once, four or five days road trip through three, four countries.
And I was with two, three beautiful people, but they none of
them prayed.
In every other sense, they were okay. You know, they were good
people, Mashallah. But they weren't really focused on prayer.
Now, we are driving for miles and miles getting through borders,
making sure we get through the border, because some places are
dangerous. You don't want to get stuck in one country, borders
closed at five o'clock. So we're going through now in between, it
was so difficult to pray, because I was the only one who thought I
had to pray correctly. So but I had to play it well, because the
others, they're not really interested in prayer. Allah bless
them. I think they all prayed afterwards, but they were not into
prayer at the time. So what happens now is, oh, no, it's
another namaz time, we're gonna have to find a place to stop, it's
not always safe to find a place for will do, then they weren't
actually Muslim countries either. So you have to find a place to
pray, you're in the middle of some village somewhere. And subhanAllah
Alhamdulillah. Allah gave us the courage to be able to do that.
Now, just imagine that if all three of my companions, were
interested in praying and wanting to pray, would I have had to worry
so much? Would I have had to convince them?
I wouldn't have had to fight against it in the sense that let's
stop here. No, I have to stop, I can't miss the prayer, and so on
and so forth. Because they would have all it would have been a
group effort, it would have just made life easier.
So in many things like this, you we are influenced by the person,
or by the people that we're with people who work in certain
industries, who stay with certain companions, they start speaking
like them, the lingo becomes like that. Right? They become
institutionalized. In fact, they start thinking that way, unless
they're very independent thinkers, and they can see what's good or
bad. Otherwise, they just become like, if it's a good place, they
become good. And if it's bad, then they become bad. That's why humans
get affected. In fact, rather than listening to somebody and their
words, we follow, without even realizing sometimes what other
people are doing their movements, their physical attitude. We learn
from that more than we learn from their words sometimes.
So we learn from their physical, their physical movements, physical
behavior, and we also learn from their speech, and from their
discussions, and from what they say, from what they want. The
other thing is, as you know, that we tell our children and others
that Be careful of the friends that you make the thing with
friendship, especially if it's close friendship, and
relationship, then you have, it's a given take. So if I have a group
of three friends who like to go out to eat, and I keep saying, No,
I'm not really their friend or auntie anymore, because I keep
refusing to go I'm not playing ball with everybody. I'm not a
good team player. You know, I'm what why should I be with
different? Why should I be their friend, if that's what they like
doing? If they like to play football all the time? And I keep
saying no, then I'm not really their friend. So when you have
friends, right, and they want to do something, you're obliged to
conform, and to go along with it. And if they're not good friends,
and they want to do something bad, then it's going to be very
difficult for you unless you're leader, and you're strong to say,
No, I can't come with you.
That's why it's just much easier to have a good friend. And to have
good friends and to have righteous friends is just the easiest thing
because it it's the company and the environment that will just get
you to where you want to be. It's just much easier. This is just
clearly psychological. In fact, there's a Dr. Steve Merola. His
name is I got a quote from him. He said if you hang out with
chickens, you're going to cluck cluck, cluck. I've added the other
two is that you're going to click and if you hang out with the
Eagles, then you're going to fly
If you hang out, I've been with both because I travel quite a bit.
So I'm with different people at different times. So I'm sometimes
when people who are investors,
property developers, and as we're driving down from the airport to,
you know, the masjid or whatever, they're like, yes, that's a really
good opportunity. That's a good really good investment
opportunity. They just see it everywhere. You start seeing the
same thing, because you're with them, you learn from them.
So it's with everything from their discussion, you'll hear it. If
they're negative people, I'm sitting with somebody, they're a
negative person, they'll just be speaking bad about people you
don't know necessarily. They're about who they know. And by the
end of the half an hour trip they just spoken about so many negative
review like wondering like, why are you being so negative for
so you get that negative vibe? This is human beings. This is
human beings. This is just how we are we get influenced by others.
So one of our great Olia of the past, whose name was ignore isa
Xiaomi Rahima hula, he says, either aura de la who be shoved
behind on Woolfolk Allahu Rajul. And Saudi Han if Allah subhanho wa
Taala has intended piety for a young man, then he will give him
he will give him somebody good to sit with
meaning a good companion.
And Imam a salami who is another great Ollie What do you love him?
I'm a salami Rahim Allah says that either the law will be abdomen RBD
Hieronymus Sokka who will be more Ashati actually sunnah will
actually sit that was Salah with Dean, where we do one Sabeti al
Hawa will be there evil Mohali Finn, if Allah subhanho wa Taala
intends with one of his servants, goodness, then he's going to
enable him to, to be close to and to have companionship with the
people of the Sunnah, the people of the veil, and of righteousness
and the dean and he's going to keep him away from the
companionship of the people of how are unbidden which means people
who just follow their desires, and people who innovate, we just like
to do things that are haram and wrong and not necessarily good
and, and those who, who do wrong things. That's why Allah ma have
mentioned that for us to stay in the company of righteous people as
much as possible.
You know, you can't just find a righteous bow and say, I'm going
to spend 24 hours with you, you can't do that, right. So what we
do is, if you can't have the righteous person with you, then we
try to at least be in their company as much as possible.
Every now and then we try to learn as much as we can, without
imposing
I remember, there was a scholar in a certain city and there was
somebody else who became wanting to become very close to his color.
So from north, he wanted to move to London, most expensive city in
the UK. And he expected that he'll get the scholar was busy, so it's
very difficult for the person. So you have to you have to obviously
try your best to always sit in good company as much as possible.
If you can't have more HS now, the hour.
The most important aspect is that the person we're going to be
closest with, that we have a choice of is going to be your
spouse, so for husbands is going to be wives for men is going to be
wives, and for women, it's going to be husbands, very important
that we choose a righteous, they don't have to be a willy of Allah.
Right in right away. If you can find a way of Allah Alhamdulillah
at least if you can find a righteous person who's on their
Deen. Then in sha Allah, you will have children and an environment
that will be good. For example, I know one brother, he wasn't
praying well, he never used to pray too much. Didn't really have
much of a beard. But he insisted on marrying a Nickleby sister
insisted on marrying a practicing sister with a niqab full and
everything. For somebody like that you would expect them not to want
to new kabhi system Alhamdulillah at least because of that, his
children then became at least had some piety and righteousness. So
sometimes you know that I can't do enough but let me at least get my
partner to be somebody that's good because that's good enough. That
means you've got some goodness in you and then you will improve as
well.
Allah subhanho wa Taala the verses I read at the beginning Allah
subhanho wa Taala says, oh people who believe Oh you who believe.
have Taqwa be conscious of Allah yourself and associate with those
who embody truthfulness.
Qunu mas saw the theme, be with the truthful ones, not those who
just speak the truth, but who are true in their approach to Allah
and in their response to Allah and to other people. That will help
you have talked
because when you have truthful people around you, it's just
easier for you to function in a truthful manner. Right? The
company really is very beneficial. In fact, what Imam has early says,
is that human beings by staying with somebody else will steal
their behavior without even realizing. Have you seen, there'll
be a husband and wife who are strangers in terms of family,
they're not, they're not related. They're not from the same village,
they're not from the same background, even. They've been
together for five, six years. And if you know them personally, both
of them they'll actually speak similar to one another.
Even though they're from totally different backgrounds, they're not
even family related. But that's how it becomes. You see people who
study with somebody, they they will start speaking like the
teacher Sahaba tried to become like the Prophet sallallahu alayhi
wa sallam. This is our history. This is the way this, this what
we're talking about comes right from our source, which is from the
Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam companionship is one of the
most important significant features of Islam. Because without
the Sahaba, we would not be where we were the Prophet sallallahu,
some needed companions, who he made into who each one of them a
star, that you could literally follow a star proper star that you
could, you could follow a star in the modern sense, right? And they
could all become fans, you know, that kind of an idea. Actually,
fans is not the right word, because fans are very sensitive.
Fans are very, very delicate, you can't mess with fans, you know,
they're your friend one day and tomorrow they'll, they'll forsake
you, right? So
in order to attain success in this world, and cultivate our humanity,
be with good humans. You want to be a good human, be with another
good human and who better than the righteous. Those who have
understood what Allah subhanho wa Taala wants in this world. That's
why the other verse
that Allah subhanaw taala says, In other words, was better enough
sicoma Livigno Runa Raba humble Hadith he will or she?
Why was Ben necec patient, be patient with your soul? Keep
steadfast with your soul? Control yourself and have patience with
yourself to be with those who call on to their Lord morning and
evening? Subhanallah what does that mean?
It may be a struggle, because you may not want to do that. There'll
be people who are only Allah who are righteous people and they are
with Allah subhanaw taala de mashallah, remember Allah morning
and evening.
And it may be difficult for us to be with them because we've got
other competition. We'd rather be out with friends playing snooker
or pool or shisha club or doing something else. Right, especially
in the holidays. But
Allah is saying make an effort and be patient and be steadfast. And
put this burden on yourself to do this because that will benefit
you. So Allah is actually commanding us in the Quran, to be
patient and steadfast and be with the righteous ones that remember
Allah subhanho wa Taala morning and evening. That's the people
that we want to be with May Allah subhanaw taala make it easy for
us. If you look at our tradition, the best of this ummah after the
Prophet salallahu Salam, or the Sahaba the Sahaba that word comes
from SAPA Sama means companionship. So literally they
are named what they did their practice of being with the Prophet
salallahu Salam, they call him Sahaba. Now it didn't stop there.
The Prophet salallahu Salam departed this world, the Sahaba
were left behind. So now what happened is, they were people who
now follow the sahaba. They became close to the sahaba. They studied
with the Sahaba they stayed in their company, they benefited from
them just like they did when the Prophet sallallahu Sallam they
were given a name called the tambourine, the followers the
successes they will call tabby. Then after that, they started the
Sahaba started disappearing from this world, the tambourine.
They became prominent Hassan Al Basilea, Hema hula sorry, Musa
Rahima, hula, all of these people, they became the next leaders next
righteous scholars. So now people started following them. The OMA
gave them a name at the bar with debating
the followers of the followers the successes of the successes, the
Prophet sallallahu Sallam had already mentioned this Hi Eurocom
Kearney, the best of you is my generation, Thumbelina Luna home,
then those who will follow them through militina Luna home, then
those who will follow them. Now this tradition, after a tambourine
passed away, then we had the, the successes of the successes, the
same tradition continued, but the terminology didn't carry on. They
were, they would have become too long at the bar or at the bar, it
would have become a bit too long. Right? So now the terminology
never can continue. And probably because the Hadith of the prophets
Allah mentioned about
The first three, however, the idea still carries on. And until today,
for example, my Sheikh, who I got, I'm trying to, I try to study
spirituality from, I can trace myself through him up to the
Prophet salAllahu alayhi wasallam. There's a whole chain in that
sense. So I traced it to Sheikh Yusuf Rahim Allah to shake the
courier Raha Sheikh Khalifa Lachman to Sheikh Rashid Ahmed to
shake hygiene daddle and and so on, so forth, up to the Prophet
slicin. So that tradition has continued and there are multiple
chains like this of righteous people, and make sure if you find
the righteous people find people who are legitimate, who remember
Allah subhana wa Tada. Morning and evening. That is the sign of it.
Right? So this tradition has continued. And I would say that
our Sheikh was named Sheikh Yusuf Matala, Rahim Allah just passed
away a few years ago, the amount of work that he has done right the
amount of work that he has done would may have never happened. Had
he remained in his little village in India remained resilient you
can take this for any example of any big so my my other two
teachers my two teachers Mala Bilal Saab and modern Abdur Rahim
sup May Allah protect them they are currently in Bangladesh, right
in which is a big Jelsa big program going on which town is it?
Is in Bish nut right there right now. And I mashallah in little
Bangladeshi in Tower Hamlets. They in the big Bangladesh and very
little Bangladesh Al Hamdulillah. Right Allah give us same Baraka
that they're getting Inshallah, right. So
none of this would have happened if Sheikh Yusuf did not travel to
Sauron port to his shape and became mashallah in his company of
the righteous company.
And then he shakes it you need to go to England and start a
madrasah. He didn't want to stay here.
But that's what he Sheikh has said. So that's why he started
darlin Berry was created. And after that, so many modalities in
the West have come from there, right to such a degree that I owe
literally everything what I'm speaking in front of you today,
for you to have invited me and even considered me something even
though I'm nothing is only because I studied and I benefited from our
shake, and he benefited from his shake, and it carries on up to the
Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam. So may Allah reward all of
these righteous people, and may Allah make us of that. Don't think
that this is only for special it is for everybody here this door is
open for everyone. Being with the righteous people is how we learn
our piety. Right? It's just easier to do that.
So this tradition endured, and it carried on as you see today, Ma
sha Allah and there are many examples of this. There are many
examples of this. So let us understand the benefit
from some of the Hadith now, there's a very famous Hadith that
I'm not going to repeat, because everybody knows this hadith. Do
you know the Hadith? Our little brothers here as well? Do you know
the Hadith of the guy who killed 99 plus one people?
Right? I don't want to say 100 because it was 99 plus one, right?
He killed 99 first, and then he went to a guy who was just the
worshiper not a scholar, and said, I want to do Toba. I want to get
out of this. I've been doing drugs. I've been selling drugs.
You know, just imagine modern day somebody's doing this. And so
while there's a guy he contacted me a few years, he said that my
two brothers, they've actually studied the dean. I'm a drug
dealer. Nobody knows though. I keep it really hidden. Right? I
want to get out of this. I told him I told him I told him this
than the other. And he said, No, I need more understanding of this.
Then final Hamdulillah. One day he called me he said, I've left
London,
outside somewhere else. That's where I'm staying. Because you
can't stay within the same bad company and change you can if
you're very strong.
Because it's very difficult to change within the same evil
company. If you're around them. Everything reminds you, everything
reminds you we learned this from this hadith of Bukhari and Muslim
of the person who killed 99 plus one people. What did the person
say to him when he went to the scholar after he killed 100 People
now, he said, You're gonna have to get out of this area. There's that
area, which has a community of Saudi heme of righteous people,
you go there, that will make a difference. Right? You go there
that will make a difference. So he left, he left. And as he's going,
he's departed from home. He's not even 50% of the way and he dies.
Right? And then the angels came. One wants to take him to hellfire
one wants to take him to paradise. And they said find me okay. We're
going to go according to where he's closest to if he's closest to
his hometown, where they were bad people. We're going to take the
hellfire and if he's closest to the other side, where he's going
in that direction will take him to Paradise. Allah subhanho wa Taala
was everything under his control. He said to the land on this side,
the earth you expand.
And on the other side, he said you contract
He was made out. When the angels came to measure he was made out to
be closer to his destination of righteous people Subhanallah
so there are multiple narrations like this that give us that idea
of how beautiful this is. So
it Radi Allahu anhu, a seed in it to the Allah when he says or they
can build one is necessary for you to be with righteous people.
Proper brothers uses the word one for Arabic. One is the plural of
brothers, what he means a proper brothers that fulfill the rights
of brotherhood for the sake of Allah subhanho wa taala. Right.
Be with brothers be with righteous people. Why? Because they are your
preparation and assistance in this dunya and akhira.
Okay, how do you prove that? How are righteous brothers going to
help you? We can understand in this world they'll help you
because they do good. They don't do bad. So they'll assist you, you
get inspired by them. You're in their company, you want to do that
as well. Right? How did they help you in the hereafter?
So then somebody must have raised that question. So he says Allah
smart Allah Kohli early now. Haven't you heard what the people
of hellfire in the Hellfire will say? They will say firmer Luna
Musa fairy you know other Saudi tin honey?
We're in hellfire now because we had nobody to intercede for us.
Nobody would tell Allah Yeah, let them go on my behalf. They were
with me. They were my friends. We didn't have any such good friends,
while Sadiq and Ameen, neither did we have any pure friends.
A pure friend will look out for you in the hereafter as well. The
righteous if you sat in their company will look out for you in
the hereafter. You know, a simple half is of the Quran. According to
a narration he is allowed to take 10 people into paradise.
Right? So normally what I tried to do is if I find somebody was
memorizing the Quran and try to give him some money as a gift,
like Brother, this is a gift for you because I'm hoping that I
might become one of the 10 you know that he takes to paradise?
Yeah, that guy gave me 10 Down 20 pound you know, mashallah, he gave
me 1020 pounds, because I remember when I was writing my first book,
one of my first books, one mo learner, he came to see me when he
heard he pulled up 20 pounds, this was 25 years ago, he gave me 20
pounds. That was a lot of money, then 20 pounds now, you know, he's
a two meals, right? But then he was a lot more money. And I still
remember him for that. And I think he's got a reward for every book
I've written after that, because that really inspired me. So give
people inspiration, be a good person ourselves in order to do
that and assist other people. So if a half is a simple half is and
I don't mean simple half is right. But somebody who's righteous was a
half his other grant and everything else. So he's not a
hobbyist, but he does good in this world. That's why many of the
Allama they said have good companions, because in the
hereafter Good, good companions, righteous people are sincere. And
if they, they will look after their people because they're not
doing it for an ulterior motive. They're doing it purely for the
sake of Allah. So even like, where are my friends? Where are my
companions? Where are those people who used to sit with me? On the
Day of Judgment, they're going to looking and I'm hoping that my
shoe whoever I'm hoping they're going to be looking for, for me in
sha Allah, right? And yeah, Allah help this guy out as well. If
you're gonna help us out. If you've given us a trophy to go
into paradise, we want to intercede for this person.
So, please look out for one another. That's what good people
do for the hereafter just like you think people do good for us in
this world. Niall and I'm in Shafi we have nobody to intercede for
us. While Sadiq in Hammy. No True, true friends, no pure friends, we
don't have anybody to help us.
That's why Imam ignore a ban great Hadith scholar. He had to conclude
the saddle arcade realism was so her battle Akia anybody who's
intelligent, who's really clever, who really understands and his
prudence and knows what he wants. He's going to have to be in the
companion of righteous people is going to benefit from their
company. He's going to learn things from them and in the
Hereafter is going to benefit from them. He's just maximizing his
chances. Imam Abu darda say the Buddha or the Allahu Anhu he said
min fakie Raju from a person's understand that if you want to see
if a person is smart, so it's a min Fikile Raju from his
understanding is Masha who will Makalu Makalu who will Maharaja
who are much less hoo hoo man in his going out his his walking his
entry, his exit his sitting is going to be with the people of
knowledge
with the people of knowledge so that you can learn he expects that
the people of knowledge here are righteous people as well.
assumption is that if your people have personal knowledge, most
people or knowledge are righteous people because you learn and you
practice. He says you're clever person that's because you learn
from these people. You increase your chances. Look, man, see then
I look man Alehissalaam he said to his son and this is
Separate to what's related from him in the Quran is separate to
that. Yeah, when a year Julissa Lorena mom, my son, sit with the
other man sit with the knowledgeable people was Him whom
berocca. Take, compete with one another, to go and sit in front of
them on your on your knees, meaning try to get close to them.
Because there'll be a lot of people who want to get close to
them. You try to do that, for in the globe. like to hear Bill hikma
come to heel or dual Mater to be word Bill Mater. Why? Because
we've got a heart everybody has a heart that heart has to be become
alive, has to be nourished, has to be fed, and it has to be fed
wisdom. wisdoms, and that wisdoms come from wise people and from
righteous people, just like a dead land needs rain, and that it
becomes alive. You know, shall will you Allah, one of our
greatest scholars of the Indian subcontinent, right from 300 years
ago. He said something amazing and that's when I started
understanding this. He explains, sitting with a righteous company
What's the benefit? He says? He says that you know, righteous
people, they are constantly receiving Rama mercy blessing from
Allah subhanho wa Taala they're constantly connected the they've
got the Wi Fi connection to that source, right unlike many of us,
right we've got we've got key locks on right we've not got the
password yet. Or maybe we have but we are very small bandwidth and
got a bit coming down these people they are getting not 3g man is
like major G right? This is Big G you know, this is mashallah
they're getting an outpouring from the higher assemblies from the
angels and so on. Allah is just showering them. Now there's a
hadith Rachel is wondering about is a Hadith, which says that
there's people who are remembering Allah.
And then the angels come and visit and they tell Allah subhanaw taala
Allah knows they're doing it anybody else? Why are they doing
this? And they say they're doing it for your sake and so on. And
then Allah says, Be my witness that I'm going to forgive all of
them that all of them are forgiven, right? So one of the
angels is a very pedantic angel is a very particular sin. But yeah,
Allah, there's a guy in there, he wasn't there for vicar came here
to get his keys or something.
He was just sitting there waiting for one of the guys it wasn't
really there says that's fine. These people lie. Yes, Karla home
Julie's anybody who sits with them can not stay without being
fortunate as well. That's how powerful this kind of company and
companionship is. We need just to get more of it. We just need to
get more of it. We need it at least once or twice or thrice or
four times a week. If not, you know, seven days a week.
Coming to the masjid gives us some of that at least. Right? Because
everybody who's a believer has some piety. Right? Just don't
argue with anybody and don't you know, do not gossip with anybody
because you lose it all. You go outside start gossiping, and you
lose it by the time you you start looking here and there haram and
then you lose it by the time you go home. Right? So we come to the
masjid so many times, but we don't maintain that and take it back
home for our families.
That's the so anyway, going back to showery Allah, He says that
when there's a righteous person of Allah subhanaw taala he has a
showering of this mercy and blessing. If you're sitting around
with him, some of that is going to be sprinkled is going to be
rebounded on you. Because you know, when when there's rain
coming somewhere a rebounds, you're gonna get some of that
Sahaba on Meridian every second day he was with the Royal Solomon
the other day his companion was it because he had to go and work
right? Can you imagine two brothers I've seen people
mashallah there are some families they have two three brothers and
they have they have business. So at any one given time, they've
always got somebody in the in the path of Allah. The others look
after the business, one guy goes out in the path of Allah Subhan
Allah data, he comes back another one goes so high Allah what a
wonderful situation. It doesn't have to be brothers, you can do
that with partners. If you find the right companions, you can do
that to then go and benefit benefit from the
Jaffa Abdul Mohammed Rahim Allah he says that Oh, my son who was
speaking to his son is as anybody who intermingles with Allah ma, he
will himself become honorable. Because you're going to learn
something plsa Asha. In fact, a lot of people I always hear, you
know, he's very close to Sheikh Salim. He's very close to Sheikh
Yusuf is very close is very close to Sheikh Abdul Rahim, you know,
and because the point is that he's maybe being close to him. So that
in itself gives you honor but we're not doing it for that we're
not doing it so that we become known like we're doing it for our
own benefit. Really, ultimately, that's what it is I want to
benefit that's why I want to be with the righteous you know what I
do? When I go for Umrah or Hajj or I go to any other country I make a
do as soon as I get there. When is the Allah? You do the Sunnah? Do I
write the Sunnah the eyes
of Allah give me the best of this place and the best of what it
contains
and protect me from the worst of it and the worst of what it
contains. Then I say Allahumma Habibullah Illa. Alia will have
been cited earlier Elaina says Sana dua Beautiful day should go
this you land through demand at Bangladesh airport in Dhaka or
Silla to wherever it is right? You go make a dua straightaway, I make
it do I go to, you know, anywhere and make it well straightaway Oh
Allah
make us beloved to the people here so that at least they won't throw
you out. They'll teach you well, they'll respect you, they'll honor
you will Hamdulillah you know, you don't you don't want to be treated
with indignity do right. But only make Saudi hate earlier. Only make
the righteous ones Beloved to us. Because when you travel, if you
get inclined to the wrong people that's very harmful so only make
the righteous then that's from the Sunnah then I always make this
idea alive come here and like give me somebody I can benefit from
make this trip a beneficial one, find me a solid, some slightly him
that I can learn something from and benefit from.
So that's that's a dua that we can do anywhere really, but especially
when you're traveling to a new area, then you want to be in good
company.
Imam Abu Dhabi says I said to Abdullah Hebner, Mubarak men to
journalists who do sit in the company of
whose company using because remember, there's a Hadith of the
Prophet sallallahu Sallam way as famous Hadith where the Roisin
said that the example of a righteous companion sitting
partner that you would sit with is like the person who goes into a
fragrance shop. And there's loads of them nowadays, you go to Saudi,
every second or third shop is a fragrance and everybody's buying
fragrance like crazy nowadays.
But so you go into a fragrance, either you're going to buy
something, or at least you're going to do a tester, or you're
going to come out at least smelling nice, there's a borehole
going on, so you're going to come out smelling nice. On the other
hand, if you go to an island Smith, the one who's making the
horseshoe and who's beating the metal and there's sparks flying
around, and the heat and the fire that's kindled down there, you're
either going to come up with some, you know, we put some holes in
your clothes, or at least smoked. Right? So it's a very similar idea
that people have that effect on one another.
Literally, people have that effect on you will be perfumed with
goodness, or will have odor, which the angels can see and will come
out inspired by the wrong thing. Not inspired but effected by the
wrong idea, or inspired by the right idea, depending who we sit
with. So all these are good friends, and our little brothers,
right who are sitting here, you have to choose good friends.
Otherwise, what they're going to do is if you've choose the wrong
friend, just because they look cool or something like that, and
they want to go and do something gang related. They want to do
something that's haram, they want to do something that's wrong,
you're going to be obliged to follow because you're going to
appear peer pressure to follow. Just don't go into that. Always
have good people. It just makes life easier.
Anyway, so a Buddha would ask him, Abdullah hymnal MOBA Who do you?
Who do you sit with? Where do you get your companionship from? He
said, Oh, which URL is short about what Sophia
is sit with shortbow and Sophia, they're my companions. Now. Shaban
Sofia and he wasn't really with them. So what do you mean, Rahim?
Allah God Allah subhanho wa Taala mercy Jana them Abu Dawood said
what he meant was the I read their books. If you can't find somebody
to sit with all the time that read their books, read the books of the
righteous that will affect you in their life. Now you know, the
short the immune Hijazi of some bizarro great Muhammad Rahim Allah
big man, big Hadith scholar Hadith master amazing game. So there's a
there's a person called
Mohammed the blue cab, or Abdullah McArdle carnival, Carnival, canary
is a Hadith he's also a hadith scholar, but he wasn't a hadith
scholar before to show you what companionship can do.
He was a gangster it says that he actually had a description and
data with the well being of ignore Kodama, it mentions that he had
red trousers on
now. I don't want to judge anybody with anything red on but I think
he's trying to say when you wear red, like for a man, it's not seen
as cool, right? It's seen as sick as people the gangs will call it
Hey, that sick man, you know, whereas it's properly sick in the
literal sense of it. Sorry if I'm confusing anybody who doesn't get
that right. So it just goes to show what kind of person he was.
He had invited his friends over for dinner for for a meal. And
there is no WhatsApp in those days or there's no you know, he doesn't
know where there is invited them and he's waiting. He's got the
drinks ready as well. The shrub
shall be covered
Right. I don't know what exactly. He had a meal prepared. His mother
had prepared the meal and he had the drinks ready. So he's sitting
outside on his doorstep. And suddenly he sees this major
imposing figure coming through with people around the mystery
that was shot about YBNL Hijaz the great Muhaddith of Basra.
So you've got to be curious, you said Who is that guy?
He's coming down like this. Who is this guy? Somebody said to him,
that shot by YBNL Hajaj, the great Mohammed bin. So literally, he
says in Arabic for those who understands that a shopper
in slang is like a U shaped insurer, but like, What the heck
is a sharp? I mean, I could say that worse than that. Right? Like,
what is the shopper? Like, who is this guy? What's the big deal
about him? So it goes up to him.
Right, you can see is a very brash gangster like type of guy goes up
to him. And he says to him, so they told him he's a hadith
scholar. So then he goes up to him and he says, how does it relate
relate to Hadith to be?
Really nice to me? You know, like, if that's a gangster style of
speaking, I don't know. Right? Relate a hadith to me.
Sure, but look, saying he says you don't look like a student. He
thought you don't look like a standard student, you know of
knowledge. Right? So he says, You don't look like a student. He
pulls out a dagger. And he says her Disney a joke either you're
going to relate a hadith to me, I'm going to stab you.
Right with his.
Now showbuzz got nothing to lose Rahim. Allah says okay, fine. So
he related from the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam with
this chain. He said, Call in a BU sallallahu alayhi wa sallam either
allow him to study for SNAP mash it.
If you
don't have any embarrassment, and no shyness, then you can do
whatever you wish.
That penetrated this person's heart. So righteous person that
Rama and blessing and mercy and all of that was probably sharing
not in short, but he goes close to him to stab him and mashallah you
get some of the sprinkles of that. And that just stuns him. He goes
back home, he gets all of the drink and spills it down the
drain. And he says, Look, I'm off. I'm going when my friends come to
his mommy said when my friends come you feed them and I'm going
he went and he became a hadith scholar. He went to study became
Hadith scholar, he changed his company, he went to righteous
company. And today mashallah, when we read the six books of Hadith,
we read his name and say Rahim, Jehovah and he was a gangster.
Change your company.
Change your company. And there are so many people we know over the
last 30 years I've seen who
were not doing very good, but they changed their company. They went
to study they went to a madrasah they went to go and study with the
righteous people and mashallah or they just they don't even go to
say you don't have to study. You can just be in the righteous
company and you change your life.
So many people I know they were so much mischief. So many problems.
And today Mashallah. They are decent individuals that are
respectable individuals, they're not even scholars, they've just
become respectable, because of the company they kept and now they are
in good company. So Subhanallah filleted ignore EOD says either Hi
lockbar for Highland Hassanal Hulk
or has an l hold.
Actually, if you're going to mix with people mixed with those who
have good character
they know later on in LA a little higher because they'll only invite
you to goodness that'd be sincere was Sahiba Coleman who fear Aha,
and you need to have his company you know, with comfort him on call
to be he says something really amazing you know, in sort of
gaffe, we have a verse in verse 18 What Cal boom does YouTube there
are ie bill will seed so these seven sleepers or so seven or
eight sleepers that we had a cybercafe just we just had a
special to our, in their cave in Jordan just two months ago, after
this carnage happened with some of the big old leader of the made a
special dua. So they had a dog
that I mean, didn't have a dog. That dog just accompanied them and
stayed with them. They were put to sleep the dog fell asleep, or it
was just there. The dog was there. So that dog is going to be with
them.
Dogs don't use it. No animal goes to Jana. This one's gonna go So
Imam could be says that this dog gets this high status because it
stayed with the Olia that was hobbled gaff the cave dwellers.
They were earlier there was so they were righteous, such that
ALLAH SubhanA wa Tada, men
mentions him mentions this dog in the Quran. So then he says from
Ivan Luca Bill mohideen and Mohali tiene el Mahi been a little
earlier it was Saudi hain. Then why? What do you think about those
people who are believers in the Oneness of Allah, who are always
in the company of the righteous people and who love the Olia and
the side of him? Why wouldn't Allah subhanho wa Taala give them
success as well. That's the secret to our success. Stay with the
Saudi and I feel it when I'm not able to meet somebody for a while.
I feel it you just feel like you're degenerating. So it's very,
very important for us to understand that. Now. A few more
Hadith to mention. We'll open it up for questions inshallah for
you, Imam Buhari, and his student Imam Muslim, right Imam student,
Imam Muslim student, Imam Buhari they both have transmitted this
hadith famous Hadith again, you've heard the Hadith so I'm not gonna
mention the whole Hadith for you. There are seven individuals whom
Allah subhanho wa Taala will shelter in his shade on the day
when there'll be no shade except Allah shade. And among them, were
two people, two men who love one another for the sake of Allah.
This has to be for the sake of Allah. This love for one another
of the righteous people has to be for the sake of Allah subhanaw
taala. So not just any companionship is worthy because if
you have companionship with the evil people, that's going to be
bad for you. So it's only companionship that is for the sake
of Allah subhanaw taala is good for you.
So
another Hadith is, my Muslim relates this hadith. Very
interesting when this is not so well known. The man once went to
visit a brother, who he was associated with only for the sake
of Allah. Not a family member, no business, nothing just purely for
the sake of Allah. I'm gonna go on and learn something for example,
you go to visit a scholar, you go to a lecture, you go to a class
only purely for the sake of Allah, no business, nothing. Right?
Allah sent then send an angel who approaches him on his path and ask
him, Where is your desired destination? The person said, I
hope to visit this particular brother, who I know in this
village, the angel said, Do you have any business with him? That
you hope to profit from him? Said No, I just love Him for allah
sake. That's why I'm going to visit him. The man responded,
right? So the angel then said, he knew he knew. He said, Rejoice. I
am a messenger from Allah to you.
And he wishes to inform you that He loves you. Allah loves you just
as you love him, this righteous brother for the sake of Allah
subhanaw taala. Allah loves people who love others for Allah sake, a
pure relationship.
Another Hadith Which Imam Bukhari Muslim both relate and Muslim
Muhammad.
It says, Indeed, the chambers in paradise, special chambers in
paradise for those who love one another for the sake of Allah, are
seen splendidly. Others will see it splendidly.
Like the bright stars of the east or the west, so you know, at
nighttime when we see the east, the West, they will see this
person's place and chamber like the stars. Somebody's gonna ask
and who are those people who gets to get there, you know, who just
achieved that response will be they're the ones who loved one
another for Allah sake. That is the benefit of sitting with
righteous people for the sake of Allah subhanaw taala having any
pure relationship with anybody will give you that anyway. So now
I'm just going to quickly read to you what productivity expert
lifestyle experts say about just positive companionship. Forget
about righteous companionship, they just talking about positive
because you don't understand righteous, you'd search for
righteous command, you're gonna find a non Muslim tell you about
righteous come out. They're going to look for
positive they say what are the benefits of positive people?
Right? You can understand from that, which is a good thing, but
you will understand that you're going to get this plus more so
they say, number one, positive people are going to influence you,
which means righteous people are going to influence you. Right?
That's one thing. Number two says positive people can alter your
perspective on life. righteous people will be able to alter your
perspective on life. You may have never seen it that way. And now
they're like No, you need to do it this way. They inspire you to
believe in yourself. And by associating with positive people
you begin to embrace their positive qualities as well. Number
two, they help you in better stress management, less
negativity, and righteousness is mashallah positivity on the boost
striker Masha, Allah boosted with Allah, you know, with Allah's
mercy and so on. I'm not going to read through all of their
description because, you know, I want to give you some time for
questions. Number three, it improves your physical health. How
does us
associating with somebody positive improve your physical health.
They've done studies on this saying that it helps you because
mentally it helps you that usually a lot of our physical abilities
are from a mental disabilities as well, right psychological
abilities as well. That's what I think they're saying here. They
help you to make make better choices for sure. Even the
righteous people who will do that, right, wise decisions and so on.
And they help you to become successful cos they do they help
you to become successful. Now they're talking about just in this
world we're talking about in the Hereafter, as well. So anybody
would tell you that company benefits you, right? You're all of
these people that tell you the same thing. And number six, they
keep you away from negativity. righteous people keep you away
from the hellfire.
And they'll make you focus on Paradise and mock you folk focus
on Allah and positive rather than negativity and hellfire and they
motivate you to follow your dreams and goals make you optimistic, and
what greater optimism is there than a true understanding of the
hereafter? I am absolutely just astonished taken aback surprised
and happy and crying at the same time when you see a mother or a
father, they've just lost five members 10 members, three of their
children and they're just looking at Allah rather than crying and
giving up like ya Allah except
just so wonder that uh, yeah, Allah accept them, accept them as
shahada and then they speak into them saying, give my Salaams to
the Prophet salallahu Salam, give my salam to Abu Bakr Siddiq. I
mean, how do you think of all of these things when your children
die? You must have love for these people. Why would you remember who
Bakr Siddiq or the Allah one? Not to say the bad guys as me
Subhanallah but you must be really in tune with the deen of Allah and
really have that in your mind to be able to remove to say that, you
know to remember Abu Bakr and Umar Radi Allahu Allah as well as the
prophets of Allah is Allah when you lose your loved ones, what
love you must have for the salah Him and you will be with whom you
love on the Day of Judgment.
So this is what we talked about positivity as I said, and may
Allah subhanho wa Taala allow us to find the right people, it will
just make life so much easier. If we have bad people, we need to
slowly slowly either change them, or we need to give them up and we
need to replace them. Remember, we always need somebody so you either
have good or bad if you already have bad we need to replace them.
You can't be alone. You have to You need good. So how do you get
good? If you find somebody who's good and you can be with them
great, don't encroach on this is too much. Otherwise they'll throw
you out if you put get put be to push him and being practically ask
Allah. Allah give me righteous company, you know Allah give me
righteous company. Yeah, Allah give me righteous company, give me
pious, give me the pious. And
that's that has been the tradition of the good people of the Muslim
world that they would they did what the Sahaba did, which was to
find a mentor, to find the sheikh to find a righteous person that
they can be with May Allah subhanaw taala surround us with
more positivity, and may Allah make us our family is positive and
righteous for us as well. So there you go, that that is some of the
benefits and may Allah give us the benefits. We're okay with that Ron
and Al hamdu Lillahi Rabbil aalameen.
So if you can't have righteous company, then one of the best
things to do is to read about the company about the life stories of
the righteous and thy books. So I would suggest what I've benefited
from personally.
saviors of Islamic spirit.
Right. So that's not just about righteousness, but it's about
productivity, practicality, high achievement, high resilience, and
mashallah, right? So I would suggest the by Sheikh Ahmed Hassan
Ali nadwi. That's one, then I would suggest biographies, I would
start with a Sierra. And then there's books like higher to
Sahaba. Right? Amazing to understand how the, the best of
them after probably Salah Salem lived, and then find the
biographies of the righteous people find the biographies of the
righteous people. And there's quite a few that have been
written, not enough. Not everybody has it's been written about, but
try to read that. And of course, to really better understand this
issue. One book I would definitely suggest is called the essentials
of Islamic spirituality used to be called the path to perfection, but
it's not essentials of Islamic spirituality, By
Maulana masuleh Honza. But it's all the teachings of Sheikh of
Monash really Tonry about righteousness, and what to look
for in, you know, in righteous people and so on. There's a
there's a beautiful book that is not yet published, but we've
nearly completed it. Imam Shah
on these double Sahaba
Imam Shah Rouhani was this great worry of Egypt, I visited his his
complex, it's still there in one of the main roads of Egypt, highly
influential scholar who wrote a number of different books. And he
had so much going on in his area that it became like a competition
to as a university in his time, right. And he's written a book
called adabas saga, which means the
the, the art of companionship, the etiquette of community, like how
do you find a good person? And how do you be a good companion? So
inshallah that should be published will make dua. So that's a
beautiful book, if you can get the Arabic edition for now. And I
think there may already be a translation available of it by
somebody else as well. So that's a beautiful book as well, inshallah.
And just read any book on the righteous people. There's lots of
book others written on that subject. Yes.
Good question. So if somebody a righteous person is going to
intercede for you, then when does that intercession takes place? Is
it before you get punished, or after you get punished if you do
some punishment, Allah knows best, it probably depends on how
powerful they are. Right? There's, because not everybody gets all
types of intercession, there's about five or six levels of
intercession, province, otherwise, we'll get through to all of them
or any of them as he wants, other people are given a certain amount,
right? We're just going to hope for the best, right? But we're
just we're not going to that's the way we deal with this is that we
don't, that's not our primary.
That's not our primary option. That's a secondary option, our
primary option is we do the best that we we can so that
we get directly accepted, but that's just the backup, we
actually maximizing our possible investments, so that if this
doesn't work, then that works. If this doesn't work out, tahajjud
inshallah doesn't work. Inshallah doesn't work, but our Taiji that
we do, maybe if it doesn't work, our solder content work or
something, maybe that will work, we just try to maximize sha Allah.
The way to love somebody for the sake of Allah.
As this new book we're working with make that very clear, what it
says is that you love them for Allah, which means that everybody
is defective, right? So if something comes from them, which
is defective, you still love them, for the sake of Allah subhanaw
taala that means you're not loving them for them. So you're not
loving them because you expect to benefit from them. You're not
loving them, if they give you things you're not loving them,
they might tell you off on there, but if your love is for the sake
of Allah subhanaw taala, then you look well beyond that is for the
sake of Allah, that's why I'm, I'm loving this person, as long as
they're beneficial. That's true love, you fulfill all of their
rights, you go out of your way to sacrifice your own self, for their
self. Right? So there's a number of etiquettes that are mentioned,
of what it means to be a serial a sincere brother to someone, right
where you have to give up yourself, for them to the best of
your ability. And it should not be dictated by selfish motives is
dictated purely for the sake of Allah subhana wa Tada which means
that you do it to make Allah happy, and to benefit from that.
Okay, does that go along here, Masha, Allah Hamdulillah. Allah
bless us during this holiday time. Hamdulillah.
The point of a lecture is to encourage people to act to get
further an inspiration, and encouragement, persuasion. The
next step is to actually start learning seriously to read books
to take on a subject of Islam and to understand all the subjects of
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You don't have to leave lectures behind you can continue to live,
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