Abdur Rahman ibn Yusuf Mangera – Treatise For The Seekers Of Guidance Part 18 The Excellence of Gatherings of Knowledge
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just mentioned that
some people have mentioned this from Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi
wa salam. But it's difficult to verify this as being
a Hadith from Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa sallam.
The Prophet sallallahu sallam said according to this Allah knows best
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those people who will
be sitting by Allah subhanho wa Taala on the day of judgment.
And that would mean those people who will
be granted closeness and proximity to Allah subhanho wa Taala on the
Day of Judgment,
or the how their own and their motto, their own.
To do who will do it means to humbly and treat someone to humbly
invoke someone who will do it. It incorporates
an aspect of humility.
And
it implies
that the heart is calling out and overtaking the external aspect of
the body.
I'll motorworld Your Own, those who are humble,
who do not act in any kind of exalting or tyrannical way. So
basically, you can see that these are soft, humble, focused people
with the
entire four focus on Allah subhanho wa Taala Aloha ephone
they're fearful that Allah may not accept
the fearful that
they may not be fulfilling the rights of asking Allah subhanaw
taala because the more we learn about Allah subhanaw taala the
more we understand that
there are
rights of Allah to be fulfilled. He has a certain right.
That's why the Olia they say ma out of NACA, hakuna aliphatic
we may have recognized you, but we haven't recognized you to the
level that is your right to be recognized. So the heck of it.
Because the more you see, when there's anybody, when you see them
first time, you may not consider them to be anything great, the
more you learn about them, their knowledge, their position, their
influence, then it suddenly fills your heart up about that person.
Whereas when you first saw them with what is just another normal
person, the more a person knows about Allah subhanho wa taala,
they understand that
there's a lot of respect that has to be given to Allah subhanaw
taala while he is very Clementon forgiving,
and He pardons a lot. And he's very merciful and very forbearing.
But when you know, now, then you have to be more careful.
Now, if it's a person that other people respect, but the person
doesn't really have anything, and there's no substance there to
start with, then it's not going to have the same effect. It may have
initially an effect, but eventually people will see through
that. But with Allah subhanaw taala, he is everything. So
there's no way that can,
there's no way that there's going to be anything that is going to be
a matter of deception, it's going to be just very clear cut. Anybody
who starts to see his names, think about his names, read the Quran
about it, start to feel Allah subhanaw taala in their life, then
they will understand this. So this is the state these are the people
who have reached that state because they are how their own
motor while their own ha ephone and other Quran, Allah cathedra
and they are those who remember Allah abundantly.
So if we can get ourself I mean, that's essentially a goal. That if
we can get ourselves to be of that state somehow, then we will be
close to Allah subhana wa Tada.
That's the description of those people. Now one thing you can take
from this narration is
that
generally a person is more like this when they're sitting,
remembering Allah, it's an easier time to be have those
characteristics.
In normal you have to do many things in your daily life and it's
very difficult to sometimes have that demeanor.
Although generally a person who is filled with the vicar of Allah,
they will eventually overcome them and dominate them in that state.
So wherever they are, you can feel something about it, but that's
that's left to our gauging. That's not even necessarily accurate. The
main thing
Is that at least when a person is in the vicar of Allah in a
gathering of the thinker of Allah, they should be their state.
was given a juggler. The Allahu Anhu is on his deathbed.
And
I mean, imagine people state at death, he says more humble mouths.
Well welcome odor.
Welcome
marhaba Mar haben
bissa it in June, Allah Putin.
Welcome to that guest who has arrived
at the type of intense hunger and need
being hungry for this to come.
Learner Flamen Nilima
I mean, just imagine what's going on in his mind when he's doing
this. When he's saying this. What do you think are his sentiments
and his thoughts when he's saying these things, you can clearly tell
that you can't make up things in your last moment. You can't
rehearse for it, you've not done it before.
You can rehearse for a speech, you get better than
you can rehearse for interaction with people and meetings, you do
learn through experience, you've never had an experience of meeting
death, it's going to be only going to happen once. It's a very
serious moment. So say welcome, oh, death, welcome. And then he
gives it a description that it's like a guest that's come in a time
of intense hunger and need.
And then he says that the one who is
remorseful is not going never going to be successful.
Allahumma O Allah, you know
that I did not, I never love to remain in this world, my my
need to remain in this world was never so that I can have another
stream running. Now for irrigation purposes, maybe
no for planting more trees, because these were farming
community generally, so neither for them.
But
I used to love remaining in the dunya.
To enjoy the visuals of the long nights.
That was what my focus was.
And for the feeling of thirst,
in those noon times
in intense heat, fasting, fasting by the day, praying by the night.
And to mix with the aroma.
In gatherings of the
these were my three most intensely pleasurable experiences in the
world. This is the only thing that used to keep me in this world. You
can tell that this is a person who is well connected and understands
the projection of each action into the hereafter.
Anything they do, how is it going to manifest itself in the
Hereafter, and they've just fine tuned it to get the best out of
it.
Hello, could vicar as mentioned the Hadith gatherings of vicar
doesn't have to be just in terms of vicar as the way we understand
it. Many other might have actually given that a description of
knowledge as well, sitting and gaining knowledge, solid knowledge
that is supposed to take you closer to Allah subhanaw taala.
When knowledge becomes a routine, that's when it becomes
problematic. So you have many orlimar as well who've been
through the system, but they've not drawn closer to Allah subhanaw
taala except
by the minimal amounts that you would do by knowing so much.
Do you understand they haven't taken it, really and benefited
from it immensely as you would do. If it's non routine. This is not
to say that you shouldn't do it. It has to be done. You have to
know you have to learn. But
a person hasn't taken the full potential of that the frame of
mind wasn't right, was maybe more about exams, maybe more about
completing the course, or maybe knowing something
just to become more knowledgeable
in the sense in the sight of people maybe. So the focus and the
the motivation was wrong.
But there is still a benefit because it has to bring a benefit.
So they still have benefits, but it's not what it could have been
could have been 100 times superior to that.
So that's why I thought and Horizonte says that majority is a
thicker majority so halali were haram
that the gatherings of vicar were talking about they are the
gatherings in which Halal and Haram are discussed. Of course
with a view to follow
a fetish study with
The beer what to suddenly what assume. But then guess what to
tell like what a hedge washable hedonic, how you will buy and
sell.
Otherwise we could be doing so much more cruel or haram in our
bait in our you know buying and selling, how you pray, how you
fast, how you marry how you should divorce, big issue in impacts I
mean marriages, they say half of faith. And if your marriage is
going wrong, half of your faith is probably going wrong. And it's
true because it's such a you know, one is your job is going wrong.
That's really impactful. But at least you can escape from that,
and come home and maybe look for another job. But if your marriage
is going wrong, and every day you're in a situation at home,
there's just huge tension, rowdiness, arguing, then you can
imagine it's going to affect your failure salad, how is your salad
going to be like? What's the first thing going to be like because a
number of these things we do in a kind of a setting in a family
setting,
what the Hajj
how you make Hajj and things like that. In fact, Abu Sawara either
we
he was in a
in a class where knowledge was being disseminated.
And there was a young man with him. There was a young man in that
gathering as well.
He suddenly said to them, say subhanallah Well, hamdulillah like
in the middle of studying the Pharaoh, whatever it was, he said,
Say Subhan Allah Al Hamdulillah.
So I was so I got really angry. He said that what do you think we're
doing then?
You think this is something different to so that person had an
understood he thought that vicar is only when you sit down
specifically ritually for vicar,
then it means that this person hasn't really got it because his
liquor is ritual. And his learning is ritual.
They're not full of substance. He feels that vicar has to be very
specific, that this cannot incorporate any things IS LM is
devoid of liquor.
So that separation shouldn't be there. Though there is a hideous
separation in the sense that this is pure thicken and this is
thicker in a different sense. But it all should be remembrance of
Allah because that's what all of this is for. And it shouldn't be
for why we started tafseer or ID or Aikido or anything like that it
should be to better know Allah and better fulfill the rights of Allah
subhanho wa Taala This is very important for anybody studying
knowledge to get the best out of their knowledge.
So he got really angry
and he might Muhammad is related this in his Kitab Zod.
It is also part of the gatherings of vicar that
majali Salah al
any gathering in which any class in which is taught in which the
Cyril Quran is taught the Sunnah of Rasulullah sallallahu SMS
messenger is transmitted and the thick of the deen
is learned. According to a lot of people, those kinds of gatherings
are even superior to the gatherings of the vicar of Allah,
of just pure just be that need and technique
because they fulfill the obligation of formal and informal
Keifa.
Whereas just just pure ritual liquor is voluntary. It's extra.
Essentially the whole crux of this discussion
is that a modulus of victory is not just that
modulus in which pure thicken takes place. But anything in which
Allah subhanaw Without His commands and prohibitions are
discussed and learnt. The Halal and Haram are discussed, what
Allah likes and what he dislikes is learnt. And sometimes that can
be greater and more beneficial because then when the person goes
out of his vicar gathering, he still knows how to worship Allah
subhana wa Tada
because a lot of people and you know, maybe he's taking it in a
contextual situation where you had people who are total jaw hills,
but they would take part in a thicker modulus to get into maybe
some sort of sort of ecstasy or wedged where they would, you know,
different thinkers are done, maybe they did that. They didn't really
care about what they ate, they didn't care they didn't care about
how they acted, how they bought and sold their business and, and
there's a lot of people who are like that they think that oh, this
makes you feel nice. We'll go for a camera. So they go for a camera.
Every year they're going for camera, but the life doesn't
change at all.
So it's just like they're getting a bit of a hit from this, but
their life isn't changing. That's why this time when we were in
Ramona, I really thought I said we come for Omaha, but what are we
going to get out of this except the immediate benefit and
The Spiritual lifts. So my encouragement to everybody was
that let us decide on one additional thing that we will
bring into our lives after this gathering. After this visit,
you know, we will either add a tahajjud to our lifestyle, you
know, we don't do the 110, or let's do tahajjud
or a shark prayer, or something else, anything in addition, or if
there's something that is kind of blameworthy that we still do,
watching watching a certain soap opera, or a certain series, or
whatever the case is, whatever that may be, we'll give that up,
waste less time, or we'll go and take a class on something, you
know, we will join a class and increase our knowledge of
something. So do something like that use these moments of high
spirituality to make vows to do something and change something
because we have to keep increasing. Otherwise, it's the
same old ritual and I think this may be what they are trying to
say. Now this doesn't mean that you only then look for modalities
of Tafseer and Hadith and so on and you miss this. It's what
they're discouraging from is just pure ritualistic vigor in which
you don't know anything else. Now of course, if a person does no a
lot of is halal and haram, but they feel spiritually down then
for them much thicker is going to be extremely beneficial, in fact,
is going to be necessary.
Then, then, Allah Maha CB says, Well, today Nasi hatherleigh, he
will mean
you should
expend full Naseeha for Allah and for the believers. I mean, this
hadith is a famous heavy,
act with goodwill, fulfill the rights of it can translate it into
many different ways. Fulfill goodwill towards Allah subhanaw
taala by fulfilling his rights, and to the believers in general,
by fulfilling people's rights, where shall we feel unbrick living
in reaction Allah, if you're going to make matura with somebody,
if you're going to ask somebody, consult with somebody for an
important aspect of your life, then go and consult somebody who
fears Allah because they will give you a response that will be
conducive to the fear of Allah. It won't be a purely a worldly
response will be a worldly response. But while keeping Allah
subhanaw taala in mind, Allah subhanaw taala says, In the My
actual law, I mean everybody, Allah ma, that indeed it is only
the aroma from among his servants who fear Allah.
An aroma here means anybody who's recognized Allah subhanaw taala
through his knowledge, and these people, they really understand the
rights, fearing Allah. You can only fear him if you understand
what his right side his position is, and his greatness and majesty
us. It's easy to say that Allah is Great and Majestic. We all believe
that as part of our faith, but it's another thing to actually
feel our heart filled with this Majesty of Allah. Where the heart
swells up when you think about Allah subhanho wa Taala wow, you
know you that's, that's what it is.
And the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam said Dino Naseeha deen
is not see her we, this is, again, the famous Hadith which just comes
under.
Know that anybody who gives you Naseeha, who tells you something?
Who tells you something that is to our benefit like that? Forgot a
hub Docker, he has expressed his love for you. So don't take
anybody who tells you something
to be
your enemy. Though it may sound like that. Unfortunately, there
are people who give Naseeha they kind of do it on a more
ritualistic way where it does sound a bit military sounds a bit
aggressive. But understand deep down that there is a reason that
he loves the people of Allah. He loves the deen of Allah. And
that's why he's saying this. We're sitting in a hotel in the hotel in
Madina Munawwara. And in the lobby, there's a few chairs, we're
waiting for the Malvina haram to come or something. So on the
opposite side, there was a I didn't notice this first, but
there was a young man, he wasn't part of our group.
He had these
shaved sides or short back and sides or uneven hair cut. I can't
remember if it was shaved, or it was just small.
So this older Arab gentleman comes along and he says,
he says, Is he part of your group? So I looked at I said, No, he's
not part of my group. So he says, yeah, he's got this you know, I
understood what he was saying is that he's got the hair cut. Now
you don't generally see that happening, but people come in are
concerned about these things. Especially this which will be
considered minor by many people.
by many people, this will be considered minor unfortunately. So
I was a bit busy because I was entertaining the guest or waiting
for the guest Wait, some of his, his people had already come or
something like that, so I couldn't really leave them anyway. Then
this person went to them and he went to that person he started
speaking I don't know
What happened after that, but
clearly the reason he's doing this is not to shame him because he, he
first tried to ask me to tell him because he thought, if I'm his
group leader or something, and I know him, then it would be better
coming from me because I know the person. So clearly this guy wasn't
just coming and grabbing him and saying this is wrong. So anybody
who gives you an Aussie had taken that he loves you. He's got a love
for you. She Don's going to try to make us think that he hates me. So
he wants to criticize me and put me down. That's why he's telling
me
and woman, Danica Patrick,
and the one who acted in the opposite way, what's the word for
that the one who kind of glossed over your problems.
He has actually deceived you. Because he's not acting to your
benefit in the hereafter for the hereafter. He's just too tolerant.
He's never going to tell you. One is of course, you don't expect
people to be told straightaway because that puts a lot of people
off. They expect some love to some trust to be built. And then after
that, you tell somebody, as long as you've got that focus to do
that with people.
Woman, lamb Jacoba Nasi taka Felisa be akin Lika. And anybody
who doesn't accept you and I'll see her,
then he's not your brother. One thing we have to remember, in this
time, nobody wants to do not see her or anybody else. To such a
degree that even people on the member, or in a Friday bond or in
general bonds don't want to say what's going wrong, because they
feel they're gonna upset people and they won't get popularity or
people won't come and listen to them. On the street as well. This
is not supposed to be just the job of the alumni. This is supposed to
be done between us within families and everything that we tell people
that look, this is not nice, whatever the case is, there is so
much more tolerance
than they used to be before some tolerance, you know, the positive
tolerance is a good thing. But there is just so much tolerance
that we don't say anything to anybody anymore.
People are scared of it. What that what that does is that if there is
one person doing something, which is very, very unsavory, wrong,
blameworthy, nobody tells them anything, then that becomes
accepted, other people see, and they think it's accepted as well.
Now, one person may have been bold enough to do something like this
dress in a particular way.
You know, say something, eat something, do something. And if
nobody frowns upon it and says something to them, than others
will, who also had this intention in mind to do that will also start
doing it. It just creates a problem. That's why there's a poet
who says that
they want it that nobody does not hear any Mancha, Amma will Morrow
for Nahanni Mancha. So then everybody becomes the same on
equal footing individuals is the modern society, right? postmodern
society is essentially that where there is no single morality.
In in modernity, they tried to establish a single morality. But
the way they were doing it was wrong, because it was all science
based science was King, rational, rationalism was king. This was
after post religion, this is what he called modernity is post
religion, right in the West, right?
Then we had posts, we have post modernity, which is basically to
say that there can't be a single type of morality, a single type of
system. There are many individual systems, there are many individual
moralities individual ethics, and your morality is what you consider
for yourself. And you should allow that to be celebrated by each
person. That's where we're dealing with. So we're dealing in that
world, where they've seen that a single kind of idea doesn't work,
because they, they did it the wrong way. This was after the
enlightenment, of in the West, and so on. Right, the Renaissance, the
Reformation, this is what came out of it, because it was just wrong.
We had all of this in our earlier years, and we realize that this is
wrong. Right now, in the West, they still, this is still an
experience, they're still going through these phases. And that's
why they go so far in many cases. And we find it so difficult to
understand this, because the kind of modernity that the kind of post
post modernity right now, is a very kind of gaseous wax like
modernity, that you can just shape to whatever you want,
and do whatever you want. And I must respect you for that.
And you must respect me for mine.
So while there was a certain benefit for religion in the sense
that modernity just took away religion, God was not that the
whole society became non God centric, it became rash. It became
it became the into the intelligence that the rash, the
rational approach to things was sin Central. In the whole thing.
Science was central empiricism was central. But then there's a number
of things that broke up. The World War, the Holocaust, the atom
bombs, this
really threw people off that modernity and science because then
that if this is what science can do, it can kill so many people,
then we don't want it as much. So now you have this post modernity
which criticizes modernity,
to say science is not everything.
Hence, religion should be allowed. So while rigid religion is
tolerated, because a lot of the same sentiments still linger,
they're still anti religion, they're still suspicious of
religion. That's the world we're dealing with here. This is why
it's so difficult to be a Muslim. Because the whole feeling behind
it, right? The whole philosophy behind it is this, that religion,
we've had an experience with religion, which was very bad in
Europe, right. And
science hasn't proven everything.
But now, it's just let everybody do what they want. As long as it's
not religion,
because religion is still threatening for them. This is what
we're dealing with today, makes it very difficult to be religious, as
you can see. And then we have certain people who claim to be
religious, who do strange things to aggravate the matter even
further to say, this is what religion is, we don't want any
part of religion. How many Muslims have lost their faith because of
terrorist attacks? Because they think if that is my religion, how
can I be part of that religion because they don't know any
better.
So I think these attacks, they actually alienate Muslims. A lot
of weak Muslims alienates them.
And the very extreme end of people, it just, it only satisfies
them, you know, the people who want to see some action. You know,
in a crazy way, this is the only kind of people that satisfies the
vast majority in between, it doesn't satisfy them, because it
makes work life just generally difficult for them. And then the
other fringe, the opposite side fringe, which are the very weak
actually takes them out of their religion, that I can't relate to
this, this is not my religion, they don't know any better.
Because they don't have the knowledge of what Islam really is.
They think this is what religion because they only born in the last
15 to 20 years.
More than what is like that modern war, they realize is that you can
win over somebody and bring your enemies completely convert them
without using a single bullet. And the way to do that is there's a
number of steps, he takes, you know, 5060 years, but they're
willing to wait to do that.
And the first one is to demoralize them in a 15 to 20 years to do
that, by a number of propaganda. And a number of these things, what
that does is that you you take one generation, generally the
children's generation, or the youth generation University, going
youth generally, because they're the easiest to mold, they're not
set in their ways, takes 15 to 20 years, to bombard them with an
array of ideas obvious, very cleverly, the same amount of money
that goes into
military war and defense is going to go into this by think tanks and
others of how you do this, the propaganda and so on, then it
takes 15 to 20 years, and those people would be very demoralized
about their own way. And then within that demoralization, you
are obviously injecting
your own way and his praise worthiness. So why did has a lot
of holes, but because they're demoralized with their own way,
they're gonna turn around to your way.
And if you've seen this is exactly what's happened in Muslim
countries, they would rather be more Western than anything else,
they still may be speaking Arabic or whatever it is language that
they're speaking, right, though they'd rather be speaking some
other language.
And they clearly look down upon their own way. They make fun of
their own way and their own life and style.
And of course,
there are things that happen on a physical level that makes it like
that as well. So it's very, very complicated warfare that takes
place on a different level.
This is what we're dealing with today. We couldn't be even
products of some of this. To be honest, we don't even know how
much we are tainted by this, in terms of what we consider to be
right or wrong. Is it really right or wrong? And anybody who tells us
different than we think that they are not updated enough that
they're still old fashioned.
In some cases, that is the case. But is that the case in every
case? It's very, very complicated system that you don't even know
where we are. And the profits or loss I've said this, that a time
will come when you will start seeing the Wrong is Right. And the
right is wrong.
You will see the moon car as the roof and the metal roof as the
moon car.
And this is some manifestation of this.
In some Muslim countries, very Muslim countries. They celebrate
to now Father Christmas, because they don't see that as a Christian
thing. as such. They won't do Christmas Christmas but they have
Father Christmas and Chris
smell is much more exciting in the schools than that because they
have a lot of Western teachers
teaching English there in those countries. So it is not very
exciting because got a prayer aspect, right? Whereas
Christianity, there's no prayer aspect for the common person. You
know, the common person, even in the West that celebrates
Christmas, there's no prayer. It's just all gifts and a nice, nice
Christmas tree tinsel and lights. That's what Christmas is. And nice
food, nice dinner gifts. It's their worship has gone out of it.
There's no Christmas mass that the majority go to.
They don't go to a Christmas maths or a Christmas prayer. They just
do the enjoying aspects of it. That's why they say that is not
even a religious holiday anymore for them. For most people. It's
not it's just a feel good factor where you can really enjoy
yourself.
So much some Muslim countries have actually adopted some aspects of
that. It's
really good we ask Allah subhana wa Tada. That's what Allahumma
Arenal haka. haccombe What is it gonna do better? What do you know
about it about universal finished Inaba is a very important draw for
us to continue to make. Oh Allah show us the truth is the truth and
allow us to follow it and show us the wrong is wrong and allow us to
abstain from it.
Because otherwise who knows what's right and wrong sometimes.
Not saying that's in everything but in a lot of things.
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and Ireland will have Allahumma salli wa Salam on so you deniable
him Medina and you say either now Mohammed or vertical Salam, O
Allah, we ask You to forgive us, O Allah, we ask you to guide us, O
Allah grant us insights, oh Allah grant us purity. Oh Allah grant us
the right motivation. Oh Allah grant us they him to,
to do those things which please you, Oh Allah, we ask you to.
We asked you to embellish us with beneficial knowledge of Allah keep
us away from harmful knowledge from useful, useless knowledge.
From redundant knowledge we are in a time of great distraction and
great wasting of time. Oh Allah, we are part and parcel of this. Oh
Allah we ask you to assist us, guide us, illuminate us. Oh Allah.
Oh Allah. Grant us beneficial knowledge of Allah grant us
beneficial knowledge of Allah grant us your love and the love of
those whose love will benefit us in your court. Oh Allah. Make our
surroundings conducive for our worship of you. of Allah grant us
purity in our hearts. Grant us your love in our heart. Grant us
love for your obedience in our heart of Allah grant us dislike
for your disobedience so that it will make it easy for us easier
for us to avoid your disobedience or Allah grant us the ability to
repent. And to know you as much as is the right of knowing you to
worship you as much as the right to worship you. of Allah We asked
you for icea we asked you for well being of Allah we ask You for Your
clemency we asked you for your mercy. We ask You for Your
blessing. Our Allah bless us all. Don't turn us away from here
without being forgiven. Our Allah forgive us all. Except these
gatherings are like sub these gatherings of the however
incomplete however weak and however flawed they may be of
Allah We ask that you bless us all here and those all those who are
listening. Oh Allah bless us all bless the entire Muslim Ummah of
Allah fulfill our permissible needs, assist us, assist us and
accept us for the service of your deen of Allah accept us for the
service of your deen of Allah accept us and protect us and
protect our progeny until the day of judgment from all of the fitna.
All of the challenges that are out there that seek to subvert our
faith of Allah we ask you for a true understanding of our faith.
Show us the truth as the truth and allow us to follow it and show us
the wrong as the wrong and allow us to abstain from it.
Oh Allah grant us the Kanima La Ilaha illa Allah on our deathbed
and O Allah, we ask that you send your abundant blessings on our
messenger Muhammad sallallahu alayhi wa salam in the Hereafter,
and grant us His righteous company Subhanallah we got mobilized at
the army OC phone or salaam when Al mursaleen hamdulillah