Abdur Rahman ibn Yusuf Mangera – Treatise For The Seekers Of Guidance Part 31 True Love for Allah
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Bismillah al Rahman al Rahim
Al hamdu Lillahi Rabbil Alameen wa Salatu was Salam ala Murthy
Ramadan Lila Alameen
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know very well.
And be completely sure of this fact that the person who gives
preference to Allah, Allah will then give him preference.
If you do things for Allah subhanaw taala, Allah will then do
things for you, He will make you happy, he will make you satisfied.
One of the things that every Muslim wants is that he get close
to Allah, he or she become close to Allah subhana wa that that's
what every Muslim true believer, the one who wants to be a
movement, the one who has internalized this faith, and who
really has now a conscious, they're not just been brought into
the faith born into the faith.
They're not people who are just doing what others are doing
because all Muslims do it. So we fast in Ramadan as well, because
other Muslims fast in Ramadan. And that's the basic we need to do at
least that which we need to do people think.
And people who think that actually think they're good Muslims, like,
you know, I'm doing what everybody else is doing. I go for my
prayers. I mean, I pray,
I'm fasting. But there doesn't seem to be while there's a
conviction that I must do these things. There doesn't seem to be a
substance, there doesn't seem to be the substance, there is no
driving force, except that as a Muslim, I must do this.
That's not good enough, is it? That as a Muslim, I must do this.
I must avoid that because I'm a Muslim. Muslims can't eat that
Muslims can't go to these places. Muslims can't have girlfriends,
boyfriends, right.
That's one reason to do it. That's just like you're doing it for a
set of laws.
But the Dean wants a lot more than that from us.
And when you do it just for that level, where because I'm a Muslim,
I must do this. I want to be a good Muslim. That's why I want to
do this.
You might be thinking, this is how most people do it.
And they actually better than people who don't do it. Right,
which is no doubt.
But that's difficult. When you have to just observe laws and tick
boxes.
That is much more difficult. That's why hygiene is difficult
for those who make it a ticks tick box exercise, I must go here, I
must get there. I must do this. Oh, the woof of Arafah. That's
gonna be tough to say that though off, there's lots of people that's
going to be tough,
then it becomes complicated. And I've experienced it that way.
But when you turn it around, and you do it for yourself, for Allah
subhanho wa Taala meaning through a connection with Allah, where
you're just doing it now to please Allah.
And you want to get close to him. So in the world as well, when you
want to get close to somebody, you're going to try giving them
gifts, you're going to try to do things for them. You're going to
say nice things to them, you're going to come in front of them,
you're going to try to meet them as much as possible. You're going
to just try to avoid
upsetting them in any way whatsoever. So likewise with Allah
subhanaw taala when you want to do something out of love, then you
are able to even do the most difficult things. Because when
love is there for something, then even the most difficult things
become easy. Even if on the face of it they seem difficult. Because
when you're doing something out of love you're willing to spend hours
behind it. When you love something you will spend the whole night
behind it you will lose your sleep over it you will forego your
dinner for that reason.
That's what Allah wants from us because well Latina Amma know Asha
Herban Lilla. Those people who believe they are supposed to be
the most intense in their love for Allah subhanho wa Taala that's
what Allah wants from us. And that's what he's saying. He says
you must know that whoever gives preference to Allah over other
things. He becomes the priority. Not because you must just do it.
But you becomes the priority because
You love him. So then he will give you a preference as well. Because
now you will become somebody who loves Allah. And when you love
Allah, Allah will love you back. Because the Hadith mentions that
you come to me just show me just one hand span, I'll give you a
whole arm's length, you just come to me walking. And figuratively
speaking, you know, we'll come to you running.
So that's basically what it is, we have to show the excuse, we have
to give the excuse, we have to show Allah so and demonstrate our
love. So then whoever, then he says, Whoever is obedient to Him,
forgot who then that means he has loved Allah.
So the way to get to this love that I'm speaking about, so that
whatever we're doing right now, just becomes better.
So if we're praying Hamdulillah, we're avoiding as much harm as
possible.
How to infuse the loving it is by being obedient for the right
reason.
Then he says,
Woman Taraka, who che and let me know as the movie,
whoever abandoned something for the sake of Allah, Allah will
never punish him. Because of it. Let's just say that you saw a
really, really good opportunity.
You know, there's the best opportunity sometimes out there,
especially the financial ones, the economical gain ones, have an
element of have an element of problems in there. Right.
And it's difficult because when other people have benefited from
certain things,
especially when you can't even get a clear fatwa about them sometimes
like Bitcoin,
where some have said it's halal.
Others have said, is haram, because it's gambling. Right? It's
not gambling, although it definitely resembles gambling.
Right? I think at this point, it's very much like gambling.
And that's why I have an issue with these things, primarily
because even the stock exchange while it's permitted to buy
stocks,
long term where you've really researched the company and like
the way Warren Buffett does it, you know, I'm talking about where
he really researches and he buys it not because he's gambling on
them generally, his whole motto has been to understand the
substance of the company, see whether they have something behind
them or not. buying stock in Beatty is different to buying
something in an oil exploration company that is all hyped up and
then you lose your money. Right? Because at least BT supposed to
have some subs, they're not promoting BT I'm just mentioning
as an example.
So long term, I can understand if it's a halal company and all the
rest of it. That's where and I'm I've given that. But if it's a day
to day where you just waiting on a day to day basis, what it does to
your mind, I think one of the reasons why gambling is so bad is
what it does to your mind. It just that greed it creates in you I
think there's a massive psychological problem with
gambling.
Right. So while this isn't straightforward gambling, we in
this case, you are actually buying technically buying
a share, right? However small that share in share is
essentially it's like the only reason you're buying it is that
you you're it's very short term, you're gonna buy and sell in a few
days. And that requires so much brain power.
It requires a huge amount of brain power, like proper intelligence,
not artificial. Right. And
you could win you could lose. But it just for me, it seemed I don't
want to give a photo of haram but it just feels like that's gambling
for me, because it has the same kind of symptoms, it has the same
kind of description as gambling. Right? So again, Bitcoin is
probably very similar in that sense. So while I may lean towards
the fact that I consider it a type of
product of value, because people have accepted it. Right? People
have accepted it. But
it's not full currency because not everybody has accepted it, right.
But it's a product of value. And today, there's many abstract ideas
that are purchased and bought and sold copyrights and so on. So
while traditionally speaking, that may have not been the case,
classically speaking, but now that is the case. But whether it's a
good idea or not, is another issue. Right?
So Allah knows best. But the main thing is that just remember,
in these kinds of situations where there is no clear cut away, it's
doubtful that we have Hadith to that effect anyway. So he's saying
two things here. If you abandon something for the sake of Allah,
you will never be punished by that he will make you grieve over it.
You won't feel a sense of loss over it. Allah will replace in sha
Allah something else for you.
There's enough ways to make money in this world. This. Allah has
infinite ways of giving you what you want to
satisfy you know, at the end of the day, just remember, you are
getting your breakfast in the morning, right?
And you are being able to sleep in a nice bed at nights. So, if you
don't have what everybody else or not, well, some other people may
be getting through these things. Is it going to kill you?
It's not like that's the only means of
attaining your provisions your sustenance, is it, not everybody
has to jump on that bandwagon. May Allah Maybe Allah is giving you
some other way to do it. So you mustn't feel we have an idea of
Tawakkol. And we know that Allah has infinite ways of giving you
things, try hard and work hard for what it is and that will be more
sustaining. So you should never feel bad about what you may have
not been able to get. And this is killing people today. Yeah, Allah
Ya Allah, this is killing people today that they were left out of
the property boom, they were left out of the tech boom, they were
left out of Bitcoin. I was left out a Bitcoin. I don't care. I
remember several years ago, people have been asking me, they'd been
explaining what it is. And I could have been mining coins at that
time, because I had the know how. Because, you know, you had some
people who really knew this stuff, or, you know, who are contacting
us to see whether it's Halloween, they could do it or not. So we had
all the know how it was just like, man, that's who's gonna do that.
Right. Okay, might might become big and has become big, right? But
let's do other things. It's a choice that you make. Do I feel
bad about it?
Initially, when I saw the price go up, and everybody's I was like, a
man, I should have done that, you know, maybe five 10%. But it was
just like, Okay, I'm just being honest. It's, it's not a big deal.
Because Alhamdulillah then you think to yourself, oh, Hamdulillah
I have what I need.
I have what I need. So that's it. Right? You could be left out of so
many things. But there's people who are focused on those things,
and that's their life. How far is it gonna go?
How far is it gonna go at the end of the day? There are million
ebook ala Mala, your ebook? Unfortunately, it looks like a lot
of Muslims. It's maybe just because that's the group we know.
That's the people we know. Maybe
they've gotten caught up in all this traffic monsoon and all this
other one, one coin and a lot of people ACN ANC ACN. While some
people may did very well, now ACN requires a lot of work. It's not
an entire Ponzi scheme, right? It does require a lot of work if
you're willing to work. But I think it has a certain scope,
there's a certain limit to that. And not everybody who buys the
package is going to be able to go and do the work that requires
should actually make money. So it's got a bit of that element in
there. You can't call it haram, because then you're buying
something, right. But then there's other ones that were just clear,
and they went down. And the problem is that because the Muslim
community is so close, you know, we get together in Masjid, and so
on like that. It's very easy to get other people involved. And
everybody's looking to make a quick buck. And then you're all
end up losing at the end of the day, at the end of the day.
And that's the problem is that psychology, you have to really
research things well and understand whether you're going to
be able to do that or not.
Whether you're going to be able to do this, and I know he did it.
He's made money. Yes, he can show you his bank balance. But are you
the same as him? Do you have the same amount of time that he has?
Do you have the same position as yours?
Right, so it's not everything is for everybody. But things are then
glorified in front of you to make him seem like it's for you as
well. Because that's the way these things are designed. Any
successful venture like this is going to be designed very well.
Because it's going to tug at your cords of your heart and your
greed.
Right? That's that's what it's designed for. That's why it works.
If it couldn't tug at your heart, then it wouldn't work. Because
they don't get any follow us. So the way it's designed is to
attract the greed element of a person. That's how people get
scammed most of the time.
Generally out of greed, there's innocent people as well, we didn't
do anything wrong and they get you know, their number gets taken or
whatever. But a lot of the time people get scammed because it's
it's a wonderful deal. Right? You receive an email or something
that's how people I'm surprised that you still get those scam
leave scam emails, you know, send us your bank details from Nigeria
know where it's from. I'm surprised you still get them. But
you know why you still get them because there's probably people
responding to them.
Maybe they've been for the last decade, right? I don't like these
this is does this still work? And they wouldn't do it if it didn't
work. Somebody obviously since these are these are not like free
free radicals in the in the in the virtual system that are just going
around and you just get them now there's somebody sending them out.
And clearly it works for some people.
So that's why it works.
Allah subhanaw taala predicted so you read the Bismillah Hila de la
Adorama
asked me He shaved on fill out of the well off his summer it was
semi relighting our order be collimated light met him and
showed him a HELOC in the mornings, and in the evenings and
coolala what cool all the robots are cool all the bit of bidness
AYATUL kursi then inshallah Allah give us more discernment in
whether these things are the right things are not, don't just get led
by people
these kinds of things, I think we've seen so many now that every
time something like that comes up, you should be very suspicious, you
should start off being very suspicious, and ask Allah for
help.
So then he says, the first thing he says is that if you do abandon
something for the sake of Allah, Allah will never punish you for
having abandoned that.
And number two, the prophets of the Lord is unsaid, that leave
that which gives you doubt to that, for that, which does not
give you that to do the clean business, it may take longer, but
it'd be more sustainable.
I've seen some people who do these kinds of things, and they can
never then do a proper business. Because it takes too long for
them. They're always looking for them quick,
get rich, quick schemes. Because their whole mindset is made up
that way. Now they're looking and then they lose and they're looking
and they're losing and they and they turn out to be much more
psychologically
unsettled. And that's really sad.
Right, if you've got your breakfast in the morning, your
lunch, right, sandwiches at work, or whatever it is that you have,
and your nice supper, right hamdulillah
hamdulillah
for in nakulan, Deji, the fact the CHE interact the hula, you will
never feel the loss of something that you have abandoned for the
sake of Allah, you will be happy even if that's a year later or two
year later. And definitely ultimately in the Hereafter, your
deathbed and in the hereafter fill Hamdulillah I didn't do that that
day, there was the opportunity for Xena, there was opportunity for
doing that haram thing, opportunity for taking part in
that particular haram scheme. Or making that quick buck or selling
those drugs or whatever it is that people may do to try to make quick
money, you will never feel bad. In fact, you will always because
remember, we have an arcade or to go to where everything is going to
be reckoned.
Right?
Everything is going to be reckoned. So that's the day when
you're going to revel and that's the day when everybody's going to
have to experience something. So if you can experience the
wonderful thing because of what we didn't do, then Hamdulillah
you will never feel the loss of it. In fact,
there's another version of this narration which is related by Imam
Ahmed Imam, no save no matter number of other Hadith collectors
that
has an ignore it or the Allahu Anhu he relates that I heard a
suit Allah said Allah isn't saying, abandon that which makes
you doubtful for that which does not. Because hawk and truth,
truthfulness creates a contentment brings about contentment, and
evil, wrong and falsehood, it will give you a doubt. Like this is for
somebody who's got who's concerned, who's going to read
these kinds of narrations.
For them, this is this is a sign why mill Alba and Sue evenly be
hosting it that will.
The next point is keep protect your heart from having ill
thoughts.
Protect your heart from feeling.
Having bad insinuations about others.
How? So he's giving us the reason of how you can do that. Because
the reason why you will have a doubt about somebody is because
generally, I mean, there's some people who are just extremely
paranoid, there's nothing going on, and they'll make up a story.
Right? There's absolutely nothing going on. And they will make up a
story because they've got a very active mind. Right in the wrong
sense. Now, those are maybe a far and few there are very few people
like that. The majority of people who fall into this problem are
going to be people who see something as small excuse a small
sign as something slightly out of place. Maybe it's the fault of the
person that they've seen. Maybe they saw them speaking to
somebody, maybe they saw them coming out of a shop, or whatever
the case is. And then that's it your mind makes up a story.
Right your mind just makes it so easy to make up stories. It is so
easy to make up stories like that. You just need a small excuse and
the mind is able to That's what you call paranoia
where people actually think that certain things are around so some
people are against them. Some people are actively conspiring
against them and is not they're not like when you know the reality
they actually not at all.
It's just the mind is able to make up the story and Shavon is there
to help and to feed.
So
you saw somebody speaking on the phone,
and youth. So you saw a guy speaking on the phone, her husband
hears the wife speaking to somebody. And she's actually
speaking to her brother. But he doesn't realize that. And he
that's it, he just thinks that his wife is talking to somebody.
Don't say anything to her because he's got no proof.
Then one day, his wife goes out at a time when she doesn't he doesn't
go out, you can now see how it's so easy to connect things
together, because now you've already planted a seed that she's
talking to somebody.
Now that she's gone out somewhere that has to be connected to this.
And then it just goes on and on and on until he will want to look
at her phone to see who she is. And she doesn't let you look at
it.
That's the third point now, because she didn't let you look at
she must now that's confirmed it now.
She maybe she didn't want to look at it, because she's got other
women's photos on there or something like that her friends
where she was when you look at it.
But that's just confirmed it confirmed it for you now.
Men go through this, women go through this even more sometimes
very protective over their husbands.
They will look out of the window to see where you're going.
All sorts of stuff that just you build a story and then you just
mashallah build it, build it, add masala to it. And then suddenly,
that just confirms it, there's no way that that just confirms it.
Slowly, slowly. So that's what you call run. And that's where Allah
says in the Battle of Vandy, if my day just pure sin, some of these
thoughts that come to you they're just pure sin, they're going to
lead you to pure sin and wrong. In a breakup relationship. That's
what Satan wants to do. So how do you avoid them? So he's being very
careful. He says that behind that wheel, if you do see somebody,
you know that initial suspicious the speaking on the phone, right?
Why can't you just think it was her brother?
All but she generally doesn't speak to a brother.
You see that? You can never win. If you want to go negative, you
can't win.
Why would you be speaking to your brother for you don't speak to
your brother generally, at that time.
Protect your heart. It's all about the heart. This is very, very
psychological. He says protect your heart from evil thoughts
behind it that will by always giving good interpretations.
You have to force yourself to give good into the way you learn to
give good interpretations is that you must know that if you give
good interpretations for people, you will be rewarded, because it's
actually protecting you. So you're not being harmed by looking at
things that if you have a negative streak, and you're always looking
at things in a negative way, in the worst way possible is you're
very suspicious kind of person, then we're in big trouble. Because
the misery is going to be fearsome, you're going to think
that there's monsters everywhere.
What's the real hustle the big key sorry, Emily, and repel jealousy
and envy, by shortening your hopes. He's saying something very
interesting here. He's saying that the reason why people have
jealousy and envy of others, is because you have high hopes for
yourself and you don't want somebody else to be taking that.
It's like you see that that person is a competition to you. Why do
they have it? Why don't I have it? Or even if I do have it, they
shouldn't have it? That's even worse, probably. Right? You just
want it all to be for yourself. And there's so many Hadith that,
that tell us not to do this, that a person isn't a true believer
until they like for their brother, what they like for themselves.
There's numerous things like that. So he's just showing that once you
lessen your hope in this dunya that lessen your greed, that
inshallah you won't have problems with others having things but if
what others have really makes you discontent, then you're going to
be jealous of people.
That's why the Prophet sallallahu sallam said
is hard for dunya your book Allah was had femur in the nurse you
hate brokenness. If you if you cut your focus away from the dunya in
the sense that doesn't become your main goal in life, but your goal
is the Akira then Allah will love you. Because the dunya is your
competition to Allah subhanaw taala
right you can't get to Allah if the dunya is love in your heart is
so beloved in your heart because he won't let you focus on Allah
like I said in the beginning, even if you're then a religious person
so called your only religious because it's what everybody else
who's religious do not because you really love Allah subhanaw taala
right, not saying that religious people don't either
Not at all. They must love Allah somewhat to be even wanting to be
religious. But you just the the love is not driving you. That's
not what's driving you. There's other things that seem to be
driving us.
So, then the Prophet sallallahu sallam said, and if you
abstain and turn your head away, turn your heart away, turn your
eyes away from what people have what people possess, then people
will love you. They don't see you as a competition. They see you as
a good guy who doesn't have greed. They see you as a good person.
They're going to begin to love you. And
love having people love you. Having people like you is one of
the greatest things that you can get in this world. This is what
everybody is looking for.
But the way you must do this is by not wanting what they have.
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you need to avoid arrogance and pride.
By just having
dignity in mind. If you have dignity, through dignity that will
help you avoid dignity for the sake of Allah subhanaw taala will
help you will help a person avoid arrogance and pride
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Oh Allah we ask You for Your forgiveness of Allah we asked you
to purify our hearts of Allah fill our hearts with your light of
Allah fill our hearts with your love of Allah grant us your love
and the love of those who love you. of Allah make our
surroundings conducive for your worship, our love for your
obedience of Allah, we make Toba in the morning, we start off with
good thoughts in our mind, but by the evening, we have done many
wrong things of Allah in the evening, sometimes.
We have good thoughts in our mind of being close to you. But by the
morning, other things have happened. Oh Allah, we ask that
you make this easy for us, of Allah, make us of those true
believers, who put you above all else of Allah, allow us to make
the right decisions allow us to make the right decisions that are
beneficial for us both in this world and especially in the
hereafter of Allah make us of those who are primarily focused on
the hereafter of Allah blesses with what you have given us in
this world of ALLAH, do not make us of those who have to beg others
of Allah make us, grant us baraka and grant us blessing of Allah in
what you have given us. Make it a source of blessing, allow us to
use it for your obedience of Allah. Sometimes we end up doing
disobedience with the very sustenance that you have given us.
of Allah, we ask you for forgiveness of Allah, we ask you
forgiveness from all of those sins, that has brought misery in
our lives, that has turned people against each other of Allah.
We seek forgiveness from all of those sin that brings darkness in
our hearts that make us feel discontent of Allah grant us
contentment, grant us contentment of Allah, we ask You for
we ask you for relief for our brothers and sisters around the
world who are suffering of Allah, they are suffering.
They are being subjugated. Oh Allah, we ask that you make us you
accept from us, whatever you want us to do, oh Allah grant us the
trophy to do what you think is right for us to do for our
brothers and sisters around the world of Allah facilitate ease in
this matter for them and for us. Oh Allah, we ask that you make all
of the stages of the Hereafter easy for us, that you protect us
and our children and our progeny, our spouses, our families in this
world until the day of judgment of Allah, there are many challenges
that we face on a day to day basis. Oh Allah, we ask that you
allow us to stand up to these challenges, in a way is an
effective way of Allah make us of those who see the truth as the
truth and to follow it and
make us of those who see the wrong as the wrong gun allow us to
abstain from it of Allah make us of those who deem the halal things
as halal and to deem the Haram is haram. Oh Allah allow us insight
in these men.
at us, O Allah we ask that you remove the confusion. You remove
the disturbances in our hearts the distinct contentment in our
hearts, you grant
us blessing Baraka love and understanding. In grant us
beneficial knowledge and protect us from useless knowledge of
Allah. There's a lot of wasting of time today there are many means of
wasting time of Allah We ask that you make us people of purpose,
high resolution of Allah, we ask that you, allow us to leave a
legacy make us of those who are good force for change. protect us
from being forces of evil. Oh Allah accept whatever we have done
whatever endeavors we have and allow us to do much more of Allah
blesses or Allah blesses, oh Allah bless us, and bless the entire
Muslim world. And finally, we ask that you send your abundant
blessings on our messenger, Muhammad sallallahu alayhi wa
sallam and they You grant us his company in the hereafter. Subhan
Allah because popular is that mIRC phone was salam. Al Marcelino Al
Hamdulillah.