Abdur Rahman ibn Yusuf Mangera – Treatise For The Seekers Of Guidance Part 37 Why do People Still Lose Hope in God
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Bismillah al Rahman al Rahim Al hamdu Lillahi Rabbil Alameen wa
Salatu was Salam ala so you the more serene
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A mother it was duck feet taller be 3030 mil basalt. This is what
harriton Mahasi Rahim Allah says, he says you need to be sincere in
what you seek.
When you're looking for Allah subhanho wa taala, you need to be
sincere. When you do worship, you need to be sincere. Whenever you
do anything, you need to be sincere.
And this is very important. The reason is that we do a lot of
things every day.
We do things that we need to do in terms of just living our daily
life, whether that means going to work, going to school, just going
to sleep, waking up,
eating, and the other mundane things that we do, and then we do
worship.
Now, if we leave aside the habitual acts, the normal everyday
acts that we do anyway, we'll leave those aside for a moment.
And we look at the EBA dots that we're supposed to do. For many of
us, unfortunately, that also becomes ritualistic. So we do them
at a particular time. It's going to be Margaret time we've got to
you know we've got a timetable. So we go and pray or we pray at home
or whatever, we just need to get the prayer done. So there's no
sick, there's no sincerity,
truthfulness and sincerity. Truthfulness is when you're true
to Allah subhana wa Tada it means you're sincere to him.
Truthfulness to Allah means that we're not doing it for any other
reason but for Allah subhanaw taala so what's the fifth
dollarbie That is el mal Bossa if you are truthful and sincere in
your longing and your desire, in what you want from Allah subhanaw
taala, because at the back of our minds, we do want Allah and we do
things ritualistically. And we get very excited, and we think
hamdulillah we've done this, that and the other. But it could be
magnified and enhanced many times over if we did it with sincerity,
the work we do anything that we do, we have the right intention
for which we do it, then Thirith el mal basaloid, you will inherit
the knowledge,
the awareness of the inner sight of the inner sights rather. So
you'll actually start seeing things the way Allah wants us to
see them, you'll actually see the realities of things you will be
will be given basically another level of insight, and not another
level at which we can look at things and understand things. And
generally, when a person has that level, then encourages them even
more, because it's more in tandem with the reality of things were
less misled by just the apparent attraction of something. And, you
know, this is probably, I mean, it's always this has always been
important, there's always been distractions in the world. But in
the time that we're living in right now, the kinds of
distractions that we have, probably unprecedented. Where, for
example, so many barriers have been broken,
the barriers of who you can marry,
right? The institution of marriage, supposed to be between a
man and a woman that's been broken down. So it's okay for men to be
with men and women to be with women.
Gender is breaking down. And thus, you can be either.
And in Canada, for example, you can actually
impose on others to call you Z, instead of she or he
has a law. I'm not sure if it's passed or not. But I think they
passed the law, that if somebody insists that they want a gender
neutral pronoun, Z, I think one of them was, then you should be
calling them that. So the protesters against that saying
that it's ridiculous, I mean, how many pronouns are we going to have
to learn?
Right, he can understand he and she, and they, and so on, right,
that's understandable. But to go beyond that, and everybody tell
you what kind of pronoun they want you to use for them. It's
understandable that somebody has a name that they insist you use for
them. That's respectful, that's understandable that people want
you to call them by their name, that's understandable. But then
pronouns as well. This is getting complicated.
Absurd. In fact, this is the liberal world we're living in.
To be a leader today, you need to lie you need to live very well.
You need to create false news.
You need to be belligerent, you need to attack and insult others,
and you need to beat yourself up. How different is that from what we
learn about what a believer should be like?
The Muslim way of doing things should have been, even though
Muslims are doing the same thing today in the respective countries
that they are in.
We're supposed to be not asking for a leadership position,
unless it's actually forcefully consigned and were compelled to do
so. Then it says that you will be assisted and helped in that. But
if you ask for something yourself,
then you won't be assisted, then you will just be left to the
contractions of the world.
So to be a leader today to be successful, and people actually
then vote for you is if you make up a lot of stories, you attack
your opponents, and you make yourself out to be the best.
So that's the world we're living in. There's a lot of confusion in
the world today.
Then the social media aspect of it.
Again, how does social media work, you have to beat yourself up on
that, you have to say certain things, you have to do some
abnormal things, you have to do some crazy things. That's when you
get the likes. Otherwise, if you just keep talking sincerely, on
just a few good points here and there, then you're not going to
have many followers.
But the problem is that social media platform encourages you,
forces you compels you
to want more and more and more. And for that you have to do crazy
things. So we're living in some really crazy times. And the
problem is that we actually think this is right that there are
people out there who go around to scholars, programs, like Mufti
Turkey sub came recently, the objective of coming to him was so
that they could get a selfie from him.
With him rather.
So I was actually standing behind him, and this, an individual that
came and took a selfie with him. And then both the turkeys went
off. And I was still behind there. And the person said to his two or
three photographers, did you get the picture?
And now it's on his Facebook.
So it's almost like, that's the new trend of doing things.
You will go to different scholars to validate yourself that I've got
a picture with someone.
Then somebody came to move the Tokyo Swanee. And he tried to put
his arm around him to say, let's have a selfie. And notice one of
these I've just said, you care and he walked off.
Like, what are you gonna get out of a picture with somebody? You
know, I've been to so many places in the world. Recently, we're in
some amazing places were
in New Zealand, I went to a place where
it's, there's a lot of volcanoes, there's a lot of volcanoes in New
Zealand dead and, you know, redundant. And so there's one
place where the mud actually bubbles, hot pools of mud and
water geysers. So the person who took us he says, okay, you know,
if you want some in all I'll take a picture. So the whole point of
looking at this is for our Ebro, I know I've been there. Right? I
don't need to take a picture here to remind myself that I've been
here, I know that hamdulillah
May Allah keep our memories, you know, fresh, but that we've been
there, we've done it. I mean, that's it, you've had the
experience.
So these are all the challenges that we're dealing with today. And
people get sucked into them.
People get sucked into this. And that's the problem. So we need an
element. Besides, we need insight.
We need insight, we need to understand what's good for us,
what's bad for us, what's a waste of time, what's a distraction.
Without that, we're just going to follow the trends of the world. So
that's why he's saying that the only way you will, Allah will give
you that opening is if you are sincere in your seeking.
If you're seeking Allah subhanaw taala and you're sincere in that,
it's not just ritualistic. You really want Allah subhanaw taala
Allah will give you in make you an inheritor of the knowledge of
insight of he'll give you the awareness
what Abdullah aka or you know, if in fact, not just that, but the
the springs of Gnosis the springs of awareness of Allah will
suddenly become apparent to you and clear to you. It will open up
to you. And again, it's the same thing. When when awareness of
things come about it means you get awareness of the reality. No
longer I no longer will you be. No longer will we be distracted by
the mundane.
You will have seriousness in your life
and seriousness in life and high resolution for the right
thing, we won't be misled by things. What Tommy has been sick
or ill mama either it can be Harley sipto fetal, you need to be
able to distinguish. You need to be able to distinguish by yourself
the knowledge of that which comes to you purely from the Tofik of
Allah, purely through divine enablement. And that's exactly
what it's telling us. There's a lot of things that we learn about
every day through our WhatsApp feeds, our Facebook feeds, our
other social media feeds through the news, through both public and
personal feeds that we get. There's lots of knowledge that
come to us.
Now, how do you distinguish that as to what to take between that
and what is highly Slee? Allah subhanaw taala? What is coming
from Allah subhanaw taala directly? How do you distinguish
between those two things.
So he says you need to learn to distinguish between those things
without and pass out that which is passed over that which is not
necessary. Cut that out of your life. And just take what is
supposed to be divine enablement. Take that knowledge, which gives
you enablement to do the good only
for in number sub column and add him because the one who will win
the one who will progress and the one who will go ahead or get ahead
is the one who does the good, who does the work, who makes the
efforts. So it's not supposed to be easy, we're supposed to make an
effort. But once you make the effort, then things get easier. So
the studies of the brain, for example, they show that when
things become hardwired, in the brain, they become easier to do.
And your brain hardly needs any energy to to process those things.
So for example, there's a, there's a scientist research on the brain,
what he did was
a few years ago, there was this thing that children used to do
stacking, do you remember, you had about
456, but six or nine cups, just empty cups. And it would be how
fast can you stack them in a pyramid, and then break them down
and then stack them differently, and then break them down how fast
you could do that. I mean, you need a bit of brain power to be
able to do that. So what he did was he took the he got ahold of
the under 10, winner of the world's right in the one
championship, he got him and himself hooked up
with a is an EEG I think it is, is what you call it, the which
measures the policies of the brain. Right, it's like a cap that
you wear, it's got electrodes on it. So both of them. Now he did a
lot of practice as well to see if he could beat the other guy that
the little kid less than 10 year old. So what they wanted to do is
they wanted to measure the brain activity in both himself and the
child to see who's using more brain power. Because the idea was
that if that kid is so good at this, and he's so fast and swift
at it, he must be using more brain power than this guy who's still
learning how to do it. But at the end of the competition, at the end
of the test, they discovered that the child hardly used any energy.
Whereas his the researchers brain was actually getting very hot,
because the activity was much more immense and intense in that. So
what'd you learn, even though he only scored about I think a
quarter or 1/10 of the speed of the other person. So now the
person is doing some things so much more faster. The reason is
that our brain is so wonderful. When you get it habituated to
something, it it's not just software that's changing, but the
hardware, they elect the electrodes in the in the brain,
they remember that. And then as soon as you start doing that
activity actually just falls in place.
So he was hardly using any energy. Whereas this person, the
scientists, the older guy, he had to use a lot of his brain to do
it, even though he's an older person. And because he just didn't
have the same kind of practice, his brain hadn't been hardwired
for that. Now, even artha, Allah tells us something very
significant, he tells us that
it tells us the same thing is is when you want to do good deeds,
you have to first force yourself to get onto it.
Right, and get yourself involved in otherwise it's difficult.
There's a lot of there's a lot of resistance, right? There's a lot
of competition from other things as well. And then there's a lot of
resistance as well. Once you get used to it, and you start waking
up every morning and you do the hygiene and you wake up every
morning you really are seen and you wake up everyone, then it
becomes the normal default hardwired aspect in your brain.
Now all you need after that is just to make sure that you're
conscious of Allah when you do these things.
That's what makes it easy. So there is a struggle at the
beginning. Your brain will have to go through and the body will have
to go through a bit of trouble.
But once it gets in, fulfills that and you become habituated, then it
becomes easy, then getting to Paradise is easier. But there is a
struggle at the beginning. That's why the Hadith constantly mentions
that what couldn't be more Yes sir, on Lima Haleakala, everybody
will then be facilitated towards what they've been created for.
Whatever Allah has, knows that a person is going to do, he will
then facilitate that path for you. Once you've shown Well, Latina,
Jaha, Delphina Alana, the unknown sabula Anna, those who make an
exertion in our way, those who make an effort, you know, either
who they exert themselves in our way, we will then open up the path
for them.
But initially, there has to be an exertion, you can't get that. I
mean, there's very few people who get that for free.
Sometimes Allah may just choose okay, you know, has overnight
something's going to click in your brain and from tomorrow, you.
You just start doing things, and it's so easy for you. But the rest
of us we want it, but we're not getting it, because we're not able
to make the effort to do it. That's what's important. So he's
saying now for enum a sub coolamon Camila, Shia Toliman Halima, the
one who will get ahead is the one who actually works in who does
something, the one who makes the effort he's going to get ahead.
And the one who knows, is going to have the fear.
The one who knows is going to have the fear.
The one who knows in his heart, that is the person who is actually
going to have the fear with the work Kulu lemon water coach and
the one who realize and trust and Allah, he will gain the debacle,
the divine reliance, the one who trust in Allah will gain the the
worker what does that mean? The one who learns to rely on Allah
subhanho wa taala, who figures out and understands and fully begins
to believe in all sincerity, that Allah subhanaw taala is there for
us, He is our Lord and where his creation, and He has the best in
mind for us, then that person will be given the workload.
And obviously, the work will here refers to the fact that when we
are in need, it's something that will come to our assistance and
our help and give us comfort. So it's almost like there's two
aspects to this, we have to learn to depend on Allah, so that when
we're in need, we can rely on him.
I mean, I hope that's not too confusing. In order to be able to
fall back on Allah subhana, WA Tada and
be able to think that he's there to help us, we need to initially
put our trust in Him.
When we learn to trust Allah, that he's going to be there whenever we
need us.
It's just like with people, you can't just fall back on people
unless you learn to trust them, otherwise, you won't trust them.
So you have to kind of learn that, okay. And in order to trust
somebody, you need a few qualities within them. You can't trust a
weak person, because you know, they were not going to be able to
fulfill what you need. You can't trust the busy person, because
they're not always going to be there for you. They're constantly
occupied. You can't trust a selfish person, because if it
doesn't go in accordance to some kind of selfish motive, then he's
not going to help you. He's only going to help you when it's
convenient for them. So you can't trust a weak person. You can't
trust a selfish person, you can't trust a busy person.
You can't trust the porpoise.
Maybe you can trust him at certain level, but you can't trust him for
everything. So with Allah subhanaw taala, he has everything.
He's got all the strength that anybody ever needs. He's got the
huzzah summer worth, he will.
He's got the treasures of the heavens and earth. And he's always
ready and willing to help us. And he's not selfish, is very
selfless. He's they're very generous. And that's pondering
over the 99 names that will help us so once we begin to learn to
trust Allah, He will always be there to help us. I think this
ties in with the hadith of Abdullah Abbas or the Allahu Anhu.
And the Prophet sallallahu sallam said,
therefore the law, your father, and fo the law, the aged who to
Jack,
be mindful of Allah, and you will, he'll always be mindful of you. Be
mindful of Allah and you will always find find him in front of
you. He's always there. But is he there for us? We need to feel that
he's there for us. Otherwise Allah is always there. But do you
believe in do I believe that Allah is there for us all the time?
Well, we better learn to trust Him and understand the qualities and
characteristics that he has.
How do you learn to trust Allah subhanaw taala? Well, when we
figure out that his 99 names, for example, and the other names that
we have, when we can understand that he's got all the capabilities
of being the one that needs to be trusted.
And then he says, well, hopefully I'm an econ and the one who has
the arcane and the one who has conviction, he will have the fear
we Allah, we ask Allah subhanaw taala for more more of that, and
then says, well, mozzie Toliman Shaka, and Allah will give you
more, he gives more to the one who's thankful. How are you
thankful? What is the basic elements that is required for
somebody to be thankful? What do you think? What do you think you
need to be thankful in the first place? Appreciation, which means
you need the acknowledgement, you need to recognize, how would you
recognize if you think that if somebody thinks that they're the
ones who are doing everything by their own ability,
I'm I've got all of this because I've got a lot of brains. I've got
this, I managed to get that person, I managed to get married
to that person, because I'm so beautiful. I'm so handsome. I'm so
wealthy, I'm so crafty, whatever you want to call whatever you want
to say.
The person is bringing everything back to themselves, they can never
appreciate what Allah has given them.
Because while we may be intelligent, and while we may be
handsome and beautiful, and all the rest of it and attractive and,
and clever, and everything else, so whatever it may be, who gives
that person who gives that to somebody, you know, Allah subhanaw
taala gives that to somebody. So we have to recognize it comes from
Allah. And the wonderful thing about this is that when we realize
where it comes from,
then Allah is going to give us more, because he loves it when
person acknowledges that fact. Allah subhanho wa Taala likes to
reciprocate with his with his servants. That's why the famous
Hadith says that I am with my servant as he thinks of me.
I am with my servant as he or she thinks of me. So if I'm if we
recognize this is from Allah, and he can give us even more than he
will give it to us. It's not beyond Allah subhanaw taala to
make us these things, if we really wanted that's the thing. That's
what's keeping us back. We don't we don't take the initial step. So
all of these things about taking the initial step. And then Allah
reciprocates and gives us
and there's no way that he won't give us if we try. It's just we
have to trace with certainty, with sincerity. And we can fail and
that's what happens we fail miserably. Sometimes we fail
miserably. Sometimes we ask Allah for forgiveness. But that's the
beautiful part of the deen that when we do make a mistake, we want
to get back up. What we don't want to do is that when we want to when
we make a mistake, right?
That, then the shaytaan uses that mistake to take us further into
another mistake. And then to make us feel like there's no, there's
no option, right? It's all lost. That's the problem. And you know,
how can we go against that? How can we protect ourselves from the
shaytaan? Using our mistakes to further lead us into destruction?
What do you think we need? What do you think we need? That we all
make mistakes, sometimes or the other? We're going to make a
mistake.
What is it that is going to stop us
from getting further into that mistake?
But you need to buy you need to be able to do though, but there's a
something that's needed to do though, but you need.
So hope, how'd you get hope? What do you need to get hope from?
Trust? How do you build a trust? How would you know you should
trust them?
Sorry, submission? Why would you submit what forces you to submit?
You need your kin, but you get your kin through knowing about
something.
It's knowledge.
I think it's knowledge at the end of it. If you know that he
forgives mistakes, if you know that he is there to help
regardless. If you know that he is more merciful than all the mothers
in the world or the most evil people in the world.
Then even when we're in trouble the regular No Well, he still can
help us shape that knowledge is that basically knowledge from
ALLAH I think is a shield from the shaytaan.
Because then shaytaan can't make us think, Hey, you're finished.
You can't get anywhere you always like this. Look how big a mistake
you made. There's no way of getting back how can you That's so
great. When you know about Allah and all his characteristics and
his attributes, then you can have your Yaqeen then you will make
Tober that's when you will trust in Him. And all of these things
will come about because you know,
and you know, you'd be surprised. There are a lot of people who
you know, when you speak to you about certain mistakes that you
know, because there's somebody you knew, and then suddenly they
disappeared for a very long time and then they came back after a
very long time. Right. So what happened they said well, this is
the first mistake I made and then I just carried on making mistakes.
Why so well I just thought that I'm finished I was such a bad
scene I did that was just so bad. What I did that there's no way of
coming back.
Now what could have saved him is to know more.
Right? Because generally when you know more enemies
The first step in everything you need to know about Allah. Without
knowing about Allah, what are you going to do?
You need to know his gracious, you need to know he's grateful. You
need to know that he's generous. You need to know that he's afford
and half here and how far and everything
you need to know all of these things.
So with that knowledge, the more Quran we read, and the more Hadith
we read, and the more we read lives of pious individuals, that's
really, really helpful because that's inaction. That's where you
see somebody living the life going through difficulties interacting
with the issues of the world, and how they mashallah successful all
the way from their birth to their death. So reading biographies of
of great people who we know how secure now people who are alive
who could mess up tomorrow, Allah preserve us, but people who are
mashallah who are securely gone from this world and they've,
they've taken a place Inshallah, in paradise, to learn to read that
and how they apply the Quran and Sunnah. That's really what helps
us. That's why always read more. Always learn more. Always listen
more to lectures and beyonds of great people. And that is what
will give us the knowledge, the required knowledge. So even when
we're in our miserable times, something is going to help us
Inshallah, that's going to help us create the routine and Tawakkol
and everything else. Now look at this, this is exactly what he's
saying. Next, I'm just gonna read this will explain this next time.
He says while I'm under myoskeletal, AB de la Himachal
Fermi, because redock de may actually know that that
whatever a servant, whatever position and level a servant has
reached, of understanding, meaning whatever comprehension and
understanding you've attained, it's generally going to be by how
much of your intelligence you put forwards, how much you exercise
your intelligence. So, to get an understanding and comprehension
you need to use your intelligence. And then he says
that is the one way you get it through your intelligence and
number two, one module the LP beta Coahuila, he was authority and the
knowledge that he has
the knowledge that is existed with him, along with the Taqwa of Allah
and His obedience.
FURMAN Wahab Allahu Allahu Akbar wherever Allah grants and
intelligence to what year who Bill l me by the Eman and revives him
gives him life freshens him, revives him with knowledge after
the Iman is given us Iman and then he's given us knowledge about
Surah Houben yaki Honey Are you Ibn FC he, and then he gives him
insight with full conviction of his own defects. For God no, the
medulla who is solid bearer, then all the characteristics of
righteousness have then been strong for him have come together
for him. Firstly will be Rafi Taqwa hotel el Amin al Harsha. So
then he tells us to try to acquire as much Taqwa as possible and take
the knowledge from the people of fear we ask Allah subhanaw taala
to make us of those people, we ask Allah subhanaw taala to increase
us in our alemana here as a beautiful dog the profits are low
so not busy enough here all the increases in beneficial knowledge.
And allow me now to become an L million firm and protect us from
knowledge that does not benefit because we got so many sources of
knowledge and information these days that we could basically be
swimming in that all day and then be drowning in it and not really
learn anything proper. We ask Allah subhanaw taala for help
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Allah in con la Alameen Allah Who muscle new assembly Marla so you
didn't know Mohammed? Why'd you say you didn't know Mohammed or
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Oh Allah, Oh Allah, it is your mercy that we asked for. Oh Allah,
we ask for your forgiveness of Allah grant us complete
forgiveness. Oh Allah, forgive us for the sins that we've committed
knowingly and unknowingly. Oh Allah, those that we've done.
When we were distracted those we done even though we were conscious
those we did in the daylight and those we did at night. Oh Allah,
those that we remember those we have forgiven at those we have
forgotten. Oh Allah we are full of sin. We are full of defect. We are
full of weaknesses of Allah. We're very weak. Oh Allah, we become
distracted so fast. Oh Allah, we are constantly in a state of
distraction. Oh Allah. There are so many challenges around us.
There are so many distractions.
is around us. There are so many things to lead us astray.
Oh Allah, there are so many things that will beguile us and distract
us from
focusing on you. And from remembering you of Allah. Grant us
strength of Allah grant us insight, grant us awareness. Grant
us baraka and blessing. Grant us your mercy of Allah grant us your
love. Oh Allah make your love intense in our heart. make us of
those who you mentioned about in the Quran. We're living in a shed
there have been the law of Allah you've made us believers of Allah
we believe in your oneness in your Divine oneness of Allah we believe
in your messenger Muhammad sallallahu alayhi wa salam, O
Allah we pray to you we only pray to you, our Allah make us of those
who are constantly connected to you. We love you more than
anything else. We love your obedience. And Allah who hates
your disbelief disobedience? Oh Allah, Oh Allah, pick us up. And
oh Allah have mercy on us, our Allah have mercy on us. Take us by
the forelocks and enter us into paradise. Oh Allah. For you. It's
a decision of Allah for you. It's a simple decree of Allah for you.
It's a simple decree for us. It's a difficult it's it's difficulty,
but our Allah facilitate for us, oh Allah make us of those who are
written to be
in the jurisdiction of your pleasure of Allah do not write us
to be among those who are in the circle of your displeasure. Oh
Allah, we don't know what our ending is going to be like. But
currently, we know that we are believers in you. And we have
great hope in you that you will keep us strong believers and only
strengthen us over the course of the rest of our life. Oh Allah
make the rest of our life better than our previous life. Oh Allah
make the rest of our days better than our previous days. Oh Allah
make us better every day that we continue, oh Allah and make the
final days our best days. Oh Allah and make the best moment. The
moment that we will stand in front of you. Oh Allah protect us and
our children make us true guides for those who are guided and oh
Allah protect us and preserve us. Oh Allah, the distractions
distractions that are only getting even more intense day by day.
Allow us to see through them grant us true insight to grant us true
awareness and grant us your love. Oh Allah grant us beneficial
knowledge keep us away from harmful knowledge. And Oh Allah,
there are so many things that tell us that it's they are beneficial
for us. Oh Allah, you reveal to us what is beneficial for us truly
for the sake of this world, and especially for the sake of the
hereafter. Our Allah bless all of those who make these gatherings
facilitate these gatherings for us, oh Allah bless all of those
who are attending and who are sitting here and those who are
listening. Oh Allah, we ask that you do not allow us to turn away
without being forgiven. And Oh Allah, you allow us to fulfill the
other chores of our life that are needed and necessary for us by
giving us blessing in our life. And especially in these remaining
days until Ramadan. Bless us in them so that we can complete
whatever we may occupy us during Ramadan so that we may be free
during the month of Ramadan, our like accept our dollars and do not
turn us back empty handed. Do not turn us away empty handed
Subhanallah because I realized that mIRC phone was salam when Al
mursaleen will hamdulillahi rabbil Alameen