Abdur Rahman ibn Yusuf Mangera – Treatise For The Seekers Of Guidance Part 41 You Can Feel a Soft Heart
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If I say that anybody who drinks is sinful, that's not judgmental,
they are sinful, but Allah could forgive them. I don't want to make
that judgment. I don't want to make the judgment that you're
definitely going to be punished because Allah could forgive. I
know that that's our that's actually our belief. That's our
theology.
Right. That's what sets the Asuna Gemma apart from all of the other
extremist groups, the one group which said that if you commit a
major sin, you are not a believer anymore. You lie. You're not a
believer anymore. You've committed Zina, you're not a believer
anymore. They say you're not a Catholic either. But you're not a
believer, either. So you're not going to go to Paradise ever.
You'll be in a special place in *. That was the mortars, the
lights at them. And then it was another group that went more
extreme. They said that you're actually accounted for by even
sins not just by doing Khufu, you've not doing what you believe
in Allah, but you've done a sin, a major sin, and thus your curfew.
So they will say that anybody who doesn't wear hijab is a curfew.
Anybody who misses who doesn't pray is a curfew. But I also know
what Jamal said look, belief is something actions are something
else so we don't make that judgment but to call a sin a sin
is not a judgment that's a clear cut facts. So whenever the next
time somebody says hey, don't be judgmental, or you know, you need
to set the record right that this is just become a shaytani defense
to be honest, it's just become a shaytani defense. It's just like
let me do what I want to do. I'll do what you want to do, but I can
call it a sin a sin right?
I can't tell you because you know, you could go to paradise I could
end up hill Hellfire because tomorrow it's really what happens
on our deathbed that's really what matters I completely understand
what being judgmental is and never want to be judgmental. Because you
can't be I'm scared to be judgmental to be honest.
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harebell Maha Maha CB Rahim Allah. The next bit of advice he gives,
He gives advice in little segments. So the next bit of
advice he gives is whether a halal culture herein when we journalists
certain moonbeam
gives quite a few advices and then he says, What the I will more GBN
what Raja al Motorin Well, yeah, so can you clean?
What couldn't be lucky I am Elan or Billa he worth Yukon, or Bill
Maher. Goofy. I'm Iran. Why Neil Moon Karina here.
And then he carries on. So let's read this much first, he says,
totally abstain from
and stay away from the character traits of ignorant people.
So the specific character traits that make up an ignorant person's
character and conduct that signifies their conduct, character
traits that essentially point to somebody being ignorant of
whatever you're trying to achieve, then you want to avoid that. And
here we're talking about we're trying to achieve success, success
in this world success in the hereafter. So anybody who's
ignorant about that, of how to reach that, and ignorant here
doesn't have to just mean ignorant as in, they just don't know. But
it could be people who know but don't act upon it so that they're
not acting on their knowledge, which means that that knowledge
isn't doing anything for them and thus, they are actually from the
ignorant ones. So stay away from the unlock of the jar heating.
Unfortunately, sometimes the lock of the jar helium which means the
character of ignorant ones,
is attractive. It's easy, it's lazy, it's comforting.
It's
something that you can do just to relax.
So what would be from among the o'clock of the jar Helene
could be
just simply wasting time is that a falafel Jaya, hurry.
It could be that Ramadan comes and goes in, or Ramadan is coming
around the corner and we make no effort to prepare for it from now.
That could be our culture hitting
a halacha hitting could be
Now that we're wasting time and our life is continuing, and we're
not doing anything for our life,
a halacha healing could also mean we're just
too occupied in vain pursuits without really a focus on
Allah subhanaw taala and attaining success in the hereafter.
It spans everything. It's such a, may Allah not make us of the
Johannine wala taco manager, hurry, don't be of the ignorant
ones. That's what Allah subhanaw taala says,
when we Jala settlement, NAB, now this gets a bit more specific. He
says, Don't sit with the sin with the sinners. Don't sit with the
sinners don't sit with people who commit sins.
What about if your
friends are sinners, maybe we were part of that group.
And now we want to make changes that's much more difficult.
For example, there's a woman she's wants to now become more
practicing.
However, she has to go to her husband's the in laws family once
a week, every two weeks.
And they also drink.
They also drink this is a real question. So now
you've just become practicing. So how does one now deal with this?
And I want to mention a few things here. So
this question was actually asked to your to a female scholar to an
Alima. And she didn't know how to answer it. So she asked me the
question.
So there's a few things here. They want to be practicing. But they
feel the pressure of the family that I have to go with my husband,
my husband, she's saying is isn't as
enthusiastic, he also wants to make changes because of the
children and so on. We know that the future is this in Islam and
practice of Islam. But this is the background we've come from, but I
want to go quicker, and he wants to go
slower. And then the point is that it's their in laws, and then they
drink. So what can I do?
So well, you should really abstain. But what else can you do?
So I said, Well, maybe what you can do is you can go there to
visit and then leave. But no, it seems to be well, it's a bit of a
distance away. So they have to go and stay there for the weekend,
for example. So I said, Okay, that's fine, then you could do two
things. You could be very upfront with them and say, Look, we have
we I'm here like to be with you to meet you to visit you. But I can't
be part of the drinking because it's haram. Because when I said
that, why don't you say it's wrong, they said that they say
that you're being judgmental, Allahu Akbar. That's what I want
to focus on for a bit.
This has become like a, almost like a shield or a defense from
anybody wanting to change like you're being judgmental. To say
that as soon as as soon as being judgmental, let's not being
judgmental. Judgmental is maybe when I say that you're going to
*. You're a really bad person inside. That might be a judgmental
statement, because I'm judging you without any evidence. When I call
a sin, a sin that look, drinking is a sin. Alcohol is a sin. That's
not judgmental.
That's just the straightforward fact. I'm just saying alcohol is
wrong. Zina is wrong, uncovering is wrong. Eating Haram is wrong.
I'm just making that.
Now how's that judgmental?
What am I trying to say by that? That makes it judgmental. This has
become a defense. This is almost like a knee jerk reaction
statement to shut people down so that you can you can't do a marble
marble fan in America. Hey, don't be judgmental. I'm not being
judgmental. I'm just making a statement of fact, if we can't
even say wrong is wrong called Black as black. Then what's what's
judgmental. There's no judgment here. There's no two ways about
this. I'm not saying you're condemned to hellfire.
If I say that anybody who drinks is sinful, that's not judgmental.
They are sinful. But Allah could forgive them. I don't want to make
that judgment. I don't want to make the judgment that you're
definitely going to be punished because Allah could forgive. I
know that. That's our that's actually our belief. That's our
theology.
Right. That's what sets the Asuna Jama apart from all of the other
extremist groups, the one group which said that if you commit a
major sin, you are not a believer anymore. You lie. You're not a
believer anymore. You've committed Zina. You're not a believer
anymore. So you're not a caffeine either, but you're not a believer
either. So you're not gonna go to Paradise ever. You'll be in a
special place in hellfire. That was the mortality like you said
that. And then it was another group that went more extreme. They
said that you actually occur
affected by even sins not just by doing Khufu you've not doing what
you believe in Allah, but you've done a sin, a major sin, and thus
your curfew.
So they would say that anybody who doesn't wear hijab is a curfew.
Anybody who misses who doesn't pray is a curfew. But I also know
what Jamar said look, belief is something actions or something
else. So we don't make that judgment. But to call a sin a sin
is not a judgment. That's a clear cut facts. So whenever the next
time somebody says, Hey, don't be judgmental, or, you know, you need
to set the record, right that this is just become a shaytani defense,
to be honest, it's just become a shaytani difference. It's just
like, let me do what I want to do. I'll do what you want to do. But I
can call it a sin a sin, right?
I can't tell you because you know, you could go to Paradise, I could
end up hill hellfire. Because tomorrow, it's really what happens
on our deathbed. That's really what matters, I completely
understand what being judgmental is and never want to be
judgmental. Because you can't be I'm scared to be judgmental, to be
honest. But we have to make it clear what it is. So sitting with
the money been the reason why sitting with the money being as a
problem.
And this is, this is become a bit more difficult nowadays, because
for somebody who was when when everything was kind of black and
white, it was a bit easier. But now that we're living in a world
of relative truths, that your truth is your truth, and my truth
is my truth. And we can both coexist with, you know, with both
of our truths being truths, right? As though there's a number of you
know, the realities or the, you know, that there's so many
simultaneous parallel realities in the world. It's kind of a crazy
idea. It's like almost the culture is saying that you need to be so
easygoing, that it's okay, you know, you could be at a, you can
go into a bar, it's not a problem.
As long as you don't drink, it's fine. You can sit with them. You
know, you have to be cool. Even as scholars, you guys need to be
cool. You know, what kind of scholars are you? We need scholars
who are easygoing and relaxed? Yes, we do need scholars who are
easygoing and scholars, we're easygoing, and you do get scholars
who are not easygoing. But they don't have to go and sit with you
in the bar
or when something Haram is going on.
So there are different aspects to this.
So don't sit with the Mooney bean. So there is a Omar Abdullah Hatha
the Allahu Anhu said that jelly su Atewa been sit with those who
returned to Allah.
That's a really interesting statement. He says, sit with those
who repent to Allah, that means they probably commit sins, but
then they always return to Allah.
Because you're doing Tober sit with those who make Toba, they may
have made mistakes, but they're doing though, but that's really,
really useful. You know what the impact of a person who's been
sinful, and who's repented is huge. Because it shows other
people a big difference between what they were and what they now
have become. It inspires others to do the same that if they can do
it, I can do it. I've seen that person's life beforehand. And I
see it now. Sit with the tower beam. Why Subhanallah he says for
in the home, Rocco of Eden, because they're soft hearted.
There's no way you can make Toba to Allah without being soft
hearted.
That is what's going to help you to make Toba to Allah when your
heart melts. And then you want to turn back to Allah, a hard heart
doesn't go to Allah
is to set in its ways in its wrong ways. So the softhearted want to
turn to Allah and that's what we're going to learn for a learn
from them. You can actually feel a person's heart. You know, when
when somebody is really emotion, you can see that emotion, you know
what's going on in their heart, people express their emotion, in
their behavior, in their conduct, in their words, and so on. So a
person who is the well being those people are soft hearted, that's
who you want to be with. So that's what Amara the alarm says. So
don't be with the Don't be with the sinners, because it's going to
turn down the sin. It's going to demote the sin in your eyes. And
we may actually get involved in it and indulgent ourselves if that's
the case. What are we Elmore jobina. And the claims of this
conceited individuals, narcissistic people,
conceited people, you know, there's narcissism. I'm getting a
lot of calls from women who are saying that their husbands are
narcissists. And there are a lot of men who are narcissists. And
these are I mean, let me just describe who we're talking about.
I'm talking about somebody, they've got problems in their
marriage, and they will not sort it out. They think their rights,
right, everything is the partners fault. They have absolutely no
fault. If you think that your partner has all the faults you
probably got a problem. In some cases, you could be right some,
but then that's the problem with the NASA you probably think they
am that minority of cases.
Okay, this is the second thing. You don't listen to anybody
because nobody can tell you. That's the second sign. So when I
generally say to these women that can you talk to his father
his brother, his shake, he doesn't listen to anybody.
He doesn't listen to if you listen to nobody, there's nobody that can
tell you something like anybody and you got a problem.
I don't I don't care how big you are. If you've got nobody that can
tell you something, then you've got a problem. Because how can you
be perfect? There's nobody perfect. Only the prophets Allah
sounds perfect. Are you claiming prophecy? No. So if you're not,
then you've got a problem, you could have problems. So but you
can never hear problems about yourself from anybody else, it
means that it means that you've got a problem, you've got a
psychological point, you've put a barrier there, you are self
conceited. See, the difference between a self conceited person in
Arabic they call is urgent. And then you have Kibera. Or job is
when you just think you're better than anybody else. You don't
necessarily go and express that to anybody, but you just think you
may stay aloof from people for that reason, actually, you're too
good for everyone. Now, when you then express it to somebody, and
you show them in your display, that that becomes kibble, that
becomes arrogance. So self conceited is a very,
it's very contained within the self, that I'm just better than
everybody else, you may be better than somebody else in some things
is nothing wrong with that.
You know, I may know I may have studied more than you, I may have
more money than you I may have certain capabilities more than
you, you know, Mashallah. But as a whole, in terms of what's going to
really benefit us in the hereafter? How can I say I'm
better than you.
So be careful of claims of such people. Be careful of the claims
of such people, what Raja al Motorin also be careful of the
vain hopes of the deluded ones.
What that means, but that's the problem. A lot of people in the
world today
they deluded, in many, you know, they're deluded in some sense of
the other, but we admiring their delusion. So he's saying that
don't admire their delusion, person who's deluded, in that
sense is going to have a lot of vain hopes about what they can
achieve or what they should go after.
And what should they should spend their time on, there's a big
mistake that you can make in that, can you you know, what I'm saying
is that is so complicated that even a person of religion could go
wrong in this regard, by
the focus of what they're doing, if they becomes wrong, and they
become deluded as to what is most important in their life,
if they don't keep the fact that I want to get Allah happy, and I
want to leave a legacy for myself, that I can benefit from that in
the Hereafter, I can so for the rewards of the Hereafter, then
they probably deluded, if most of our time is not spent, if most of
our time if all of our time is being spent, not for the sake of
Allah, not for the sake of what he's told us to do. And we don't
spend any time doing that, then we're probably deluded at some
level.
I think, if we're not like the Sahaba, then we've got a delusion
anyway, at some level. Now, it could be lots of delusion, or it
could be a bit of delusion.
It may not be delusion in the sense that, you know, we're
committed to that. We could just get sidetracked and we don't think
about it. So we're deluded in by by not thinking about it. I don't
know if I'm making any sense. So he says, Be careful of the vain
hopes of these people because they're just going to have vain
hopes that have no reality. They're idealistic.
Or they're redundant, or they're not to great benefits. They may
seem very materialistically beneficial, but they're not
spiritually beneficial.
Then he says, Well, yes, l carnitine. But you don't want to
go to the other way of people who are absolutely hopeless. So you
need to be aware of the hopelessness as well.
You don't want to become despondent because Allah subhanaw
taala is there and he helps Allah subhanho wa Taala provides
forgiveness, Allah subhanaw taala is there to forgive. So don't
become like that as well. Be careful of all of this.
Allah, then he says, What couldn't be happy I am Ilan.
Practice the truth, wherever you will practice the truth, or
Billahi worth a concern. Now this would be the way to as an antidote
to all of these cautions that He's given us. He says, make sure that
you're constantly trying to act on the truth and you are constantly
relying on Allah subhanaw taala
you can't rely on someone unless you think about them.
You see why because Reliance means that when I'm when when I have
when I have if I'm if I have to travel several places
says, so I'm going to rely on my Oyster card, I'm not going to rely
on the trains, I'm going to rely on the public transport, or I'm
going to rely on my car, or I'm going to rely on my bike, or I'm
going to rely on my feet. So these are means that we rely on. But we
have to be thinking about these things. If we're traveling several
places in a day, then you're going to have to focus that your Oyster
card is topped up, or you're using your credit card, or whatever the
case is. So there's a concern for these things. Whatever you rely
upon, you need to think about it. You can't rely on Allah and not
think about Allah. There's no way that you can rely on Allah and not
think about it because the Reliance he's talking about that
you're constantly relying on Allah. Not the only when you have
a trouble once in a year or so you rely on Allah, that oh, okay, let
me eventually think about Allah. So constantly rely on Allah
subhana wa Tada. Now the next part, while Bill Maher roofie army
run constantly be trying constantly be commanding the truth
stating the truth command in the truth reminding people of the
truth why Neil Moon Karina here and prohibiting from the wrong
for in naman sada kala Nasir who, because anybody who is truthful to
Allah subhanaw taala he will have a goodwill towards him, he will be
sincere towards him. Let's put it that way. Anybody who is truthful
to Allah has to be sincere to Allah sincerity to Allah means
that we
we are looking out for what Allah wants. We're looking out to
glorify Allah to praise Allah, to not disobey Him to not allow
anybody else to violate
anything related to Allah subhanaw taala and the deen and so on.
Woman does the you know the lady he father who? Because anybody who
adorns themselves, he says for somebody else, they will
eventually be humiliated.
If you're adorning yourself just for somebody else, then you're
humiliated. Have you seen how Islam is totalizing that anything
we do, our thought needs to be to be done for the sake of Allah
subhanaw taala so if we do want to adorn ourselves, don't yourself
but do it for the sake of Allah subhanaw taala and you will find
that you can find an excuse to do anything, anything except haram
and wrong things for the sake of Allah subhanaw taala so if you
want to adorn yourself when you go to a wedding, I'm sure you could
find the justification for that. I'm doing it to make the couple
happy to make the hosts happy that I've taken care of myself, I've
come
I've done myself I'm doing Tessa you and I'm wearing this special
jacket you know to come there
that's why
imagine any mom of a message comes in a casual jackets and press a
lot leads the prayer. How does that look?
Does it look good? Doesn't? Like come on? You're the Imam.
Right? So if I come in with a casual jacket, just leave the
prayer. It's not good. Why hello Xena to command the coolie Masjid.
You should take on an atonement for every place of prayer because
the prayer is standing in front of Allah subhanaw taala I gave you
the example of an imam
What about the rest of the people
understand like I'm putting it on myself but we need to think about
ourselves as well.
You casual jackets you can wear them it's fine. I'm just saying
the Imam shouldn't I think
because I think it's always fine for normal you know for for nanny
mom to have a casual jacket on but the Imam No I mean come on. He
needs to maybe have a Moroccan third one or something you know or
Turkish though mashallah Turks are good, you know, they may dress
however outside but they the Imams definitely you know they put a
turban on and they have the you know, because there's a place for
that it's a bit ritualistic but at least they've maintained that
mashallah don't go around telling people off about this is your
mom's office the jacket was just just the point that came to mind.
Right.
But woman does a young lady he you know, in everything in Islam, you
can justify it
and get a reward for it from your eating, having your meal to
feeding somebody going out to eat as long as you don't overdo it.
You can do it and you can get reward for that.
Woman tava colada he Kapha whoever relies on Allah subhanaw taala
Allah will suffice him
Subhan Allah, you know, there's so many people who give us some
feedback, you know, people get in trouble. They're having some
miserable time in their life. They're having
Um setbacks, they've got issues. They've had a loss. And you know,
you share a dua with them. As an as a scholar, you learn to as you
learn Hadith, you learn whether if different formulas that have
certain benefits either through experience from the Quran, sunnah,
and you give that to people And subhanAllah it works. It works.
You know, Alhamdulillah I love to hear the feedback and people give
you feedback. You know, you said read this door, I'm reading that
and it's just opened up things for me.
There was a guy I met outside the takeaway, right? I was speaking to
the owner of the takeaway just started to take away and speaking
to him and another friend of his just came along. He wasn't very
close to the dean or whatever, but he was having some serious
financial and other problems. I said, Look, just read this door.
Right? I just said read this door and
thought nothing of it. I never thought I'd see him again or
whatever. And then suddenly, I he must have gotten a number from the
the owner of the place and after two, three months, and he calls a
sends me a message I want to talk to you. I want to say that you
know, mashallah, things have started getting better. I've been
reading that door, things have started getting better. There's
absolutely no doubt about it. I'm telling you so many people. You
try it. You have to be diligent, though, in reading the WADA, if
and difficulties will start being removed. Because Allah says,
Whoever relies upon him, it will suffice him. You just have to be
persistent. You have to do it with a renewed vigor in your iman with
Allah. And that, yes, Allah can do this, you have to have that.
Because that's when you're really going to call on to him. See,
reading the DUA is just a means.
There's probably some magic in the door because you're taking the
words of ALLAH for sure. But it's not just that, like, I'm just
gonna read I don't know what I'm talking about. In fact, I'm
watching a YouTube video and Subhan Allah Subhanallah
Subhanallah SubhanAllah. You know, no, you're actually reading it
because you want Allah to give you the benefit. You're reading it for
that purpose, you're making that a call to Allah, you'll you'll see
the difference. I mean, there's no doubt that it will happen. Woman
what he called the lady he micarta, who, if you rely on
somebody else, eventually they'll start hating you, because you're
over reliance,
over reliance,
because nobody has all the time for you in the world. At the end
of the day, only Allah has, eventually people get tired.
Woman, half of who a mentor who, Whoever fears Allah, Allah will
make him safe, fearless. Because you just have to be fearful,
fearful of Allah subhanaw taala he'll make you feel as if
everybody else. This is one of the biggest problems people have is
that they fear others. When you say fear is not like people are
going to beat me up. No, they fear what people are going to say.
Most people don't care about that people are going to be violent
against them. They just feel for what they can say.
Especially if you're in from a very, very cultural background,
like bad culture. I'm not talking about good because good culture,
I'm not against culture. Culture is very important. We can't live
without culture. You'd be you know, people who don't have
culture, they get messed up, because they have nothing to go
by. So good. Culture is good. And Islam has always had a good
culture. Right? We've all got good cultures from our backgrounds. So
culture is not a bad thing. But when you get stuck in bad culture,
the criteria is what Islam says. Right? Then you have no safety you
have no security he's always worried about somebody's gonna say
you're not free, you're not free. But if you're free, if you are
only worried about Allah subhanho wa Taala He will make you free of
everyone else. You have no fear from anybody else.
Woman chakra who is the who we know this right lane Shackleton
lazy then whoever is thankful to Allah he will give you more.
So if anybody is going through financial trouble for example,
two things you're going through financial trouble right? Then go
and donate something regularly. Like what are you telling me I'm
going through financial trouble you're telling me to put more
money somewhere else like where I can't when you know to put more
money down the drain as such. I'm losing so much I'm suffering and
you're telling me to donate? Yes brother donate. This is Islam This
is Iman believe
that is Iman bill they believe me you will get it back Allah
promises in the Quran. My Euclid Allah Quran has an alpha EULA, if
a hula hoop or the elephant cathedra try it.
Give five pound 10 pound whatever you can give. And number two, just
to sugar on everything that Allah has given you.
Okay, he may have not given you as much as the other guy down the
road, that's fine, but he's giving you a lot more than the other guy
on the other road
or in the other country, or wherever it is. And Allah will
give you more.
Those two things are very important woman Uttara who are
Kurama who and who
Whoever is obedient to Allah, Allah will honor them. Allah will
give them honor. Yes. What happens in the beginning, when a person
generally becomes practicing, they start doing good deeds and their
circle of people that they used to, they start reacting
negatively, because you're breaking a tradition, you're
messing up their circle,
you know, you are part of our circle. And we used to all go and
do this together. And now you've messed it up, man. That's one
person, you know, it was the perfect group, five people, or
four people or three people or 10 people, now you've messed it up.
So You're upsetting the balance. So initially, you have to set the
balance right again, so they will be troubled in the beginning.
Because you know, what happens when somebody has said, you know,
when I try this, some people, they start becoming practicing and
things start going downhill, they start getting troubles. Why did
they get troubles? Well, first, if you can trouble from the circle
around you? Well, it's because you've upset their balance.
Right? For 10 years, you were 20 years used to go out together, now
you're not going to do it, you stop seeing her or whatever it is,
or him or whatever, right? So there's going to be an issue as a
human issue with that, right? So you have to deal with that, that
will take maybe a few weeks, maybe a month or two. But then there's
another thing that will happen shaytan starts attacking.
Allah shaytaan starts attacking. See there's a hadith in Sahih
Muslim and Sahil Buhari, etc, that the Sahaba came to the Prophet
sallallahu and they said that there's this thought that comes in
our mind
that the album, like we think it's too grave to even Nikola Moby to
even say it. That's how bad thought that comes in our mind.
You know what the Prophet sallallahu sallam said? He said
larly Cassidy Hill Eman. That's pure faith. Once you mean that's
pure faith.
You know, the Hadith said, That's pure faith. We're getting one of
these bad thoughts and violence is pure faith. Yes, you know why?
If you weren't what you were in terms of your iman, then you would
have been doing those bad things. shaytaan can only make you think
bad, he can't make you do it. And you're feeling that I can't even
bring this on my tongue is a sign of your Eman. That's pure faith.
Because if he didn't have that pure faith, he could play around
with you as you want.
So the fact that he's just bothering you like that, that
shows that you're onto something.
And a lot of times, this is what happens when we're just doing
shaytans bidding is like, Okay, leave this guy alone, I can have a
rest. But when you start getting serious, then he has to ramp up
his work. So he starts using psychological, you know, things
might go wrong, Mike, start getting some bad thoughts. You may
even have some bad dreams. Some people have reported having bad
dreams. So if I was if I'm praying now and I'm getting bad dreams,
then the prayer must be bad or must be causing that to happen.
Can you see how confusing that gets. But that's confusing because
you don't have knowledge. That's why they say that and but you
can't tell everybody that because everybody thinks that the first
step is to practice and it is to practice, but you need knowledge
while you're practicing. Practice without knowledge can be very
confusing because you don't know what's going on. You know, we've
been not been doing the book of wisdoms for for a few weeks.
Inshallah, we'll start it again. But that's a book that tells you
what it's all about. What Allah wants from us what our
relationship is, how worship works, and how Allah functions. So
when you don't know that, that's why when you look at one of these
books of the soul, they all start off with L as the first step. But
you can't say go and learn first for two, three weeks before you
start practicing know you better start praying right now avoid
those dreams. Sorry, just ignore those dreams. shaytaan bad dreams
are from the shaytaan that's what he wants to do. Has anybody
experienced that? Right? You start seeing bad dreams or some bad
things happen or bad? What's worse outcomes in your heart? It's just
shaytaan trying to make you think that it's because of the good
deeds you're doing.
It's got nothing to do with that. It is but it's once you overcome
that shaytaan will, because in the case of shaytani, Canada ephah
that's a very hopeful verse. A lot of people are very frightened of
the shaytaan because they've been in his clutches for a while. But
look at the verse in kg the shaytani ganador Eva,
that the plots of shaytan are weak, because you say do vicar and
you carry on and the shaytaan will have to recede.
May Allah subhanaw taala give us a Tofik so then,
he then says women are thorough who have been who and whoever
gives preference to Allah, meaning gives preference to things for the
sake of Allah as opposed to for somebody else. Then Allah subhanaw
taala will love him and when Allah loves him than he wants everybody
to love them. It takes a while. It's not gonna happen overnight.
you've prayed today and you think like okay, I'm gonna become this
body of Allah. No, it takes a while because
We have to also remove all of the rest
and the blackness from our hearts. May Allah subhanaw taala make us
may Allah subhanho wa Taala give us this ability to rely upon him
and to avoid wrongs as far as possible and to avoid sitting with
the wrong and may Allah allow us to be a force of good to even the
people around us so that they stop doing what they're doing.
A little word makes a difference. A little word makes a difference.
This is beautiful brother who I see every time I go to this
particular masjid for Juma
and I said to him, brother, you should you should wear a hat. You
know, you should wear a hat. Hamdulillah He says, So I met him
again the month after he still hamdulillah since that day, that's
what I've been doing. I didn't have to tell him that. I didn't
have to be judgmental. Right. But hamdulillah is doing that one more
thing. Right? So alhamdulillah it makes a difference. So try to
spread as much as you can. I know it's a bit easier for scholars but
you know you can
you can do it as well. May Allah make it easy. Luckily with that
one I mean hamdu Lillahi Rabbil Alameen Allahu manda Silla Moming
Casilla and the work they are diligently with the Quran Allah
who may or you may have a younger medical history Hello Mia. And
yeah, I'm in Isla he learned the Subhana Cana condemning, avoiding
injures Allahu Ana Muhammad and Muhammad. Allah wa Salatu was
Salam ala Sayidina Muhammad wa wider early See you then Mohammed
Omar Burdick wa salim Allahumma fildena Warham now if you know
what you know, we're looking at Hola Hola.
Hola. Hola. Fer Wareham Allah homophily maternal Muslimeen
Alladhina Shahidullah Nica will widen your marijuana dyadic yalla
have your mercy upon us. Yeah, Allah accept us. Yeah, Allah.
Allow us to make you the priority and everything. Allow us to
dedicate everything to you. Allah allow us to devote all of our
worships for you. Grant us a floss and sincerity. Yeah Allah grant us
forgiveness and purity of Allah grant us debacle and reliance upon
you of Allah. turn us away from everything that you dislike, make
it easy for us to turn away and abstain from that which you
dislike of Allah We fall and we keep indulging of Allah we come up
against challenges and difficulties of Allah we get
diluted of Allah we get misled. Yeah, Allah we sometimes act
ignorantly. Oh Allah forgive us for these things of Allah forgive
us for these things. Allow us to imbibe these advices of these
great people, and grant us the success that you granted them and
grant us the closeness that you granted them. And Allah allow us
to be raised among the good people on the day of judgment of Allah
allow us to be among the good ones in this world of Allah allow us to
be among those who assist others and who benefit others and Allah
who are useful people in this world of Allah avert this war
that's taking place of Allah allow. Allow the humanity to come
back in and allow people to do the right thing of Allah do not allow
this to escalate or Allah
bring back the humanity to the human being of Allah protects all
the innocent people of Allah assist us and Allah do not allow
this to we are so far away from it. So we we may not be concerned
about it. Oh Allah everything that happens in the world concerns us
to a certain degree. Oh Allah allow us to do what we should be
doing. Our Allah sometimes we don't know what we can do. Oh
Allah allow us.
Accept us for the surface of your Deen in whatever way shape and
form that may be of Allah grant us an understanding of what is right
and what is wrong. Allow us to follow what is right and abstain
from what is wrong. Allow us to be in constant remembrance of you
allow us to dedicate everything that we do for your sake of Allah
accept our coming here except I was sitting here except the
organization here. Oh Allah. Oh Allah accept us on this Friday
night and allow our rest of our days until Ramadan to be blessed
and allow us to reach Ramadan in a safe manner and get the best out
of this month of Ramadan that is around and oh Allah make the rest
of the days of our life better than the previous days of our life
and our Allah allow us to enter among those people who will go
into genital fear those our life except Allah subhanaw taala
because mobilized at the IOC phone was salah, when Al mousseline Al
Hamdulillah, Robben Island aalameen The point of a lecture is
to encourage people to act to get further an inspiration and
encouragement, persuasion then
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
Islam at least at the basic level, so that we can become more aware
of what our deen wants from us. And that's why we started Rayyan
courses so that you can actually take organize lectures on demand
whenever you have free time, especially for example, the
Islamic essentials course that we have on the Islamic essentials
certificate which you take 20 Short modules and at the end of
that inshallah you will have gotten the basics of most of the
most important topics in Islam and you'll feel a lot more confident.
You don't have to leave lectures behind you can continue to live,
you know, to listen to lectures, but you need to have this more
sustained study as well as local law here in salaam aleikum wa
rahmatullah wa barakato.