Abdur Rahman ibn Yusuf Mangera – True Knowledge Removes the Veils [196, 231 & 232]
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The benefit of worship is hours alone.
Not just that we're going to get rewarded in the hereafter or that
we're going to enter into paradise or Allah is going to be happy with
us. Worship in this world keeps us grounded.
Keep that keeps us firmly on the ground keeps us our priorities in
check.
Otherwise, as we'll explain in the next one,
our greed and selfishness and arrogance and everything can just
take us away if we don't get ground grounded five times a day
in our Salah and other things.
So then he says he's independent is on the benefit of worship is
ours alone. The imposition of worship on us is in actual fact
ensuring our entry into paradise. Glory is to Allah, how boundless
is His mercy.
Bismillah R Rahman Rahim Al hamdu lillahi Hamden cathedral for uban
Mubarak and fie Mubarak in it can tell you Hey, Bob guna Jalla
Jalla, who Armineh word wa Salatu was Salam. O Allah say you will
have even Mustafa SallAllahu Taala are they who are either early he
or Sahibi. He or Baraka was seldom at the Sleeman Kathira Ilario
Medina.
So the last two aphorisms, wisdoms, the two HECM of Ignatov
Illa that we covered, they were discussing how Allah subhanaw
taala has obligated various different worships for us, made
them a variety so that we don't get bored of them. We get tired of
one worship we do another one. And then certain worships he obligated
you have to pray five times a day you have to fast in Ramadan, you
have to give us a cut. Why did he do that for
basically that is seen as a chain that he's going to drag us to
gender with.
So the idea is that there's a hadith which says that Allah is
astonished by a group of people being by people who are
pulled to paradise through chains. It's actually to our own benefit.
So there was one aphorism which is 196 on page 115, of the book of
wisdoms that was left that we need to cover. It's in the same meaning
anyway, it just adds another point. It says, this is Ignatov
Eskandari. He says, oh, Jabba Arnica, would you the headmaster?
In another version, would you butter it?
Oh, Jabba Arnica, would you the Thor it he hit me at Walmart, oh,
Jabba Alagiah? Illa de Hola, Jannetty.
He made the service of him obligatory upon you. He made his
obedience obligatory upon you.
Which is, in other words, to say that he made entry into his
paradise obligatory for you.
So if you're, if you've ever wondered why all of these worships
lots of people asked this question, if Allah is so
independent, and he doesn't need anything, and he is enriched by
himself, he has power over all things.
He is self sufficient. Why does he need your worship? Why does he
need us to worship?
Well, all of these explain that. It's just so that he can put you
into paradise.
Yes, he could have put us into paradise without the worship. But
what you're gonna go and argue with him?
You're gonna go and argue with him? Why did you make it like this
for? You see, we live in a democratic world with freedom of
speech. So you have a right to criticize, criticize most things
except certain things.
Right, except certain things. Right? So you think a lot of
people literally take that to be part of the deen as well that you
should be able to do the same thing. It's a whole different
dimension that they're looking at. But they literally try to take
their democratic rights to God and say, I should have a right I mean,
Allah subhanaw taala makes the decisions. He sets down the
principles. Nobody lie use alarm law. You said Who am I a friend
with whom use alone? He can't be questioned about anything. But
because he doesn't sees this with punishment straightaway. When
somebody does that kind of a violation. People get emboldened.
And they feel that Oh, I can make these comments and these
criticisms, these challenges and nothing happened to me. So it's my
right. Allah protect us. Anyway, Sheikh Abdullah Ganga he comments
on this just to finish this up, Allah Most High has made obedience
and service to Him compulsory. This conveys the impression to the
ignorant person that Allah Most High derive some kind of benefit
from the servants obedience and service. However, such an
understanding is false. He is independent, he is in no need of
anything. The benefit of worship is hours alone.
Not just that we're going to get rewarded in the hereafter or that
we're going to enter into paradise or Allah is going to be happy with
us. Worship in this world keeps us grounded.
keeps keeps us firmly on the ground keeps us our priorities in
check.
Otherwise, as we'll explain in the next one,
our greed and selfishness and arrogance, and everything can just
take us away if we don't get ground grounded five times a day
in our Salah and other things.
So then he says he is independent is on the benefit of worship is
ours alone, the imposition of worship on us is in actual fact,
ensuring our entry into paradise. Glory is to Allah, how boundless
is His mercy.
Right that, with that ends the chapter on the ritual prayer. Now
we move on to another chapter, which is all about knowledge.
How is knowledge viewed in Sharia? What is knowledge? Today, there's
an explosion of knowledge or data, or information, we're living in an
information world of so much information that you can't even
handle it.
It's just like, you have to be very selective what you actually
read and what you don't read, we actually probably don't read most
of what comes our way, especially if you're on WhatsApp. If you're
on WhatsApp, and on groups, you get a bombardment of various bits
of information, much of which, you know, if you're on religious
groups, and so on, it actually purports to be religious
beneficial, do this, and you get this many rewards and look at
this, and but it's just so much that it just all almost like seems
like a cloud. It's confusing. You'd rather just get one bit of
solid information a day, or even every two days, to be honest, even
once a week that we could actually follow is very difficult. And
that's his religious information. And then that is all within just
general information, news, bulletins, little bits of
information, tweets and Facebook posts, and Allahu Akbar, it is so
difficult. Can you imagine, a lot of people have at least three or
four apps, the WhatsApp and the Twitter and the Facebook and
Instagram and, and so on. And you have to keep track of all of this.
And the more people you follow,
the more you're bombarded with this stuff until it's just all
just a blur. And you don't come up with anything.
So he's going to answer the question as to what is real
knowledge? Okay, then there's this big idea in many communities in
the world, and a number of Muslim communities as well is that
education, education, education. And there's nothing wrong with
education. Don't get me wrong here. Right, go and study to the
highest degree. But then the question is, we take a lot of the
Hadith, which are about Earl, and we apply them to all sorts of
ailments, education that are absolutely selfish endeavors,
selfish pursuits,
of just being an established in this world.
A lot of parents want to just establish their children in the
world so that they can make a very good salary. But unfortunately,
they don't teach them anything else with it. In fact, they
sacrifice all other forms of knowledge for this knowledge.
You have to become a doctor or a lawyer, or engineer, or whatever
else people are interested in, which is fine study to the highest
degree, there's nothing wrong with that. But there's a big element
which is missing, because all of this knowledge will only help us
in this world for the next 5070 8090 years.
Unless you're very savvy and you've got the, the wisdom with
it. The harsh the reverent fear of Allah
to take that same night as some people through engineering, they
can reach Allah.
But there's very few of those, some people through their medical
degree, become mashallah well, great, much more greatly aware of
Allah subhanho wa taala.
I've seen people in multiple fields through my travels, the
field is something very specific marine biology,
but Ma sha Allah, the amount of knowledge they've
acquired from that about Allah subhanaw taala and his Nirvan
like, I'm just amazed, but that's because they are the few from
among all of those that have studied that science
to see what to benefit from.
Most people just do it for the Korea.
So now this is what he says.
If not, I love this country, Rahim. Allah says Elmo nerfed, who
will love the embassy to his Saudi shadow? When Kashi will be here
and he'll call with Tina.
That's knowledge. So he says beneficial knowledge alone
nothing. What is it's all knowledge but what is beneficial
knowledge? Beneficial knowledge is the one whose ray of light expands
in the chest
Whose ray of light expands in the chest?
It has this internal illumination illuminating
benefit. It makes you feel good it makes you feel closer to Allah
subhanaw taala and uncovers the veils over the heart.
It doesn't add further veils over the hugs. It actually uncovers the
veils. Now what veil is he talking about? You're wondering what kind
of veil is on the heart veils of negligence veils of heedlessness
veils of
procrastination, laziness. Love of the world is a veil. Selfishness
is the veil. Pursuit of just Dunia for its own sake is a veil.
Arrogance is a veil. All of these are veils because they're veiling
us from the real benefits that is supposed to take over the huts
with any kind of knowledge. And you know that this can also be
something that could be a challenge, even when you're
studying Sharpie knowledge when you're studying Hadith and Quran,
if you're studying it for the wrong reason, it will not remove
the veil. Because the reason you're studying Quran is to argue
with somebody. The reason you're studying the hadith is because so
you call the scholar
that's also not removing the veil, that's actually the selfishness.
That veil is still there for that purpose.
So this is beneficial knowledge is the one whose ray of light expands
in the breast and uncovers the veils over the heart. So let's see
how that is explained.
So that was wisdom number 231. For those who have the book, page 93.
So essentially, the benefit, the beneficial knowledge is the
knowledge that helps the heart in some way makes you feel content
makes you feel satisfied, makes you feel connected to to Allah,
which is a natural desire of the human being, consumerism, when you
can buy new products works in the beginning, you get a new product,
you get another new product, you get another new product. Now, in
the last three years, how many of you when getting a new phone has
been as excited as they were when they got their phone seven years
ago, the phone, the new phone you got seven years ago, much must
have given you a greater excitement than it did in the last
two to three years. The reason is that the whole innovation in phone
technology in your mobile phone technology is pretty much maxed
out. So there's nothing new extra, if I get a new phone, it's purely
because this one is messed up. So I need a new one. And I don't even
use any new features of it. There's nothing much more that you
can do.
That's the world it maxes out eventually. And when you've had
enough of the world, then eventually what happens is that
you get a new product. There's a desire, it's really strange.
There's a desire, I want a new, I want a new watch, I want a new
phone and then you get it. Within two days that eagerness that you
waited for that phone for for a whole week of a whole month. It's
gone, that excitement is no longer there. I don't know what's
happening to the world. Where are we going with this? I don't know
where we're going with this. It's a major challenge in these last
4050 years, we're living a totally different life to how our
predecessors lived their life. 100 years ago to 1000 years ago,
people lived a very similar kind of life. But with the explosion
of availability of whatever you want. There is no more satisfying
initially there's a lot of satisfaction, but it's what else
you do. So that's what he's saying that really beneficial knowledge
is knowledge of the hearts.
That is the beneficial knowledge is the one that benefits you. And
what it means by benefiting you in this context is that it purifies
the heart and cleanses the heart of anything that will be to your
detriment in this world that will be harmful to you in this world in
terms of your interpersonal relationships with others, and
your relationship with Allah subhana wa Tada. So, for example,
greed is a bad quality in the heart. Because what it's going to
do is that it's going to cause you a rift with somebody else because
when you have greed, then you're going to compete with somebody
else, maybe in the wrong way.
That may lead you to get into haram, earnings, haram pursuits,
to cheat somebody to swindle somebody to
confuse somebody and then take over because of the greed is going
to make you arrogant and so on and so forth.
So, that's just because of the bad quality in the heart.
So good knowledge beneficial knowledge is the
one that goes to purify the heart, from these bad qualities that sink
us.
And that embellish the heart with virtue virtues and good qualities.
Any knowledge that does that for you, Al Hamdulillah, that's
beneficial.
So now think what knowledge is that, that will do that for you.
Another way to say it, is that beneficial knowledge is the one
that helps you to embellish your heart and purify and cleanse your
hearts
and cleanse our inner self,
from us becoming like dogs and pigs in terms of the bad qualities
that they have. So that we don't rise like that on the Day of
Judgment, to become good people and the true Insan.
So, beneficial knowledge is the one that's going to help you
investigate all of the different bad qualities and the defects of
the self, the defects of the hearts, the defects of our room
and our spirits. That just that all the defects that we hold
inside us, the bad thoughts that we have in our minds when nobody's
watching, that we wouldn't want other people to know about. We
would never want and hamdulillah Allah all praises to Allah that
he's put a veil so that people can't see what's going on in our
mind, right.
So, beneficial knowledge is the one that goes to purify all of
these things.
When the heart becomes in the heart and the soul and the roof
and the knifes and everything becomes purified from all of these
things,
then when it becomes purified, then good qualities take their
place.
When the greed goes away, then this love for others, preference
for others generosity takes place, miserliness goes away generosity
takes place. So then will will be filled with proper Eman, proper
belief in Allah subhanaw taala proper believe in Allah subhanaw
taala is essentially that when we just find it easy to do that which
we're required to do from Allah. That's proper Iman, does our iman
work for us, we call ourselves believers. That's why we're
sitting in the masjid right now. But does our belief work for us,
which basically means that it's easy for us to do things that our
faith dictates that means our iman is working for us. Otherwise, we
have Iman, but it's not working for us because we're not allowing
it to be activated. We've got an obstacle.
you're keen conviction in the truth and not conviction, anything
else when you have conviction in Allah, then you're willing to do
anything because you know that that is the truth,
contentment, satisfaction,
thinking about Allah subhanaw taala. And then eventually
witnessing his signs everywhere, not missing him wherever you go.
remembering Allah for every little thing that you can think about, a
person will then be more forbearing more forgiving. When
other people make mistakes in front of them. Like it's okay. For
the sake of Allah forgive, right? You'll have more compassion for
others.
You'll have more generosity, more benevolence, more preference for
others and all the other good qualities. So is whatever
knowledge you're you're acquiring? Is it benefiting us like that?
Have you noticed that sometimes you just sit with somebody and
you're just amazed by the character and it just makes us
feel
much more cognizant of our bad qualities like no, I need to get
that I need to become like that.
You stay with somebody who's very generous, you stay with somebody
who's very loving. You stay with somebody who's very diligent,
who's constantly focused on their prayer, they're constantly
remembering Allah, it's like man, I never remember Allah and never
say Allah's name. And mashallah some cultures. Unfortunately, the
English culture isn't like that. Right? The Muslim English Muslim
culture. But if you go to Syria, for example, you go to Jordan, you
go to many of these countries, and Allah's name has taken over and
over again, whether with concentration or without
concentration, but it's like, you'll meet you and a ceremony
come obviously and then Allah, you're a typical athlete, you go
to a shop and say, Allah, you're a ticket Apphia
Allah give you wellbeing.
While will lean, may you be rewarded, right.
It's just a number of different statements I mentioned. It's just
part of the discourse. And the thing about Allah subhanaw taala.
His name is that it's never devoid of benefits. Somebody wrote a PhD
thesis
on how to include the remembrance of Allah in education in teaching.
Right? So those of you who are teachers
especially. And amazingly, what she says is that
you start off in the name of Allah. And then throughout at
least every five to 10 minutes, you're taking the name of Allah.
And that could be in the form of Hamdulillah. Look at this, it's so
great. Look at the creation of Allah, look at the Qudra of Allah
SubhanAllah. Look at this point. So you're constantly mentioning,
I don't know how you do that in your public schools.
I'm sure you could say, God forbidding. Right? All praises to
God. Right? God willing, you just slip in those kinds of things. I'm
sure you won't get sacked for that, would you? Who was a teacher
here? You don't get sacked for that, would you? Does anybody
teacher here? Do you know if that's something but everybody's
scared, man.
everybody's scared this somebody told me that. He had a professor
who's a good Muslim. He's got a beard and everything. But when you
would write to him officially, you know for his PhD. And he says
salam o alaikum, the student was salam. And he would never say what
are you gonna say? But if he's with him, it's a white, eco
Muslim, and hamdulillah everything. Because he's just
scared. He's from another country. I think he's scared of his tenure
or something like that. And then there was another professor wasn't
as religious but he's like, Yes, Brother, how are you?
Some people feel they're going to lose their jobs. You have to be a
bit careful. But still. So he's saying that you know, knowledge
when you when you learn something new, that is a beneficial
knowledge. So what he's saying is sure out
there the rays of knowledge, when you acquire something new, you
read something, you hear something. So what it's supposed
to do in your heart is supposed to illuminate you. That's what
knowledge does. Knowledge is the light. Remember, knowledge is the
light. So how does that play out? As soon as you learn something and
you put in your mind? It beautifies your mind? It
illuminates your hearts supposed to make you feel good? Does your
knowledge do that? Everyday that stuff you're reading and wasting
time? And does it do that? Or does it darken the heart? Somebody sent
me something so I had to download Tiktok to view it because they're
very make you you know, they make use I downloaded it. And then I
started looking through I was like man, La hawla wala Quwata illa
Allah, there's no way that you could live with this app. It's
haram. It's just got too much wrong on there.
Right? Unless you're but why would you it's just small little
snippets anyway, like, why would you even be following very
specific? I know some some academies on there, but
it's just Subhanallah it's just so I just uninstalled like, I've
downloaded it and uninstalled it at least three times. Because I
just don't want it. It's just such a fitna.
Right, you shouldn't be on tick tock. I don't see any benefit on
tick tock.
The other ones, okay. They may be some some, you know, benefit but
tick tock is just pure visual.
filth. Yeah, it's just
to be on tick tock, you have to do certain things it looks like that
is what tic TOCs all about. Shouldn't be on there at all.
I think that's the worst of the, and I'm not anti Chinese. That's
not why I'm saying this. It's just clearly that's what it is.
I mean, I'm not on Instagram. So I don't even know maybe that's as
bad. So the knowledge when it comes to you, it's actually
supposed to illuminate your inside. It's like a shrine, it's
like rays, they're supposed to get everywhere. But that's the problem
he's saying.
So what he's saying is that it is supposed to spread over the heart,
and it's supposed to produce the coolness of conviction in Allah
subhanho wa Taala says, Cool the heart down with a conviction, you
know, when you're like, relaxed, with attention to Allah subhanaw
taala you're supposed to gain satisfaction with Allah,
submission to Allah subhanaw taala the sweetness of faith is supposed
to creep in. You're supposed to start experiencing the sweetness
of faith.
How do you know all of this? Oh, how do you know that you're going
to have that? Because what that's supposed to do is that then
supposed to create fear of Allah in your heart.
A lot of people they wonder why I don't fear Allah, is because
they're not taking the steps. First, you you get the knowledge,
the beneficial knowledge and you let that overtake you. When it
overtakes you, you get more confident with Allah subhanaw
taala you get more settled with it, that creates the fear of Allah
subhanaw taala that creates an aura of Allah, we need to be in
all of life when not in all of Allah, and that he can see
everything and He is in control of everything that we're going to
really suffer. And then we become embarrassed to do everything
because you can only become embarrassed in front of Allah
subhanho wa Taala if you have enough conviction in you that he's
watching you all the time. Otherwise, why would you be shy
because you're not even thinking about Allah. Why would you be shy
if somebody that you don't even think is watching you? So you
can't have shyness from Allah if you don't think Allah
watching you. And you can't know that Allah is watching you until
you learn more about him. And you can't learn more about him unless
you have beneficial knowledge. It all starts with beneficial
knowledge.
And then after that, once that happens, then you become
satisfied. Allah provides contentment through the
remembrance.
So, what is stopping us? There's a veil. That's where he speaks about
because he said in his aphorism, he said, beneficial knowledge is
the one whose ray of light expands in the chest and uncovers the veil
over the heart. So now what is this veil that we're speaking
about? The veil is heedlessness focused on the wrong things, too
much focus on the wrong thing. Right Lafleur Where does
Rockefeller and heed listeners come from? He says, It's because
you're too satisfied with your enough's. That's where that comes
from. Okay, so where the satisfaction with the knifes come
from satisfaction with yourself like I love myself too much. Where
does that come from said that comes from love of the world.
And the love, and it's easy to love the world because of the
glamour around us. The world is sparkling around us all the time,
there's new products coming out new things coming out new
innovations coming out. Do you think we could probably say
that we're living at a time when it's the most dunya.
Because dunya is like
I don't know what version of dunya we're living in compared to our
forefathers. And then there's certain countries in the world
that I read, I consider dunya 10.0 compared to others.
When you go there is just dunya all around you. I mean in England
is dunya all around you. But
I don't know, just to give you an idea.
Just to give you an idea, if you're getting yourselves into
settings of the dunya too much, then that's a problem. Some people
say like, I just can't, I don't have time for anything, well, you
the setting you're in is wrong, you need to change your setting.
That's what Hegira is all about. Migration is all about, migrate
from the dunya to less dunya within the dunya.
But that's what it is. There's some places which are Bodoni, and
others.
There's some places in London where you go and everybody's got a
BMW or Mercedes. And if you have anything less than that, you're
probably going to be looked down upon.
Right? So you feel like you need to get the same thing, even though
you may not want to. But then you actually start wanting to
Subhan Allah. So then he says the love of the dunya becomes the
foundation of every single rung.
And from the love of the dunya is where all of the following will
start hazard. envy, jealousy. They've got something bigger,
they've got something faster, they've got something brighter.
They've got something more glamorous. So I need to have the
same thing has said, you want them to come down. You want them to
have less. That's hazardous pure acid. Right? Arrogance, you start
thinking you have better. Hatred comes into your heart. Anger comes
into your heart. Why don't I have Why do they have greed? Sure. And
then you become more miserly, because you want to have more of
the dunya. So you become more miserly. And then you want to
become the leader who Berea so then you want to be the dawn, you
want to be leading others. And then all of that what's that
creating in the heart is hardness of the hearts is going to create
hardness, harshness, and obstinacy and stubbornness. And then before,
when somebody said something good, or when you heard a good lecture,
you would be effected, will actually make you feel guilty. Now
it no longer makes you feel guilty, though you do feel guilty
that you don't feel guilty.
You don't feel guilty, but you do feel guilty that you don't feel
guilty. Sometimes, unless it gets worse than that where you don't
even feel guilty and you don't care that you don't feel guilty.
So anyway,
the beneficial knowledge is where that is supposed to help to remove
this veil, when it's rays just shine out and remove this
darkness.
Because any knowledge to do with Allah subhanaw taala is going to
have this benefits that is going to help us because if we forget
about the hereafter,
then you want more of this world because we every human being needs
has agreed for something has a focus on something has an ambition
for something. If we fill that up with the dunya there's no place
left to attach that desire for the Akira because our full desire that
you know the bandwidth we have in our desire is fully focused on the
dunya it's been taken up by the dunya then there is no portion of
it. And if you can start Oh
putting it up okay at least 10% for the hereafter 20% for the year
after, and hopefully by the time we die, it'll be 100% for, for the
Akira for the Akira. That's why he says that this will start slowly,
slowly. That's why I always learn something new and beneficial,
seriously, not seriously beneficial. So then what that will
help us do is that once you start learning more about the abode of
the Hereafter, that is what will create the zoom out of this world,
meaning abstinence from this world? 5% 10% 2% 3% No, no, I'm
going to abstain from the I know I could get it, I'm going to abstain
from it, because I don't need it. Right, I know is going to cause
all of these issues, I don't really need it, I want the
hereafter.
Then Alhamdulillah our conviction in Allah, our satisfaction in
Allah submission to Allah subhanho wa taala. All of that will benefit
us. That's why he says that the first thing that you have to do is
to remove this veil,
then the the race of the knowledge can be of benefit to you. And the
reason for that is that we need to try to purify ourselves, and the
more we purify ourselves, the more the beneficial thing will have a
benefit in our hearts. That's why when the Sahaba heard something,
they benefited much more than we benefit, because their hearts were
pure and cleaner when they started. So
that's what he says. Let me read your Sheikh Abdullah Ganga he says
about this. He says beneficial knowledge refers essentially to
the knowledge of Allah's essence and his attributes. And this is
the knowledge that man needs as a foundation for traveling the path
of worshiping the Lord. The example of this knowledge is that
of a lamp or a candle. Right? Imagine you've lit a candle in
your heart, it's supposed to now remove the cobwebs remove the dark
patches, the dark areas and the dark corners. So when it is
costing to the heart of a servant of Allah, it's raised illumine his
heart and all vestiges of doubts and suspicions pertaining to
either the religion or the world are eliminated. I'm I get calls
from people about I've got this doubt about whether this is cool
for Ashok or whether this is halal or haram. Right? So I will answer
the question we I don't know the person and like that's a genuine
question. Then I get a series of similar questions and then you
realize that what this person actually needs is solid knowledge.
They just need to study a book of faith. Because what they're
missing is they're missing the absolute basic fundamentals of
Islamic fiqh and jurisprudence. That's why they're having all of
these small, small confusions. Now, I could answer their
questions all day long, but it's a waste of time. Because they're
going to have that doubt. They're gonna ask question, they have to
have doubt, they're gonna ask a question, then they get satisfied.
Come on, just go and learn. Take a course go to the yarn Institute,
take the Islamic essentials course. And you learn a bit of
everything that gives you so much satisfaction about your faith,
it's your faith, be convinced convinced about it, why you're
going to be doubtful about your knowledge once about your deen
once a week or twice a week. That's not right.
Imagine the person is the believer, but then is doubtful
about his Eman and his faith. Once twice, thrice a week. He cares but
he's gone learn something.
Go and learn about Hadith and Quran and Tafseer. And you will
see that eventually you get the basis.
So he says once this light comes into the heart and illuminates
everything, and doubts about religion and the world are
eliminated, then one proceeds to the then one gets to the doors of
certainty and higher spiritual realities open up before the
person and the darkness of the lowly desires is dispelled from
the heart. This state of spiritual being is the meaning of the
reality of knowledge, how can you have to learn
in fact, any knowledge that is devoid of this quality and effect
is not in truth, knowledge, rather, it is merely information.
It is just information. Then the next one is pretty much the same,
but he says it in a different way. This is number 232 on page 94. He
says highroller Elmy, maca and that will Harsha tomorrow who
the best knowledge is the one accompanied by fear. The best
knowledge is the one accompanied by fear. So if you want to really
benefit from your knowledge you need to develop fear of Allah
subhanaw taala with its
fear of Allah is to perceive, so to speak the grandeur of Allah.
The fear of Allah doesn't mean hey, I'm scared. I'm just scared,
I'm scared. It means that you get to understand the greatness of
Allah
to such a level in the heart, right? That you just revere him
and then you fear him in a loving way.
Right. So he says when knowledge is accompanied by this quality, it
is the highest and most beautiful form of knowledge as praised in
Allah speech. Allah says, Indeed among His servants. It is
But the indeed among his servants it is but the learner the ones who
fear Allah in the Maya Shala mean everybody here Loida Ma.
In order to be a possessor of knowledge and to not merely be a
carrier of information, one must be characterized by this fear. The
sign of this spiritual state will be a strict obedience to the
sacred law, one must understand that fear in the absence of
obedience to the sacred law is in reality non existent. If you think
you fear Allah, but you have no problem in violating his rights
and, you know, messing with Salat, and other obligations and
prohibitions, then that's not real fear. So only a partial fear maybe
if it protects you from something, and not from other things, we need
to develop that fear so that we don't do anything wrong. One must
understand that fear in the absence of obedience to the sacred
law is in reality, non existent. A contrasting state of being is when
when acquires knowledge while accompanied by worldly desires. So
you're learning, you started your ILM course, you started listening
to somebody's lectures, or whatever, right to feel good about
it. But you're all it's also accompanied by worldly desire,
such as the yearning for the flattery of wealthy people. I want
to become knowledgeable so that I can attract wealthy people towards
me, or pride. I can be arrogant I can show off I can be more
knowledgeable than others people will respect me or neglect of the
hereafter. When this pitiful spiritual state is found in a
person who is taken even to be a religious scholar, or ilm, then
such a person is not to be counted among the inheritors of the
Prophet. They may be thinking themselves in Ireland, but they're
not really an inheritor of the Prophet, may Allah subhanaw taala
protect us from that may Allah grant is true and beneficial
knowledge and may Allah subhanaw taala allow us
to become greater lovers and focus people with Focus on the hereafter
510 15 5060 to 100% So eventually, the love of the world will
diminish even though we'll enjoy the world, but the love of the
world will diminish from our heart while he read that one annual
hamdu Lillahi Rabbil Alameen
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the Quran, Allah who may have for you Mirotic ministerie Allah Omega
Hannah Ania and then Isla Subhana Allah in the Quran Amina, what do
you mean?
Yeah, Allah, we ask you for your special forgiveness. We ask You
for Your Mercy. We ask you for your benevolence, we ask you for
your generosity. Allah these outstretched hands are Allah we
ask that you do not repel them, you do not return them empty. of
Allah, we believe that if you have given us the ability to raise our
hands then that means you must want to give us something of
Allah. We can only ask you of Allah, we can't beseech anyone
else. All other doors or shots of Allah, all others are incapable.
Only you have the capability only you have the ability. You have
ability over everything you control, everything, everything is
in your mate. Everything is within your power. All things are easy
for you. Oh Allah, our forelocks are in your hands of Allah we are
under your control we are submitting to you of Allah.
Even the worst of us when they pray, they pray to you and they
say Subhan Allah BL Allah. Allah Allah we ask that You grant us
your mercies and your benevolence and you forgive us our wrongdoings
and our heedlessness, you remove these veils from our heart. You
remove this occupation in our hearts with the wrong that
attachment in the heart. Our hearts are chained and shackled to
the love of this world of Allah We ask that you help to remove them
of Allah that You grant us priorities in our mind for the
hereafter, that you grant us abstinence from the world of Allah
you have given us so much of the world, oh Allah do not allow us to
use the world. In your disobedience of Allah do not allow
this world that you have given us. That you have given us more than
so many others of Allah do not make it a source of burden for us.
Do not make it a cause for punishment for us. Do not make it
a cause for mischief for us. Oh Allah protect us from the mischief
of whatever we have of Allah grant us beneficial knowledge of Allah
Illuminate our hearts with your knowledge, beautify our minds with
your knowledge of Allah purify our hearts with your knowledge of
Allah allow the race to overtake us and allow your light to
envelope us allow your your light to be infused in every aspect of
us in our sights in our hearing of Allah in everything that we do. Oh
Allah, without your light the world is a dark place of Allah the
heart is a dark place without your lights of Allah you are the Mona
widow somewhere it will over
Law. No, we're cool Obinna Illuminate our hearts illuminate
our minds illuminate our vision illuminate our hearing over law
illuminate all of our senses of Allah guide us alright. We are
tired of fighting against the shaytaan we wake up in the morning
with good intentions but by the evening we have become corrupt of
Allah we have good intentions in the evening but by the morning we
have fallen into some kind of wrong Oh Allah protect us of Allah
grant us your or grant us your reverent fear grant Rossi Ohashi
of Allah, purify our hearts from all evil qualities and imbibe our
hearts with the beneficial qualities of Allah. We don't know
how much how much longer we are in this world. But Allah make every
subsequent day better than the previous day. And make the best of
our days, our final days of Allah protect our brothers in places
like Palestine and in the Indian subcontinent and many other places
that are suffering from oppression and many other problems of Allah.
And we ask that you accept a soul for some kind of productivity in
this world that people will benefit from, that our faith will
benefit from. I know Allah that You accept us for the service of
your deen that we can then stand up on the day of judgment. And we
can have something there. We can have something there to hold on to
Allah grant us your love, and the love of those whose love will
benefit us with you of Allah except our gathering here except
our sitting here and accept all of those who make this happen here.
And Oh Allah, we ask that you illuminate the rest of our weekend
the rest of our lives. Subhanallah because Ebola is at an IOC fauna
was salam al Marcelino Hamdulillah. The point of a
lecture is to encourage people to act to get further and inspiration
and encouragement, persuasion. The next step is to actually start
learning seriously to read books to take on a subject of Islam and
to understand all the subjects of 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 there, the Islamic essentials certificate which you
take 20 Short modules and at the end of the insha Allah you will
have gotten the basics of most of the most important topics in Islam
and you will 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 and Salam aleikum wa rahmatullah wa
barakato.