Abdur Rahman ibn Yusuf Mangera – What is Sufism A Formal Explanation Completion and Final Supplication
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Bismillah AR Rahman AR Rahim Al hamdu Lillahi Rabbil Alameen
wa Salatu was Salam or Anna say you didn't Mussolini. He was Safi
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bad, we were going through
the various different adverb of the odia
those people who are accomplished
and who have attained some kind of accomplishment in their devotion
to Allah subhanho wa taala.
So in the last session, we discussed some of the Durbin the
etiquette and how they behaved with others. And we also discussed
the difference between the worried or Bernie,
or the hotter enough sunny and the hotter shaytani.
the heartland of Sonny was basically
and it's very relevant to Ramadan.
Shaytan wants us to do anything.
In Ramadan, generally, that disappears. So you don't have
the situation where you are going to probably end up in a new sin.
Because people just don't do that kind. People just don't do that
kind of a thing in Ramadan. But what people still do in Ramadan is
basically addiction, sins, sins of addiction. That's because that's
not coming from Shaytaan necessarily, it's coming from the
knifes it's a habit, just like cigarette the first time you first
time most people start off smoking, it's because of another
shaytaan is because somebody said that you should smoke or try one.
It's really nice, you need to fit in or Don't be a chicken. So
people start smoking because of that. After that, once they're
hooked on to it, they don't need anybody to remind them. The knifes
reminds them themselves. So that's the difference. So Ramadan is
essentially for that purpose is to get rid of that.
attraction of the knifes that habit, the habit of the nasty
addiction of the knifes because Allah is telling us stay away from
food, drink and sexual *. For this many hours,
in that time when you feel like having a drink, you're not allowed
to have one.
Right? Because you're going to tell yourself I'm fasting, I can't
have a drink. Drinking is permissible generally.
So
what then happens is that we gain more control of ourselves so that
we can actually gain more control than over haram things more
easily. If we can control our eating and drinking, which are
normally Halal during these times, and we tell enough, no. So that's
basically the benefit of Ramadan, that He gives us this 30 days of
regimen in which we can get some control over ourselves. Now, then
he talked about
right, so now the next point that he makes, the next o'clock that
he's speaking about is mud, who are the IE?
Now remember, all of this is to basically stay stress free, you
will see that both the characteristics he mentioned last
time, the behavior and the conduct he mentioned last time and this
time, you'll notice that this will make you stress free. Right. And
if you have stress free, you can focus more on Allah subhanho wa
taala. Because a lot of times stress is basically used by the
shaytaan to make us feel like I don't feel good enough to worship
and miserable. I need to chase after this or chase after that, or
be concerned aggrieved about this aggrieved about that. So that's
why the next one is he's saying that another one of their
behaviors or practices is that they actually praise their
enemies.
And anybody with anything to offer is generally going to have
somebody who's an enemy, right, maybe somebody who's jealous,
maybe even right
shaytaan just puts it into people's hearts to dislike
somebody for the flimsiest of excuses and reasons. So what this
person does the accomplished person is he praises his enemies?
What are the Medaka Dortmund victory him? He felt he has no
qualms he He feels no repulsion in mentioning his enemies nicely.
Otherwise, you don't even want to mention their name. I don't even
want to take his name. That's how I hate him. That's what people
say. She's so bad. I just don't even want to. I don't even say her
name in front of me. But now these people they have no problem with
this because their highest motivation and focus is Allah they
don't care this is all loose change, not even loose change for
them.
Because even loose change is valuable. Eventually, right? So
this is not even loose change. What do ya humble maturity, what
Tofik and this is the most important is that they make dua
for them for forgiveness, and for divine enablement. Because if you
curse somebody, you're only adding to the evil in the world. When you
curse somebody damn somebody then you want them to be bad. You want
them to be destroyed. That means you're gonna have a dis destroyed
person is probably gonna have to get
worse to be destroyed. Rather, if you make dua for them, then you've
got a better person. Now you got one more better person. The
society improves society benefits. So even logically speaking, it
makes no sense. I always remember this incident with a friend of
mine in America who has a shake. And we were at a program and his
little kid, 1120 12 year old came along, and he's complaining about
a friend of his, who is bothering him. And he's saying bad things
about him. So the, the his father, the Sheikh, he said, You know
what, instead of saying all of these bad things about him, make a
dua for him that he gets better, then it'll all be rosy, then it'll
be wonderful. You've got less one less person to irritate you.
The next point he makes is a door earlier or assaulted what meaning
a cathodic
which is to make dua for the disobedient believers likewise,
because again, if we make dua for others, not by condemning them,
but rather to to, we're not even maybe saying anything to them,
we're just making dua for them that are Allah, give them a Salah
give them reformation, because the more better people there everybody
benefits. Because the more thicker that's taking place, the more
practice that's taking place, the more mercy of Allah subhanaw taala
distance. The next point he makes is mattala to kootu will call me
later Allah minimal Adam.
They studied the books of the comb. So they study the books of
the comb, they study the books of the Sufis, right of the good
Sufis, they study their books. Why? Because there's a lot of
other that you can learn from there. That's what they study it
for, not to learn the terminology, so they can use the terminology
and then act like Sufis or something and try to impress
people, they learn it because that's where you get the refined
understanding of behavior, the refined understanding of how to
worship Allah subhanaw taala you don't get that in general books.
For example, we've covered before in our sessions Ignatov Allah al
is Kennedy's.
Kitab Hichem every wisdom in there that he provides is amazing. You
can tell the depth of understanding of how he's figured
out devotion and what Allah subhanaw taala once, when you read
that, when you understand that when we learn from that it
actually makes our worship even better.
It's amazing.
For example, we make dua to Allah subhanaw taala. There's a lot of
people who don't make dua. Now, some people make dua, but then the
DUA is not being answered, according to them, they die is not
being answered. So they feel bad. So what he tells us is that the
fact that you've even been able to raise your hands is a worship in
its own and that is already a reward of Allah because there's so
many others who wouldn't even do that.
So you see, can you see now how he puts value in just making the dye
itself that can only come from somebody with a lot of experience
and accomplishment and really understanding the way of a brother
of Allah subhanaw taala
so then he says that were you out of way it for me haha, Lila heater
Allah. The other thing that you benefit from reading these kinds
of books, and especially biographies of people of Allah as
well like that, right, is that you start to understand how the Lula,
how the people of Allah used to live, how they used to interact
and react in certain situations what their behavior was. So for
example, let's just take a simple example of Ramadan as the
wonderful book that we have, which is called the Ramadan of the
elders, basically, Ramadan of our Olia, so in that it tells you how
they used to spend their Ramadan. Now, yes, maybe some of them were
so much that we could probably never do as much as them. But at
least we get an idea. At least we get inspiration. So that's what
you get benefit. When we see people always doing less than us,
then we think we're doing enough and more and sufficient. When we
see people doing more than us, then we're encouraged to do more.
This is just psychology, human psychology.
So then he says familiar debater tequila, Camila hubbub, by
learning these etiquettes of these people of how to interact in a
godly way, you will then ascend to the status and to the level of the
loved ones of Allah subhanaw taala. Because these actions that
they do their behavior is like the loved ones of Allah, who Allah
loves. These are the people who Allah has loved. They've gone from
this world and pretty much they've been accomplished, right? Because
if there's anybody who was in a state who looked like a hula, but
really wasn't right, and who actually was trying to do
something deceptive Allah would probably most likely I mean, I
don't think that kind of deception would remain. Allah would open up
that deception. So if somebody has gone and people are praising them
pretty much across the board, then you understand that these people
must be Allah. And however they are, if we try to emulate that and
learn from it now remember, the reason why we need to read many,
many books of many different individuals is because these
individuals
And that's why we have the sahaba. The benefit of the Sahaba is that
I may read the Omar or the alarm, but I may not be able to relate to
him to his massage because his massage is different to mine.
Although I think I'm quite more like Omarion to be honest than Abu
Bakr unfortunately, or fortunately, however you are
looking at, like, you'd rather be like both the best, right? Because
overcrowded is more soft hearted, and one of them is a bit more
harder. Right? So some people are harder when they read their money,
and that's where they learn how to control that, because I'm one of
the Alon, you know, he had to learn that control because he was
willing to take off people's heads. You know, he gave that
option so many times, but the professor asked me so I always
tell him no. When we read a Buddha and some people maybe like a
Buddha or the Allah one, some people may be like Earthman, or
the Allah one. So that's why we have many Sahaba if you just read
one, you're not going to be able to you may not be able to
likewise, when women read each other the Allahu anha they may be
actually more like Hafsa or OMO Habiba are the Allahu anha. So
when you read all of them, you might sometimes find what's
according to your massage, that that kind of personality and then
you will benefit from that. So likewise with the curvier with our
great scholars. So for example, I find a lot of affinity with
Maharaja Valeton we Rahmatullah Harley, right? Although all of us,
we benefit from all of them, but then you just suddenly some find a
bit more affinity with one of a scholar that you're reading,
because you think you,
you know, have a similar massage in some aspects or similar
temperament in certain aspects. That's why you, you learn and the
benefit of reading about people is then you see how they put Islam in
action. Right, whereas when you read just theory, it's beneficial
but then you have to implement that. But when you read about how
somebody did it, then you actually understand now how somebody is
doing it, right? Or how it's done rather, that's the benefit of
reading good biographies of the people of Allah subhanaw taala
and share the nasze Hoonah. Now what have Allah Who Lemurian?
Who asked them, I mean, actually he will Adobe he whom are higher
till Fattah for oedema for In fact, the higher the HTML OB,
Allah subhanahu, WA, tada has not given anybody,
anything superior than his intelligence and his behavior.
He's got good behavior and good intelligence, you've basically got
the greatest gifts of Allah.
They are, they are the life of the young man. That's by which that's
the, if if somebody has good intelligence and good character,
good behavior, that is basically the life that is what will give
that young person his life, if they do not exist, if somebody
does not have good behavior and intelligence, then, and what he
means by intelligence here doesn't have to be it doesn't mean that
you need to be the sharpest pencil in the box and get A's all the
time. That's not necessarily what it means. Intelligence here means
spiritual intelligence, that you understand what's right for you.
And you're sensible in your approach to things and you
understand what is beneficial for you in the hereafter.
Right? So he says, if these two are not present, then basically
having no life is probably more befitting this person, that if you
don't have them, it's not worth living.
For either Johannes Habima Amara, Hannah Alia. Now he's saying that
he's obviously telling us that these things are not easy to
acquire. But he says that if you keep exerting yourself
with all of these things that we've mentioned, trying to
accomplish all of these acquire all of these, then eventually they
will become easy for you. Insha Allah hooter Allah if Allah so
wills and wholesome Elul metal LVR
what will become easy for you the following things number one, you
will escape from the darknesses of other things besides Allah,
everything else that distracts us and the occupies us that will
eventually
be that will eventually disappear and you will be able to focus on
Allah whatever the let's refer to her alma the moment we suffer
Tillman do ha. And his bad characteristics is ugly behavior.
If we have ugly behavior, we shout we scream, we get angry quickly,
we have miserliness all of this is ugly character, Inshallah, all of
that will eventually change into praiseworthy character when we
become more generous, we become more calm, more forbearing more
patients.
more forgiving, more generous, right? For your failure will Haku
Tabata Kota Allah Allah, Allah Allah, Allah kill mohammedia
terminal Hill me while me was chef Ducati what Rockford he will do he
was zoo the World War or he was a Ha he was at Derek McCurry Mila.
Come on the show to Elijah. He can be holy. The third ducky Malema
will come early. So he's saying that then Allah subhanho wa Taala
will adorn you
It'll give you an award,
the Hector barakaatuh Allah will basically put onto you the mantle
of good character under Mohammed and character, the character of
Muhammad sallallahu alayhi wasallam what is his character
being forbearing having the right kind of knowledge, having
compassion, having leniency and softness, having humility, having
abstinence from the world scrupulousness avoiding that which
is doubtful, generosity and all the other good o'clock, just as I
mentioned, and he is talking about his polling poem in which he says
little ducky, malleable commodity, so that you will ascend to the
high levels of accomplishment, which is basically the high levels
of Accomplishment from a Dini perspective is basically having
more humble than character,
how to react in the best way, in any given situation.
Having that control to react, right?
Well, Hina is in your corner has a lab do Khalifa Tula Khalifa, Allah
He fell out. This is finally when this servant who accompany her who
accomplishes this will become the true representative of Allah on
the earth, which is what we've been sent here for.
That's when they will become the true vice chair and of Allah
subhanaw taala on Earth may Allah subhanho wa Taala make us have
this
is saying that how do we know that the frivolous is the impudent the
impedance of the of the nerves the
the bad character of the nurse has gone away? How do we know that?
How do we know that the evils of the heart have gone away? So you
say well, I remember to Sally Runa till Berseria terminal called what
the jelly be o'clock with Maria? And how do we know that we finally
been able to accomplish good behavior.
He's saying as though we in the whole mud who was
praise and criticism becomes equal to you.
You don't mind if somebody you don't live on price. You don't
need likes and hits and whatever else there is online that tells
you now that you're famous or something like that, right? And
or if somebody criticizes you,
doesn't make a difference.
Meaning if they criticize you for nothing,
the critics criticize you for the right thing, it should affect us
that we should do something about it.
But this is obviously criticism that is just redundant, that is
just there just for the sake of criticism
doesn't make a difference. May Allah make us like that? Well, men
are well thought, again, whether somebody gives us something or
prevent something from us doesn't make a difference because we know
that Allah is taking care of us. If it's not coming, it means Allah
doesn't want us to have it. So everything is turned back to Allah
and it just makes it easier. stress free life. What about a
nasty idea he will either bury him
people's attention towards him or away from him doesn't make a
difference. Whether I have two people listening to me, or 100
people doesn't make a difference or if everybody goes away it
doesn't make a difference. Because if if everybody goes away because
he's saying bad things or doing weird things, and that's obviously
a different issue. Finally, he ends the book with a dua so this
is the last part of the book and I think it's very relevant to our
Ramadan anyway. He says What could it be do Leia have been? So he
says what couldn't be zhu li Rob Bella, Dr. Annie and Kirby Katya
in Walla
Walla Hareem name in cyndrical abba El Museo de Lille I'ma walk
to him behind in Yarra Hema Rohana. That's his poem is going
to explain that. Basically, what he's saying is that now you should
say to Allah, you should supplicate to Allah with humility
that Oh my Lord.
Don't sever me
with any hinderance with any obstacle. Don't turn me away.
Don't block me and prevent me by a hinderance and don't deprive me
from your lofty secret, which removes all blindnesses
and worked on behaving which basically means allow this to be
completed with beauty and with excellence. Almost Merciful of the
ones who show mercy.
So he's going to explain that he says what called Motor Dorian ILA
Rebecca Cole and multibeast and be dueling for in Allahu Taala in
Delmon. Cassie RATICO Looby him. He says when you make a dua to
Allah, you should do it with humility and
this real cry in your heart,
right with absolute humility, because Allah subhanaw taala is
with those whose hearts are broken.
Basically, if we make ourselves vulnerable in front of Allah,
he'll give us
More. If we think we're very confident we don't really need him
and we're asking him it's kind of counterproductive. When we want
from him we need to show absolute needs.
Then he says you're a biller doctor and young Kobe karate in
min COVID-19. Yesterday local Booba Anil Obediah. So you know,
the hindrances he's talking about don't put an obstacle in front of
me. Right. The hinder the obstacles he's speaking about are
basically the obstacles of fitna which occupy the heart away and
the fitna could be something as simple as the first two days of
Ramadan. Basically just talking about who's right about the moon
or not. Like just get on with it now. Right It started let's debate
it after Ramadan. This is just shaytans one idea to basically
waste a few days of our Ramadan at least
fitna as simple as that. Now worse things are obviously there were we
still doing things which are haram. Right, not even avoiding
them in Ramadan.
So he says, anything that takes you away from devotion to Allah
which is humble man, you will well they will Jaya he was showered the
love excessive excessive love of wealth of children of fame of
other desires in them and then he brings a number of verses to show
that this is it in the mat and why LUCAM we're hola dokkan fitna
verily your wealth and your children are source of
temptation for you are a distraction in this case from you.
I mean, you have to look after your children, you don't neglect
your children. But then at the same time, you're not always just
going out on holidays with them that you're you've missed your
Hajj, for example.
Or that you are always playing with them. So then you miss your
prayer. For example, you have to play with them. You can't always
be near brother either you have to be with them as well, but it has
to be the balance. Then he says Xuyen le nursing home Bucha
Howard, Mina Nisa you will burn in so Allah subhanaw taala again
telling us about something else he says that people for people the
love of desirous things and pleasures have been has been made
a dawn for them, ie women and children this is for men
obviously. Then Allah Nissei well bunny working out even more
control carries on then Allah says in another verse of certain one
African yeah you have Latina
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during Ebola equal hospital and oh people who believe
your
wealth
or your children should not cause you distraction from the
remembrance of Allah. Whoever does this they will be of the losers.
When we will cover other obstacles in the path of Allah Kibber HECT
RIA urges, which basically means pride and hatred, ostentation
narcissism and self love and self conceit. Loving yourself so much
that you think you're better than everybody else. I mean, hello,
everybody. Ashley how SULI thought now now listen to this carefully.
This is to fine tune our worship. He says another thing which is an
obstacle
to attaining Highness is worshiping Allah just to attain
rewards?
For a lot of people, when you hear that, firstly, think What are you
talking about all these rewards which are promised for doing this
or for giving the Sadhak off for doing that good worship for doing
that worship, you get this many rewards. And he's saying that
that's an obstacle.
The reason is he's saying Oh, her solely for tinleigh Dooney and
Leah coolamon Hola, hola. Or another obstacle is that I want to
do so much worship. And you know, such and such a person has told me
that if you read this so many times and you start seeing things
right, or you will start getting good dreams. or Allah will reveal
certain things to you. There are certain ama like that some
experiences showed that if you read certain sewers a certain
number of times, you'll start seeing something friend of mine in
the madrasa. He started to do this. He went into an empty room
and he started reading something and after an hour, he started
seeing things right. I didn't really interrogate but he got very
scared. Right? Because it's not something you can you can control.
So you have to be very careful
with the way so so basically, that should not be the purpose of your
worship, so that he says, so that you can then become like an you
can become an Olia Allah.
To be a weenie of Allah is a good thing. But you don't want to be
looking for these things to look like overly of Allah.
We're in the Masha and OMA yet with Allah to Allah Li 30 So how
should we worship Allah if you can't worship Allah for this? This
is we thought that least the first one is we thought how we should
worship Allah. So he's saying that no, the way of the Olia is to
worship Allah subhanho wa Taala lidda T for Allah alone.
I worshipping Allah for himself. That's it. I don't care about
anything else. Whether it gives me something or not. I'm worshiping
you because I'm your servant.
I have to worship you were in decidedly Emery, he will not he
basically means that I'm just fulfilling your command. You told
me to worship, I worship. You told me to avoid haram. I avoid haram.
That's what I'm doing it for. So in Hassan alone Fatone verde
coming forward, he then after that, if you do get some kind of
opening, Dream
unveiling, that's a father of Allah. That's not what you are
looking for. If Allah wants to give you that, that's up to him.
When hoochie boo furtherly come in it and if you don't get anything,
then that's his justice. He doesn't have to give it to you.
He's not responsible to give it to you is Lisa will Abdullah muda
who, Huck because no servant has any obligation upon Allah. Allah
doesn't owe us anything.
We owe him everything while in normal Haku LaHood there are other
other Abdi whereas the right is of us, is upon us to Allah wish
supposed to be offering Allah for Abdullah to Luban be au hulless
NAFSA whom in a row not in AFCEA. So,
every slave of Allah is basically call to take into account is
basically demanded that he
purify himself from all the the dirt of the knifes with a
SallAllahu Taala and you have a whole medieval Potsie and it is
not a responsibility even if he does that. It's not a
responsibility of Allah subhanaw taala to gift him these lordly
unveilings and maarif It's not it's not necessary.
Well, some of you are thinking I've never even I don't even ask
for that kind of stuff. This is irrelevant to me.
We may not ask for that, but we look for other things. These are
obviously speaking to people who are on the path so he expects that
that's their fitna and temptation is going to become that. For many
of us the fitna is lower degree than that, right.
When the the Buddha who Lyrica Maradona and the human eye be the
SU he says that whoever does worship Allah for these other
reasons, then according to the Olia according to the Lulu these,
these are people can these people are considered to be bad slaves,
right? And Latina either la mujer, Willem Yama, Lu people who if
they're not given a payment if they're not given a gift then they
don't do they don't they don't do if they're not given something.
They don't do it for the sake of Allah they only do the thing at
payments.
Well, how about you enough he called who up the mountain. This
is obviously contrary to him being a pure slave of Allah subhanaw
taala
called a liar if Billa if not otter Allah is considered evil.
Heycome he quotes even our Tyler who I discussed earlier Rahimullah
the show Woolfolk Ilana bought on a fee communal Are you behind him
in Tasha Wolfinger Ilana, hoochie bang criminal who YouTube for you
to be focused and looking into that which is hidden of your
defects for you to be always focused and reflective over what
defects are inside me. What are my inside problems that is superior
to you, then you're always looking out for the those unseen things
which have been veiled from you. When am I going to get a Kurama?
When am I going to get a miracle? Stop looking for that look for
your defects. And that is what's most important law you call either
candidate arriba to mean actually fit him in or cover it okay for
your CFO, and that model will be thought to be he will call me he
will call me literally Robin talk to anyone can be a quality. He
says basically, in answer to that, he says that, when Allah subhanaw
taala is telling you to ask for an opening, they need to say you
shouldn't be asking for those kinds of things. So why is he then
telling you to ask for an opening to remove these obstacles from
you? So then that's obviously the straightforward answer to that is
that it's for the reason of removing obstacles from our path.
But basically what he says is that
asking for opening from the outpouring of the Grace of Allah
subhanaw taala not for any other reason, but with st karma, that is
something which you should be doing when you're steadfast and
you ask Allah subhanaw taala to remove these hindrances from you
then that's a good thing. Katana Katana Vika Mara who mean who say
Arthur SATA risky will say hi tell Bethany where she felt imminent
Amara dill hacia you're allowed to ask him is just like asking him
for expansion in your provision more money, more sustenance, more
provision that's completely fine. Or having health of your body
there's nothing wrong in asking him for that. Likewise, Shiva and
a cure from all of your physical ailments. Allah Tala and who Oh
Jabbar Anika tolerable Hidayat, even Coolio. Meanwhile, Elliot in
Sebata ashram, Saba Sebata, Ashoka, Martin. We call the heater
Isla ADNOC Rothermel Zakim.
Don't you see that he has actually obligated you to ask Him for
guidance every day. 17 times
When do we ask what Allah for guidance 17 times every day
then a Serato Misaki guide us to the straight path. Now we read
that in every prayer.
So if you do 17 records
how did you get to 17?
How many farther than 17? That's the minimum because you obviously
do Sooners and stuff as well. Right? So
that's what he says that Allah is telling you to ask Him for
guidance 17 times a day he's not asking you he's obligating you 17
times a day do ask Him for guidance. What taller women cannot
have been Hydra daddy coming no Africa theorem Bella had been and
in all the other suit in the national press. That's beyond
limit how many times he's taught he's recommended for you to to ask
Him for guidance. We had a lady with a badly actually her Sudhi
che and of course this this worship you're doing is not to
gain anything except guidance.
For inner Lisa tonic or to find her Lisa tonic or Tomoko Rabin
and then he says we're called with basil Lin. Yara Bella Hadid Nabi
Fertitta, I mean how are we done Mohammed Rama be Mana Mana Ala
Moana and even airto is Sirika elmora via noodle Allahu Allah do
you have already be Hill been a hockey well battlefield FC Emeril
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la hija looking for Karna el and Fern.
So then he says that make this dua to Allah, that do not deprive me
from your secrets.
Your highest secrets. What does he mean by the secret? The secret
secret is Allah's light, a normal Ilahi by which if we have that
light, we'll be able to differentiate between good and
bad. between right and wrong hamdulillah just by the mere fact
that we have Iman, then we have Summerland, we gain this light.
Anybody who's had Iman who embraces the faith, they first get
the light, then mainly knowledge, the more knowledge you gain, the
more you learn, the more the light is, will tell us what's right and
what's wrong. What's good for me, what's bad for me, what's healthy
for me and what's unhealthy for me. That is basically what he's
saying, Give me a full share of that, because Allah subhanaw taala
says, oh, people who believe if you that duckula If you fear
Allah, Allah confer con, he will then create a criterion for you.
He will make a criteria which he will give you an understanding of
what's right and what's wrong. That's if you do talk about the
more Taqwa you have. That's why you know that one of the biggest
issues we're having with liberalism today. And with liberal
Muslims, as such, I mean, if you want to use that term, or
progressives or whatever it is, those who argue that why is you
know, this is no longer relevant, right? We don't really need to be
doing this anymore. We should change the fatwa on this we should
change the ruling on this. This is irrelevant now. Because when you
have no taqwa, these things don't matter anymore. The good and bad
all looks the same. It doesn't make a difference. What's wrong
with it? But the more you become discerning, the more the more you
become God conscious. The more you become disciplined, the more
refined we become.
Refinement doesn't mean fundamentalism. You have to be
careful because there's always an extreme right? So we're talking
about Balanced refinement is what we're speaking about which we ask
Allah subhana wa Tada for.
So he's saying that Oh, Allah don't deprive me of the highest
light
and the highest light he says, is el mal yaki.
Which is basically what is El Bulli, Hakim El Mariachi means the
knowledge of conviction, right kind of big words. But what that
means is, when you understand something by its evidence, when
you have evidence for it, you don't just follow something or do
something just because you heard it like that. You don't really
know where it comes from. You actually have full evidence for
it. That is what you call it LM Eliakim. The knowledge that you
know the evidence of something is knowledge, right? You've got the
evidence maca exists, but you've never been there yet.
Then what Anwar mean who Hochuli again, what is more illuminated
than that is what they call Hochuli. Again. So there's three
concepts here Elmo, Yaqeen, and then Hochuli again, which means
the reality of conviction. Well, who am I defer to her bill Moshe,
the mean lady Mahabharata tinware movements Edgerton basically means
that now you've been to Makkah.
So you've actually seen it now. You've seen it now. You know, when
you've seen MCE? Isn't that going to increase the reality of what
you when
compared to when you just knew about it?
I mean, I'm saying mucker or Madina, Munawwara because that
really makes a massive impression on somebody when they go there.
Because generally MCCA you've seen pictures of it.
You've seen GABA, you've seen pictures of it and then when you
actually seek out but for the first time
It's a massive experience, you can just suddenly see yourself moving
from
El Bulli akin to Huckle yaki.
Right? You actually see now you can experience it. I've seen it in
the picture so many times. But now I'm there. Look, it's amazing. And
it's actually it's, it's amazing. That's why we're told to do to do
to honor the first time we do and I think one of the secrets of
doing dua, the first time you see the Kaaba, is because there's an
emotion involved in there. You are in a different state because it is
awesome. So you're going to basically now pour your heart out
in Doha and insha Allah your doors are going to be accepted because
you're connected at this time. When you see the Kaaba, you get
connected.
Subhanallah then you feel connected with you. And
then he says, But what Anwar roomin who I knew yaki
the example he's giving is this. He's saying that you know,
you've never seen fire but you've seen smoke.
Now, you've you've seen fire, but you haven't seen the fire. There's
a there's a smoke somewhere, but you haven't seen the fire
nowadays. I mean, they can create smoke from other things,
chemicals, you can create smoke from regular as a prop, you don't
really need a fire. So you see smoke, and you think it's a fire?
What is your evidence that there's a fire?
What is your evidence that there's a fire there? The smoke. So but
but that could be wrong, right? So that is what you call El Mariachi.
Generally speaking, you're going to have fire when you have smoke.
Then
what happens is you see the fire itself
from a distance. So now you've got Hochuli. Okay. Sorry, I usually
attain it again. And then when you actually go close, and you can now
feel the flame and everything. Now you've got a proper experience of
it. Right? That's how quickly Okay, so those are the three
levels and that same kind of thing we need to acquire for Allah
subhanaw taala. Because he says Al mozzie Dali Lama because this is
what's going to remove your ignorance and remove your
confusion and remove your distraction.
He's basically saying basically, that doors have a huge benefit.
He's basically saying that he's ending with a DUA. Right? And he's
saying that the benefit of this is that the Rs are accepted.
So dua in itself, he saying is an is the kernel of worship.
Why is the kernel of worship I could as I've mentioned this
before, I could never understand why do I was worship. Right? How
do I worship when into are you asking Allah subhanaw taala for
something for yourself? It looks like a very selfish supplication
that give me this. So an a worship is something you offer to Allah.
So he's saying the reason why dua is actually worship is because
when you make dua sincerely and properly, you're actually
expressing your need, and your absolute need to Allah subhanaw
taala. And that means that you've recognized Allah as the one who is
the fulfiller of needs, and who has no other who has no needs of
his own. So you've just now established the name of Allah as
Rani and cada. So you've just affirmed that Allah is codon
mokhtari generous, and you've just suddenly established all these
names for Allah, these 99 names, you've just done that. Because
when you're asking Allah give me from your generosity, and so you
said, oh, so he's gonna give me
Oh, Allah, forgive me. You've just suddenly said, he's a fool. And
he's Rahim. And he's got far, right? That's what you're doing
basically.
Even if you don't get a response, you're still asking that look, I
know it's up to you, but give it to me.
It then basically just reminds us that when you don't get a response
from Allah, it's either because there's a condition missing of
dua, people forget that they think I'm making dua, but I don't get
answered. Well, maybe you're you have conditions for everything,
you haven't ticked all the boxes, right?
Or the other reason why you might not get it is because Allah
subhanaw taala knows that to not answer your prayer and not give
you that is better for you right now. Or for some other reason. He
looks after the whole world here. He has to make sure that it all
fits in he's making sure it all fits in it does that effortlessly
anyway. So then he says what we'll be doing here Robbie victim Nana
Arman and our world and our Amana our end our life, our deeds, our
states, with goodness with a good stealing state, such that when we
you when you do take us to you, when you take us from this world.
It's in the most complete state of dough heat.
That's why oh Allah make our final actions, the best actions and our
final days the best of days and make this Ramadan Avas better than
any before it so that much we're that much closer to Allah insha
Allah. He says,
Allah Shokin ILEC and my state at my depth should be that I
desiring to meet you. Not that I'm feeling I'm feeling upset of
leaving the world's work button feet work with arowana bionic.
Take our souls by your hand. Well, but they'll say eight and a half
minutes and turn our evil deeds into good deeds. Well how do we
add in our in the laterites and assist us when we could be
slipping in the hereafter especially over the bridge and so
on? Robina mon Bhima and Zelt with Deborah Anna Rasool now is this is
a place to confess why is because we're declaring that Oh our Lord,
we believe in what you have revealed we believed in what you
revealed and we follow the messenger for tube nama Asha
hidden so now writers among those who have given witness to this
yah Rahim Yahama Rahama yah Rahim Rama, O Most Merciful of the
merciful once and this you get from the Hadith Rahim Allah your
humble humble Rama and Hanuman fill out their Henkelman
fisherman. So that's how he ends the book by this dua that Allah
and everything good for us, even my book, and it well for me, my
life and it well for me my actions, and well for me, and we
ask Allah subhanaw taala to end our Ramadan, and then our life in
the same way.
May Allah subhanaw taala bless this author, and bless all of
those that he took from and he benefited from, because we have
benefited immensely from this book. So may Allah shower his
grave with great light and make it a garden of paradise. And his name
is basically a Sheikh Ahmed, even though Mohammed Allah either way,
more well known as imam, a devotee who died in 12 101 Hijiri and he
was an Egyptian May Allah subhanho wa Taala bless him, and may Allah
allow us to imbibe whatever he's told us and may facilitate for us
may open up our eyes and may Allah subhanaw taala accept this from us
as well. While he wrote down on our annual hamdulillahi rabbil
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ask you for your grace, or Allah we ask you for your special
blessings during this month of Allah We ask for your special
attention during this month. Oh Allah we ask for Your Mercy of
Allah We ask for your forgiveness of Allah forgive us all of our
sins of Allah forgive us all of our wrongdoings our Allah forgive
us all of our excesses of Allah, forgive us all the fulfillments of
our haram desires of Allah. We ask that you purify us, that you
cleanse us of Allah you make this Ramadan, a source of purification
for us of Allah. There are many people who are moved in this month
to give so much generosity of Allah there is so much generosity
that is displayed during this month, you cause so much
generosity and open heartedness to descend during this month. People
give so much solder cart and charity they do so much feeding
during the summer during this month. One Allah your messenger
sallallahu alayhi wa sallam was known to be the most generous
during the month of Ramadan when he would be reading his Quran when
he would be reading the Quran with Jibreel Alayhis Salam. If this is
the level of the generosity here, then what must be your generous
generosity of Allah you have been so generous by removing the
shayateen by closing the doors of hellfire by opening the doors of
Paradise by causing so much mercy to descend of Allah then if one of
us is then deprived of this mercy, then what a great deprivation that
will be our Allah we ask that you you do not make any of us from the
deprived ones. You give us a full share of the blessing of Allah We
know our actions and our deeds don't amount to much. They are
weak and they have shortcomings but of Allah We are Your servants
and we have nobody else to ask we have nobody else to show our
devotion to Our Allah even the worst of us when they make us such
that they prostrate to you, and they consider you to be the rub
the highest load of Allah you told.
Musa and Harun Ali salam to deal gently with the Pharaoh even
though he used to call himself the Lord. Allah we consider You our
Lord of Allah except from us. Oh Allah bless us. Oh Allah, shower
us your attention. Oh Allah protect us. Oh Allah grant
protection to us.
Send our families and our progeny until the day of judgment of
Allah. There are many challenges and distractions out there. There
are many things that take us away. There are many things which make
us break our repentance. We make Toba in the morning, but by the
evening it has been broken, and we make Toba in the evening. And by
the morning we have broken it's our lucky but steadfast. Our live
grantor steadfastness of Allah Illuminate our hearts with your
Quran of Allah teachers of it and make it a source of greatness for
us. Make it a source of the removal of our cares of our heart,
make it a source of brightness of our eyes, make it the guide of our
guide of our lives. Oh Allah make it the criterion for the truth for
us. Oh Allah grant us discernment. Grant is closeness to you. Oh
Allah grant us your love. Oh Allah grant us the love of your
obedience. Grant us dislike for your disobedience of Allah make
your obedience beloved to our heart of Allah We ask that you
send your abundant blessings on our messenger Muhammad sallallahu
alayhi wa sallam, and that you grant us his company in the
hereafter. Oh Allah make this Ramadan better than any Ramadan
before it. Oh Allah bless us in our families, our Allah grant us
satisfaction with the halal that you have given us and keep us away
from the Haram of Allah do not allow us to look even towards the
Haram satisfy us with the halal of Allah that which You have given us
our Allah allow us to show thanks to you for it. Oh Allah do not
allow us to use the very bounties that you have given us do not
allow us to use them for your for your disobedience of Allah make
this Ramadan better than any before it and allow us to bask in
the blessings of this Ramadan even after Ramadan keep whatever we do
during this Ramadan Oh Allah allow us to continue it even after
Ramadan. Oh Allah do not allow any of us to turn away from here
without being forgiven. Subhan Allah because Allah is it here my
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