Abdur Rahman ibn Yusuf Mangera – What is Sufism A Formal Explanation Part 10 The Fourth and Fifth Principle of the Path
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Bismillah al Rahman al Rahim
Al hamdu Lillahi Rabbil Alameen wa salatu salam ala so you didn't
more serene. While he was so happy about a cosa limita Sleeman
cathedral, you know, Yomi Dean and my birth, we were going through
the 10 principles.
The 10 fundamental principles as the author said, of, after
mentioning the 10 stages of the knifes he said, these are the OSU
lottery. These are the 10 principles of the path to Allah
subhanaw taala. The first one was the Toba to purify oneself. And
the second one, which was sugar, and to thank Allah subhanaw taala,
for what he's already given us. And that's essentially a very good
way to do that. Because when you do sugar, Allah gives you more. So
when we already doing sugar or whatever Allah has already given
us in terms of
the blessings, he's already given us the Eman that He's given us and
everything else, then Insha Allah, we can hope for more. So that's as
a step that we get
higher up, inshallah.
Number three, was sober, and patients, because now things are
gonna start getting difficult. So this is a very logical way that
we're doing this because firstly, we're trying to take off any
baggage that we have of sins, and any burden, we're trying to shed
that load. So we are not weighed down by any kind of baggage for no
reason, number one, then we do sugar for whatever we already
have, I'm just having human and being in this world. And having
the faith that Allah has given us, that's a massive deal, isn't it.
So that's what we do next. Then number three, what we do is, we
now have to inculcate patience, because now the going is going to
get tough.
Or it could get tough. So it's all about patience afterwards, to
realize that we can't be just like anybody else and everybody else.
If there's somebody who doesn't care about anything, and who
literally does as they please, and they do whatever they want in this
life, no holds bar, you know, there's no, that there's no bars
for them. Maybe they just follow the law of the land, and that's
about it. Then, as Muslims, there's always a law that we have
that is going to
we're going to have to abide by, which is the law of Islam. And for
that you need support and patience. That's why it's a
massive deal to inculcate sovereign patience, you can't do
without that today.
Right. So that's why now you can see how this is going on that we
need the sovereign patience.
Then, number four, is a robot will cover it will cover.
Right? So it's satisfaction with the decree of Allah subhanaw taala
and his pre ordaining whatever he has done for us.
And I think one of the biggest benefits of that is that whatever
is has happened for us in the past, like maybe things have gone
wrong, or they didn't go as right as we would like to sometimes
things may have not gone wrong, but we look at others who are who
are who are our classmates when we were in junior school together.
Right? You know, when we were 710. Or maybe they were our neighbor.
And today we look at them, there's somewhere else where we think we
should be.
So while we may not think that things have actually gone wrong
for us, but we don't think they've gone as well for us. But then when
you focus on cover will cover that everything is predestined by Allah
subhanaw taala. And whatever is passed, we know that was
predestined, whatever is in the future, we don't know. Because he
hasn't happened yet. And we don't know. Nobody, you know, you can't
log in and find out what's gonna happen tomorrow. Right? Just
doesn't work that way.
But whatever has happened, we know. So at least for that, we can
say, oh, okay, well, that's what Allah wanted from us. So that's
what he wanted from us. That's what happened. So there's no point
crying over that now. But we don't want to make mistakes in the
future. That's the main thing.
So that's why cover will cover number five, then is,
once we've gotten ourselves in order, and we get serious about
this, and we want something to come out from this, then it helps
for the most part, which is number five, which we'll come to, it
helps for the most part, that
we find somebody to guide us. That's why he calls it the burl,
marshy del Carmen, you have to find somebody accomplished to hold
our hand and take us along. Right. And I think one of the basic
reasons for that is very simple. Most people majority of people
don't have discipline in terms of a routine in terms of doing only
what's to their benefit, we all mess up, right, we all all of us
are such that we would like to do something which we would like to
do lots of things which
We find it difficult to actually do. Meaning we would all love to
be people who perform Tahajjud prayer now, we would all love to
be those people who would never even think of sin. But it's
difficult to do that regular on their prayer,
dismount charity, you know, all the good things that we'd like to
do, it's just difficult to do it and set yourself on to doing it.
So sometimes somebody needs to hold our hand, sometimes we're
doing things and we don't know we're doing things wrong.
So the whole idea of number five, is to try to find somebody that
can help. That's the purpose of number five.
So let's go back to number five, number five was a robot will cover
will cover to be satisfied with whatever Allah had preordained and
whatever has actually taken place. So that's why he says, For Kula
who, Musa Lehmann, okay, this lemma, what Tibet, sebelah Nursey,
keen, Allahu Allah ma. So he says, For canola, who, Musa lemon que
tous llama,
be always a submitted to him, Be always one of those that submits
to him, so that you can remain safe.
Allahu Akbar, so that you can remain safe. Because if you don't
submit to Him, you can't remain safe. Because your mind is going
to be all over the place. Whenever somebody feels that they've got,
whenever somebody feels that they've got somebody that's
looking after them, then you just feel a lot more confidence. Let's
put it this way,
you've got a car, and it has some problem or the other, even if one
light is gone, but you have to drive somewhere. And you're gonna
feel not as confident, because you feel police might see it, and I'm
gonna run into trouble. Or the engine may come off that, you
know, when you've got less petrol. Right? You, you think I've done it
before I managed to get 20 miles out of it the last time it was
down to that. But you just don't feel comfortable. When you have a
full tank, you don't worry about to do that you're going to run out
of it. So when you feel that everything is in order humans when
they feel everything in order, it just makes them better. Now, I
know there's some people who live on the edge all the time. Right?
They always last minute. They always push it to the end, right?
Even though they could have filled up but they actually push it to
the end. It's almost like they're testing themselves out. Like you
know, do can I perform a miracle one day or not? I don't know Allah
one. Right. So they live on the edge, but they're not happy. I can
tell you when I used to travel before I used to pack at the last
minute.
I used to pack at the last minute, leave late. So your intention all
the way until you actually sit in the plane.
That was a long time ago. Since then, what I've done is, I pack in
advance, I've got a list. So I pack in advance. I try to not go
so early. I'm not one of those who get to the airport for hours
early. That's just ridiculous, I think right? Some people you know,
anytime you're going with a toy, they always tell you make sure you
come for hours early. Because obviously they don't want you to
miss the flight. But
anyway, so you you just it just feels much more comfortable to do
that. So likewise with your iman, how can you miss her? How can you
be on the edge with your iman?
How can we without faith be always on the edge? Just? Oh, it's okay.
Last minute, last minute last minute? How can it be the case?
When are we going to get comfortable with our faith? Where
it's in order where things are going right? Where we're not
living on the edge of our faith all the time. Man, I messed up
there, man, I messed up again.
How many of us are living on the edge of our faith? Right? It's not
the best policy. It's too much tension. So that's why your robot
bill covers satisfaction with the decree of Allah subhanaw taala is
extremely important. So he says
and that's the whole point that when we know that okay, whatever
has happened, we leave it to Allah subhanho wa Taala that was the
best thing now inshallah the future will be better for us. Now
we're going to change our ways. I'm no longer going to I'm no
longer going to
pack at the last minute and then rush to the airport at the last
minute and then be all sweaty and everything and then finally just
be able to relax when you go onto the flight because with Allah
subhanaw taala you we may end up in Jahannam like that man.
Right at least here you will catch your flight. I mean, miracles
don't always happen. They happen sometimes. But you can't reach
that with the Akira. When I went for a tour in South Africa with
channel Islam international our host was one of the most wonderful
people was the director of channel Islam but he he's the best host
I've ever had Allah bless him abundantly assured by his name is
it's amazing that the three flights we had to take there we
were always late, but we got the flight somehow. It was a Kurama he
was expecting to buy new tickets. We get to go from Johannesburg to
Durban
We got there with like 10 minutes left. And he had to go and park
the car. So he gave us He gave us his ID, he said you check in for
me.
So we got to the gate. And I checked in for him as well. And
they let us do that. And then he came and we rushed inside. And we
managed to make it when we got to Durban and we had to fly back to
Johannesburg. And as a program we have to get to,
again, we're late. It just turned out that way. It wasn't we I
wasn't doing my early, you know, like we're just gonna go late. No,
this just turns out like that maybe for traffic, I can't
remember what we got to the airport and the flight was late
and from the Rila.
See worked out. And then finally, we're coming back now to the UK.
Now you don't want to miss that one do you? I shall buy says hold
on.
Right, we got small time left small amount of time, he says hold
on.
He goes to the chicken shop. We he goes, I'll be back. We're waiting,
we're waiting. And then he comes back with, you know, lunch or
dinner for us.
And we got there and they they're calling our name or something. So
we'd lucky that we got in there again. And you won't believe it
when he got it wasn't it hard when he got to Emirates. Somehow we got
laid there again. And we were the last people on the flight again,
for flights actually now that I think about it, but it worked out.
I don't do that as a matter of purpose. Or I don't do that on
purpose. But that just worked out that was a very Berkut you know,
journey. But you don't want to mess around like that. Because if
we're doing that,
if we're if we're, if we're doing that for the Akira where we're
just risking it, we might miss the boat already for the Akira so you
might be able to miss it a flight. And that's fine because you can
buy another flight, okay, it's going to be very expensive, but
you can still get to your destination. Whereas if we miss it
for the hereafter then being in Jahannam for a long time is not a
good idea.
So we need to get our past sorted we need to be comfortable about
our past what I mean by competence we've done wrong and we need to
know we've done wrong, but we need to know that we've got to
we've got an Allah who's Rahim Rahman, and whatever's happened in
the past, okay, it's happened for a purpose. How many people have
you seen we've had a bad past, they become good people. And then
they managed to convince, they managed to convince a lot more
people than a good person on his life. I'm not saying that he's a
better person than a good person. Because clearly the person who
never messed around, right has got bit more going for him because
he's got no sin. But the person who did sin who was involved in
Haram activities. Due to that haram experience, he can sometimes
speak in a way that helps people who are engaged in that haram. I'm
not saying that you do that purposely to get that experience,
because we may never come out of it. This guy is lucky he's come
out of it.
You see the difference? Can't say that, Oh, just because I need to
experience the I need to sort out these drug guys that let me get
into drugs and try them out for a while and we may never come out of
that stuff is bad. All of it is bad. But people who've already
been there, then Subhanallah you know, they shouldn't feel that
they should make Toba they should repent now they need to move ahead
and not let shaytaan overcome them to make them feel that
you have no chance some some big names of the past are like that.
Some big names of the pastor like that who have gone down into
history and people respect them today right there's one story I
can never get over because I read his name when we're reading the
books of six you know the six collections major collections the
font foundation collections of Heidi's when you're reading those
books, is a name that comes to his name is had the thinner Mohammed
ignore carnival Carnaby
now forever until they have judgment. Everybody's going to
read his name.
Muhammad dibuka and Al Carnaby. He's from Missouri.
But he was a guy who spent his youth in drinking.
Right. It mentions in his story that if no Kodama has mentioned
Keita with the well being that his he was once waiting around for his
friends. And it says in his description that he had red
trousers on
which is the same in those days nowadays. I think pink trousers, I
don't even know how bad they are. No, but I mean, those days to have
a red pair of trousers on meant that you're a bit weird anyway.
Right? You were like on the wrong side of town.
So he's there waiting for his friends. He's invited his friends
over his mom's cooking, and he's got all the drinks there.
Now as he is there, there's a big there's a big entourage of a big
shake that's going past that's coming towards him. And in there
was this big Hadith scholar who also comes in the transmissions of
Buhari, Muslim etc is shot by YBNL Hajaj, who was also originally
from one set, but then he moved to bustle and he stayed in Basara,
one of the big Mohabbatein of Basara so he's like on a third
level
fourth level that you have to his name comes into transmissions of
the Hadith that you read today and Buhari etc.
So he's coming along and he's got people with him. So this person
just thinks, who is this guy? It looks kind of interesting. So he
goes, and he says, Who is this? He says, Don't you know this is shot
by YBNL Hajaj, the big Muhaddith, the big Hadith scholar. So he goes
then up to shorba.
And just imagine jump some guy off the street, and there's some big
shake coming along with the taxpayers money or somebody's
coming along. It's like, Who is this guy? Everybody's like going
after him making shaking his hands. So he goes up to him
himself. And he says, Can you relate to Hadith to me at Disney?
relator Hadees to me, so short, but looks at him and he thinks you
don't look like a student. Like you're telling me to narrate a
hadith to you because generally our students that came and said,
Can you narrate your Hadith to me because we can then be connected
via you up to the royal sallallahu alayhi wasallam that I can say, I
heard this Hadith from you. You heard it from your teacher, from
your teacher, from his teacher from his teacher until voxalot.
So he looks at him and he says, You don't look like a student. So
the only language he knew he pulled out a dagger and he said, I
pulled out a knife, you know, typical London crime, right? He
pulled out a knife. And he said, If you don't, if you don't relate
the Hadith to me, I'm gonna stab you.
He didn't he didn't say it in such a polite way. He said it in his
gangster style, whatever that was, right, this hadith, Neo Jrock
that's what he said. Right? So then short was this okay? You
know, I'll relate a hadith you said a hadith related to him, was
that the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam said that if you lose
your modesty, your shyness, your chest, your, your bashfulness,
your modesty in front of Allah subhanaw taala, then you can do as
you wish. Now that penetrates his heart,
right, it was just that moment. He goes back home, and
he tells his mother, that when my friends come, because he couldn't
WhatsApp them, like, you know, I'm not going to see you anymore.
Like, you didn't do those things in those days. Right? He said,
when when my friends come feed them, but he took all the drink
and he pulled it out. And he went to Madina Munawwara
and I think he studied with Imam Malik, and he becomes a big
Muhaddith.
So much so that now you have to say his name every time you read
the isnaad. Right. So it's just amazing, isn't it? And there's so
many people like that.
Some of the biggest Sufis, some big Sufis have the password
highwayman. And they suddenly turn around. That's why Let not your
past spoil your future. Because you don't know what your future
is, you only know what your past is. You only know the duck deer of
your past, you don't know it of the future. That's very important.
So he says, What Robbie Oh, a reader. The fourth principle of
the path towards Allah is to be satisfied, which is what will hold
your unread or NFC, he beat the whole if you read or rugby, which
is to eventually come out of just being satisfied with your soul, to
entering into the satisfaction of his Lord, that we must only be
satisfied with what Allah wants for us. What does Allah want from
us? What does he want from us? How does he want to deal with us, we
must have a level of satisfaction. Because if we are so independent,
and we don't
think that anybody else has a right to dictate for us, and if
something goes slightly wrong in our lives that we start
complaining, then we have not recognized Allah, we haven't
understood his power. It's like a guy who goes to work, right? Who
he needs. The employment is not like he's doesn't need the job.
And somebody is forcing him just to take the job. Or he's like,
some special consultant, right that people have to hire. And he
does, as they call data giddy, right? Like he acts, you know,
like, he's a big consultant. And everybody wants him. So he's like,
Okay, you want me 100,000? Right? And then he goes in, has is about
him. No, you need the job, man. Right? You can't get it. You go
there and then you don't like something like you start keep
complaining.
Right. Now, one is that maybe you got the right and you got the law
on your side, and you're living in England, so you can sue anybody.
So then maybe that's the case. I mean, I'm not sure that these laws
are good, but sometimes I think they're abused, right? In other
countries where there are no laws, you just have to like keep your
mouth shut and carry on.
Allah What a nightmare we have. What a nightmare we have.
So
can you imagine that's our case with Allah, we need everything
from him and then something doesn't happen, right? And we
start complaining, whereas we need this job, man. We need this.
From Allah subhanaw taala.
We need him to be on our side. So we need to be on his side. That's
why he said for the person to enter into whatever satisfies
Allah subhanaw taala bitness li Milaca mill as Alia
by Safale submitting to the eternal commands
eternal
commands, meaning whatever Allah has decreed to realize that only
that is going to happen.
Which means we try, because we don't know what's going to happen
in the future. But then if it doesn't work out the way that I
wanted it, then I'm not going to cry about it. So if I didn't marry
the one I was supposed to marry, I did Hamdulillah. But I'm just
saying, if somebody doesn't marry, who they think they should, and
they lose them, they shouldn't be crying about that.
If you don't get the job that you really wanted, but then you got
another job, Inshallah, maybe you will find out in five years that
that was the better deal.
But right now we're angry about it. So you say no RIDOT will
cover. And once you can do this, then you know, it just makes
matters so much easier, because you have something to fall back
on. You might get flustered a bit in the beginning. But then you
start thinking, Well, you know, what, Allah, if you, you know,
people get depressed because of this.
People are depressed because of this, because they have nothing to
fall back on. And they see this as the biggest loss because this is
everything for them. This is not everything.
There's people who had to leave a certain country, like Indian
Pakistanis, we're living in one of the countries of Africa. Right.
And you know, there's several countries in Africa where regime
changed overnight. And then literally, people have to just
escape with whatever they could carry. And they had a lot of money
there. It's been 3040 years and they still crying over it.
Now had they not cried and they just worked hard, they allow could
have given them something back because Allah is always with those
whose hearts are broken.
But if you're going to keep crying over the past, it's just the life
everything dies in this world. That's why we read in LA, he were
in LA, he Raja is one of our car, that way for Allah to him, we're
going to return because everything perishes, there's nothing in this
world. That's why you have to, that's why they sell you new
phones every two years because your phone
has to be updated. Because it gets you know, if nothing else, at
least the battery starts diminishing faster. Right? That's
the world were the same.
And the quicker we can understand that the more satisfied with life
we will be which is amazing, isn't it? The better we can deal with
our losses, the more satisfied we'll be with life. And if you're
more satisfied, you will get more out of it.
The more focused on losses we are
the more they pull us back.
We I mean, those people who lost all those things is bad. But just
imagine if they didn't have it in the first place.
can just think like that, okay. It says if I didn't have it in the
beginning, that's a good policy.
Of course we learn lessons but we don't cry.
What if we do let that be rattle Vidya and then for a person to
consign the matter to Allah subhanho wa Taala for all other
future planning, you plan but then you can sign the matter to Allah,
you have to plan don't get me wrong, you can't just sit back and
expect it all to happen.
You have to plan you have to make an effort you have to work hard as
part of your plan. You can ask others for help, you can consult
with others you can do whatever you have to do as you would do in
this world. But always be remembering that behind is Allah
and Allah has a plan as well.
Below a rod in wala at Robin, wonderful expression. without
ignoring Allah and without complaining and objecting to Allah
we need to be in between the two. Neither are we ignoring Allah that
you know we don't even consider him we just doing whatever we
think we can do in our with our independence. And neither are we
thinking Allah is part of it. But in the wrong way. You see some
people who do think about Allah when they do things.
The problem is that because they haven't recognized Allah properly
they start objecting to Allah.
Which is worse the one who thinks Allah is there but who objects to
him or the one who just ignores him completely.
Is that even a question? Right? It's just they're both bad. So
there's no point like, let's let's not be any of them. So Bella,
arrived in Wallah at Robin, without ignoring Allah and being
heedless of him completely, and also not objecting to him. Why la
he assured me holy haemophilia and Allah Coppola who couldn't Are you
her tolerably Redondo Hula, hula, hula Allah Musa lemon, the Colima
kadaga Who are Kedah Oh Mr. Ravi min Akademie dunya oh Na Anhu
so be Oh seeker of the satisfaction of his Lord, be to be
for Allah in submission or be in submission to Allah in everything
that he is predestined and decreed for you or that which He has
commanded for you to do of the
laws of the dean.
Oh, that was such a wonderful deal I could have got but it was Jumar
time.
There was a really, I lost the bid on eBay.
Right? Because it was it was finishing Jumar time. So I put my
highest bidding. But somebody outbid me. But had I been there I
could have maybe, you know
Subhanallah, you missed it because of Joel,
did you miss?
Should you have Miss Juma instead and got the deal?
That's where you have to be that, okay? Because I think I'm sure
I've lost things because I've had to teach or, you know, I've had to
go for Salah to you've lost things. But
I'm not saying that you go late to the airport, and then you have to
pray for your prayers and missed the flight. That's just stupidity.
Because that's bad planning. But the other one is where it would
just happen to be solid and you couldn't get it.
But you know, the salaat of JC gives us much more. And
you're not even comparing rewards here. What we're saying is that
because of me praying, Salat, I missed that deal. Right? Or
because somebody was out in the feasibility law in the bliss or he
was in hij. There was some a house that he was looking for, and he
lost and somebody else to get. Or man had you been here it was such
a wonderful house, but it was just snapped up. I was in hudge? Did
you really lose that? Were you really going to get that is the
question.
You are in Hodgman, you are getting so much more out there.
And Allah will give you something better. This wasn't for you. Yes,
it was a good deal. And it was exactly your friends told you,
your brother told you somebody told you that it was exactly what
you're looking for.
Now that you feel gutted, don't you when you when when when you
see a deal, that's gone. In fact, I don't know if you've noticed
that if you're the careful type, not the guy who are not the person
who's an early adopter, just something comes out, you start
buying it straight away. You're a person who lets it. So for
example, if you're buying a house, you don't just buy the first house
you see, or the car you don't. But generally, when you don't know the
prices of things, sometimes the first thing you see is the best
deal. But you're cautious so you don't buy it. And then you can
never find the same thing again. Have you ever experienced that
before? Right? I remember I was looking for a particular car. I
think it's mine. You sent me that. But it was a bit far it was in
another city. It was a very good deal. But I was like, I'm not sure
is it really worth going there because I didn't really see other
prices just started looking. And I lost it. Then I had to wait for
about six months to find another good deal. But that was the way it
was supposed to be. How much how much am I going to cry about that?
Oh, man, that was such a good question. I've got them
every day that you should have gotten that I should have got
that? How much you're gonna beat yourself up for that kind of a
thing.
But you see, we
won Is that okay? Forget about crying over the other one is, it
wasn't to be because Allah didn't want me to have it. That's a
higher level to think that. That's how Allah can make us much more
satisfied. If we remember him at those moments.
So then he says yes, so that you'll be some in submission to
Him for everything that he has pre ordained and decreed, and
everything that He has commanded of the ACO dunya or anything that
he is prohibited from. Right, that was a really good deal.
Everybody's made so much money. But you know, I'm with the so and
so said It's haram.
Like these movies, man, what's wrong with them? Some says halal,
some says haram. What's wrong with them? Can they agree on something,
man, Muslims are gonna get left behind?
Look, all of these others, they are doing this deal and they're
making big bucks out of this. The Muslims are gonna get left behind,
we need to do this.
You see what I'm saying?
These are the parts where the decree comes in.
And seriously, you do feel that loss sometimes when you see some
other people, right, whether that be people outside your family,
outside your religion outside your community. People as I said,
they've made more money than us, or they have more property than
us. Oh, this guy owns all of these. Right? Everything you can
see owns it. And we don't own anything.
Or we do own but we don't own as much as them we do own we don't
own as much as them. It just makes you feel bad, doesn't it? But then
we don't think what else do I have that they don't have? And I've got
Allah especially when it's you know, somebody who believes in
somebody who doesn't believe then there's no comparison there.
Does doesn't mean we have to be stupid about it, or lazy. But at
the end of the day, it is because something was haram and that's why
we didn't get it. There's a lot of people who made a lot of money
because
they did haram business.
them money, their original seed capital, or their original
investments all along.
And today they're sitting on that they may have made Toba now, but
should I feel bad because of that?
If my dad didn't do that, and somebody else did that, should I
feel bad? Why didn't my dad also buy 10 houses a mortgage?
Because my dad never did that. So should I feel bad about the
shaytaan? Make me feel bad about it. Today, I wouldn't have had to
work hard to get a house because my dad would have already had a
house for me. I don't know how to worry about buying it.
You see it? Can you see the feeling? I mean, these are ways
that shaytan attacks us. And Allah wants us to be content in this
world. And the only way to be content is with Allah.
Right? So yes, my dad, may Allah bless him that he protected him,
right, from doing all of that weird stuff. And he focused on us
having the dean, right, that was good. I'm not Alhamdulillah in
that sense, I don't feel bad at all. I meet some very wealthy
people, very influential people. And I've done a different thing. I
could have been there but I'm very satisfied as where I am. Because I
just I just pray to Allah that Allah Allah accept, and don't make
let us mess up. That's that's the most important thing.
So
yes, if you've made mistakes in the past, and we need to just
learn from those mistakes and not make the same but otherwise, we
have so much to thank Allah for that. It's just
Okay, so then he says, so never feel bad if you've lost something
because there was some haram element in it. Never, never.
That's just that shouldn't even apply, because it wasn't something
you should be doing in the first place. Right? Yes, they may have
more money may have more influence. But that's not the way
to do it is not through haram. B and tadoba, the common lady
arrived in water at Rodin, that you are satisfied. You're
satisfied with all of this without any kind of objection or without
any kind of negligence or objection. Kay, Aly Ashley and
Tesla mom in our 30 Dunya, Allah Hera. And the benefit, he's
saying, He's saying he's saying the benefit of this is so that you
remain safe and sound both from the calamities of this world and
the calamities of the Hereafter telling me out of this, what would
be the calamities of the worlds that you would be staying stay
from if you always
consign your matters to Allah?
What are we avoiding there? What are we staying safe from?
We're staying safe from greed. We're staying safe from a feeling
of inferiority. We are staying safe from wasting time, haram
business possibly haram aspects, maybe missing things that are
obligations that were supposed to do. But I think right at the
bottom of it, we are satisfied with ourself with because of
Allah.
We don't feel depressed. I don't mean the clinical depression,
that's a different issue. Right? I mean,
you feel this anguish that doesn't leave you right.
And then of course in the Hereafter, then there's mashallah
lots of places, lots of bounties and lots of calamities to avoid in
of the Hereafter that's quite clear anyway. So we ask Allah
subhana wa Taala for for the blessing.
Number Number six, sorry, number five now is now that we understand
all of this and we understand the importance of this, he is saying
that the fifth principle he actually puts us as a principle of
the path and if you want to leave Allah, if you're if you want to
reach Allah subhanaw taala and leave the dunya then he says etbr
will murshid El Carmen. So I'll Hamas at Barrow shaken I riffin
called Celica consolekit tariqa Lillahi wa ala Yadi shavian
Karateka Isla Yun de la sala he sallallahu alayhi wa sallam.
He says basically, you're gonna have to find somebody who
recognizes this path, who's known who's
who's gained knowledge and awareness of Allah subhanaw taala.
Who has
who has trodden the path of the people of Allah, himself also
under the tutelage of somebody else.
And likewise him to someone else, him to someone else, until they
get to Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi salam. So we were speaking
about a bless it chain. We're not speaking about the new kid on the
block. Somebody who comes randomly studies here and there starts to
criticize everybody, all of the organized and
the traditionally established massage in an organization's
right.
Okay, they've got weakness with them, right? Everybody has
weakness. So these are the established ways of doing things
that are established.
Madonna is the established massage. That is, they've got
weaknesses, everybody has weaknesses. You haven't proven
anything yet this new kid on the block hasn't proven anything yet.
He hasn't shown anything yet. But he does know how to criticize, and
he knows how to write. So he criticizes. For what?
Why don't you first develop a stream, or a series of
alternatives, and then criticize, then maybe we can see what's
better, you're speaking with no experience. It's easy to
criticize. And then, because they're quite savvy in the way
they discuss things. And, you know, I think this is a
temperament thing.
Some people are just naturally inclined towards radical
individuals, because they themselves just want to be
different.
Initially, they were different, because they want to be different
from their community. So that's why they may have gone into the
wrong things. Now, they may Towba. From that shaytaan is just giving
them another fish to hook in the wrong way.
Allah protect us from this. Because if you've got a radical
bent, it could be very positive in the sense that you will actually
see things that others don't, if Allah guide you, you will be able
to fill in gaps that needed need to be fulfilled. But If Allah
doesn't guide and you're not looking for guidance, you're just
looking for fame and gain, then you will be radical, you will
start something new, or you will take the newest idea on the block,
and you will get messed up.
Just remember, that's what it is, some of us are just prone to that
I take the weird things, because maybe we had some bad experience
with the status quo. Because of one individual, we're just going
to discount the whole thing.
Which is quite normal. That's why I understand this, this is very
important to understand.
And I'm saying this after years and years of observing this stuff,
and maybe being part of some of this myself and being burnt, you
know, and hamdulillah Allah, I pray Allah is protected. Right,
and Allah protect us. But that's why you have to be very careful
about just new people who claim things. Right? Because where did
they get it from? You think if somebody comes to me and tells me
that for 1000 years, and there was a claim like that, nothing about
1200 years, some of the main terms of Islam, some of the main
religious terms of Islam, were misunderstood by about 12 years of
Islamic scholarship and common people. And now I'm going to tell
you what they really are, the way they were in the time of
Rasulullah sallallahu sallam, and 1200 is they've been lost. So I'm
the next Prophet on the block. You might as well say you're the next
Prophet, right? If you're going to claim something like that, for
1200 years, 1100 years.
Nobody knew these most important terms of Islam that our deen is
based on, somebody actually made that claim.
Can you believe it?
Right, just sounds upset. But for some people, wow, man, this guy
knows his stuff is the next best thing out there.
There's a lot of reasons why people get
attached to people a lot of different reasons. If it's not for
the right reason. And if the right things are not underlying it, it's
a massive, massive form of deception. Because Shakedowns
always there to mislead.
And I think everybody's trying to be the interpreter for
for the self nowadays, aren't they?
I give you the best interpretation, or the best
representation of what the Sahaba did, or what the earliest
generation did. That's where the fight is. That's where all
argument is, like, everybody's claiming that they've got the best
representation of that. The way I look at it is for me, it's quite
simple. Right? It's quite simple. I know. It's confusing, but it's
really quite simple. Why is it quite simple? Just look at right?
Just look at chains of transmission.
Just look at traditions that have gone up. Yes, there will be
weaknesses in many of these. I'm not saying that the perfect thing?
No, right. Because we have weakness, the further we go away
from a sort of awesome, we're going to be more weaker, right?
We're gonna have weaknesses. But that doesn't mean that you need to
totally do away with this system. Take the best from it. And even
among them, there will be some that will be better than others,
you just have to find the better ones. That's all. Just because
you've had a bad experience with a weak link doesn't mean it's all
bad.
Doesn't mean you have to do something else.
I don't want to take names and things like that because I wanted
this to be generic so that we can understand that I want to limit it
to something but I hope you can interpret this in your whatever
challenges everybody's having, or have had, that you can interpret
this for yourself, just so that we are clear in what we do and we
don't get misled in life. You have to be very careful.
You have to be very careful because it's one life that we have
right in this world, and it governs the next life. So that's
what he says, he says,
to follow a sheikh, who is the knower of Allah, who has followed
the path of who has a West traverse the path of the Lula at
the hands of another shake similar to him, right or similar in a
similar characteristic who has done so likewise, on another Shake
until they went to the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wasallam so
woman Lumiose have shaken your doula who Allah 30 ki il Allah,
whoever does not follow a che who can help indicate to him the path
towards Allah was the cannula Bhima in the human, a bird that in
our element, and he remains in he thinks is independent, because of
the worship that he has and the knowledge that he has, then forgot
the orderly era is shaytani Allah who he has then put himself
forward for shaytaan to deceive him.
When he has Akela Mandla che kala HuFa shaytaan. Who che who who
is very controversial statement this is that's why it has been
said that who has the one who has no shake, then shaytan is a shake.
Now remember, this is not an absolute statement, there are
people who didn't have a formal shake, but they shaytaan was not
their shake. But I need to put this in perspective because
there's no aside from the Quran. Even though even the Quran sunnah,
you can interpret their interpretation, they're not always
absolute statements. So how can this statement be absolute? Right,
that you can just apply it indiscriminately. What this means
is that generally speaking, I keep mentioning this for the majority
of people.
If they don't have supervision, or somebody to look up to, and to
bounce ideas off and make matura with and maybe even tell them off,
you know, to ask for reproach when it's necessary, then it's much
easier for such a person to miss understand something and do
something that will end up being haram or wrong or degenerated.
I'll tell you this, from my own experience, if I didn't have a
tradition that I was in a living tradition, and living elders, that
my teachers that I can bounce ideas off and go back to and get
advice from, then I have been in various different positions and
circumstances, you know, having been lived in different countries,
having been many mom in different countries and the pressures that
people want, you know what you to change and do this time than the
other.
It was so easy just to bow to pressure. It is just so easy to
bow to pressure, because that's what 10 People are telling you,
right? So let me just change it, let me just do it this way. But
there's a clear haram that's taking place, or at least a
massive doubtful act. But you know, 10 people are telling me
it's so easy to bend, bow to that pressure and say, Okay, forget all
of that.
Now, that doesn't mean that everybody that I have studied with
may agree with everything that I say, because I'm, you know, so
many teachers are in other countries, and there's a different
reality.
But for the most part, they would agree in principle, inshallah.
Well, I hope so. Because I wouldn't like to be independent of
them, because I would feel like a lost sheep.
Seriously, because it's dangerous out there.
You see things and the pressure on you and then the shaytaan and
everything and you can't trust yourself. Nobody's guaranteed
until they die.
And then you know, what scares you is that you see so called Big
influential names and people who do fall. So anything I'm never I'm
not even anything like them, I could fall.
Right? If big people can fall, big names can fall and they can make
big mistakes. And a whole world or or part of the world finds out why
can I fall? They're human beings. I'm human being as well. What's so
special about me that I can't follow?
Right? I'm not mad assume I'm not a prophet. Only prophets are not
soon especially predicted. I don't have that.
Can you see the benefit of being under supervision?
It's just a logical conclusion. There's no doubt about it. But
that doesn't mean that anybody who doesn't have a shape, I'm gonna
call him a shape. And I'm not going to do that. Because I have
some I have seen some people who
when I say, you know, this is probably talking about somebody
who just does everything himself and just doesn't bother with any
any tradition or anything he wants to think for himself. Because at
the end of the day, the world is quite a generic place and ideas
are quite generic and there is a accepted substratum of beliefs
that have come down, right clearly, there is an accepted
substratum of
have beliefs and ideas and ideologies, which have been passed
on for centuries, who are you that you can come and produce some
absolutely fresh ideas for humanity that they've never heard
before.
Nobody can do that. You can make a new technology you can, you can
invent something new. That's different, though. But human
ideology, philosophy, I don't think there's anything new
generically.
You can refine something, but you can't make up something new. So
that's why it's best to be in a tradition that has proven itself.
Find the tradition that has proven that has a track record.
Right, of producing good people, and being infinite. That's what we
need to do.
New traditions that have just come out.
They could be good. But we're not going to know until about 100
years. They may look good right now. But when you read history,
there have been many traditions that have come and gone many,
many. So we ask Allah subhanaw taala for guidance, because I
think ultimately we have to ask Allah for guidance. Oh Allah, show
me the truth is the truth and allow me to follow it and show me
the wrong is wrong and allow me to abstain from it. So we ask Allah
for Tofik because this world is a challenge. This world can be a
very, very, very difficult and a dirty world. And of course, the
more you want to be an achiever, the more difficult it gets. Right?
But we all have to stand in front of Allah subhanaw taala one day so
we ask Allah for Tofik and guidance and we ask Allah to
protect us from criticizing the wrong things and just basically
running with the wrong ideas. While he did that run and
hamdulillah her beloved Amin allotment this morning because
along the journey when it Quran
Allahumma salli wa salam either so you know, Hamid Vida and you say
you didn't know Mohammed? Well during the course
of Allah, we ask for your mercy. While Allah we ask for your
forgiveness of Allah, we ask for your guidance of Allah show us the
truth and allow us to follow it. Oh Allah show us the wrong is
wrong and allow us to abstain from it. Oh Allah strengthen us. Oh
Allah strengthen our hearts. Oh Allah grant us love for you. Oh
Allah fill our hearts with your love of Allah grant us your love
and the love of those things which are which you are satisfied with?
Oh Allah, we ask that you give us good company. Oh Allah that You
give us 100 only. Allah forgive us all of our sins of Allah forgive
us all of our wrongdoings of Allah forgive us all of our defects own
our shortcomings. Allah forgive us all of those wrongs that we have
done, whether we remember them or we forgotten them, or Allah, those
that we continue to do or Allah allow us to stop from doing them.
Oh Allah and specially allow us to see the wrongs that we're doing
even if we don't think they're on of Allah, they may be some wrongs
that we're doing which which we don't realize that they're wrong
because we become so accustomed to them for Allah what a crime This
is in your site. And oh Allah shaytaan has misled us and made it
part and parcel and we've made it part and parcel of our life of
Allah allow us to weed these things out of Allah before it's
too late. Allow us to change and allow us to submit and allow us to
prepare for our death. Allow us to be not of those who
those who risk everything and who live on the edge of Allah with
terms of our deen make us completely comfortable of Allah
make us completely comfortable and confident with regards our grant
as you're keen on Allah grant us conviction in our hearts so that
we're proud of our faith of Allah do not let us become doubtful and
depressed over small small issues or any issues. Oh Allah, you're
always there but Oh ALLAH for us. Sometimes we don't think of you
were negligent. Oh Allah do not allow us to be negligent Forgive
us our negligence. And for forgive us for any objections that we may
have shown. Oh Allah we are in need of you we have nobody but
you. Oh Allah we are in need of you. We have nobody but you how
can we object to you yet due to our weaknesses and our
ignorance sometimes we may say things or do things or express
things which which are totally inappropriate. Oh Allah forgive us
for this. Oh Allah if you forgive us, then we benefit from this. Oh
Allah make it easy for us to be obedient to you. Oh Allah make
your love make your obedience beloved in our heart and our Allah
make your disobedience hated in our hearts. Oh Allah grant us
baraka and blessing in what you have given us. And our Allah allow
us to always find good company in this world. Oh Allah allow us to
reach you
Allow us to allow us to reach you or Allah grant us your love of
Allah grant us your love and the love of those whose love benefits
us in your court. And Allah make the latest later part of our life
better than the previous parts of our life. And oh Allah make the
best of moments the moment that we stand in front of you. And Allah
grant has generated a fair dose of Allah protect us and our assets,
and Our Allah, our children, our progeny, and all the muslimeen
around the world and bring back humanity back into the human being
of Allah O Allah, we ask that you grant your abundant blessings on
our messenger Muhammad sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, and that you
grant us his company in the hereafter. So Hannah robic
Robinair is at your mercy for when I was when I did more Serena
Williams.