Abdur Rahman ibn Yusuf Mangera – What is Sufism A Formal Explanation Part 16 The Sixth Principle of the Path Voluntary Hunger
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The speakers discuss the importance of following accomplishments and setting up systems, avoiding false assumptions, giving people a burial fee, and being humble. They also touch on the struggles of Islam, the importance of sugar, and the challenges of finding a healthy lifestyle. The speakers emphasize the importance of avoiding negative thoughts and distractions, being honest and forgiving, and receiving blessings for one's businesses. They also mention the potential for health issues from Halal diet and pollution from people's activities.
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Smilla Rahmanir Rahim Al hamdu lillahi rabbil aalameen or salat
wa salam ala. So you've been listening while he was talking
about aka seldom at the Sleeman Cathedral in Iommi been another,
we were talking about the point on
that, which is the fifth principle of the self and Sufism, which is
to try to follow a accomplished and accomplished guide. So he
spends quite a bit of time on this because you can clearly see that
he's got a lot of concern. I've mentioned before that sometimes to
become a religious guide and set up a kind of a system is quite
lucrative for some people. And it can be abused, which I've which
we've been saying, and that's why we're actually covering this
course, so that we can understand what truth is or is not so here he
says.
He's talking about obviously, certain people that he's probably
seen maybe in Egypt where he was from or otherwise he said had the
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Now, what you have to remember is that today, when you go to Egypt,
you still have Sufi Han cos Sufi retreats, but probably nothing
compared to what it used to be from 100 years ago. And before
that, the much of the Muslim world if not all of the Muslim world,
this is what was found that if you go to Morocco today, you go to
fairs, you go to Marrakech, you see them all Han cars, you see
that in Syria, you see that everywhere. It's only in this last
100 years that there's been
criticism and move in another direction, otherwise, it was the
common thing to do. Now, obviously, when you have a lot,
then you're going to have the good and bad. And you can have a lot of
bad and you can have quite a few good. But from what he's saying is
that there were very few good ones, most of them were
problematic is this to such a degree that some of their behavior
has become such that if an individual goes and gives a sadaqa
to them, or goes and gives a heavy or something also the golfer their
place
or any other they do another kind of favor, they provide something
else, then they take this as some kind of ritual for them. And then
they
essentially compel them to do this over and over again.
By using various different types of pressure, it seems, for
example, they would say to them, You better give us our stipend,
our normal gift or whatever it is that they've been giving them.
Otherwise, we're going to
look over what you're doing.
Almost giving this kind of really strange idea that we can see what
you guys are doing.
Like if you don't do this, then we'll inspect you spiritually
inspect you. Now when it's coming from a person who is in that kind
of a position, and you've got ignorance that's prevailing, then
for you human NASA and the home Arab world, they're giving people
an
they're giving people this
idea that they are people that they themselves meaning the the
shoe that they are people have states that Allah has gifted them
with being able to maybe go in a trance or an have an unveiling or
whatever it is and know what people are doing and their
secrets. So that's going to intimidate people.
One, one Hola. Hola. Hola. You start decoding Phil McCall and
that Allah subhanaw taala always confirms what they say. Like
whatever they say generally happens. Now when somebody claims
that
a lot of people who are gullible they're gonna they're gonna just
accept that
color Maha Vitaly Cthulhu Cara, Allah Allah. He said, Absolutely
not. This is not the way of the Sufis. This is not the way of the
people of Allah.
We're in amateur eco tariqa to home at tava. Well in Kisara,
Werehog, bull hobo life to the zoo, it will work while water will
etha whatever cool. The real way of the Sufis is to be humble.
To be,
to have humility, to love,
to be veiled and not to be well known to be totally abstinent
from what people have not to want to what people have,
and to be extremely stupid scrupulous, to give others
preference over themselves and to ultimately just rely on Allah.
That should be their state.
What a Maha Shula these people for whom a SRA nurse, they're the
worst of people
Yeah Corona and one and NASA will battle consuming the wealth of
people in an unlawful haram way, where their own morality will Alia
but at the same time claiming to have high levels claiming to be at
high levels will home feed Daugherty swiftly, whereas they
actually in the lowest of the low
worker Cathy roofie has ism as a man. These people have become
abundant during these times.
There's so many of them had their mother or tablecell out of them in
CO leukotriene, warmer Can such that they filled the corners of
the world every place not just in Egypt, but every place they filled
it wherever he goes. Now the biller Him in whom we ask Allah to
give us refuge from them, called Little star do not say they'll
backery fee Alfia did the soul of Istanbul Bacary this was one of
his teachers is written elfia to the so this is 1000 points on the
south and one of the two of the lines is their word nama fie word
nama fie this Zima Nisha room had summer fineness Egypt in the room
while I'm here coulomb Hoonah my year that mean actually that Dean
ill honey fee were there.
He said there's numerous people in this time we basically become
prevalent like this and
there's just not enough people to respond or reject these people or
to take care of these people and get rid of them.
To basically reinstall the whole idea of the Hanafi faith the pure
monotheistic faith of focus entirely on Allah and nothing else
may Allah grant us honey for a year. So then he says that so when
when a mother Allah He like authority him or Kathy facility,
he Mattila Yaakov ed him, Avila who Ababa al Arusha or for Warden
Umbra Ihlara billary. But he said, when the true love law, the true
people of Allah, when they saw the abundance of this corruption,
abundance of such people and the abundance of their corruption, and
corrupt beliefs and ideologies, they shut their own retreats down.
They locked up their own, they locked up their own retreats of of
guidance and earshot. And they just consign the matter to Allah.
There's not much we can do. Sufis don't go out and start causing
problems. So they just shut their own down that week. We can't get
involved in this because everybody's going to think it's
the same.
Water level fineness for lumea it for him in LA and hustle Hula,
hula noir de la hillside, it is somebody. So now,
among the people, very few people would recognize them as the true
people.
That Allah subhanaw taala has chosen these people and specify
these people to give them his real indulgences and their light, not
these other ones. Unfortunately, most people are not going to
understand that that's why he's saying that it is necessary for
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OB, so if there's anybody who's knifes who self
is highly desirous of following the path
of spirituality, path of minimalism, which basically takes
you away from having too much dunya wanting too much Estonia,
such that they can really become absorbed in the oceans of Divine
oneness. What they need to do is they need to hold fast to God
fearing this and Taqwa and they need to really turn to Allah
subhanaw taala
ill teacher, they need to really entreat Allah subhanho wa Taala
really turned to him with a lot of desire. And they need to also turn
to Allah subhanaw taala by taking an intermediary of the Prophet
salAllahu alayhi wasallam
that Allah subhanaw taala give them bring them together with a
true che, who is genuinely
who genuinely has mindful of Allah, who can help him his
therapy who can help nurture him.
Well, you could eat your home in a Walmart in NAVSEA and you can take
him out of the darkness of his soul, where you Sufi YSP him in
harmony in Mahabharata where you saw a fee, who can purify him,
cleanse him and give him from the from from the from the from the
drink of love of Allah subhanaw taala and who can truly who can
truly be sincere with him for either animala who sit cook
because one thing is for sure. For either Annie Mala who said Coco
and Allah subhanaw taala knows your sincerity
at La Cali. He will give you opening to him.
He will give you open to him if you just want
Be part of a tariqa because they're famous, they're well
known. It feels good to be part of them. There are additional
benefits in being part of them. Right? There could be so many
things, knifes and greed and fame comes about everywhere attacks
many things.
But truly if Allahumma Azuka Hogback Well, Dominion pharaoh now
her book, her book, herbivore InDeck, oh Allah grant us your
love and the love of those whose love benefits us in your court.
That's really we need to ask with great fervor Allah subhanho wa
Taala will give us that even if it's a person nobody knows.
I just have to be careful actually done doesn't cause any more
conflict there for illegitimate America behave for should do the
curly when you find somebody like that. holdfast just hot, tie your
hands to him. Basically, just hold fast to them. What couldn't kill
me it's been a day just be like a dead person in front of them.
Whatever they tell you to do. Very difficult to do today. type of
individualism, right? Everybody has their own thoughts, parents
find it difficult to have their children think the same way. So to
try to have that today is very difficult, but as much as
possible.
That's the only way to cut your ego. Otherwise everybody has their
own ideas. We'll call and then and then say Alhamdulillah Hilary
Madonna Ali Harada mama could Nadina Teddy Alola and Hidin
Allah,
all praises to Allah who guided us to this
and we would not have been guided Had Allah not guided us
through my heart filled God well if the * then after that you
need to just totally immerse yourself
with as much emphasis as possible. In all seriousness, and just
basically humbly entreating Allah subhanaw taala what should be
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don't just be generous in spending of your wealth. You need to spend
of yourself for the sake of Allah. Not just by giving donations of
money but by giving yourself to help Allah subhanaw taala to to
get to know Allah that's why I call a camera caught as one of the
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Is that basically you saying that you those people who have desire
you need to just expand yourself fully.
And if it's accepted from you, then mashallah, what a wonderful
spending, if it's expanded from you, and whoever can't find the
real true love of that in the heart of Norma, basically, here
talking about your beloved, then you you need to basically even if
you give your whole world will make a difference, you need to
have the love in your heart to do that. So that is that is basically
his ending.
And his discourse on finding the right shake and what a shake needs
to be like. But as I've mentioned before,
in one of the previous ones, one of the maybe the last one or the
one before that, it's very difficult to come around with the
most perfect person, there is no there aren't any perfect people
and then as we get further away from the time of the Prophet
sallallahu some especially in the West when there's so much fit and
there's so many challenges there's so many distractions, very
difficult to find somebody who
find somebody who's going to be perfect, even close to perfect.
Even half perfect mean that there are great people out there, masha
Allah, may Allah subhanaw taala allow us to have a means to him.
Right number six, the sixth prince, the sixth principle of the
path, just to reiterate the principle just so that we don't
forget all of them because it has taken a few weeks. The first
principle of the path was sugar. And it was actually a Tober.
Because when until we don't do Tober
until you don't repent, then we're just carrying the baggage, you're
going to take a journey somewhere you don't want to carry all the
junk in your car. Right, you want to clean it out so that you it's
when you go go for a run, you don't want so many things weighing
you down in your pockets. The end of the day. So Toba is important
so that we can have a fresh start and go then number two, we need to
do sugar because the benefit of sugar is that we're fulfilling
what Allah wants us to do. And number two, when you do sugar,
Allah gives you more. So it's an incentive. It's it's like you
know, get rid of everything and then do sugar that Allah has given
us the Tofik to that so he gives us even more. That was number two.
Number three was sober. This once we get onto this path is not going
to be easy. You will not be able to do what your friends want you
to do. What Every buddy else wants you to what you found, even
sometimes may want you to do, we need to have sovereign patients.
And then you need
It patients on the patience, if you can't do what your friends
want you to do, you can't lash out at them and get so arrogant and so
even your family that you guys are all jehlen ignorant, you can't do
that there's some people who mashallah become religious.
And they now are going to not do what they were doing before with
their family members, even their spouse, maybe. So now let's just
imagine your family members, like your own spouse, husband or wife,
right? You've just suddenly mashallah changed, and you're
gonna have to have somebody in the way you deal with them as well.
You can't just do it in a way that
you must change overnight as well. And if you're not going to do it,
and you cause a big ruckus,
you need to have sovereign patients even in in that as well.
Right.
So
that was suburb and patients, we need a lot of patience. And then
number four, was to be satisfied with the decree of Allah. There is
no other way about it to be honest, if you can't be satisfied
because once we start understanding that Allah is behind
everything, and I'm trying to do my best for him, so he's going to
do best for me. And Allah is not valid. Will I be Yvonne lamb in
the lobby? He's not the one who oppresses Well, I only Maura
Booker I had. He doesn't basically oppress anybody whatsoever. Even a
small amount he doesn't oppress, he's the wise one. He's the not
that he's the he's the omniscient, all knowing one. When once you've
understood Allah, then there's no way you can think that Allah is
out to get you for no reason.
So that needs to be clarified, then we will understand that
anything that happens to us, for example, the other day, I'm riding
back home, I'm dry. On my bike, I'm riding back home, and there's
wind. Now anybody who's into you know, who's riding bicycles. Rain
is bad, right? Snow is very bad. But wind doesn't let you go. If
you've got a tail wind is good. Maybe you know, it helps you but
the wind is coming from front you're trying to peddle you can't
get into it's like literally trying to peddle against an
invisible force, like there's an invisible window or something.
It's crazy. So now, if that's going to delay you getting home,
so then you think, Man, this is getting delayed, why is it like
this? What are you going to do about it anyway?
What are you going to do? You can argue with the winds, like, Okay,
if there's a car blocking you in front, you can go out and fight
with the guy, right? And argue with the guy get out of the way.
But how are you going to do anything with the wind?
How can you argue with that, so then you must succumb. But that's
the moment when you think, Okay, this is what my knifes is telling
me protesting. But this is Allah, that's what he wants, maybe I need
to get home five minutes late. Because there's a reason for that.
See what I'm saying? You can always find a reason behind
things. And it's just you might say, well, that's just convincing
yourself. But what's wrong with convincing yourself if it just
makes you feel better, if it makes you less aggravated, if it gives
you less tension is not a good thing for the heart.
So while these things are what Allah wants us to do spiritually,
but I think psychologically, they're better for us,
physiologically, they better for us, because at the end of the day,
you don't want now they've narrowed everything down to
hormones, right? So you don't want cortisol? Cortisol is a bad
hormone, the bad hormone, which constantly gives you stress, why
would you want that? Relax, think think well, and get the dopamine
going? And you feel better. Right? So when you've got it down to that
level, it can it's so easy to understand this. These atheists,
they say, but these are all just convincing factors, opium and
things like that, well, I'd rather have that to be honest, than not
have that, and have a purpose in the world, you know, have a way to
deal with my issues, rather than there'd be nothing, you know, I'd
rather look forward to something like that, at least have a better
life in this world. We believe in the hereafter. Anyway, so rather
Bill cover to be satisfied with the decree
number five, then, was what we've just covered in this lengthy
discourse, which was to try to find and then to follow a, an
accomplished and accomplished guide. So that was number five.
Number six is a joueur, which is a very difficult one,
which is hunger. What about hunger?
Hunger, Assad is a Jew acteon This is to undertake some hunger by
choice.
Fasting is a good one, isn't it? Right, B Elia coda, UK thirimanne
UK lettin huffy fat. In theory, this is probably one of the most
difficult the others are difficult as well. But this one is like no,
I can't even do this. I mean, I know I have. I have trouble with
this. That you don't eat be unlike collect from an athlete in coffee
fitting for Yomi well at middle halal,
right, that a person does not eat more than just a light meal in his
day and night, and that of the 100% Hello.
Hello until you baby
If you just get very expensive, nutritious foods, and you just
need a bit of it, rather than eating a lot of junk food, there
you go one meal a day. And there's always these diets Allahu Akbar. I
mean, diets are difficult one, they work for a short while and
then you lose them again. But there you go one meal a day diet,
right? He says the problem is with Halal to try to find the halal is
Wahoo oh my god that.
He said, unfortunately, that's something whose foundation has
been to the unknown now, you don't know how to get Halal anymore.
Well, Are you keen, who's article 50 diameter, he loved the cutter
the song, he says, but the way to build this up, right, the way to
build this up to this level, before you can even get onto that
diet is you need to do the fight, you need to do the five and two
diets, which is basically by fasting. He says, because that's
another date isn't the two and five diet, right? So you probably
need to do that before the other one. It's much easier to do this
probably because at least you know, just try to stay away from
food for the whole day, except for like meat is much more tough than
stay away from food for a certain number of hours. Because at least
you know that okay, I can't eat otherwise, I'll break my fast and
have to do a cover anyway, that psychologic is probably more
helpful in the beginning. That's why he's saying that that will not
be possible for him to have that light meal diet right in the
beginning of his in the beginning of his path
except by first abundantly fasting.
So in the WHO Legion was set up, that's the saddle of those who
will travel that's the way you start off with the first thing
while I'm Anil Adela
some are cool, fall occlude haram lion shower, and who in the
armored on Kabita Maha Rama.
He says, really what it is, is that
you get justice as a consequence of what you eat. Right? And he
says eating the halal sorry, eating the Haram cannot produce in
you except bad bad actions. Except corrupt actions. Except pollution.
You eat Haram is going to be pollution you're gonna get out of
it.
You sometimes wonder right? Sometimes you're fine. And then
suddenly you get involved in a sin, maybe something an addiction
of the past. You get back involved. And like why how? What
happened? You can't see anything specific but you just can't help
it sometimes. There could be so many factors to be honest. And one
of them could be haram eating haram. It could be maybe something
we said to somebody maybe somebody close to Allah and we said
something bad to them. It could be so many factors you know that
because unusually sometimes we fall back in relapse into
something.
You just have to turn to Allah and say Allah forgive me.
Well hello surf line, Sharon hula Lamoreaux Salia you get proper
halal food, then the only thing that's going to be produced from a
halal food is going to be
Artemis soya right righteous deeds is a quantum world we live in. And
it's a quantum existence we have so everything affects everything
else, while Modi Shah he and Chawan who are Merle
Merle mortality
the doubtful foods it doesn't have to be dealt with in ingredients it
could be dealt with in our earning as well. Then what does that
produce if Halal provides good if halal food provides good actions
bad food provides corrupt actions and what about doubtful food then
he says doubtful foods they will produce
deeds which are mixed up. So it may be a good deed that you're
doing. But it won't be a pure good deed because he won't be devoid of
RIA of ostentation, you'll be showing off with it. So that will
cancel out the reward will urge you Valhalla, Tara, do you still
have bad thoughts in your heart. You might be doing the good deed
but then you still have narcissism
and bad thoughts that would plague a person. So
we ask Allah for discernment. And we ask Allah for tofield the
numbers number 789 they move on to a Lucilla which is to
stay away. Just throw yourself on just put that away that will
probably be do the trick nowadays, because we already used to not be
with so many people because we're mostly on our phone anyway. So now
it's just easy knowing that you don't have to forget so many
friends that don't forget one phone.
And Thurman and a son we'll get to that in sha Allah We ask Allah for
tofi Allahu Mantis, Salam or Minca Salon de Baraka little Jedi, they
will eat Quran, Allah may Allah Hi, you yaka Yun bureaucratically
mystery Allah Who Mejia then generally what Quran? Allah homea
Hannah Yemen suddenly was salam ala Sayidina Muhammad whiner early
so you didn't know Middle America Salam. O Allah we ask you for your
complete forgiveness of Allah completely forgive us, O Allah
were involved
doing so many things that we should not be involved in. We
perpetrate things that we should not perpetrate. or Allah we commit
excesses against you that we should not be committing Allah. We
don't want to do these things, but sometimes we're overwhelmed.
Sometimes we're distracted. Sometimes it's a point of
ignorance of Allah We ask that you do not allow us to succumb to our
knifes of Allah that you not you do not allow us to succumb to our
nafs that you grant us guidance in everything.
Oh Allah, we ask that you hold us by the follow can enter us enter
us into paradise, or Allah write us to be of those people and turn
our actions into the actions of the people of paradise. Oh Allah,
we say we love you of Allah grant us your true love in our heart.
And oh Allah also bring around us such people whose love will
benefit us in your court who Allah make our surroundings conducive
for your love of Allah conducive for worship. Make your obedience,
beloved in our heart and disobedience hated in our heart.
Oh Allah, we ask that when we gather here, oh Allah despite our
wrongdoings despite our defects and despite our sins and excesses
that you still envelope us with your mercy and your forgiveness,
and your benevolence and your special attention. Oh Allah, we
ask You for Your forgiveness and your benevolence for your
special attention of Allah for your love. And Oh Allah, do not
let any of us leave here without being forgiven of Allah never to
return to the wrongs that we may have done. Oh Allah and make grant
as Kenema on our deathbed, grant us the law in il Allah on our
deathbed make all of the stages of the Hereafter easy for us,
facilitate that for us, facilitate for us a place in,
in the shade of your throne on the Day of Judgment. So Allah give us
good company both in this world and especially in the hereafter.
Oh Allah make the final the rest of our life better than the
previous part of our life. of Allah make the best of our life,
the last part of our life and make the best day in our life, the day
that we stand in front of you. Oh Allah, we ask that you bless our
families and you bless our children, not just our children,
but our progeny. Make them a grant, make them a source of
gladness for our eyes until the day of judgment of Allah, Allah we
ask that you bless us in our businesses in our work and you
remove any obstacles in our path, any difficulties, any issues that
we may be having you protect us from all forms of evil that are
out there. And you accept us all for the service of your deen
somehow you accept us all for the service of your dean and keep us
fake focused on you. Bless all of those who have allowed this
program to take place and who facilitated in any way whatsoever
and all the attendees who are here and all of those who are listening
online and other places. Oh Allah bless everybody. Allah bless
everybody bless everyone. Allah we ask that you send your abundant
blessings on our soul allah sallallahu alayhi wa sallam and
grant us his company in the hereafter. Subhan Allah
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