Abdur Rahman ibn Yusuf Mangera – You Testified to Your Faith before Your Birth [Hikam 255]
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Bismillah al Rahman al Rahim Al hamdu Lillahi Rabbil Alameen wa
salatu salam ala UD mursaleen while he was Safi or Baraka was
seldom at the Sleeman kathira. In Iommi, Dean Amma Bard.
Continuing with our series, this is HECM Hickman number 255 If not
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This one is
slightly more deeper and profound than some of the previous ones
we've read.
He says that he Allah made you witness, before he asked you to
give witness,
he made you witness, before he asked you to give witness. Thus
the outer faculties speak of His divinity, while the heart and the
innermost consciousness have realized his unity.
That takes a while to essentially what he's saying is that before he
told us to bear witness that he is one
that's generally as we're growing up, and we start to become old
enough to be able to understand the good and bad, what's right and
what's wrong.
And then we become mature, then we become responsible. And at that
point, it becomes necessary for us to bear witness to Allah's
oneness.
So what he's saying is that he already made you witness before he
asked you to give this witness. So before we reach that stage, where
we are right now where we have to give witness before that, while we
were children, and even before that, he already made us witness
it, that witness that Allah is there.
Does anybody remember that? So that's what this discussion is
about. He made you witness already before he asked you to bear
witness.
Therefore, now this part is a bit more complex. Therefore the outer
faculties, the outer faculties speak about Allah's divinity,
while the heart
and the innermost consciousness have already realized his oneness
from before.
So there's something there's a background to this, otherwise you
wouldn't understand this.
There's a background to this. So again, he made you witness before
he asked you to give witness. Thus the outer faculties speak of His
divinity. So when we bow down for prayer, when he prostrate, those
are our two faculties. That is bearing witness that Allah is our
Lord is Allah is God.
So all of these are doing this, while the heart and the innermost
consciousness have already realized his unity. So that's why
he said, I had her come in Cobley as the Hejduk
for another cut be Isla de Avila here, what the hacker could be a
hadiya de el Kulu was Sarah. So let's try to understand that a bit
more.
So it all goes back to our spirit, our soul and our rule, because
that was created before anything else. So before this world was
created with our bodies, our bodies obviously come from the
embryo, and then our body grows. And when we're in the stomach at
around 120 days, our rule, which is somewhere else, comes in
becomes attached to this body. So for the first 120 or so days, the
body is just the body, there's no rule in there. Then the rule, the
spirit, becomes associated with our body in our mother's wombs and
stomach, and then we grow like that. So we become rule, soul,
spirit and body together. And then we come into this world. So our
body is clearly created after this after the fluid meets the egg.
That's the body that's the physical body parts. But the rule
has been existed from before. The rule was created when other Malays
Salam was created. Because when Allah subhanaw taala, created
other money salaam, he then had everybody that was to come from
him, all of their souls created and then be in front of him. And
then he asked them, untie your Lord.
And they also well of course you are. They didn't know anything
else.
They only knew the reality. They hadn't been polluted or
manipulated or changed or confused in any way. So there's like, yes,
of course. So that's the genetics, if you want to call it that,
something even more deeper than that. So that's why he's saying a
rule, the rule in terms of its original state, the rule, its
original state is in extreme level of purity. extreme level of
purity, because it's coming from a very pure realm is created by
Allah subhanaw taala. It's not been confused and adulterated
anyway, so it's absolutely pure.
Then when Allah subhanahu wa taala
brings it out with the body into this world.
It's, it's supposed to have this knowledge already of what it
experienced before.
Allah subhanho wa taala, when he had that special occasion,
to when he had all the souls witness him, he asked them, alas,
to be Rob become called rubella. They said, of course, You are our
Lord. So they all confess to his,
his lordship.
Then when Allah subhanaw taala puts that rule into these bodies,
which we are right now. That's why we breathe, and we speak and we
are live. Because we have rules with our bodies, we have the soul
with our bodies.
Now, some of these souls, some people meaning, once they become
body, they remember this, or even if they don't remember it, they're
convinced by it, nothing in the mix and reject it. So they're
convinced by it. So they say, yes, definitely, you're our Lord. I
shall do Allah, Allah illallah, or I shall do unto Muhammad Rasool
Allah. But then there's others who forget
and deny. Maybe most of us forget, we can't remember it. Like,
clearly, like, I don't remember experiencing that. But we find it
easy to believe. That's why if you get most children, like children
in general, if you give them an understanding of Allah, they will
accept it.
Right, you hardly will see children at a young age four or
5678, who can't get that idea.
It's always going to be later some intellectual arguments that will
get somebody to think otherwise. But always children will never
deny God, you hardly ever see that happening.
Their children can deny God if you teach them to deny God. But what
I'm saying is that belief in Allah is so easy for them, because
they've come from a pure realm, so they can easily understand it. But
some do reject meaning some people who grow up they reject.
So basically, what he's saying in this, in this wisdom, is that
Allah subhanaw taala, while you were in Ireland, with Arwa in this
abode of the souls, Allah subhanaw taala. He made you witness His
Lordship, and his oneness, and you recognize that you knew it. And
you affirmed this before you came in this world. And then he asked
you to bear witness to it again, you are already affirmed all of
this.
Now, when he asks you to do this, are you going to find an innate
ability to believe?
And which makes it easy for you to believe?
So that's what he's talking about.
Now, the other thing you'll see is that if you agree with all of
this, then you will find that praying, you can actually
prostrate.
Why would you prostrate before anybody else unless you felt some
huge benefit coming from them. So that's why you find that your
external body It frustrates to Allah subhanaw taala.
So he's basically saying that you know, all of the Iman that we
have, and that we express and all the deeds that we do, all of that
has been made easy for us, because of the original witnessing,
because of the original which Allah subhanaw taala expresses the
Quran
with other Abu Kameen Benny Adam in the hurry him to reata, whom
was a shadow whom, and foresee him alleged to be or become Carlu
Bella Shahina. So because of that event that had taken place where
Allah made us bear witness, that's why we find doing these things
easy in this world, that it makes some sense and we start doing it.
That's why what is actually necessary now for a human being
because you know, the original experience we had nobody can that
nobody can deny that you can't read. You can't turn the clocks
back on that. That's something which has happened to everybody.
Now, what's happened is when you get to the hereafter, we're going
to be reminded of that that will become like, oh, yeah, I remember
that. And then what we did in this world is also going to be in front
of us.
And if those two things come together. So if we remember, when
we went on the Day of Judgment, you get to remember
that we had borne witness in the souls while we were soldiers only.
And then our life is in front of us that yes, we did also bear
witness in this world, then we'd be very, very happy because it's
like, we got the right marks, we got the right answer. And if you
reject it in this world, then it's going to be a massive dichotomy.
It's like when you know, I've done it wrong, and I failed. So that's
why I failed. Why'd you bottle up the corner, Jeremy and Boehner if
karate voted whatever he did about him,
is necessary for every human being is necessary and obligatory for
them to combine between the confession of the external form
which is now and the bearing witness to the Oneness of Allah.
Internally beforehand, he caught in some in this terminology, he
says for a while to Farrakhan Watani, German
The first was separate, when the soul did it, they call that it's
done separately, when you do it in the world as well. Now you combine
it now you become a full human being, because you've done what's
right. That's when a person becomes a full human being when
they bear witness to Allah in this world. Because it means that
you're just confirming what you knew from before and you're not
denying it. So we thank Allah subhanho wa Taala for allowing us
to do this today.
You guys remember that experience know?
What you use?
There's some people who claim they remember that's why there are some
minor minority of people they claim they remember it. Amara Are
you. So this is what Junaid Al Baghdadi said, he said, got the
hat got to be city,
Hainan Jirka Lissoni.
You affirmed my inner state when my tongue was intimately
discussing with you. So when I said my La ilaha illallah my car,
then basically you've confirmed the fact that you know, my inside
knows knows of you. This is what Sheikh Abdullah Ganga he explains
about this. He says, Oh seeker of Truth. Do not think that there is
no prior origin. And cause don't think that there is nothing
beforehand, right and cause for the testimony that you now bear
for his unity here on Earth. And for the worship, that you are now
performing this worship, that you are now performing and La Ilaha
illa Allah that you now say, and so on, don't think that this all
came out of nothing. There's a background to that is a history to
them. Long ago, Allah Most High demanded that you testify to his
unity.
He had revealed his unity, meaning his oneness in the abode of the
soul, the realm of the soul element Urwa.
After your appearance on Earth, your spirit was
fettered to the material form. So your spirit became connected to
this material body of ours, and made him the object of worship, on
account of the spiritual perception it had experience in
the realm of the souls. The reason why we can still call Allah
subhana wa Tada Our Lord is because of that experience. Thus,
the tongue proclaims His unity, and His Lordship, while the other
physical limbs of ours,
by their obedience imply that Allah Most High is the true being,
to be worshipped and obeyed. That's why we're able to do salah,
fasting and everything else. The limbs therefore go into
prostration and bowing, while the heart and the other spiritual
faculties have the certainty of his uniqueness. And the greater
the certainty that you remember, the better will be your prayer and
your other external worships. Our external worships are going to be
better, the stronger our inside internal conviction is going to
be.
Were it not for that prior revelation in the realm of the
souls, then in this physical world, the physical body would not
have testified to his unity and the heart would not have developed
certitude.
The simulate shoot for the aforementioned reality is like
that. I mean, he gives some examples, he says is like that of
a city that you had once visited, seen and then forgotten.
I guess, you know, if I think the only way you can probably remember
this is that if you were about five, six years old, four or five
years old, and you visited Bangladesh, or Egypt or
India or whatever it is, and you've never been back and now
you're 30 years old.
Right? Now you're reminded. Then after that, you just lost all
contact and everything. And then on being reminded of the city you
recall it and your heart has said
seafood of its existence and its description. So for example, let's
just say that you've been somewhere when you're four or five
years old. Right? to your village of your ancestors. I'm assuming
everybody's from some other place originally. That's why, right
except Hmong, Abdullah, here, you're from colonialism.
Bournemouth, okay, so, now somebody tells you about that
little village of yours, which you haven't been You haven't even
thought about for years. And somebody tells you about Tucson,
Arizona.
Right. Now, you can check up Tucson, Arizona online and
everything. But your experience in the place you've actually
physically been is going to be stronger.
Even though you may know know more about one place than the other.
Because you've actually been there. You can maybe recall some
smells, right. I still remember the first time I went to the
village, I can still remember the smoke when they're cooking,
because they used to cook using wood. So I still remember the
smells and the other experiences, right? With everything else. This
is just knowledge. It's not it's not Hochuli. Again. It's not like
your personal experience. So that's what he's trying to say
that I'm being reminded of the city, you recall it and your heart
has certitudes of its existence and its description. However, if
you had never been or sorry, never seen the city, certitude would not
develop in that level. At that level, you could still have some
kind of certitude. But it won't be deep certitude. Regardless of the
efforts of a person to explain it to you. It's like, okay, I get it,
I get it. That's wonderful, that's great. But you can never feel it
for yourself.
One of the good examples of that is, you must have seen the Kaaba
in pictures and so on so many times the huddle,
and the people going on tawaf. Then, if you recall the first time
that UN for overall average, and the first time that you set your
glance on the garba, it was probably totally a different
experience, like totally different from what you'd seen on videos or
anything else. That's what you call a real experience.
Right? You know, the smell in the air, just everything. Because
there's more than just one dimension of looking at something.
There's several dimensions that we human beings benefit from.
So,
certitude, that level of certitude is not possible, when the form of
a thing is not in one's subconscious mind, and already are
already embedded in the imagination. That's why Allah just
made it easy for us, by giving us this experience beforehand, that
your soul is no this. So it's just easier for us to do it. That's why
there are a lot of people who find it very easy to become Muslim,
once they cut away all of the junk, right? The confusion, the
aggression, and all of the myths,
misconceptions and everything, it becomes very easy, because it's so
natural.
It's based on that initial experience.
People will not be satisfied people will not be happy. So in
the absence of the spiritual perception of the souls search,
you do certitude would not have been possible on the basis of only
rational proofs of the True One of Allah. If somebody gives you all
the truth.
If somebody gives you all
proofs of the existence of God, that's good. But it's not the same
as that experience, complete set. But the problem is right, that
there's no way to test this from a scientific perspective, because
there's no human being who comes into this world without having had
that experience. So you can't take some human beings have had that
experience, and others who have not had the experience and say,
Okay, we're going to throw some evidences of God at you, and see
if which one of you accepts it.
Because everybody's edits. We believe every human being has had
that experience.
We can't remember it, but it's, it's conducive. It's in harmony,
to what we believe. So it becomes easy to believe.
To be honest, I think this will only be fully understood in the
hereafter. But we actually remember and in sha Allah, we're
still on the faith, that we're really going to understand this.
Right now. It's just knowledge for us. Okay, in the absence of
spiritual perception of the certitude would not have been
possible. Complete certitude is not based on rational proofs ever.
You get a good amount of certitude but it's not complete certitude.
It's only when you actually fully experience something is when you
get Forex. You know, you can be told about this new restaurant in
town or this new drink or this new food or chocolate or whatever. And
they can you know, people are gonna say, that was just so
wonderful. You can check these guys you know, who go around the
world testing food, and they make all of these weird, like, yes,
that's really nice and all the rest of it, bring water into your
mouth. But believe me, it's not the same interview test taste it
Write
it is like a lost item that is immediately recognized on site. I
remember that there's a case of a woman who
went from England, right, I was told the story, it's one of the
towns up north,
she went with her child who was about two or three, I can't
remember the exact age. And her child got kidnapped.
Right, a child got kidnapped.
And of course, they did everything, but they couldn't find
the child she had to return.
Then about four years or five years later, she goes back
and she sees on the, you know, you come out of the masjid. And
sometimes you see these children who are begging there. And they
have like a lost arm or a broken leg or twisted or something like
that, which is unfortunate, in many cases is actually done
purposely to make them look so pitted, so that people give more.
So she goes out and you know, you see those, you see those, you see
that? Not just in there, but you see it in many, many countries in
the world, you see those and she sees this kid, and she's like,
this is my child.
And now it's there's, you know, some disability on the child, but
this is my child is like, How can I be a child? This is my child. I
know this is my child.
And they call the police or whatever, and they figure it out.
And yes, that was the child
right after I can't remember how many number of years it was.
But that was her child. You if it's something you've had
experience with, you will generally be able to figure it
out. That's Allah gives us that human being that gives us that
understanding. Similar to this
is the like she was convinced this is my child, right? Like, this is
my child. I don't care what your what else you're going to tell me
but it's my child. So similar to this is a heartbreaking sermon
when I was flabbergasted when I heard that story that something
like that can happen. But obviously this is the world things
like that can happen.
Similar to this is the perfect certitude in Allah's unity, the
messages of His Messenger sallallahu alayhi salam and the
matters of the Hereafter, the spirit was shown all of these
higher realities. When the spirits was imprisoned. Now he says that
when the spirit now the soul is become imprisoned in this material
body, it forgot these realities.
It forgot these realities
that were revealed to it on account of the influences of the
physical body and the physical worlds. There's so many other
things that distract us now. So we don't remember that anymore.
Until you do enough vicar and so on, you don't have that same
emotion. But this is the reality of why the deen becomes easy the
closer you get to Allah because you're only going to recognize
our Lord even more. So when the Spirit was imprisoned in this
material body, it forgets the realities that were revealed to it
on account of the influences of the physical body, and the outside
world, the Quran, the Hadith, the prophets of Allah, they remind men
of this reality they remind that this is where you came from.
This is what it was. If the Grace of Allah Most High is directed to
the servant, these material veils of the physical body are lifted,
and the Spirit then resumed its original perception.
The spirit will figure it out, and the physical body is subservient
to the spirits.
Hence, it becomes fully involved in obedience once its veils are
lifted. And Allah says, and that is the bounty of Allah. He grants
it to whomever he wishes. So we must be thankful to Allah subhanaw
taala
that ALLAH SubhanA wa Taala has allowed us to say verbally and to
show physically, something that is in harmony to that original
experience of ours and may Allah keep this until our death and only
improve it and increase it and enhance it. And may Allah subhanaw
taala give us it this is even more depth and give us greater
servitude, which makes the rest of our life easy for us in the
worship of Allah subhanho wa Taala Allah Holman to sit down we're
going to sit on the Baltic they have an agenda with the Quran,
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We ask you for your special grace your Allah, we ask You for Your
forgiveness of Allah. Grant us purity and forgiveness from all of
our sins, our wrongdoings, our shortcomings our mistakes. Are
ALLAH forgive our excesses, forgive those sins that bring
misery in our lives. Forgive those sins that bring difficulties upon
us. Forgive those sins.
which cause depression which cause anguish which which cause
restlessness. Oh ALLAH forgive those sins which take away the
blessings. Forgive those same sins which cause people to oppose and
conflict with one another for hearts to be turned away from one
another. Oh Allah we ask that you reform us, oh Allah reform us
reform our hearts of Allah reform our lives of Allah, enhance our
iman enhance our certitude and you're keen. Oh Allah, we ask that
you make our insights better than our outsides and oh Allah make our
outsides righteous and pious. Oh Allah removed from us hypocrisy
removed from us ostentation show and fame, oh Allah grant us
sincerity. Grant us your love. Grant us make us of ardent lovers
of you, our love. Fill our hearts with your love of Allah fill our
hearts with the love of all of those things which benefit us in
your court of Allah. Give us love for your obedience and facilitate
it for us. Give us hatred for your disobedience, give us hatred for
everything which distracts us, Oh Allah, we ask that you.
Bless us in all of the things that you've given us, of Allah you have
given us abundantly. You've given us more than so many others in
this world. Whatever you have given us, do not make it a burden
against us. Do not make it a source of punishment against us.
Do not make it a source that we use to sin against you. Oh Allah
do not let us sin in any way. Especially not by using the very
resources that you have provided us of Allah. You have allowed us
to come together here you've given us Iman, you've given us
certitude. You've allowed our souls and our bodies to both be in
harmony in your worship of Allah. Bless all of those who sit here
today. And all those who listen to this and in the entire Muslim
world, especially from the difficulties that so many people
are suffering around the world remove these difficulties. Remove
the subjugation and this oppression of Allah protect us
from all the harmful things that are out there. harmful diseases
harmful illnesses are Allah grant all protection from these things
grant us protection from all the different types of evil which is
out there. Those who seek evil with us or Allah protect us from
them, deal with those people in the right way. Oh Allah guide all
those who are all those who have goodness in them, Oh Allah, we ask
that you guide us and make us the guides of the guided ones do not
make us the forces of evil of Allah bless us in all that we do.
In our marriages, our law in our businesses in our life in our
teaching in our studying in our living our law in our worship,
especially and our Allah we ask that you accept us all somehow for
the service of your deen and you make us of those who remember you
abundantly and who Thank you abundantly. Yeah, Allah we ask
you, we ask that you make us of those with good behavior and good
conduct, our Allah and we ask that you send your abundant blessings
on our messenger Muhammad sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, you
granted his company in the hereafter Subhan Allah be gobbler
is that mIRC phone was salam when idle more serene? Well, hamdu
Lillahi Rabbil Alameen