Abdur Rahman ibn Yusuf Mangera – Your Obedience Is Just an Excuse to Give You Something [Hikam 211]
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wisdom number 211 which is on page 206 of Ignatov Allah al Eskandari
Rahim Allah, His aphorisms is HECM his wisdoms.
This is what he says in there. This is something that you've
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This is one of the most simpler ideas, but he's going to provide a
lot of justification for this. He says, Your obedience does not
benefit him.
So outright he is declaring that, because there's a common question
today, not a common but
a question that is asked today is that why does he need about
worship if he's so independent, and so on?
So he says very clearly, your obedience does not benefit him.
And your disobedience does not harm him either. So then why do
you do it? That's the question that arises, he said is is only
for your own good that he commanded that and prohibited the
other.
He commanded this and he prohibited the other it's to your
own benefits. It's what's good for you in this world.
So that's what he's saying.
There the there's another aspect of this aphorism, which is lie as
you do, fear is the Kabbalah lumen Kabbalah Ali, wala Yun CUSUM in
Kadri. He is the ballroom and at Baran.
That's another aphorism. But it's linked to this one, that
those who turn to Allah subhanaw taala and focus on him. They're
turning to Allah subhanaw taala and focusing on him does not
increase the honor of Allah subhanaw taala in any way
whatsoever. Oh, I've got this many supporters. I've got this many
people worshipping me. Look, this is how many likes I've got none of
that works with Allah subhanaw taala. Likewise, it says that
anybody who turns away from him, who ignores him, shows his back to
Allah subhanaw taala. That doesn't decrease the status of Allah
subhanaw taala in any way. Allah is who he is everything that's
happening. It's he did it. It's almost like the world was a
project to create creation, and then give them a test and then
have them in Paradise. Allah subhanaw taala is independent of
everything. He is self subsisting, self enriched, he doesn't need
anybody else. Allah is not in need of anything else. So that's why
anybody who's obedient, their obedience is not going to benefit
him.
It only all it does is that it makes Allah happy with you so that
he gives you something, it's an excuse for him to give you
something that says otherwise he personally does not benefit,
because he is how he's always been.
Likewise, he's not harmed by the disobedience of the disobedient
ones. That's why towards the end of this book, there's the
menagerie which means the intimate discourses. So if you if you have
this copy, you can check on page 342. This is kind of related to
what he's saying here. He says
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caverta. Kunal who are ill to mini until honey up the attic, and
jasola in Aiken, nephrogenic for K Villa takuna, honey and honey,
my God, love to listen to this carefully, oh, my god, your
contentment is too holy, for there to be a cause for it in you.
You're too holy, you're too dignified, you're too high above
and purified. that there needs to be a cause in you, too, that
forces me to worship you.
Meaning I'm not I'll explain. So how can they be a cause for it in
me if there is no cause in you that forces me to worship you.
Then how can they be a cause in
either forces me to worship you, and you need that worship.
Likewise, he says, You are independent of any benefit coming
to you. So why should you not be independent of me? You're
independent of yourself for any benefit from yourself coming to
yourself. So why should you then not be independent of any benefit
coming from me, you don't need benefit from anyone. So
contentment is a divine attribute, meaning Allah to be satisfied with
something. Because this begs the question here that Allah, it is
mentioned that Allah is satisfied, meaning Allah is happy when we do
good things. So what is that satisfaction, then if he doesn't
need anything from us? Surely, when you want to satisfy someone,
that's an objective and a goal, right? So I'm going to give him a
gift. So he gets satisfied, I'm going to go and visit him and get
satisfied. So the guy is benefiting. So does that apply to
Allah subhanaw taala as well, that when Allah says he gets ready,
Allah is satisfied with such and such a servant, Allah is satisfied
when a servant does this action and that action. So do we
understand in the human context that humans get satisfied with
things so they need it, it makes them feel good, if they're having
a bad day? It's gonna make them feel good? Does that the same
thing happened with Allah? Not at all, he doesn't need that.
Contentment is a divine attribute. Allah is always satisfied, in a
sense, right? All attributes of Allah Most High are eternal, and
the eternal has no cause. So if Allah has satisfaction from
eternity, there's nothing that can cause it because he's always had
satisfaction.
It's a bit difficult to understand but that's what it is. Nothing
causes the satisfaction of Allah really, he is satisfied. Since
Allah is attribute of contentment is eternal with no cause. It is
inconceivable that there can be any act of the servant to be the
cause for the contentment of Allah.
Nothing can act upon Allah Most High change does not come to him.
Allah's contentment is not dependent on the servants action.
The servants good deeds and conditions are the effect of
Allah's contentment. On the other hand, it's the servants actions
and deeds that are the fruits or the effects of Allah's
contentment, it's the other way around, he is the cause of
everything. Right? But we do take it we do kind of operate in the
sense that if I do this, Allah will be happy with me, but not
that he's going to benefit from that it's so if he's happy with
me, then he's going to treat me he's going to reward me, he's
gonna give me he's gonna be satisfied with me. That's the
purpose of it.
Okay, so now to move on. So Allah does not benefit from our worships
in a way that he needs them because Allah is well above that.
And neither does he. Neither easy harmed.
Allah subhanaw taala says in Surah Al Anam verse 61. Will who will
call Hiro phulkari verde.
He is mighty, above all of all of his slaves, all of his servants,
He is mighty well above them, makes no difference what they do
with others in the world, you have some people who enjoy a huge
amount of ascendancy rule, power, love.
And everybody they love them and or everybody is vanquished under
their might. But eventually it stops. Eventually, they get weak.
Eventually they do something wrong. There's many empires like
that, including many Muslim empires. They had their
ascendancy. But eventually they became weak or lacks in certain
things. And eventually that same car, that they had the same might
the head was diminished. But Allah subhanaw taala is mate has been
forever. And it continues to be forever and will remain forever.
That's the difference. That's why he says, well, we'll call Hebrew
folklore a body and in Arabic uses the word call here. Not what will
it be your car that he will? Or he is currently no, he is. It's a
very permanent idea that he is always mighty over his creation.
So then he only commands you so that you can get close to him.
That's the huge benefit we get. And it's beneficial for us. That's
why you'll find so many people say I feel so far from a life and
miserable. They feel misery because they feel far from Allah
subhanaw taala. But then they can't do anything about it. So
they know that the solution to their problem is to go and do
worship, but they're too stuck in a rut, to go and start doing the
worship so that they can actually feel good, and these other people
who have some consciousness about him, because if somebody is not
even conscious of that fact, that they're far from Allah, they don't
care about how far they've never measured the distance, never
figured out and try to give an estimate to that, then they're
just out of it. But anybody who cares, and they're doing well, and
then suddenly they start becoming a bit lacks. They find it
difficult because that's human beings. We get stuck in a certain
way.
habit, a certain schedule a certain rhythm, you need something
strong to pull us out of that. That's why there's a lot of people
they say that they finally they're usually very good. But now they've
just become addicted. If you can use the word addiction to
tick tock, right. And then they got off that. So it was a two week
edition, a two week stint addiction stint on Tik Tok. And
then they realized they got rid of it. And then he said, I've only
got YouTube. And then YouTube has something called YouTube shorts or
something like that. So he got addicted to that.
And then finally, they figured out this is not good for me say they
got off that as well. It's like the human is all and then after
that. They it's movie clips.
It's certain Facebook posts. Its Twitter, its Instagram. So they
have short stints and they realize no, no, this is not good for me.
So they stop, but then they need something else.
Allah, Allah, Allah, there's just so much out there. If it's not
this, everybody's competing for your attention.
It's good that people even figure out that this is bad and they walk
away. Because some people just stay in there for a very, very
long time.
And I think the only way to stay away from all of that is to be
busy with something but because we're going to need something.
Every humans needs something to engage in. Very few people are so
disciplined. So that's why it's a good idea to there's some
allowance of Halal entertainment. So use some Halal entertainment.
But otherwise, keep yourself busy. With something more serious, if
you can get excited by learning something new.
Right. So firstly, if somebody is really into entertainment, then
try to get out of the entertainment. If you can't get
out of it, then try to get into documentaries or something like
that. Because at least that's better than the waste of time.
Because unless you learn something at least, and then wean yourself
off there slowly, slowly on to something that's really very
useful. And because at the end of the day, you watch documentaries
about different things that are they useful in the sense that they
add some knowledge, but they're not necessary for life. People
have passed, people have lived for hundreds of years 1000s of years
without this document without knowing you know how earthquakes
occur.
Right? Without seeing how cheese is made. Right? Oh Subhanallah
and they live the life and mashallah they died with the Karim
Allah, Allah. Hey, Lulu, and they probably in Jana, you know, so
it's not necessary. There's just so much I mean, subhanAllah
there's just so much that will take your attention today. So, as
I think as long as you understand what's right and wrong, and you're
making an effort, and you have something good, most people don't
have anything to produce. They don't have anything to contribute.
They literally just the rat race of the world. So they're gonna get
involved in things like this, because you have time people have
time. Everybody has and because you don't have time, we actually
have a lot of time. There's very few people who are back to back
meetings and projects and like literally get out in the morning
do X, Y and Zed and then they have to go to sleep. And that's it.
There's nothing else in between. Right? So there's, there's time
people do have it's just where do we spend that time? Allah, so we
do worship to Allah subhanaw taala and he commands it so that we can
get close to Allah subhanaw taala because Allah says in surah talara
verse 56, in Naramata, Allah He Kariba Minal Marcin in Allah's
Mercy is close to the doers of good. So that's what what we get
the Mercy of Allah subhana wa Taala gives us good.
So why did Allah subhanaw taala prevent us from harm, prevent us
from sin, if it is of no benefit to him, is because Allah subhanaw
taala prevents us from disobedience because Allah has
placed in that kind of a situation, that if you do a
prohibition of Allah, that means you are far from Allah subhanaw
taala
doing a prohibition, doing something which is wrong, is just
a sign of being far from Allah. Because Allah subhanaw taala
doesn't deal with us in a physical location in a kind of a physical
relationship, right? He deals with us in terms of how much we obey
Him, and how much person disobeyed Him. So that is then equated to
what we would call closeness and distance. So the more good that we
do we get closer to Allah. And when he's prohibited us from
something that means if we do it, we're going to be distant from
Allah subhanaw taala and then we can understand the idea
Know that if we're distant from someone like this, and even then
we say, if we're close to somebody, but they live in another
country, we're very close. And we're speaking to them every day
that's close, even though they so far, sometimes is even husband
wives leaving the sun, but say they are so distant.
They're so distant, because they've got a problem. Distance
means problem. Distance means rift. Distance means an issue. But
with Allah subhanaw taala, it's one way because we can change that
he's willing to accept, he's not stubborn, like others, just tried
to deal with a case of 20 years where the wave finally once out,
and I'm trying to put them together again. So they can't 20
years. They just don't want to be with him anymore. Like, absolutely
no, it doesn't matter what he does now. So it's huge baggage with
Allah subhanaw taala, saying, I want you back. I know you're a
disobedient person, I know that you've done SRF you've
transgressed. But Allah was so broad, Allah is so expensive ally
so benevolent, he's willing to forgive as long as we show that
genuine forgiveness. So when we're dealing with cases between husband
and wife, you get either the wife or the husband, whoever it is,
whoever has been doing the wrong, they still very arrogant, some of
them. And I'm not going to change the legend. So they both saying,
I'm not gonna change today change this, that's difficult. In some
cases, you have one person is blaming the other, and the other
person like, Yes, I'm wrong, I don't care, I'm wrong, I'm willing
to change, then we've got something and but even in that
case, the other person is so badly hurt sometimes that they feel like
they can't change. But if they're both arrogant, that is very
difficult with Allah subhanaw taala. He can be as he wants, he's
over us. Well, hi above us. But he says I'm willing to, that's why
the Hadith then tells us that he's you go walking his he wants to,
he'll come to your running not physically, but to give an idea.
You go, you go, you know, you you try to extend out to him that
much. He extends out to you that much. Allah is just willing,
because he's so kind, he's got nothing to lose again. But he
wants us to benefit. He's just got absolute love for the creation.
That's what he means absolute love for creation. When you get a few
people like this, were absolutely selfless. Doesn't matter what
you've done to him, they're willing to forgive and the profits
or loss and manifested the highest level of that, no matter who it
was, he was willing to forgive and just forget. And those people who
can't forget things, and can't overdo them, they suffer
themselves, they suffer themselves. So what's going to
happen is that if you can't get along with X, Y, and Zed person,
one person, maybe it's your spouse, first, you're going to
learn to distance that person, this is very psychological, you're
going to learn to do without them right now that you've learned to
do without somebody you are very close to, you can easily do that
to a number two, you can easily do that to a third person, you can
easily do that to a fourth person. And eventually I've seen this,
you'll realize that, hey, I've cut out five people that were very
close to me from my life, because I just couldn't get along with
them. I hated something that they did. I just couldn't stand them.
They were human beings. Right? They made mistakes, yes. But once
you start cutting people out, you will become accustomed to cutting
people out. You will become accustomed to estranging yourself
from people, you will get you. But you will then suffer afterwards.
Because then you if you think back in like in the last five years,
I've cut down three of the closest people to me, is that a problem
with me or them now?
Right, is everybody messed up, anybody that gets close to you,
eventually has problems because you just can't tolerate defects.
I'm imperfect, you're imperfect? Well, we're both imperfect. Let's
live with that. That's how Allah has created us. We live in an
imperfect world. There's problems in the world all the time, we are
part of the world, this problems within us as well. So don't ever
learn to just knock somebody out of your life.
Not to say that you must be buddy buddy with them. But don't learn
just to knock somebody out that you just completely cut because
you'll just do that to everybody, eventually. Some people you do
because they are genuine, everybody's cut them often. That's
understandable. But if you're the one cutting everybody off, and not
everybody else, and there's a problem with you, most likely
is really bad. It's a psychological problem. I think a
lot of this happened during the COVID. Don't get accustomed to
that unless you're connected to Allah subhanaw taala but then not
at the expense of people. That's not a good thing.
What I mean by that is not that I mean that maybe that's not the
right way to say that at the expense of people. What that means
is that you can't be bad to people. That's not what Allah
wants from you. You should love people for the sake of Allah. So
if you don't do that, then that's a problem then that's not proper
Love of Allah Allah. So Allah subhanaw taala is prohibited us
from wrong things. Because what that does is that distances us
from Allah, anything that Allah subhanaw taala will commanded us
to do.
then that the purpose of that is to get close to Allah subhanaw
taala.
Because there's benefits in there, and anything that he's prohibit us
from, there's actually harm in there. Now, you might say, Why did
Allah do this? And not this? Why did he change it? Oh, well, I
mean, at the end of the day, there's not much we owe our
creation to him. We owe our existence to him. What are we
going to say to him? Why did you make this halal? Why do you make
that haram?
You're just gonna have to take it the way it is. Take it or leave
it. I need the job. You know, it's a matter of survival. It's what
I'm gonna have to do. Right? That's my existence. i We need
that hereafter. We need to be successful. So just do it. The
world is in a weird time. You know, we're going through some
really weird times right now. Because it's so easy to indulge in
the world. We're no longer in a state of survival. We're in a
state of luxury. There's a fitna to Surat right now. Which means
it's the fitna of prosperity, the challenges of prosperity right
now. Especially in the West. There's many places in the world
where it's still dealing with difficulties but for us mashallah,
you know, we can get so much that's why it is the self
independence, individualism that's taking place.
Subhanallah
I don't like Islam. I don't like the strictures of the rigors of
Islam. Okay. And what are you going to go into what you think
you, you think if you have no rigors in Islam or strictures in
Islam, then it's all going to be wonderful and rosy, you're just
gonna go on work. And you're gonna have to go to a pub or something,
right to relax, you're gonna have to commit some other haram you're
gonna have to go into some other situation, there's still demands
of life, you can't get out of that as the dunya Allah just wants you
to be in the right strictures. So we have unfortunately we have you
know, we have some Jimmy loves leaving Islam and some
even Muhammad's unfortunately, the Mohammed atheists, I mean, what a
juxtaposition. Right? But you do, but hamdulillah there's many
Jennifers coming into Islam. And John's coming into Islam, and the
Bob's in the garden, Jordan, and you know, everybody else
hamdulillah curry, Allah purifies some people and doesn't purify the
others, what are you going to do about them? There was a mass
exodus from Islam and nobody was coming in. Okay, maybe there's a
problem here. But hamdulillah that's not the case.
Right? And you will never be the case. Law user one, if Allah hung
yourself when Allah says in surah, Colombia, he cannot be questioned
about what he does. But everybody else is going to be questioned. I
mean, look,
I just don't understand how people can just absolutely, really
genuinely disbelieve in another life.
Like, how do they know? Like, do you really think people can
disbelieve in another life? I know, they claim it. What about
isn't there a possibility?
Like, just within there? Isn't there a possibility? Allahu Akbar.
So anyway, his honor does not improve in any way or increase in
any way by those who turned to him and likewise, his honor is not
doesn't take a dent does not become
the does not does not have any shortcoming. Right? by anybody who
turns away from him. There's a hadith in Sahih Muslim, right?
It's a hadith and Cozzi actually, it's Allah subhanaw taala.
Speaking himself, he says, Lo Anna, welcome. We're here icon
we're in circum wodgina Calm. Can who Allah Atka Calbee Raju denwa.
Hit Masada Liga. femal Keisha,
what a statement
what a statement of independence. He said, If your first and your
last which means if from other money, some to the end, and your
insulin, human beings and your gym. They're the only responsible
beings anyway, if they were all on if they were all on according to
and if their state was like the state of the most God fearing
person. So they will all you have this whole mass. Everybody was had
the highest level of Taqwa that would not increase my kingdom in
any way whatsoever.
It makes no difference. Yes, there will be greater, more people in
Jannah there'll be more people with enjoyment. But it makes no
difference in my kingdom, because I could have done that I could
have just made you a creation in paradise and not have to have gone
through this could have done that. He's already got creations in
paradise anyway. It's just not us. He's given us a way to get beyond
them. So the hotel in which are in Paradise and the Hillman that are
there, the young boys that are there that they've been created
for them.
That's not who we should have made $1 You should have made me one of
those instead. But the wonderful thing is you
that the people of this world will be able to ascend beyond those
people in paradise. Then Allah subhanaw taala says it the other
way, he says and lo and Willa Kumar Shirakawa in Sakuma Jinnah.
Colonel Allah AF Jheri curl bureaux Julian warhead mana Casa
Dalek me mo Keisha if your first and last in sun and human beings
and jinn, they were upon the most transgressing heart of a single
person. Right? They were all absolute transgressors, according
to that hearts of that one individual that would not make
deficient my kingdom in any way whatsoever. Not in the least not
even the least.
If that's what Allah wanted, he could have just created people
like that just disobedient wants to mess around somewhere on on
dunya and they can just mess around. That's why the way I take
this is that look, Allah has created as this way, that's where
we're in right now. We can't help it now. Let's do the best and make
something good out of it. Why waste opportunity? Why give up and
say I can't do anything, but it is tough. It's tough. But that's
where we get the reward for
is designed to be tough. It's designed to be but Allah makes it
easy and facilitates when we are cero Khalil Yusra, believe me it
becomes easier. This is why, you know, I've dealt with several
people who find things tough.
And they say, Have you never questioned the faith? Have you
never questioned God?
It's like no.
Right? You've never questioned God said No, I've never questioned
God. hamdulillah Hamdulillah. They can't believe that.
Look, I have had trouble understanding something, some
dilemma, some verse of the Quran, but then you go and try to find
out and it makes sense. But I've never had a doubt Alhamdulillah
May Allah keep it like that? I'm not saying this is running. I'm
just saying there are people with doubt. Why have they got doubt?
They're allowing that doubt to occur? Because Allah is not going
to push people out of the faith. Allah does not mislead anybody.
But if somebody has done something wrong, the man made a blasphemous
statement one day, you may have just made a joke about something.
Right?
A sour joke, a bad joke in the sight of Allah that brings on all
of this wrath. Allah just stops like, Okay, I'm not gonna help
this guy.
So then they start deviating. So the only way if you're if this is
what I believe that if somebody is having doubts, but they still want
their faith and just do Toba to Allah, just repent, just return to
Allah. There's no other way about it.
I spoke to somebody
before Ramadan. And he was having major, like, he pretty much left
the faith according to him, but he was still open to it. I told him
two things. I said number one, stop
listening to stop reading anti Islamic literature, because he was
just unfair what he was doing, he was listening to anti semitism,
but he was not reading responses from Muslims. Like he was just
listening to the media such you know what I mean? Right? You don't
really try to find out like non Muslims about Islam. They just
listen to the media, they don't really try to find out. So that's
number one. Stop doing that. Number two, ask God because there
was that little window open for him. hamdulillah after about four
months, I never I didn't know what to expect really. hamdulillah
after about four months, I see him in the masjid.
So the only way is to actually ask ALLAH SubhanA wa Taala for help,
because he can only help there's nobody else to help really.
So no, I've never doubted and inshallah we'll never doubt.
Yes, we will have issues. We will misunderstand something, we will
be confused about something, but we can always try to find out. Do
you guys doubt your faith? Like somebody? Some people do, right?
It's based on ignorance. It could be if it's based on ignorance,
that's easy, and they go and find the truth. But if it's based on a
misdeed
that's tougher, because then you can only ask Allah for help but
then it's a bit of a conundrum because shaytaan doesn't make you
do they makes you hate Allah. Right? When you read the law, when
yah, yah hoo, Yeshua saw their whole Islam. Wherever Allah wishes
to guide, he expands his breast. For Islam for submission, it's
easier to submit. And when that's not the case, then it feels like
you have to climb a mountain. You feel like you have to climb a
mountain for this because there's a lot of atheists they don't want
to be atheists
they losing too much. The families are against them. They've been
estranged from their families and Serkan and they feel bad but
they're not following the right method
of trying to get back into it. There's a lot of other concepts
that are going around nowadays a modern ideas that kind of become a
trend like love yourself. That's the kind of a modern one. What's
that to do with Osama said well, it the devil is in the detail.
Right? Love yourself that's taking you some really dark deeds.
It's not a problem. But if love yourself means care for yourself
because you've got this opportunity, then that's a
wonderful thing.
Then another one was, the way you think about things is what's going
to happen. What does Islam say about that? So Islam says, It
depends, again, the devil is in the details like what are you
thinking about? Yes, if you definitely give out a good
vibe to others, and you're positive, then you will attract
positivity. But if you are negative, you will actually make
other people negative, that's for sure. I mean, that's, that's
generally shown. But again, it's not 100% rule everywhere. There's
a Hadith of the Prophet sallallahu, which is a Hadith
could see that Allah says I am with my servant as he thinks of
me. But that doesn't mean that if I think Allah subhanaw taala can
and is going to produce a Rolls Royce from thin air in front of
me.
If that's the thing that somebody has going for them, right? Or
maybe a McLaren, or something, I mean, who cares about Rolls Royce,
maybe they want to McLaren or something, right?
Rolls Royce or McLaren.
You'd rather have the Rosa, you're that age now.
You don't want to call a Okay. All right, maybe the wrong guy
mentioned. Okay, so what I'm trying to say is that actually
what they're gonna say for something like this is that that
is wrong to do that because you're testing Allah because that's not
the way Allah does things. You don't generally have things come
out of thin air. That happens in movies or in stories, right? It
doesn't happen realize Allah works behind the veil generally, but he
also Allah give me a Rolls Royce, then you might get one. But let's
say I want it. This is only because I know and I've read that
you have ability of everything. So now do this. For me. That's
challenging Allah. That's actually wrong. That's not the way to make
dua. That's what the animal says very clear. So don't ask for
improbable things. Don't ask for unusual things like that, that
generally don't happen. Because that's actually wrong to do that
though Allah if he wants to, he can do it.
Right? Because you're trying to like show yourself to be able to
be God or something so specially connected, that he's going to go
against all norms of this world to do it for you, he can, but that's
not generally what he's going to do. And it's wrong to ask him that
way. Just the other of the DUA.
So this hadith is amazing, right?
Allah subhanho wa Taala is absolutely transcendent of
anything that is not befitting him. That's why we actually
now look how, how much etiquette we must have with Allah subhanaw
taala because he's so perfect, that we shouldn't even say that
Allah is transcendent of all defects.
He is right. He doesn't have any defects. But it's like saying
the, the ruler, the king, right? Where they still have kings is not
a butcher. Well known as a bad one. Sometimes they are butchers
in the wrong butchers. Right? The King is not a carpenter. Well, I
mean, he might be a carpenter.
He's not a street cleaner. There you go. He's not a street cleaner.
He obviously is not. The King is not a street cleaner. And his big
worry of Allah and he goes in the middle of the night to do that
different thing, but he's not a street cleaner. That's not his
vocation. Would you say that though? Why would you even say
that? It's just so below to say that give a better example. You
know, the king doesn't have to work. Okay, you know, that makes a
bit more sense. So to say that Allah subhanaw taala is free of
defects.
You shouldn't even have to say that, though. It's a reality. But
it's better than to say that so that's why the the other month
Adam, they've said rather than that say Allah is free of things
that are not benefiting him. That's more other to say that well
etiquette to say that then saying Allah is free of defects because
he can't have defects anyway.
So they both realities, but there's other been speaking to
Allah.
And everybody in the world, when somebody speaks to you with better
other than somebody who's uncouth is just much better. Right? You
people enjoy such people is of polite people. Reach out to such
people, their heart goes out to such people.
We cannot even praise Allah subhanaw taala or describe him or
say things that are befitting to him. And subhanAllah the person
that's going to understand that most who had probably the most the
greatest capability to praise Allah, the language to praise
Allah, the knowledge of Allah to praise him to for the things that
he has would have been the prophets Allah lowson But what did
the Prophet sallallahu Sallam say? He said, Learn or see Santa and
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Make under come up with Anita Alana fsic I cannot encompass all
the praise for you, meaning as much as this do for you, I cannot
even bring it together in any way I cannot encompass it. So this is
what he then was forced to say. He said You are as you have praised
yourself, that's the best way to praise Allah. Oh Allah, you know,
you try you do try. And it's like Allah thank you for this. Thank ya
Allah, I can't even praise you for all that you're giving me but
thank you. You are as you have praised yourself, this is what the
Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam said, if you want success
in this world,
if you want prosperity in this world, I think right? And you can
try this and then let me know in three months, but I think if you
want prosperity in this world, you're struggling. And you're
always worried about money. Right, which is the big concern many
people's mind competitions and because we live in a world where
it's all about investment, and, and all the rest of it is not just
about being satisfied with you know, you have enough for the day
and for the next two weeks. And for the next two months. No, it
needs to be more than that. Right?
If you really want prosperity, then there's two things. So it's
spiritual as well.
Give some sadaqa regularly. And number two, thank Allah for every
bit of good that you keep getting as much as possible, make that a
habit of genuine hamdulillah hamdulillah Like genuinely.
And you will see that it will just grow what you have, you will not
want anything.
All right. So you give sadaqa How would you give sadaqa? Well, you
could actively give sadaqa every week or every day or whatever,
right? That's a bit more difficult because you might forget you may
not have the change or you may not be able to have your card or
whatever it is. Put a direct deposit, direct debit started
direct debit off. You don't make too much money. I mean, I'm sure
you can do direct debits of a pound, right? Can you do 50 pence?
At least the pound like pound here pound that's minimum like you
know, if you don't make too much, if you're struggling even do a
pound deposit a direct debit.
Just because you're struggling doesn't mean you don't give sadaqa
you can also benefit from sadaqa
in certain categories of people living solid goes on and maybe you
owe them I don't know if it's they think
or poor people or whatever. No, I think one of them I do give give
us other QA during the mug if you do.
If you say so tell us
five pounds or more welfare five pounds white thread. This is just
not saying you must but just write five pounds, your local Masjid
five pound to this organization that were 10 pounds, 50 pounds,
whatever it is based on how much you think will give you a bit of a
pinch
and start doing sugar for every good thing that you get. Whether
that's a nice cut of meat dish, a nice cooked meal, a nice day out a
nice jacket, a nice job, whatever it is even having a job Subhan
Allah
just thank Allah just continuously thank Allah.
If you've got 10 pairs of clothes, thank Allah, because that is a lot
more than some people who only have one clothes, if they're
lucky, one pair of clothes if they're lucky.
Just think Allah.
You got a car that drives and that's not giving you trouble.
Just thank Allah hamdulillah Al Hamdulillah just have that
connection. You will see prosperity like no, you don't
believe it, Allah will give you even more. This is both from the
Quran by the way. So the first one, Allah says my Ucrete Allah
Quran Hasina for you, though if a hula hoop or the elephant Kathira
whoever who is there to give a loan a goodly loan to Allah,
that's by giving sadaqa and Allah is going to multiply it for you.
So you will get it like that. And the other one is Elaine
Shackleton. zedan accom if you think Allah then I will give you
more. So if you if you are thankful, I'll give you more
that's what Allah says.
Tried for three months and I think it's guaranteed
May Allah subhanaw taala accept
May Allah make it easy May Allah draw us closer to Him. Allah Who
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yeah hi you Yeah, can you Medina Judy will karamea a caramel
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mercy on us yeah Allah have mercy on us. Yeah, my except us. bring
us close. Yeah, Allah grant us your love. Forgive us our sins.
Forgive us our distance. Forgive us our transgressions, our
shortcomings our defects. Forgive us our crimes or ALLAH forgive our
distractions. or Allah forgive us our indulgences. Oh Allah, we've
done it for too long. Oh Allah bring us close to you. Make it
easy for us. Oh Allah grant us Hidalgo, Italy.
You can grant us the sweetness of A. O Allah grant us the sweetness
of faith, our Lord grant us, grant us indulgence in that which
pleases you. There are so many things out there which take our
concentration that require and demand our attention that we
become addicted to Oh ALLAH remove this addiction make it easy for us
to remove that things are only going to get worse. There's only
going to be more things that will come about like this. Oh Allah do
not allow us to lose ourself, do not allow us and our progeny is to
lose themselves in these things. Have Allah grant us self control,
grant us a focus on what's beneficial for us. And Allah, we
ask that you accept us to be productive, still, especially for
something of your faith. Oh Allah make us productive, and make us
leave a good legacy of Allah turn us away from those things which
are not beneficial for us. Oh, Allah allow us to see things and
the truth is The truth is, and allow us to follow it and see the
wrong as the wrong and allow us to abstain from it. Oh Allah do not
distort to the nature of things in our in our sight, do not allow the
wrong to be shown as right in our sight, or the right to be shown as
wrong in our sight of Allah. We can only we can only ask you, we
can only beseech you, we can only
entreat you, oh Allah there is no one that can guide us, you our
Creator. You brought us in this world you put us in the situation
when we can't proceed and we can't succeed except with you. So Allah
grant us success. Grant us advancements grant us facilitation
and ease. Oh Allah, all those who sit here and who are all those who
listen, oh Allah bless us on this night. And oh Allah bless us for
the nights that come and make the remaining days of our life better
than the previous parts of our life. And Allah allow us to
fulfill the responsibilities you have given us to ourselves, to our
children, to our the environment and to everything that is around
us and Allah except the little bit of liquor that we've been able to
do and the little bit of remembrance, because you gave it
to us, oh Allah if you have given us the ability to sit here and do
these things, then Oh Allah Now we asked you that you accept it from
us as well. Oh Allah, Oh Allah accept our doors and remove the
sickness and illnesses that people have fallen into and the pandemics
and those who have passed away, bless them. Subhana rahbek robola
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