Abdur Rahman ibn Yusuf Mangera – Your Obedience or Sin is Only for You [Hikam 211]
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Bismillah al Rahman al Rahim Al hamdu Lillahi Rabbil Alameen wa
salatu salam ala UD Mursaleen. While he was Safi Baraka was
seldom at the Sleeman Kathira on Ilario Medina Amma bad so in this
series on the Hycon we look at number 211 which is on page 206
here. If not I thought Allah Rahim Allah he says lerton Pharaoh who
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or the Illuma Yahudi or an ache rather, your obedience does not
benefit him, Allah, your obedience does not benefit him. And your
disobedience does not harm him.
This is a very important discussion, because a lot of
detractors from the faith, people who get confusions about their
faith or people who lose any faith. It's like why does God need
our worship for it, he needs our worship, Allah is this is very
clear, if not, I lie saying that. Really, God does not need our
worship, he's independent. It is only for your own good that he
commanded you the one meaning the obedience and prohibited you the
other one, that's your manual of life. If people just see the
commands of Allah, as a manual of life, do this, don't do this, when
you get a product says do not immerse in water. Right? Do not.
If it's an electronic product, it says do not use like certain
household cleaners on it. Just damp cloth. Right? Make sure you
look after you make sure you keep the battery charged. It's just a
manual of life. Why take it beyond that? When you want to hack your
life in a way that you want to make it different than you'll run
into trouble and problems. So you're not allowed to hack your
life like that, in that sense. So
this is what if not IG by now says on that. Allah subhana wa Tada.
The only essential reality.
Allah subhanho wa Taala is independent of everything.
And everything is dependent on him.
So anybody who does any obedience, isn't giving him anything. He is
the same as he was before he created any human being. Before he
created you and I or any human being including other mothers
salaam, he was the absolute same. After he created us, he did not
enhance in any way. He didn't become upgraded anyway, he didn't
become better in any way. He's the absolute same from what he was to
what he is. And that's exactly how he's going to stay. There's going
to be no enhancement because he's already all perfect.
So that's why he's saying that no, obedience from any obedient person
is going to benefit him. He doesn't need validation.
Basically.
When we do something good, we like validation. He makes us feel good.
He reassures us some level that's even good. It reassures us
what at the door Rahul might say to our seen anybody who disobeys
him based him that's not going to harm him, it's going to it's going
to harm them.
See, what some of the scholars say is that when a person does
disobedience, they actually harming themselves, they're doing
volume on themselves.
Now, Rationally speaking, it's, it feels so far fetched that a person
would oppress themselves.
Why would somebody trouble themselves? It's rationally
possible to understand that somebody will harm someone else,
that's easier to understand, like, why are you corrupting yourself?
Why are you harming yourself? Why would you do that for so then, the
reason why people do that is because they don't look at the
future. They don't look at the consequences. They look at the
immediate pleasure, that if I take this drug, right now, I'm gonna
get this feeling of high, it's going to give me this trip that I
need, even though they know the next day, it's going to be a
problem, even though they know it's an issue.
But you're looking at just that in the mind. It's very psychological,
you've trained the mind to look for that. So that's where it gets
from. Now, if you don't get that, the mind wants it, because you've
been given it that same thing over and over again.
So that's why logically, it's so surprising that somebody would
harm themselves. But then when you look at our weakness, we
understand it's very easy to harm yourself, without realizing you're
harming us and especially when it's a sin that you can't see the
harms of it right now, in drugs. You can see the harm straight
away. But when you're doing Zina, you don't see the harm you just
see pleasure. But that's the danger is that pleasure that
you're looking at right there in there. What you're looking at is
haram, what you're touching is haram, what you're committing is
haram. There's a pleasure there that's intoxicating us and making
us forget what's behind it. That doesn't harm Allah subhanaw taala
at all. It only harms us. That's why we told not to do this. That's
why if not, I thought Allah himself says in another place
something very interesting. He says Ilahi Dakka Dakka Dakka and
Hakuna Allahu ala to mink
for caverta Khun Lahore Illa to Mini. You're too high, you're too
glorified, you're too pure that there is any defect that comes
from you that affects you. So if there can't be any defect like
that, then how can you have any defect that would come to you from
me? Nothing that I would do will ever harm you in any way.
Until honey up the Arctic, you are independent intrinsically speaking
by yourself by your very essence you are in you are independent.
And you're c'est la la can never think that any benefit will come
to you. For que Vallarta Kunal honey and Annie.
So how can you not be independent from me? If you don't need
anything to happen to you from yourself? You don't need to give
your own self anything you are what you are, you are as great as
you are. You don't need anything from yourself. Why would you need
anything from me who is so weak?
So, servants of Allah.
He doesn't benefit from our worship. He doesn't benefit. It's
purely for our sake. It's purely for the sake of the world. It's
for order. It's for personal discipline, and it's to maintain
an ethos among people.
Allah subhanho wa Taala says it declares opening the Quran Wahaca
Hiraoka Eva they
call him
the Fatimids when they conquered the Muslim communities of Egypt,
which is basically under the Abbas rule at that time.
There was no Cairo at that time. There were some settlements called
the full start, Qatari and asker. This was small areas, there was no
Cairo. It was close by now Cairo is the whole thing. There are
pyramids. And then there were these small communities after
Amory blasted the Allahu Anhu had conquered it and opened it. So
they he established the full star theory which was where he put his
tent and then the masjid and then that area became known as the tent
city.
And then after that you had
under the ABA under the OMA aids in the Abbasids. But then after
that, the armadillo to noon the to learn the dynasty rule for a
while, kind of took it away from Derek rule of the embassy then
Ibis has got it back then comes in the 40 minutes. Now these were she
smartly she, they were ruling in Northern Africa. And they came
across and they took Egypt because there was problems under the
governance of the Ibis. It's in Egypt. They literally walked in
because people didn't have a problem that they were tired of
what's going on there. So they just walked in and took it all
over. And they committed huge massacres. Then they started a new
city. That was called ca Hera. They're the ones who established
the other university. So ca Hera is from kahar. Ca her car, which
means to vanquish to overcome to terminate. So it's the city that
dominates and it's truly an amazing city. Unfortunately, it's
very, it's got issues there, but it's truly an amazing city. It's
got 1000 minarets. Anyway, they didn't last that long. They built
quite a bit of there, but then they were overtaken by the U bits.
And then the U boats were overcome by the Mamelukes. And then the
Mamelukes were overcome by the Sarkeesian Mamluks. And then they
were overcome by the Ottomans. And then they were overcome by
Muhammad Ali Basha. I think he was, I think, was he from your
area. Okay.
So anyway, that's a long history of Egypt. That's why when you go
to Egypt, you will see I mean, I know we're talking about something
else here, but there's 1000 minarets in it in Cairo, 1000
minarets, it says Ulf Menara there's literally messages next to
one another. Because all these great leaders from the Mamluks and
all that they all left their mark. So when you go there you see the
huge Masjid of a platoon. You hear that see the huge message of
amaryllis. You see the huge mercy of the 40 mins like several then
you see the masjid of the Ubud then you see Masjid of the
Mamelukes and and so on and so on so forth. Right.
So,
O Hara, Allah is the kaha will who will call him Ruffo Cartier by the
Allah is the One who is dominant over all of His servants. And
Allah subhanho wa Taala Why has he told us to worship Him so that
You can get close to him, he can make you close to him.
That's why Allah says in the rahmatullahi kyriba, middle
Bossini Allah's mercy in indeed Allah's Mercy is close to those
who do good. So Allah wants to give us mercy. He just wants us to
give him the excuse by doing good so that Allah subhanaw taala can
he? Allah is Rahim and his Rama, right. He's Rahman and Rahim. He
wants to manifest those names. He wants to
implement the benefits of those names to people. He's just looking
for an excuse you do. You do.
You do good deeds. The Rama will come to you.
Allah's Mercy is just outpouring.
It's everywhere. It's available.
You just need to do good to take it.
It's us we're not taking it. Allah is Rahman and Rahim He makes us
repeat it 10s of times a day in every prayer.
He makes us repeat it when we're about to start something Bismillah
R Rahman r Rahim to remember Allah like that setting us open up
yourself. I'll give you the Rama.
So in Rahmatullahi Kariba mineral Marcin if Allah subhanaw taala
then prohibits you from mouseY
is because when you do a disobedience, you're literally
saying to Allah that I want to be far from you.
When we do a disobedience like saying that we we don't want your
mercy, we want to be further from you. Allah subhana wa Tada you
have to remember has not ordered us to end do anything.
Right, except that there's a benefit in therefore making us
closer. Or it's to do with some etiquette for us being closer to
it may not get as close but it may be the etiquette of being close to
him.
And everything that Allah subhanaw taala has prohibited us from it's
to either it is something if we do it will actually distance us from
him or it's going to lead to distancing from him. That's why
every disobedience comes into those realms. And Allah subhanaw
taala at the end of the day, he says in the Quran, Allah usahawan
Maya for Allah homies Arun,
he is not to be questioned about whatever he does.
It's almost like you know, throughout history, throughout
history, you've got the dominant ruling party, dynasty Kingdom or
whatever. And you're always gonna get you're always gonna get a
small group of people that are detractors. They don't like it
doesn't matter how good it is. There's going to be detracted. You
heard that in the time of the Prophet salallahu Alaihe. Salam,
you had that in the prophetic Khilafah. Right, among the under
boubakeur, the or the Allah wants to declare the Allah one, oh my
God, Allah, you're always going to have that as human beings. You
could run something perfectly, there is always going to be
somebody who dislikes it always. But if the the main system is
doing well, and these detractors are small, it makes no difference.
They just they just barking, nothing happens.
So the idea is that Allah does as he wishes, there's nobody that's
going to get stronger at least when it comes to kingdoms in the
world, they get overthrown. Sometimes those small groups do
become rebels. They become successful. Right? And sometimes
they become the leaders. But with Allah subhanho wa Taala that's
just not going to happen.
So I was speaking to somebody.
This is the way shaytan comes with these ideas. He's born a Muslim
and everything. He's saying, I've stopped kind of getting a belief
in the Quran, like is it from Allah or not? Now I understand the
Quran is supposed to be inimitable. He says it's supposed
to be a Marchesa, it's supposed to be unchallenged. But what about
ago? Yeah, so nobody's been able to challenge it until now. So he
says, Yeah, but what about if happens in the future?
Look at where the shaytaan comes from? What happens if somebody
produces something like it in the future?
Hard chance to be honest, because the best of the speakers have
already gone. The best of the Arabic linguist they've gone.
Right? Today, they're struggling to even understand that. So if
this not happened in over 1400 years, then yes, in your realm of
possibilities in the realm of normal possibilities, you might
say that but it's a delusion. Because 1400 years. So then I told
him, like, just for from his perspective, I said, Well, why
don't you believe now and if something like that happens, we'll
deal with it then.
But to stop yourself believing now because something that's proper
agnostics, it's a very lazy attitude is like just an excuse
not to believe that what happens if so,
you know, then you can say a lot of things.
So can you see how absurd that idea
is that it sounds now that you put it like that. But it doesn't. It's
not absurd to the person when they don't think of it like that.
That's why humans can be really easily deceived.
It's very easy to deceive human being because you just give a
different spin. That's how you get Brexit. Right. That's how you get
regime changes. You just need to give spins, you need to hear it
enough. It needs to be all around you and you start believing and
most people do not think for themselves.
So now you said Who am I if I'll go home, you saloon.
So you have to remember lie as either fear is the Cabal, Roman
cabal era.
He, there is no increase at all in his glory and His Majesty, by
anybody who even turns to him.
You know why? Because His Majesty is eternal, it's fixed, it's
eternal. There's no way that he can change in any way. We're just
a blip
in the whole history, we're just a blip and we suddenly start
becoming those few agitators as though we're going to do something
about it
that's why in a hadith you know there's a hadith famous one you've
probably heard it it's very it's related to this low under welcome
era. We're in second agenda calm can either curl Biraj healing
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If from your first to your last from other Morristown to lost your
insulin and your gene, you humans in your gene, everybody put
together were essentially upon the heart of just on the most basic if
everybody was, had the had the same Taqwa as the most as the
person with the greatest Taqwa
that would Mirza 30. Kofi Mulkey Shire, this hadith could see that
would not increase my Dominion in the least. So if everybody was a
weenie of Allah, it would not make my kingdom any better. is
superior. Yes, Your kingdom would be better, but my kingdom it won't
make any difference to me. When when a coma hero comes into a coma
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coming will Keisha on the other hand, if everybody was
hypothetical obviously, was basically according to the heart
of the worst transgressor that wouldn't harm my kingdom in any
way making them is making them.
Mr. Muslim is related this. That's why one of His Names is the
produce the Holy One, the what is holy, been sanctified and
purified, no blemish. No problem is just completely sanctified and
holy, as pure as you can get.
That's why some say that its meaning is on the homeowners zone
and coolly common in law ye could be dirty.
Its meaning is that he is purified of every perfection that is not
good. That is not befitting him, every perfection which is not
befitting him. Perfection from our perspective.
Whether you call in the homeowners zone and in NACA is
they've got a dub they say that don't say that Allah is free of
defects. Say that ALLAH SubhanA wa Tada.
It's a different way to speak. It says that Allah is free of every
perfection, which is not befitting him.
It's too low to say, Allah is free of defects, don't even use the
word defect because it's just so far from there. Everything that
you think is perfection for anybody around you, that is not
befitting him, Allah is free of that. Don't go down below that.
Jeep, these are people who are they come up with these ideas, you
know, Allah gives them that inspiration. And they come up with
these ideas, to have more add up and they get rewarded for that
because with Allah He Subhan Allah, He will give you reward for
every small bit of aw show. Because our religion our faith is
is a religion of Adam and faith. Allah He sees every little bit of
other, every little bit of etiquette that we show him, and he
gives us for it any other visual to anything related to Allah like
the Quran like scholars like masjid, and so on? Allah, Allah
will Allah will see it, and that the benefit he will give you is
not just the new but in your progeny.
Is would that would anybody say this old man is not a butcher? No,
sorry, that's he can be a butcher in the wrong sense in saying the
Sultan is not a carpenter.
It's too low for you to say because in those days, the
vocations will fix like, you know, the Carpenter was a lowly, you
know, maybe is not a toilet cleaner.
You use a higher reference point, you don't use lower low reference
points for that. You see a
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there is human beings when they want to show how great Allah isn't
how perfect he is they can't do so except with inability like they
just don't know they there is not enough it's like undercover if
Anita Alana, you are as though you've you are the same as you've
praised yourself. I can't muster up enough praise and words and
whatever to say that
that's why
the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam in his dua he said, Love
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Right, I cannot bring together I cannot encompass the preys upon
you like there's just so much of it, I could do all my life and
then not be able to do it. Oh,
and the gamma theta I learn how sick you are as you've paid
yourself, praise yourself. Okay, so let's stop here. We need to we
need to pray as well for Asia.