Abu Taymiyyah – Ep 6 Righteous Companions How To Soften Your Heart Series
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My beloved brothers and sisters, we are now
on number 5.
The 5th
act that an individual can engage in,
so that he can work towards
softening his heart.
And that is,
Maja Allah Sadehin,
accompanying those who are righteous.
To how we look at min sittin ilasitah.
Sitting with the righteous
will cause 6 things to change for you:
Number 1: Mi nashabkir al Yaqeen, from being
someone who has doubts to being somebody who
has certainty in his heart.
You might be sitting with the people of
innovation
or the people of doubts,
the people of Kufr, the enemies of Islam,
and they
poison you with
their misguidances
and their deviances.
But then you go to a person of
knowledge,
and he removes all of these doubts
that have been poured on you.
And then you walk away feeling good,
peaceful
inside of your heart.
Sufyanath Thorehmatullahi,
he says,
whoever hears an innovation, then he should not
convey it
or propagate it to those who sit around
him.'
He shouldn't poison them with his doubt.
He shouldn't poison them with his doubt,
which will of course lead to their hearts
poisoning.
Ad Dhahir Ahmad Tullahi Alaihi commented and he
said,
the early generations,
they are on this.
They hold that the hearts
are weak.
Washubahu
Khapafa.
And the doubts, it rips the heart.
The doubts,
what they do is, they really poison the
heart.
So that's the first point that he mentioned.
Minas Shaqir Al Yaqeen,
from being someone who is suffering from doubts
to having certainty,
and that's when you sit with the people
of knowledge, those who are righteous.
Number 2, Wamin Adiyyah Il Ikhlas,
From being someone who lacks sincerity,
or shows off in his acts of worship,
to being somebody who
has sincerity.
Number 3, wamin Al Ghafflatieladzikr,
meaning somebody who is heedless,
being conscious of Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala.
Number 4,
And being somebody who
craves and chases after the dunya,
to being someone
who glorifies
anything that is going to
push him towards the Hereafter.
Number 5: Wamin Al Kibili
in a Tawada, being somebody as Al Kibr,
arrogance to being someone who's humble,
and that's where you benefit from the people
of knowledge.
When you
spend some time with them or you go
abroad and you're in their presence,
the way they act, the way they behave,
lies something that I witnessed
Our Sheik Ahmir Behjid, may Allah preserve
him, was a teacher in the Prophet sallallahu
alaihi wasallam's Masjid.
A teacher in the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam's
Masjid, he told Zad al Mustaqneh,
taught Uqsim Fikh
right by the grave of the Prophet Sallallahu
Alaihi Wasallam.
Allah
blessed him with this lofty position.
Having said that,
when another Shaykh who is very, very
strong
in Al Fikh
visits us from Riyadh
and teaches in the Prophet sallallahu alaihi wa
sallam's masjid,
you see Sheikha Aamir Bahajid
not just attending, but sitting in the front
row, taking down the notes.
SubhanAllah.
Normally you would think: Oh, a scholar like
that or a Sheikh like that would sit
at the back,
not wanting others to see that he
is in need of benefiting,
that he's sitting at the front,
behaving so humbly side by side with the
rest of his students.
Number 6: insu inniati ila nasiha,
from being somebody who has bad intentions to
being sincere
when he advises others,
doing it for the sake of Allah Subhanahu
Wa Ta'ala.
Whoever loves the Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala
opens his heart for him
that He blesses him with
beneficial knowledge, then upon him is to do
the following:
It should be someone
who has periods in his day
or in his week
where he is alone
reflecting
on his situation,
just him and Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala,
away from anything that is going to distract
you,
crying his eyes out,
begging Allah Azza wa Jal for forgiveness.
And these, without shadow of a doubt,
from the traits of the Aliyah,
having a time in your day or in
your week where you just sit alone,
just repent to Allah, Azzawajal, and you do
your istighfar.
And to also abstain
from sitting with
some of the people of knowledge, SubhanAllah, he
says,
those who don't have fairness
and justice
and they lack etiquettes.
SubhanAllah!
It always makes me think,
yes, there are people of knowledge
who might not necessarily always have the best
of etiquettes,
and when they do speak, they are extremely
unjust
and unfair,
which causes your heart to harden,
especially now when they are speaking about
fellow scholars,
their contemporaries.
And as the principle says, Kalamul Aqraniyutwawalayruwa,
as Adhdah Bi'armatullah
mentioned,
that which contemporaries,
classmates, say about each other.
And I won't say this unrestrictedly, but most
of the time
it is due to some hidden agenda,
maybe because of envy and so on and
so forth. Not in every case, but we
look at the evidences.
And he said it shouldn't be narrated
or taken into consideration.
And, of course, at times it's done with
Haqq.
A lot of the time that which I've
noticed over the years, in my time in
the Yemen
and in Saudi,
it might well be because a certain sheikh
has been given a position in the Haram,
and he becomes known,
And some of your students are now going
to him.
Some of your students are going to him,
and it hurts
that there are now holes in your
gatherings and gaps.
It might be because of that that being
able to speak about others.
They're not flocking around them as they used
to.
And again, my brothers and my sisters,
a sincere individual,
he doesn't mind
if the Haqq is mentioned by others,
and just because it's not coming from him,
he doesn't become upset.
But rather,
whichever lisan tongue the Haqq utters,
he is happy with that and satisfied.
Just because it didn't
originate from him is not something that irritates
him.
This is how you may want to check
your intentions from time to time as a
teacher.
When a very well known dad comes to
the city, do you feel irritated in your
heart that people are now going to be
attending his gatherings and maybe not attending those?
Are you somebody who cancels his classes so
that people can benefit from him instead of
yourself?
Because they see you all the time.
But you find that the Shaytan traps you.
And one of my favourite statements is a
statement of
Ahmed ibn Hurr,
who was known as the Sheikh of Naysaabur,
which is a city in Iran, a time
of course when the Sunnah was very widespread.
Ahmed ibn Harb Rahmatullahi says:
I worshipped Allah as their Wajal for 50
years.
I didn't taste the sweetness of worship
until I left off 3 things. It's a
common question my brothers and my sisters write.
How can I taste the sweetness of worship?
I don't feel the Khushu in my prayer.
What are the three things?
If you pay close attention, my beloved brothers
and sisters, the 3 that he mentioned,
they are very well connected to one another.
First thing that he mentioned was:
I left off
trying to please others,
and that allowed me to speak the truth.
Because, my brothers and my sisters,
when you are around a group of people
who are always engaging in sin,
and every time now you tell them you
are doing something
that is displeasing to Allah Azza Wa Jal,
what kind of responses do we normally hear?
Killing the vibe.
Why are you always the odd one out?
Why are you always ruining the mood?
This is what we hear,
and it's only a matter of time before
they become fed up.
It's only a matter of time before they
become fed up of you.
Because you are speaking the truth,
that which
doesn't sit well with the sinner.
So when you now, my brothers and my
sisters,
speak the truth,
it will cleanse in
your
inner circle. Look what the next point was.
And I left off hanging around with
the Farssekeen,
the transgressors,
those who are wretched,
and I was able to find
righteous companions.
Only speak the truth, my beloved brothers and
sisters,
and those around you, like I said, it's
only a matter of time before they leave
you.
And then you might go through a period
where
you're only by yourself,
and it's not easy being by yourself. The
way an individual has been created, a human
being, is that he needs to be around
people.
He takes pleasure
in those around him,
Right?
If you look at the word insan, some
scholars, they say it comes from al Uns,
which means to seek pleasure in something,
And being around
friends,
you feel good,
it comes with a pleasure.
When you now speak the truth
and you go against what they're used to
doing from the things that are displeased into
Allah, it's only a matter of time before
they disperse and leave you,
and you'll be alone for some period and
it's a test,
it's a test.
Then
Allah will praise these
evil friends with
wonderful,
blessed
companions
who remind you of Allah
Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala.
As the Messenger Sala'i Islam said:
You don't leave something for the sake of
Allah,
accept Allah as the Wajid will give you
that which is better.
And then the third thing that was mentioned,
my beloved brothers and sisters,
Wataraktul Halawatul Dunya
Hatawajitul Halawatul Akhirah.
I left off
chasing
the
sweetness of the worldly pleasures,
SubhanAllah,
And I was able to taste the
sweetness of the Hereafter.
Allahu Akbar.
How is the 3rd connected to the second?
When Allah Azzawajal replaces your friends now with
good ones,
what do they normally remind you of my
brothers and my sisters? Are they reminding you
of which car to buy?
Which woman to do haram with? No, they
don't.
They remind you of Allah
That's the blessing of having good friends around
you. They remind you of that which is
going to be beneficial for you in the
hereafter.
SubhanAllah, can you see
how the 3 are connected to one another?
You spoke the truth, when you see your
friends
engaging in that which is displeasing to Allah,
you lost them, they left you, Allah replaced
them with good friends, and then these good
friends,
they remind you of the Hereafter,
and they change the way you think and
what you crave and what you chase after.
Allahu Akbar.
This statement of Ahmir ibn Kharab, who was
a Sheikh of Naysabur, right, is always a
touching one,
and perhaps we will conclude with that. Assalaamu
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