Abu Taymiyyah – Part 1 Traits Of The Awliyaa Amsterdam
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He swore by the might of Allah subhanahu
wa ta'ala that he's going to mislead every
single individual.
So in order for us to prevent
ourselves
from falling victim
in the traps of the shaytan, we need
to know
kayfay ishtagl. Right? How does the shaitaan operate?
Ibn Uthayim
he speaks about this.
Where he talks about turukhushaythani
The way the Shaytan operates in order to
mislead
the insan, the human being.
Brothers and my sisters,
the shaytan
attempts
to make us disbelievers.
Disbelieve in Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. And that
could be intellectually my brothers and my sisters.
This is what tends to happen today, right?
You find a lot of these individuals who
are
so called people of intellects.
Who when they try to look in the
nusos, the textual evidences,
it became or it appeared to them that
the sharia doesn't make sense.
So he comes to certain practices
of the messenger salallahu alaihi wasallam, and he
says, This doesn't make sense.
Can you see what the shaytaan has maybe
made him do?
And sometimes it could be my brothers and
my sisters that the shaytaan
beautifies for him
an act of shirk.
My brothers and my sisters, by Allah,
last hajj.
I was just minding my own business,
looking after the Hujjaj that I was with.
A man came up to me who knew
the 7
iraat.
7 iraat, he's a master.
And then there was a discussion going on,
and no, no, no, no, no. I said
to him, Sheikh
we don't want to go into disputes. We
don't want to argue. We don't want to
quarrel.
You insha'allahu ta'ala concentrate
on teaching the people
what is
most beneficial for them in this hajj.
We want the people to go back, and
they have insha'Allah ta'ala
receive the maximum reward.
And do not enter us into issues of
controversy.
Because there's a lot of hujjah with me.
People want to benefit. A lot of these
hujjah will come, They are very uneducated. They
don't know the basics of the deen. So
this is a wonderful opportunity now for me
to teach them.
How they pray, how they make wudu, how
to perform hajj most importantly, likewise.
So when I said
to
him,
don't
you know, cause us to indulge on things
that cause in controversy.
He said, what do you mean by that?
I was like sheikh, it would be a
serious problem if somebody went in front of
everybody
on the mic, and started saying you have
to go to the Prophet sallallahu alaihi wa
sallam's grave.
And you have to make dua to them,
or to the messenger sallalahu alaihi wa sallam.
Because these were the things that I heard.
Because he was going to be with 1
of the groups that's not with our group
but they are traveling together,
that apparently he believes these kind of things.
Like in Anna Ma'al Kuwaitu,
lihadal Amri I
didn't give him much concern because I was
busy with the people.
The man got so angry.
This is a man who's meant to know
Al Qira'at as Sebrah.
Became very very upset
and said to me,
Because where, you know, our lineage goes back
to the Prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam,
and then you belittle the Prophet sallallahu alaihi
wa sallam by saying
you don't go and make
ask Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala.
And also the messenger Sallallahu Alaihi wa said,
The
dua is a Ibadah itself.
Just like the salah Ibadah, right?
You wouldn't take the salah and give it
to somebody else.
Likewise, you don't take the dua and give
it to somebody else, you only give it
to Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala.
You're not giving his right.
Point of the matter in all of this
is my brothers and my sisters,
that the shaytan
tries to beautify for somebody
an act of shirk,
an act of kufr.
And that is the biggest trap of the
shaytan.
If one falls into that,
Iftahi.
He's relaxed
because he's now made you fall into the
most serious sin. Everything else is sahl to
him.
Abtariqat
Husaniyah,
Ibn Artayeem Rahim Allahu Ta'ala,
he then mentions the second trap.
He said,
if one manages to save himself,
he escapes from this plot of the
If you escape from this plot of the
sheitran, my brothers and my sisters, the
the shaitaan tries to beautify for you
innovation.
Do we not hear every single week on
the member?
The worst of the affairs
that one can fall into
after
is innovation.
Where a person he works so hard
but because
this doesn't go in accordance to Allah subhanahu
wa ta'ala's religion,
and what the messenger salallahu alaihi wa sallam
came with, it will be rejected from him.
Whoever does an action or he comes with
a newly invented matter
that does not go in accordance to
our religion, it will be rejected from him.
Isn't it now that
the actions have been beautified for him and
he believes it to be what? Wonderfully and
great.
Inshallahuta'ala, when we move on to the next
line of poetry, I'll elaborate on the issue
of innovation
shaitan doesn't succeed in making somebody a disbeliever
or a polytheist,
he tries to make him commit an innovation.
And that's the worst of the affairs that
one can fall into.
Why is it one of the worst of
the affairs that a person can fall into?
Why is it more problematic
than major sins? Can anybody tell me?
Nah, I'm Jameel.
The reason why my brothers and my sisters,
and this is something that Sufianath Thawri and
also
they both mentioned.
They say,
Bida' is more beloved to Iblis than sinning.
Because
when you see that brother or that sister
who has a boyfriend or the brother who
has a girlfriend,
and you advise him, He
says
to you,
Make
dua for me. And I'm going to leave
this. And I said to you, Allah, I
will make tawba. He knows what he's doing
is wrong.
But the guy who's doing the innovation,
He believes that he's actually getting close to
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala with what he's doing.
So he's not gonna make tawba. He goes
what a I'm
getting closer. I'm doing
great.
If you manage to escape my brothers and
my sisters from the first trap and also
the second trap,
he moves on to the 3rd step,
and that is
pushing you towards
falling into a major sin.
So that you fall into the sin.
But you find my brothers and my sisters,
if one now makes tawba to Allah subhanahu
wa ta'ala, and he says,
then Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala will forgive you
whatever sin it might
might be. You know my brothers and my
sisters, something that is universal.
That every single individual falls into,
you can be the biggest Sheikh in the
world,
the biggest Alim in the world,
As the messenger of the Lord said,
every son of Adam, he is not just
a
somebody who excessively
all the time
Mind me that he fall fell into it
this one time.
But Bani Adam is somebody who
makes mistake.
This is why sometimes,
you know us Arabs,
when we see somebody who who who fell
into a lie,
we call him straightaway kadhab.
Hadadzul.
Because kadhab is somebody who excessively lies, he
just lied one time.
Kadib.
Here you find the same thing.
Somebody who excessively makes mistakes.
But my brothers and my sisters,
this where This is where it comes the
difference.
The best of those who sin are those
who constantly run back to Allah subhanahu wa
ta'ala.
It's always a win win situation when you
run back. And no matter how many times
you fall into that major sin,
you should carry on making tawba as long
as you're not doing tala'ub,
playing around with the tawba of Allah subhanahu
wa ta'ala. And you come with the 3
conditions
of being regretful,
and stopping whatever you are doing at that
time.
You can't be doing zina while at the
same time
You have to stop.
And you also
are regretful and remorseful of what you have
committed. And
then the third condition my brothers and my
sisters is that you make the decision that
you don't go back to it.
There and then.
But if it happens again,
in his explanation of sai Muslim. Even if
it is a 1000 times,
you ask Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala to forgive
you.
And if Allah azza wa jal sees you
trying all the time, he's going to forgive
you. And he's going to help you
get rid of that sin.
The 4th plot of the Shaitan.
If you manage
to escape my brothers and my sisters from
all of these traps of the Shaytan, then
the next step that the Shaytan uses is
by making you fall into a sareeh, a
minor sin.
Something that stays with you all the time.
Look how
evil this shaytaan is.
He wasn't able to make you fall into
the previous things that we just mentioned.
He so badly wants to misguide you. What
does he do?
He throws his sahirah at you, his sin.
Just so you don't end up having a
high status
in Aljannah,
and you miss out on the virtue of
being with who?
The martyrs and the nabiyeen, and so on
and so forth. And those who are truthful
that Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala mentioned
in
Surat
If you make tawba from all of that
wish has been mentioned,
you are now considered to be a big
shot.
You are now considered to be somebody
who has a very respectful position with the
shaytan.
And
the very high statuses
and the Iblis.
So the next step my brothers and my
sisters, if you manage to get away from
the traps of the sheit an and all
of that which we have mentioned,
He now moves on to the next step.
Okay? And that is to busy you with
that which
has less reward.
You know my brothers and my sisters, as
we are all aware
that the good deeds,
they differ
with regards to its reward.
Some are sometimes more important than others
at times.
I'll give you guys an example.
Salatul Jamah.
Salatul Jamah
is a very important Ibadah.
The shaitan
tries to overwhelm you by telling akhir, you
know, your parents
go and do Birul Walidayn. Yes, Birul Walidayn
is very very important being dutiful to your
parents.
But if we have
as Imam al Sayedid mentioned in his qawah
ad al Fakhihyah,
sometimes you are in a predicament where you
have a bunch of
good acts that are clashing with one another,
and you have to go for 1. If
you're able to combine them, great. But if
you have to go for 1 over the
other, you have to go with that which
is most important.
The time of jama'ah kicked in. This is
the call to answer the invitation of Allah
subhanahu wa ta'ala to go and stand in
front of him.
To go and do something great to your
parents.
So the shaitan says to you,
Worship your Lord and stay away from shirk
and be good to your parents.
So I'm gonna go and be good to
my parents. I'm still doing something good.
You have now busied yourself with that which
is less ajal. And what you need to
do is go and answer that invitation of
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. And that is the
salah in
the
masjid.
And then Nabi Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam
A blind man came to the messenge Sallallahu
Alaihi Wasallam
I don't have a ikha'id, somebody that can
take me to the masjid.
He's blind.
Gave him permission. You don't need to attend
the jama'ah.
When he was about to leave, he called
him back again. He He
said,
Can you hear the adhan? He said, Yes.
He told the blind man,
to go and answer what?
The call of salah.
The last trap of the shaitan.
If you manage to save yourself and escape
from all of these traps of the shaytaan,
the shaytaan uses my brothers and my sisters
a trap.
And these are from the greatest of traps
that he has.
And ways in order to
try and mislead that individual,
and busy him from that which is best
for him. You know what he does my
brothers and my brothers and my sisters? He
tries to come through
your family members.
In order to insult you.
Can also to humiliate you.
Can also to harm you.
My brothers and my sisters, throughout my years
of studying,
I've seen those brothers
who were trying the best,
who are trying the utmost best.
And you can see that the shaytan would
be terrified of these kind of people.
Why? Because when you study and you're very
very serious and seeking knowledge,
you are now plotting against the shaitan, alayhis
kadaliq.
What does the shaitan want to do? He
wishes that everybody becomes misguided.
He
swore by Allah that he's going to try
and mislead every single individual.
So he doesn't necessarily care
whether you fall into Shubahat, into doubts or
Shahuwat Shahuwat, temptations.
And this brother is learning day and night
how to save himself and also how to
save others as well.
So whether he might come through his wife.
His wife is back home and he's in
Medina.
She's on the phone going crazy.
He meets her, it's like no problem happened.
Ibn Jazirahimullah
ta'ala, he mentioned this.
The first deception of Iblis was what?
To block them from knowledge because their ilm
is
This Ilm is what is going to destroy
the plots and the plans of the shaitan.
If he was to now extinguish the light
of ilm,
people are going to be dropping back and
forth in the darkness. Right?
So he comes after these people
really badly.
And I've seen it happen to so many
brothers.
Whether it might come from their parents,
their parents for no valid reason are telling
him to come back.
Whether it comes through the wife,
whether it comes now through the kids,
whether the moment he comes back, you find
that his family members are giving him a
hard time, he's trying to give them dua,
they're not accepting the dua, so the shayta
then plays mind games with him. What's the
point of you studying? Nobody is accepting anything
from you.
So
Iblis,
do you know now where you stand with
Iblis?
So this helps you understand
which level I'm at
with him.
Am I winning against him or am I
failing really badly?
Mind the first step,
the fringes of the first
trap and also the second trap.
And also you have to understand my brothers
and my sisters,
if you are of the last category that
I mentioned, the shaitan will try his utmost
best
to make you go up the ladder by
going through the 5th trap, and then the
4th, and then the 3rd, and then the
second, and
But he's already managed to get you into
the first one.
Then he goes on to say,
He mentions two characteristics
of these people who have shredded the path
to Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala in the hereafter.
That they come with Al Ikhlas
in their journey.
And they also my brothers and my sisters,
Tesharra'o
Bishir
When they obeyed Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala,
this was in accordance to
the way of the messenger sallallahu alaihi wa
sallam.
Because my brothers and my sisters,
As for Dayri ibn Ayadur Humana Wa Ta'ala,
the great Taibiyi commented, why is Ahesinu Amala?
He said
That which is sincere in the acts that
you come with,
And also
it is the most correct
in the sense where that action that you
are doing it has to be in accordance
to
what the messenger salaam alaihi wa sallam
did or whatever he said.
Otherwise, you are wasting your time.
My brothers and my sisters, our religion
is not awartif.
It is not emotion.
I can sit here with a banner.
I love the Prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam.
But it doesn't necessarily mean anything if you
don't come with what you should be coming
with.
There is a verse in Surat Al Imran
that Imam Muhammad Rahimallahu Ta'ala called Ayatul Mihna.
The verse of examination.
What is this verse?
Say to them, O Muhammad,
if they really really love Allah Azza wa
Jal, then tell them
to follow
you. Follow
me.
My brothers and my sisters, so Hassan al
Basri, the great Tabi'i, he commented on this
and he said,
Some people claimed
that they love Allah azza wa Jal and
his messenger, so he tested them with this
verse.
I can sit here all day long,
If you're not actually doing what the mess
salallahu alaihi wa sallam told you to do,
or doing the things he actually told you
to stay away from.
My brothers and my sisters, I'll move on
to the issue of iqas in a moment.
There is
a that the scholars teach us.
Where was this taken? This was directly taken
from how the companions they conducted themselves.
I'm going to mention to you guys what
Umar said, and also what his son, Abdullah
ibn Umar radhiallahu
Umar Khattab radhiallahu ta'ala Anhu,
he stood in front of the black stone.
He said to the black stone,
I know that you are a stone
that doesn't bring benefit and doesn't
bring harm. Had I not seen the messenger
salallahu alaihi wa sallam kiss you, I would
not have kissed you.
What is he trying to teach us? That
if I see the messenger of doing something,
I'm gonna do it. If I didn't see
him doing something, I'm not going to do
it.
Some of you guys may have seen this
video that I put on Instagram.
Hijack
home. That's a sad reality, my brothers. I
tell the Hujaj, when I take them every
year,
brothers and sisters, their uncles and aunties,
the asl,
the default, the origin of what you see
the people doing, don't do it. Until it
becomes clear to you, what should be done
is
much innovation taking place in and around the
Kaaba.
Things that people should not be doing.
Abdulai ibn Muhammad radiAllahu ta'ala Anhu, my brothers
and my sisters, he was asked about Sayami
yawmi arafa ta bi arafa.
What is the reward of the person who
fasted on the day of Arafa?
Over here.
For fasting on the day of Arafah if
you are not a hajji.
But if you are in Arafah as a
hajj, you're wearing your ihram.
He was asked, can a person fast on
that day?
He said, and look what he tried to
teach the people, a minhaj,
a methodology in how to worship Allah Subhanahu
Wa Ta'ala. And it is this hadith, my
brother, that we should all write down.
And really, you know, in a nice way
sometimes
bring it to the people.
And you find that really
demolishes any doubt that is brought forth with
regards to the practices that people do that
is not part of the religion.
He said,
I don't Hajj with the messian sallallahu alaihi
wa sallam, and he didn't fast.
And I don't Hajj with Abu Bakr and
he didn't fast.
And I don't Hajj with Umar and he
didn't fast.
And I done Hajj with Uthman and he
didn't fast.
And I'm not going to be fasting as
well.
Every practice
that arises my brothers and my sisters in
the public,
the first question we should be asking us,
ourselves,
did the messenger sallallahu alaihi wa sallam do
it?
And if he didn't do it, did the
companions do it?
And then he should determine whether we should
go and do the act. Wallahi l'aheem. If
the people place this hadith, this narration in
between their eyes,
there wouldn't be innovation today.
They really wouldn't.
Do you really think that the mess that
the companions,
If there was any khair in something, they
would rush towards it, that they forgot
to love the messenger sallallahu alaihi wa sallam.
You see?
And as the messenger salallahu alaihi wasalaam said,
every newly invented practice is an innovation.
We hear that every week on the mimbar.
But some brothers they come along sometimes and
they say, but some scholars they mention, there's
a and
There's a bad and there's a good
Taib.
Who shall we listen to? Should we listen
to my Sheikh, your Sheikh, Abu You Ana,
Ummi? Should we listen to my mom? Why
shouldn't we listen to your mom?
My brothers and my sisters,
what makes you a person who follows the
way of the salif is that anytime something
arises, you look at the
salif. It is their understanding, not my understanding.
Not so and so's understanding. Not my friend
who's in the UK, his understanding.
Or his or your
or
your. It is the understanding of who?
The
likes of Abu Hurayi Rabdu liyeh Abdulayi ibn
Umar the Khulafa ur Rashidin.
So Ibn Umar radhiallahu ta'ala Anhuma,
He came to that hadith and he said,
Every newly invented
practice is an innovation.
Even if the people they see it to
be good.
Even if the people see it to be
good.
Even Abu Dardar radiallahu ta'ala anhu said,
Every single Ibadah that the companions did not
worship Allah azza wa jal with, then you
don't go and worship Allah azza wa jal
with it. Hadafa Muzalif. These are the companions.
People that we should be taking as our
understanding.
So any teacher that comes to you guys,
my brothers and my sisters,
he should always be teaching you
And then also upon the understanding of who?
His word
That's what real Ilham is.
Not what my uncle said to me,
or what my Sheikh, you know, thought of.