The Glorious Names of Allah – Names of accountability – Al-Raqeeb – The All-Observing
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The speakers discuss the importance of accountability and the need to care for others' actions. They emphasize the importance of knowing one's own actions and not allowing others to take money. The speakers also address the secret of a bareler's secret and advise anyone watching them to be aware of their actions and potential consequences. They stress the importance of working on one's own secret and taking care of one's appearance to prevent distraction and avoid leaving one's own actions on their own.AI Generated Transcript ©
The all observant
The category
that, this name exists within
or attributes
of accountability.
Within that category, there are a number of
names.
It shows a out of them.
So accountability.
We're gonna talk about the and tomorrow we'll
talk about another one as well.
Mostly, Samia, Al Basir. All of these names,
their effect on us is that these are
the names through which Allah
will hold us accountable
on the day of judgment.
This name is better
than a 100 laws
and a 1,000 law enforcers.
This is the name that
repairs both the individual
and the community.
There is no real value
to laws or regulations or rules.
Law enforcement,
if
if the concept of
is does not exist inside the hearts and
the minds of of people.
A human being has an exquisite
talent in finding his way
around laws,
around rules.
Human being has found a way
to break every law and every rule.
It's found loopholes
in every regulation
that others have made.
But when Ismaila Al Raqib
exists in the hearts and minds of people,
that is how you get individuals
and communities
to actually follow
follow regulations and laws.
Say it to Quran 3 times.
This very famous ay at the beginning of
Surah Al Nisa that is often quoted on
the manabir.
Oh, people,
be mindful of your lord who created you
yet from one
soul.
And from that soul, he created a spouse.
And from the 2 of them,
he brought
forward many men and many women.
Be mindful of Allah
and take care of your relatives. Indeed, Allah
subhanahu wa ta'ala is all observant upon you.
When Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala speaks to Isa
alayhi salam on the day of judgment, He
says,
Or did you tell people to take yourself
and your mother as as gods
aside from Allah
He said you are exalted. I would never
I don't have the right to say anything
that you did not tell me to say.
That I do not have the right to
say.
If I send it, then you know it.
You know what exists inside of me, and
I don't know
what's in you.
You're the one who knows all that which
is the unseen.
I only told them what you told me
to tell them, which is
serve your lord, my lord and yours.
When you took
me
to
you.
You're the one who was who continued to
observe what they did.
And you're the witness to everything.
And he is with you wherever you are.
Wherever you may be, whatever it is you're
doing, he is with you
This concept of of
something or someone
continuously
watching over you.
In Islam, it's extremely important.
It's one of the core
concepts through which we understand Allah
His knowledge
is something we're gonna talk about separately. Today,
the point is that there is someone who
is observing and watching over you, that you're
never
truly,
fully alone.
He's there's always someone there.
Wherever you are.
The concept
of the 80 20%.
We're all like icebergs
or mountains.
What's observant what's observable to people with a
parent is just the 20% above land. That's
what people see of you. That's what you
allow them to see. And then the rest
of you is that 80% that's underground,
that's underwater, that people don't see, they don't
know anything about.
And Islam
allows you to care for that 80%
that no one sees.
The 80% that is not knowledge that that
is not something that people have
access to. It's making sure that you take
care of it because
the hadith
that Sayyidina Thauba Allahu Anhu narrates
from the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam, this
hadith is in the collection of ibn Maja,
ibn Maja and is has an authentic chain
of narration.
Where he says
where he says
Yeah. He said, on the day of judgment,
people from my nation will come and they
have hasanat that are as big as a,
Jibal Tihama, which is a series of mountains
connected mountains. That's how much hasanat they
have.
It is turned into nothing.
It is turned into worthless fluff.
So
as any of you or myself would be
would be quite afraid and surprised by this
explained who are these people.
Detail them for us so that we don't
end up amongst them.
He said, indeed, they are amongst you and
they are from you, and they take from
the night as you do. What he means
by that is that they pray at night.
You know, they have they have
But there are people that every time they
find themselves alone with that which
Allah made haram, they
they do it. They perform the haram.
There are people every time the only eye
that is watching upon them
is the eye of Allah
They fall in.
And the earliest verses in the Quran, early
the the earliest, surahs that were revealed to
the prophet
He says in the midst of
This person who's behaving in such and such
way, did this person not know that Allah
sees
all?
That he did he wasn't aware that in
the in the that he's watching
wherever you may be, he's seeing you
would come one day by on a journey
and, yeah, he's he's traveling and he'd come
by a small, a shepherd, a young shepherd,
10, 12 years
old. So Arasay ibn al Khatab tried tried
him out. He just
in the spirit of, of testing, you know,
commonly men will test the young young men
to see what they're made of.
So it asks him for, you know, for
for, for milk. So he says, I I
can't give you anything. I have no permission
from the owner. I can't give you anything.
So
he offers him money. He said, I I
was not permitted. Yeah. You take money. Said,
well, give us one of the sheep, and
we'll pay you for it. I can't do
that either. So give us one of the
sheep and tell your,
tell the owner that it got lost or
that the,
the wolf ate
it.
Because, indeed, the owner of these sheep, they
he can't see you.
Well, where is Allah then?
This this this moved him.
So he got up and said,
Where is
Allah?
And then he he he he gave this
young shepherd
a gift of wealth.
This is this is the question.
Where is
Allah? Lived like
this. He was worried.
He was worried that he wouldn't,
that if he didn't do his job as
Ameerul Mumineen appropriately, that at any point, Allah
that Allah would hold him accountable for the
smallest detail that no one, that people wouldn't
even notice.
He would walk
within the,
the neighborhoods of, Madinah or the cities that
he would go and and visit
at night to see how people are behaving
and what's to keep his hand on the
pulse of his nation. So he's walking
at night and he hears over
it is like before Fajr. He hears beyond
the wall
2 ladies speaking.
One is telling the other, add water.
He's saying add water.
The other one said, no. It's not appropriate.
Add to the to the milk a little
bit of water.
Meaning the Khalifa said we should you know,
this he was he was very clear on
this one. Do not add water to milk.
It's haram. Don't don't do that. Don't Don't
add water and then sell it to make
a little bit more.
The other lady said,
Oh, my daughter, what does, where is to
hold you accountable?
The pilot, the other lady,
If the Umar can't see us right now,
well, the lord of Umar can can see
us.
Heard this conversation. He goes back to his
house.
There's a young lady in this house.
If none of you are willing to talk
to his sons, are willing to go and
marry her, then I'm gonna marry her myself.
But if,
his son,
married her.
From.
And this lady came, Sayyidina Amar ibn Abdulaziz,
the known Khalifa.
The barakah of someone who has rakaba.
The muraqaba
is a word raqeb is Allah's name. Umuraqaba
is one of the known tools within,
one of the the most famous of all
tools within within the within the science of
or the discipline of where you watch
yourself. You observe yourself. You may
you're not waiting for others to observe you
and give you feedback on your behavior and
hold you accountable and remind you of things.
You're watching yourself. You're observing
how your heart is behaving, what what thoughts
you're allowing,
what feelings and what hopes and what dreams
and what fears and what accusations and what
gossip
and what bad assumptions and good assumptions. You're
watching yourself. You're not waiting for someone else
to do it for you. The the barakah
in that is is
unparalleled in this world. And if you find
someone who who who has that inside of
them, then that's more worthy than than anything
else. He
says
Speak quietly
and he use your words and speak your
words secretively
or speak them openly.
It makes no difference.
He knows
all that what you're saying. He's observing whether
you speak it quietly or
or If you speak loudly,
or you don't,
Allah
knows the secret and that which is more
secretive than the secret.
Not only does he know your secret
but he knows a layer that goes beyond
the secret,
understands the motive behind it. He knows basic
idea that started it and what gain you're
hoping to get out of this thing that
you're holding on to yourself and not letting
anyone else know about.
There's no where are you going to go?
There's nowhere to go.
There is no small group of 3 that
are consulting secretively
except he is the 4th amongst them. Nor
is there 4 except he is the 6th
amongst amongst them. Nor if there's less group
that are smaller than 3 or a group
that is more than that, except he is
with them
wherever they go.
Wherever they may be, he is watching
He is.
When
passed
away. When they were washing his body, they
would find
these marks on his back.
It's very peculiar looking marks. It's you could
see there was discoloration in certain parts of
his back that was unexplained.
So they asked, and was he, you know,
during the, uprising
of Sayyidina Al Hussein alaihis salam, was was
he lashed? Was he caught? Was he? And
no. And the wife said, I don't know.
I never actually noticed it until you talked
about it, but I don't he wasn't. And
he was never lashed by any ruler, and
he was never didn't have, like, a disease
or anything. So they couldn't understand what these
marks on his back were.
And he was and they they buried him
and they prayed upon him, and that was
the end of it.
It was only a week or two later
when,
the number of needy people started to rise
and people started standing,
on the doors of the sultan and the
doors of other people asking
for provision,
asking where, you know, where their weekly
where their work weekly provision was
why why why wasn't being delivered to them.
And they had to ask what weekly provision
are you speaking of that was not being
delivered to you. And they explained, no. We've
been getting weekly, the amounts of wheat and
barley and dates and whatnot. And the and
this is our
and it took them a couple of months
to to patch it all together.
Every week, in the midst of the night
without his wife even knowing, he would go
and he would make he would mix bags
of wheat and barley and dates and whatnot
and carry them on his back
and take them to the homes of people
who are in need and leave that,
at their doorsteps right before Fajal. And he
would do this all throughout his life without
anyone knowing about it. The only way it
was known is the marks that they could
not understand on his back and the emergence
of all of these people who were used
to getting their weekly provision and weren't getting
it anymore.
This is someone who understands Allah,
someone who is watching.
You don't need anyone else to be witness
of what you're doing.
The one who is witnessing it is witnessing
it. Allah
exposed the story of this gentleman so that
we could just tell it. He passed away.
He didn't he passed away and he got
what he wanted, where he lived and died
and no one knew what he did. So
he can meet Allah
with a gem of sincerity in what he
did. But Allah exposed it for you and
I so that we can tell the story
so maybe we learn something for it. When
before he died,
and and the show measures showed
chose Sayid
Omar,
some people came to him and said,
Umar is a very difficult person to deal
with. Are you sure this is someone that
should be taking on this role after you?
This is what he said.
That's a man. His his what he heaps
to himself what's between him and Allah, subhanahu,
that no one sees is better than what
you see of him.
His is most people, what I see of
you, this is the best version.
This is the best version of me. Yeah.
You're not you're not gonna get anything better
than this. Anything else that yeah. You don't
want to know anything else. This is know
this. Be happy with this as I am
happy with what I'm seeing ahead of me.
Says I I I testify that
what he hides, what people do not know
about him is better than what people do
know about him, and that's why he is
the right person to take this on.
There are different levels
of
there are different levels of
observation
being watched. The first one and the the
one that is most simple,
the one that is most apparent is the
level of Allah
watching upon us.
The level under that is the level of
the Malaika. He says,
The human being will not say a word
except upon him is
a a prepared observant.
It's not true
It's not and I I know that's that's
what they tell you. It's it's it's just
one
concept.
Someone who is prepared to continue to observe
you.
There's a young man who came to a
scholar.
The story is told by on the on
the authority of more than one scholar. So
I'm just gonna say
scholar generically so that, you know, if you
read it and it's a different scholar, then
I'm telling you, you don't, this is just
so I get less
objections later on in my life.
This story is told upon the authority of
more than one scholar. So
he came to them, and he said,
yeah,
Imam or allow me to perform a.
Yes. No problem.
Which was, Yani,
I would say, a little bit surprising to
the young person.
What I can be sure. I just have
a few, conditions for you.
So if you want
to perform a if you want to disobey
him, just don't do it on his land.
You know, you find a place where it's
a
why you
okay.
What are you talking about in in all
earth is big? Everywhere is belong to.
If you can't do that,
then just go and do this in a
place he can't see you because it's rude.
It's not appropriate that he's watching you as
you perform this. So do it in a
place he can't see you.
Then you're going to do it, then do
it and don't eat his provision because yeah.
And you can't take you can't take his
gift and then you and then go ahead
and disobey. It's rude.
And who can eat anything aside from his
provision?
And if you're going then go ahead and
do it. Just tell the, the left the
the the not to write it down and
not to document it so that you don't
end up having to pay for
it.
Said, oh, imam, are you making fun of
me?
You're making fun of yourself.
You have mocked yourself. Yeah. I'm not mocking
you. You mock yourself.
If you can't, yeah, disobey him, subhanahu. If
you're going to disobey him and you're going
to be on his land eating his rizq
as he watches you and is going to
be documented and brought back for you,
why would you do it? Are you insane?
The second level of is that there's a
with you at all times, and he's and
he's watching.
I'm pretty sure he's judging us as well.
I would if I were in his in
his position. But he his his job is
just to write it down, just to document
what you did, the good and the bad.
The third level of of, of
observation or
or watching is is your conscious.
Indeed,
the human being
has upon himself true insight.
And I swear by the
the soul that holds itself accountable, that continues
to blame itself for the mistakes that it
performs.
That conscious that you have on the inside,
it knows what's right and wrong.
90% of the questions I get in this
world or or in my lifetime are questions
that I did not need to be asked.
The person knows the answer to the question.
He knows what you know what's the what
the right thing here to do is.
You know, you you just you just don't
wanna do it because it's a little bit
more taxing than maybe if I tell you
you can do the other thing.
Yeah. I mean, if there's permissibility for it.
But deep inside, you know you know what
the right thing is. You know if this
is appropriate or not appropriate. 90% of the
time,
try yourself. Before you look something up or
Google something, I mean, before you ask a
question, just take it just for your own
self. Just learn something about yourself. Just pause
and ask, Do I do I know the
answer to this question? Do I not? 90%
of the time, yeah, I I I know
what this I I shouldn't be doing this.
Most of the time when you're when you're
compelled to look it up, usually it means
not the right choice.
And the book is established in its foot
on the day of judgment. So you see
the people who broke his laws
are extremely afraid from what's in it. And
then when they read it, they say, what's
wrong with this book?
Why is it not leaving anything that is
big or small except it's documenting it? Every
even the stuff that we didn't think was
worthy of documentation.
Why is this here? It was just a
moment of time. It was it was harmless.
I just anyway, it was just a smirk.
It was just a smile. It was just
a this. It was everything. Even the smile.
What's wrong with this book?
What is this?
Doesn't leave a small thing or a big
thing except it right and they found everything,
absolutely everything that they did present right there.
And your lord will not mistreat or treat
with injustice anyone.
Allah
kept track of all of it, and they
forgot
and they forgot because
he How do you live with this name?
It's very simple.
Repent to Allah
from all the sins,
Specifically, the ones that no one was present
when you performed them except him
Start by repenting and do this in Ramadan.
Start
by repenting to Allah
and performing tawba
from all of the sins
that you performed when no one else was
watching
except from Allah because those sins specifically are
heinous.
Because you're telling him,
if it's just
you watching,
then it's fine. I I'll do whatever I
want. But if people are watching, you know,
people, those who don't really have any impact
on my,
really, those who are just as lost as
I am, those who are floating in the
sea, just holding on trying to survive. No.
I'll I'll I'll fix them. I'll get myself.
I'll I'll put myself together. But if it's
just your blessed eye watching me, then then
I'll do whatever I want.
Perform
repentance from that
because there's a certain degree of
disrespect
there
that is inappropriate for the heart of a
Muslim,
so repent from that. The third one,
work on your unseen.
Work on
work on a,
a secret.
This is a piece of advice I was
given by one of my teachers, Yani, maybe
to 20 plus years ago that I think
is probably the one of the most valuable
things I've ever been told.
Make a a secret between you and Allah
that no one knows, that no one will
ever know. Something that's just between you and
Allah
No one will ever find out and put
in the effort
to make sure that no one ever finds
out.
Do what
did. Make sure that no one has any
clue
that you did this and live and die
like that, and make sure that you take
this with you.
And try to make sure that that 80%
is a bit better than or equal, if
not better, to the 20% that you're putting
forward.
And take care of the of yourself as
I hope that was a benefit to you.
I hope that was a benefit to you.