Ahmad Arshad – Discourse At Khanqah #09
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The speakers discuss the importance of prioritizing one's spiritual goals and fulfilling their rights in order to achieve spiritual goals, including living in their own environment and showing their actions and deeds to change their behavior. They stress the need to focus on one's behavior and show their intentions and deeds to change their behavior. The speakers also emphasize the importance of fulfilling their natural deeds and balancing their natural activities with others, including following rules and respecting others. They emphasize the need to practice these deeds and not let one's thoughts get out of control, and to not allow one's thoughts to control their actions.
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One of the things that
we have been emphasizing when we talk about
the spiritual states, the halal, the,
the
that a person may go through,
is that you really have to put in
the effort.
This is called.
It's called. It's called.
And that is read also alludes to
to this that a person who strives and
makes efforts,
the path of Allah, Subhanahu wa ta'ala, Allah
opens up the gates of Hidayat for such
a person.
Now what is this Mujaddah?
You know, it is
translating
that
putting in the himma
and then manifesting that into some action.
It is recognizing the truth
and aligning your
with the truth
and making the effort to get it.
This is really what the is
when we talk about
and that you recognize the ultimate truth,
the hack.
And then you align all of your faculties,
all of your energies
that Allah
has bestowed upon you
in gaining that help.
Everybody has some energy. Right? One of the
things that
I remember that in one of our leadership
programs,
somebody asked this question about time management.
It's like, you know, like, how do you
manage your time?
And and the person answered and, you know,
she was,
like a CEO, c CIO of some big
university for a long time.
And that that answer stayed with me. She
said that it's not really the time that
we're managing because everybody has the same time.
Job is scheduled for 24 hours.
What we do is we manage our energy.
And where are you spending
your energy?
There's energy different in different people. Some people
are naturally,
you
know, and some people are naturally
energetic.
But whether you're whether you're energetic,
where is it that you are spending that
energy?
Because the time is ticking for each and
every one of us exactly the same way.
It was the same for
It was the same for the Sahaba al
Khiram, this one,
All the awliya, all the ullam. No. It's
the same. Time is the same, But it
is the energy,
and we all know this from experience.
Well, maybe not you yet, but
you know, the energy, it's a graph that
goes up
and then it goes down.
Meaning, the himma that a person might have
at your ages,
It is double, triple,
quadruple
of what somebody might have
when they're older.
So this is why.
That when a person does in
their
that is the that's the the path of
the. So, you know, it is this is
the time to actually do the
That, you know, we have to become people
who are able to put that intention and
that Himmat
into the right action.
We cannot become people who are just
fantasizing
all the time,
daydreaming all the time.
Muhammad says that I love those
We're able to put this anchor
on the stars. We need to aim high.
So this is really
and now different people have different kinds of,
you know, for army like us, you know,
we have to make a, for example, for
the
Recognizing that, you know, there is this.
This is this reconstruction
of
from
to that needs to happen.
And so you have to pick pick pick
because,
again, it's difficult to change we we have
established this already.
It is difficult to change behaviors and habits
and likes and dislikes. So, you know, you
have to put in the to do that.
So our likes become the like the likes
of Rasulullah
Our dislikes
become like that of Rasulullah
Our wants become like that of Rasulullah
So this is called
and I will say, you know, a lot
of Sufis too, you know, they don't put
enough
emphasis on this. They will put emphasis on
ill.
They will put emphasis on extra
Even those there are that can be considered.
Means, you know, self made
Oh, I'm going to do this. I'm going
to do that. I'm going stand up on
one
foot in the middle of river
and, you know,
and do, like, 1,000 times
of something special.
Those are some those are extra things.
What is really required from us as part
of the Sharia is that
the armir construction
of a rihlak in the image of that.
So that takes mujahaja. You know, I I
know. I mean, there's so many short shortcomings.
All we need to do is just look
at ourselves and pick up any sila book,
and the difference is quite apparent.
Right? So for
an Al Muslim, for us, for people like
us, we should really
be emphasizing that, that it becomes our second
nature. And second is, you know, looking at
our at our deeds, our
and slowly making this that
becomes it.
That is this sincerity
in all of our actions because a lot
of times, you know, as as Hadim
used to say
that all Ibadid begins with the riya,
then it becomes riya, then becomes Ibadid.
A lot of times for us, we get
stuck in the riya.
A lot of it is showing off. The
the big way we can tell is, you
know, what are we doing when we're alone?
If we don't show the same shock and
zak
and love and muhabbat and energy in our
ibadat when we're alone,
And let's say we are doing, you know,
showing it, let's say when we're in a
public place or in a masjid or akhanafa,
that sort of thing.
There's a there's a difference
in the zahir and the bathe.
There's a difference, you know, and
really, I mean, the the correct word for
that is there's nifaat there.
So we have to bridge those gap, and
we have to bring and this takes.
Where is it taking?
When we're alone in our seclusion.
In our solitude, in making our seclusion and
solitude and
pure and full of haya, it takes effort.
And, you know, like, ulama had written for
example,
they give the hadith of mubarakah that
Rasulullah
would shorten his prayers,
the Afar prayer that he used to meet.
If he would hear like a baby cry.
So they take from this that, you know,
that kind of Khuzuri Akalb is not actually
required in the Falt prayer. This is something
that you have to practice in your Nawaf.
So are we able to do that? Are
we able to really prolong our sujood, make
dua like,
you know, like we really have read it
in the books, like our masha'i used to
do. If not, then that takes
too.
That takes And in general, you know,
making an effort to fulfill hukukuri baat,
That is also because
this deen is all about balance.
It's about the middle way. It is recognized
recognized the hukub of Allah
living in Allah conscious life, Allah centric life,
but then also making sure that we are
fulfilling the hukub of
those around us. Should giving them respect, respecting
our elders, our, you know, father or mother,
you know, respecting our brothers and sisters and,
you know,
and all. So, I mean, everybody has a
right. I mean, Allah
has made this
deen a very communal deen.
This concept of
is very strong in this.
And it it requires that we have to
make
to fulfill those rights. But how do we
do it?
With that
Do not let your and your, but you
know,
your offspring and your relationship
distract you from Allah. Meaning,
the secret of Allah is there but you
still fulfill the rights of others.
And for the, this is where the and
the is
finding the, finding
ways of getting rid of the, you know,
distractions and,
you know,
all of the good stuff that we usually
talk. About.
How do I find Jamiyat in my? How
do I find? How do I find jazz?
How do I and
stuff like that?
So this is
really what they focus
on. That that takes riyazat as well. It
means you have to make in your you
have to make
in your and you have to, you know,
follow the surnah utterly, entirely.
You know, you have to cleanse yourself of
the
shortcomings
of the razayil.
You know, like, not not intellectually, but spiritually
you have to get. Because one way is
to stop yourself of doing something, committing something
with your mind, like, forcing it, which is
good because
we're stopping us. But the other is to
really try to scrub
that disease from within us. Right? Getting rid
of the cancer from within us.
That
is.
And then the,
for example,
their
is all about, like, and
really that kind of annihilation and,
you
know,
those are great people. But, you know, for
us, at least we can start focusing on
the little things.
So in Ramadan,
Ramadan is all about riyazat and.
It's recommitting ourselves.
And, you know, it it happens. Sometimes people
burn out. 8 days, 9 days, it's like,
oh, I've been doing this for 8, 9
days, and people will burn out. Can I
read this much for can I do this?
It's like reminding ourselves
of the the you know,
it's
it's not that long. And before we know
it, it'll be over with. And all it
will take is just one weekend of rest
and then that's it. We'll forget all the
that we made
and and we'll be fine again.
So, you know,
keeping at it
and adding to it and especially, you know,
istighfar,
especially making gua,
especially doing the extra nawafil,
you know, of course the Quran, reading of
the Quran.
And any other adkar that you might find
yourself
in, this is the time to really bring
it into our lives.
Okay. So may god will Allah subhanahu wa
ta'ala
allows us to realize the full,
you know, like the the full, like, rahma
of this month
and
commit ourselves to riyazat and mujahidah and Mehmed.
And may
Allah allow us to become somebody
through that who's pleasing in
Allah for a few minutes.
Just close your eyes and bow your heads
in humility, humbleness.
Find that stillness within you.
Let go of all the thoughts of the
dunya and everyone in this dunya. Negate everything.
Affirm Allah
And make intentions
and make intentions to Allah.
It's for Yazad, the Jaliyah that are descending
upon us.
They're entering our call of 2 fingers at
the lower left chest.
And our call is absorbing us to the
liad,
and all the
filth and
all the darkness,
all the hardness is exiting this and feel
with your intuition that your call is calling
out to Allah. Feel that your call will
say, Allah, Allah, Allah, and that you understand.