Ahmad Arshad – Discourse At Khanqah #19
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The speakers discuss the importance of achieving the ultimate goal of Islam, which is achieved through reading a 100 times every day. They also touch on the concept of a " ridden gap" and how it can be defined in terms of feelings and emotions. The heart is crucial for achieving this goal, especially when seeking results from outer sun spots. The speakers stress the importance of the heart's desire to be doing things that are supposed to be done, and the importance of making serious changes to it.
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Continuing our
discussion of certain halad and kefiyat states and
conditions that the secret usually goes through
these inner dimensions, these
inner conditions,
it is important that we have a little
bit of self awareness about them.
So yesterday we spoke about raja, this concept
of hope,
or a better word would be like having
aspirations.
That's what it is, like having aspirations,
and
and we established that all of our hope
should be with Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala.
We put in the effort,
We ask for tawfi for effort.
And then
we hope for the best.
That is really how it works.
That
Allah Ta'ala puts barakah in it, Allah Subhanahu
Wa Ta'ala
allows for it to blossom.
Now
a related kafiyyah is what is known as
raghba,
which is
when a person feels like a desire for
something.
The difference would be
that hope
results in certain goals, certain, you know, aspirations.
This is where I need to get, but
you may not put in the effort. You
may not get there. But
is actually bridging the gap,
is actually getting there.
You know, we use this word
in our own language. That something that is
dear to your heart, something that is desire
desirous.
And people say that,
you know, biryani is very malhoop to me,
that I seek it out, and it's not
just hope that I will get it. People
will put in the effort to,
I don't know who makes the best biryani,
but go there and get it and acquire
it. Right? So it is
something that
your tabiyit
wants and desires now.
And so developing this sort of ralaba towards
Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala is essential.
Remember that
in Samasha he used to teach us that,
you know, you should
read 100 times every day.
So a 100 times, the person feels that
their inhalation or the heart is not
into
it, that the is strong
and
is strong,
you know, that washyah is there.
Doesn't the person doesn't really care.
Then they should try this
wazifa of just reading it 100 times every
day.
Well, obviously, to read the wazifa, you need
some himads too.
Allah
allows a different kind of rahmat. So for
example, they will sit down and say, kat
muraqba and, you know, there's some halal out
there, there's some there.
So that is really what a person
is inclined toward.
Right?
That feeling, that emotion that a person gets.
But, you know, just understanding that that may
not be the ultimate goal. Mhmm. We are
our ultimate goal is Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala.
So within what is known as Dayraibulaiti
Surah, you know, people
usually feel all these amazing feelings and emotions
and, you know, things like that.
But then when you move up from that,
the which is known as the
of course they are not about
that mazzaat and lazat and enjoyment and all
of that.
So then the rambat really becomes,
you know,
seeking the result of Allah,
seeking the Korbat for Allah,
right? So
we move from that
initial
or
and and a
settlement happens and and now the is,
you know, like, how do I please Allah?
How do I,
you know and this is without
or with less interference from the Masjid itself.
So Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala
becomes marhu.
So the ibada that a person does is
not necessarily
because I feel good in it,
But it is because this is what
is true of a true I.
That we look at ourselves and define ourselves
in a not intellectual, but in a jujoodi.
Jujoodi means like
a very existential,
like, my
our whole existence is defined by by by
the that Abba of Allah subhanahu wa
ta'ala. And then, you know, the ultimate
raghuba
would be,
you know, a raghba of just, like, self
annihilation.
The nudge really
is out of the picture completely,
and the person is in, like, the ultimate
shahood,
you know,
and, you know, this person does not want
to get out of this mushahiddah as well.
Mhmm.
Those who experience it, don't mess about it.
But, you know, for us,
the razaba that we should be aiming for
is
that our heart is into things that we're
supposed to be doing, especially
when it comes to the outer sunnah, the
inner sunnah, the iqlat, you know, things that
the shari'at have defined.
Ibadat.
And if you feel that
my heart is not desiring it, you know,
saying, you know, it's making God
seeking not sohaba,
doing this and maybe doing this wazifa as
well.
That has been mentioned. So
whatever we do, the heart is into it.
We're not we're not just checking boxes, you
know, because that that's the worst thing to
be doing, when you check a box every
day. Okay. I did this. I did this.
I did this. I did this. In a
sense, though,
I just have to do it. It's my
routine to do it.
It's good to have istakarma, meaning it's a
good thing that you're checking boxes at least,
but I'm saying that
that your heart has to be like you
have to want to be doing it, not
just because you have to do it. You
see the difference? I mean one thing is
your duty.
I have to just go to job. 9
to 5 I have to do something. But
maybe you don't like your job.
And then there is this position where like,
Oh, subhanAllah, you know, this is my ideal
dream position that I worked
all my life and I just landed in.
And now you just
love to go there, do what you do,
and that's the raghbaat, that's your desire
of doing it. So it's not like a
musiba,
it's not just a job you have to
do,
but it is something that you want to
do, that you love to do, that you
desire to do. And then masha'aikha written, and
I remember we covered this some time ago
that murahwud is actually one of the stages
of muhabba,
of love, the different stages of how the
heart becomes attentive towards Allah
So with that self awareness,
very easy. Just look at your heart. What
is it desire? Who does it desire?
Who does it desire?
It has to desire something.
And so the question is, what is it
attached to, and who is who is it
attached to? Sometimes it's just attached to its
own, you know, narcissistic self,
In the self of me, myself, and I,
and sometimes with others. Right? So people will
just
and they call people like a dill tank,
They throw their heart at everybody
and sees where it says.
So we have to see, you know, what
what our heart is desiring, what it's attached
to,
and if we find that it's not Allah
Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala, then it's
that we have to make some serious changes.
Allah,
should be almarghood,
matzoood, mahbood,
all of that.
So make dua to Allah
that in this blessed month of Ramadan,
Allah
becomes Armarub, Armatrugh,
and Mahabub. Of course, he's Armarub.
Yeah. That Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala blesses
you
know, within a drop of his
that just,
you know, takes up every other.
That that connection that just
gets rid of every other,
you know,
every other connection that we might have and
that we might be stuck in. And, Allah,
it's not difficult for him.