Ahmad Arshad – Discourse At Khanqah #19

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.