Ahmed Suleman Khatani – R Awwal1430P1
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Alhamdulillah. Alhamdulillah. When audina,
woman say, Yeah, Malina, may Allah, When
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shading call
Allahu,
taala, filho,
zoo, an fusi Kumasi, Zun Alaihi maa tum Hari, sunalai Kum BIM mini
Nava, O for Rafi,
Sada, Allahu, Alaihi,
Mukalla, NaVi Yu salawale
To baina, hula, nisho uma,
a respected ulama, Iram, elders and beloved brothers in Islam
of true value,
The
real wealthy possession and true assets
which ALLAH SubhanA wa Taala has endowed every human being with
is the life which we have in this world.
Unfortunately,
when this concept of asset or wealth is spoken of, then
instinctively,
our mind tends to go in the direction
of gold, silver, RANS, dollars.
Little do we realize
that all the material possessions of this world,
for them to be of any benefit of value to us,
this life which Allah, subhana wa Taala has given us, that has to be
there,
how many mornings, how many evenings, how many hours of this
valuable possession, of this valuable life which Allah, Allah
has given us, he spent in Allah's masyat in Allah Tala disobedience,
countless mornings and evenings, you'll find people sitting by,
what are you doing? I'm passing the time.
I'm whiling away the time,
hours and hours spent in front of the shaykan box,
hours and hours spent on some soccer field or some cricket
match, time is being wiled away, passing the time in frivolous,
leisurely activities which have absolutely no benefit whatsoever.
Allah has not given us this life,
and Allah hasn't given us this time in this world for us to while
it away, ya
zindagi guzar Nehemiah. Zindagi banana ke liye.
This life is not to be spent and wild away. But this life has to be
made.
We have to make it precious.
We have to make it valuable.
Unfortunately,
when this most fundamental
and most important of questions is put in front of us,
that, how can I make my life valuable? How can I make it
precious? How can I make it
worthwhile?
Then majority of humanity at this juncture
tends to fail miserably in his understanding of what makes life
precious,
like ulama put it they say is that shaharat dolat ektidaar or Sai
shats, worldly respect,
worldly fame and recognition,
wealth, the actual.
Tradition of its
leadership,
kingdom in this world,
that which is apparent, that which is tangible,
the acquisition of the material things of the world, which is in
front of us that we have made it the mirage of our lives. We have
made that the goal. We have made that the ideal. We have made that
the objective,
and we are competing with one another,
each one trying to get more, each one trying to acquire more, and
considering this to be the goal and the objective. Considering
this, the manner in which people can be judged so and so has made
his life valuable, or so and so is a failure.
However, the fact and the reality of the matter is that that Allah
Who created this dunya,
that Allah, who created these worldly embellishments which are
in front of us,
himself, describes their true value.
Many, many verses in the Quran,
just one verse will suffice for us, may Allah, Dalai says, Vienna
Lin, Nasi hum, dunya
in this
verses of
in this verse of the Quran, Allah Tala enumerates.
Allah dala counts out before us in very clear and simple and basic
terms, the things which we consider to be valuable,
the things which we consider to be precious, the things which we
consider that if I have acquired this, my marriage is done, my life
goals have been achieved.
What are those things?
Allah says, piles of gold, piles of silver.
Big, big buildings,
horses, obviously, Quran was revealed in a time where the
conveyance was horses. We can equate that in today's terms,
contemporary terms, fast fast cars, having big buildings.
All this is enumerated Allah. Allah, says zuiyin al in NAS
this has been beautified for you.
It has been made attractive for you. And what is your response to
it? Hope. Bush shahawat,
Allah says Your love and Your ecstasy and your desire for this
is intense.
You are deeply in love with it. You are mesmerized by it. You are
caught up by its glitter and its glamor, the glamor of fast cars,
the latest model,
the glamor of big, big buildings, the glamor of nice, long holidays
in exotic destinations. Open any newspapers, see the adverts
and see how people attracted to all these things.
And then that Allah made all this
in one word. In one word,
Allah, subhana wa Taala tells the entire humanity what is the value
of all this. Allah says, zalika Mata or hayati dunya, this, all
this, what we have mentioned is Mata.
Now, what is Mata?
If you have to use
the crippled and seriously lacking English language to translate this
word Mata, we'll say possessions. These are worldly possessions.
But for true understanding of Quran,
there is no language in the world that will suffice
what this word Mata means.
There was one great
expert in Arabic grammar. His
name was Allama Ismaili Rahmatullahi.
He was regarded to be a leader in his time when it came to
grammatical laws and to the meanings of
the special, hidden inner meanings of the words of the Quran. And
when asked how did he achieve this level,
he said that whenever I wondered about the meaning of a word,
then I would go to the Bedouins, those who used to live in the
heart of the deserts.
The villages, I would go and live amongst them and try and listen in
their natural daily conversations in what context they use this
particular word,
and when I heard the context in which they used it, then I would
get the correct understanding what this word means.
Just to digress this Allah, my usmay, which he said about him
that
he had a very dark complexion
and he was not considered handsome at all,
but his nastiest was such
that he got married to a very beautiful woman.
One day, his wife was standing in front of the mirror, admiring
herself,
and then she looked at him, and she said that I am sure that both
of us are jannatis. She
says, How can you be so sure?
She said, every time you look at me, you make shukr. Allah Tala is
going to give you a Jannat for your sugar,
and every time I look at you, I make Sabha, and the laddal is
going to give me Jannat for my Sabha.
That is why, generally, we find
women's nature is like that.
They say the only time you will find a woman speaking good about a
husband is before marriage and after he dies. In between, very
rarely you find a woman speaking good.
But obviously that depends on the type of effort a person makes in
his home. Nevertheless, coming back to what we were talking
about. So he said, when he came to this word, Mata,
I went to live amongst the Bedouins
in one village in the desert,
waiting for an occasion to arise when they will use this word, Mata
in its natural context in a normal conversation where they haven't
been induced to use it.
He says, Six Months pass, this was the manner in which our Salafi
saliheen, our pious predecessors of the past, finished themselves
and exerted themselves.
People would travel many, many months arduous journey just to
acquire the knowledge of one Hadith.
This scholar of Nahua, of Arabic grammar, spends six months in the
desert with a group of villagers to try to understand the meaning
of one word, one word, not ayat or not Surah, one word of the Quran.
So he says, six months passed,
and one day,
one woman from amongst these Bedouins,
she cleaned her pots.
And to clean the pot, she used the dirty old WAG, which he had always
used.
Now that rag, which is used to clean the remnants of the food in
the pots. We can imagine what the condition and what the state of
that rag would be.
She had left it one side.
They had already eaten, and they were relaxing on one side,
a dog came running from the mountain. It started sniffing
around for some food,
because they had already eaten. There was no food.
So this dog eventually, when they became aware that there's a dog
running around the tent, they started screaming, trying to chase
it away. In its fright, it grabbed a hole of the rag, which was used
to clean the pot, and ran towards the mountain. This woman screamed,
ja, I'll tell akhad, Mata, wafalal, Jabal, that the dog came.
He took Mata and ran towards the mountain Allah Ishmael.
There was no way of describing his joy. Finally, what he had been
waiting for for six months was finally achieved. The usage of
this word, Mata in its natural contest by the Bedouins to make
him understand that Allah is saying to you in the Quran, all
the wealth, all the possessions, all the attractions, all the
glitter and glamor of this entire dunya, which you love with a
passion, which has been made enticing and beautified for you,
its value in the sight of your Allah is equivalent to the dirty
rag that is used to clean the inside of
a potum, Abasa, Wan akum, Elena, Allah Tor Jaun Allah dala says, O
in San Do you think you have been created in vain?
There is no purpose. There is no object. There is.
No goal behind your creation that like mad people in a rat race, you
are chasing after this, Vinya, when you have no guarantee for
tomorrow, even
you have finished yourself put your children in that and
generation upon generation, no distinguishing line between a
believer and between an unbeliever, ayash, Sabal in Isla,
oh in San Do you feel this life is just now
that it is going to end here and there's nothing going to happen
after this,
that you can live this life as you want to live
it. Some fathom. Says, Why don't
you think there was a time when you would got a drop of sperm,
then we put you stage upon stage of creation, till we made you the
paragon of our creation, till we made you in sun,
then death will come. You will be placed in that ground,
that life, which you consider to be, everything, those worldly
possessions are position of which you consider to be something of
value, all that will have been left behind. O Insan, do you feel
that it ends there? Alain, Saddam, Allah
is not that Allah is not that Allah who had who could.
Is not that Allah Who from a drop of sperm granted you this
existence. Is not that Allah of such a power, does he not possess
the power to once again resurrect you?
Bala. Bala, Bala kadirina. Allah Anu sovia Banana. Allah dala says,
not only will I resurrect you,
not only will I resurrect you, not only am I Kadi on that,
but I will resurrect you in such a fashion that your unique
fingerprint, which you have in this world that also will be
exactly the same banana. You will be resurrected, and you will have
to give account for
the life in this world. Aarati, hum Rafi loon Allah says, O in San
you have complete and absolute knowledge of the attractive
possessions of this world, but of akirat Yoga,
the purpose and the object of your creation this world,
the manner in which you will make this life precious and valuable by
respected Brothers is not the acquisition of the material things
of this world. This human being, by His very nature, does not
possess the intelligence.
He does not possess the intellect
to work out on his own. What makes this life valuable?
What is my goal? What is success? What is failure? In which
direction am I supposed to be going?
What has value? What is of no value, this knowledge or the
answer to these fundamental questions, this Insan, on his own,
does not possess the intellect to answer this.
If you want to know what makes this life valuable, then we had to
go back to the source.
We had to go back to that Allah,
that Allah who gave us this life, that Allah who made us Insan, that
Allah who has made this earth, that Allah who has placed us on
this earth, and
not only placed us on this earth, that Allah, who decides when we
will leave this earth, also
who wants to die.
In reality, very few people really want to die. No one decides when
he is going to die. Lot
of times you hear people hear this expression, he escaped from the
jaws of death.
He escaped from the jaws of death.
There were posts in reality, death did not even open its mouth. There
is no way you are going to escape
if death.
10, then there is no question of escape. Falola either. Says that
when the
roof reaches the falkom,
when that person is in satellite and you see him in that fancy
hospital bed with the latest technology and equipment around
him, you see the eyeballs rising up so that only the white is
visible. You see the fluff gathering around his mouth.
Unfortunately, my respect to brothers, very few of us have the
time to even see this we are so caught up in dunya,
very few of us have the time to stand in the Pakistan and look at
the black hole
when we are in our revelry and when we are in our musty and when
we are looking at that Zeenat taking place on that shaitan box
in front of us, that is the time we should visualize the whole of
the Kabal.
That is the time we should visualize those moments when we
stand in front of the hospital bed of someone else who is in sakhara.
And ask ourselves, what guarantee we have that in the next hour that
won't be us
at the time when we are spending till late at night in front of the
shaitan box,
so that when that Agam for failure goes and then once in the kala of
Allah calls out to the masjid, we find it too difficult.
We find it too difficult to remove that blanket and come to the
masjid.
At that time, we should visualize this manzaran scene, which Allah,
Allah says to you, follow Allah, either in tanguroon wanah, one,
two. Visualize this. He is gasping. His eyeballs have gone to
his head. The fourth has gathered around his mouth. Falola In
Kuntum, guerra
mediniha In Kuntum, Saadi team
if you are not prepared to accept what we are saying to you,
that the life of this world is not in vain,
that it is not childhood and Tamasha and enjoying yourself and
outdoing and competing with one another as if there is no
tomorrow, as if there is no cover, as if there is no accountability,
then Allah says, if that is the case, return back his ruin to the
body.
Give him an extension, like when the lease is expiring. You want an
extension when the transaction is finished? Want an extension. When
the loan time payments comes, we want an extension. Allah. Allah
says,
if the acquisition of worldly wealth and worldly possessions and
just competing with one another is the object of the life of this
world, then when the second Art starts, give him an extension.
But like the poet says, Why then money yet to an Shabbat of Farah
al Fatah kulatami Matilda,
that when Mark bears its claws,
when Mark bears its claws, there is no force and no system in this
world which is going to benefit you.
Afachavatum, Anina, makalakam, avasa, the life of this world is
not without purpose. Makhalati, walaga wa ma, Allah ib malahu, ma,
ilabha,
says, We do not create the heaven and this earth out
of gains for amusement.
Makala, Kana, Huma, Illa bin Haq, there is a hakiti purpose. Rali,
kumula, hurab, bukum al Haq,
Wab, Tian, la bir haqti na zalah,
this is truth. There is reality. There is purpose behind the life
of this world.
That Allah, who has brought a universe with such system,
it's not my intention to go into a biological lesson time is too
limited.
But just by way of example,
the extent to which Allah Tala has placed system in this world where
there is no margin and no room for error, I.
This atmosphere
which is around us, which we take for granted, has 21% oxygen.
Millions of years have passed,
still the level of oxygen stays the same.
There is no visible regulator, no visible visible valve.
This is in Psalms requirements. So Allah has kept it at that level.
They said, if the level of oxygen increases just by 2% to 23%
the number of accidental fires that are taking place will
increase 700 times.
If it has to go up to 25%
then besides the North Pole and the South Pole, everything else in
between will be burned to ashes.
It is staying exactly 21%
what is in science contribution to this we breathe in fresh oxygen.
We breathe out carbon dioxide, which is poison.
To regulate this balance, Allah Tala has put the trees of the
world
put the leaves of the world to work to produce that oxygen which
this Insan is using up.
In fact, this entire universe has been subjugated to the service of
this Insan,
so that everything around us is a living testimony and a reminder to
us of the greatness of Allah, of the kudura of Allah, of the
kibriyaa of Allah,
of the Jabari,
of the jabariyas of Allah, of the khakiriyas of Allah. And within
the trinsan, that lungs which we have, it is said each lung is made
up of one and a half million ASAPs,
if these lungs are to be opened up, they will fill a football
field
to carry the blood in the body through the lungs. There are 50
billion tubes
which are transporting 10,000 liters of blood a day to the
lungs. Why? Because, in order to purify and cleanse the blood, it
requires a bath of oxygen.
That Insan, who came from a drop of sperm,
where did he get this knowledge
that to clean my blood, it requires a bath of oxygen. How
does that system come into place to transport this blood in order
to give it a bath of oxygen?
And then subconsciously, each day, you are breathing in and out
20,000 times
in, just like I said earlier, it is not my intention to go into a
biological lesson, but just consider
21% oxygen, one and a half million air sacs, 50 billion tubes, 10,000
liters of blood being buried within this oxygen in Sun,
breathing in and out, 20,000 times. How many countless
different measures have to be placed just for each breath of air
that you are breathing in,
and are you not by every breath of air which you are breathing in
without acknowledging the greatness of Allah, are you not
expressing your ingratitude to Allah?
Each breath of air is reminding you makes sujood before Allah
recognize the greatness and the Dane and the favor of your law
upon you.
And then coming back to what you were mentioning earlier, you
that Allah, Who has created a universe
with such systems, such perfection,
everything in a perfect proportion, everything in a
perfect measure, no room for error, not to the extent of one
second or one millimeter,
is it conceivable? Is it conceivable that the same Allah
will create a system amongst isan? Then on the one side, on the one
side, you have that
person who will lie, who will cheat, who will deceive, who will
usurp the rights of others,
will steal from the pockets of others in order to fill his
coffers,
and on the other side
is that person whose children will go hungry,
who.
Live in a simple home,
will
undergo a life of extreme difficulty and hardship, but will
not steal one penny from the next person.
Is it conceivable that that Allah will let the hereafter of these
two be the same,
that woman who dances naked on the same and that woman who knows
strange man had even seen one strand of her head.
Can they be equal before Allah,
that person who in the dead of night is in the casinos, is in the
places of haram. And that person who is standing on the Muslim land
crying, nighting and night out. Can they be the same?
That person who, each time he opens his mouth,
breaks the heart of someone, hurt the feeling of someone, insult
someone, sway someone,
and that person who will forego his right in order to see the next
person happy. Can the two be the same?
What is our reaction? What is our reaction? There is the death of
Kai and Jamaat,
who three, four o'clock in the morning out of their beds crying
before Allah, where the azana fajra in the masjid.
And then there is death of Kahn Jamaat. Years have passed. It is
only the rising sun, or is only the call of the business that
causes them to come out of their bed
when the call is made by
change your ways, change your life. Come back to the masjid,
come back to Allah. Make tawbah from this wrong
what is the normal reaction Allah is RAF Rahim.
Allah is very forgiving, very merciful. So it is okay
that Allah who created a universe with such system perfection and
proportion. Is it conceivable that that same Allah
is going to equate these two people soon.
Allah says, What do you think?
What do you think of your Allah, that
the one who obeys Him, the one who undergoes hardship, sacrifice,
difficulty,
endures untold
sacrificing of his desires for the pleasure of Allah,
another one who does as he wants. And says, Allah is the full of
Raheem Allah. Allah says, Do you think the two are going to be
the same? Where is that book where you are reading these things?
Allah is asking you, where is that book where you are reading these
things?
Where is your justice? Malakum, kepata kumun, what type of justice
is this?
My respected brothers,
the life in this world is precious. Allah has not given us
this life to wile it away. Allah has given us this life to make it
how we will how we will make this life valuable for that we do not
possess the intelligence. We do not possess the intellect. We have
to go back to Allah. But
Allah is such. Makani, bashirin, a UK limo, Allahu, Ilam, you are
Allah. Washi and OM, you are a hijab. All your system is such
that Allah does not speak directly to Insan. We cannot see our Allah,
we cannot hear our law. We cannot speak to our law. We cannot ask
our Allah. Ya Allah. You have given me this life. You have
created this dunya for me. You have put this entire creation into
my service. O my Allah, what do you want from me? How can I make
my life precious? How can I make it valuable? How can I please you?
How can I earn accurate? How can I become successful? We cannot ask
Allah these questions directly
for that, Allah put into place a system
pure, Venerable, chosen slaves of Allah
from Adam and ESAL.