Ahmed Suleman Khatani – True intelligence 15
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Respected all of my kiram,
elders,
and beloved brothers in Islam,
in this age
of zulmat,
in this age of darkness,
in this age which is reminiscent,
reminds one of the prophecy of Rasulullah
Rasulullah
Persevere in Amal. Continue exerting yourself in Amal.
Never ever become
complacent,
satisfied
with the level of your deen.
Why?
Because he said fitnas are coming. Trials,
tribulations, tests on the iman of the Ummat.
He described these fitnas and said
he said like sections of a dark night.
What is the underlying meaning behind this analogy
or example?
Is that we find that
nighttime or darkness very secretly, stealthily encroaches upon
1.
Is
completely
is completely dark.
So he said, like this, fitnas are coming
stealthily, secretly
from different directions.
And what will be the effect of these
fitnas? He said, yus bihar rajulu mumminan wa
yumsi kafira. A person will have iman in
the morning. By the evening, he will have
become a kafir.
Will have iman in the morning, by the
evening he will have become a kafir.
Person will have iman in the evening, by
the next morning he will have become a
kafir.
And what will be the underlying cause? What
will bring
about this loss of iman on such a
mass scale?
He said,
my ummat will sell the deen
in return for the paltry
wealth wealth of this
dunya.
We see it happening around us, how many
places in the world,
sometimes for a hamper of food,
sometimes for some medical treatment, sometimes for some
school education,
all sorts of different different reasons. Iman is
being sold almost on a daily basis.
Some countries,
South America, Africa, Jamats have been.
In the last 20, 30 years, 1,000,000 and
1,000,000 and 1,000,000 of Muslims have become murtha.
Those who had miftahul jannah, the key to
jannah, are giving it away
and are forsaking the kalima of
So in such an age of zulmat and
darkness for these type of gatherings to take
place,
on the nisbeth of the love of Allah
and his my
respected brothers, this is not an ordinary thing.
A great favor of Allah.
This is Allah's fazal.
Allah gives it to whomsoever he wants.
This coming to the
masjid or coming closer towards Deen.
What is desire in the heart
to go closer to Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala,
this is no personal achievement.
This is Tawfiq from Allah.
Shayb alaihi salaam in the Quran.
In the Quran.
Whatever I have done, whatever
I have
done,
it is with tawfiq from Allah.
Upon Allah, if I place my trust into
Allah, I will have to
return. On one occasion, Dawud alaihi salaam addresses
Allah.
And he says,
He says, oh my Allah,
how should I make your
shukar? How should I express my gratitude to
you? Washukri laka nyama. When even this much
that the desire has entered my heart to
make your shukar, that is your nyama tanmi.
That is your favor,
Allah
said the hearts of insan are between 2
fingers of the fingers of Rahman.
Allah can turn those hearts in whatever direction
he wants.
No one can question Allah. Allah
Allah cannot be questioned.
Insan will be questioned.
So he says, Allah, how can I make
your shukar when even this desire to make
your shukar is your niamat and bounty upon
me?
So Allah says to him, then, oh, Dawood,
now that you have realized this,
realize
what? That, oh, people, every one of you
is faqeel.
Every one of you is a beggar.
Every one of you is totally and completely
helpless upon Allah, dependent
upon Allah.
Allah is the only being that is gani,
that is totally and completely independent of this
entire creation
and
independent of this entire creation
and truly worthy of all praise.
Now that you have realized this,
now you have made my shukar.
Because this is hadaf.
This is the goal.
This is the objective of this insan in
this world.
Allah says I have not created insan, I
have not created Jinaat for any other purpose
except to become my slave.
For this quality of
to make is hard, to make apparent that
I am the bondsman of Allah, I belong
to Allah.
The life of this world, the things around
us, my respected brothers, that is
there just
to
test
us.
Allah says we whatever is in this world,
this is is comprehensive.
Inna jala ma alal arth. Everything in this
world.
Allah has made it zenat, has made it
attractive.
Generally, the heart of insan
Every branch
of the amenities of this world to which
the heart of insan aspires is mentioned in
this verse of the Quran.
And Allah says, we
have beautified it.
We have made it attractive. The heart of
insanaspires for it.
Whether it is women,
whether it is the minds of gold and
silver of this world,
whether it is agriculture, whether it is commerce,
whether it is the opulence and the wealth
of the world that is stretched out in
front of you.
Allah says all this has been beautified,
has been made attractive to insan, hubbu shahawat.
And then Quran places one label upon all
this,
All this is matter.
What is matter?
Imam Isma'i was
a great scholar of Arabic grammar.
If you look in the lives of the
salafis alihin,
if you look in the lives of our
pious predecessors,
we cannot imagine
the extent of khidmat of Quran, the extent
of khidmat to the uloom of Deen that
did.
1000 and thousands of kilometers they would traverse
in order to acquire the knowledge of Deen.
Now a days,
we cannot lament sufficiently
over our lack of munasabat with Quran.
That shock, that shagaf,
that desire, that talab, that intonation
towards Quran is no more there.
Quran
our elders are saying,
ikhnaashna
peghambanchuki.
Quran has become an irrelevant message for us.
Put it on the shelf, Ramadan comes, we
take it out.
Some occasion of barkat or blessing comes, then
we take the Quran out.
But what is Allah telling us in the
Quran? What does Allah want from us in
the Quran? What is Allah commanding us in
the Quran? That concern, that worry is no
more there.
This is that
kalam kalamullah.
We have value. We have value for worldly
knowledge.
Sciences of the world,
that is regarded as knowledge. But my respected
brothers, if you look just basically, fundamentally,
But my respected brothers, if you look just
basically, fundamentally,
what is my purpose in this world?
Why has Allah created me?
What will give me success?
What will give me fail what will bring
about failure?
These basic
basic fundamental questions.
We can go to the universities of the
world,
go to the archives of worldly knowledge,
go with the lifespan of Nuh alaihis salaam,
and go book to book, page to page
with a binocular
and spend our entire lives
just to answer these basic questions, what is
the purpose of my creation? Who am I?
Who created me? What is success? What is
failure?
Go page by page. Spend
the life lifespan of Nuh alaihis salaam and
will Allah, Allah's qasam you will not be
able to answer these questions.
That which today we regard to be knowledge
is not knowledge.
This concept
or this idea
that if you don't have a PhD
or you don't have a university degree, then
you are ignorant.
This is a fallacy.
What is ignorance?
He who looked around him,
he who saw the rising sun,
who saw the setting sun,
who saw the lush landscapes,
felt the cool
wind of the breeze on his cheeks,
saw the print,
the myriad colors
on the wing of the on on on
the wing of the butterfly,
saw the snow capped mountain peaks,
saw the eagle perched
on the top of the mountain
observing that ripple in the stream below,
and then it swoops down in order to
catch its prey,
the fluidity of its motion, the manner in
which it flaps its wings,
the manner in which it clutches its claws,
the pointedness of its beak, the sharp gaze
of its eye,
the artistry in its motion, he who saw
that,
saw the cheetah or the lion running towards
its prey,
saw the perfect timing
and the fluidity in the motion of its
limbs,
saw the proportion
and the design and the perfection
in the formation of its muscles for it
to carry out its task and for it
to proceed towards its prey at such a
speed.
He who
heard the thunder,
saw the lightning,
and failed to see Allah,
failed to see the qudrat of Allah, fail
to see the qibriya of Allah, fail to
see
that
unequivocal
call
that is found in all these things
where this insan
is invited to recognize Allah,
he who has failed to see that, more
jahil and more ignorant than him there is
no one.
Jahalet's
ignorance
is ignorance of Allah.
Ignorance is ignorance of Rasulullah
sallallahu alaihi wasallam.
In fact, my respected brothers,
the whole world
the whole world of people who have not
recognized Allah,
who have not understood the oneness of Allah,
who has not who have not accepted that
Allah is my Khalib,
that Allah is my creator,
who have not recognized the beauty
Muhammad The whole world of them put on
one side
and on the other side, one person,
one person.
His iman is so weak there is no
salah in his life. There is no zakat
in his life. There is no Hajj in
his life.
But
he has recognized
the oneness of Allah,
has has accepted the beauty of the personality
of Muhammad Rasulullah
sallallahu alaihi wasallam.
This one person,
for our understanding, let us say he has
sight.
He has sight in one
eye. Why? Because his iman is weak, deen
is not there in his life,
but he has believed in the oneness of
Allah. At least he has sight in one
eye.
Compared to him, the entire world put together
that has not recognized Allah is blind.
It can be Einstein.
It can be Newton. It can be the
intelligence of our time.