Ali Ataie – One Day You Will Be With the One You Love
AI: Summary ©
AI: Transcript ©
It's always beautiful to
come to the modin and see different people,
different types of people.
You know?
And this is, I think,
the the the power of Allah subhanahu wa
ta'ala through the sub of his
chosen prophet Muhammad
that he can bring all these different types
of people together.
Right? Allah
says,
From the great signs of Allah is the
creation of the cosmos, the heavens and the
earth.
Right?
The creation of the universe.
This is
invitation to deal with the,
possibly,
the genealogical
argument for the existence of God, the
the argument that the universe is finely tuned
for life.
And in the variety, and
in the variety of your
tongues and languages and colors,
This is a great ayah of Allah subhanahu
wa ta'ala.
A great Quran,
an irrefutable
proof
of the prophecy of the prophet Muhammad
salallahu alayhi wasallam
that you have this type of variety just
in this place.
There are people here,
there are Arabs here from different Arab majority
countries.
You have South Asian contingency.
You have
white Muslims, African American Muslims.
You have Abani Muslims.
You have an
Iranian.
He's in here somewhere.
A person will be with the one whom
he loves. Why is this so vocal? It's
because the Sahaba, they knew that they loved
the province of Allahu alaihi wa sallam. I
would add another hadith to this.
I have to be a little nationalistic.
I'm usually the only one in the room,
as some of my students hear about,
What goes on in the classroom? It's probably
criminal.
At least some degree of racism.
Hopefully not.
Every type of,
lineage or
connection is cut off on the Yom Kiyama
except though except my lineage and those who
are somehow connected to me. So I can't
be Adil Beit, but I can be an
adopted,
member
as it were
of an inmate, and how do I do
that like some man of Pharisee?
You manifest an extreme Mahabda
of the prophet
He
is the means by which
parts are brought together. Just look around him.
You have Abdullah ibn Salam al Yamudi, who's
ethnically Jewish. All these different types of people
around him that he brought together.
Right? One of the names I was actually
asked
also to speak about and this is what
I really sort of took notes on.
Sorry. I'm doing the wrong thing. On on
the on the names of the prophets
that are mentioned in the Quran and the
hadith,
One of his names is Nir
Mutulullah.
Nir Mutulullah.
The blessing, the blessing of God.
The blessing of God.
Allah
says,
He says,
is
like
a grip to save your life, like you're
falling off a cliff.
Imagine that grip. That's why everyone should be
able to do one pull up. You can't
do one pull up, you can save your
life. Just one. I know his brother here
is saying.
I challenged him one time to a pull
up contest.
He destroyed me.
He said, that's okay. You'll get better. So
I used to be good and I tried
to save my anyway.
Just for one imagine that grip on the
bar. You went to fall to your death.
This is called
sama.
What is habilellah?
According to the hadith,
it is
The lifeline
that Allah
extends down from the heavens to the
earth.
And remember the great blessing of God upon
you.
You were enemies.
You were enemies. In the first instance,
Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala,
Right? The sub of the Nuzul, the
occasion of its of its revelation, the immediate
occasion
is about the Ola du Hayla, the Aus
and the Hazraj, the Ansar
who had fought 3 intertribal wars on the
brink of a 4th war. And then who
came to them? The prophet Muhammad
You were on the brink of falling into
the fire
and then by means of this great Mi'amah,
the prophet of Allah alaihi wa sallam, you
became brethren.
You were on the brink of falling into
a fire,
and he saved you from it.
He saved you from it. SubhanAllah.
1 of the early Muslim converts,
Khalid ibn Usareed. This was even before the
prophet
was told to make public
his risada.
Right? So,
Ibn Said mentions this in the top of
box. It's then Khaled Ibn Said. You had
a dream
and this is obviously early Mecca period. He
had a dream,
and he went to Abu Bakr as Siddiq
because Abu Bakr as Siddiq before Islam was
known as a dream interpreter.
He had
the ability to interpret dreams.
So he went to Al Fakkah and he
said, no I have I had a dream
last night. So what was your dream? I
had a dream that I was standing on
the
edge of a lake of fire.
A lake of fire.
And I was on the edge and I'm
sort of teetering on the edge and I
look into the fire and my father is
there
and he's reaching out towards me.
He's trying to grab a hold of me
to pull me into the fire.
You can imagine how a bupkhanawang get interesting.
What else? He says, suddenly I felt someone
come up from behind me
and wrap his arms around me
and pull me back
and save
me. It's okay.
And I said, it's your friend.
It's Mohammed
Abu Bakr said, I'm sure he'll be of
good cheer.
He is a messenger of God.
This is how he converted, called an ibn
al Saqid.
He's given a raya of the prophet saving
him from the fire.
So
So these are some of the names
of the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam.
And the more names that we know of
him,
the more we can have ma'rifah of Him.
Ma'rifah is intimate knowledge.
Right? Not surface level, very deep knowledge.
The more names that we understand,
we'll have more ma'rifah. The more ma'rifah of
him that we have, we'll have more Mahaba.
Because ma'rifah is the path to love, unconditional
love. You can't love something you don't know.
You can't love someone you don't know. I
can tell you to love someone.
Do you love my cousin Mila?
You
you do love me. It relates to you.
So,
then he was
he finds he finds those beautiful loopholes.
I don't know what to do now. You
took that punch line.
Maybe most of
you most of you think you don't know
my you don't love my cousin.
Why?
You don't know
him. Right?
You don't know who he is because you
don't have married love for you.
Right?
So you know there's some some Muslims they
say you know you could you know they
see us they go we go to the
monastery and they say Yeah, if only if
only
you had the same love for Allah that
you have for the Prophet sallallahu alaihi wa
sallam. And this is a misguided
sentiment.
Right?
Because the love of the prophet is the
love of Allah. They're inseparable. Why do we
love the prophet salam alayhi wa sallam?
For
the sake of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. We
love the Prophet salallahu alayhi wa sallam because
he is Rasulillah.
He's a Prophet of God.
Why do we love
the
Quran?
Right? The speech of God. Can you imagine
somebody saying, Oh, you know it would have
been great if
the love you had the Quran, the same
type of love you had for Allah subhanahu,
doesn't make any sense. It's nonsensical.
What are you talking about?
We love the Quran because it's kalamullah.
We love the Prophet because he is Rasulullah.
Right?
When I was in Yemen there was a
American professor who came to the Bolid in
Tain.
And he admitted to me later he was
a missionary.
It was sort of on the DL, you
know. I'm
a
missionary, by the way. He should come to
the moment. Okay. So I was watching his
face the whole moment
and he was he was just like
then I asked him after I said, what
did you think? And I'll never forget. He
said, this is this is almost
inshallah, a direct quote.
He said, the love of the Prophet staggers
me.
Staggers me. I said, yeah. SubhanAllah, it does.
And then
he said because he kind of met that
in a sort of and he said, I
wonder how some of your co religionists would
feel about this.
So what do you mean? You know, this
kind of love, it's kind of excessive. Don't
you think? It's kind of excessive.
There's there's no way we can be excessive
with the love of the prophet because
protects
from people taking him as an Idah.
This is incredible.
Right? We don't have this type of isma
with Sahaba, for example. There's an interesting statement
related to say, which
is in Sunni and Shibi sources.
Mentions it. It's also in. He
says,
Two groups on account of me are destroyed.
The one who loves me so much it
takes him from the tree.
And the one who hates me so much
it takes him from the truth.
And he said The
best people are those who are in the
middle with respect to me.
Right? And
then
he
said,
So stick to the great majority for in
a young woman, Al Jaba'a,
this hadith,
for the protective power of Allah subhanahu wa
ta'ala is with the majority.
Right?
So we know the prophet
for the sake of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala.
Imagine something that if only you love your
country as much as you love your flag,
whatever country it might be. The flag represents
the country. It's a symbol of the country.
Imagine somebody who mother passed away and they're
looking at the the picture of their mother.
If only you look your mother or as
much as you look your picture of the
mother what? What are you talking about?
It's a nonsensical argument.
We love the prophet
for the sake of Allah
So one of his names that is mentioned
by the Iridama
is 'Abdu'l Ma, mentioned in Suratul jinnai number
19.
The perfect slave
of Allah
The perfect slave of Allah
This is his primary title in the Quran.
You know, a lot of modern people find
this disturbing. You say, we are.
A lot of modern people say,
what? You're a slave of God? I'm not
a slave to nobody.
I make my own rules.
This type of individualism
is egocentrism.
The opposite of egocentrism
is theocentrism.
Right? That we are theocentric and a lot
of people find this very strange. It's very
weird.
That's fine.
I'm okay with weird.
The prophet
said, towards the end of time, you're gonna
be weird.
We were weird in the beginning
when we were, you know, talking about washdaniyah
and ahadiyah amongst these bushel king. We're talking
about halal and haram. This was very weird
to the Arabs.
It's also it's gonna again become weird.
Last night, it's the weirdos.
It's so weird.
You don't drink alcohol. Like clockwork, every week
on Friday, when I was in the corporate
world,
I was sitting in the cubicle. Sometimes I
still sit in the cubicle.
It's okay. Don't worry about it. You gotta
do what you gotta do.
You come into happy hour? No. I don't
drink.
7 days later. Are you going to happy
hour? No. Don't drink. 7 days later. Happy
hour? No. Happy hour? No.
That's so weird.
It's it's weird in the name of god.
Right?
But these same people,
they're nafs.
They say.
At your service. Everyone worship someone. Right?
Right? Have you seen the one who takes
his
hawa,
like his desire,
you know, like when you go to Hawaii,
you let it all hang out.
You know, Sorry.
That
was
a
bad joke.
Sorry. Sorry about that.
You know? But you you think in terms
of human slavery, yeah, it's very disturbing.
In a relationship, in these negative sort of
apt relationship,
you know, you have a human slave who
benefits from that relationship.
It means the slave master benefits.
Right?
But in the
relationship, who benefits?
Can we benefit Allah?
Who benefits?
The Abd completely.
We cannot benefit Allah 1 iota.
Right?
And this is why when the prophet salam
alayhi wasalam put here his title Abdullah in
the Quran, his eyes would fill up with
tears
because this is the greatest thing. This is
the greatest title
that that Allah
can bestow upon a human being. That you
are Abu Ghulfa.
You are the servant of Allah
beyond the system of where Jibril alayhi salam
cannot go or else he combusts
into
flames. Allah
says, I told my ab a few things.
Don't worry about
it. Secrets between lovers.
Ibn Nasrudi says,
the the prayer is made false,
the wad of Jannah, the promise of paradise.
Right?
That's all we know. What else? Secrets between
lovers.
Then the prophet
was sitting on his knees
and he was eating a date
And a Jewish woman passed by and she
said,
look, your prophet eats like a slave.
He said, Adelestukhi'at?
Am I not a slave?
Am I not a slave?
The telri responds to people.
Right?
He's not,
to use the
term in academia nowadays,
he's not so easily triggered,
okay,
by these micro aggressions.
I'm triggered. I need a safe space.
I need to go somewhere and play with
Play Doh
and and build play with Legos,
you know, play some Pac Man. You guys
know what Pac Man is?
I think, Atari 26100
way back in the day. That was my
first game Pac Man.
And you play Halo.
A little
different. But look at his response. Am I
not his name?
That's it. Situation diffused.
Right?
Our mother Aisha said, why do you pray
all night?
What for?
Shannan not be a grateful servant.
Right? He perfected Rubulia,
and Shakhur is interesting.
It's another one of his names,
And Shakhur, the shakir is the one,
who
is thankful of Allah.
In times of prosperity,
the shekim, active parsable. The shakur
is also an active parsable,
but it's a more,
emphatic form,
being the one who thinks Allah in adversity
and in times of deprivation.
He says, Alhamdulillah.
The The prophet salallahu alayhi wasalam, he said,
Alhamdulillah
alaakuli
aal. Praise
be to Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. In every
state.
And why is that? It's because he has
unconditional love
for Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala.
This is another one of his names.
Is Habibullah,
the beloved of God.
There's numerous hadith. There's one in Timbuddin.
I am the beloved of God, and I
do not boast.
Oftentimes the urnama, they use the analogy
of of marriage.
They call it a living parable for
for love of God or mystical
union with God. The Aramaic say there's four
levels of love.
There's 4 words in Arabic for love. If
you're familiar with c s Lewis, he has
a book called The 4 Loves. It's the
same in New Testament tradition, Greek tradition.
The first love is called Mawatta.
Mawatta.
Right? And this means something like affection
or willingness
to sort of sacrifice for another person.
Right? So
Allah
says in the Quran,
He says that
He put
between the spouses,
a man and his wife.
This type of affection
and mercy.
Because
this is something else that's weird about us.
When we get married, we're not necessarily in
love. Sometimes it happens when the Bollywood movie
comes true.
Most of the time, it doesn't really happen.
You don't even really know the person you're
marrying. So why are you doing this? That's
so weird.
You guys are weird, man. You're weirdos.
Why are we doing this? Because we're trying
to follow the sharia. We're trying to follow
the sunnah of the prophet
We want to we don't want to offend
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala.
We want to uphold the deen of Allah
subhanahu wa ta'ala. But there's Muwaddah. What is
Muwaddah? So there's a willingness to compromise,
to work with each other.
There's affection.
Right? Just let me know what I'm
going over time.
I don't want to go too long.
I think people are getting restless.
So this is the first sort of level.
It's love, but it's more like an affectionate
type of love.
Okay? The name Dawood is taken from Mawatta.
Dawood.
Dawood.
Mawatta. But then you go to Khunda
to stick with the marriage analogy. So So
get married and I'll speak from the from
the perspective of a of a man because
I'm a man.
And,
I believe that there's 2 genders.
Do you need a safe space for that?
Yeah. I don't care.
So when you marry when you marry your
wife,
there's no what, duh. And then lo and
behold,
you start to like her.
Right?
You wanna do things with her.
That's called.
That's called friendship love.
Right? He wants to watch a movie together.
Halal movie. Probably not Baldua. Anyway.
He wants to go bowling together.
Right?
Well, you wanna spend time together.
This is friendship love, huddha.
Right? So we come out of Mawatta.
Right? So I'm like, okay. Nice to see
you. Nice dinner. I'm gonna go bowling with
the guys. I mean, you can do that,
I guess.
But be careful. And then you go to
Isht.
Isht is like intimate love.
Right? Which
is temporary, it's fleeting.
And then you get to Mahaba.
Mahaba
is
unconditional love. So this person, this level of
love for your spouse,
they fall short.
Sometimes they say things to you.
Right? They make mistakes, and that's okay. You
love them unconditionally.
You overlook these things. The love is always
going to be there.
So these four levels of love
are also used,
when describing our relationship with Allah
That there's Mawatta.
Right? There's a willingness to compromise.
And how do we go? How do we
accomplish this is through the Ibadat.
Right?
We we we start to pray. We pray
fajr.
I have a a saying, never trust a
person who doesn't pray fajr.
Maybe it's not a good saying.
I mean, there's a hadith. The difference between
a Mu'min and a kafar is al salah.
And most of the Hurun al Mustaine, this
is not an essential difference, but an attributive
difference. In other words, if a Muslim is
not praying, they're sort of acting
like an unbeliever. But Ahmad ibn Muhammad said
it's an essential difference.
If you don't pray, you're not Muslim.
Right?
So Mawaddah of Allah
intimates this idea that you're willing to go
through some sacrifice even if you don't really
know why you're doing it, you know you
have to do it. You wake up, you
pray a bunch of people. Right? You read
some Quran even if you don't understand.
And then you get to.
How do we establish a friendship type love
with Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala?
How do you establish a friendship type relationship
with Allah? It's with Du'am.
Right?
Du'am.
Speak to Allah in a language that you
understand. So I don't understand Arabic. Try to
make a
attempt to understand what you're saying in the
prayer.
But then in your dua, a du'amuqudiribagam,
there's a hadith that dua is the essence
of worship.
And this is how you become friends.
This is how you become the khareel of
Allah.
You speak to Allah. You pour your heart
out to Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala.
And then ishq. How do we
actualize ish, intimate love with Allah? We make
dhikr of Allah, we reflect among
the niqm of Allah.
And then finally, Mahaba
is through gnosis
and total taslim of his other.
Total submission
to the
decree of Allah.
He probably did what all of you work
to do.
Or most of you make that.
Don't be honest.
So
Mahabban,
unconditional love,
is attained by total tasling to this pagar.
Like one of the
Auliya said, when I'm in the shade, I
don't want to be in the
sun.
Allah put me in the shade.
When I'm in the sun, I don't wanna
be in the shade. Allah put me in
the sun.
I am totally
in a in a state of
reservation.
What Allah whatever Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala does
with me. As long as he's not angry
with me.
Right? This was the only concern of the
prophet
on the day of Ta'eb.
Being stoned out of the city, being chased
out of the city for 3 miles,
People say, oh, he left the city. He's
okay. No. They followed him outside of the
city gates for 3 miles. They're aiming for
his legs according to the traditions. They want
to break his legs and fall down and
kill him. This is what they want to
do. This was an attempted murder.
The prophet
makes the beautiful gua is, you know, he's
he's If if this is all happening to
me and you're not angry, sala u valley.
I don't mind.
I don't mind.
This is what you want to do with
me? No problem. But if you're angry with
me, then that's I am I'm concerned about
that. If this is happening because you have
a hubbub of me, then there's there's a
concern. I have to make a change here.
But if not,
you're pleased with me this is happening because
it is your father,
fala'u bagu,
then I don't mind.
This is someone who is Habib Obam,
a beloved of them.
And inculcate
these these beautiful things that we say about
the prophet
and have it manifest in our character.
May Allah give us a to have
to have unconditional love
for him and his messenger.