Ebrahim Bham – Laylatul Qadr 2024
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The importance of love and control over one's own destiny is discussed in the context of the "has" concept, which is a desire to be the holy spirit. The speaker emphasizes the need to show one's love and control over one's own destiny during a time of crisis, and to balance efforts and give back to others. The speaker also discusses the importance of listening to others' actions and finding something better in times of crisis.
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The night of Dua Tur Kalam
is,
Allah, has kept it concealed
in the last
night of Ramadan, the last 10 nights, and
more
specifically
or more likely
in the odd nights. One of the reasons
why Allah
has done so
is that you and I, we
pursue the nights
of,
and we
spend as much of time as possible in
the body remembering Allah and turning towards almighty
we will make debaros on that night and
that will be it. But when we don't
know which night it is, we will spend
and exert our effort and spend more time.
And Allah
loves us to remember Him. Not that Allah
needs it, but Allah has
kept him and Allah loves us to turn
towards Him,
but more for our benefit rather
than increasing the greatness of Muhammadiullah.
For the reality is that even as comes
in a hadith that each and every one
of
you were to become the most pious of
people,
it would not make one iota of difference
to Allah's greatness.
And in each and every human being becomes
the worst type of sinners, it still won't
make one
eye out of difference
to Allah's greatness.
Allah
will remain great.
Allah
for example, it comes in a hadith that
there are there are certain phrases. In praises
of Allah,
which is known as
ism
the great names of Allah, the great qualities
of Allah. Now that also Allah has kept
it hidden. Why Allah has kept it hidden
is
from the Hadith also that this could be
the Ism e Azam. But why Allah once
infected Hillel
that we praise Allah with different names, with
different qualities, with different
states. One state and one quality of all
mighty Allah,
which Allah has made mentioned in the Quran,
Allah ta'ala is the king of all kings.
Who can be great and no matter how
great a master he is, no matter how,
you know, how much of power
and authority he has in this particular world.
Allah will Allah destroy
his everything.
Now what is the reality of that king
in the pack of cards? You know? That
that is our reality, our power and authority,
and the power and authority
whose power
and authority is
today? And no one will reply because everyone
will be destroyed. And Allah will say,
Only the 1,
Allah
says, I am the king of kings. I
even give temporary power and authority to people
and to, you know, different
type of power and authorities we give to
the citizens. Now there is one state of
almighty Allah. That state of almighty Allah demands
that you and I will be appear before
mighty Allah
in complete humility and submission.
Allah is the king of 4 kings.
He is the ruler of all rulers, the
ultimate power, the ultimate authority.
And our state in Salat
is indicative of that type of relationship,
where Allah is the king of all kings.
We are, you know, the servants
You put your your hands in the most
respectful position. You go down into
you go down into.
All of that is
in the Arabic and Urdu language where Allah
subhanahu wa taala is a beloved in a
true sense. You and I, we are seeking
the love of the beloved.
Al Adala
has all the qualities
and all the grace and all the evidence
that evokes the feeling of love,
and we are the ones seeking the love
of almighty Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala. Unfortunately,
in tradition, when we talk of love, we
only know one type of love,
you know, depraved in many ways that when
we talk of love, it is also many
a times,
you know, illicit type of relationship. Then we
call it love.
Has made mention of all of those relationships
towards almighty Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala.
So when you when the first stage of
relationship with anyone, you are inclined towards a
person. So let's say, for example, you are
starting to get married and you are someone
told you, you went on the or whatever
it is,
If there is any inclination, your inclination to
be to almighty Allah. Now after that particular
first stage, by logical, the next stage is
what? The next stage is desire.
So first, you are inclined, then you start
desiring. So you said, alright. Now here here
is something that, you know, it is worthy
that,
And if the fly retrieves something from someone
and takes away something from someone
and he takes it away, you can't retrieve
it.
So if the flight takes away something from
the most powerful human being in this world,
he can't take it back. And that is
a reality with regard to our weakness of
the people who ask
and the people who are,
you know, summoned or requested to help other
people.
Very weak are the people who desire
someone besides Allah, and very weak are the
people
and the ones that people desire besides Allah.
So in that has made mention the first
stage of relationship, inclination towards
almighty, desire towards almighty.
Then now,
just by the very nature of things, you
incline towards someone, then you desire someone, then
you fall in love.
And how
The believers
are intense in their loved one now.
They love Allah
intensely.
Now wherever
did we ever think about love with Allah
And if we think about this particular relationship
with Allah,
every aspect of our life would take a
complete new dimension.
Every aspect. We will make namaz with a
different type of field and love.
Because, you know, now we love Allah
which is missing in our life today.
It is you know, there's a vacuum that
we don't have that love of almighty. Then
if you realize that you have that love
for almighty Allah, you would not want to
displease your beloved.
So just look at it from a from
a, you know, worldly perspective. When you are
in love with someone, you know, someone they
say then there is a particular saying that
they say when you're in love with someone,
and then you're spending time with them, and
the time pass. You see, love makes time
pass.
But you see, this type of relationship with
human being is already fitting.
So love makes time pass. So in the
initial stages, you
love the time that you spend with your
beloved. But after a while, time makes
love pass.
So love makes time pass, and time makes
love pass. After a while, we don't have
that particular type of, you know, depth tension
and depth intensity that we had before. But
with Allah, if you have the love of
almighty Allah in the But with Allah,
if you have the love of almighty Allah
in the true sense, the more you start
worshiping Allah, the more you turn towards almighty
Allah, the more will your love increase.
And one of the, you know, things that
I find very tragic in Palestine
is the the great alim who spoke most
about the love of almighty Allah, perhaps
in our history, was Imam Jalaluddin Gumi Rahim
Khulali. And you see his quotations with regard
to love for almighty Allah. Allah. In fact,
one of the tragedies in fact, you know,
I I sometimes it hurts me, and, you
know, I just find it so difficult to
get when those quotations
of love that he had composed
with regards to love for my dear love,
and then you see people's state as they
love somewhat,
where you put your, you know, your sidda.
You make sidda in front of all that.
That is only Allah. So Allah only
And
someone has put it in a beautiful, and
sometimes it is in a zikr. There
There is no inclination but to Allah. There
is no desire but to Allah to Allah.
There is no love but for Allah to
Allah. No. There is no one with your
worship.
So this is something that you and I
you know, this there is we don't worship
anyone besides Allah. It's a very interesting incident
that I read.
Muftitata Usmani, when his spiritual mentor,
doctor Abili Sahib Arakir Abdulabi, passed away. So
he wrote a book
only thereafter he realizes the opportunities that he
that he had when he was a student.
Sometimes it's too late. So anyway, doctor Biriha
Alafi Ramkulai,
he even performed the janad of our founder
of our Madrasa, one who used to be
in the Ramkulary.
So
he he there was incident one incident about
in the greatness of states or the way
we are supposed to to to perform it,
but it is not useless.
With oppression and injustice.
And look at the books of the sieve.
All of them say, here the word zulum
means
those who after iman do not worship and
make siddhan in front of anyone else who
like.
They are the people whom Allah will grant
safety,
sometimes immediately
So all our these are the 2 states
and the true relationship.
1 al Latalla is the king of 4
kings, and 1 al Latalla is the beloved.
Now in being the beloved,
now when you you raise something that you
you know, you you you regard someone your
beloved, you would like to see the beloved.
Right? You like to see the beloved.
So that is why you do there's maybe
a telling someone said to you, when you
get married, go and see the woman, you
are supposed to get married. So it increases
love.
And there was a certain degree because he
used to converse
that Musa alaihi was salam used to make
request
that normally other
Right? Kalaliya aside. But what did he say?
At the walkkahu alaiha,
this walking stick,
I use it to to to rely upon.
And when I need to walk and sometimes
I'm tired, I use my to to to
bend or to to support me at the
wakkawaleha
and I use a walking stick to gather
my animals,
my sheep.
And there are many benefits with regard to
my walking sick. And
Just this part.
Now can we imagine sometimes
you see the pictures of Mount Everest
and the Iqbalaya
mountains and the mountain ranges,
And the Lakaradis is that little bit of
his magnificence.
So one one side of the beloved see,
and that is inshallah, it will happen in
jannah. And one is where Allah ta'ala's tajalli
comes down,
and that color comes down to meet us.
And that is what happens on the night
of the day of Bhakataha.
Now you wanna see the importance.
With the words 'Layla Purkadr'. Ulama had said
and it is read that someone 1 Arab
Ali was, you know, speaking about this. In
Layla, there are 4 words.
When human
being was created,
Allah
informed the angels about the creation of humankind.
And he said, I'm making this human deed
my representative.
My representative.
Sin. So what are you gonna create such
people? So Allah says, I know what to
know not. And according
to one
go and see them on the night of
Adam.
They are worshiping me.
So Allah, subhanahu wa ta'ala,
expects us to be standing in front of
all my people, making me bothered
to show
the malayka
of the correctness of Allah making us represented
us.
Demand from us. And one of the demands
is that you turn towards all mighty Allah
in du'a. And
taught this ummah and humanity dua at a
time when people do not know how to
make dua. People have forgot to have forgotten
to make dua. They did not know how
to ask.
They did not know what to say before,
my fellow, our
beloved
taught us what they got to eat.
How do you see the need to turn
towards all mighty Allah and do? Now Allah
and the real friend of Allah showed us
the the greatness of all mighty Allah.
It is equal to Allah whether you relate
something
in broad daylight or in the darkness of
the night, whether you you make mention of
it in, you know, openly, whether you were
whisper,
knows everything.
He knows the patterning of your eyes. You
know what your hearts can see. Even before
you make mention of anything,
knows it. When you someone is looking at
you, you don't know what what intention is
looking at you. Sometimes a person can look
at you, look at your car, then he
could be looking at it in an envious
way. You don't know about it. He just
saw it,
When your time of death comes,
He sends 1 of His
messengers, Malik ul Moth, and that messenger never
ever goes against Allah's commands.
No? And then whether you are ready to
go or not, whether you are prepared to
go or not,
and, no, you you will come and take
your life. You can't say, give me another
one second, or 5 second, or 5 minutes.
He won't even give you one second. You
will take it out exactly at that time
when Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala told you to
take it out, your guru and your soul.
But it shows you you don't have power
and control over your own destiny,
over your own life. So when you don't
have control and power over your own destiny,
you tell to the one who is in
control over your power and destiny. That is
the reality with regard to Dua.
And one of the reasons why people stayed
away from Dua is because one is that
Allah is very powerful. He's Allah told us
to listen to us. So Allah told us
to
So Allah Khara says,
When my bondsman asked you about me, oh,
prophet of all my,
tell that in me,
I am very close to them. I am
very close. I am more closer to them
than the jugular vein.
I am more closer to them than their
own selves.
Making a translation and said, no. It is
a corrupted arteries, the artery that brings the
the heart to the brain. That is the
most important
artery in the human body. Put someone who
just, you know, hold it for a little
while, you are out. You are born. Right?
That is something that comes many times in
a while. So this very same sinful person
this very same sinful person that he said,
I'm so weak and so sinful
you know, how is it possible for a
person to take this argument
when it leaves,
when Allah was angry with him? Allah
expelled
him from the you know, expelled him from
from Jannah.
And that particular time, he made a request
to almighty Allah. And ulama say he knew
because he he he believes made more than
all of us put together.
He's not a stand in this earth where
he didn't make sit there in front of
an laqara. So he knew and laqara never
gets overwhelmed by his anger.
So he made dua to almighty Allah, anzirmi
ilaha yumma yumafood.
Oh Allah, keep me alive till the day
of qiyamal. Allah knew the reason why he
wanted the dua to be accepted.
With regard to taking us away from dua.
You know? So then these are type of
things that we have to keep in mind,
that we need to turn towards all my
He was making dua in front of someone
else. He was making dua for you and
I, this is mum. He to our home.
It comes in a adi that Nadi saw
salam read this,
Don't go to such a great human being
for assistance.
Go to that being where even such great
people go and ask assistance.
Go to that deal where even such great
people go and ask assistance from. Nabiya Karim
Soslam then further taught us how to make
gua. Look at the the the the depth
of his king when he came back from
Taif, when he was bruised and battered by
the people of Taif, and he was wounded.
And then he said these beautiful words,
When I complain to you about my weakness,
the feebleness of my efforts, I have not
been able to to explain to the people,
for them to convince them with regard to
the truth that you have sent me with.
You know, someone today just told me just
before, Tarawu today, you know, someone sent me
a clip where the the imam of Matili
Aqsa was reading this
one.
Or people who are far from me, strangers
on me, and they have control over me?
Subhanallah.
Ghairah. Then Nabiya Karim salawahu alayhi wa sallam
said,
I don't care what
you
have
done
to
me.
But of course, if there would have been
ease, you know, without this happening, it would
be even more better for me. I mean,
look at the beautiful words and the depth
of feeling and the right way of expressing
this situation in a time after time. Let
me explain to you how
time.
The liyeqan biswar assalam taught us. And there
are so many days a book written by
one of our great
you know, have humility.
Yet at the same time, no one likes
to be distressed. Now how do you find
the right balance between the 2? Look at
how Nabiya Khadim saw ourselves. Resolve that that
complex
fine line with one dua.
Allah, make me insignificant in my own eyes
that I don't get pride.
But make me and grant me respect in
the eyes of
people. Can anyone but the Nabi of Allah
ask Allah with such beautiful words? Oh, well,
not make me insignificant in
Part of it,
taught us the etiquettes of making dua. One
of the etiquettes is when you make dua,
you also find all the means that you
must have with regard to dua. You must
make all the efforts, and the means must
be there. You can't just make dua without
putting, you know, without putting any effort. And
I'll normally give this very broad, very big
example that anyone can can understand it. You
know, so someone heard the saying that, you
know, when we have fire of sugar,
than the resource and said, oh, my small
brother, remember me. Make
dua. Put a masih to make dua for
someone who is, you know, explaining to another
person. The angels make army to their dua.
Sometimes they can put you in problems also
there. So one day, a person had a
friend who was not married.
I was one day in the cover. It
was dark. I was at the time. There
wasn't lights, you know, so it was a
darkness in the night, and I heard a
person who was, you know, seeing certain poet,
and it was so catchy.
And
forgiveness and the sinners?
The great grandson of our beloved Nadiya Karim
Sawsanah.
And I said, oh, great grandson of Nadiya
Karim Sawsanah. You are from the family of,
You know, I won't say now, you know,
now we will get scholars and you get
scholars. So that particular scholar told him that
you have no chance for me. You are
Jahannan. You know, you're born.
So this person went to that person, and
he was going on the way to that
village or that city where this avenue was
stolen. And on the way, Anakkara took his
life. Now the 2 sets of angels came.
The angels of punishment. This man killed a
100 people,
and he murdered 100 people. We have to
take his soul because it is worth your
punishment.
And then the other angels came of Rahmah
and mercy, and he said, no. He killed
a 100 people, but he was going to
make Tawba. He was going to ask Salatullah
for forgiveness.
And therefore, we have to take this home
because he was on his way for recognition.
And the
a letter was brought before almighty Allah. Alhamdulillah.
Says, measure measure the distance.
Measure the distance. And it was found that
he was closer towards the city
where the Arab where he was going to
seek forgiveness. He was closer to that. And
the letter said,
go and take him, oh angels of Rahmah
and mercy. I have forgiven him
you know and see, eventually, because of her
situation, she agreed to sleep with him for
60 gold coins.
Sixty gold coins.
And when
they got together and he was about to
fulfill his desire with her, she started crying.
She started crying. She said, why are you
crying? You agreed upon the prize. You told
me this.
Because of my poverty, I agree upon this,
but I have never done something malicious.
I have never coveted immoral.
Why are you forcing me to do so
because of my circumstances?
It is not a door of despondence.
Asa, you broke your * a 100 times,
come back to a Nakala.
So, Jahannam, if you show their interest by
not asking, I
will you know what? Disgraced put you in
Jahannam.
I knocked at the door,
and my mother's voice
was so sweet compared to previously,
I realized
a Pakistani person went abroad and he went
to Germany and he got married to a
German woman.
She was a Christian. She was not a
Muslim. And he And he never worried much
about his being until his children came. And
many times it happens like that. When your
children come up, now you realize your responsibility.
You might have led a a life of,
you know, guna and sin, but all of
a sudden your children want, you want your
children to be fighters. And you have concern
with regard to your children. So now the
child came and the mother was taking him
towards Christian class, classes of Christianity. And he
took it took took umbrage. How can you
do so?
Every day you will make dua together.
The dua you make is, oh Allah, you
guide us towards the right religion.
Can you even tell the power of dua?
Al Latala sometimes give you after a while.
Sometimes Allah, subhanahu wa ta'ala, give you something
better.
What actually happens, you listen to them. They
made the request. You grant to them something
better than they asked. And sometimes
give us something better. Although we don't like
it, but Allah knows what is in our
heart, and gives us something better. Sometimes Allah
you.
For all the duas that you made, and
I didn't accept it.
I kept it in store for you in
your heart.
So we when we all make dua to
English, but some of the things that I've
made mention of, you know, we can make
another long dua, but I think what we
will do is I gave you enough