Hamza Yusuf – Ramadan 2019 Ruminations #3

			spinarak mannerheim wa salam ala Sayidina Muhammad wa ala alihi wa sahbihi wa sallam to sliema a set
of medical mirandola who will recur to Alhamdulillah. We've been looking at the concept of taqwa,
which is again one of the most reiterated ideas in the Quran. The Quran actually begins with after
Al Fatiha. spinarak Rahim Allah to
		

			me that keytab will now write Buffy who then little Mata pain, who del moussaka This is a guidance
for the people have Taqwa. And so taqwa is absolutely at the core of the Quranic message. As I
reiterated before, the very first commandment is a commandment to taqwa. Now in the powerhouse orapa
the prophets realize that I'm is being addressed by Allah subhana wa Adana and Allah subhana wa
Adana tells him what more Attica Sadat it was stubborn, he was stubborn, that command your family to
prayer and be
		

			deeply patient in this was popular at a a, one of the things about the Arabic language Allah
subhanho wa Taala could have said was better Allah, be patient with it. When you add something, it
intensifies the meaning and here, the the the letter that was added to the verb Sabra hospital to be
patient was PA, which is an emphatic letter. It's one of the emphatic letters in Arabic, so it's a
very strong well, smuggler, Allah means to really be deeply patient in it a stainable somebody was
saw that seek help from prayer from patients and prayer. And then aloud reminds us lenise aerocart
is our we don't ask for provision. We're not asking you for provision. You don't. What we're asking
		

			you for is devotion. We will provide for you, we have to do those things that get the provision, but
the provision is there, we will provide for you. Not no not as oka we will provide for you will our
people to the tacos so the the the the phrase comes in this verse about prayer, that with this
prayer, you are preparing yourself for the inevitability of victory, the victory of the soul over
the ego, the victory of the mosaic reality over the moronic reality, the victory of truth over
falsehood, the victory of justice over oppression, this this is what prayer at the essence of
prayer. It's in order for you to constantly go back to God no matter how difficult things get that
		

			you go back to Allah subhana wa tada with prayer, standing over somebody with SATA. Take esteana
take own from God take your solace your help your sucker from Allah subhana wa Tada. And so this is
this is what Allah is telling us. Now in another verse in SOTA hustles Allah Subhana Allah Allah
says about Tikka Dotto Ashura that this abode of the afterlife that we have made the giano hallel
Idina lair Yuri do not allow one third or the whatever said that they don't want to be exalted in
the earth, nor do they want corruption in the earth. Well Are people to limit the pain and the end
affairs for the people of taqwa again, it's a reminder that these are people the alpha has been set
		

			aside so the great victory, if we don't we can, there are times when the Muslims have seen victory
in this world, the people of truth when when it was Benny Sri el, when when when the Israelites were
on the truth, God gave them victory over Pharaoh Pharaoh was drowned. He was he drowned in the
ocean. And and God gave them entrance into the promised land, because they were the people of truth.
They were adhering to these principles and being guided by them. The prophet SAW s&m gave victory
also to the people of Jesus over his his enemies at that time. So in that case, it was the opposite
now, the the people of Israel who opposed Jesus at the time, so and this is part of the problem with
		

			human beings is that we oscillate. So there are times when we're powerless there are times we're in
power, depending on how we respond to that power is depending on who we're with. Are we with God? Or
are we with Pharaoh? Those are the two choices you either with God or you with Pharaoh, and there's
really no in between in this and so this idea
		

			of the doubt after being placed for those who don't want to be exalted in the earth, like Pharaoh,
Pharaoh and if at all he, he elevated himself in the earth, whereas the people of the mosaic people,
the Jesuit people, the Mohammedan people,
		

			peace be upon all of our profits. These are the people who humble themselves. Under the way battle
rock many lidium shuna ended up the homeowner with a hot woman Juniper who said, I'm the servants of
the merciful, and inshallah, we're going to look at those 12 attributes that define the servants of
the Merciful.
		

			The servants of the merciful who tread lightly on the earth, they walk lightly on the earth, ensure
knowledge of the hohner they tread lightly on the earth. It's interesting now we talked about carbon
footprints, people that have heavy carbon footprints that pollute a lot. The people of Allah
subhanho wa Taala are people that are they tread lightly on the earth. They don't want to be exalted
in the earth. And so this idea that the ACA is made for those living in LA Duna illuminator or the
whatever said that they don't want either to be exalted or corruption and these two tend to go
together. So this is this is a really important thing to remember is that when people become
		

			arrogant, they tend then to become oppressive. They tend to sow corruption in the earth, and this is
the nature of Pharaoh as opposed to the nature of the prophetic tradition, which is the way of Moses
the way of Jesus the way of our Prophet Mohammed Salim all of them are our profits but were from the
oma Satan and Mohammed Salalah. It was it was setting them at 100 local affair and cinematical what
happened to low heat over a cup