Hamza Yusuf – Sufism And Importance Of Dhikr

			It's in Sahih Muslim so it's a sound Howdy. So I am with my servant when he remembers me. And if he
remembers me in his own self, I remember him in mind. And if he remembers me in a group I remember
him in a group better than the group he remembers me.
		

			So, and then he says there are three types of thicker, thicker with the heart thicker with the
tongue and the two together. So he says know, that Vicar is the best of all actions. If you took all
of our actions, Vicar is the best of all actions, even though there are some studies that have been
related that say that other things are better like prayer and its time, which is the outcome and
things like that. And that is because they contain the meaning of remembrance and presence with God.
And the proof for the benefit the the proof that dicker is the most virtuous thing is from three
aspects the first Alberto and no sahuarita to be tough lady Alessandra, man, the many
		

			texts that have been related that prefer it over all other actions on us on the law, and it will set
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			all of these Hadees that have been related, that prefer it over other things the prophet SAW said
him said in a sound Hadith is related as a bollock as from a Buddha, the Hadith, it's related in the
walpa, it's multiple, which means a Buddha doesn't say he heard it from the Prophet but generally
malkuth of Malta is from the province of Iceland. It's more for in other texts. So even Tara may be
related and others should, can I not tell you the best of all your actions and the purest of it with
your king, your sovereign, and the highest in degrees, and the better and better for you than
spending your wealth, your gold and silver in the way of God and better for you than meeting the
		

			enemy on battle and striking him and him striking you are striking his neck there next and then
striking your next and they said indeed, tell us Yara soba, and he said they could a lot remembrance
of God. And once the Prophet slicin was asked, which are the best of actions, and he said,
remembrance of God that God Allah. And then it was said to him, his Vicar better than jihad is
thicker, better than jihad. Remember, it's better than a piece of beauty down in the way of God. And
he said, even if the Mujahid
		

			was striking his sword in the cafe, until his sword broke, and he was covered in blood, the one
remembering God would be better than him.
		

			Now, the owner must say the reason for that and that's related by Academy and even manager, even
imagine, the reason that Vicar is better is because Vicar is an end in and of itself, it's not a
means that we were created for the purpose of remembering God. jihad is a means a means is always
over an end is always higher. And some of the odema say
		

			that jihad is better when jihad is necessary, like to defend the lands is you don't sit in the mess,
you know, I'm doing the goods better than the Mujahid out there to say, No, you go out and you
defend the land, and that's the best. And then he's also stressing the fact that Vicar in your
actions. If your actions are devoid of vicco, then they're not
		

			beneficial actions. So if you're out in jihad, struggling in the way of God,
		

			then you should be doing dico as well and the Prophet told them to do thicker the Mujahidin and so
difficult now we talk about Jihad and in the environment we're in it's very sad, but jihad is very
high thing. And our religion is a religion of struggles as simple as that. I mean, somebody said to
me,
		

			Muscles really want to take over the world. I said no, they're just reacting violently to the fact
that we're taking over the world.
		

			It's just so strange. You know America, they want to take over the world and meanwhile, we're taking
over the world 143 bases around the planet.
		

			Really?
		

			Just amazing.
		

			So
		

			anyway, no politics.
		

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Talia photo Anna Jerusalem and currently we are under the Omni IBV one ama with the Quran. So the
second is that whenever God mentions Vica in the Quran, or commands people that Vicar Not only does
he praise the that getting, but he also places the condition of doing much remembrance of it. So he
		

			says, oh, the koala, remember a lot, the Quran kathira abundantly, so do much remembrance of God.
And He never says that in any of the other actions he commands us to do. So when he says fast, he
doesn't say fast a lot. He doesn't say do jihad a lot he doesn't say. But when it comes to Vicar, he
always says do much victim. So if it wasn't the best of actions, there would be no need to emphasize
the importance of doing much of it. And then he says also Vicar has a certain quality that is
specific to it. And it's doesn't there's no other thing that has this quality, and that is the
presence of the highest, that have the highest Divine Presence. So and also arrival to near pneus to
		

			this divine presence that has been articulated in what has come down to us in these texts about
being in the company sitting with and also being in the company. So Allah says, for instance, a lot
exalted says on a gentleman that currently I am the Companion of the one remembering me. I mean,
Jenny's literally means I'm sitting with, right but we don't take that literally. I'm the Companion
of the one and I'm with I'm in that gathering. And also in the Hadith that was previously related. I
am in the opinion of my servant, whatever my servant thinks if he remembers me, I'm with him when he
remembers me. So the mania of Allah and the Hydra and the presence of God. Now this is where it gets
		

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			So amongst the people, there are many different reasons and or purposes for doing dico.
		

			In other words, sorry, amongst the the people that and their purposes for doing Vicar, there are two
stations.
		

			The purpose of common people is to gain rewards, they want rewards that you know, like if you go in
gym actively, they tell you if you do this, you get this, if you do this, you get this, you do this,
if you do this prayer, you get 100. And you can get your calculator out, start adding it up, because
there's rewards and they're in the Hadees. And they're mentioned. He's saying that that is the the
more general people they want these rewards. But the end of the purpose of Vicar for the the people
of distinction, the hosta is nearness and presence. They want to be near God and feel his presence.
And he's saying what a great difference between these two.
		

			And what a difference between the one who takes his reward from behind a veil.
		

			So you get the reward from behind the veil and between the one who draws near until he's from
amongst the beloved's So, and then he says, Hey had to or he had to he had he had his Arabic
expression, you know how far off the mark Hey,
		

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			what Adam and then he says know that Vicar has many different types. There's Talia saying that in a
coma, you know Hallelu in English I say hallelujah. That's where that comes from Peleliu really not
making that up. It's an actually, no Webster's dictionary from 1832. He actually takes it back to
Arabic, and says it's from the Arabic Hindu, which is to shout for joy.
		

			In a Christian Hallelujah, yes, a shout for joy. Hallelu Hallelu Hallelu you know, let's say La la
la la.
		

			This is what it means I'm not making that up.
		

			They just don't know we have to teach them.
		

			So and then to spear saying Subhana Allah takbeer saying Allahu Akbar hamdulillah saying
Alhamdulillah help Allah saying how La quwata illa Billah hasta la saying hospital alone, Emma will
kill every and then all the various vicars of the names from the names of God. And then finally, the
prayer on the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, so you have all the vicars of the of Allah. And
each one of them is different. And then you have the vicar, the remembrance of the Prophet and
prayer on the Prophet, and his dead father asking forgiveness, and those last two he says for last,
because they're the most important ones towards the end of time, that's why the is default, and
		

			solid, and an AVI are very important in our time.
		

			And then there are other things as well. And he says, Every Vicar has a property,
		

			and a fruit. So vigor is like a seed, and you're watering. And the result, there's a fruit that
comes from it. And, and without laws tofi up to this path of realization. And he's enough for us and
the best of protectors, Bab mokum, thammarat, adkar, the section on the station of the fruits of
Vikram. So now he's going to tell us what these records do for you.
		

			And I'm gonna talk about that. Yeah.
		

			Let me finish the sections. And if I haven't answered the question, because I'm going to answer that
question in the section. So if I haven't answered the question in the section, then you can ask the
question.
		

			But sometimes the question that you have, it's going to come because if you have the question,
usually then well, I live has already thought of, generally, or the one who's given the commentary
on it, because it's it's a very valid question. It's related to the topic.
		

			Yes, that's those are the best kind for during this. Yeah.
		

			They have the means in the end. Yeah. So it's very high. Yeah, no, there's things that about the
majapahit that are related that are amazing. So Jihad should never be belittled in any way, shape,
or form. But, but but a lot of people what's important to note is when people there's a lot of
people that think that Islam is just about one type of jihad. And and so it becomes military. And
that's all they can think about military is, that's a certain type of even the prophesies. And not
all of the Sahaba were of that nature. Most of them were because the Arabs are military people. I
mean, when the unsolved came to the property to bear they said, No, I hadn't heard of, I've never
		

			heard of them was Helga, you know, we're, we're the sons of war, because their environment was a
belligerent environment. Now, when you're in civilized societies, and theirs was not civilized by
the standards that that we understand today. There was vengeance there was blood writ. There was,
		

			you know, somebody killed your cousin, you went out and killed anybody from his family. That's how
their culture was. If you're in a in a country like England, for instance.
		

			Most people are not belligerent. I mean, they might get drunk at the pub and become belligerent. But
generally, when you're dealing with people, they're not belligerent. And if you have altercations,
they'll solve them in ways that aren't violent. It doesn't mean there aren't violent people amongst
them. There are but the society's norm is not violence. The society's norm is civil, and that's
called civil society. And the healthier a society is, the more civil it is. So when you have civil
societies and you're focusing always on militaristic qualities and characteristics,
		

			Something's very seriously wrong. But when you're in an environment under siege, then that emphasis
is very important. So the Muslims have to recognize emphasis, like right now the most important
thing education.
		

			In America, Zani didn't fight jihad. Even though during his lifetime, the Palestine was under
occupation, but he thought it's a waste of time to try to free Palestine if you've got a bunch of
barbarians that are freeing it,
		

			because they'll just end up killing all the Christians and it'll be make Islam look bad. So his
focus was on educating the Muslim and that's why the school system that was laid out during his time
produced Salahuddin at a UB his generation was produced by a mama khazaria. Nanny. There's no set up
without that groundwork that was laid by these intellectual scholars who were re educating the oma
to the true principles of Islam. And there are many people who have criticized him out of Azadi and
said Why isn't there a Babel jihad in his area? Why didn't we write that back the whole book, that's
the whole point, that whole book, what predicates, any type of martial and every you have to have
		

			spiritual people. And that's why the Sahaba weren't allowed to fight for for 13 more than that 14
and a half years they weren't allowed to fight. It was all purification they were being prepared,
because you don't want people that are vengeful, and violent. You don't want those people fighting
because they're just gonna they won't care about people. Even some of the universe had only reason
that war was the only
		

			repository for slaves all other forms of slavery were abolished in Islam before Islam that you were
born a slave you indentured servitude you know you got into debt you became a slave you can be just
captured kidnap a lot of different ways. Like now there's, they have all these types of slavery out
there. But Islam only allowed slavery from war. That's the last and someone said the whole point was
because when people are fighting, and they think that gotta be slick, they don't want to kill the
people that actually want them to live. So it's actually a mercy for the people that you're
fighting. Because you know what awaits