Hamzah Wald Maqbul – 1440 5 Ramadn Late Night Majlis The Pleasure of Allh Not the Creation 05092019
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And by
the rahma of Allah
we've reached the,
the 5th night of Ramadan.
And this is the Mubarak night of Jumuah
as well. There are very few nights like
this in which,
both the the and the virtue of the
night of and Ramadan
coincide.
It's said, about the last 10 nights, if
the night of Jummah
and,
an odd night coincide with one another, it
is the opinion of, some of the
that that night is
and most worthy of being.
So a person should
take advantage and benefit. That doesn't necessarily mean
if a person is not in the habit
of praying the whole night that they do
that, nor may it be even possible because
Allah only gives
to do great things
for those who
have, been putting in the work and putting
in the effort.
But, if you're not there yet, then,
such a night is a great time to
start or to continue or to increase.
So if you read a little bit, read
a little bit more. If you read nothing,
read something.
And for those,
who Allah has given the of,
of spending a great amount of not only
their time, but the of their heart, the
concentration of their heart in,
then let them do so, and let them
also pray for us and for our
meager,
efforts,
and the efforts of all those people who,
have love for the ummah of the prophet
and wish well for it, and that Allah
stop and arrest,
those who wish harm to it.
So we continue
with
the Muqaddimah and the forward the intro of
Akhwari,
to the beginning student of knowledge,
before he teaches how to
make wudu and before he teaches how to
pray salat.
And perhaps this will be the last,
darsh from,
this mukaddimah,
and then we'll move on to other material,
Insha'Allah, for our majlis.
He
says,
And
it is not halal, it is not permissible
for a person to keep the company of
a fasik nor to sit with a.
So who is a?
A is the person who sins openly and
with no shame.
The person who transacts in the money of
riba, the person who, eats and drinks what's
haram,
whether it be food stuff or whether it
be,
the money of,
of Haram, the money of theft, the money
of deception,
the money that's,
taken by coercion,
the money that's taken by brigandry,
the person who doesn't,
guard their eyes and their ears,
and their hands from haram, the person who
is
says those things that Allah forbids a person
to say, the person who believes those things
Allah forbids for them to believe and does
so openly and unrepentantly.
Because there's nobody who's perfect. All of us
make mistakes. All of us do wrong things
from some time or another.
All of us, you know, if the camera
is not looking at us, we may get
caught picking our nose at some point or
another,
whether literally or or or or figuratively,
whether,
literally or spiritually,
or morally or ethically.
That happens.
The sign of the believer is not that
they're perfect, but that they repent quickly.
Like
described to the people who repent in that
very in that very, hour,
in that very moment,
they repent for their sins, and they feel
bad for them. The is the person who
doesn't feel bad. The is the person who
makes an excuse for themself where there's no
excuse in the
The Fasiq is the person who says I'm
right and the Sharia is wrong,
and,
they have no shame with regards to that
with regards to that thing. The person is
openly drunk. The person openly,
smokes weed or does drugs. The person openly
does these things without without shame. And, you
know, there are different degrees of shamelessness,
but, just the fact that a person would
do it without without trying to hide it,
or or or, without shame,
that's enough to make that that person a
fasip.
That person's company to keep that comp person's
company is haram.
And to sit with that person is haram.
Just like eating pork is haram, and just
like drinking wine is haram and just like
skipping the prayer is haram. And in fact,
it's very poisonous. It's very poisonous to the,
to a person's deen and towards a person's
suluk.
Suluk is what? They're traveling the path toward
Allah.
It's very poisonous for a person traveling that
that path toward Allah
to keep the company of a person who,
just doesn't care.
It is it is also a sin. The
commandment of Allah is
be with the people who are are are
voracious, the people who have true faith, the
people who are real with Allah
those are the people whose company we're supposed
to keep and we're supposed to scrupulously
avoid the company of the and the,
those people who are profligates.
And this is, again, like we mentioned from
before, this is, I guess, a a type
of sensibility that runs counter to the cult
of Dawa in which, you're supposed to spend
all of your time with people who don't
care for Dean in the hopes that you're
gonna help them. And the fact of the
matter is is that you're not gonna help
them. It's like saying that you need to
spend all of your time with people with
Ebola in order to, save people from Ebola.
No.
Do research on this on the disease. Work
on a cure, work on a vaccine. There
are specific workers that should be trained to
go into,
you know, those places where there's an outbreak,
and they should take their protective gear and
their protective suits, and they should be, very
copious with regards to their,
with regards to their,
protocols for sanitation
so that they don't go down with the
same disease. The fact of the matter is
what? Is that the howl of a human
being, the state inside of a human being's
heart is very contagious.
And so if a person is a good
person, then that person's state will, transfer to
another person and affect them in a good
way. If a person's state inside of their
heart is bad, it will affect a person's
state in a bad way. And,
the problem is that many of us have
not reflected on the state of our heart.
We spent our entire Islam taking the easiest
way out,
to the point where we haven't made and
struggled and polished the mirror of the heart
so that we can't see any picture clearly
in it. We've, taken the to eat whatever
we want.
We've taken the to,
not make wudu correctly. We make taken the
not to pray correctly, not to pray in
the correct time, not to fast in the
correct time. So we don't know about these
things. Anyone who spent any appreciable amount of
their life,
struggling against their nuffs
and trying to polish it,
and trying to clean it,
so that it can be like a mirror
that that that a person can see something
with it. That person will feel the the
this black spiritual effect of the company of,
of those people who don't care, who are
heedless of Allah and His
This heedless
this heedlessness, this heedless state, this rafla has
completely consumed the entire ummah.
It has consumed the ummah to the point
where people no longer consider wrong things wrong,
and they don't consider right things right because
the the the the the the mirror of
the of the of the
has become so rusted
that nothing is visible anymore. And it it's
like trying to see some reflection out of
a stone. You're not gonna really see anything
there.
So anyone who has
struggled against themselves in order to clean the
pure mirror of their heart and of their
spirit,
that person will feel the ill effect of
keeping bad company even for an hour. They
say that Hazrat G Moana Elias,
a person who,
a person who if I were to Vegas
were to call me and ask me, you
know, who to put the money on for,
the of his age, I would have put
it down on him, A scholar of the
first class,
a man who loved Ilm so much, he
wanted to add the mistadrak of Hakim into
the nisaba of the,
of the Madrasah and Saharanpur,
and the,
the the Salparast, the administration,
said we already have 2 pact of a
of a curriculum.
And so in his frustration, he made an
announcement amongst the students that I'm gonna teach,
the mustadark
one hour before Fajr. Can you imagine 1
hour before Fajr? I'm gonna teach. Whoever wants
to come can come. I can't compel you
because the administration isn't allowing me to. A
man who, if you look at the word
that he gave just to the regular tablis,
just to the regular tablis that a person
should do 12 of,
of zikr in the different Masnoon avkar,
every day, and that a person should make
dawah to the deen,
make, to 25 different people in the day,
and that a person should make the time
from
or until
for the in some sort of service.
So if it's teaching that if you know
then you teach. If it's
some other type of service, then you do
that. If you know nothing else, then you
should sit in the masjid and just sweep
the masjid every day from that time once
you're done with your once you're done with
the work of the day.
Such a weird if a person were to
do it,
that person would be
one of those people who,
the the people would see them
and make toba,
make toba just by looking at them. Part
of the weird was what? Was that a
person should make khatam of Quran,
khatam of Quran once every 7 days, and
that's for the non ulama and for the
non hufad, just for the regular people.
And so this is a man of, of
of of such spirituality,
and this is a man of, such ill,
a first class man of the ummah.
And he, he used to report that when
he would go out to make dawah to
the,
even though it's just in in in,
mostly in the masajid and just giving bayans.
Seeing the the hal of ghafla, seeing the
state of heedlessness in people, he would
come back home
after, after, 3 days,
and feel so much disturbance inside of his
heart that he would either make a atikaf
for another 3 days or make, spend 3
days in the Hanukkah in order to purge
that,
that that state from him. And this is
a man who is
the epitome of concern for the Ummah,
expressing his state only after
meeting with and mixing with those people who
ostensibly came to the Masjid to hear him
speak, so they must be somewhat pious people.
So what do you think it is when
a person spends their day in and day
out with people who neither know the name
of Allah nor the name of his Rasul,
sallallahu alaihi wa sallam, or even a Muslim
community in which nobody cares about what they
eat and drink, nobody cares about,
the shala of Allah
Everything is relative.
The deen is, let's, you know, make take
the easy way out of everything
and not have concern for, have concern for
what pleases the lord
The Deen is what? Put on a hijab
and make it to CNN, and then thereafter,
he flout
the, the the hukum of Allah and his
Rasool sallallahu alaihi wa sallam with regards to,
you know, what the nature of marriage is
or what the nature of human relationships
are or what the nature of,
of what the laws
are, then nobody cares. You can get up
and say, well, you know, I think that
to say Islam is the only, way of
salvation. You know, I used to believe that,
but I don't believe that anymore. That was
extremist. I used to believe that,
you know,
that I used to believe that, for example,
that marriage is between a man and a
woman, but now I've broadened my horizons or
all this other nonsense,
that,
our community holds these people up as heroes
and brings them as keynote speakers for their
events and whatnot.
The hadith of Rasulullah
alaihi sallam is what?
Islam,
the one who honors and and and gives,
gives
respect
and
awe to
a person who is,
one who innovates
from Islam that which isn't of it. That
person has participated and helped in the destruction
of Islam.
Which is a sin that none of us
would wanna be guilty of or asked about
on the day of judgment, the day that
we see our Lord, the day that nobody
is going to escape.
So what does it mean,
what does it mean to keep the company
of such people? What does it mean to
keep the friendship, and to look up to
such people, and to hold the same ideals
as they hold, and to have the same
goals that they that they that they have,
and to want to please them as a
primary focus of, one's life.
This is this is a a matter of
great and a matter of great loss. And
unfortunately, there was a time when people we
had to say this,
about them and their friends, about myself and
my friends.
Now we have to also remind one another
that even our leaders and even our
the
people who have gathered knowledge,
if you see them flouting the the rules
of the
then the respect for the knowledge is in
and of itself,
something that you have to have one way
or the other, as long as the person
is still a Muslim. However,
you take,
one part which is respecting the knowledge, and,
then thereafter,
you take your deen from somebody you see
that respects the and doesn't flout it. And
there are many matters of difference of opinion,
and I'm not talking about those. But if
is open and shut,
and and you see you see a person
who has gathered some knowledge, but they're not
complying with that part of the din,
then,
you may respect them for their knowledge, but
you don't take your din from them. You
don't ask them your messiah, and you don't
ask them about your apida, and you don't
act like they act to behave like they
behave because you recognize something has gone wrong.
Rather because of the the the barak and
the virtue of the knowledge you make dua
for them, that Allah
guide them and guide all of us. And
there's nothing wrong with making dua for the
guidance of another person. It's not an act
of, it's not an act of, of arrogance.
If you go up to someone and say
hadak Allah, Allah guide you as a way
of insulting them, Allah knows what's in your
heart, that's that's a misuse of these words.
But if you make du'a that Allah guides
somebody, then not only will the benefit be
that they're guided and you'll receive the reward
for love for them, you'll also receive, a
naseeb of that dua that the angels will
say, Amin, for you as well, that you
receive guidance. There's nothing wrong with saying that.
So if you see somebody if you see
me going down the wrong path or doing
or saying something wrong, then ask Allah Ta'ala
for guidance. May Allah guide you as well.
And may Allah Ta'ala bring all of us
into the path of his love. So he
says,
what,
It is it's not permissible to keep the
the suhba of a fasik,
for for, anything other than absolute necessity.
So if you have to do business with
them, that's one thing. If you have to,
you know, work with them at school in
order to get a job, that's one thing.
If there's some necessity,
you have to deal with them because you're
at the hospital or whatever.
That that's not what we're talking about. Rather,
we're talking about those times and those options
in which you have a choice.
And a person doesn't seek the pleasure of
the creation
by angering the creator.
A person doesn't seek the pleasure of the
creation by angering the creator.
Don't don't look to make people happy by
skipping your prayer or by delaying your prayer
or by eating what they eat, or by
buying what they buy, or by watching what
they watch, or by talking about what they
talk about, or by dressing like they dress.
Whether they're they're they're they're Muslims or whether
they're.
You know, the fact that you're dressing in
a way that's decent or in the guise
of the pious,
and and the guise of the righteous, and
you're, you know, you're gonna get mocked for
having a beard or having a a a
hat on your head or wearing hijab or
niqab or whatever.
You don't seek the the pleasure of the
creation,
by seeking the
anger of the creator. Allah,
glory be to him and, exalted as he,
said,
and Allah and his messenger
have more right that you should be
you should be concerned with them being pleased
with you. That you should try to make
them happy.
If
and on the condition what if if the
people are actually believers.
And
and, the messenger of Allah Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam,
he said may the peace and blessings of
Allah Ta'ala be upon him. That there is
no
That there is no, obedience. There's no type
of obedience that fits the description,
that that that that's, fits the description of
being for the,
creation,
while being
in the,
disobedience of the creator.
If
if if Allah commands to something, that's it.
And this is a part of the not
just a tariqa to Allah to Allah, but
this is a part of the common sense
of the believers,
for for from the beginning. Imagine this is
a the year 14 40
that the Muslims have been celebrating 1439
Ramabans
since then from then until now. It's the
14:30
138 Ramabans
from then until now. It's never been from
the attributes of the believers
that they
worry about what
people think or what the creation thinks while
forgetting about what Allah thinks. If Allah commands
you to make the creation happy, then you
do it for the sake of Allah, not
for the sake of the creation. So who
who does Allah command you to make happy?
Your parents, your teachers.
Right? The olamah, you obey your leaders, you
respect your elders, etcetera, etcetera. But if your
parents tell you, hey, Abdullah, go eat some
pork now.
Are you gonna eat
it? No. Why? Because Allah doesn't give you
permission for that.
Even if if for example, if your parents
told you, hey, why don't you eat a
samosa? Then you don't eat it because your
parents said so you eat it because Allah
told you to listen to your parents in
that case. Right?
So that's,
that's the way that is. But what happens
is people don't have that connection with Allah.
They don't take the divine name. They don't
they don't pray for the sake of Allah
Ta'ala. The idea of remembering Allah Ta'ala is
completely alien from from our lives and so
we don't have that love that we worry
that Allah not be displeased with us. And
so we care so much about what other
people are gonna think, and we made a
weird cult, out of our deen into which
we think that, hey,
Allah only is happy when other people are
happy. And if that was the case, then
no one would have ever ever been upset
with the Rasool Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam.
But people were upset with him. Why? Because
he was more concerned with making Allah happy
than he was with making the,
creation happy.
That a person should not seek the pleasure
of the creation
by angering the the creator. Rather every deed
that you do,
imagine
on the day of judgment you know how,
like, you have YouTube?
Imagine on the day of judgment that deed
is gonna be played. Click the link for
the YouTube and it's gonna be watched again.
The person who did something for the sake
of Allah. The person who woke up in
the middle of the night nobody knew and
they prayed 2 rak'ahs. They made wudu and
they prayed 2 rak'ahs. The person who nobody
knew, they went clean the the masjid, the
hamka, the
the the madrasa.
They cleaned the bathroom. They cleaned some, they
picked up the garbage, someone else threw,
you know, nobody saw it. The person who
did something that they were right anyway, but
they knew if they said something,
it would have caused a bigger
problem in the family or a bigger problem
in the community or in the society, and
so they stayed quiet and they had to
suffer because of that. When that thing is
replayed and Allah asks you, you did you
do that thing? And you said, yes, my
rabbi, I did it. And he asked you,
why did you do it? Did you benefit
from it at all? So, no, I didn't
benefit from it at all. Why did you
do it? I said, I only did it
to make you happy. Imagine how nice that
would
be. It's gonna look good. It's gonna look
real good. Right?
Nobody thinks about that day. Nobody nobody remembers
that day. You should remember that day. You
should think about that day. Don't do the
those things that like, oh, did you pray
like 20 rakahs in in,
you know, whatever in Tarawee?
Yes. Why? Because, you know, so and so
was there, and I wanted to marry his
daughter.
Okay. That's gonna look real dumb on that
day. You understand what I'm saying?
And imagine how much worse it would be
like, did you actually skip that?
Yeah. Because I was invited to so and
so's house who I wanted to marry his
daughter. Or did you, you know, drink, you
know, drink alcohol or eat something haram? Yeah.
Because I didn't wanna offend so and so
because I wanted to marry their daughter or
get a job or whatever. This this, that,
and the other. Imagine how horrible that's gonna
look on that day. How embarrassing that's gonna
look. If somebody loved Allah,
would they wanna do something like that? If
someone cared about what Allah felt about them,
would they do something like that?
Absolutely not.
So
that a person shouldn't
seek the the the pleasure of the creation
by angering the creator, whether those people are
good people or bad people.
And it's even worse when they're when they're
when they're bad people who don't care about
Allah and his
So he says that he continues. He says
what? That it's not permissible
for a person to do anything.
Imagine this. This is not again, it's not
an advanced book. This is the first book
that you read when you're a kid. Okay?
He says what? That it's not halal for
a person to do anything.
Anything at all. Until they know what the
ruling of Allah and his Rasool Sallallahu Alaihi
Wasallam is with regards to that thing. Okay?
The first time you smoke a cigarette, people
smoke the cigarette and they become addicted to
smoking then they come to the masjid like
after 20 years and they're like, hey, you
know, is it halal or haram to smoke?
Or is it makur to smoke? I heard
this. I heard that. No.
Nothing.
You do nothing and tell you,
know what the of Allah is with regards
to it. Knowledge precedes action. Don't go and
make a mess then afterward, you know, ask,
oh, Sheikh, you know, how do I fix
this? You know? My Sheikh, my kid don't
kids don't listen to me. I am thinking,
like, with kids, like, what, 7 years old,
12 years old, or whatever. It's like a
25 year old grown person, grown man, grown
woman, smoking weed, and doing drugs, and
committing zina, and God knows what. I don't
believe in God anymore. I don't this and
that. And what the entire life was spent
in the dis disobedience of Allah to Allah,
and then you come and ask
afterward,
you know, fine because the are people who
love Allah and they serve, Allah by serving
his creation. They serve the creator by serving
the creation. They'll help you out. But it
should be clear to a person who has
any common sense whatsoever how that's like really
just a complete most backwards,
donkey backwards way of doing anything.
Rather, the the the the
the the sense of the deen is what?
Is that a person?
Right knowledge precedes
right right action. That you can't have right
action until you do it with right knowledge.
Even if you do a good deed, but
you don't know that it's a good deed
or why you're supposed be doing or how
you're supposed to do it. It's still there's
no benefit in it whatsoever. Imagine that there
are certain parts of the Sharia, you'll you'll
receive more reward with regards to knowing the
about that act than you will from even
doing the act itself.
Mentions,
this concept, and then he mentions the the
the author attributed to the prophet
that Allah is more,
the the intention of a believer is more
beloved to Allah than the act is itself.
So a person, it is not it's haram
for a person to do anything,
until they know the the ruling of, Allah
subhanahu wa ta'ala in it.
And a person is supposed to ask that
ruling not by going to Sheikh Google, but
by going to what? Going to those people
of knowledge
and by following in the footsteps of those
people who follow the sunnah of the prophet,
who who guide people to the
obedience of Allah Ta'ala and they they warn
people against following shaitan. Meaning, they're not just
positive people. There are many sheikh this and
sheikh that and Maulana Fulan and Mufti Fulan.
They have,
social media accounts
filled with,
imam this and that. They have social media
accounts filled with 1,000 and tens of thousands
and hundreds of thousands of followers. And if
you screen through the entire, content of what
their message is, there's no warning against anything.
There's nothing negative. It's all just positive affirmations
and be positive and, you know, you know,
don't have,
negative people in your life and just say
a good word and smile. And they would
tell people this is wrong. They don't stop
people from doing anything.
That is the method of the Nasara. I
remember there was once a a Lutheran pastor,
who used to pray with us and who
used to fast with us,
until the the Lutheran church moved him from
one church to the other. And I fear
they did it just because they thought this
guy is, you know, this guy is about
to go falafel shawarma on us. We need
to get him out of there really quickly.
And so he once came and heard a
ba'an of Imam Zaid. I took him to
hear a Bayan of Imam Zaid one time,
and he was so floored by it, and
he was so amazed by it. And he
said, you you're this is amazing. Your scholars
can tell the people, you know, that this
is a sin and that's a sin and
warn them against doing things and tell them
that they're gonna be punished by Allah if
they if they do this and that. Because
we can't even do that. The church tells
us, don't say anything negative at all unless
you want your church to be empty next
week. And
what? The the power of iman is still
there in this ummah. The barakah and the
faith of the prophet
radiAllahu anhu, and the oliyan, the uleman, and
the salateen. It's still there in this ummah
that we can still speak the haqq like
that. But the messenger of Allah sallallahu alaihi
wa sallam warned us that you're going to
follow the people who came before you, hands
breath by hands breath, to the point where
if they went into a lizard hole, you're
gonna go into the lizard hole just because
they did it. The sahaba radiallahu anhu asked,
do you mean the and the Rasool salallahu
alaihi wasallam asked rhetorically, who else do you
think I mean? So the point is is
what?
The point is is that you have to
follow in the footsteps of those
that that command and point a person to
the sunnah. Not to the latest research, not
to the newest fatwa that neither you nor
your forefathers before you have have, heard of,
not to that,
you know,
you know, making up fit that this week
I feel like this, last week I felt
like that. No. But those people who point
you to the path that's well trodden.
Sunnah of the Messenger of Allah sallallahu alaihi
wa sallam.
And
and they warn you against following the path
of shaitan. They're they're they're they're not afraid
of telling you when you're going down the
wrong path, that this is the wrong path
if you keep going down it. There there
are gonna be some severe and dire consequences.
This is part of your the the quality
of your iman. The those are the the
scholars that you ask when you ask rather
than, you know, googling something or rather than
googling something and find 20 results and then
following the one that makes you feel the
best about yourself because you're a special snowflake
that's so special. Or,
rather than,
following
the the the the the the imam
or the scholar or the sheikh or the
maulana that's gonna make you feel good about
yourself. This is something I've seen. It's a
sickness even amongst those people who want to
delude themselves into saying that they're following the
spiritual path, that they'll even take Be'a with
a
Why? Because they know this man says nothing
ever to any of his for their.
They know that this man will never correct
anything that they do and they think somehow
because the himself is a pious man who
prays and makes zikr and has on his
face that somehow by association you're gonna make
it into Jannah. And the fact of the
matter is if people made it into Jannah
by association, then Abu Jahl and Abu Lahab
would have been the Kutbul Aqtab and, the
wife of Firaoun
and would
have
because she was in Jannah, Firaoun would have
made it into Jannah with her and the
wife of Lut alayhis salam,
because her husband was a prophet, he would
have made it. But the fact of the
matter is no one can do your saluk
for you. Nobody can travel this path for
you. You have to travel it on your
own. So if you purposely picked a sheikh
because he doesn't say nothing to you ever
and never straightens you out, then know that
you've abused that sheikh and,
that you're not making any, progress, whatsoever and
it's your own fault. And don't try to
pin it on the sheikh afterward, on the
day of judgement or in any point in
this life when you realize you didn't benefit
at all.
So he finishes with this that a person
should not be happy
with themselves,
for themselves with that which the bankrupt people
who wasted their entire,
lives,
in not obeying Allah,
are happy with themselves for. A person says
I wanna be like Jordan. Jordan never took
the name of Allah and his rasul
Someone says I wanna be like Lebron. These
people, they they never spent their lives doing
these things, you know. I wanna be like,
you know, like the king of England. I
wanna be like the king of France. I
wanna be like, so and so fashion model.
I wanna be like, so and so, a
singer or pop, whatever, and I have their
posters up in my in my room and
I follow them on social media. And, you
know, I I coined them as a or
as an example of success in this life.
And, you know, when they're mentioned, I take
them seriously, and I pay money to see
them or hear them or or whatever,
or I associate with the people who do
those things.
Rather, this is something even our children should
know. There's a time in the Ummah even
our children knew that what that a person
is haram for them to be pleased for
themselves
with that which those bankrupt people who wasted
their entire lives,
not reading the Quran, not making of the
Quran, not serving the poor, not not not,
obeying,
Allah and his Rasul
not learning the sacred knowledge,
that that wasted their lives with those things,
and they come up with empty hands in
the day of judgment. To be pleased with
yourself with that which they were pleased with,
this is haram. And money is not gonna
you're not gonna buy a seat, you know,
at the stadium,
for Jannah that you get box seats if
you pay more money. It doesn't work that
way. The only currency, the only coin that
works on that day is is is good
deeds and the obedience of Allah and the
pleasure of Allah to Allah.
And it says haram for a person to
be pleased with themselves with those goals, with
those benchmarks. I don't know. I know a
lot of people are in corporate. You know,
because they have yearly evaluations where they literally
say, like, how much money in sales did
you do? How many conversions did you do?
You know, how much this this did you
bring? How many clients did you bring? How
many leads did you follow? Etcetera, etcetera.
And, the metrics,
the metrics, if the metrics don't include those
things which Allah and his are
pleased with,
then you've followed the wrong path.
Because those people who are bankrupt on the
day of judgment and have wasted their lives,
their years,
and their ages,
in other than the obedience of Allah most
high. Those people,
Akhdar, he says about them that, what grief
what grief such people, what grief when they
when they look upon their lives at that
moment,
how much grief will they have? How much
hasrah will they have?
How long how long will they weep and
how long will they cry on the day
of judgment
when they realized Allah gave them the potential
to have the best of, of of of
gifts, which is the wilayah and the friendship
of the one who created the heavens and
the earth from nothing. And they wasted it
on money or they wasted it in order
to please stupid people that are not worth
even worrying about and they wasted it on,
following those pleasures. Most of which are there's
a halal way of following them anyway, and
they wasted it on following them in the
Haram way, or they followed the halal pleasures
until it became a hijab between them and
the remembrance of Allah Ta'ala, and now they
show up with nothing.
Allah Ta'ala protect us from being the people
of Ithlas. Allah Ta'ala protect us from pee
being the people of bankruptcy. And Allah Ta'ala
give us something better that we should look
up to those people who have done good,
and we should look up to those people
who do good, and we should, look up
to the company of the people who do
good so that perhaps we can get infected
with their goodness as well. This is an
important message, not because people
necessarily didn't know all this stuff from before,
but because the black hand of Ba'til, of
falsehood,
has a complete death grip on the hearts
in in most of the year. And in
this Ramadan, by the barakah of fasting that
a person constricts shaitan out of their blood
vessels and kicks shaitan out of their body
and all that chains up shaitan and a
person constricts
and chains their through the constriction of fasting
and a person
decks stacks the deck of their heart with
the light of the Quran and dhikr and
prayer,
and because of the of
the
and the masajid, etcetera,
because of the
the struggle that people make in order to,
please Allah,
the light that comes into the heart, it
makes this grip loose, and a person can
wrestle and and escape from it, when they
hear these words.
Whereas during the rest of the year, the
heedlessness
is is it locks a person, it chains
a person up in the super max of
of of of
of of of of darkness.
So if a person hears this thing and
the toward
the the nur of Allah ta'ala and toward
the the fable of Allah ta'ala is strong
enough that they can shake it off, then
let them make their intention to shake it
off and let them try to,
you know, redirect their life for the better.
And, don't worry, you know, don't worry about
what's gonna happen tomorrow. If it's hard and
you fall off the horse, then you can
get up and get on it again.
The loser isn't the one who doesn't succeed
right away. The loser is the one who
gives up trying. Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala make
us amongst those who who die in this
struggle and make us amongst those who reach
the maqam that we seek. Allah subhanahu wa
ta'ala give us from his fable. It's difficult
except for for the one whom Allah makes
it easy.