Hamzah Wald Maqbul – Knowledge From A Higher Realm alKahf P2P 04012018
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Surah Al Kahf is a
Surah that it's a sunnah to read every
Friday
for the benefits of its regular recitation
that are transmitted from Rasulullah
Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam
are that the one who recites it, Allah
will protect them from fitna.
The word fitna can mean either a test
or tribulation, which is very difficult
in its
metaphorical meaning.
But its literal meaning is punishment.
Its literal meaning is punishment.
Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala says in this book,
Protect yourself
from such a punishment
that doesn't only
afflict
the wrongdoers
amongst you.
In this context, the meaning of a test
doesn't make any sense.
From the benefits of the recitation of surahsul
kaf on Fridays
is that a person will be protected from
the
greatest greatest of fitan,
which
is the
Masih Ad Dajab, the false
messiah, the false Christ, the antichrist,
which will come before the end of time.
And this Bayan is not the place
to discuss his fitna in great detail.
Suffice to say, Muhammad Ali and people who
are
more knowledgeable than myself and
more gifted and talented in delivery of the
material of content. You can find talks
from them online and they'll describe that fitna,
which is such a fitna that every Nabi
warned his people about.
It's also a sunnah to memorize the opening
ayat of
Surat Al Kahf and to recite them
daily
for the same set benefits.
And because of the
shortage of time and my inability to
deliver content in a concise
manner in a short amount of time.
Unfortunately, we will not be able to discuss
the entire tafsir of the Surah.
Suffice to say, the common theme there are
6 stories that come through the Surah Al
Qaif.
The common theme through all of them is
the emphasis by Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala
of the superiority
of
the spiritual world,
the moral and ethical world
over that of the physical world.
And we live amongst the people perhaps nobody
is more materialistic than they are.
And we live in a time that perhaps
no era or time was more materialistic
than this time.
And
it's something that is
not a surprise.
Allah says in his book
that the days of this world,
it's like we give everybody a turn
to see how they would have behaved.
To see how everybody would have behaved had
they had the chance to do whatever they
wanted to.
And right now,
the
upper hand and the ascendency and the hegemony
and suzerainty
over the over the the the happenings in
the world
are in the hands of a people
who said and maintained and still maintained that
Allah came in the form of a human
being, in the form of a material
body to this world,
and that that was something possible.
And we categorically deny this. This is,
something that it's very interesting. Right? Think about
think about Surat Gaf. There's 6 stories in
it, all of which the common theme is
the superiority of the spiritual world over the
material world. One of the opening verses Surat
Kahf
And to warn those people
that say Allah
has a son or took a son.
Meaning what?
The superlative
the superlative expression of materialism is what? Is
to take Allah to Adam who's
who's holy and sacred
reality transcends
not only the physical world, but even the
world, but even the world of understanding
of the created,
of the created beings, and to try to
force him drag him down into this material
world.
So it's no surprise that those people who
said Allah to Allah can be part of
the material world
have ushered in the most materialistic
civilization ever known to mankind.
They have ushered in a civilization which is
the most materialistic
world ever known to mankind.
They have literally made material things sacred. If
I were to get up and take a
$100 bill and rip it up in front
of you
people literally, their heart will stop.
Literally, their heart will stop. There's like an
electrical monitor. It will have a spiritual effect
on us.
Even though we claim that we're the ummah
of the Prophet But
what the the other and the effect of
being amongst those people, it's there on us.
So perhaps there is no people who are
more in need of it than us.
But again, because of this scarcity of time,
we won't be able to discuss all of
these stories.
But what I'll leave you with, if you
want to read a thematic treatment of the
Surat Al Kahf,
is that the shaykh of our mashaikh, Mawlana
Sayyid Abu Hasan
He wrote a a,
a small booklet.
I don't know exactly. I don't remember exactly
what the name of it is in English.
It's something like spirituality over materialism, something like
that.
The the the the explanation of Surat Al
Kahf.
And you can actually still find it in
print in in some places. And if not,
you can find the PDF online. Alhamdulillah, by
Allah to Allah Subhavala. I've met many people
who are connected with the students of of
of of Moana,
Abu Hassan Ali Naddui Radhiemullah.
And they're actually doing good work in trying
to
reprint and clean up the English and republish
and re
distribute
his, his many wonderful books
on a number of topics.
And there's actually even an app you can
download that you that allows you to actually
download his books. For those of you who
are able to read it in the original
language, the original Urdu, when a person writes
something,
the there's more than just words and information.
There's a spiritual,
state that's conveyed through a person's speech and
through their writing.
And that that spiritual state is diluted through
translation. Although sometimes the spirituality, the original text
is or the original language is so strong
that it will reach even through the translation
and affect you. But if you're able to
read it in the original language, then please
do so. And he wrote most of his
books, he wrote them both in Arabic and
in Urdu.
It's not that he sent the Arabic to
somebody else to be translated, although the English
is
is to my knowledge, it's all translations
from from people that they were done under
his,
under his supervision.
So go ahead and please get that book,
read it, and benefit yourself. If you're gonna
read the surah every week anyway, or you're
gonna read ayaat from the surah everyday anyway,
you may as well understand what you're
what you're reading.
To read the Ayat of the book of
Allah Ta'ala without understanding,
there's still great benefit in it. But it's
like somebody who set the table, but when
it's time to eat, they left. You already
went through the difficulty of setting the table,
you may as well enjoy it as well.
So out of the different stories of the
Surah Al Kahf,
the story that I wanted to talk about
in the brief amount of time that I
have, and I really do want to finish
on time because last yesterday's ban was really
long.
No, no. 7:15, let them go to dinner,
man. Why you gotta
browse it though? Right?
30. 7:30?
But but you're saying that they're not saying
that.
Anyway, so the idea is what?
Is that
there is a an incident that happens in
the life of Syed al Musa alaihi sallam.
Which is what?
After all of those things that we described
when we talked about you know, certain
themes from the Surah Al Qasas,
after they crossed the the sea and after
the army of Firaun and Haman, Wajamudu Huma
were
drowned in the ocean, Allah, ta'ala, protect us
from ever
being in love with them or wanting to
be like them or keeping their company or
ever becoming one of them. After all of
that,
at
some point, Sayyidina Musa alayhi wasalam will gather
at Baram Bisa'il,
and he will remind them about the favors
of Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala. In fact,
to to to remind them about
Allah
and about
all the things that they had gone through
together ever since they cast their lot in
with Allah
And they sought Allah Ta'ala's help and Allah
Ta'ala showed them his help.
And it was an amazing band to put
it in, you know, a thornketh language.
It was
awesome. Because he killed it. That's it. And
so one of the people one of the
people who heard, obviously, imagine,
that the ulema of the the ummah of
the prophet, sallallahu alaihi wasallam, there are some
people amongst them. Their speech has so much
spirituality and so much effect in it.
The, you know, all of us have sat
through a good band nowadays and like been
affected, but there are some people we don't
even know, we don't even know a tenth
of it. Right? Moana,
Sayed Aba'Allah Sha'buhari rahimuallahu ta'ala.
I heard this from one of my wife's
relatives who's not really, like,
rahamabhulaha, Allah have mercy on him, but he
wasn't like a hafiz or a alim or
him to all of this stuff. He's a
regular guy who prayed 5 times a day.
He said that he he once mentioned the
the name of the Sheikh. I said, how
do you know about him? What do you
know about him? He said, all I know
is that one time I was walking to
Karachi,
and,
there was a band going on in a
park. They do that. Right? Because so many
people come that you can't there's no building
that will accommodate everyone. So they set up
a stage in a park and they set
up microphones and so they start talking. Oftentimes
the microphone sound system is really poor quality,
it's hard to make out what's being said.
That he that he was speaking
and, I just stopped to see what's going
on. And since I was mesmerized, hours have
passed, I didn't realize the hours have passed.
It was very often that he would he
would he would start his ba'an after Isha,
and people would be surprised by the the
Adan of Fajr.
It had effect on people.
That's in the later times. That's just in
our the generations of our fathers and for
our grandfathers.
The the the the bands of Ibnul Josie
and
of Shabu Qadr Jelani
Those bands, they they had no mic system.
They actually used to have people who would
hear and repeat. They'd have repeaters who would
repeat the band basically. Like, you know, they
people repeat the they would repeat the entire
band. Despite that, those are bands in which
like a dozen janazes would leave the band.
A 100000 people, 10,000 people would listen to
it. It would have such an effect on
people. Literally, would leave the the the the
band that had such an effect on
people. And someone's like, I don't know if
I wanna go to that. Trust me. There's
a lot of khair in it as well.
The point is it was something that used
to touch people. Why? Because the people who
who gave them, they had something inside, and
it's not just the words that people take
from you.
There's something else from the hearts that that
pours out and that's more important than the
words. But because we're materialistic people, we think
it's just the word, it's not just the
words. There's a kefir and a state that's
transmitted from person to person. So imagine what
should the speech of a nabi be like.
A Nabi is someone just for him to
look at you, it changes your state forever.
What's the highest
of anyone in this in this ummah?
It's not being a Hafiz, it's not being
a Alem. You can memorize as many books
as you want to and become the biggest
Mufti and perform Hajj every year and do
like zikr the whole night, and like, you
know, tahajid the whole night, and all of
these things. There's there's a Maqam that you'll
never reach.
It's what the maqam suhbah. The person who
is a Sahabi, nobody will ever come close
to that. For the of the Prophet sallallahu
alaihi wa sallam after the Prophet
What did that involve? Just the Rasulullah
sees them,
and they see him or if they see
him.
So imagine if that's the power that's in
just one glance. Right? We talked about this
yesterday as well. That's it. Don't
don't don't waste your glance on the thing
that you're not supposed to.
Don't waste your I don't and sisters, you
know, your your beauty is is something that
is that other people look at as a
consumer good. So don't give it out for
free.
Right? But imagine that if the the the,
you know, we because we talk about in
a bad way. Right? Like, you know, like
like a Mullan Asaf has a ruler in
his hand and he wraps a young Muslim
or Muslim on the knuckles.
Haram, don't look at that. Right? There's more
than that.
That's what your eyes were not made for.
Imagine what your eyes were made for. That
there are certain people in this ummah
that they have in their glance such a
power that it will literally change a person's
life.
The Prophet salallahu alaihi wa sallam looked at
them and it changed their life. He looked
at his Mubarik,
face and it changed his life their life.
Just one time. It changed their dunya and
their afira.
And the Tabireen,
the Sahaba radiAllahu anhu for the barakah of
the another of the Prophet Sallallahu alaihi wa
sallam, they saw each other and it changed
their life.
That thing hasn't ended yet. It's still going.
It may not be as powerful as it
was back in those days.
And usually the person who claims that they
have this power is trying to like make
money, so stay away from them. But as
a as a theoretical,
as a theoretical matter, it's not like it's
done. It's not over yet. If it if
it when it happens, you'll know and you'll
experience it. So imagine what what it was
to look on Sayidamus
and he's looking on his people and he's
reminding them the
the state inside of the heart is generated
when he's reminding them of the favors of
Allah
So in this context,
somebody marvels
and ask Sayyidina Musa alaihis salam, he says,
Oh Musa, is there anybody in this world
who has more knowledge than you?
And Sayyidina Musa thought about the question
and he says, I don't know anybody in
this world who has more knowledge than me.
Now the Mufassirun,
the ulamaftafsir,
they say that,
this statement of his this answer was correct.
There was nobody that had more knowledge than
he did. But Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala because
he keeps always the ones that he loves,
he keeps moving them to a higher and
a higher state, a greater and greater understanding.
He wanted to
open a door to sayta Musa alaihis salam
to make even
open a door to even more knowledge to
him.
That wasn't going to be opened
in the state that he was at.
So he revealed to Sayyidina Musa alaihis salam
that there is a man who knows all
sorts of things that you don't know.
He knows all sorts of things that you
don't know. I want you to,
meet him where the where the the 2,
seas meet,
where you'll see the the
the the the river of life
and at that place, you know, go look
for that place and you will find him
over there.
And then you can learn something from him
that you didn't know from before.
And so, Sayyidina Musa alayhi salam, he takes
with him,
his his companion who
is Sayidam Usha Abin Moon alayhis salaam,
the biblical prophet Joshua.
By the way, as this like a small
side point, which is not small in its
importance,
at this point, he mentions
that,
Rasoolullah salallahu alaihi wa sallam said to say,
that
my
relationship to you
is like the relationship of Musa to Harun.
Meaning what? You're like my you're like my
right hand you're like my right hand man,
and you're like my family, you're my blood.
He's the closest
in
kinship to the messenger of Allah salallahu alaihi
wa sallam.
And so there is a there are heterodox
and deviant * that ascribe themselves to Islam
and say, look, this hadith is a proof
that
Ali should have been the Khalifa of the
prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam.
And at this point,
court to be points out, he says, who's
the khalifa of Sayidina Musa alaihis son? Was
it Sayidina Harun?
No. In fact, not only according to the
Torah but even according to Sahih Hadid, Sayidina
Harun Alaihi Salam dies before Sayidina Musa does.
So it's impossible for him to be have
been his khalifa. Who is the khalifa of
the of Sayid Musa alaihis salam? Who is
the one who took the Imara, the leadership
of
after Sayidina Musa Alaihi Salam passes from the
world. It's Yusha Bin Noon.
It's the the prophet Joshua Alaihi Salam
that that if the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa
sallam by the statement was trying to say
that you were going to be my Khalifa,
then he would have said that your relationship
to me is like that of Yusha bin
Noon. So the Quran doesn't give the name
explicitly, but it's
He said that, I will keep seeking this
knowledge.
I will not slacken, and I will not
weaken, and I will not give up in,
seeking this knowledge until until either either we,
find the place where the 2 oceans meet,
or the 2 seas meet,
or I spend a lifetime looking for it.
Right?
Alright?
It's like so many dozens of years that
it's like the length of a lifetime that
a person spent in order to seek knowledge,
which is a really good lesson for all
of us when we're seeking knowledge.
If your karisaab is mean to you,
right?
Be patient.
Everybody kasses out their karisaab under their breath,
when they're doing hifs.
And trust me, you also frustrate Qariasab a
lot too, you just you don't understand.
But once a person does their hifs and
they're done, everyone's like, oh my father is
a great wali of Allah, he was like
an angel and he's this and that, and
like they make du'a for when he's dead.
As if like
the old the, you know, cussing him out
and like being a jerk at him while
he was teaching you, like as if it
never happened. Right?
So if it's difficult, it's difficult. Sometimes it's
difficult to learn knowledge. No one's gonna pay
you to learn about the Quran and sunnah
of the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam. They
will pay you to be a doctor. They
will pay you to be a lawyer. Heck,
they'll pay you to learn how to drive
a, you know, a taxi cab or fix
like garbage trucks.
Nobody will pay you for for for seeking
knowledge of the deen in general.
So it's difficult.
Nobody will pay your teacher in order to
teach teach you, which means getting time out
of them is very difficult.
The ulema in the past used to travel
from one country to the other for very
simple things, for one hadith or for a
small number of ahadith.
If, Sahnoon,
one of the,
the canonical
authorities of the Maliki Madham,
he traveled from Tunis
going to Madinah in order to meet Malik,
only to reach
Egypt and hear the news that Malik had
passed away,
But he didn't give up. What did he
do? He went and found Malik's students
and he learned more about the fata' of
Malik from Malik's students than many of the
people who actually went and sat with Malik
himself.
So
is like this he had he wrote a
book, basically of, like, the fift of Imam
Malik
just today to this day and authority of
of that topic. Perhaps he wouldn't have been
able to,
do so even if he met Malik in
person, he wouldn't have been able to get
all that information out of him, what he
got from his different students. The point is
is what?
The
are not just theirs that you can say
their name and it's like a good luck
charm for you.
They're there so that you can try your
best in order to emulate their
example.
So, Sayidina Musa alaihis salam,
he says, I'm gonna I'm gonna spend my
whole if you don't even have to I
have to spend my whole lifetime
looking for this person that Allah subhanahu wa
ta'ala said that that if I, you know,
find him where the where the the water
of life is, I'll spend my whole life
in order to
to to catch up with him. And so
what happens, they're going and they're going and
they're going and, like, it's just been a
really long time,
and, you know,
frustration is starting to kinda come in a
little bit.
Not not I shouldn't say frustration, but the
difficulty of the journey is starting to,
starting to
be felt.
And what happens is in that
setting,
Sayyidina Yusha bin Noon mentions to Sayyidina Musa
alaihis salam that a couple of day I
wanted to mention something to you a couple
of days ago,
that happened while you were sleeping.
But then I I just kind of forgot,
and now I just remembered again.
The Shaytan made me forget.
And so what is that? Said that there
was some piece of fish that that we
have, like,
you can dry fish and take it with
you.
People from West Africa, they they enjoy that,
like Senegal and things like that. You go
to their stores to the day, you get
these, like, dried fish. I don't people from
other places probably do that as well. So
it it was that, there's this,
there's a piece of fish
that we had in our provisions.
And so we passed by a certain stream,
and
a little bit of the water from the
stream, like,
came at a at a higher at a
higher speed, and it kinda spritzed over and
and test the fish. And the fish came
alive and it flipped over and just jumped
into the water and swam off. It took
off. And so,
And so Sayyidina Musa is like, that's what
we were looking for. We already passed it.
Where is it? Let's go back.
So they go back and they find this
person. Right? This person is not named in
the Quran, but the name that that that
is transmitted regarding this person is what is?
Khidr alaihis salam.
So the difference of opinion, is he a
nabi, is he not a nabi,
what is who is he, what is he?
There's like that's like a lot of tahdig
we don't have time to get into right
now, But he's a very amazing person. One
of the reasons they say his name is
Khidr because,
as in the Arabic language, it means green.
So he's where the river of life he
used to be found where the river of
life is. And it said that literally every
place where he stepped, like plants and living
things would grow from that place. That Allah
put some sort of special type of barakah
in in this person.
And so the prophet
the prophet Musa alaihis salam, he met him.
They went back, they backtrack, and they backtrack,
and they they they met with one another.
And so he introduced himself,
Musa alaihi sal introduced himself,
and he said that,
he asked and he made the request with
great humility that can you teach me,
some of the knowledge that Allah
gave you.
And Allah
describes this Hidr alaihis salam that
This is a very interesting sentence, not like
a normal way of describing things.
Allah ta'ala said with regard to the sunnah
Khidr alaihis salam,
that we taught him Allah ta'ala said, we
taught him
some knowledge from the knowledge that we have
with us.
Now obviously, Allah ta'ala has all knowledge.
But to ulama, they mentioned that this expression
has a special meaning.
Which is what? That there is a certain
type of ilm which is what they call
kasbih. A certain type of ilm, that if
you observe the world around you, or if
you learn, or if you experiment, or if
you you know, try to figure stuff out,
you'll learn it.
And it's really amazing the amount of knowledge
that people learn from
observing the world around them and using their
rational faculty that Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala gave
us. So through that, there are a lot
of things that people have learned. I contend,
in fact, that we overestimate how much knowledge
that we that we got that we learned
through what?
That we learned through,
looking and observing looking at and observing the
world around us. You know the brain that
a human being has is is similar to
a brain that that a chimpanzee has or
a gorilla has.
It's similar perhaps even inferior in some ways
to the brain that it that a dolphin
has.
There are certain knowledges Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala
gave human beings from Jannah.
That if we didn't receive those things, we
wouldn't have been who we are. And there's
certain other gifts Allah gave us that wouldn't
that if we didn't receive those gifts, we
wouldn't been we wouldn't have been able to
be who we are. We would have been
stuck like one of the animals.
What are those things? Like, it's mentioned that
the the ajwad,
the the date palm
is a gift from Jannah. It's not from
this world or the olive tree or,
the. Right? Goats and sheep and, camels and
things like that. Are there camels? There were
camels before, but they were you couldn't domesticate
them or ride them. The only place in
the the world that before before 4000 years
ago that that the camels were actually docile
enough that you can ride them as well,
is Arabian Peninsula.
There's so many things. I contend that these
are actually gifts from Jannah. They're not they're
not part of the regular system. The regular
system is there as well, but they're not
part of the regular system. What else?
The fact that we have language that we
can speak with one another.
The angels
speak language
and we speak language. Where did we learn
that from? Where did Sayna Adam alaihis salam
learned that from?
It's not like we made that up because
the other animals have brains like we do,
but they're not able to make that up.
We can teach you can teach a gorilla
sign language.
You teach dolphins to even mimic human speech,
but it's not like they were able to
figure that out on their own. And I
think we're it's our own arrogance we thought
we generally assume we figured these things out
on our own. What is it? Clothing.
Right? Other animals, maybe the only other animal
I can think of that wear something like
clothing is like a snail.
Because the turtle, the shell is part of
its body. A snail, it's the shell is
actually something that's
that's like external to it somehow that it
can, like, weave out of. But even that's
like biologically generated by it.
It's very interesting because there's this discussion regarding
clothing. So there'll be one person who's like,
oh, you gotta wear shawarma's all the time,
otherwise you're a horrible Muslim. And the other
person is like, no, it's sunnah to wear
a suit. I was like, look dude, you
guys need both calm down, right? It's not
sunnah to wear a suit, otherwise the prophet
would have said, No Rasulullah
wore what the Arabs wore at his time.
I'd say that's like a convincing argument for
someone who's never read hadith before.
Otherwise, Rasulullah
his dress was very different than that of
the Arabs.
Why? Rasulullah
used to wear white and used to prefer
wearing white. The Arabs didn't used to prefer
wearing white. Imagine when you're forget about the
desert, when you're sitting in Pakistan for like
an afternoon, if you're wearing white clothes, they
become dirty sitting inside the house because of
the amount of dust that's there. So imagine
if you actually live in the desert, how
difficult it is to wear white clothes and
just keep them clean.
Only person who can wear white clothes in
such a such a context is someone who's
immaculate, keeps themselves clean all the time, you
have to constantly be washing the clothes, cleaning
the clothes
constantly for the stain comes on, you have
to go to the bathroom, wash it out
by hand. You can't just, you know, wait
for it to throw it into the washing
machine. You won't get by 2 hours that
way without the clothes being dirty. What else?
The prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam, he said
that,
go against the the the yahud and the
nasaa
that either wear a hat or they wear
a turban, wear both of them at the
same time.
The prophet
used to wear the the hem of his
his,
lower garment, his iazar.
Right? He never he never wore
He never wore sirwal pants. He always wore
in zar,
like, you know, like you wear in Hajj
and things like that. Not to say that
wearing sirwal is haram. A number of the
sahabah radiAllahu on whom used to wear it.
Said Nali radiAllahu on whom it's known about
him that there he said there are 2
habits of the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam
in appearance that that I
left. 1 was that he used to wear
an ezar, he used to wear a waist
wrap,
and I started wearing sirwal.
And the second is that he used to
keep long hair, sallallahu alaihi wa sallam. His
hair used to be to to somewhere between
the the the the meat of his earlobes,
to his,
shoulders.
And he said that I shave my head.
And he said that both of them I
only did them because I I I find
ease when go in jihad in these two
things. So out of that, I take the
dispensation of that. Right?
So at any rate, we wear clothes
and so people make this other argument, you
know, like what, you know, what is, you
know, do you have to dress like a
foreigner or do you have to, you know,
wear some ties if you're like going to
a Goldman Sachs meeting all the time.
And the haptiqa is that there's a lot
of flexibility in it, people shouldn't be dogmatic
about these things.
But people look at these these discussions in
the
in the context of negativity.
I say, look at these discussions in the
context of being positive.
If the
prophet said,
that the person who
goes out of their way in order to
resemble a people. Not that they happen to
resemble a people, but they go out of
their way to resemble a people. The shabuhi
is that to go out of your way
too. For those of you who read Sarf,
is wonderful. Read Sarf.
Brought message brought to you by Sarf. Right?
The person who goes out of their way
like to dress like a certain people, Allah
will count them as if he's one of
those people. So people think like, oh don't
dress like a kafir, dude you grew up
in Thorncliffe man, it's just what's there at
the mall.
It's not like you have tailors, you know,
and things like that, you guys at least
because there's so many Muslims here, you have
shops that you can buy other clothing from.
When I grew up, like, where am I
gonna get a shovel of Arcanys from? I
lived in Blaine, Washington. It's like a town
of 3,000 people,
you know, in kind of rural west coast
of the United States of America. It was
such a remote place, I actually used to
cross the border to go to Canada in
order to attend the Jum'ah Utbah.
The Imam of the Masjid that I was
there, he's now he's in Ottawa, his name
is Imam Ziyad Delich, he's a really amazing
guy, if you ever can go check him
out, he's the Imam in some Masjid in
Ottawa. Mashallah, he used to cross the border
in order to go and hear the Jumah
Fultbah, right? So the idea is this, right?
Some people just wear what they wear because
that's just what they got, right? So people
are like, oh don't dress like a kafar
or whatever. I think that's a little bit
of a misunderstanding
of the hadith.
But don't look at it negatively, look at
it positively.
If the person goes out of their way
to resemble a people and then Allah will
count them amongst them, then imagine the person
who goes out of his way to resemble
the ulama. Imagine the person who goes out
of his way to resemble the saliheen. Imagine
the person who goes out of his way
to resemble the sahaba radiAllahu on whom. Imagine
the person who goes out of his way
to resemble the Prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam
that there's hate in it. It may not
be far, but there's good in it. You
know, so don't don't don't ever forget that
or lose sight of that. Now why am
I saying this?
Where did that knowledge come to human beings
from?
From what? From a realm other than this
realm.
And I've had people actually look at me
and say, why you wear the turban, you're
dressing like a sick or whatever. First of
all, they learned it from us.
They learned it from They didn't know they
didn't know the Indian subcontinent, they used to
like Gandhi, he didn't used to wear even
clothes.
Right? It's hot, it's humid.
This dress, they picked up from us. So
you'll see the most like accurate like anti
muslim politicians and things like that. If they
came to the masjid and the clothes that
they're in, no one would wouldn't even know
that they're not muslims.
Doesn't it comes to somebody who says about
the turban, what's why? Why you wear the
turban all the time? It's not far, it's
not even a sunnah. Many of our ulema
don't wear it either, right? There's nothing wrong
with it. As an aati that because the
prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam were it, we
should honor it in whatever respect it. But
what's my point and how is it tied
to what we're talking about Surat Al Kahf?
The point is this, is that doesn't it
come in the hadith of the Prophet sallallahu
alaihi wa sallam
that on the day of Badr,
on the day of the battle of Badr,
the sahabah
amongst them there were those who saw the
angels
riding on horses whose hoofs didn't touch the
ground,
wearing yellow turbans.
This is a very high nizbah that we
have. This is what this is from the
angelic
adab of a human being. The adab of
the angels that there's a certain type of
class and a certain type of barakah and
a certain type of nur in these things.
Right? So what I'm trying to say is
there are certain
that we assume that are,
are certain uloom that we assume that are
from the uloom kasbiyyah, the uloom that we
just learned from
our own experiences,
and our own
understandings and our own observation regarding the world
around us. And this is from our great,
our great lack of sugar for Allah
That we don't know that these things were
also gifted to us. And we don't appreciate
him for them, and we don't thank him
for them.
So the idea is this, look, the whole
knowledge
Al Al Al Kasbi is one thing and
then that Al Malwabi is the other. The
Al Wabi is opposed to is
the thing that you investigate the world around
you and think about, and you can earn
it through your work.
Then means what in Arabic?
Alright. Allah Ta'ala
is Right? He's the one who's constantly bestowing
gifts.
Right? So the Alilmul Wahbi is that knowledge
which is gifted to mankind from Allah subhanahu
wa ta'ala, there's no way you could have
figured it out on your own.
And another another word that describes a knowledge
similar to that is
that we gave him a knowledge from from
with us.
So that
is something that Saidna Musa alaihi salam,
Allah ta'ala wanted to show him
that all of your knowledge, all of your
intelligence, all of those things are wonderful, and
they'll all be necessary in order for you
to prosecute the the hookm of Allah Ta'ala
in order to,
establish Banu Israel in the land and in
order to guide people to the path of
righteousness
in order to bring order into the world.
However,
this is what it's like imagine. Right?
The front
chamber
where the shoe rack is,
that's like
the the knowledge that you get from your
your own inter your own, experience, and from
your own investigation, and your own thought and
reflection.
If you enter in from there, there's the
whole rest of the masjid.
And this analogy is, in fact, not apt
because it's like perhaps comparing the
the the the shuraq to the entire holy
rest of the universe.
That the knowledge that's there with Allah, Ta'ala,
you would never be able to touch if
you didn't.
If you'd if you'd,
if you would never be able to touch
even if you tried through your reflection and
study and things like that,
that knowledge you would
that knowledge is much more expansive and it's
greater than what the knowledge you have just
in this, like, small area that you know.
So this dunya, the knowledge the the analogy
of this dunya when compared to
the rest of creation
is what? It's like the analogy of what
experience the baby has inside the womb,
which that's the baby's whole life. And there's
undoubtedly a lot of things going on there.
There's an umbilical cord and there's stuff coming
in and there's stuff going out and the
mother speaks sometimes. The baby hears it and
knows this is my mama and then the
father speaks and he can hear faint voice
from outside and know that this is somebody
else I know. Maybe the baby when it's
born and hears the father for the first
time through its ears, it will know that,
like, I remember that was there's a lot
going on there, but it's not a lot
because the whole world is like so huge
in the womb in such a small place.
Just like that when you die,
this whole dunya will feel like you were
in the womb, and then you'll see all
of this other reality.
And just like that, when you're resurrected,
and will start, even the the barzakh that
you were in when you were dead will
seem like nothing.
And just like that, the one who enters
Jahannam, the
will seem like nothing. The one who enters
will seem like nothing to them.
The creation of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala is
far greater than what people people know.
So Allah Ta'ala was trying to teach Sayidayn
Musa Alaihi Salam,
and he taught our prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam,
and through the
and through revelation, he teaches the people of
this ummah that there is a higher realm
of knowledge,
and there are adab that you have to
follow in order to access it.
There are what?
That you have to follow in order to
access it.
So what happens is, Sayidamus Musa alayhis salam
Can I,
follow you so that you can teach me
from the guidance that you were taught by
Allah
That you are not going to be able
to be patient with me? Okay?
Your whole mind is geared in order to
understand the world based on the
How are you going to be able to
be patient with things you're gonna see that
are gonna make no sense to you whatsoever?
And so, Sayyidina Musa
You will that, inshallah, you'll find me patient
with you, and you'll find that I'm not
going to disobey you.
Why? Because he wanted to learn the knowledge
from him.
From the river.
Okay? And so what happens, the ferryman sees
that these are 2 righteous individuals.
If you don't waste because we're talking about
what are you supposed to do with your
nazar. The nazar wasn't meant to like, you
know, look at the aura of like non
mahram women on your phone.
Your your nazar wasn't there so that you
could look someone else's like nice car and
be like, oh, I wish I had a
car like they had cars just like Banu
Sultan, looked at the
something else. So your nazar, your glance, your
gaze, you can tell a lot through it.
You can affect a lot through it.
So this ferry man, he sees these 2
people and he knows immediately these are pious
and righteous people. These are spiritual people. They're
not just like a regular Joe Schmo. He
says, you know what? Why don't you ride
on the ferry? You can ride for
free.
So the 2 of them are on the
ferry crossing the river and in the middle
of the in the middle of the ride,
Fidr alaihi salam, he
he just makes a gesture with his finger.
And and say the Musa sees that the
gesture that he makes with his finger causes
a hole
to, enter into the ship and the ship
starts to sink, and they just walk off
and leave. Say the Musa says, why did
you do that? Like, a, how did you
do that? B, why did you do that?
He gave I mean, he was a nice
guy. He gave us a ride for free
and now like you sank his ship. So
didn't I tell you that you're not going
to be able to be patient?
He says, He says that don't he said,
please don't take me to task because I
forgot.
I forgot our agreement from before and don't
don't please don't make you know, don't give
me difficulty, I'm just trying to learn basically.
Right? So the next they keep moving, they
keep going, so they see like a nice,
a cute little kid comes by and said,
he makes a gesture with his finger
and the child is immediately decapitated. The head's
head separates and he falls down.
How
did you kill this child?
And,
said, you don't you remember our, our agreement?
Now look,
if, you know, if you find, like, some
pious guy and he, like, decapitates a kid,
please for God's sake, call RCMP right away.
Why? Because this is a very non standard
experience that's happening to a nabi. This is
not this is not, you know, like it's
one of it's definitely one of those kids
don't try this at home type of thing.
Right? There's things that happened to the mbeah,
they don't happen to us. Sayna Ibrahim
commanded him to sacrifice his son. If you
see a dream by all means, I'm telling
you from right now, the dream needs something
else. Go to like go to one of
the malaasabs and he'll tell you what it
means, it doesn't mean you have to kill
your son, you know. And if my father
sees the dream, definitely means it doesn't mean
that you have to kill your son. So
just remember that if my father if you're
listening. Right?
And Sayidina Musa alayhi that that that, I
didn't I tell you that you're not gonna
be able to be patient with me? And
Sayidina Musa alayhi salam says to him something
He says,
I'm sorry
if I ask you about one more thing,
then
you can leave me.
Because truly even I recognize that that I
run out of excuses.
Now,
there's a tafir
that one of the
gave. And he wasn't that one of the
ulama, he's kind of one of the
of Abu Madi and Al Zoth. He's from
Andalusia. He's a very great,
a very great,
person from the Saliqeen in the history of
the Muslims, and he has very fine asha'ar
and poetry. If you can go look up
Abu Madyan,
his his Arabic, they're they're really awesome. And
he he made a lot of comments like
very insightful comments for being a person who
was unable to read and write.
And so he he commented about this. He
goes, Look at what the Maqam of salam
Musa was. This verse is dalil that the
maqam of Allah ta'ala said, Musa is higher
than that of Sayyidina Firdir.
Why?
Because Musa said, if I do if I
ask you one more thing,
then leave me.
And what does what happens? Sin al Fiddler
will ask him another thing, and Sin al
Fiddler will oblige him. He won't he will
literally stick to exactly what he said,
he will follow, he will obey his commandments.
That's how much adabihabit Sayyidina Musa
It's a very subtle point, and I think
it's lost on a lot of people. Right?
That the law of the sharia itself is
wabi, Allah revealed it to the Prophet
And so when we talk about some people
get fascinated because the the nafs likes to
fixate on the exception and not on the
rule. So like, praying 5 times a day
is boring, but, like, weird, like,
you know, like, oh, like, green stuff grows
out of the ground where he steps and
he went like this and the whole ship
sank and whatever. People, like, they wanna fixate
on that. They don't wanna, like, pray,
you you know, or Jama'ah or whatever.
Despite the fact that even the salaf al
Asar that came to us, it came through
wahbi means.
So Sayyidina Musa alayhi wasalam was had a
rank higher than that of Sayyidina Khidr, this
is this
Abu Madiyan al Ghoth, he took the
the
the this verse is Dalil, that Sayyidina Khidr
will obey his command. He
said
that
if
Don't take my keep my
companionship if I ask you about anything else.
So they keep going,
and then they stop at a place where,
you know, you know, you can't just there's
not like a chunky chicken and you Kandahar
kebab house like every place you go to
eat in the ancient world.
There's no demi shimi that you can go
and like grab a coffee or whatever.
When you go to a place,
you have to depend on the hospitality of
the locals.
Why? If they don't give you any hospitality,
you don't have anything because these types of
business
don't exist in that time. And so what
happens is that,
they go to a place and they ask
them, can we stay the night with you?
And the people refused, they stone cold refused.
And so
Nadal, great, what are we gonna do now?
So when they're on their way out, there's
a wall that's crumbling.
Right? And said the Musa alaihi salam are
understandably upset that these people I mean, generally
people used to extend those courtesies to one
another. The sunnah Khidr alaihi sama makes ishaha,
he he gestures with his finger and that
wall that's crumbling it it becomes upright again.
So Sayidina Musa, Alaihi Salam, says to him,
he says, man, these guys didn't even let
us stay here and you're repairing their buildings.
We should at least charge them for that.
This this is where we part company.
So,
But before I leave,
I will explain to you those things that
you didn't understand that I didn't.
He said, As for the ship
that was sank,
the king
was
going to,
conscribe,
you know, what a conscript is? It's when
they when they force regular people to join
the army. The king was going
to conscribe
that ship,
and this poor man, this is the only
means of livelihood that he had, He was
a good man. Oh, I love this man.
Imagine he's just sees say the Muslim said
there and gives him a free ride. So,
you know, he's a good person. Allah loves
this person. So when the king's,
lackeys and and and and henchmen come to
take the ships
to put in the service of the navy,
they'll see that it's it's,
not functional.
And he'll be able to repair it really
easily afterward and he'll still be able to
go on making his livelihood.
This is an important point. We a lot
of times we make weird plans and Allah
knows better.
And when our own plans get,
get get scuttled, we get really upset.
And, the fact of the matter is is
that
Allah's plans for us are better than our
own plans for ourselves.
And our entire
the Uliya and Salihim, they're beautiful people. They
show us like how a person what their
adab should be with
Allah. Like, for example, I don't know if
anyone here from Pakistan. If you remember, I
think, like, 2006,
2005, there's a the Fokker prop plane that
PIA used to use, a propeller plane. There's
a flight from Multan, I think from Multan
to Karachi, and it crashed.
And so what happened was there was a
a a a brother who
who was supposed to take that, was supposed
to take that flight. Don't tell me, like,
7:30 and then make a shot off for
5 minutes, man. Come on, man. Look at
this guy. He's he's messing with me now.
Right? So that that prop plane, this person
comes to the comes to the, the counter
and he's late. He gets, like, gets there
15 minutes before the flight's supposed take off
and he's arguing arguing, they're saying, no, we're
not gonna let you on, no, you let
me on, and they're yelling and screaming. So
what happens is that,
the the person behind the desk, he says,
look. The plane is taking off right now.
Go watch it take off, and, then you
can ask me to check you into the
plane afterward.
So
he's just really upset and goes outside, and
he literally sees the plane might take off,
sputter,
boom, done, crashed, everyone died in everyone died
in that that flight. And he just broke
down and started crying.
Why?
Because the choice of Allah ta'ala for us
is better than our choice for ourselves.
Maybe for the people who died in the
plane, that was also better as well. We
don't know Allah ta'ala knows. This is a
very small example from our time because we're
small people.
The examples from the history of Islam are
like are amazing.
So, in the Kasr al Mahjub,
there's a story written about one of the
Masai. His name is Muhammad Khair and Asaj.
His name was Muhammad.
And so he was a very he was
like one of the salihim.
He wanted to go from Baghdad to go
to Hajj.
So
they used to prepare for the Hajj and,
you know, nowadays what when we go for
Hajj, our preparations like, what hotel are you
staying at? I'm gonna buy this. I'm gonna
buy that. I'm gonna go shopping in this
place. That They didn't used to do Hajj
like that. This is like I don't wanna
say it's not a Hajj, but it's not
a Hajj when you compare it to the
Hajj of
our elders in Masha'i.
So what happens is that, when he gets
to Basra, which is the next city on
the route to
on the caravan to Hajj for Hajj, he's
in the markets of Basra and a man
brings a police officer, and he's he points
to him and says, this is my slave.
His name is Khair. He ran away from
me. And the police officers, they arrest him
and they bring him,
in captivity to this man who essentially lied,
enslaved him by,
by crook and lied that this person was
a slave, he's not a slave.
And so what happened is he said, I
thought,
you know, I went out of the path
of Allah Ta'ala and this is Allah Ta'ala's
choice for me so I'm not gonna fight
it. We'll see maybe there's some some good
in this. So he served that man for
4 years.
And then one day after 4 years, he
comes to him crying. He says, you know
that I was lying, and that you're not
my slave, and that,
that that I cheated
you. Even but despite that you served me
This is again one of those stories you
don't try to set at home. If someone
tries to enslave you, you'd be like, *
no man, like, I'm out of here. Right?
But like you know, those people they they
they were big people so these types of
things work out for them. Right? So he
says he says
he says this man comes to him crying
and says, I cheated you, and you took
such good care of me. You treated me
with so much love that you never that
you never, sacking in my service to the
point where you you you served me with
love. And he says, please forgive me, I'm
sorry.
And, and so he forgave him and then
he went on to Hajj, you know he
went on to complete his Hajj. Later on
when he would introduce himself to people,
he would introduce himself as Khair, my name
is Khair, even though that
was his like his slave name, right?
And people would say, Why do you introduce
yourself as Khayr? That's not even your name,
that was like the fake name this guy
claimed that you had. He said what? He
says because the name that Allah gave me
is more beloved to me than the name
my mother gave me.
Again, don't try it at home but the
idea is what?
Is that that there are certain things that
happen,
and Allah
promised you that it's good for you and
you don't understand how. When you think of
what happened, nobody's like happy that their plane
crashed, or that they missed a flight or
that, like, you know, someone enslaved them or
nobody I got into a car accident, I
got sick, my dog died, what no. Nobody's
gonna be happy about that. When you think
about the thing, that's normal. Right? You're a
human being, and you kinda should be sad
about these things. If you're like a normal
human being, not some sort of like mentally
drained person. Right?
When you think about that thing, you should
be sad. But when you think about the
one who made the decision,
then it should give you some happiness that
this is what my rafter
chose for me,
and he chose better for me.
So the second story what? He says that
that child that that that that was killed,
so that his parents were pious people, and
he would have grown up and and and
been a renegade from his parents, and he
would have
caused them grief, and he would have caused
them takleef, and he would have died on
kufr,
and
in deviance.
So we took his life now so that
he would be forgiven and would and Allah
that would give them another child that's more
appropriate for them.
Imagine that there's a hadith of the prophet
salallahu alaihi wa sallam. If anyone has lost
a child, I don't I couldn't even fathom
what it's like.
But look at the the the deen of
Allah ta'ala
that, there's a hadith of the prophet sallallahu
alaihi wa sallam that the angels,
someone's child dies, Allah asked the angels,
you know, did he complain about me? They
say, no. What did he do when he
when he when he got the news that
his child died?
He he said he he he praised you,
you Allah,
and he said,
we belong to Allah and to him do
we return.
And he was he used he he praised
you. And so
Allah will tell the the angels,
build for for my slave a house in
Jannah,
and call it the Baytul Hamd, the house
of praise.
Imagine that that this world is a place
that that we put so much hope in,
even though we know it's all gonna end.
And this world we put so much hope
in it, even though we know this is
the place of death, this is the place
of disappointment,
this is the place of being separated from
the one that you love, This is the
place of getting into fights and and disputes
with people. This is the place of hearing
bad news, and seeing bad things happen.
That's the place of what? Of of love,
and that's the place of being together with
the ones that you love, and that's a
place of happiness, and that's a place where
no one ever is sick, no one ever
dies,
and it lasts forever and ever.
So,
imagine when a person enters into that daughter,
are they going to worry about what happened
in this world anymore? Absolutely not.
But there are some people, if something small
have forget about losing a child, something small
happens to them, it's, why me? I'm a
Muslim, I pray 5 times a year.
Like as if you're, you know, like Allah
is your, like, you know, like you He
owes you something. He doesn't owe anybody anything.
He doesn't owe his prophets. Why would he
owe you and me? Rasulullah, salallahu alaihi wa
sallam says, nobody will enter Jannah except for
through Allah's mercy. He said, even you, you
Rasulullah. He said, even me. If we were
to say that about the Prophet sallallahu alaihi
wa sallam, it would have been disrespect.
But he said it why? In order to
convey a meaning from the meanings of revelation
that need to be conveyed to us.
So the third story is what about that
wall.
And so
he said about that wall that it belonged
to 2
orphan children,
he hid their,
inheritance underneath it because you can't just go
and put it in the bank. It's like
the law of the jungle. Right?
I have a friend, Mashalom Gudrati public here.
I have a Memen friend, so it's kinda
like, you know, birds of a feather fucking
together. So he said that he said that
if I have
5,000 doll if I have,
$5,000
or So no. What he's saying is, if
I owe you $500, that's my problem. If
I owe you
$5,000,000,000 that's your problem.
Why? Because you have all this money, what
are you gonna do with it? How are
you gonna defend it? What are you, how
are you gonna manage all of it? Right?
And so they have this this this, inheritance,
and they're young, they can't defend it yet,
and so their father hid it underneath that
wall, and it was crumbling.
And the mufassilin say that when it says,
that their father was
a righteous man. It's not the father who
left the inheritance for them. He was just
a normal dude.
He was probably a good person, but just
a more regular person. That person for whose
sake Allah protected those children was their 7th
lineal ancestor.
Fathers, fathers, fathers, fathers, fathers, fathers, father.
Don't think that you ever do anything good
for the sake of Allah and He's going
to forget it. That good deed will last
forever. Imagine,
right? Everything in this universe has some purpose.
There may be a family, the lineage of
which is kufr for a 100 generations.
Only one person in that entire family was
born an iman, that person is the reason
all those other people exist.
Just one person saying,
1 person saying, Allah Allah is the reason
that the entire universe exists, and this is
our belief that once that leaves from this
world, the will start because there's no point
in this universe existing anymore.
So these are Laduni lessons that that were
taught to say to Musa alayhi salam, and
this opened the door to that world. Now
tell me something.
Imam Bukhari
his book was accepted
from the Ummah, and everybody knows who Buhari
is. Everyone reads his book. He's getting,
you know, to this day.
Right? Literally different groups of Muslims fight with
each other,
about matters of deen, and each of them
brings the proof from Bukhari.
They can't agree on anything, but they can
agree on Bukhari.
Right? This is tawhid from Allah
Now when Bukhari
it's well known that when he would
enter
a a hadith into his book, after all
of the academic y stuff and all the
research and all of the refinement and, you
know, debating whether to include the hadith or
not, what would he do? He would read
2 rakahs and ask Allah ta'ala for his
help.
Now what was he doing there? Is it
just because he's like a movie and he
likes reading namaz?
What is it? There are stories like this.
Right? Shah Abdul Qadr, he wrote the first
of sorry, translation of the Quran in Urdu,
and it took him 7 years to write
it. And he was in the atika for
the entire 7 years fasting by day and
praying by night. And in a state of
fasting, he wrote that he he wrote what
he wrote.
What is that?
Right? Literally people, Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala, would
give Sayna Umar
and for some reason, if somebody tells the
miracles of any of the masha'iks, everyone is
like, Sheikh Kufr, these are just fake stories,
but you tell us miracles to Sayyidina Umar,
everyone's like, awesome. Yeah. You know? Sayyidina Umar
radhiallahu Muhammad literally, he one day he was
giving the Jumah Sotba
and he turned to he turned to the,
he turned to the northeast
and he says,
So Saria is a commander and he has
a detachment of Sahaba radiyaahu anhu, and they're
about to get ambushed,
by the by by the Persians. And Sayyidina
Umar radiyaahu anhu, Allah ta'ala,
you know,
he brought his attention to this ambush, and
through miraculous and supernatural means, he got that
information, and through miraculous and super supernatural means,
he conveyed it to Saudi and his army
And then they returned to Madinah, and they
said, we heard you and we avoided the
ambush. We found that your warning was true.
Now someone might say, oh, these are just
tall tales. You know, all your bearded people
make this stuff up. Let me tell you
something. You know what we didn't make up?
The Muslims actually crushed the Persian Empire. They
trampled it underneath their feet. It never made
a comeback. Never.
It was gone.
From that time until now, the Persian Empire
was such a powerful world empire,
just some years before that they completely handed
the Roman empire there's something on a plate.
Not just once, for centuries they used to
do that. If you remember from your history,
right? The triumvirate Julius Caesar Pompey,
and the Roman general Marcus Licinius Crassus, who
was a hard something by any standard. He
made his he's a wealthy man, he made
his money by making the first fire department
in Rome, but it wasn't like our fire
department. What he would do is he'd have
like these wagons filled with water and mechanisms
to pump the water, and so if you
heard a building was on fire, he would
show up with his fire truck, and he
would start negotiating with the owner. He'd be
like, look, your building is gonna be worth
0 in about an hour. Okay? So sell
it to me for like 30% of the
cost and,
or pay me half of the price of
the building and I'll I'll put the fire
out. Otherwise, I'll just pick it up from
you later on for like almost nothing because
nobody else is gonna give you anything. He
was a jerk, and he was a battle
hardened he was a battle hardened,
general.
Okay? He took a Roman legion out to
fight the Persians.
The Persians smashed his legions into pieces and
they killed him on the battlefield as well.
And the Sahaba on whom, right, the Persians
were so technically advanced. To this day, Persian
people have a pride about their their their
ancestry. They're so technically advanced that they could
they could build, like, architectural marvels. Right? I
was supposed to end the ban 10 minutes
ago and it's not a ban about the
Earth Persian empire, but what what am I
saying? Right? If you're saying that this is
a tall tale that's in the Amr when
we received help from Allah Ta'ala, well guess
what's not a tall tale? The Sahaba
like straight up took him to school. Right?
They never made a comeback after that.
Right? Think about that. Is that a tall
tale? Absolutely not.
So the point is is this, is that
Allah says in his book,
Fear Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala, and he'll teach
you something that you didn't know from before.
But we think we can do it on
our own.
We think we don't need Him. We don't
need to access that knowledge.
We
needed more than other people needed.
Islam didn't make it to Thorncliff,
without that help from Allah
And we need it really badly. We're in
a bad situation, we're in a bad position.
In America, in Canada, in England, in the
Muslim world itself, everywhere we're in a bad
situation. We need it more than others. So
So next time your and your tells you,
you know, don't look at the haram, don't
watch
right? Don't eat eat a machine slaughtered chicken
or eat the haram. Don't, you know, you
know, don't do all of these, you know,
don't skip your sunnahs and all of these
things. Why is he saying that to you?
Is it just because he's a jerk and
he wants your, you know, he wants your
life to be ruined and that you don't
have No.
Nobody wants that. Trust me. All of these
pleasures are there in jannah. You'll see your
own malaasab,
your own kalisab, your own all of these
people in jannah, they'll have like 70 wives
and they'll be drinking wine.
You won't know how to enjoy it. They'll
show you how to enjoy on that day.
They're human beings.
This is for your own good. This is
for our own good as individuals and as
an ummah, In this world and in the
hereafter, that we need the help of Allah
so badly in this world, and we're gonna
need it even more badly in the hereafter.
This is how we can tap into that
help, and it's not a joke. The proof
I have is that Islam wouldn't have made
it.
From one side of the world to the
other. Every if you read history, always the
Muslims are out outnumbered, always they're a minority,
always they have no money, always they have
no technology. The sahaba radiAllahu, one whom like
you you remember when the, they dug the
trench, the handout in Madina Munawarra?
And then the Arabs. Right? Those people become
Muslims relatively soon after. They're like, oh, that's
really tricky. Like, they didn't even it didn't
even occur to them that that's a thing
to do.
So many things when they met the Persians
and they met the Romans the first time,
this is like the first time they saw
chaul, man. Like really, literally, there's like reports
of the
when they saw, they cooked rice, and then
what is it? This must be some like
poison whatever. I'm not and some people like,
yo, I'm hungry and it looks good. I'm
gonna try. And they didn't die, and the
rest of like, that really tasted good. And
Muslims have been eating chawl ever since. Right?
They've been eating rice ever since. That's literally
how little knowledge they had about the world
around them.
The Persians are like weird, like
advanced trigonometry,
and like astronomy, and all of these, like,
advanced sciences
from the times of the ancients. They preserved
all of them. And the Sahaba, radiAllahu, on
whom, when Iqra came, only 10 people in
Mak Kharmak even knew how to
read. That's I mean, they had such low
literacy that the Prophet
imagine that he said, whoever whoever from the
captives of Badr can teach 10 Muslims how
to read. That's like a big deal to
them. So we'll free you if you can
teach 10 Muslims how to read.
But what was it? That knowledge what you
know, they had to catch up with it,
and they caught up with it, alhamdulillah.
I'm not saying it's not important. It's important
to learn all that stuff. Go take calculus.
And go learn calculus of differential equations. Don't
take and tell people about entropy and enthalpy
and Gibbs free energy and Helmholtz.
I tell people about all of these things.
Right? Scare them and let them know that,
you know, that real him you have it.
You know, you gotta put people in check
sometimes for their own good. Right? Go ahead
and do all that. But at the end
of the day, that's not what gets the
job done. What gets the job done, the
person who can realize the shoe rack is
not everything. They can enter in and see
the whole rest of the world. Allah will
show ajib and harai, but that's how the
deen got here and that's how it's gonna
make it somewhere else. Allah
make us from amongst his from amongst his,
poor and needy
slaves
that need him,
so badly, and that from his fafl and
his karam that he wake up something something
inside of our hearts, and he opens some
door inside
of our hearts that we can also have
access to that help, that we we're most
sorely in need of,
and so that we can fulfill what we
need to do for ourselves and our families,
and for the ummah of the prophet salallahu
alayhi wasallam in this world, and that that
help also them,
save us on the day of judgment.