Hamzah Wald Maqbul – Lust 12 Ramadan 1444 Late Night Majlis
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The speakers discuss the concept of lust based on factors like sight, hearing, smell, touch, and language. They also touch on the importance of resignation and likening people to personalities, as well as the use of the word "armacist" in authorization. The speakers emphasize the importance of accepting and embracing challenges and finding a way to survive in a precarious space. They also emphasize the need for a positive attitude towards one's own power and strength and finding a way to accept and embrace challenges.
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We reached this Mubarak,
12th night of Ramadan.
I was reading,
Surat Surat Al Hadid.
Allah
saying that the people who spend in the
path of and
fall in the path of
from
before,
They're not equal to the ones who did
it after.
So all the people who are
feeling the post or the mid
Ramadan lull,
and, gonna ride it out until, like, you
know, the end of push comes at the
last 10 days or whatever. The person who
hustles and makes it before, if you're in
the right place at the right time, no
no one should ever underestimate that. I think
that
will forgive
a sinner as long as they have life,
and so there's hope in that. But a
person shouldn't lean on it so much that
it it prevents them or obstructs them from
obtaining,
something higher that is within their reach. So
hustle and make it to the Masjid. Hustle
and, you know, open your and hustle and
whatever duas you wanna make, whatever thing you
want in this world and hereafter. Ask for
it today because no one's guaranteed tomorrow. And
if you even if you do get to
tomorrow, we're all gonna, like, get there together.
If you're gonna get there anyway, you may
as well have, taken benefit from the opportunities
you had because the time will pass one
way or the other.
Continues in his discourse on
on,
on on Hawa.
He says the most manifest attribute of the
nafs is lust,
the carnal desire.
Lust is a thing that is dispersed in
different parts of the human body and served
by its senses.
Man is
bound to guard all of his,
limbs from it, and he shall be questioned
regarding acts of each of them. The lust
of the eye is sight. The lust of
the ear is hearing.
The lust of the nose is smell. The
lust of the tongue is speech, and that
of the palate is taste.
That of the body,
is touch, and that of the mind
is thought,
which is obviously based on a hadith of
the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam.
Just to remind ourselves and others, just because
these things are ubiquitous doesn't mean that they're
not haram and they're not dangerous.
He once was asked to come to,
give Biden a d s. Were you there?
You weren't there before you came. He wants
to ask to give Biden a d s,
and so he accepted.
And he was so notoriously anti photography and
images that when he saw the security camera,
he got upset, and he said, I'm leaving.
And, they were trying to explain to him,
security camera is not like your picture is
not gonna be broadcast anywhere. It's also a
closed circuit. And, he was like, I don't
care. He goes, you guys told me there's
no good there's not gonna be any cameras
here. And he started walking on North Avenue.
He started walking on North Avenue. They're trying
to plead it with him to come back
and, like,
you know, come back and, like, give the
band. You know?
He was the he was the southern Mudaras
of Darulund Deoban. He used to come
in in in Ramadan
to America out of, like, pity for, like
because there's, like, no no no deen. He
used to come here in Ramadan for the
last couple of years. It was maybe the
last decade of his life or whatever. So
I remember he came to Seattle. It's like,
he came, and, like, the entire Seattle changed
for about a year, then it kinda went
and slumped back, but,
until he came again after a couple of
years. But,
sit down. Just have a seat. Just be
quiet. Okay.
So he was coming to, so he he
he was coming that he he saw against
the
the making of images
that,
he
basically stormed off to
North Avenue. And then from North Avenue, they
pleaded with him to come back, and he
said, okay. Fine. I'll come back
on the,
on the condition that
that Bayan I give is about the evils
evils of image making.
And so I translated as Bayan because very
few people can translate as Bayan.
There's, like, a kind of a mix of,
like, Arabic and technical terms and, like,
Persian and, like, weird, like, super gum, like,
binda level, like like, dissy expressions and things
like that. To be honest with you, I
don't even understand all of them, especially when
he starts talking about, like, village things. Like,
he, like, he loses me as well.
But,
all I can say is that I would
translate for his for him in a number
of different cities and a number of different
places,
like, simultaneous translation. Even Lucknow people, like, would
be like, I didn't understand what he said.
So, like, when I didn't understand a sentence,
I would shoot my ear back to your
translation and, like because I'd sit in the
back of the masjid and translate
and, to hear to understand what he was
saying. But it was amazing, like, amazing bands.
I feel bad for our brothers and sisters
who don't speak Urdu.
Do you guys did you guys learn Urdu?
Or you guys too cool for school? No.
No, man. Look at that. I feel bad
for you guys. I usually you know, there's
no real very little upside of being dizzy,
but, like, sometimes
sometimes you guys do miss out.
And so,
he said in that bayan, he said that,
he said that
aside from the fit issue,
he said if it wasn't for image making
and, the proliferation
of
of indecency
through the making of pictures, even if you
maintain it's permissible, it should be sufficient for
a person to be wary of,
of the existence of all of these things.
So this is I mean, it's not what
he's talking about, but we kinda need to
keep it in mind
because,
it's very relevant. So he's talking about the
the
the the last are dispersed through the entire
body, and then the inroads of it are
through the different rim limbs.
It behooves the seeker of God to spend
his whole life day and night ridding himself
of these incitements to passion, which show themselves
through the senses and to pray God make
him such that this desire will be removed
from his inward nature since whoever is afflicted
with lust is veiled from all spiritual things.
If one should repel it by his own
exertions, his task would be long and painful,
and I would say also counterproductive.
The right way is resignation, Taslim.
This is very relevant how the Ummah has
gone full circle. This is a lot more
relevant to us now than it was maybe
for the Ummah, like a 100 years ago,
what he's about to say. He said the
right way is resignation is taslim.
It's related that Abu Ali Siya Maru,
said, I had gone to the bathhouse, and
and according to the custom of the prophet,
sallallahu alaihi wa sallam, I was using a
razor. And he,
he translates it in in Latin. Look how
much this cafe has.
He says
He said to shave my private parts, my
pubic area.
He said, I said to myself, oh, Abu
Ali, amputate this member, which is the source
of all lust and keeps you afflicted with
so much evil.
Again, don't try this at home.
But those people were, like, really this was
their thing. They were, like, we're gonna Allah
we're gonna earn Allah's love and what do
whatever it takes.
Don't try it at home. Please don't try
it at home. And interestingly enough, this is
actually something this was, actually, it's narrated. Sahid
narration said,
asked the prophet
for permission
because this Shawwa bothered him so much. He
asked the Rasulullah for permission
for istighsah
to
to to castrate
himself.
And
then laughed at him and says that the
only person who's a kasi is the one
who's a kasi and the father of Allah.
He's like, if fated for you, it's gonna
happen anyway. Don't you don't need to worry
about doing it.
Meaning, like, no. This is not the way.
Right? What is he saying is if you
were to try to strive against yourself,
it would be like a very failing cause.
This type of stuff would happen. He says
the only way of dealing with this is
to resign yourself to the will of the
Lord.
A voice in my heart whispered. He said,
oh, Abu Ali, will you interfere in my
kingdom?
Are not all of your limbs equally at
your disposal? If you do this, I swear
by my glory that I will put a
100 fold lust and passion in every hair
in your body
you
And
sometimes we you know, that happens without our
choice. Sometimes we make choices to put ourselves
in that position, but it's also still the
pattern of Allah. If when you make your
toba, you're trying to struggle with it, resign
yourself to where you are right now and
deal with yourself where you are. Don't try
to, take shortcuts in these types of things
as if you're going to somehow, like, jump
the jump the system.
It's the way it is for a reason.
And all kinds of like I said, this
is again 3 360 degrees. It's all very
relevant to the where we are right now.
People struggle with all kinds of weird
and it's like overwhelming. You know what it
like, imagine
some people are genetically predisposed to being alcoholics.
Right? Like addicted to alcohol in a way
that normal people aren't. Some people aren't. Some
people can have a beer and not have
a beer for like a year and it
doesn't bother them. Some of them once they
taste it, that's it. Like their whole life
will never be the same again. It will
just be the devil that like rises them
for the whole rest of their life. And
the only best thing they can do is
just stay the * away from it as
long as they can. And that's it.
Their people are not equal.
The issue with the beer is, man, you
can, like,
not subject yourself to alcohol.
You don't need to have alcohol to live.
Right? But now if you don't have a
phone, you're not gonna get a job. If
you don't have a TV, you know, you
could even put the TV away, actually. I
got rid of my TV. But, like, without
the phone, like, now it's more difficult
to get rid of it, to stay away
from it. The phone you can put away.
Other human beings, what will happen? The signs
of the is that before the end of
time, you'll see people putting zina on the
streets, and the best of people will be
the ones who say, like, can't you get
just go get a room or something. You
know? What are you gonna do then? Like,
you can't this thing, you can't put it
away. So,
you know, a person has to have the
correct mindset toward it. Otherwise, just that anxiety
is gonna destroy a person.
Although a man has no power over what
is vicious in his constitution,
he can get an attribute changed by divine
aid and by resigning himself to god's will
and by divesting himself of his own power
and strength. In reality, when he resigns himself
to god, protects him, and through God's protection,
he comes nearer to annihilating the evil,
rather
nearer to annihilating the evil than he does
through self mortification through mujahada.
Since flies are more easily driven away with
an umbrella than they are with a fly
whisk.
Unless divine protection is
predestined to a man, he cannot abstain from
anything from his own exertion unless and unless
god exerts himself toward a man, the man's
exertion is of no use.
Right?
When Right? The hadith could see that the
says to says that the in my slave,
if he comes to me walking, I come
to him running. He says that if, that
he cannot abstain from anything by his own
exertion unless god exerts himself toward the man.
The man's own exertion is of no use.
All acts of exertion fall under 2 heads.
Their object is either to avert the predestination
of a god or to acquire something,
in his,
surety of predestination.
Both are these both of these are impossible.
It is related when Shibli fell ill. Shibli
was one of the preeminent,
preeminent disciples of Junaid
He said that when Shiblui was ill, the
physician advised him to be abstinent. He said,
from what shall I abstain,
from that which God bestows upon me or
from that which he does not bestow. It
is impossible to abstain from the former, and
the latter is not in my hands.
I will discuss this question carefully on another
occasion.
So patients are always the worst.
The doctors don't
that's not what we're talking about right now.
But, this whole idea that he's talking about,
he doesn't explain it in
thorough detail.
But the idea of
Taslim
toward Allah Ta'ala with the trials and the
tribulations he gave you and not trying to
like,
just through your own force overwhelm things like
a person who punches his fist in the
wind. It's a biblical
expression to punch your fist in the wind,
to try to, like, you know, change the
direction of the wind just by moving. It's
not gonna happen.
So if something is your test, a person
should
accept that,
and embrace it and struggle against it as
much as they can. Like, today, someone in
the Telegram group, a couple of people are
complaining about the difficulty of taking care of
elders who make
demands that are unfulfillable
and that are really difficult and they're never
happy no matter what you do. You have
to accept the fact that sometimes
winning, this is what it looks like. It
feels like losing, but it's actually winning. Why?
Because you're trying your best.
That's the that's the test. That's what it
is. Don't beat yourself up and because what
happens when you beat yourself up because your
win is not, like, super glorious?
You end up doing what?
You end up then
sabotaging
even what your what you were even doing
before or you give up completely and then
that then that's a path to actually losing,
to turning it into a l. Whereas,
so it's not a reason to tell yourself,
oh, look, I'm doing the best. I don't
have to try anymore. No. I mean, you
have to exert yourself. It's difficult. Right? But
sometimes, if you can resign to the fact
that things are not ideal or not the
way you want them to be, but a
lot of Allah wants them to be, Then
you're able to, like, better negotiate reality. And,
usually, the creative creative energy that comes in
having to
find a way to survive in that very
precarious space. That's actually what gives a person
the,
you know, the occasion that all that are
destined for that person actually to escape from
that thing. And if a person is addicted
to anything, if a person is Azani, if
a person is addicted to looking at bad
things or listening to bad things or keeping
bad company or, you know, gambling or alcohol,
whatever, drugs, whatever it is. Right?
A person, if they make toba every day
and they fail in their toba every day,
you know, and then, like, the thousandth time,
they they they they break their toba and
fail in it again, and they die,
after making tawba a 1000 and one times.
They died on tawba halas, day 1.
Right? That's the thing is that the slave
doesn't want you to, you know Alata is
not
doesn't want the slave to show how great
of a lord he is or amazing he
is. But if you're a slave, just to
keep struggling, keep trying. And, that that's, like,
that's a really great with a lot to
allah. Maybe sometimes you see those people, on
the day of judgment, their will be higher
than the people who had some sort of
glamorous ease in which they, in which they,
they struggled. It's the story of Sid Nayyuba,
alayhis salam. Right? The shaitan was like, oh,
he's just a good guy because he's rich
and, like, happy.
Take everything away from him and you'll see
he's gonna be just as bad as everybody
else. And all that took everything away from
him and look how, like, it made him
even more beautiful, you know, and shaitan lost.
So that's there's a lot of stuff in
there. Easy to talk about, hard to do.