Hamzah Wald Maqbul – Maliki Fiqh Sincerity and Self Rectification Addison 04212020
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So we continue our reading from the,
Risalt Ibn Abi Zaid Al Qirawani.
Inshallah, we're nearing the end of this, chapter.
And for those who are interested,
people have been asking me with regards to
the
fatwa
reading virtual tawawi,
and so,
I posted some
text, on this topic,
in my Facebook and Twitter accounts,
which essentially is,
just the relevant text from the Muftasur Khalil
and the
and the Hashe of the Suki,
the canonical
commentaries on the Muftas or Khalil from which
the Fatawad madhab is taken.
And, the summary is that it's not permissible.
That being said, I mean, we're not gonna
browbeat people about
this. It seems like a relatively slam dunk,
type of mess messala as well, but people
have their different opinions.
And, you know, some of the olema who
are very learned,
have mentioned that they feel it should be
permissible, although they
you know, from the ones that I read,
that are actually
Hazak of the Malachi school.
They, you know, they say that this is
not the the Malachi opinion
per se, but just their opinion.
And, I find it very far fetched and
difficult to believe someone's gonna crack open YouTube
and pray 20 rakaz and and read entire
just a Quran with focus.
Oftentimes, there's a type of and
excitement that people have when they're like, oh,
look. Islam is, like, cool and adapting
to changing times, and it's, like, technologically relevant.
So, like, Islam is awesome. Islam is awesome
anyway,
and people will
follow what they follow. There are certain trends
in the time and the age that we
live in to go against them. It's like
punching your fist in the wind,
for whoever,
cares to know, what,
what my opinion is in the light of
the Kalam Khalil, that's fine.
And for those who are
anti
precedent, anti fatwa,
or, just interested in something cool and something
new, they'll find what they want. And those
who wanna smoke weed will smoke weed as
well. And, we, you know, we just
take our, zab,
our provisions, in order to, get through our
journey and we move on.
And the lord has chosen a different path
for every everyone, and we ask him that
he keep us on the path.
The path of those that he, has blessed,
and,
not those who he has
and he's angry with or those who go
astray.
It is a an obligation on every believer
for every deed that they do, whether it
be speech or actions,
from the deeds of piety
that they,
do it,
for the noble countenance
of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. And so this
this,
expression
if translated word for word
literally would mean for the face of Allah
ta'ala. It's an expression meaning only for the
sake of Allah ta'ala,
for the love of Allah alone,
and without any partners.
And the, Nabi Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam narrates a
hadith Qudsi
that Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala says
He said that if somebody makes me partners
with somebody else in something,
so I'm the one who is least in
need of the partnership.
So if you say, well, I do this
deed for, you know, half for Allah and
half to make my mother happier, half for
Allah and half to make my, you know,
to impress a girl,
or a guy, you know, half for Allah
or half, you know, in order to look
big in front of my children, or half
for Allah or half because it's good for
the polling numbers or whatever.
Allah ta'ala Allah ta'ala, he doesn't need half
of anything. He doesn't want half of anything.
He doesn't, you know, allata'ala doesn't share with
with other people. It's very interesting. Even the
the text of the first commandment in the
Torah,
It translates to something like Allah Ta'ala says
because I,
Allah your God,
am a jealous Allah, covetous Allah.
His name is is jealousy.
And here jealousy doesn't mean, like, envy of,
like, you know, wanting something someone else has,
but of not really desiring to share things.
If something is for him, it's for him
alone.
And he doesn't care about material things about
what's inside of your heart. If you wanna
give it to him and you want him
to accept it, then he doesn't wanna share
it with nobody.
He's, he's, an Allah who is. He's he's,
in in in, in Hebrew. Right? Which means
what? That he covets the thing that that
that if it's to be for him, he
covets it and he doesn't share it with
anybody.
And so,
you know, this is this is a reality.
This is a reality.
And if, you know, we're talking about 5050,
even if it's 99 and 1,
that 1%,
a lot of our gift is 99. So
whoever you did it for, that 1% for,
just take the rest of the deal I
want it.
I don't want it anymore. Just like imagine
if somebody you see somebody
you don't particularly
think fondly of,
their hygiene.
And they take a bite out of something,
and they're like, here, you want a piece?
And you're like, nah. It's all good. It's
all good, baby. Why don't you just take
the whole thing? You know? I, you know,
I I mean, it's not it's not something
if you want him to accept it,
he lays out this rule that you have
to do it for him alone.
And this, sifa of lillahiya,
of doing things for the sake of Allah.
This is what we learned from our kabir
and from our mashaif. This is what we
learned from,
from the companions or
This is what we learned from the salah,
from the oliya, and from salihin.
That there are a group of people
Allah gave this
that everything they did was for the sake
of Allah without any partner.
And, you know, people can say, look, I'm
doing this for the sake of Allah, but
there are levels that go deeper and deeper
and deeper, and only those people who
are are in that state of love with
Allah, they can show you what the ways
of that love are.
Otherwise, there are many people who think, you
know, like,
you know, who's doing Nasr has played tricks
on them, and they think they're doing something
for the sake of Allah and Allah knows
best. You know, Allah knows best. Maybe they
are. Allah knows best.
There was one brother one time, he
completely unread brother, completely
unread. And he he said, this shit make
dua for me, make dua for me, and
I have to pass my medical exams and,
you know, this and that.
You make dua is really hard and blah
blah blah. So, okay. Make dua for you.
Use make dua for me, and then when
I pass, we can do, like, the the
service of Din. I said, that sounds like
a really wonderful intention.
And,
you know,
then afterward, he passed his exams, and I
haven't hear heard from him for years. I
said, what happened, man? You said, I saw
him again. I said, what happened, man? Well,
you're gonna make you know, you said, make
go on and make service with Dean, and
then he, like, dropped off the radar. Like,
no. I'm doing service with Dean. I'm like,
what? He's like, I'm giving a.
I'm like, man. That's it. You know? And
I I don't I don't think the brother,
probably thought that,
you know, there's anything wrong with that. But,
like, you know, there there are different standards
for what you do for the sake of
Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala.
And, if it wasn't for our masha'if then
maybe we would think that, like, we're we're
like a big willing just for, you know,
getting up in front of people and having
them listen to our
talk and our adulation.
I heard from Sheikh,
Nuh Allah
give him good health and protect him and
give him a long life.
That,
a person when they do any of these
deeds in which the public is watching any
public function of the deen.
A person, if they're,
if those deeds are commandments, like giving the
jumah klafa, someone has to do it. Right?
They're, sacred obligations to giving the adam. So
any deed that you do that another person
from the creation lays eyes on, he says,
write it off inside of your heart. That
it's almost impossible for a person to do
this with the purity that Allah
wishes for.
And, have some deeds. Let everybody have some
deeds that nobody nobody knows about. Not your
wife, not your kids, not your parents, nobody
you didn't tell a soul about. So that
you have something to fall back on on
the day of judgment,
in case, you know, in case these things
were done for the sake of other people's
eyes. And, whoever claims that they're they're free
from that,
you know,
conflict of interest,
Allah knows best.
The prophet was very very careful
very careful and very
diligent on removing conflict of interest from his
deeds.
That's why the one who, gave us the
Hakum of zakat himself never ate from zakat.
The one who gave us the Hakum of
sadaqa never ate from sadaqa. In fact, the
zakat, he himself,
he,
forbid it for himself and for his family,
not just his descendants, but for all of
Banu Hashim. So the descendants of of Abbas
and the descendants of Sayna Ali through other
than Sayna Fatima
there until
for them to eat the money of zakat.
Why? Because the prophet was very diligent in
removing conflict of interest.
Unfortunately, nowadays, we have a we have a
bunch of people who are like hawks. They
look for conflict of interest. They look for
those deeds that outward of which is piety
but inside they're riddled with conflict of interest.
And, we seek refuge in Allah from that
type of deen. We seek refuge in Allah
from that type of deen.
That type of deen has completely
eroded people's confidence
in,
in in the book of Allah and the
sunnah of the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam
and in our civilization.
And,
you know, and, all I can say is
that we saw those masha'if that were very
diligent in removing this conflict of interest.
And we saw them and we,
prayed behind them and we listened to their
words and, you know, unfortunately, we're unable to
be like them. But we bear witness to,
to to the fact that they existed and
that they do exist
and, that they're the heirs of the legacy
of the messenger of Allah sallallahu alaihi wa
sallam. And those who
their, their piety is to setting up a
shop or a business or brand marketing or
whatever.
Inshallah, Allah reward them as well, but, that's
not our model that we that we based
based our
our deen on.
Whoever wishes
anyone other than Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala desires
anyone other than Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala in
whole or in part, Allah Ta'ala will not
accept that person's,
deed.
Allah Ta'ala is pure and he doesn't accept
anything other than that which is pure.
So hadith of,
of of of the prophet salallahu alayhi
Muslim amongst other
collections.
And it says, in riyah to show off
is described by the prophet
as the lesser
polytheism. The greater polytheism is to worship other
than Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. Ria, which is
showing off,
is
considered the lesser polytheism. Why?
Because,
a person, you know, is part of the
worship of Allah, the the the hope for
reward for your good deeds. It should only
go to him. And someone who hopes for
some sort of benefit from their good deeds
from other than Allah,
it's as if that person has committed shirk,
but in a way that that doesn't, you
know, to cast illegally out of the pale
of Islam.
But it's really problematic. Nobody wants to be
nobody wants to be guilty of shirk. Allah
ta'ala is a covetous god,
then, we don't, you know, we don't want
to run afoul of that that system.
And we should do things for the sake
of Allah ta'ala.
And the the point is that the prophet
taught his companions how to do quality.
He didn't push them for quantity, push push
them for quality.
The person who knows how to do quality
and deeds, that person for them to ramp
up quantity afterward is much easier than the
person who's doing a whole lot of
a whole lot of half assed
Islam,
to teach them to do even a little
bit of Islam,
but just purely for the sake of Allah.
Something that's against the person's material,
self interest,
only for the sake of Allah Ta'ala. As
a hudjah and as a proof for the
love of Allah Ta'ala on the day of
judgment,
you know, that's,
you know, that's not easy.
That's not easy, to get a person to
understand that concept if they're so wrapped up
in the
the
utilitarian
approach to deen, which has completely poisoned the
deen of many of our brothers and sisters.
And, a person should be diligent to look
for those opportunities.
You know, not the Sufism of, like, you
know,
you know,
rich people,
listening to Nasheed's,
in a, you know, high high dollar amount
of banquet to the exclusion of the poor,
or, you know, particular types of clothing or
particular cult like,
you know, behaviors.
But that's the soul of the deen. The
beauty is what is that it calls a
person to make mujahada, it calls a person
struggle against the nafs,
and,
it calls a person to do those things
that kinda make you uncomfortable in order to
grow as a human being. The wonderful part
is this, is that if you're doing those
things, one of the really big side benefits
is that when a person is doing that
thing that the Nas genuinely dislikes,
then the person can have a modicum of
confidence that the deed that they're doing is
actually worth doing and that hopefully inshallah have
good hope that it'll be accepted. Whereas if
you're sliding, you're Islam, you're you're you're having
the perks of Islam, you're enjoying the perks
of Islam. A person should always fear inside
of their heart. I don't know am I
gonna get rewarded for this or not because
this is all very easy. And our masha'if
were like that. You know, I heard I
mean, I I heard stories about so many
masha'if, not just one, so many the great
kibar masha'if. Those people that they were to,
you know, send out a text message to
to the Moores to say kill yourself, you
know, they would they would do it. You
know? That's how how great they were in
the eyes of the creation.
And those people used to cry and they
would weep when they would see how much,
acceptance Allah gave to the people, of them
in their hearts.
And they would do exactly what we mentioned
yesterday. You know, they would be found cleaning
toilets.
There's so many stories more more than to
enumerate.
They say that the,
Sheikh Islam
and not the Sheikh Islam, the the the
famous Murshid of the Khalifa,
Sheikh Aziz Mahmoud Khudai,
Fandir Raheem was
buried in Uskudar, who has appeared in a
merchant to
many of the the Ottoman sultans
that, he, his sheikh,
he was a he was a of Bursa.
He was a judge of Bursa, which in
the Ottoman days is a pretty, like, pretty,
like, powerful position,
politically and in a dunya sense. And also,
like, amongst the elements of position of great
honor and esteem. He's already the qadi of
Bursa when he took the spiritual path.
And,
his Sheikh,
he he took the the path of his
shift and the shift completely broke his knuffs
and he would just sent him about to
do all sorts of
all sorts of,
you know, things that that were just there
to break the ego
in a in a really, like, in a
really, really harsh way, in a way that
very few of us would be able to
entertain, even thinking about it much as doing
it.
And so,
I I was told that, the last task
he was sent on by the chef was
to go to so and so much, must
have them clean the bathrooms.
And so he went to the bathrooms,
and, he realized I forgot my rags at
home. I have nothing to clean the bathroom
with. And the thought straight thought crossed his
mind that the only thing I have is
to to wipe with his my beard.
And then he's like, no, I can't do
that. And then he realized, oh my god,
that's what I have to do.
And so when he was just about to
do it, you know,
his shift came and he says, Allah didn't
create your beard for this. He created it
for something else.
And the point is not what? The point
is not that, like, you know, rubbing your
beard on a toilet is gonna give you
enlightenment.
Otherwise, there are a lot of people on
TikTok right now who are, you know, the.
The point is is what? The point is
is that
if you're ready to do something like that
for the sake of Allah ta'ala,
that shows that Allah's love means something to
you
so much so that your own nafs doesn't,
then you're
somebody. You're somebody with Allah ta'ala.
And as long as you see yourself as
somebody, you're just a nobody, you're just another
bacteria,
You're just another,
you're just like the Nabi so long as
I mentioned. He said that the so many
people that, you know, the so many people,
they think they're such a big deal and
they mean nothing to Allah to Allah. They
mean less than than,
you know, like a little vermin eating najis,
a little beetle, like a dung beetle or
something like that, you know.
And, there are many people who don't think
very much of themselves, but Allah thinks very
highly of them.
And so that's, that's the tarbiyah that the
prophet
gave to his companions,
and that's tarbiyah that the the prophet left
for this ummah, and there are people who
still have it. And, that's that's your Islam.
You know, if you do that, you don't
need to worry about hudal workshops afterward. You
don't need to worry about Facebook followers afterward.
You have you have, you know, you have
touched
you have touched the,
the the the kibirid uhmar,
and you become the gold.
You you become, you become the gold in
whatever you touch there afterward.
Insha'Allah,
it's hoped that it will be Mubarak from
Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala.
And that's that's what that is. And, I
talk about it. And one of the, like,
the silly things, naive people who are, like,
pious, whenever someone talks about it, they're like,
oh, this person must be like that. I'm
not like that, and anybody else who claims
they're like that is also not like that.
But there are people who are like that.
You know, they won't claim it, but there
are people like that in the world,
And,
you won't find them at the mall,
but if you look for them, you'll find
them.
And, whoever, you know, there are such people
in this world, Allah forgave them
in such a way
that, that,
they're so forgiven that whoever meets them also,
Allah will enter that person in the list
of of his forgiveness as well. So go
out and look for them inshallah.
Once
once pandemic and epidemic and,
plague and,
you know, all of these things are over,
then go out and look for them. And
before they're over, go out and seek them
through their books.
You know, go read read a who is
Ghazali, who is, you know, If you're if
you're a person of some study,
read read, you know,
read the different, you know,
Read the people from the different times and
the different ages, and look for this look
for this thing in them. You'll find it.
You'll find it. It'll find you. If you
look for it sincerely, it'll find you.
Well, repentance is an obligation.
If you're committing a sin, you can be
praying 5 times a day and fasting the
month of Ramadan and,
you know, doing all the good stuff, But
if you're repenting, it's still far beyond you.
It's still an obligation that the Lord
is owed
outstanding against you that you should repent.
And your repentance must be what? Your repentance
must be,
such a repentance that causes you to make
Iqala, that you stop committing that sin.
Not just like, oh, Allah forgive me, Allah
forgive me while you're doing it, and you
intend on keeping doing it.
And,
you know, Akhbari,
whose primer is the first text that children,
read in
Maliki.
Because there are people who are like, oh,
shit. You don't where's the Maliki. You're talking
about all this other stuff. This is the
this is the this is the mad hub.
The whole point of the whole sharia is
so you can implement these things.
And so in, Atalbari,
it's written before we get to wudu and
before we get to, you know, salat and
things and and, you know, like the sajdas
and whatever,
the other technical,
details in it, he mentions this. He said,
don't be from the people who say that,
that inshallah, when Allah guides me, then I'll
make tovah.
Don't be don't be like that. When it's
time to make tovah, just say, Allah, I'm
sorry. I I I just stop.
When it enters your heart, that feeling that
I'm doing is wrong, just stop. Even if
you don't have a plan, you don't know
what you're gonna do tomorrow, just stop and
just be like, in this moment, I don't
wanna do anything tomorrow. I don't wanna I
just wanna run away from this sin.
If you break again tomorrow, then you can
think about what to do tomorrow. For this
moment, just just be like, you know
what? Allah is Allah, and I'm the slave,
and I really shouldn't be doing just stop.
Just drop whatever plans you have for doing
this in tomorrow.
The rest of it, you can work it
out later.
You know, these are states of the heart.
And,
he says don't be the person who says
that, oh, you know, inshallah, I'll make toba
when Allah guides me.
He says that indeed it is to to
speak like that is from signs of wretchedness.
It's a person that soothes themselves with the
lullaby of
words that sound pious. And what does Ahladi
say? It teaches the children of the Muslims.
Indeed,
to speak like that. To say, oh, inshallah,
when Allah guides me then I'll I'll I'll
repent.
That's from the signs of wretchedness. May Allah
protect us. Allah
protect us.
And
so
he said that a person, you know, a
person should make
Tawba without
persisting in that sin, and persisting in that
sin is to, like,
keep it established in your life.
And and to
to believe in your heart, to know in
your heart that you're gonna come back to
it.
This is one of the things our Sheikh,
Moshair Ahmad Gangohi,
the the one of the 2 founders of
the Darulum and Deoband, and the one through
whom the the Han Kahf Deoband
comes.
He mentions this that the most dangerous one
of the most dangerous person things for for
a person in their in their saluk is
what? The conversation that a person has with
themselves about the dis disobedience about Allah, the
disobedience of Allah.
When you plan and you, you know, your
your eye looks around and you plan inside
your heart that I'm gonna do this thing
and I'm gonna do that thing, which is
haram, which is disobedience.
This is in and of itself one of
the things that a person should be most
scared of. This is one of the things
a person should be most scared of.
And that's what we mean here
The the,
the the belief in your heart or the
firm knowledge in your heart that you're gonna
return to that sin.
That that that that that cannot exist at
the same time with a sincere repentance.
So he mentions,
here that,
that a person let them, if, you know,
that part of the tovah is, Radul Mabalim,
but if you also want something that you
return it to them.
And so if it means money, if you,
you know, if you, you know, backed into
someone's bumper and you scratched it, leave a
note for them and pay for the, you
know, scratch to come out of the bumper.
If you, stole something from someone when you're
a kid, get in contact with them and,
you know, pay them back or give the
thing back to them. If you stole something
from a store, get in contact with that
with them and pay them back. You know?
And the thing is with monetary things, you
can you can oftentimes do that. You can
get it back to them.
Sometimes your
is that you lied about somebody or you,
backbit somebody or whatever.
And in those cases, you know, oftentimes there's
no way of materially compensating them for the
loss that you,
you you,
incurred.
But the idea is what is that you
should at least have them forgive you. You
should at least have them forgive you. And
always people ask the question, well, what if
the person's dead? Okay. Well, give the amount
of,
you know, whatever it is to their heirs
or give the amount in salapa,
you know,
you know, in on on the in their
name,
or, you know, whatever. Or, like, sometimes if
you tell a person you did something, they'll
completely freak out and have a meltdown and
make the situation worse. So you just quietly,
like, you know, give salakha in their name
or do something that you hope that it
will
ingratiate them on the day of judgement.
The point is is this is that once
it's done, there's no easy solution. You you
put yourself in a situation when you commit
vote against another person, when you commit a
transgression against another person. You put yourself in
a situation
which is very difficult,
to,
to be extricated
from. And just don't don't go there, don't
do it. InshaAllah, don't do it. What if
someone says, well, I'm never gonna forgive you.
Right? And then they die. Well, I don't
know. Like, keep giving salatfa on their name
and keep meaning to offer them in the
hope that Allah
will will ingratiate them to the point that
they'll forgive you on that day.
But more
more to the point, don't put yourself in
that situation in the future if you if
you don't need to. They say that Abu
Bakr as Shibli, the Khalifa of Imam Junaid,
and probably the most well known of them,
who is a Maliki, by the way.
At least that's what's written in the Qashqal
Mahjub. Abu Bakr Shibley,
he, he was the hadjib of the Khalifa,
or the sultan. He was a he was
a doorman. You know, like the the the
person, the chamberlain that that that gets to
control who comes and comes out. Usually, those
people are, you know, those people are not,
like, super nice people.
And if you have a a legitimate
issue or a legitimate concern to raise to
the Sultan, if that person doesn't like you,
they can block you out from having audience.
And if that person likes you, they can
promote you to have audience as well. And
so, when he wanted to take the spiritual
path, he went to Imam Janae, then he
he he said, you know, I wanna do
this. I wanna change my life. I wanna
leave, like, kinda that way I was before,
and I wanna walk the path of Allah.
And so Imam, Junaid said, okay. Go back.
You're a Hajjib. Right? He goes, go back
all the people you screwed over, like, while
you're Hajjib. Go and ask their forgiveness.
And,
come back once all of them have all
of them have forgiven you.
And so he's like, okay.
So he went and many people forgave him,
and many people are like, no. Because of
you, I suffered this loss and I suffered
that loss. And he's like, well, what can
I do to ingratiate you?
What can I do to, like, you know,
make you forego the claim? And people would
make him, like, people would make him do
labor, people would make him pay pay them
pay them financial compensation. He you know what?
People people made him do all sorts of
things in order to, fulfill,
fulfill,
what, you know, they felt that he he
he harmed them through.
And he went like, it's like almost a
decade it took him to fulfill this,
commandment of Junaid.
And then he went back and then Junaid,
made him into whoever he, you know, he
he was destined to be, and, gave him
the opportunity to exert himself on the spiritual
path and reach the high mountain that he
reached. But the point is we have this
thing that we think, like, magically, we can
somehow, like,
you know, like the Christians. Right? Right? That,
you know, somebody who looks like Jesus died
for my sins, and,
you know, I'm born again and, like, none.
You know, you don't have to you don't
have to, like, right the wrongs that you
did.
You don't have to set things straight anymore,
you know, like, whatever it is. You know,
Jesus
someone who looked like Jesus who was crucified,
his blood is the atonement for all of
my,
for all of my sins, and that's it.
It's done.
You know? Live happily ever after. Well, those
people don't live happily ever after. They're shackled
with the burden of the harm you've caused
them.
And, this is a very long topic,
but the point is, a, don't go there,
b, don't underestimate, you know, like buying a
fancy simba and going for Hajj after Hajj
and Umrah after Umrah
and, buying nice coats and nice clothes and,
like, you know, being the most, like, seediest
of the fashion,
world and all of this stuff.
That's great. I love doing those things myself.
I'm just telling you, if you wanna make
progress on the spiritual path and you have
these types of things outstanding,
you're not you're you ain't going nowhere. You
ain't going nowhere. And then we saw somebody
say he says, should I not tell you
the is? They're like they're they're like, the
is the bankrupt one who has no money,
no silver, no gold. The prophet said, no,
the mufless, the bankrupt one is the one
on the day of judgement will come, laden
with good deeds.
And then
when his hisab is happening, when his account
is happening,
Allah will say,
ask if anyone has a claim against him
and someone will say, well, this person, he
cussed me off. This person hit me. This
person,
you know, spoke ill to me. He, you
know, did this to me, did that to
me. And every one of them has a
legitimate claim. And I will say, okay. Take
take an equivalent from his good deeds. Take
an equivalent from his good deeds. Take an
equivalent from his good deeds. And the line
will be very long and all his good
deeds will be gone.
And the line is still there. There's still
people in line.
So,
will entertain still their their complaints. And then
instead of saying take his good deeds, they'll
say,
dump your sins on him. Dump your sins
on him.
Now imagine you saw something from somebody and
made that person then have to turn to
something bad.
Imagine you said something to someone or you
did something to someone or you, you know,
you screwed them over financially or whatever, and
it made them turn to,
open a door of sin.
Right? It made them engage in a business
that's haram or to sell themselves in a
way that's haram or, you know, to keep
the company of bad people or to miss
out on opportunity that they could have lived,
in a halal way or in a clean
way.
That's that's a lot that's gonna get dumped
on your on your head. You know? And
those people oftentimes don't have, like, a whole
lot of good deeds, but they do have
a lot of sins.
And, this is this is this is, like,
really,
really, like, a big deal. It's problematic. This
is one of the reasons when someone says
something outlandish about me on social media, I'm,
like, happy. I'm like, how do I how
do I do that? Allah created these people
to take my sins off of my hands.
And, you know,
conversely, why a person should be afraid, myself
included, of saying, you know, of trashing somebody
without
which is what? Is it that person they're
gonna do the same thing to you on
the day of judgment. So,
very important. If a person if a person
wrongs somebody, you gotta make it right. And
trust me, no matter how hard it is
to make it right in this world, it's
much harder to make it right in the
hereafter.
When you make it right in the hereafter,
you're going to make it right,
by taking fire into your into your, face
and into your eyes and into your nostrils,
and on your body. That's the only way
it's gonna make it right over there.
So, you know, if you really wanna be
aspiring to this path, you know, this is
the first thing that you get. You get
busy on it, you know. We get busy
on it. Inshallah. You know, 20 Hajjis and
Umras and, like, vacations with your favorite sheikh
and, like,
you know, the
most seediest of clothes. I love them. See?
See, I I got my nice I got
my nice shawl. It's a good looking shawl.
I got my green dopey. You know? Like,
I love all that stuff. So I'm not
hey. I'm not trying to judge, but I'm
just saying to think that to have the
that these things are somehow like the emblems
of your piety or righteousness.
It's not, you know,
it's it's just sheikhan,
it's just sheikhan messing with you.
And and Tawba is, through, staying away from
those things that Allah has forbidden,
and, the intention of never returning to them.
So let such a person seek forgiveness from
his lord and hope in Allah's mercy,
and fear his, his his torment.
And this is very important as well. Some
people, they get despondent in the mercy of
Allah Ta'ala. This is also a satanic insinuation.
Allah Ta'ala says in his book,
oh, my slaves that,
that have committed excess against themselves.
And even if the sin is against somebody
else, the the excess you do is stain
and a pain and
a damage to your own nafs and to
your own ruh, and
to your own heart, your own qalb.
Say my slaves who have committed excess against
themselves.
Do not ever give up hope in the
mercy of Allah.
Indeed, Allah forgives all sins. Indeed, he was
always the one who who forgave everything and
who was all merciful.
And so to make Tawba and be like,
oh, Allah will never forgive me, Allah will
never forgive me. This is actually a very
mafia, very
hidden and subtle type of takabur, a subtle
type of arrogance.
To think that that you, who's nothing in
front of the lord of the worlds, can
commit such an amount of sin that it
will bother Allah
that he himself
who
he fixed as a commandment over himself or
as a rule over himself that that his
mercy will outstrip his wrath, that you somehow
made his to do list in a way
that caused him to, like, throw all of
that out the window and be like, yeah.
I'm gonna get you. There's nobody.
Is not, you know, just like he's not
moved by your your,
you know, how much you gave because he
created you and your.
And just like that he's not he's not
so angered by your sins that that if
you were to if you were to ask
for forgiveness he wouldn't forgive you. In fact,
the people who are not forgiven are the
ones who don't ask. The fact that you're
asking means that he wants to forgive you.
The fact that you're asking means that he
wants to forgive you.
And, you know, you may have done something
really bad, and it may require a lot
of a lot of nadama and a lot
of,
regret and a lot of making things right
and whatever. But the fact that you're asking,
as long as you're still asking, this is
a sign of hope.
And the fact that you're asking, he means
he wants to he wants to forgive you.
So never give up hope and Allah and
never have this
weird, thing that some of the people in
the Ummah before us had, Bhanu Israel, that
they thought they had a persecution complex, but
not with the the other, human beings, but
with Allah. Allah is not not up to
get you.
Allah is not up to get you. Allah
is not like that. Allah ta'ala whoever,
you know, Allah is the one who says
that if my slave comes to me in
hands breath, I come to him in a
cubit and if he comes to me in
a cubit,
I'll come to him in arm span. And
if he comes to me in arms and
if he comes to if he comes to
me in cubit, I'll come to him in
arm span. And if he comes to me
walking, I'll come to him running.
The fact that you're even, you know, you
even wanna make Tova itself is a sign
he wants to forgive you. So put in
the work, put in the effort, do all
the stuff that we're mentioning, but never give
up hope in his mercy. Even if it's
hard, inshallah, just do your best. As long
as you're doing your best, even if you
fall short,
a day will come even though there's something
rough between now and that day. A day
will come. Everything will be alright, inshallah.
Everything will be alright. Allah is too merciful
to Allah is too merciful to abandon the
one who seeks help from him. So humble
yourself and say, Allah, help me.
I have nobody other than you. Just help
me. Inshallah,
Allah will show you a way.
Again, like I said, it doesn't make what
you did. That's not alright alright.
And it doesn't mean that, you know, if
there's some punishment that you have to necessarily
be subjected to
in order for your in order to make
things right again, that that that's gonna go
away or that the rights of people that
you violated are gonna magically disappear. None of
that is the case.
If he wants to, he can do that
as well. But in general, it doesn't have
to be the case. But what it means
is when all is said and done,
when it's your time to take your station
forever and ever,
that day,
you'll you'll be in the shade of his
blessing,
and not, not in his, under his torment
and wrath.
And ultimately, that's that's really all that matters.
Once that day comes, nobody will worry about
what happened yesterday.
A person will always be concerned with what
will happen forevermore, but nobody will be concerned
at that day, what happened yesterday.
And that's, you know, anyone who has any
acal inside of them, any
faculty logic works inside of their head, they
should understand that that's more important than everything
else. That's more important than anything else.
And a person,
you know, should remember Allah's blessings on him.
That who am I to disobey Allah? He
gave me so much. He gave me more
than what he gave other people. That's why
when you see somebody who's in a difficult
spot,
in their in their in their life, he
said,
And, Alhamdulillah,
all praises to Allah who
favored me in in apportionment of blessings over
a great many of the
of of his creation and,
and
and and and gave me more than
than other people. He he favored me over
others.
He
alhamdulillah,
praise be to Allah Ta'ala who spared me
from the affliction that he afflicted others with
and preferred me and and his blessings over
a great number of his of his creation.
If you're sitting here watching a YouTube video,
it means that, masha'Allah,
there's a lot Allah has given you. Allah
gave you eyesight, Allah gave you access enough
to technology to be able to,
communicate and learn,
these things.
Allah gave you Islam and iman, which he
didn't give to a majority of the people
in the world. Allah gave you, fiqr.
Allah gave you concern and worry about your
deen, which he didn't give to many people
in this ummah. Allah gave us a lot
and and, you know, when we remember that,
it should make us a little shy,
to,
to to disobey him.
And a person shouldn't be thankful for the
grace of Allah bestowed upon him.
And that a person should should show that.
Thanks to Allah for all he's given him
by
performing the obligations that he obliged
him to.
And by leaving those things that Allah hates,
you to do.
And that a person should then continue to,
come closer and closer to Allah
by those extra deeds that are not that
are not an obligation, but those extra acts
of love that a person does to,
to make to show his love for Allah.
Those that are facilitated for him. So if
fasting is real hard for you, then pray
some extra rakaz. If praying extra rak'az is
hard for you, read some Quran. If you
don't know how to read, then say make
vikr
If that's difficult, go give sadaqa. If you
don't if you're broke, you don't have any
money, go help people out, help in the
masjid. You know? There's whatever
made easy for you, facilitated
for you, that you're good at doing it,
people need it from you, and, or, you're
good at doing it and, it works between
you and Allah. Just keep doing that extra,
as a way of, as a way of
showing sugar to Allah.
Uh-uh.
Uh-uh. That a person let them do those
deeds right now and hope in the future
that Allah
will accept them. Meaning, when you do a
deed, Allah doesn't have to accept.
He doesn't have to accept anything. Doesn't matter
if you're the fickiest fiqh, you do it
with and the most awesome tahara and the
most everything. If, you know, to do a
deed the right way, according to the shala
of Allah, the sun of the prophet
is
is a commandment of deen, and it is
a prerequisite for your deeds being accepted.
But it doesn't mean Allah has to accept.
Allah can accept from who he wants, and
he can reject from who he wants. It's
just like you go to the mall, you
don't have to buy anything from any store.
You can look at whatever you want to.
If you don't wanna buy, you don't want
no one can force you to buy it.
And the secret of, of acceptance is what?
Is Allah doesn't accept from anyone except for
no one who fears him. Allah doesn't accept
you know, if you come in with expectation,
like, of course, Allah is gonna accept for
me, that makes your deeds
undesirable to him.
And if you, do things with conflict of
interest, it makes your deeds undesirable to him.
If you pollute your deeds and
you pollute your deeds by doing them on
on a body that was nourished from haram
or from money that was haram or with
with intention that's mixed. Any sort of any
sort of,
fouling befouling of the deeds or pollution of
the deeds makes them
undesirable to him. He can accept from who
he wants and he can reject from, whoever
he wishes.
And,
so let the person do the good deeds
with as much sincerely as they can, and
at the end, all you can do is
hope that he,
hope that he accepts it from you. And,
you know, that's on the heels of abstaining
from all those things that will make the
deed
ineligible for for acceptance, like not performing them
correctly or whatever.
And so that person should always have a
little bit of that hope and a little
bit of that fear,
so that their deeds can be accepted. Because
if they lose either of them then, they
will sabotage their their their their deen and
their their
their deeds.
That a person should
repent
to
Allah for all those things that they they
wasted, all those opportunities that they wasted, all
of those,
moments that they wasted, all of those obligations
that were incumbent on them that they that
they that they wasted and that they didn't,
do in time or, you know, that they
did suboptimal or that they didn't perform at
all.
And so he he mentions that
let a person seek refuge in Allah to
Allah,
from all those things that are difficult,
for him in in terms of getting a
grip or a handle on their nuffs. And
some people, they have addictions.
Some people suffer from laziness.
Some people suffer from very deep
flaws in their character.
And they're really hard and the nuffs will
fight back. You try to man, you try
to fight the nuffs. Nuffs is gonna fight
back, you know. And and some people's nuffs
is really powerful. Nuffs will mess you up,
you know.
And nafs will mess you up. Nafs is
like like, you know,
it it it it it it it's not
it's not easy to struggle for people. And
some people are nafus, are more client
for wisdom Allah gave them gave,
you know, or Allah beat it out to
his creation.
And sometimes it has to do with that
person, and sometimes it has to do with
the deed that they did or the deed
that their forefathers
did or or or, you know, a dua
that that hit them or whatever.
But for whatever reason it is, some people,
it's a hikmah of Allah. Allah made a
very high barrier of entry for them,
into into the ranks of the righteous.
And so the issue is this is that
the barrier of entry can be high and
it can be difficult for you and me,
but nothing's difficult for Allah. So Ibn Abi
Zayed is saying that let every let a
person seek refuge in Allah. You know, refuge,
like, you know, those people whose countries are
destroyed, they run away and they, like, go
in camps
to,
you know, get into, like, stable countries where
they can be safe again.
You know, refugee status and all. That's exactly
what it is. Run away. Run away. Run
away from your nafs. Pitch a tent in
front of the the stability of, of of
Allah's help
and say, like, I can't go back there
again. I'm gonna get killed.
That's literally what he was.
Let a person seek refuge in Allah,
from those things that are difficult to get
a grip on enough and to restrict enough
on,
and to change its, its affair,
with complete certainty that Allah ta'ala
is the owner is in complete possession
of, the rectification of a person's affair. Allah
can do it. It's there. Right? He's the
one. He has it. He's the bottle you
need. That's that's the the of the the
the chemical that you put it into the
mix and it will make the entire recipe,
hit. He has he has exactly what you
need.
So let a person seek refuge in him
for all of those things.
That
Allata is the one who can make all
of your good intentions come true. Someone wants
to give a $1,000,000,000 in sadaqa, Allah can
make it come true. Somebody wants to build
a message for the sake of Allah, Allah
can make it come true. Somebody wants to
teach the Quran, somebody, Allah can make it
come true come true. Always seek refuge in
him and, and ask him and know that
he can make it happen. He's the one
who can make it happen. It's not a
confidence we have in ourselves, rather a confidence
that we have in him.
And Allah can make a person's feet firm
on the ground.
And a person should never leave that that
confidence and that trust and that yaqeed, that
certainty in Allah's
ability to
make him come right
in any of his in any of his
states. Whether they are good or bad or
ugly. However, whatever states you go through, if
you're doing good today, you never lose or
flag in that in that certainty. And if
today is not a good day, you weren't,
you know, on the game like you needed
to be.
But you never you never give up, give
up that certainty in
Allah. And a person should never give up
hope in Allah's mercy.
Let a person never give up hope and
the
mercy of Allah.
And let a person
know that to think about Allah's affair and
Allah's command
is the key
to open up slave hood to him.
It's the key to open up
your slave, but in your servitude, in your
worship of him.
And,
you know, to think about, you know, to
think about,
to think about,
Allah
and the world he created and what power
he must have to create
the world. To think about what's good and
why it's good and what's wrong and why
it's wrong. This is a type of meditation.
It's a zikr of Allah, tafakkur and tadabur,
and it's a type of sharai meditation.
It's a Masoon meditation from the sunnah of
the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam.
And, Rial Salihim,
you know, if you, you know, he's like,
oh, he's going kinda goofy right now. He's
talking about meditation. Go crack open Rial Salih.
There's chapters about these things,
about reflecting on on on Allah.
And, you know, we find it kinda hokey
sometimes people will get up and say talk
about the greatness of Allah or whatever. That's
a sunnah.
You know, think about what does it mean
Allah created the heavens and the earth from
nothing? What does it mean that everything was
created from him and everything is ordered by
him and there's so much order in the
universe?
Even though we think about, you know, we
think about, you know, what's quote unquote real
as a dog eats dog world,
But, really, it's only the insan that's like
that.
And even even the animals in the jungle
that are jungle y, there's so much beauty
in them. And the way that they behave,
even those things that they do that are
grizzly and gnarly, you know, there's a order
to it and an that that's an order
that we lack.
And so think about what what does that
mean. Think about, you know, good things
and how much you would love to do
them. Think about bad things and how much
you hate them. Think about the obedience of
Allah, how much you owe him. Think about
all of these things. Meditate over all of
these things.
It is the
is the key that opens up the slave
of Allah to Allah and the worship of
Allah to a slave.
And seek help,
in doing so, in doing and, you know,
treading this path by remembering death
And, and thinking about and and pondering and
meditating over what will come after it. Remember
it. Think about it. Visualize it again and
again.
And think about the,
great and immense blessings of your lord upon
you,
and think about how gracious your lord has
been
by delaying punishment,
from when you deserve it. That we do
the sins and Allah doesn't just bam, like,
hit us right away. Rather, he gives us
some time to think about it, to repent,
to make ourselves better.
Think about how much he's blessed you by
by delaying the punishment that we so richly
deserve.
And think about other than you,
other than you, Allah has taken them to
task. There are people who've been punished for
their sins. The time came, they tripped the
wire and Allah Allah got them,
and, how how he's blessed you by not
by not having gotten you yet,
for the sins with the punishment that we
also originally deserve.
And think about how many sins you've sent
forward,
in your account to Allah
already,
and what are you gonna do about them?
And and and think about,
where are you going to end up, You
know, you know, where are you going to
end up?
And think about
think about how quickly,
how quickly
how quickly you're going to,
go to
that appointment
which has already perhaps already become near at
hand, which is the appointment of death.
Allah
give us hayr. Allah
give us tawfiq to make tawbah.
Allah accept that tawba from us. We say,
Allah, there's no excuse. Whatever excuses we have,
we admit that they're not excuses.
There's nothing that excuses somebody.
No circumstances that is a person from disobeying
from disobeying you, You Allah.
And, whatever our stupidity or our powerlessness
or our,
ineptness or incompetence or whatever, there's no excuse
for it. So we give up excuses right
now, You Allah,
and we admit that,
that there was no excuse at all. And
we plead guilty here from this world before
we get to your court over there. So,
You Allah, take pity on us
and accept this,
accept this this
humble entreaty for a plea bargain from us
that we we accept that what we did
was wrong was wrong and that what you
commanded us to do, we didn't do some
of it, and some of it we did,
but we didn't do it in the way
that that it was your heart that it
should be done.
And so take pity on us and give
us,
forgiveness
as is worthy of you.
And don't
don't give us
what we're worthy of, but give us what
you're worthy of. And Ahlul Taqwal is you're
worthy of being fear, Ahlul Mawfirah and you're
worthy of forgiving.
You Akram Al Akramino You're Hamar Rahimin You
Allah.
Oh most generous of the generous and most
merciful of the merciful.
Yahweh, take pity on us and give us
the tilth of rectifying our lives
and changing them for the better and walking
the path of righteousness
and make what's in front of us from
our lives better than what's behind us and
make the best of our, days what's left
in front of us of them And make
the best of our days our last days
our last day and make the best of
our moments our last moments and the best
of our words our last words and make
them
Muhammadu Rasoolallahu
and accept it from us, You Allah. And
give us a death better than our life,
and give us a time in the grave
better than our death, and give us a
resurrection better than our time in the grave,
and give us a gathering better than our
resurrection,
and give us a drink from your the
whole
of
your
and give us the
give us a easy accounting and order your
angels to give us our book of deeds
in our right hands and to be kind
to us. Make us from those who cross
us here off like lightning even though we
haven't done the deeds to prepare for us
yet for for that.
And make us from amongst those who are
called from all 8 gates of Jannah that
we can enter from whichever one we desire,
even though we admit that we're not worthy
of it. And give us a maqam forever
and ever with your and with the ones
that you love, even though we admit from
from here that we we know we did
nothing to earn it and we're not worthy
of it, you Allah.
And give all of this to our our
parents
and to our forefathers,
both in Nasav and in Nisbah, both in
our our our lineage in Islam,
as well as those who brought the deen
to us, our teachers and our mashaikh, all
the way to the aslaf, all the way
to the
and all the way to the Nabi
You Allah, and give give all of it
to our children and our children's children and
our students and our students' students and our
brothers and sisters
our spouses,
and those who loved us for the sake
of Allah, and those who we loved for
the sake of Allah, and
give it give it to those who did
good by us you Allah. If anyone did
good by us you Allah, even if they're
not Muslims give them in exchange for it.
La ilaha illallah Muhammadur Rasulullah and let them
die in iman or Islam.
You Allah, one of the brothers, I don't
wanna take his name, he called me and
you know better than I do. He called
me the other day crying and weeping,
saying that my father is sick, and I
don't know if he's going to survive.
And he hasn't taken Shahada, and it breaks
my heart that he'll pass
without
me being able to make dua for him.
You know, Allah, please don't break this poor
brother's heart. You Allah, anyone of every one
of us has some relative or another
that has left the deen or that's not
on the deen or some kinsman or some
some person who did good by us. Allah
give them Hidayah and spread your Hidayah in
this land and all the lands of the
earth and inside the Darul Islam and outside
the Darul Islam give the people the tofiet
saying, la ilaha illallah Muhammadu Rasool Allah Sallallahu
Alaihi Wasallam and living by it and dying
by it, you Allah, and accept it from
them.
You Allah,
rectify the
the the
and the conditions
of the Ummah of Sayid and Muhammad
You
Allah, whoever does good by it, you Allah,
do good by them. You Allah, whoever aids
it and supports it, you Allah, aid them
and support support them. You Allah, whoever strengthens
it, you Allah, strengthen them. You Allah, whoever
serves it, you Allah, serve them. Whoever,
whoever, You Allah, does anything good by it,
You Allah, increase them in every head in
this world and in the hereafter.
You Allah. Whoever will stand,
raise from amongst us, whoever will stand in
order to make islah of its affairs, you
Allah. Raise such people from amongst us, You
Allah, who will stand and rectify its affairs
and push it towards something better than it's
on right now, You Allah. You Allah, give
us the tawfiq that we open our masajid
up again and that we get to may
Hajj and Umrah again and that we get
to visit Al Haramain al Sharifeen again and
that we get to visit Mas'ur Al Aqsa
again. You Allah, free the Mas'ur Al Aqsa
from its occupation and like that all of
the lands of the Muslims where they're oppressed.
You Allah send your nikma and your adab
down on those people who harm the people
of La ilaha ilomar, innocent brothers and sisters
in Turkestan and in Burma
and in India and in, all of the
different countries in Central African Republic, in the
Horn of Africa, Yalla, all of those places
where they're weak and defenseless.
And You Allah, we've we've abandoned them as
an Ummah. You Allah, don't abandon them. You
Allah, send your nikhman adab on anybody, a
blight and a curse on anybody who looks
at them with evil glances and who touches
them with evil intent and who speaks evil
against them, you
You Allah. Send down your curse on those
people who would wish to harm and violate
the innocent faces and the innocent hearts of
the people who say,
aid those people who come to their aid.
Aid.
You Allah bankrupt their economies. You Allah. You
Allah.
Hold their hand back from
destroying their own dunya and their own akhirah
through this evil deed and give them the
tough faith of repenting. And if not,
Yeah.
This country and this has done good by
us and has given us our rights, and
people haven't, you know, people have not been
perfect in that. But, You Allah, in general,
they've done good by us that live here.
You Allah, guide the people of this country
to your deen. You Allah, guide the people
of this country to your deen. You Allah,
guide them to make tova from whatever excesses
that they've done in the past, and you
Allah reward them richly for whatever good that
they do. You Allah. You Allah guide them
to something better. You Allah, this whole crisis
that we're going through with the coronavirus and
all the things that come with it, you
Allah, make it a means for our islah
and for our betterment in this world and
the hereafter for the of the prophet and
for for your creation in general. You Allah,
whatever we shouldn't have asked for, forgive us,
you Allah, and whatever we should have asked
for, give it to us. And we trust
you. And what you choose for us is
more beloved to us and better for us
than what we choose for ourselves.
Maybe one day we can continue and read
the rest of the kitab jamming together, but
for now, this is the last Darce. And,
InshaAllah, hopefully, we'll get to choose, something to
post in Ramadan.
Allah
make it a Mubarak month for all of
us, InshaAllah.
Even if you can't go to the masjid,
but still Allah Ta'ala is still there. And
so remember that and don't miss out on
that opportunity. Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala accept
from us all.