Hamzah Wald Maqbul – Riyd alSlihn Don’t Lose Motivation Because of Things That Don’t Matter
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Bring the the the pillow and put it
here. And, Moana,
please come forward.
So
just
a polite and loving
note on
a,
a polite and loving note on a
institutional
and managerial level,
which is that,
this place,
I have to fundraise for, like, every dollar
and still would barely pay the bills. I
apologize. I wish we had, like, a big
bathroom that could, like, accommodate, like, 15 people
to make wudu at the same time. If
you're able to,
try to make wudu when you come. I
know I'm the guiltiest because you saw that
I actually missed the raka of the salat.
But, like, I myself
barely have time to come here
and, and, you know, make it on time
and all of these other things.
If every one of us is going to
do this, then the hour that we're supposed
to be spending in the arsenic or things
like that will
be passed
in idleness.
The second thing is one of the things
one of the things my,
Saji Mohan Hassan
give him long life
along from having read Abu Dawood in the
back half of from him and 2 jills
of the Hidayah from him and the front
half of the from him and a number
of other books as well, and
things like that.
He's also my sheikh also,
in the tariq.
He mentions this. He goes, look. Sometimes I'm
held up, legitimately held up. If you come
to Dhar's early and wait,
you get the reward of waiting.
If
if
I come to Dhar's and wait for you,
then you're wasting your time, and I'm wasting
mine.
So no one's gonna yell at anyone. I
know, like, things come up, sometimes traffic and
this and that, but as a habit to
come late to things that you do for
the sake of Allah, it's not it's not
a good habit. And this is my to
myself first and to others afterward as well.
So with that, inshallah, there's a relatively short
babble we'll read, and then we'll give a
chance to hear from Sheikh Musa,
and,
and from our guests,
many of whom we have, Inshallah, this week.
So today is the Bab in particular
about the,
prohibition of taking an evil omen. And
he said that whatever we read last week
also applies to this as well.
So what is an evil omen? Just to,
review,
it's when you see something happening and you
take it as a sign that the good
thing that you're setting out to do,
you probably shouldn't do it.
But it's not necessarily directly tied to
the thing you're trying to do.
So for example, if a person is
going to set up a barbecue, and they
see that it's raining really hard.
This is related to what you're doing.
This is not what we're talking about.
What we're talking about is you're going to,
I don't know, set up a barbecue, but
then you see a black cat go through
your backyard.
Has absolutely nothing to do with what you
wanna do.
Setting up a barbecue is something that's dies
anyway.
It's something that's permissible.
It's even worse to take an evil omen.
It's not permissible to take an even evil
omen for something that's just permissible. It's even
worse to take an evil omen for something
that's recommended or a sunnah, and it's even
worse than that to take an evil omen
from something which is farr, like going to
Jummah or something like that. And it's even
worse than that to
take an evil omen from something, which is
one of the conditions of your iman.
One of the interesting,
things that I heard from our is,
for example,
if someone comes to you and says that
I'm a Nabi after the prophet
They almost elected this guy in
Naperville.
Allah, subhanahu wa ta'ala, give him the tawfiq
to make tawba before he gets dragged into
a fire, the fuel of which is stones
and men.
If someone came to you and said that,
the alamas say even asked what's your daleel.
That's also kufr because, obviously, if you ask
what's your daleel as a mockery, this is
not what we're talking about. But if someone
asks what's your daleel as in, like, okay.
Well, I'm gonna hear what you have to
say. The fact that you already entertained the
possibility
is is
even if you didn't mean it as kufr,
it means that the iman wasn't there in
the first place.
So there's a continuum in which all of
these things escalate.
Try to understand what I'm saying because all
this chapter, even though it seemed like very
basic and rudimentary fit okay. This is haram.
Don't do it. It actually ties in with
a lot of very important things.
If someone were to tell you 2 +2
is 5, and you honestly ask, well, what's
your daleel? You're actually entertaining the possibility in
your mind.
This means you don't know what 2 means,
and you don't know what 4 means, and
you don't know what 5 means.
It's not necessarily that you made kufir in
the math. You never even knew what the
math was was in the 1st place in
order to believe in it or disbelieve in
it, which is a really bad sign.
So
coming back to this,
the concept of this hadith of tataiyur,
something that has nothing to do with it,
but to take a bad omen. The prophet
mentioned in the
hadith that we read last week that this
is a thing. These negative thoughts that you
have when you're on your way to do
something, the lack of confidence
that you have in yourself when you're trying
to do something. Rasulullah
said this is natural. It's a part of
human nature. Everybody has this inside,
and just ignore it. And then in this
bat that we'll read today, he'll give, advice
also of, like, how to deal with it,
how you can fight back against it, how
you can mitigate it. But it's enough for
you to know that if you see something
that's evil evil open, a bad sign, oh,
it's like raining, so I shouldn't go to
Jum'ah, or it's,
you know, whatever. I had a really bad
morning. My boss yelled at me, so I
shouldn't, I don't know, give charity today. Or
my wife yelled at me. Obviously, everyone here,
our wives are, like, wonderful and
suggested that there are people in public that
their, you know, their spouses have been mean
to them at some point.
That shouldn't dissuade you from doing what's right,
either with your spouse or with something completely
unrelated.
So that's,
that's the idea here, inshallah, and we'll talk
a little bit more,
about the the akhai that underpinned,
it very shortly.
Said that there's no contagion,
and there is no evil omen.
But I like a good omen.
And they they said, oh, messenger of Allah,
what is a good omen? He said it's
it's it's a good word, a pleasant word.
What do these things mean? Unpack it a
little bit. Right? There's no contagion. Or we
just got through a,
a pandemic pandemic, whatever. You know? They may
have actually they probably made it up in
some lab in China and deliberately infected everybody
with it or whatever. But still,
whether it was on purpose or not, it's
still spread by contagion.
Now the the people whose inclination is toward
a a very vaheri reading,
I don't think vaheri means literalist, but very,
like, surface level meaning. They'll say, oh, look.
See, the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam negated
contagion. That contagion doesn't
exist.
This is, with all love and respect, this
is the same, like, kind of crew that
said, like, corona is caused by, like, 5
g or whatever. This doesn't really as far
as my understanding of the material
world, this is
not true.
If anyone ever tells you something that's patently
not true, then know that the
say that anyone who interprets the Quran in
a way that is rationally
or observationally
impossible.
Then know
that the interpretation
is wrong, but the Quran is right.
Rationally impossible, there's no exception to that rule.
Observationally impossible means it's what? A miracle at
most.
One of the words that they use for
miracles, there's a category of things. Things they
call harpulada.
A miracle is one of them, and miracles
what we call miracles in English is of
2 different types. There's or 3 different types.
There's the the which is the
the the the miraculous happening, which is a
proof of the message of a nabi, and
then there's the karama,
which is the the miracle manifested at the
hands
manifested at the hands of the people, the
ummah who declared the Haqq of the Nabi.
So the aggregate, all all the karamaats form
one of the merges after the prophet sala
alayhi
wasalam. This is the prophet sala alayhi wasalam.
If you say,
and someone tries to, you know, shoot you
and magically, like, you survive, you know, or
whatever, which seems
like it happened for in a very different
context a couple days ago, a day day
day
ago. But if it's like miraculously,
then you sort of then this is what?
This is a miracle not a view of
the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam of him being
hapti.
I mean, that guy, you know, he cut
his ears, so that's not miraculous at all.
That's a bad aim. But, impossibly set up.
But the the you know, but, like, you
know, these things do happen.
What's another thing? Like, a evil person will
do something, and Allah Allah will vouchsafe a
miracle at their hands. It's not a miracle
at all. It's just
Allah is,
Allah is testing that person and testing people
through that person.
Or it could be something that somebody
a evil person says they're gonna do something
and tries to do something, but miraculously they're
stopped from doing it so that Allah Taq
can shame them in front of the creation.
There are all these different all of them
fall under the category
of.
Meaning what? The normal way the heavens and
the earth work, Allah ta'ala, like, makes an
exception to it.
Usually, the fire
the kharqul a'adah is only a kharq when
the a'adah is a'adah.
You cannot invoke miracles every single time. Someone
who talks about miracles, every single thing that
happened is a miracle. That means nothing's a
miracle because then the miracle becomes normal.
So even then, if a miracle was one
off, it happened like that, then, okay, that's
an exception. But the rule is still if
you see it happening again and again and
again and again and again, you hear it,
you touch it, you feel it, you count
it, every time it's happening a certain way,
then know that if your understanding of the
text is
something that makes you disbelieve the ada that
you observed with your eyes and with your
ears
and with your, your senses,
then know that the interpretation is wrong. The
Nas is right. The Quran and the Sunnah
is right, and your interpretation is wrong. Now,
obviously, someone's gonna say, oh, look. You're Sufi
and you're goofy and Madhab is shirk and
we'd only follow the prophet, the hadith
says Right?
Well, you know,
he writes
in pre modern times.
He goes,
at any rate, he's saying what? He's saying
that that look.
The point of this is that the sickness
contagion,
it doesn't cause a sickness. Allah Ta'ala causes
a sickness.
But the ada is that how does Allah
Ta'ala is the the the the cause of
all things.
But, generally, if you go near a sick
person, allata will cause sickness. And there's actually
that
is recognizes this, that's muraqab. That's
based on this
reality that we observe. That usually a person
who's sick when he goes to a person
who's not sick, with the contagious disease, it
gives that person the contagious disease by the
hookahum of Allah. The fire doesn't burn. Allah
is the one who burns. But, generally, if
you go to fire, Allah will decree that
you get burned, so don't go near the
fire.
And there are akhtaam and sharia that are
based on that. And so like that, he
says that,
even though even this doesn't, in any way,
shape, or form, negate the command to stay
away from
sick people like the hadith of the prophet
sallallahu alaihi wa sallam. Indeed,
a person should not
a well person should not go anywhere, near
the sick person.
So the idea is what is that the
disease is not caused by
contagion. It's caused by Allah ta'ala. It's not
a negation that contagion exists.
And there's no and we don't accept, evil
omen. Black cat crossed the path.
Just keep on trucking.
And the prophet said, however, I
I I like
a good omen. What's a good omen? It's
a good word. Meaning what? If you're going
to do something good and you see a
sign that you should do anyway and you
see a sign that's in that encourages you
to do something that you should be doing
anyway,
it's not only okay. It's a good thing
to take encouragement from that.
Meaning what? Have a positive attitude.
The bad omen that discourages you, dissuades you
from doing something?
Good.
Ignore that. The good omen that encourages you
to do something good? You should take take
it take it in the heart. Now what
if a black cat crosses your path when
you're, you know, on your way to, I
don't know, rob a bank or do something
haram?
That's a good omen.
Not that the cat has anything to do
with it, but it's okay to, like, be
like, okay. This cat is here to remind
me. Don't go to Jahanam.
That's okay. That that's 2 negatives make a
positive in that in that sense. But the
point is is don't let something unrelated dissuade
you from doing the thing that you should
be doing anyway. If something unrelated encourages you
to do what you're supposed to be doing
anyway, then it's part of sunnah. That's okay.
You can accept that.
He said that the messenger of Allah said
there's no contagion and there's no bad omen.
But if there were to be a bad
omen, it would be in in, in one
of 3 things, in a house,
in a wife,
or in a,
horse.
A means of conveyance.
The point is is that those 3, if
you wanna agonize over a choice
and see something that you don't know if
it's, negative or not, but you should you
know, it's okay to kind of, like, trust
your gut feeling about. You don't have to
have
have the proof, like, so clear in front
of your head. It's okay to trust your
gut about. If you are gonna go buy
a house but you're unsure of it or
you're unsettled about it for some reason, don't
buy it
because you'll be stuck there.
If you see a a a spouse that,
you know, you're considering to marry. Here, the
ul bara is used because the default hitab
is for
for for men.
Why? Because of.
It's not because
women are any less than men, but because
of. The devout
is for men. But this applies to women,
and it also applies the well, you have
a woman who is the one who will
make the decision or
give the input,
to for the decision of whether a man
is eligible to be married or not. If
you have a bad feeling about it, don't
marry them.
But, again, it should be based on something.
But if you have a gut feeling, it's,
you know it's okay. Like, you you should
be forgiven for that. Why? Because you marry
someone who's you shouldn't marry. It happens to
people.
If it happened in the past, don't agonize
about it. But in the future, do trust
your gut on those things. And then the
third thing is what is your ride. Like,
if you're gonna buy a horse, you're gonna
buy a camel, or nowadays, you're gonna buy
a car or whatever. Something about the thing
is unsettling to you. Because these three things,
they really affect your day to day life
and you're kinda stuck with them. They're not
like purchases you make every day. So you
could be forgiven for a little bit going
with your gut feeling. But even there,
it's not like a black cat. It's like
you actually see something that, like, unsettles you
or that that you have some feeling
otherwise, everybody there's nobody who gets married except
for, like, at some moment before before the
the nika has done. You have some sort
of doubt inside of your heart, but it
should still be based on something. You should
just be a little bit more lenient in
trusting your gut
feeling in those things. It should still not
be completely baseless. Some people also, they like
you know, they've never saw a a girl
that that they don't feel
some doubt about or a husband that they
feel some doubt about, and then they become,
like, 60 and be like, well, how come
I don't have kids yet or whatever?
Those things you should see a clinical psychology
practitioner about. But if there's a thing like,
yeah, they said this one thing, and they're
like, I don't know and I don't know.
No. No. No. That'd be okay, but, no,
still I don't know. It's okay to trust
your gut with those things. But it should
be something that there's a that that has
some basis, not something that's, completely completely contrived,
inside your head that's unrelated.
1,
So,
who narrates that
the discussion, the topic
of of omens were was mentioned
in the presence of the messenger of Allah.
And he said the best of them is
a good omen.
You wanna do something good, you see a
sign that, like, you know,
that encourages you to do the thing you
should have been do doing anyway. That's the
best of omens.
And, at any rate, evil omens will not
thwart a Muslim.
So if you see evil omen, you're trying
to do something that's right, but you see
something ominous on your way to do it,
don't worry about that ominous
unrelated sign that you see. It won't stop
you.
Rather, if one of you sees
a
sign that they dislike, that causes them to
be a little shaken, little shook inside, you
know?
Then let them say, oh Allah,
No one brings good things except for you,
and no one will ward off evil things
except for you. And there's no power,
to avoid sin, and there's no power to
establish your obedience except for
in you and with you and by you
and through you.
This is the meaning of
but here it's addressed to Allah
that there's no,
there's no ability to avoid sin or evil,
and there's no, ability to stand firm on
your obedience except for through you. You address
it to Allah ta'ala.
You say this dua, whatever
even bad feeling you had in your heart,
there's sometimes, you know, you feel bad about
something. Just a lack of confidence can shake
you even though externally everything else is, like,
okay and normal.
You say this du'a, this is also a
way that you can ward off that, that,
lack of confidence inside.
Again, remember the point of du'a is not
to
inform Allah of your needs. The point of
du'a is what?
Is to show Allah to Allah your slavehood.
That if you ask, you're asking him, you're
not asking somebody else.
So it's okay if you feel like plagued
with these types of doubts. It's okay to
call your, like, you know, person who you
lean on for comfort, lean on me when
you're not strong, I'll be your friend, etcetera,
etcetera.
Before doing that, before calling your therapist, before,
you know, eating your comfort food, before
taking a nap, before, you know, telling yourself
your daily affirmations with Stuart Smalley, before all
of these things. You wanna do them, they
work for you, go right ahead. Some of
them are not haram. Some of them are
actually kind of, you know, there'll be benefit
before you do any of that. 1st, whose
slave are you? Who do you worship? Allah.
That's why we literally get together every week
and say Allah Allah. Right?
Allah.
So you say, Allah.
Nobody brings good except for you. He already
knows that. You don't have to tell him.
Who are you telling?
You're showing him. You're saying, you Allah, you
know, I'm right now I I'm trying to
do this thing, but I don't have it
together. But at least inside my heart of
hearts, I know that this is the truth
and I believe this. The other machinery is
not functioning exactly a 100% right now. Some
part of the psyche is a little shaken
right now.
But the part that counts, you know, there
may be, like, the the lights go off
in the cabin, but the pilot, know, is
still you know, the pilot still knows where
the destination is. I know where I'm. I'm
still trying to get to my destination.
I'm still trying what's the destination?
Allah.
And nobody
words off evil except for
you.
And there's no ability for me to get,
you know, like, to for me to avoid
going to the wrong airport or for me
to get to the airport I'm going to
the destination I'm going to, except for through
you.
You're showing your slave to Allah
The second thing, what the first gem is
what reaches us through
The second one is from.
He said, if you ever wanna know what
the prophet was thinking when he did something,
look at what words does he use in
the dua when when doing that thing.
Which is again, what? Disconnect from the black
cat, connect with
Allah.
This is really important. Why? Because with the
black cat, it's, like, silly. I don't know
if anyone here really is at all that
affected by seeing a black cat.
White cat gotta be black? Okay. White cat.
I don't know. Whatever whatever it is. You
see. Whatever it is. Whatever species it is.
Some people like it's a donkey. Some people
it's whatever it is. You know?
You're going to you're going to go and
you wanna marry someone. You're gonna go, you
know, meet someone to get married. And, you
know, the car drives in front of you
and, like, it's a spitting image of your
ex, or maybe it's your actual ex.
Now that's scary. Right?
The point is is what? The point is
is that
you disconnect from all of that disconnect from
your ex or whatever the, like, emotional equivalent
is and you're whatever the bully that beat
you up when you're in in school or,
you know, the Qari Saab that, like, beat
you when, you know, silly when you didn't
say
exactly correctly or whatever. Right? Disconnect with that
and connect with
Allah
ta'ala. All of these things, this is this
is literally like a gift of of
took it to interesting
interesting places. Why? Because before Islam came, this
is all the garbage people used to believe.
We talk about, like,
like, philosophy. People say, oh, look. Imam Ghazali,
he was
against the philosophers, and that's why Muslim world
is so backwards right now because philosophy, you
know, the word philosophy means what? It means
the love of wisdom. Who who would like
hate wisdom?
Right? That was a particular school of philosophers
that he
refuted. The peripatetic philosophers, that was basically the.
Greek philosophers made in order the cosmology and
worldview that they made in order to
in order
to establish the worldview of pagan Greek, religion.
So they literally used to believe stuff like
the moon.
That's why there's astrology and horoscopes and all
this stuff. It's not the Greeks made it
up. They learned it from the Persians. The
Persians learned it from the Babylonians. The Babylonians
learned it from the Sumerians, and all of
them were weird cappers.
Samaria is, like, the origin of a lot
of this stuff. They used to have, like,
you know, you have a message fundraiser,
and they're like, who's gonna give $10,000?
Roll rise. Like, man, why did they invite
me to this if they want $10,000? You
know?
You know how they used to do Masjid
fundraiser in, Sumeria?
They'd have, like, temple prostitutes.
Like, that's
it's not good.
This is where all this garbage comes from.
And so they believe that the moon has
this effect on people and that the stars
are perfect.
This is one of the reasons why is
it the church,
excommunicated
Galileo.
Because he said that the sun wasn't the
center of the universe.
Where did they get the idea that the
stars didn't don't move?
They justified it with a new justification. They
said, oh, because Christ is God,
and that if God's from Earth, it must
be the center of the universe.
But the idea the idea that the stars
don't move, where do they learn it from?
The peripatetic philosophers.
Now the are like, I don't know, man.
I don't think the moon has all that
effect on people. It just looks like a
big rock in the sky.
That's, you know, they're like, that's what it
looks like to us.
It looks like the planets are all moving
in independently of one another. The stars are
all moving independently of one another.
The movements they have,
you know, they're either marvelously complex with no
cause for them to move in complex ways,
or the earth is, like, completely wigging out
in ways that are, like, not even mathematically
or physically possible
or we're not the center of the universe.
It was a liberation from all of that
other garbage. What does the,
the dean teach us? The dean teaches us,
yes, cause and effect occurs, but the only
real actual cause is Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala.
It extricates you from any sort of dogmatic
conviction in the power of any physical thing.
The ascription of godlike powers to any physical
thing. This is why you'll see the most
atheistic of atheist people,
they always have some lucky charm and some
lucky this and that and some lucky rabbit
foot and some,
astrologer and astronomer and this and that. They're
the ones that are most
pegged and drowning in
the taking of evil omens. Why? If you
don't believe in Allah, you are then doomed
to, like, be the slave of all this
other nonsense.
This is this is why. This is why
even amongst Muslims obviously, look, you're not supposed
to look at another Muslim and be like
your monafi
because you don't
know. And even the prophet knew and he
still
forbade people from doing it and he himself
didn't do it.
At the same time, we know as a
general idea, there are gonna be some people
who say
and they walk around,
they're just fakers.
This is a phenomenon that exists. Some are
complete fakers and some are partial fakers. Some
are faking in a really in a large
part.
We know that this thing exists.
What ends up happening?
Those people are the ones who are the
first ones that are the victims. Some sheikh
will come and say, well, you don't have
to, like, you know, eat halal and you
don't have to pray and fast. Just come
to my thing and when you, like, whatever,
kiss my ring and, you know, give me
$10,000, then you'll get the reward of 30
hedges and, like, you know, your prayers are
forgiven and this is forgiven. And I saw
a dream of this and that. And, like,
Martin Luther King dream was, like, you know,
something actually useful. These people see a dream,
and a person wonders, like, what's the point
of that dream? But, like, all they do
is talk about their dreams in real life.
They don't do anything that reminds you of
the book of Allah or the sooner the
prophet.
Right?
Oftentimes, who are the people who fall for
that? The people who are, like, reading Quran
every day and the people who, like, wanna
learn and the peep no. It's the people
who are the most heedless of of deen.
Why? Because if you don't believe in if
you don't show your slave to Allah, then
he'll make you the slave of every, like,
stupid thing,
of the dumbest of things,
and until you learn your lesson. And sadly,
some people don't learn their lesson. And so
that's part of also,
you know, the the vicar component of our
gathering.
Saying
it's not just something you repeat prattle idly
the words. Rather, all of these things, all
of this all of this all of this
all of this hadith, all of these things.
If you understood what
is, you'll see that it's like the vessel
that contains all of these meanings, all of
these realities in it.
And that's the reason Allah chose it to
be the flag and the marker of faith.
And every time you say
don't just like I'm practicing mindfulness. I'm zooming
out. I'm emptying my mind of this. No.
Empty your mind of
of everything other than Allah because there's only
Allah filled with. You fill the entire universe
with your
and and and something greater than the entire
universe inside of your heart when you say
It's not emptying your mind. You're not like
brainless. You wanna empty your mind? Go, you
know, have your, the person next to you
knock your brain with a hammer. Your your
head skull with a hammer, your brain will
fall out. Your mind will be empty forever.
Or at least until you know, it's a
long it's gonna be a long haul. You'll
you'll you'll sleep well. You won't ever have
any anxiety ever again. You'll never have a
headache again. That's what MD that's not the
point of any of this is. Right? But
the point of the vigor is to remember
all of these things, and it's a source
of the from Allah
for you. Because if you connect with, like,
the way that planets orbit or with the
heat of fire or with stuff that actually
even the stuff that actually makes sense,
You're still missing the point. The point is
the does Allah connect
with him, then the will be in your
the harp will be in your heart. Right?
The normal way things happen will be in
your favor. The miracle will be in your
favor.
Everything will be in your favor in this
world. And even if it's not Allah, if
you have Allah, you didn't lose anything.
On that day, a person will say, oh,
man. Look how much Allah gave me for
my suburb and my patience. I wish I
could have given more.
I wish I could have been uncomfortable for
another hour. I wish I could have had
a car that was a year older and
a house that was a 100 square feet
smaller, and I could have given another finger
for the sake of Allah and another limb
for the sake of Allah, another day, another
year for the sake of Allah. Why? Because
people will see, like, the duniya was all
garbage anyway. And look, someone gave so little
and they get so much and it's forever.
So remember that. Let that that be what
your is. It's not just a cult thing
like, you know, I'm a Sufi, like Muslim
2.0 or whatever. Right?
Then you are exactly what our brothers say.
You're complete deviant innovator and, like, people should
stay away from you, and I'll be the
first one to warn against you.
But if you gather these things in your
and this is what what your is, this
is what it means to be.
I give you the glad tidings that you're
on the of the
you're on the path of the the most
righteous and pious of this. May Allah
make us, go down their path by the
and
have the personal view with the one that
they love.
So if I could ask, Sheikh Musa to
say,
some words of benefit, inshallah,
for the brothers, and sisters.
We're here sitting, listening to the words and
the blessed words of our beloved prophet,
and there's no better place than we can
be.
And to the lay person
driving
on the street, they may look at this
office space. And to them, it's just another
space.
And to them, it's just another
parking lot.
But in the eyes of Allah,
these are the gardens of paradise.
These are the places where Allah is being
remembered, and these are the places where the
angels gather.
And this is something which really distinguishes us
as Muslims
and which makes us different and unique from
the non Muslim. It's how we perceive things,
how we view things,
how we look at time and space.
What do we think about a particular area?
To us,
we look beyond just the gravel. We look
beyond just the paint. We look beyond just
the carpet.
But we look at
the things which
exist beyond beyond that.
And those are the things that the eyes
can't perceive,
but those are the things that we've been
informed about by our prophet,
These are the blessed things that
we take heed to.
We also know that this isn't just a
typical day. It's not just a Sunday. It's
not just July
14th,
13th, 14th, or whatever it may be.
But this is actually a blessed time also
in the month of Muharram.
It's one of the sacred months.
So these type of things when a believer
becomes
aware and cognizant of these things, this is
what establishes our iman.
This is what makes us believers.
That we give stock to things that other
people won't give stock to unless they can
show some benefit to it. But as believers,
we take benefit to it because this is
what we learned from our prophet, alaihis salatu.
We read the hadith about
Right? That there's no,
there's no
contagion
and superstition.
We don't we don't believe in just makeups,
make believe things.
But it does show something that the nature
and the fitra of the human being is
we do have to believe in something.
It's in our fitra. It's very human that
you need something to believe in. You need
something to have faith in. You need something
to rely on. You need to have something
that you hope for. Otherwise, what is hope
to begin with? When you hope for something,
who are you hoping to? You can't just
hope to thin air.
When there's something beyond your control that you
hope for,
who are you hoping to?
So these things are real,
these are realities for a human being. But
if we don't understand how to apply those
things and who to direct them towards,
then we're lost.
So the prophet is correcting
all of these
misunderstandings
and misgivings about belief and superstition
and saying that none of those exist. It's
Allah
who controls these
things. That but good omens, you can take
good omens. And it's instilling into us this
this,
positive view towards life, being optimistic,
being hopeful so that you have Himma to
do the things you're supposed to rather than
being discouraged all the time.
Otherwise, you could imagine how many times you
would be discouraged from doing something you're supposed
to just because you saw some bad omen.
And this is something that you even see
instances in the Quran.
That the people when the the the dawah
came to them,
I'm not really vibing with you. This is
like their their their their
their their equivalent to I'm not vibing with
you.
There's something about you that I'm not really
feeling.
What are your feelings?
The feelings are enough in many cases of
something you just don't want to do.
But if it's something that's good, you can't
now take some sign,
some some omen, some superstition. Well, I don't
think I should do that because of this
particular feeling or this sign.
Rather, we put those things aside and you
have the himma to do what we're supposed
to do.
And we have the courage to do what
we're supposed to do.
So these are the type of things where,
as believers,
we're grateful.
We're grateful that Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala put
us in an environment
where we can learn
how to properly direct
our human nature.
How to properly be human being.
Because otherwise, again, it can go out of
control and people have this where they take
these bad omens and these bad signs,
and
they be it turns into actual,
and they come overwhelmed with these things.
And
in in many cases, it it can even
become
obsessive. You have OCD, you know, scrupulosity.
And you have these things where they can't
even control their thoughts anymore, and they can't
do certain things. Things. They can't function in
life.
But first, we turn to Allah. We turn
to Allah to help us overcome whatever it
is that we need to do for whatever
good
and to avoid whatever harm that we're trying
to avoid.
So
these type of things again, we're grateful to
Allah
for that. We're grateful that he put us
in these gatherings
where we can hear these things. We're grateful
to Allah that he can put us in
the company
scholars,
of people who will give us nasiha,
who will tell us things that we need
to hear and not just tell us things
that we want to hear.
The ones who will tell us, like, don't
come to class late.
If there's a Darce and there's a religious
gathering,
don't come late.
SubhanAllah, like, this is all
a reminder. This is not fault to be
here. And as Mawlana mentioned, sometimes things come
up, and that's beyond our control.
How many times the last time someone told
us, like, in a gathering, a religious gathering,
like, do your best to be on time?
We need to hear these things. This is
our deen, actually. A deen and the Siha.
They can't always just be flowery,
you know, and and and
and
and encouragement.
So Ardeen is a and with.
You need to have a healthy dose of
of of of warning also, a healthy dose
of
of of of discouraging us from doing things
we're not supposed to do. That's why our
prophet, alaihis salatu sallam, he was a bashir
and he was nadeer.
Then he was bashir, he was a giver
of God tidings, he was also the one
that would warn also.
So even though he was a mercy,
a part of his mercy was warning us
and
correcting us when we did something wrong. So
we read these a hadith
and
every single time, we should we should never
take it for granted. Every single time we
hear these things, we should reflect
on how blessed we are to be able
to be in these gatherings,
and how blessings we are to be how
how how many blessings there are to be
in these times, and that Allah helps us
take the most advantage of these things.
May Allah give myself and all of us.
Are there any questions with regards to the
stars?
Sisters, brothers, anyone?
I wanted to,
take a minute also, inshallah,
to
ask inshallah just a couple of brief words
inshallah.
Sheikh Mustafa is one of Moana Musa's classmates
from Aie.
And,
I had a couple of opportunities to meet
with him, Marshall, but I know him primarily
through his classmates.
And,
they're
mentioning about how much
struggle he went through and how much effort
he put in in order to seek the
knowledge of this deed.
And,
it's an inspiration to, all of us, That's
why I'm very honored that he,
blessed with his presence today,
this gathering. So inshallah, maybe if you could
say a couple of words. You don't have
to talk about your whatever, but just something
inshallah benefit for Tabarrok inshallah before we
start the the vicar inshallah.
Please inshallah come forward and share with us.
It's amazing for the sisters who just keep
it up solid.
No.
Well, firstly, I would like to say,
I didn't know I was gonna be asked
to come up here and say anything. But,
the
gathering here today is a tremendous blessing from
Allah.
And if there's anything I can say
of any benefit for myself and others,
it would be
something from my own situation
or from
my own understanding that Allah has blessed me
to come to
and which hopefully
will
be some benefit for all of us. And
that is
this gathering
is something
that
is
a blessing from Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala that
we should strive
as much as possible
to make an effort to come and to
take benefit from,
for myself personally.
The spiritual aspect
of the Islam
that,
you
know,
Allah has
blessed us
to
have
that we should
truly strive as much as possible
to understand
the
test gear or the purification of the heart
is needed
in order
to come to the commandments of Allah
and
to
to suffice the Allah's
commandments
as best as possible.
For myself personally,
I truly have understood
from the many years of being Muslim
just how much
the Uma is suffering
from not understanding
the test gear
or the to so if you if you
will.
And it being an aspect of the dean
that has been need
so much
and has been put down and been seen
as something that
is just, you know, from
from some from the I mean, to say,
or something with this nature.
So
all of us like this,
we have to understand
it's something that we should strive our utmost
to try to come and be a part
of.
And we should see and understand that a
lot will
will
bless us and benefit us tremendously
on the the day that he takes our
soul and raises back up to life.
There's a hadith in which,
very beautiful hadith
that has inspired me and myself to try
to find these type of halakat
to become a part of. But the prophet,
while they were selling, he stated
that on the day of judgment,
he said that
the people will be very envious
of a group of people that will come.
They will be from different countries, different lands,
and they will all come together in one
place.
And he said on the day of judgment
that they will be honored to such an
extent
that
the
that they will
see these individuals
and they will
marvel at
the
the brightness of their faces.
The
the man that that they will sit upon.
The the thrones and things that they will
sit upon.
And these are the places where the of
Allah is
being,
conveyed, is being done. Right? And how many
of us, we have our message that we
go to. We pray 5 times
times a day. This is beautiful. Right? To
make it to the masjid,
to pray in the front row,
to be there before the the the armor,
tremendous
barter car in that particular armor.
However,
we don't see an arm of Saturday as
it used to be.
The hollow odd of the wicked of Allah.
The raising of the name of Allah. We
don't see it. And if we look in
in the omen and we see what
we see that the only spiritually suffering from
the lack of disconnection
and remembering the
Allah's gonna go to Allah in his fashion.
This victim
remembering Allah's gonna go out and connect them
with light. You know how Allah is something
that goes back all the way to the
earliest community and we see the way that
Allah bless them
in their
armor
to sacrifice
for the dean to such an extent. This
is why we have it today.
So if anything I can say of any
benefit it is,
do
not take this gathering
for something that
is to be belittle
or not understood
as something that not saying it's a photo,
but saying that you should be guarded as
such and try to make effort to come
to it as such. I met Sheikh Hamza
yesterday at the event.
I saw him and I found out about
it and my head almost exploded.
Because this is something I've been searching for
and didn't have a place to go.
So I I'm I'm the Sheikh doesn't even
know. I was I was telling another brother
this. As I was driving to the event
yesterday, I was thinking to myself. I said
to I was talking to a lot of
my heart
and I was saying, y'all love.
You know my struggle,
what I've been going through. And you just
blessed me to come ahead of some things
I've been trying to get over in my
particular situation.
Please keep me ahead of these difficulties
so that I can make a journey myself
hopefully this time next year financially
for the sake of a lot to go
out in the path of a month. Right?
So then as I'm driving to the event,
I see the share. We begin talking. He
told me about this holocaust. Like I said,
my head almost exploded. I have to be.
So
I want all of us to understand
that this is a gathering
that as the Sheikh said early, you're gonna
see on the day of judgment. You're gonna
wish an hour. I wish I had to
put him through.
I lost out on a business deal. I
wish I would have lost out on several
business deals to be there.
So
hopefully, inshallah to add and the last
will put in our hearts
the desire to make this halakhah something
that we really have our hearts attached to
and we can make it to on a
regular basis, inshallah, God.