Hamzah Wald Maqbul – Riyd alSlihn Set the Table & Feast Dhikr II Ribt 05142023
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We continue with the chapter
regarding the
father of Dhikr al Hazi alaihi.
The chapter regarding the the virtues of
the remembrance and praise of Allah
and
motivation,
to,
to to to keep making
it.
In
your nuzkha, because there's mistakes, this is a
very
it's a it's a nusca that could use
a little bit of love.
Do you have
without
without Right?
Correct?
I think that's actually the way the hadith
is supposed to be. I just wanna make
sure.
Yeah. Okay.
Yeah. My nuskhazik Kanar Rasul. There's no Allah
here. There's just Kanar Rasul, sallallahu alaihi wa
sallam,
which is one wonderful thing about Arabic syntax
and grammar. You can pick mistakes out when
the Ibadah doesn't put together properly. It helps
you kinda edit mistakes, copy mistakes that are
natural. They're gonna happen.
So Thobhan narrates that the messenger of Allah
sallallahu
alaihi wa sallam,
when he's done with his salat, he
would ask Allah for forgiveness 3 times, and
then he would say,
You are the one who has
is free of blemish
or free of taint
or free of any anything anything untoward,
in your,
in your
in your holy
and majestic essence
and in the perfection of your attributes.
And
you're the one who gives,
this quality
to your slaves.
So salama is something, you know, when you
say a salama alaikum, one of the primary
meanings of it the most important meaning that
many people oftentimes don't take because they're like
salam means
It's not you know, okay, let's back up
for a second. It's one of the names
of Allah Ta'ala. So obviously that that meaning
of the word salam has priority over all
others.
And salaam doesn't just mean peace, but it
p as in the opposite of war or
the opposite of anger or fighting or whatever.
But it means,
you know, like
being safe being safe from, like, any sort
of negativity or whatever.
And so,
oh, Allah, you are salaam and all salaam
to other people comes from you. The person
who wants to be free of
sadness, free of poverty, free of injury, free
of whatever negative things. All of it comes
from you.
That,
blessed,
are you,
and blessed is everything from
you. Oh, one who is possessed
of majesty and,
of of of the bestowal of honor.
It was asked of Ozai
who's the great the imam of the people
of Sham,
in his day in the time of the
salaf.
It was asked of Ozai, who is one
of the narrators of this hadith,
that how how how did the prophet
make his stufar? Meaning, how did he ask
Allah to forgive him? Because in the beginning
of the hadith,
it mentioned that he asked Allah to forgive
him 3 times. He said he would say,
I ask Allah forgiveness. I ask Allah I
seek from Allah forgiveness.
So it's a very simple it's a
a very simple it's
a very simple,
expression.
When he finished his salat, he said,
which we read last week as well, and
now we see that it's at the end
of salat. These are pieces that we get
put together the further we get into the
bab.
And then with it, he said, oh,
Allah,
there's no one who can who can obstruct
or prevent
a person from receiving the thing that you
give.
And there's no one who can give the
thing that you prevent or obstruct a person
from receiving.
And there's nobody that has any type of
treasure
that
will,
be such that that treasure will benefit them,
you know, in spite of you.
And it's really it's really,
it's really important, Marshall. You should think about
that. We think of people with money and
with power or with
certain things that, you know, put them ahead.
You know,
people people are
wealthy. People are powerful. People inherit things. People
have property.
People like yourself,
are so beautiful.
All of these things, Allah gives them people
who abuse them. Allah gives them to those
people, and he knows that they're abusing them.
Don't think that they're somehow
you know, they're somehow doing it through their
wealth despite everything.
The jad doesn't you know, the the jad
here doesn't mean grandfather. Here, it means it
means like a treasure.
But there's no one has such a such
a treasure that it will benefit,
than anything in front of you. None of
it means anything except for except for, what
you, want it to mean.
Khalifa Rashid,
and he was the the imam of the
Ummah in his time.
And,
he ruled
the Ummah after the
misdeeds of Yazid.
He ruled the Ummah first.
He had authority over Hijaz,
and Iraq and Yemen and
Egypt
and
most of much of Sham
to the point where at some point, Banu
Miya's control only was Damascus, and they got
to the gates more or less.
But, Abdul Malik bin Marwan, his political
adversary,
with his henchmen and forcer,
Hajj Hajj bin Yusuf.
They politically outflanked him and then ejected him.
But according to the,
he was the rightful ruler. They deposed him.
And so he ruled from,
and, he's a great source of the sunnah
not only because
of
him being Khalifa, because when he actually run
things,
there's a type of practicality that comes with
actually doing things,
combining knowledge and combining action. Whereas some people
may have knowledge, but they don't know. They
say about, like, for example, about they say
one of the great ulema in the past,
you know, came to arrive in Makkumukarama in
the middle of the night. So he went
for it to do his tawaf tawaf
around the Kaaba,
and no one was there. It's a small
child. You know, very few people were there.
So small child, he said, you're making in
the wrong direction.
You're supposed to go this way, not the
other. And so this guy's a big big
mala, you know, a big big scholar.
So he's like he's like, how do you
know? Like, what's it
like, how do you why do you think
you're, like, in a position to tell me?
He said he said, don't you know you're
supposed to keep the Kaaba on your, on
your left hand side?
I read it in the book of and
it was that guy. It was his own
book, but he never did it before. So,
like, you know, how are you supposed to
there's so many things like that that once
you see it, then you're like, oh, this
what that means. This is what this means.
And so, you know, I said,
one of the reasons is narrations are of
particular interest even though all the narrations from
the messenger of Allah
from the slaf are important,
is because he also was there and he
did all of that. So another reason is
what? Is that he's the grandson of Sayna
Abu Bakr Siddiq, and he's the the nephew
of Saida Aisha
and one of the the sources of her
knowledge was kept with him because she there
was no pardah, there was no hijab between
them because he was her Maharam.
So the knowledge of Said Abu Bakr Siddiq,
he learned from his mother
and from,
from, you know, from his
challah, he learned that, and he also learned
the knowledge of the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa
sallam.
He was the first child born in Madinah
Munawar after Hijra that survived. A bunch of
children were born, but they passed away in
their infancy. So he's very young. He's one
of the definitely one of the junior but
a very pious and very righteous man and
a man who
his opinion in deen is something to be
taken very seriously.
So they say that
they're 4 Abdullah's from the younger of the
companions
on whom that are important.
Instead
of drawing, maybe you should write these four
names down. They're 4 Abdullahs.
Which one?
Abdullah bin Omar.
Abdullah bin Amr
That these these these 4 were the custodians
of the knowledge of the younger generation of
the and this is one of the reasons
you see their hadith narrated so frequently. It's
not necessarily that they knew more than the
elders did, but the elders side
and the knowledge
is
common knowledge
between them. Whereas once all of them left
this world, then everybody had to come to
these people to learn about the deen and
about the sunnah of the prophet
So
He used to say after every salat,
which we read last week and we read
this week as well. That there's no god
except for Allah alone without any partner,
and that to him belongs dominion and praise.
And he is omnipotent
over all things. His omnipotence extends over all
things.
And there is no
power to resist sin nor any, force that
can,
establish god's
obedience except for, with Allah or from Allah
and by Allah.
And,
there's no god except for Allah.
And we worship nobody except for him.
And all blessing
is his,
and all grace is his,
and all good, praise beautiful praise is his.
There's no god except for Allah,
and we say this,
making our deen sincerely and purely for him,
and even if the disbelievers should dislike
it. And they're gonna dislike it. Trust me.
It burns them to this day. Not all
of them, but there are some of them
they have this shaitan like resides inside their
their hearts.
They see you pray, they see your beard,
they see your hijab, they see you know
that you're not eating pork with them.
They do something filthy. And so when they
see that you're staying clean, they're like, oh,
you think you're better than me?
You know, it's gonna
happen.
No problem.
If a pig eater is unhappy about something,
like,
what what is it? What is it to
me?
If it wasn't for Allah's father, we would
have been that as well. So obviously, we
should have pity on people and try to
guide them to what's best. At some point
or another, people conscientiously choose not to,
not to follow this.
It is what it is.
What door? Front.
So
Ibn Zubayr
who mentioned, he said that these are the
things that Rasul
used to read after every salat.
And so
this is part of the the I guess
the takeaway from today's lesson is that everyone
should have a a a word that they
say after
after the Fard prayer.
There are a couple of wudu for why
this is a sunnah and how it's a
sunnah.
One is that in the in the Masjid
of Rasulullah salallahu alaihi wa sallam, the ladies
used to come for fajr and for madrib
and for Isha.
Not for the not for the 2 prayers
of the day, but for the prayers of
the night. The masjid of the Rasulullah
alaihi wa sallam, it wasn't until
the 8th year of hijrah that Tamim Adari
received permission to bring a couple of candles
in it to
lightly
to light it dimly.
And
what would happen is that the Rasulullah sallam
and the men would be there early so
they could breed their sunnahs or make their
zikr before
the
And then the ladies, the adab was that
they would come in
right at the end.
And
the salaam, once it was said, they would
leave right away.
And so one of the would you have
the the
the congregational vicar
not congregational vicar. I should say the vicar
of the congregation.
Because it's not like they used to say
it out loud together in one voice, but
the congregation would sit to make vikr. Is
what is that
after the salat, this gives a sufficient amount
of time for the ladies to leave the
masjid,
without
without anything being you know, anything untoward happening
between people and without people distracting one another.
And so
the the men would sit
facing the qibla, and he would sit facing
sideways or slightly obliquely toward the,
toward the congregation so that he could see
out of his peripheral vision how the ladies
left yet. So he'd make vigor for that
amount of time at least.
But there's another wedge that has nothing to
do with that.
Right? And despite all of those things, then
the messenger
said that the best of the roles of
the men are the ones that are in
the front, and the worst are the ones
that are in the back. And the best
of the roles of the women are the
ones that are in the back, and the
meaning the women would be closer and closer
to the men only when there's necessity for
it,
that that a person should try not to
do
that. But the other wedge of the vikr
after the salat is what?
Is that the salat itself has
a
purification that comes with it,
which is separate. And then it has a
reward that comes with it that's separate, and
it has an increase in maqam that comes
with it that's separate.
These are three different things.
And so with the increase in maqam,
it makes a person's
that they do henceforth
all the more beneficial for them.
And with the being clean from the
from from the forgiveness of the salat,
it makes now the
the afkar and the that a person does,
now
be packaged in such a way that person
can take the the the the complete benefit
from it. How do I explain this?
I believe it's Ibn Taym, he writes very
in a very elegant summary. He says that
he was asked, like, should I do more
tasbih or more istilfar?
And so he made a comment like,
you know, the dirty the dirty vessel is
more in need of soap than it is
of
perfume,
which is interesting.
You know, this is a culture that's very
anti bathing. America is much better than, like,
continental Europe, but the mother culture it comes
from, it's actually very anti bathing. Queen Victoria
used to bathe twice a year,
and she was, like, the whatever the empress
of, like,
India and this huge colonial empire. Right?
And,
so people just put on perfume on top
of whatever, and it's just like this weird
thing. I think to this day, I think
the average
average, French person bathes, like, twice a week,
and that's probably just because there's a lot
of Algerians and Tunisians there, to be honest
with you. You know? Like, it's just one
of those things.
So,
you know,
with a person's ibadah, we can laugh at
people with their physical whatever.
But with a person's ibadah, it's like that
as well. But
like I say, being a person who has
a great propensity for negativity,
I remind other people so that they don't
get disturbed by my negativity That everything, no
matter how negative it is, there's another side
of the coin that's just as positive,
which is that once you have prayed your
salat,
accepts your salat from you.
You know, if you if you're not a
particularly pious person, like, you know, like you're
like me, you're not a particularly pious person.
You pray in the congregation, somebody, there's some
ahlulah person in there that, you know, is
a good guy, Inshallah, and their salat is
accepted. So, you you know, we all get
in, you know, we all get in with
that.
This is a prime opportunity. You did the
work of making adaab the farr that Allah
put for you. It's like a worker who
set the table for dinner, and then the
master says, hey. Why don't you have something
to eat as well?
So that's another wajah of the zikr after
the salawat, which is why we do it
even if we're praying alone or if there's
no people of the opposite gender or any
of that stuff.
And so a person
should and must construct a where the of
what adkar they say after the salat,
because that's the time. That's the time you
strike when the iron's hot.
Right? Why is it that the
the blacksmith strikes the iron? Because if it's
cold and you strike the iron, you're just
like beating metal on metal. Right? It's a
great workout, I guess.
Maybe it's not. Maybe you'll get carpal tunnel.
It's not even a good workout. But if
you strike while the iron's hot, that's the
time that the chabath the the slag comes
out of the metal, and it actually purifies
it and makes it stronger. And you can
shape it into whatever shape you want in
a way you cannot do when you're when
the metal's cold. That's the time to
strike. And so what happens, a person's like,
well, I'm done with my father. I got
a dash. I got a this and that.
And, obviously, like, you know, people do have
stuff to do in the day.
But
even though the Sharia permits it, but it's
unfortunate.
Missing the salat would be a catastrophe.
The person who misses the salat without a
a shar'i excuse.
The hadith of the messenger
of Allah is.
It's
their state is such that,
like a person's likeness of a person, that
their entire
wealth, their property, and their family was all,
like, destroyed, lost in one day. Can you
imagine we would come consolation and condolence to
one another if that were to happen? We
would open a GoFundMe or launch a good
pious project.
Right?
But that's the thing is, you know, this
is one of the things
I see,
people will sometimes
get on people who like remind people to
pray and things like that. Or even our
brothers
from
telling people, why come tell me to pray?
I'm already Muslim and this and that. Right?
I'm like, you don't have to join them.
Then I I understand the guys that are
in your neighborhood probably are genuinely annoying. Or
it's possible, not probably.
But it is also mathematically, we know that
this will happen to someone, that they will
genuinely be annoying people in some neighborhood somewhere.
Right? Maybe
a little more than that even.
But the hustle of when you just say
this person's annoying. I don't like them. Don't
talk bad about somebody coming to you to
remind you to pray. Why? Because
is
what is
is to be sincere to one another.
And none of no one of you will
truly believe and tell you love for your
brother what you love for yourself. This is
a great hadith. Right? Even the humanists, secular
humanists like it. They're like, this is the
this is the spiritual Islam, you know, that
we should teach. Not all this other stuff,
man. You know? Like, let's be okay with
the riba and with the, you know, the
haram riba and the haram riba and the
this and that. And and everything else, let's
do exactly the same thing
that that that the, you know, that the
man wants us to do. And corporations,
you know, we wanna do genuinely ourselves because
the corporations told us, but it's we asked
that one to express it. Well, all that
stuff. 100%.
Even the the even those guys can get
with that. Right?
Well, if you actually believe that, if the
Rasulullah
is saying, right, that such a person misses
the it's
a utter catastrophe.
After the salat is done, however,
to walk away from the
from from the zikr of
Allah It's just it's very unfortunate.
It may not be that big of a
catastrophe. It's just very unfortunate. You did all
the work. You you put all the work.
You took the time out. You made wudu.
You know?
If you're a pious like this guy, you
took your socks off.
You you did everything you needed to. You
know.
And now this is the time to this
is the this is the time to, like,
defer the bonus round, and you just left
it. Why would you wanna leave it? So
you should have some sort of weird that
you construct.
This is one of the misfortunes of the
do it yourself Islam,
which is that, you know, you wanna construct
your words of what you're gonna say after
after the salat, good luck. It's one of
the longest chapters in,
in the
which is not even it's not even a
book of hadith. It's a book of.
If you wanna look in Bukhari and Muslim,
god help you. Like, it's you're not gonna
you're not gonna make heads or tails of
it. You know?
And even if you try to selectively through
your quote unquote because everyone's in which they
had nowadays, you're gonna, you're gonna, through your
make your own words. You're not gonna know
what it is and how to put the
pieces together except for you put in an
amount of study that no one's gonna put
in.
Where Whereas the person who read read the,
100% just crank it crank it right from
the bat.
And then afterward, you'll hear a 1,000 people
tell you, oh, the Medhebs, you know, they're
blind followers of this and that and other
thing. And, they they worship, you know, Abu
Hanifa and worship Malik and all this other
stuff, which I've actually heard people say this
to me. And I'm like, okay. You know,
you worship your guy, and I can take
names. But why? You already know which names
I'm gonna say.
You know, you have your holy trinity that
you, like, take your whole dean from. That's
fine.
Like
but these guys, from the time that they're
children, they're and then one day, they'll read
the books of Hadith, even the rialdas salaheen,
and they're like, oh, wow. This is why
he said to say this. This is why
he said to say that. If any of
you read the rasala, you read the ibadat,
you'll now in
in
in quick sequence, you'll actually get most of
what
Ibn Abi Zaid
put together, constructed as the words for the
end of the salat
and for after the salat.
And
he read he was a Hafiz of Hadith.
He read a lot more than just,
which didn't exist at that time. But whatever
the of it is, he read a lot
more. So you'll get all of those things
in short order. But you have to construct
that, and you have to say it. And
in in the beginning, what you'll do is
you walk around with, like, a a a
du'a book or whatever and
things, and it will be hard. And you're
not gonna get any benefit out of
it because your heart's gonna be, like, reading
and, like, doing
work. Right? But this is one of the
reasons we send kids to is the hope
is that by the time someone has some
good sense inside of them,
the
the the the memorization part and the looking
at the book part has already become like
muscle memory, then the mind and the heart
can
engage. So if you're, like, you know, growing
up and now you're gonna become, like, more,
like, religious and stuff,
and you're like, oh, this is really dry.
I need something more spiritual. No, but there's
a barrier to entry.
Even if you're going to walk into McDonald's
and eat a eat a Big Mac because
it has no pork in it or whatever,
right,
they're still gonna charge you something.
There's a barrier of entry to it.
Gives you something, but he wants to see
it. You're gonna value it. So you're now
hit your head against the wall, inshallah, for
a while. Allah will keep rewarding you. The
masha'ikh, they say this, Hazratanmi, I just read
a a small blurb of his
that people people say that, like, oh, I
haven't gotten anything out of my my worship
because it doesn't I don't feel good in
it.
You did it. Allah asked you to do
something. You did it. The fact that you
didn't feel good doing it is secondary. That's
fine. It's good. We all feel like wonderful,
like,
you know, glitter and rainbows and, stuff, like,
come out of the you know, fall out
of the sky when every time you read
Salat or whatever. Right? Just some sort of,
like,
level 7 psychedelic maraca, but, like, good for
you, You know, make dua for me while
you're there.
But Allah asked you to do something, and
you did it. Like, what more could you
want from than that? That's, like, such an
amazing thing. But I guess we don't we
don't like to think about that or talk
about that a lot. But, you you know,
construct the word and memorize it. Don't construct
it. You're you can construct it if yourself,
if you're a go, you know, have a
field day, knock the ball out of the
park while you're still figuring out how to,
like like, pray.
Other people will figure out a lot of
other things before. If you wanna do it
yourself, good for you. You don't trust anybody?
Don't trust anybody. No problem. Do it. For
the rest of us, inshallah, go find one
of the books of the masha'if, the ulama,
and memorize this word
and then say it after your salat and
look for what difference happens in your life.
Not that day, not that week, not that
month, but after 20 years of saying these
things, one after the other, it has an
effect on a person.
It makes a person beautiful. It takes the
rest off of a person. The rest will
come back, obviously.
But like with the continuous
cleaning and upkeep, you're a car guy. Right?
There's a difference between a car that's been
maintained well.
Sometimes a person can take an old car
and make it nicer now than it was
the day it was
rolled off the lot because of the way
they took care of it.
And it will have a difference in your
life. And then the day you enter into
your pakar, all of these things will be
there waiting for you, and and you'll say,
oh, man. I thought this was just some
pious pious hype that Mullen Asad was pushing
because he couldn't get into med school. Oh,
dude. This is actually that good.
To all of all of us on that
day.
Who narrates this hadith,
and he's from the Ashabu Sufa.
They were euphemistically
referred to as the guests of Islam because
they had nothing.
So they would, you know, sit and wait
for the messenger of Allah to come out,
and he would teach them things about the
deen. And they were the ones who went
on to become the commanders and the governors
and the generals and the bureaucrats and the
judges
of the empire afterward with what the prophet
through them.
Many of us are just here because we're
like, okay. You know, it's like kind of
a pious thing to do and, like,
you know, like, no one is, like, returning
my my my DMs on Facebook and Twitter,
and so I'm kind of heartbroken.
And,
so, you know, may as well do this.
Maybe, you know, something will happen for us.
So most people who come to these things,
that's what it is.
However, however, And they actually did a good
job at it. They managed, and they
And they actually did a good job at
it. They managed and they
out civilization
the Romans and the Greeks and the Egyptians
and the the and
the people of the Iraq and the Persians.
And the Persians were pretty civilized people.
The Greeks, Romans, I mean, they they've been
at it for a 1000 over a 1000
years till that point, and it was cumulative
on the great empires and civilizations from those
before them.
Anyhow, they were sitting there. And so they
said, Oh, Messenger of Allah,
the
poppers of the Muhajaleen,
they came to the messenger of Allah sallallahu
alaihi wa sallam. They said, oh, messenger of
Allah, alaikas salatu as salam.
The people of great
wealth, they they left us behind. They took
the the high,
stations,
and they took the blessing,
of eternity, and they left us behind. Because
they pray like we pray and they fast
like we fast,
but they have
extra money after their needs are met.
And we were not able to save anything.
They have extra money after their needs are
met. With it, they go on Hajj. With
it, they go on Umrah. With it, they
go out in Jihad.
With their own money.
And they, give them charity to others.
And he said
shall I not teach you a thing,
through it? You will reach the level,
of those people who had passed you.
And through it,
you will
surpass the people who come after you such
that they'll never be able to catch up
with you.
And
through it, there won't be anyone who's better
than you. There will be nobody who has
more virtue than you
except for the one who does the same
thing that you did.
They said, of course, mess yeah. Oh, messenger
of Allah.
He said, say,
Subhanallah
and Alhamdulillah
and Allahu Akbar after every salat 33
times.
Abu Saleh, a narrator who narrates or the
narrator who narrates this hadith from Abu Hurair
when he was asked how to do that,
he said, say,
33 times,
and Allah sorry,
until they're 33 times each,
from each of them. And Sahedi is both
a Bukhari Muslim, and the narration of Muslim
adds said, so that the the the the
poppers of the Muhajireen,
they returned later to the messenger of Allah
sallallahu alaihi wa sallam,
and they're complaining. They said, our brothers from
the
wealthy,
they heard what you said and then they
started doing it as well. He said, this
is the this is the grace of Allah.
He gives it to whoever he wills. Like,
that part I can't help you with. Now
fun
facts, a couple of them.
First of all, it is that
Rasulullah
The one that he said that you're like
a a morsel of flesh from my own
self, from my own body,
that he loved so dearly,
And that he was given Bishara that his
line won't survive through her and, basically, only
through her.
She used
to grind
grain at a stone mill,
which is really heavy.
It's what we would refer to nowadays as
an endurance resistance workout.
It will make your hands calloused. It's not
an easy thing to do. In many places,
people have animals do this work, like a
donkey, like pack animals do this work because
the stone mill is very heavy.
And to do it repetitively
over and over again, it's not easy.
It's not like the work that a princess
does. Whereas there's no princess that has more
honor than, say, the Fatima
and Saeed Ali
used to make money by carrying, like, water
from wells for people. So both of them
are, like, super exhausted.
And
their life was so humble, so simple. Their
their wedding room was basically like
the floor was sand. So the ladies of
the Ansar, in order to make a gram
for them, went and got the sand from
lot
of get, like they break up weddings because
of this. You know? They see people do
this as well, There's a, you know, whatever
Arab equivalent. Like, in Tunisia, there's probably again,
they see weddings. Like, if
the bride side of the family
serves, like, chicken biryani instead of mutton biryani,
the the husband's side gets furious, and they
call the wedding off, I'm sure. And
and Tunis is like, what are chicken couscous
instead of
instead of, like, mutton couscous or whatever. Right?
The one other fish instead of the good
fish. I don't know. Right?
Chicken manza or whatever. Like, I don't know.
Right?
So that was that was their, you know,
that was their their their she asked, Yar
Rasulullah, like, if you could spare a servant
or a slave. They got the coming in
anyway
to help around with, like, chores.
And there
imagine this. He came into their room,
and the 2 of them are married. He
sat in the bed right between them, and
he tell them, should I like, with so
much love, he said, should I not teach
you this, like, thing that's better than all
of that?
And he said, say what?
33 times before you sleep. Say
33 times. Say 33
times and say 33 times and say 33
times before you sleep.
So in like, amongst the, like, Molanas, they
literally call it Tasbi.
I don't know if, you know, if that's
how it's called another. I've heard I haven't
heard this from others, but maybe it is.
I don't know. They literally call it Tasbi
If the Rasul
was just powering people off with some
type stuff, he wouldn't have said it to
his own family who'd have just gotten
her a servant.
Obviously, there's something in this that's different than
what's in other things.
Otherwise, he wouldn't have picked it for himself.
He wouldn't have picked it for his beloved
daughter. People do, they can't see their children
do.
I know many I know many,
many distinguished members of the. They
actively obstructed their children from learning
just because they cannot bear to see their
children go through the difficulties that they went
through.
And
his
Mubarak family,
he picked something different for them.
If you're a, then, like, you know, your
business is not working out. I'm sorry. There's
something much
bigger than than something a 4 year degree
from, like, the Wharton Business School can help
you with here. That's pulling you toward a
different direction than maximizing profits.
That's one thing I wanted to mention. The
second thing I wanted to mention this is
that a person might say, well, if, you
know,
the
was gonna be said anyway.
What is the point what is the point
of mentioning this tasbih with the connection of
the fukhara?
There is a point. The point is is
this is that the wealthy amongst the companions
ended doing it anyway. Right? But that's not
because
that's how it's gonna go. That's because they're
the companions of the messenger of Allah sallallahu
alaihi wa sallam.
And they're the
They're the best of the Lord's creation after
the prophet salallahu alaihi wasallam.
Allah ta'ala made
made them beautiful
for the service of the Nabi
and we're the beneficiaries of that. But other
people are not gonna be like them. In
general, they're not gonna like them. They're gonna
be very few people later on. In general
in general, from the writings of the and
from my own anecdotal,
observation and and experience.
No matter how how much effort you put,
generally, the more wealth a person has, the
less they have to
do these things.
So some people also, they're broke. Some people
also again, no girl will send them a
nice DM back or no boy will send
them a nice DM back.
Or they'll send them a mean one,
and they're like, oh my god. What is
all of this? Let's, like, look into Sufism
or whatever. Right?
Real or fake. I'll take either of them
because I feel so horrible. Nothing's working out
for me.
It's because the Lord loves you. Don't take
it personally.
Because if you have this thing that you
wanted, you wouldn't have reached this. You wouldn't
have gotten what you wanted from Allah on
the day of judgment and what Allah wanted
from you.
This is obviously, like, nobody wants to go
through, like, horrific difficulty in order to, like
everyone's like, yeah, Allah, can you make me
give me everything I want in this world
and still I go to Jannah and be,
like, a big, like, whatever? Yeah. Allah can
do it. Allah can do it. But, generally,
that's not how the system works. And, actually,
Allah's
way of doing it is better than yours.
And if you see them, in general, the
people for whom it does work out, right,
the people like Sidon Abu Bakr Siddiq, the
people like Sidon Amar alayhiallahu,
people like you know? Whose
are more stern, do you think?
Theirs
or
or the the
of the people who reach a high maqam
through a life of misery?
It's it's theirs. The people who have wealth
and who have power,
the only way you can balance through these
two things is to crumble your nafs in
a way that a person would, like, scream
like * murder if they even were to
look at it for a minute.
That's one of the reasons. Remember we read
from the the
in
every other sentence. Kids, don't try this at
home. And some of these
are like just like they're they're like obscenely
difficult and, like, make a person, like, be
like, this is self love. It's not even,
like, Islam. Like, okay. Okay. Just put that
away. We're gonna read read read read Salihim
today instead. Right?
You don't talk about those things in the
because people just don't understand like it. It.
That's what it is, is that the type
of that you have to do to combine
both of those things, those are actually much
harder than the
of a person having no other options.
Because the option itself is just this, like,
weird fitna. In order to quash it, you
have to have such a huge overreaction. Otherwise,
everybody everybody likes beautiful people. Everybody likes tasty
food. Everybody likes eating carbs. Everybody likes fat.
Everybody likes sugar. Everybody, if they were to
try cocaine one time, they'd be like, yo.
That's pretty cool. You know? Everybody likes the
you know?
Money? Don't mind if I do. Thank you
very much. Everybody. That's everybody.
And people who have innate dislike of those
things, those are usually, like, psychiatric and, like,
medical issues,
that they'll be cured of when they enter
Jannah, because there's no point of entering Jannah
and they're like, yeah, I don't like nice
things. Like, okay. No. Allah will cure you
of that when you get there. You'll like
them when you get there.
So,
you know, that's that's that's the manasaba of
this, that a person shouldn't lose that. It's
a very salient thing that a person shouldn't
lose that detail. Now does this mean you
should seek poverty?
No.
If you know that wealth is going to
deviate you from this path
and this path is more beloved to you
than the wealth is, then don't actively go
looking for it. Just accept that this is
your lot that you're gonna have to drive,
like, you know, like, whatever,
a 10 year old Camry,
and don't don't salivate next time the new
Tesla comes out. Just don't look at it.
It's a fitna. Don't look. It's fine. You
could lower your gaze for other other things
than just, like, attractive
people. Don't make fitna for yourself. See, this
is what I want out of my life,
out of my death. Allah, I'll give to
you. If you're a person who can handle
some of the
then only, you know,
calibrate, only take whatever from it that you
can,
and,
don't don't let it be a fitna for
you afterward
if this is important to you. If it's
not important to you, what Allah obliges every
person to do is what? Pray 5 times
a day and to do these, you you
know, type things, which is difficult enough as
it is and will be you know, I'm
surprised when I even see somebody who does
that much. That person is by definition, that's
what one of the saliheen is. So if
you spend your life doing that and then
afterward, you know, you wanna, like, live, you
know, like, happy and, like, buy the new
whatever
every single time,
then that's fine.
But what I don't understand is everybody sees
everybody sees where the world ends up. Everybody
sees where good food ends up. Everybody sees
where,
you know,
new cars end up when they become old.
Everybody sees, you know, the anthropomorphic
equivalent thereof. Everyone sees all of that. So
why would why I mean, it's cool. Like,
I'm a in that sense, I resemble a
monkey as well because I'm like, oh, shiny
things. But, like, I understand something the monkey
may not understand,
that hopefully all of us understand. So, you
know, try to temper your
the amount of enticement that the duniya has
for you from it. And, know that if
you're able to do the and combine the
2 of them, this is the highest
this is the highest path of wilayah.
And the
proof of that is that the Rasul
was ruled as a sovereign with absolute power.
He didn't rule through weakness. He didn't live
his life in weakness. Even though there were
people in Madinah who were like that, they
didn't have enough food to eat and drink.
They're gonna they mentioned they're gonna be some
of the first people that enter into Jannah
on the day of judgment,
And the angels will be will be those
those
that will be the first ones to enter
on the day of judgment. The angels will
be surprised. Like, don't you guys have to
go and get go do your first before
you can come?
And they'll say that from the moment we
said
until the day we died,
we never had, you know, we never had
enough clothing to cover ourselves, and we never
had an opportunity to put our swords down
from our from our shoulders.
Like, what what are you gonna take hisab
for? There's nothing there.
So there are those people as well. Said
Abu Bakr,
said Nama
weren't those people. They have they were literally
sovereigns that ruled over, like, world
empire. That's the highest path of. This is
why it's important to understand who the
were. Everybody, let them get in where they
fit in. But know that this is one
of the things when you see the seduction
of the of Mal, Shaitan will tell you,
like, oh, I'll do all of it together.
It doesn't work.
And the cost for it to make it
work, for some people, it's unbearable.
If it's bearable for you, if you're that
person, if you're on the
and
you can do that like the like like,
Sayna Uthman
who did, like, you know, the kibar of
the
sahaba who did, make du'a for me while
you're there as well, and aspire to it.
You don't have to have low aspirations either.
But if you know it's not gonna work,
then don't,
you know, don't don't don't spend a life
torturing yourself because you don't get ahead by
by lying to yourself and cheating yourself.
And,
you know, and
you don't get ahead by deluding yourself that
if I just show up at the store
with, like, $10 to buy, like, an iPhone
or whatever, that maybe they'll accept it. It
doesn't
the nizam doesn't work.
The the gradations between things, the the the
kind of quantum
accounting for all things,
just like we see that there's no violations
for it in this world, it's even more
in the next world, and it's even more
in the unseen.