Manazil as-Sa’ireen #47 – Chapter on Intent

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The speakers discuss a course on cost and direction focused on understanding the physical hedger and the physical hedgerroices. The course is designed to help people make a conscious decision about their actions and their impact on their health and well-being. The importance of following spiritual guidance of Islam is emphasized, and the importance of surrendering to the scripture and avoiding cutting and pasting certain statements is emphasized. The speakers stress the importance of personal growth and personal success, avoiding biases, and avoiding distorted reality. The concept of "has been met" is discussed, and how it can lead to "has been met" in a situation.

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I'm about to proceed.

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So inshallah, today we will,

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we will have

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the chapter of cost or intent.

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And

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in the second session in the session we will have see amatola, voluntary fasting and Arctic F, which is the ocean and retreat.

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Firstly, manohara we

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started here because Middle School,

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we said before the development era we divided his book into

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divided by 100 stations that he wanted to cover. And his Bookman has no say in Stations of the wayfarers into 10 sections.

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First section was

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expectedly today at the beginnings, the second was in a web that gates

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the third section, he added more on that, which would be dealings. The fourth was a flap which will be conduct. And where, because we finished the four sections, each one had 10 stations. So he finished kondalilla for these stations, they were starting the for the first station. So that's the first station and the fifth section, which is the section of the foundations

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section of the foundation's.

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He said this musuem machismo tool for Africa to avoid will cost us more rather to add up when he Athene will own to a victory will focus on a common model.

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So he said the section on found on the foundations as per the section on foundations it's 10 chapters, focused intent, slash direction and then slash direction and resolve and iraida will

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add up propriety

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adequate propriety

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proper etiquette or propriety, while in certainty well owns comfort and intimacy with Vic rememberance. While faac need while again, self sufficiency

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and the station of Adam rod, which is the one who is being sought, and what is the seeker and Maura is the one who is being sought.

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So he said double costs Corolla was a gentleman approached me and a team who

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could notify

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whoever comes out of his last pinata said, Whoever leaves his home as an immigrant to Allah and His messenger and then death overtakes him, his reward has already become incumbent upon Allah his reward has already been become incumbent upon a lot.

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That's why that is how he started the chapter on cost or the chapter on intent could also be the chapter on direction.

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Direction basically, it is what he means here.

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Because Bible cost could be translated in different ways.

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And you will also notice that after bubble past he talked about devil Azzam and bubbly Radha asmus. Resolve and Iran, others willfulness, will willfulness

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and they are all interrelated and they do overlap. However, we are saying here that was a chef and hardware Amala.

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And harder we try to do is basically to point out to us, sometimes sometimes a particular phenomenon,

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he try to point out to us the segments of this phenomenon, so that we could pay attention to each and every step to each and every thought that we have inside movement action thought we have inside that is why some things will overlap. Because sometimes he wanted to address them from different angles. And if he addressed them from different angles, he will point out to us meanings that may we may not be completely aware of some

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He wanted to divide the one phenomenon into segments, so that he could facilitate for us the understanding of this as much as possible and he rather are related and they will look to your related to last devotion as well. And they will look related to many other stations, but he keep in mind that for everyone, he wanted to point out certain meanings.

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So, for everyone, it's a different angle or a different phase

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of the same phenomenon.

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He he started with this particular idea, because this particular idea could be does not have to be limited to the physical hedger right, does not have to be limited to the physical hedra.

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And the prophet SAW Salim said I abandoned when philharmagic hinted at in LA, you know, worship during the time of chaos arges chaos or blah, you know, particularly bloodshed, outages, COSATU, arges, bloodshed. So a bad during the time of chaos and bloodshed, worshipping Tom castle, and blockchain is like hedra to me like immigrating to me. So Hydra, the Hydra, the physical Hydra may not be obligatory anymore to Mecca. Sometimes it you know, heads or physical Hydra could sometimes be obligatory, it could be recommended.

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But we don't necessarily have to all immigrate to Mecca, like the Sahaba had at one point, but the hedgerow of your heart to Allah and His messenger is always incumbent on us, that your heart

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immigrate, should emigrate to Allah and His messenger. So when you come out of your home, when you immigrate, when you leave your home, you have to set your direction, you have to decide what your destination is. And that is, the important point that he wants to point out for us here is that, often times we did not take enough time,

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or deliberate enough, or make like a sincere decision, we did not make up our minds. Oftentimes, we were born we grew up, you know, our parents taught us to pray five times a day.

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People who convert to Islam, they may have a greater opportunity to make up their mind, at least at one point, they have that opportunity to truly make up their mind, I want this and I want anyone to basically abandoned walk away from all of my life, all of my connections, and so on and so forth. And this is

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like an enormous decision.

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So they got a chance, an opportunity, the Sahaba did, you know people will convert anytime they do the make.

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However, it is important even for people who convert to make sure that this is purely for law, and not for anything else. And it is, you know, most of the time it is for people who convert.

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But the idea that this particular chapter is important for people who are born Muslim, because oftentimes the thing was, there was not that sort of, this is my decision, I made up my mind that this is my destination, this is my direction, because this will be extremely important thereafter. Anything else that would come up in life will have to be aligned, because this is the path this is the direction I'm moving from here to there. And anything that would come up afterwards will have to be aligned with this and if it is not aligned, it is abandoned. If it cannot be aligned with this, it will be abandoned.

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Then he said a kazoo and his morality gyro de la Senora de Costa is about the siding you know determination.

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Resolve but we will have resolved afterwards. Because this is now or this determination. Allah tala Tata dedicate oneself to obedience, to dedicate oneself to obedience and it has three levels.

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So

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keep in mind that really some work needs to be done. We need to do some work on ourselves and just make sure that we have made that decision and it is a final decision and it is an informed decision and

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is

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basically a permanent decision

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without any wavering or reluctance or hesitation.

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Then he said that that was the first level his intent that cost lunia bathwater to

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Dr. Ola costumi avasarala Thea, the first level is intentive that motivates spiritual trading or disciplining spiritual love to his spiritual training or disciplining, some people think that the OG means from Rhoda which is garvan.

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So it, but this is, you know, premature and the progression of thought that you already reached the garden

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here means spiritual training and spiritual disciplining. So, once you have made up your mind, then it will be easier for you to go through your spiritual exercise

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Arriaga. You know and and Sufi terminology they always talk about

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in the sense of a spiritual exercise in spiritual training or spiritual disciplining people who have not made up their mind it will be harder for them to do this spiritual disciplining spiritual exercising spiritual discipline, and even people who do it, it may not be for the sake of Allah, it may be the sake of for the sake of self fulfillment, self perfect, you know, perfection or whatever. But it is not necessarily for the sake of Allah. It is mostly worthy independence for the sake of Allah, it does not mean that it is, you know, not praiseworthy, you know, even of non Muslims to

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try to purify themselves and try to rectify their actions and so on, it's praiseworthy, but it will not earn you the pleasure of Allah subhanaw taala and the reward of the Hereafter, unless you do it for the sake of God.

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Then he said after he said the abbasov to motivate spiritual training and disciplining, he said wait a minute, Tara dude and raise one from reluctance, raise you from reluctance, you holism and authority because as long as the direction is not set, when you come out of your home, your direction is not set, you'll be looking to the right looking to the left, they take the bus or they walk you they you know, take this shortcut

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or people are not even determined on their destination. Where should they go like right left, you know,

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but the people who have made up their mind they would have no reluctance you will find them always determined you'll find them. Like the prophets Allah Solomon, some editor Maisie Maisie reports for Mali or the Allahu anhu. He said Kerala sort of lies or Solomon is a messiah with a foreign enemy on hop to mean suburb cannot as little as Alameda Messiah Kapha with a cup for uncanny Manhattan and sub, the Prophet sallallahu Sallam used to when he walked, he used to like bend forward, you have to have fun, it's like, you know, his upper half would be bending forward a little bit

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kanima and hoptman suburb as if he is descending from a hill as it is if he is descending from a high place.

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So he is walking like he's coming down like, like a mountain or something. Because his walk this is this is not about this is not about haste. Because the professor was not easy even in his walking this about determination. Like he knows where he's going. So there is no reason to have reluctance. Even in his walk, it was a determined walk. He knows where he's going. He's going right to it. And he's going right to it with speed and stamina.

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Keep in mind that this is you know, a physical act here but this is applicable also to all of your behavior,

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all of our behavior. If you are if you have clarity of direction, you will have no reluctance, no hesitation and you will have stamina, strength, speed in your actions. You will be focused and things will be clear to you.

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Then he said whatever either magenta battle rod and it invites one to shine the lower ones when other battle rod

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invites one to shun the lower wants lower is between brackets corner the brackets because of rod does not mean lower. It just means purpose. You know, God means purpose of God would be the plural of that purposes, you know, wants desires, you could say a rod is, is any of the above.

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But certainly he means he does not mean here all purposes because if you're purposeless, that's really disastrous, but meaning all purposes aside from the pleasure of Allah, the highest of all purposes, which is the pleasure of Allah subhanho wa Taala. So, that is why that is how the you that is what they refer to when they say of rod rod means not all purposes, but rather lower purposes. So all of them as no scare curve would be an opera, all of the Maslow's curve would be the Maslow's pyramid would be a longer rod, except for the piece that he did not add at the end of the you know, he intended to add, but he did not get added before he died, which is self transcendence and not

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just self transcendence, because self transcendence could be divided into two pieces, altruism which is basically to move beyond yourself and to work for the collective or for the common good or for others altruism, but then connecting with the infinite

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infinity I'm sorry, connecting with connecting with the infinite connecting with the eternal is that piece at the top, you know, beyond every other desire, that is that is intended, you know, that is that should be the ultimate goal for the seeker for the walker on this path or the traveler on this path, which is to connect self transcend meaning to connect with

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the the the infinite, the Eternal One, will Fm subhanho wa Taala. So, invites one to shun all, you know, lower ones.

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That is, what determination does to us. adonijah to Sania the second level, he said 30 to 30 year

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old car suburban in LA who

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was in an in laminar weather to Hamilton enlasa Hello, suburban la costa Lal cassava delicato. The second level is intentive that cuts all strings, in tentative cuts, all the strings, anything that sort of attaches you to the dounia you cut that it's a string graph is holding you back you've cut it because it cuts it whatever that is, however dear to your heart that is you cut it so that you get lighter and you move faster and you're not impeded like a bottle ha ha ha was to him. He felt it is a strain. And biohack is basically a an orchard that was right across from the message of the prophecies that stuck below must either Rasulullah sallallahu Sallam our web. So he this was like a

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beautiful one of the most beautiful orchards in Medina, one of the most fruitful orchards in Medina. And not only that, but can you imagine that you have an orchard?

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That is

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right next to the message of the prophets of Salaam you walk out of your orchards through a door into the mustard of the Prophet sallallahu Sallam Is there anything better than this?

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Absolutely not. And you could always say to yourself, you know that this is a means to closeness to Allah subhanaw taala because I sit in my orchard, I hear the event I am right there I am close to the master walk in and out of the master and so on. He felt you know when I revealed the Atlantean Aloe Vera hatherton peppermint magic born you will not

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you will not attain better until you spend avoid that which he loved. He felt a sense of this is his most worthy

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property that this is the string that he needs to cut. And then he came to the Prophet sallallahu Sallam and he said them I want to give a

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Bible hot for Allah His Messenger and the prophet SAW Selim instructed him to divided among his relatives. He said to him back in back in a word of praise, statements of praise and then he instructed him to divide it among his relatives, so he divided it among his cousins.

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So, he so that app is certainly determination

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that's when you're determined, you will be able to do this you'll be able to cut all those strings you know, and with with ease. So, like I did, and the Sahaba did.

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And when he said what I had done in laminar hood,

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he said, Well, you know,

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intensive that cuts all strings, disable all disables all barriers, disables all barriers.

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While at Hamilton Illa, Sahara who and facilitate, facilitate and facilitates all challenges, you know, certainly like, you know, the same meaning here. But sometimes strings can hold you from the back. Sometimes you have barriers and the front. Sometimes you have various challenges that are obstacles between you and your destination or your goal, but that your determination will facilitate, you know, overcoming all of that

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detaching yourself from anything that will impede you, and overcoming any obstacle in your way.

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Then he said adonijah to 30,000.

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cost to list Islam later habibollah

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cost Buddhist Islam later, Habib, intending surrender to the refinement of knowledge, intending to surrender to the refinement, to allow knowledge to refine you. And this knowledge is what knowledge is the knowledge of the Scriptures, the knowledge of the Scriptures, the knowledge of the Quran and the Sunnah, that transmitted knowledge. So he says to you, that in this level, you will have to surrender to this knowledge customers this laminate habibollah and allow this knowledge to refine you, to remake you, to reshape you, to refine you,

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without any resistance on your part without any resistance on your part. And that, you know, there is enough emphasis in the book by the shave on the importance of knowledge. That is the knowledge of the Scriptures. There is enough emphasis by the chef to dispel any sort of thought that the chef

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is not, you know, compliant.

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I think we did go through enough evidence that the chef shows utmost compliance, upmost reverence, compliance with and reverence of the study on the knowledge of the Scriptures.

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And whatever statement that may infer to you may imply otherwise has to be understood within the context of the entire discourse within the book. That is why it is important that we don't do cut and paste with any scholar. Don't do that don't cut any statement of any scholar and paste it into your own context, into your own preset convictions.

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You know, whether you like this color or this like this color, but it you won't have to read what he said within the context of his entire discourse, not a context that is made up by you. So see, if the you know, does not stop reminding us of the importance of knowledge and the importance of compliance with the knowledge of the Scriptures and he says here intending surrender. And so beautiful statement. Because surrender the surrender to the knowledge means it means that you come to the knowledge, without any biases, you come to the knowledge without any reservations, you come to the knowledge without any whims or any preset convictions, you just come with, you know, hands up

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and receive, you know, the your instructions from a lion has messenger for certainly, according to

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the understanding of our rights predecessors and our great Imams and so on.

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But, but you will, you will just surrender, you will just you'll have your hands up, our hearts completely

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ready for acceptance.

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Then he said walk us through a Java in responding to the intent of the law that hooked me is basically the color to the law. The color to the law here is the objectives of the law, the intent of the legislator.

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So you're responding here to the intent of

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The law, he wants to remind you that you do not own the

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certainly the the beauty of the statements of the chef also, you know, sometimes it's a little bit tricky because everyone could interpret his words in whichever way the light. But also part of this is that it allows you to interpret them in different ways. And he may have meant more than one

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implication of this statement. Because the job is responding to the intent of the law, it could be a reminder for you that you're not only responding with your exterior, responding with your interior, could be a reminder for you that you're not only responding to the external manifestations of the law, but also the internal manifestations of the law, the inner dimensions of the law, so that they will be talking about the inner dimensions of fasting

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across the street. So

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it could be also, it could be also an instruction from the sheriff that you pay attention to the objectives of the legislator, so that your acceptance

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is enhanced, because it is true that your acceptance

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of the law will be enhanced when you understand you only understand where it is coming from. Keep in mind that you do not need to understand where it is coming from to submit the surrender to it. Certainly, because the most important ela, of the obligation of the LMR of Allah subhanaw taala I'd like to the Emory some people phrase that this way, and law to them, or the sort of the effective clause behind the legislation is what for all legislations isn't isn't amor itself, the effective cause behind the legislation is the legislation itself or behind the commands is the command itself. So all you need to know is that you are commanded, that is the effective cause that should result in

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acceptance should result in compliance. That's it, you don't need anything else. But Allah subhanaw taala was, you know,

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so merciful, so kind to us, that Allah pointed out to us, you know, certain causes certain objectives, goals of his legislation, so that he would invite us to do the same as well, either, you know,

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monsoons, or muslin. But sometimes it's monsoon sometimes textural, sometimes it's pointed out by himself, or it is Muslim, but it is the use understood

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by the scholars. But in any

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in any way, the understanding of the objectives, the understanding of the intent of the legislator, and the objectives of the legislator, makes it much more

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much easier for us to accept and to submit and to implement with Excel to implement with SM because you can always submit and surrender. But are you really implementing whether or not that's the question for people who understand the inner dimensions of the laws of Allah subhanaw taala the inner dimensions of the instructions, the inner dimensions of the iPad, a bed that these are the people who will be able to perform them with SAP.

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And then chef had to end with this like usual, he said, well constructed ham barrel, during the ocean of self-annihilation during the ocean of self-annihilation

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may not be a bad idea to go back and like a reminder of this concept, self isolation for now.

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And that is self distribution. And as to forgive yourself, and that is for your ego to pass away.

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Farah is the focus on Allah subhanaw taala concentration on Allah subhanaw taala that is consistent and permanent, that will make you eventually forget yourself that will make you walk away from your own ego. And we said that even psychologically this is possible. Psychologically it is possible to be consumed in that which you have focus on to the extent of forgetting your own self.

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The Messiah did not, you know the Messiah who described for now

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For us,

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some of them, you know, were, you know, Sharia compliant were have

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said that were of the masters of the party in the past to Allah subhanaw taala. They were always Sharia compliant, you know, we will deny the base remodel for characters or a cerca de

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la, we all have those Messiah.

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And some of them

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had some

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misunderstanding of finance, and some of them had completely deviated with regard to the concept of Finance.

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But fair as a concept could apply to finance rather to the basically the, the banishment of your era, meaning that your whale will be subservient to a lost whale to the point where you will have no width of your own hand, you know, at all. That is basically an interpretation of the Prophet saying, attack when the hell out of bounds imagine to be until his desires are in complete conformity with that which I have brought to you with that which I have brought forth, his desires are in complete conformity, meaning that you desire not but that which Allah desires for you. But this may be with the with, with the laws of Allah decreed upon you in terms of commands and prohibitions, but in

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terms of you know, sickness and disease and so on. What do you what do you ever love, disease over health or that is extremely difficult. And we're saying that there is something that was even when we say that this annihilation is annihilation of your will, there is something that was here, we're not saying that this is absolute. We're talking relatively speaking, because it cannot be absolute because of the complete management of your well meaning that you're not an independent being and once you're not an independent p being Who are you.

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If If you are there, then who are you then that will lead people into saying, you know, my friends are banned the law, there is nothing inside this cloak, except the law this would lead people to the the the corrupt by agreement by consensus, of the union with like union with a divine in the sense of being part of the Divine. The Germania togetherness with the divine is not, you know,

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it is praiseworthy, it is commendable, togetherness with the divine, but union mean in the sense that you are part of the Divine, this is condemned by all of the scholars of Islam, because there is the creation and there is the creator, and the creation is separate from the Creator. And we are the real creations because our Creator is the real creator, he was able to create real creations. So we have an existence. But if you compare our existence, the reality of our existence to his eggs, his existence, if you compare that transience to the eternal, the beginningless, the, you know, the first without beginning and the last without, and it may look like it is so trivial and

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insignificant, that you're almost unreal.

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You get this. And that's what the mesh if you use what he talked about, when they, when they talk in like this, that is what they are trying to infer that you that compare your existence to his existence, it's dependent on his existence in your contingent being, you have a beginning you were not you were Adam, at one point, you were nothing at one point and you had a beginning. So you compare this to the omnipotent, omniscient to the first without beginning to the last without and

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the source of life and everything in your existence will almost look like it is hungry, but it is great, because our Creator subpattern what Allah is omnipotent, he created three creations, he created real creations. So funnel era that if we want to understand for that era, that

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or the funnel of your will hit it, it is not 100% it is not an absolute concept. But keep in mind that

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this is not about math here. This is about trying to sort of inculcate a concept within us. What is being what is what we're being instructed what is being inculcated.

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into us by the masters of the past is that your errata should, you should be working to almost crush your errata suppress your errata until it is always in conformity with his era. That is not his errata in Cabernet unnecessarily, because you will, as I said, Could Luna economic mouth, we all hate, death, and I, and the Sahaba were certainly better and higher and greater than, you know,

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than anyone there regardless of their station, than any of, you know, the masters of the path who came after them, the Sahaba were the masters of the Masters, second to none, but the Prophet sallallahu Sallam and the rest of the prophets and messengers. So if you look at, and that is the you know, and and I just can't, I can't say, I can't overstate, I can't say enough how important this study this era of the Sahaba because was was their human perfection.

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They only have their flaws, they only had their weaknesses, and they pointed them out, I sure would tell us about her own, you know, errors and mistakes and how the profits are some of them, corrected them. So they were so human, that you could relate to. And you could, you could follow their their example because they they did not exaggerate, the told you who they were, without any exaggeration, without any experiment Halo that you could actually walk behind one of them. Or you could walk behind them all and choose from everyone, you know, what, what you could, what resonates with you or what you could relate to more, and what's what suits your personality. So what we wanted to say is

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that for that, even for that we're not talking about financial juice, we're not talking about the banishment in the sense of you don't exist anymore, and you're part of the Divine, that is blasphemy by agreement, this fluid and it had merging with the divine has nothing to do with Islam, could have come to us from Eastern philosophies. This has nothing to do with Islam, we are the creatures allies, our Creator, and

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the creatures and the creator are different. And the creatures do have a reality because their Creator is omnipotent, and he can create 3d creations. But even with that, it is not complete, as some of the scholars may have

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pointed out, even among American holla, when he talks about that, you know, he did not point out that this is not complete, that what we're not talking about complete annihilation of will, because complete annihilation of will means that you are not existent anymore. If you are not a willful being, it means that you're not existent anymore.

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And it means that you are not endowed with the choice that honored you as the son of Adam, that you are that you don't have a choice. If, you know, it means that any if you reach this before the day of your death, how is it that you're going to wake up in the morning to walk to the sink and make widow, this is all errata This is only rather and if we all hate us, as I said,

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then that that means that you have your own errata and if you will hate pain, if you will have pain and this like that paid, yes, you could train yourself to be so accepting that you will

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you will never show jaza you will never show anxiety, you will never show resentment. But at the end of the day, it is not human, that you will like pain that you will like that that you will like sickness that you will like all of these misfortunes

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then fereshteh hood

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financial hood is basically

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management of perception or that your should have a loss of Hannah what Allah will make you so distracted from witnessing anything around you that you're so focused on witnessing behold in Allah subhanaw taala alone. So we set for and we'll do this completely out forever that has some valid meaning, but it is not absolute in the sense of you not be in existence anymore and I should have

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has some valid meanings, but it is also enough absolute in the sense that you know you can't really see anything you're not aware of anything other than a law but what we wanted to point out what the masters of the past that she she acts of the past wanted to point out is that how dare you pay attention to anyone when you are beholden to Allah isn't to this asset on top of the lock and Mecca Tara for lm talkin Tara who famously rocked worship Allah as if you see him and if you can't, then you know that he sees you. How dare you after you reach that level of sad, look around. If you are worshipping allies, if you see how dare you look around, you will not look around, but you will be

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aware, like the prophets or the member Sahaba were aware of their surroundings, you know, he is aware of his surroundings, these are the most again these are the momineen. So you're aware of your surroundings, completely aware of your surroundings, but you're beholding of Allah will make you

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will make you determined

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to reach him to earn his pleasure. And we'll we'll keep you from getting distracted by anything around you. Not that you're not seeing them. You're not seeing you are seeing them. But the never obstruct your vision from beholding the one, you know the the true Word and have some kind of Matata. So they're like glass boards, they never obstruct your vision, glass boards around you glass boards around you, you know your spouse or in every class boards around you are seeing the glass board, you do recognize that there is something there, but they never obstruct your vision, from seeing through them and seeing beyond them.

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So they're in the ocean of self annihilation the Messiah, either feel that self annihilation, in the passing away of your ego to crush your ego completely, so that it is non existent. They either feel that this is the end. Some of them feel that this is the bridge to the higher station of subsistence with Allah by Allah for Allah. Because Allah, Allah He mala, so this obsessed by Allah for Allah with Allah, or some of them feel that it is not a necessary bridge that the station of Baccarat is not necessarily reached through the station of finance, you don't have to go through the station of finance, to get to the station of the car, you don't have to go through a station of self validation

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to get to the station of subsistence, but with a love for Allah by Allah. And that is the correct position. That

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keep in mind that this does not mean that we don't benefit from the station of Finance. But we're saying that the station of finance is not complete self-annihilation. The station of finance is starve your ego enough you put your like not starve your ego but you put your ego on a strict diet so that your ego is not an impediment anymore. So that your ego is not an impediment so that you're enough similkameen is capable now of using your ego as a mount to Allah subhanho wa Taala not away from this mount is not too strong. You know, to get out of your control, you are in control, and you're using it as a mountain to get you to Allah subhanaw taala you're competing with others Abu

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Bakr and Omar used to compete with each other for the pleasure of Allah, they're using the ego, which will motivate competition

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will motivate competition even further the gods and the hereafter for the thorough job in paradise. So they're using it to get to Allah subhanaw taala when you're enough some of mine is in complete control of that ego and the ego is now like a amount of vehicle that drives it to Allah subhanaw taala you're fine, you don't need to crush it, you don't need to kill it, but you need to keep it under complete control of your life. So not mine your higher self we say the lower self would be the ego the higher self that is seeking the pleasure of Allah subhanaw taala seeking returning to Paradise is your enough some of mine. Once this higher self is in complete control of it. It never,

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you know runs away It never over power. It never overpowers that higher self.

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Then you you're good then this horse is a good horse to ride or a good mound to ride.

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So, in summary, there is no self-annihilation

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There is no fun I will do and that is a blasphemous concept that we should all reject. There is no union with a Lost Planet, Allah in sense of us being the divine, there is no merging with Allah subhanaw taala in the sense of blurring the distinction between the creator and the creation, we are the creations and we are the real creations because our Creator created us. And yes, if you compare them the comparison, who would mean we're almost another

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there is an era that means complete conformity with the will of Allah subhanaw taala. That is his religious Well, that is his irata suraiya and conformity with his decrees also universal decrees in the sense of not showing no anxiety and showing no resentment whatsoever and the acceptance and being grateful to Allah subhanaw taala for that which for his name,

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and for allowing you to pass the test of his trials, then financial hood is to witness a line to behold the line if you're beholding alone, nothing will distract your vision, nothing will stop you because at the generally the appearance of Allah subhanaw taala with this amid all of the dark mediums between you and him, all of the dark mediums will be decimated by his appearance to you when you are beholden to him subhanho wa Taala but it does not mean that you're not it does not mean people we have no existence you're seeing them you're being kind to them because you're you're you're seeing through them and you're watching the loss of Hannah who what, Farah is not necessary

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unnecessary station before backup, but part of it is necessary before backup. Part of it is you know, to suppress your ego to a point where it is completely under your control. Your ego is completely you know, under your control is important for the for the station of backcloth is obsessed with Allah by Allah for Allah. Because you cannot you cannot walk into the station have a car with a rebellious ego with delinquent ego with a like a tooth, forceful ego. You can't walk into the station of the car and ultimately, we want to reach that station of subsistence with Allah by Allah for Allah subhanho wa

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Taala we'll stop here we'll take seven minutes and off for a break, and then we will come back five minutes before the hour because we have two chapters to finish. In fact, quality has nothing to do that York Chronicle Mohammed Shadowlands Federico