Khalil Moore – Recognizing Blessings

Rahim

al Hamdulillahi, Rabbil Alameen

was salatu. Was Salaam. Warah, Sayyidina, Muhammad

wa Allah Adi. He was sahabihi ajima in

Allah. Tina Hadi

watahi, rubana a was Akina,

WA ja, Anna, Min Olia, ikad, mukura, Bin rahmatukaya or hamara,

himI,

alhamdulillahi, ladi, Hana, Ali, hada,

OMA Kun, Lina, tadi Allah and hadan Allah.

We thank Allah,

we praise Allah, and we acknowledge our need for him,

and we ask Allah, Subhanahu, taala, to bless this beautiful,

immensely, tremendously beautiful location and occasion.

Brothers and sisters,

this place, Al Maqasid, is truly, truly blessed,

and it is an honor from Allah subhanahu wa that any of us can

attend these gatherings, to be in the presence of these wonderful

and beautiful teachers and honored guests and distinguished guests,

and what is to come as the years go by and the months go by and the

weeks go by and the days go by is even greater than what we are

currently experiencing.

Fahmadullah, Allah,

praise Allah and thank him for that,

for verily, there are people right now?

There are people right now that are in absolute, dire need of this

light and of this Noor, of this beauty that we are drinking from

and that we are experiencing and that we are tasting.

There are those of us that have been blessed to meet the wonderful

and beautiful ulama and awliya of this time. And there are many, I

can say for certain. There are many wonderful, close and pious

and righteous servants of Allah right here, right now, in this

gathering Alhamdulillah.

But as I was saying that many of us have been blessed to meet some

of these great, incredible awliya and ulama and scholars the likes

of Sayyidi al habibra Omar or Sayyidi al Habiba Ali and many

others, may Allah bless and preserve them all. However,

just because you've kissed the hand,

just because you've visited a land, it doesn't mean that you are

protected and preserved, if you will, all the time indefinitely if

you don't do what's right.

So recognize the blessing that Allah subhanahu wa has graced you

with and give it its due, because there is a due to every right and

every blessing that you have been given,

and the right and the blessing of guidance is to give thanks to

Allah subhanahu wa because at any moment

it can be taken away, because it is not you,

it's not you, and it's not about you, it's him, and it's about him.

And so all of our intentions, all of our directions, of our hearts,

of our gazes, of what we listen to, of what we look at and what we

see, has to be for Allah subhanahu wa, because if it's not, then

watch out.

Don't be like the one who had guidance, who had light, who had

this beauty but then lost it. Don't be like that one.

Allah subhanahu wa says in the Quran, describing the situation of

those that have no light,

it is as if they put out their hand in front of them, and there's

so many layers of darkness they keep.

Can't even see it. Voluma about either adahulaha, that if he

brings out his hand, he can't even see it. Just imagine that it's

your own hand.

It's your own appendage, and you can't even see it because of the

extreme darkness that you find yourself in

Omaha, nuran familial that whomever Allah does not give

light,

there is for that person no light. And also look at a very subtle

indication in this ayah, in this verse, that whomever Allah does

not give light, Famille who min Nur,

it doesn't say, from Allahu Nur, which obviously would be enough,

he doesn't have light,

doesn't have any light. None,

none

the source of light is from Allah, Subhanahu wa and our Prophet

Muhammad, sallAllahu, alayhi wa sallam is that beacon by which we

understand and learn to manifest that light may Allah bless this

place. May Allah bless all of our mashaykh. May Allah bless Sidi Aya

and Sidi Amjad and Sidi Hassan and Sidi Yusuf and all Sidi Abdul

Fattah and all of the blessed, beloved mashaykh and asatida and

teachers that we have in this location. Finally, brothers and

sisters, I want to leave you with this one thought or this one

share, if you will.

I have been honored and blessed to be here for the past year,

Alhamdulillah

and unfortunately, fortunately, Allah knows what is best. But I

will be departing. I will be leaving to go back to Virginia,

but I hope that I will be able to visit you and again and again and

again and drink from this beauty and experience this light and be

able to see you all again, please. I ask you, in parting to make dua

for me. Inshallah, this poor Fakir, your brother, Khalil, make

dua for me, please, and for my family. JazakAllah, Wan wa salam

Ali Kumar, Ahmed Allah will offer me a.