Mohammad Ali Hazratji – Tazkiyyatun Nafs P3
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Salam Alaikum Warahmatullahi Wabarakatuh
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give us enough so let's conscious of you
purify our lower news because you are the best of all those who
purify
and you are the Guardian and The protector and the owner of my
enough's.
Shala we'll start with a brief summary of what we said yesterday.
We identified
the various types of new foods, which is the plural of knifes from
the lower cattle like to the predatory knifes to the shaytani
knifes and then the angelica malai cleanups, we talked about the
impact that the knifes has on our kolu we talked about the purpose
for which we were created,
which is a booty of Allah subhanaw taala. And the fulfillment of this
oboe Dr requires that we return to Allah subhanaw taala in a state of
soundness of our globe, which is called collarbone selling. We
talked about things that have impact on our hearts, especially
our lower knifes, the West was so shaytaan the effect of our lube
our sinfulness, all of which impacts
the condition of our hearts.
There are two other things that I didn't mention yesterday that
impact our hearts. That is the environment in which we live, or
the environment that we choose to expose our Kulu to
as Rasulullah Salallahu Salam teaches us by giving us an example
that
if a person goes to a perfumer,
a store that sells perfume, and even if he doesn't buy anything
there, he enjoys the smell of the perfume oils.
And when he comes out, he smells nice, even though he didn't buy
anything. Similarly, a person who sits in the company of an iron
Smith, but they've got iron in the fire. And even if he doesn't touch
anything, the smoke settles on his clothes, and some of the sparks
may burn his clothes. So he has the effect of that. So our hearts
are subjected to the environment in which we expose our hearts. So
if it's an environment of disobedience, gatherings in which
Allah smart Allah is being disobeyed
to any degree, it will have a negative impact on our hearts. On
the same token, if we expose our hearts to the company of the
righteous,
it's going to have an effect on our hearts. Why did the Sahaba
achieve
the states with a loss of them upon with Allah subhanaw taala?
Why do you think they achieved it? Because of the Compact they were
unique, and that's why they were the feral, the best of
generations, because they benefit from the actual companionship of
Rasul Allah Alaris. It's very, very important for us to
understand that what we study is information. What we imbue into
Hearts is by search bar by companionship, and that's why
whenever you find righteous people, you should always sit with
them. You should always observe them, not with a critical eye.
Okay, sometimes we go just to find faults with people, of course.
Our scholars no matter what status they achieve, they are not going
to be examples of perfection. Everybody's going to have some
false. You don't go there to look at their false. You will learn the
good things from
And the closer you see somebody to the sooner, the more you should
spend time with them because you will observe how they talk, how
they sit, how they move every single thing, because that's the
real learning experience. In the old days people you know, why did
some of these people become who they became an evening Malik?
Little boy
or the hola on why did he become who he was? Because his mother was
super smart. She brought this little boy to Rasulullah
sallallahu is once you go going to do, you're a he's a small Yola he
will Yara surah Allah, He will serve you.
Okay. What did that mean that he was always in the companionship of
Rasulullah surah. Therefore, he became who he was, okay.
The best of the top. I mean, who are the turbine? Everybody knows.
That's the next generation. Next Generation after the Sahaba
who is the best of the bobbing?
Anybody knows.
Away Sal barony. Some of you may have heard of him. He actually was
a contemporary of Rasulullah Salallahu Alaihe Salam he lived in
during the lifetime of Rasulullah sallallahu Lissa, he was from
Yemen. But she didn't become a Sahabi because he did not see and
meet rasool Allah Allah is what kept him was service to his
mother.
Because she was a very feeble elderly woman. He
stayed there to serve her. When he finally came, and Rasool Allah
salAllahu Alaihe. Salam knew, of course, he was given the knowledge
of the web, by Allah subhanaw taala. He told his companions that
after me,
a man will come from Yemen, and his name will be a waste of money.
And when He comes, you should seek him and ask him to do that for
you.
He's telling his companions
and of course, after that, and the companion specially hamari.
Barbara, the Alana, they would always every time a caravan came
from Yemen, he would go to them, he says there anyone among you by
the name of OSL currently, and finally in his tilava, a caravan
came.
And he asked those people who said yes, there is, you know, an
insignificant man who's called a waste of money. And he went to
him, he sought him out. And he said, Do the half for me alira The
Allah who went some of the greatest companions went to him,
you do the hour for me? He said Ameerul Momineen. You are from the
two lieutenants of Rasulullah. You're asking me to do the half
for you. Why? Because Rasul Allah, Allah Allah Silla masters. So this
is the status of a Wasel currently, but still, he is not at
the level of the sahaba.
Okay, that's the companionship of Rasul Allah, that's what we need
to see is good companionship. That's why Rasulullah sallallahu
alayhi salam, you know, in a similar Hadith gave gave us the
example he said, Whenever you see gardens of Paradise, graze in them
freely.
So the Sahaba said, Ya Rasulullah what are the gardens of Paradise,
he says, the gatherings of dhikr of Allah subhanaw taala. Whenever
you see that, sit with them,
sit with them. There's a lot of benefit. So companionship is very,
very important. And also the, who we choose as Rasulullah sallallahu
alayhi salam teaches us.
You know, like we have the saying of birds of a feather flock
together, who you hang out when Allah subhanaw taala will raise
you with them.
So, because that's what identifies you, okay? So it's very, very
important that we also protect our Pulu
by the environment that we choose to go in. Sometimes you're invited
to gatherings and you know, there is going to be disobedience of
Allah.
And you say, well, it is our culture. It is our this what we'll
say? You have to be very careful with that. Very, very careful. I
remember. I was invited to a wedding in the United States of a
close friend of mine.
He was at that time actually the the president of our Masjid
and his daughter was getting married.
So he knew how I felt about it. So when he invited me I just didn't
say anything. Then he reassured me he said there will not be any
music.
So I said, inshallah I will come. So we went there, and we attended
the music. I mean,
we attended the wedding and the reception and the food after the
food finish, he, we recognized
that they really wanted to have the music so
he came to me and said,
If you don't mind we would like to because every the youngsters want
to have some music.
So I said,
that's fine. We have eaten we live now. So he didn't allow anything
to happen till we had actually left. And when I was in the
parking lot, I heard the music start. So if you make certain
rules for yourself, then Allah subhanaw taala will facilitate it
for you. And I'm not talking about the thick of music here. I'm just
giving you an example. Okay.
It's very important for us to have as we said yesterday, soft hearts.
So one of our self has said, what softens the heart it vicar of
Allah subhanaw taala a lot of vicar abundance of the Crowfall
last month,
he said if after that, you still find hardness in your heart. Then
you should take to fasting a
lot of Nova fill fast.
If after that you still find hardness in your heart. He said
give a lot of solder.
If after that you still find hardness in your heart. He said
Dookie fella, have some orphans become guardians of some orphans.
Yeah, team.
If you still find harness in your heart, he said, always
sort of put your hands on the heads of little children.
And that's interesting. Because the way I thought of it is because
they are pure.
And then he said if you still find hardness in your heart, sit in the
company, companionship of the poor.
That's very interesting. If you remember one of the dies of
Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi salam was what
are Allah raised me in the companionship of the poor.
Now let's look within ourselves how much time we choose to spend
with the poor in Africa. These are things these are tools as Bob to
soften the hearts
vicar, plenty of vicar fasting, giving sadaqa taking care of the
team,
little children and finally companionship of the poor.
The hardness of heart.
What is the hardness of the heart?
A heart that's not affected when the ultimate is when Allah
subhanaw taala is mentioned.
The words of Allah subhanaw taala are mentioned or read out. It has
no impact on the heart.
And Allah subhanaw taala mentioned this in the Quran itself in Surah
Baqarah.
He mentions it in two different ways. He says about the hearts
that are hardened and he says name they are harder than rocks because
even the rocks cleave as the water flows through them.
And Allah Swanton also mentions it in a different way. He calls it he
says, It is not the eyes that are blind. It is the hearts that are
blind which is the same thing what does it mean? hardness of the
heart and blindness of the heart are similar that means they do not
see the
the realities as they are.
When Allah subhanaw taala is mentioned, nothing happens in the
heart. When his words are read. Nothing happens to you. When the
words of Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi. Salam are his name is
mentioned and the least
we should have with Rasulullah sallallahu Sallam is what?
When you hear his name, everyone should say what sallallahu alayhi
wa sallam if you
said once in a gathering from a 50 perspective, it is sufficient. But
if you love him, you should say that softly every time you hear
his name Salalah.
So nothing has an effect when you see. And again, if you see people,
there is injustice, it doesn't matter. You know, all kinds of
things are happening, it doesn't happen when you see the orders of
Allah subhanaw taala being broken and violated, you feel nothing.
And this is described in the hadith of Rasulullah, sallallahu
alayhi salam, which is the Hadith also in the harbor in our week
where he says that if you see a wrong being done, you stop it with
your hand means if it's within your power, if you do not have
more money, if you don't have that capacity, then with your tongue
means you speak up against it. And if you don't have that strength,
then at least feel that it is wrong in your heart.
And he said that is the weakest level of iman. So if even that
doesn't happen, you see violation of Allah has ordered right and
left and it has no impact on your heart, you don't feel that, then
you have fallen below that red line, that Rasulullah sallallahu
Sallam called the man.
Okay, that people live, whatever they want to do do
it, it's going to poison the whole environment and you're living in
that environment. If that ship sinks, the ship of humanity, you
are going to sink with it. Okay. So it's very, very important that
we work on this. And, you know, we don't have time to go into the
details of that, but this is just a brief answer to your to your
question.
There is
of Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi salam that summarizes some of
this, this gear to knifes that we've talked about yesterday.
He says Aloha minea all the become in Aruba, men element, young woman
Calvin Ayesha woman knifes in LA touchbar woman da in LA you smile.
Oh Allah, I seek Your protection from for things.
Men and women law young
knowledge that does not benefit me in gaining nearness to you. I seek
Your protection, I don't want that kind of knowledge. I seek Your
protection from a heart law Yaksha that doesn't have a crusher,
Reverend ball and fear of you. I don't want that kind of a heart.
Because that's a heart that's hard.
And I see
and I seek your refuge from a nurse. That is never satiated,
that's never satisfied it wants more and more and more the lower
NuForce that we talked about, and I seek your refuge in You from the
ah that is not heard.
Heard by Allah. In other words, that is not responded to. Okay, so
we all of these are part of that task here. Okay, there.
Right, the heart, the knifes and as we said, ultimately the DA
which helps us in this process.
So you should memorize this beautiful da and use it with
sincerity.
Now, I'm going to start with today's session
we need to know as we said we need to identify our knifes we need to
identify which category we fall in, what traits that I have that I
need to change. Okay? Just like a doctor in the physical world of
medicine, the doctor study first all the sciences that teach you
about
the body and then they go to diseases. If a doctor imagine if
you have a doctor who has studied only one disease, he knows one
disease and you go to him, what's he going to see? He's only going
to see that disease. He knows only TB now you've got a fever from
something else you see is TB only. You must be TB. I have a headache
must be TB
Okay. Therefore, we need to know the disease of the heart is not an
again this is not so that we can diagnose others.
This is so that we can diagnose symptoms of those within ourselves
that Skia is
For yourself, okay. So what's the greatest And worst of all
afflictions? Of course, as we know it is shipped with a loss
and there are different flavors of ship of course Hamdulillah we are
not idle worshipers, we are not people who do you know open ship
the ship Kabyle
but there are many flavors of ship that some of us do sometimes are
exposed to
such as grave worship
such as thinking that something has power you know I try something
on your arm and I feel a sense of protection from it
right
among others and there is a hidden ship, the ship cover is bad most
of us are exposed to Nat what is the meaning of sheer covers Bob
that means, we in a way worship means for example, if we talk
about something that Allah subhanaw taala does this and Allah
is the only one and Allah is the only one and if somebody says but
that but is a bit of a shake that shake butting in into the fleet.
Share this is very, you're right, you're right, but we need money.
But that's a sub Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi salam how much
money did he have to propagate his his message? Allah Swan Tala
deprived him from all the SBAC made him an orphan.
So he had no great connections. That's what we use, made him poor.
So he couldn't boast of wealth, although he was given that choice
that the angel scam that we can make the mountains of the hammer
into gold and silver and rubies and pieces, no, I will be Abdun
Rasul not a king and also to give us that example, Allah subhanaw
taala made him unlettered. Today we take pride and I'm a PhD, I've
got those as Bob's to show you that ASVAB only works to the
extent that Allah subhanaw taala wants them to do. Should we use
the ASVAB? Of course, but we should have the proper
perspective. I have done this, because I'm commanded to do this.
I study for the exam, because that's my duty. But I don't rely
on my study. I go to earn a living, because that's my duty.
What I get from it is the decision of Kanban I make effort in my Deen
will it make me happy may not. That's from Allah subhanaw taala.
So there is no contradiction between using us Bob and having
tbut cool. Dependence on Allah subhanaw taala knowing that all
results come from Allah. So
effort
is the realm of the slave results are in the realm of the master.
Okay, there is no contradiction we have to do those but in our
hearts, we should know that my effort is not going to produce the
results, but I still make the best effort.
That's what I'm asked to do.
So shirk of means, we should be careful off, then we have another
form of shirk, which is called Ria. Everybody knows what RIA is
ostentation wanting to be seen.
And this is especially dangerous for people who are in this
position talking to you.
Now you come here
I can reasonably assume that you have a class
sincerity and purity Why Why else are you sitting here? You're not
gaining anything else? You are here for the sake of Allah
subhanaw taala can I say the same for myself?
I cannot
because I don't know within myself, if there is something in
my knifes that likes me to be seen and heard and praised.
And the danger of this is that we never know our level of class
ourselves. And we can never find out till it's too late. Because
only Allah knows and when will we know if our actions had a class is
when we meet him.
So this is a very dangerous it's a very slippery slope for people who
are making this and we ask Allah subhanaw taala to protect all of
those who are trying to serve this Dean and give them a class give me
a class. But this is where shaitaan comes in. Because human
beings like to be recognized like to be praised.
Like to be heard. So Maria and someone wanting to be heard and
wanting to be seen ostentation, you know, people will say good
things about me.
Then we have NIFA Penny floss NIFA is hypocrisy. Opposite of
effortless
and the FARC as we know is the hypocrites who claim something
from the outside but in the core, they were rotten inside.
Okay, outside is showing something else inside it should be something
else.
And the opposite of that is a class which comes from Harless,
which you use in all domains what pure, what you see outside, you
cut through it. In the inside, you'll find the same thing.
That's a class.
But if you cut through the apple and inside is rotten, that's a
problem. And also Allah salAllahu Alaihe Salam gave us
characteristics of this NIFA and there are of course, the FARC of
of the Aqeedah which is the ultimate of NIFA where they were
they didn't really believe and they said that they believed and
there is NIFA in our actions hypocrisy, and the signs of that
are watching again, this is part of our learning.
Yesterday in the Joomla football we mentioned took two or three
qualities of a Munna he comes to Salah and stands amo Kusa lazily
means Oh, it started come for brother come for Salah. Yeah, you
know, and then you get up like it's a burden that's a sign of
nofap.
And when he remembers Allah liath Quran, Allah, Allah kalila he
remembers Allah little and again, like I stressed it's not like a
person who doesn't remember ALLAH, but remembers him infrequently a
little this is a sign of hypocrisy. Then in the hadith of
Rasulullah, sallallahu alayhi salam, he says the signs of of the
actions of a hypocrite are what? When he speaks, he lies.
Lying is a trait of a munafo. That's why a believer cannot lie.
When he is trusted Latona no ha and when he's trusted with the
Amana? He does. He betrays the trust.
Somebody tells you something private about them. And next day,
the whole city knows about it. betrayal of trust sign of munaf
what else?
When he makes a wider, he makes a promise. He breaks His promise is
the brother I will see you tomorrow at 11.
doesn't show up till 1130 Worse, still shows up at two o'clock or
doesn't show up at all, you know, said Well, our plumbers are like
that. They say they're coming tomorrow, they don't show up for a
month, I have to look at myself.
Punctuality when you say tell somebody you know 11 o'clock. What
does it mean?
11 o'clock. That's what our share keeps reminding us.
If we take care of the little things, Punctuality is that if
somebody says something, I will do this for you either either say
that, look, I don't have the capacity to do this, I cannot do
it. There is no harm in that. But if somebody makes a promise,
you should not break it. Okay?
And another characteristic is whenever Amana Filkins in a
different Hadith, this other variation comes in, when they get
into an argument, they become abusive and loud.
When we get into arguments, then you become personal and you raise
your voices, and so on, so forth. And then even worse, start using
foul words. These are all characteristics of a hypocrite. So
again, we need to see at times do I have these characteristics?
The next one, the next of the camaraderie, and the diseases of
the heart is kibble. kibble, loosely translated as arrogance
means I look down on people. I feel I am superior.
Rasulullah sallallahu. I'm only going to mention one Hadith about
this, which should be sufficient for all of us. Rasulullah
sallallahu alayhi salam said that anyone who has a Vera in atom or
neutrino in the smallest of particles of Kibera will not
antigen
Oh,
this is very, very serious. Because Kibriya i and another
Hadith, he said is the garment of Allah. And Allah subhanaw taala
says in a hadith that whoever tries to grab my garment I will
put him in the hellfire.
Only Allah deserves that.
This is
Allah Subhana Allah Allah Mata Kabila. If you make a human being
Mata Kabir, he's looked down on when you look Allah Azza Mata
Kabir, he's looked up to because he deserves because he is who he
is. So that's the reality. If I have kibra, I really am not what I
think I am. Okay.
And the opposite of that, of course is humility and lavado that
we should
make a correct assessment of who we truly
are
some of the related diseases where Allah which is boastfulness
talking about, you know, I have this and this and a lot of us do
that, either with the tongue or by our actions, I want to show people
what I have achieved where I have arrived in the way I move in the
way I live and so on so forth in the way I I celebrate things,
excesses and excesses and excesses. I mean, somebody was
telling me that
the son of one of the
I think it's called Sahara or somebody got married in Lucknow a
few years ago. And, you know, they had on the guest list, more than
100,000 people, they were jets to bring people in, and the amount of
money that was why this is boastfulness, trying to show
people who you are. So again, we should be humble in that a jibber
jabber is vanity and pride. It is also a form of conceit in that I
as you know, I think of myself in a way that I'm impressed with
myself. I shall
mashanda.
And then we have what is called overrule, which essentially is
deception in the sense that I'm deceiving myself by assessing who
I truly am above what I am, okay?
judging myself by a standard that elevates me from who I am.
Then there are several of these diseases which come from the root
of what we can't help but dunya in excessive and satiated, love for
the things of the dunya
among which is a hazard or envy, the dangerous kind of envy, that
somebody has something I wish, I have it and I hope he if I can't
have it, he should lose it.
He should come down to my level, this is how sad,
major sin.
Why is it so major? Because it is if you look at the reality you
break it down. It is dissatisfaction with the Condor of
Allah subhanaw taala because Allah decided to give somebody more and
give you little less, you are dissatisfied with his judgment.
This is the same as who was dissatisfied with Allah's
decision. Sherpa on
who said how can I bow down to him? For the human thing.
You created him from clay
I'm better than him.
created me from fire and him from that assessing not as knowing what
the reality is. Okay, looking at the surface, his argument is
correct. Fire is clean and pure, logically mud, stinking clay mud,
I should be better than him.
But because he's only looking at the surface, he's not looking at
what is behind that, that Allah subhanaw taala has breathed his
roar
into this. And that's what in novels
so
has had an envy. Similarly, we have a health which is greed,
wanting and wanting and wanting never having enough.
And if we have been the next diseases called
stinginess, Allah has given me but because of my hope for the dunya
my love for this dunya I don't want to do I don't want to give it
away.
Allah Subhana Allah has given you so that you may be the means to
deliver it to others and
In that process Allah will give you more and Allah will give you
more in the dunya and in the Afra those who have experienced it who
have given and this is just an aside I will give you a hint which
is experiential anytime you are in difficulty, financial or otherwise
give to the poor. So, when I have a lot it makes sense to give when
I don't have Why should I give How can I give, give them and you will
see the result of that,
okay works in the opposite direction, because Allah if you're
giving sincerely will increase it for you, okay. So, vocal is not a
trait of a believer.
Again for the same reason, because he knows that it is from Allah
subhanaw taala. And my holding is is not going to increase it
by giving I will increase it.
Then the two dangerous wolves hobble Merle booja, again,
similar, some of them have overlapping things, the the
excessive love for wealth, and the excessive love for being
recognized for position, you know, that's what it is all of what we
call duniya. It can be summarized into these two things.
wealth and power,
the rich and the famous,
then what is worse power, because people have money,
but they don't have control over others when you have power.
As you know, people who get into high positions will also
automatically get wealth one way or the other, but they have power
over others and Salem has compared this to this is as inimical to the
heart as to hungry wolves being let into a pen of sheep, the
amount of damage they will do in that among the sheep to hungry
wolves. The love of these two things will do more harm to our
hearts to our guru.
We already talked about treason, then there is something called
hepco which means malice towards other wanting bad for others, you
know, harming others. Inshallah, hopefully, most of us all of us do
not have that. But at moments we can because if you feel wronged,
rightfully or wrongfully you feel somebody has wronged you.
Sometimes the automatic reaction is to harm the other.
And what does Allah subhanaw taala says about somebody who does wrong
to you?
Lie yesterday Hassan Wallace say yeah, good and evil are not equal.
Then what does he say? Repel?
It fabulet the accent, repel evil. With good, it's easy to do evil
for evil.
And you are we have the Law of Cosines. When somebody gives you
one slap, you can give him one slap back that's even but not more
than that. And number or intensity. But if you repel it
with good and this is the whole life of Rasulullah sallallahu this
man comes Abudu comes grabs Rasul Allah salAllahu Alaihe Salam by
his, by his shirt and twisted, so that marks for him on his noble
neck from that tight garment. He says, Yeah, Muhammad give me from
what Allah has given you just look at the way he addresses
and the Sahaba around ready to draw their soldiers?
Well, so Allah salAllahu Alaihe Salam asks what he has, is it give
it to him?
Have I given you enough? He says, No, of course not.
We are ready again to draw their thoughts, their beard, this man.
He says, He takes him in his house, takes him in his house, and
gives him and gives him and gives him he says, are you satisfied
now? said yes, I am satisfied you are the most generous. You say can
you go outside and say that in front of my companions
so that they may not have ill feelings about you?
He brings them out. He said, Are you satisfied? He says I'm
satisfied. You're the most generous.
Then the companions have a good feeling. He's even concerned about
how his Companions would because if he left having said that, you
know you are this. This is how he repelled evil but then is we
should read his car because that's what we have to internalize an act
of law of Rasulullah sallallahu ALA. There are so many times so
many things of abuse
and things like you know in the story of
Raschi you know, he caused more harm and grief to Rasul Allah
salAllahu Alaihe Salam than anyone else. When he killed his beloved
uncle Hamza or the Allah Han.
He was one of the few people on whom Rasulullah Salallahu Alaihe
Salam at the time of Fatah, maka had given a death sentence that
whoever finds Rashi can slaughter him or should slaughter.
And then when she finds out
and he covers his face and comes to Medina in front of Rasulullah
Salallahu Alaihe Salam, and sits right in front of him and says, a
shadow Allah ilaha illallah Shavon Anika rasuluh you are I bear
witness. Then he takes off his mama from his face and his
companion. So this is Russia and they draw the sword and Rasulullah
sallallahu sallam said no. Now he's from among your brothers. He
has taken the Shahada. But then he asked to tell me how you killed my
brother, my uncle. He says, You know I am you know one of those
who fights with deception. I had I'm not brave enough to face
Hamza. So I waited for my opportunity. And I saw him just
going through the enemy lines in and I waited and I waited till a
moment came when he was not seeing me. And he looked vulnerable. And
I am an expert, Spears man. I threw my spear.
And then he did what he did with
and Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi salam starred after all these
years, almost seven years later, he started weeping and weeping and
weeping and weeping because he was so affected by it. And then what
did he say? He said, I don't want you to sit in front of me. Because
when I see your face, it reminds me of my uncle. And in a weak
moment, I might make dua against you.
This is how you repel this is our Rasul Salah How can you not love
you to me?
Should the to avoid
excessive uncontrolled anger?
A trait that many of us have sometimes runs in the family.
Okay, anger, anger, anger, everything happens you just blow
an anger is from one companion came to Rasulullah sallallahu
Sallam and said
give me Naziha Rasulillah is a lot of them. Do not get angry. So give
me some more advices a lot of don't get every time he has that
response was Don't get angry.
Because when you get angry, what happens? You are
like a fire. Why? Because you get hot and you get red, isn't it? And
what happens when you get angry you rise? So what is it that you
know that gets red, red and hot and rises?
Fire and who's made from fire shirt on? That's why Rasulullah
sallallahu Sallam gives us a simple
recipe for controlling anger. Number one, say what? I hold him
in a shape on your regime. If that doesn't control it, do what throw
water on the fire go do will do.
That doesn't control it. Sit down, don't be standing up. And so on so
forth. There's simple things. But we have to work on this. Because
when you get angry, whether it's at somebody, whether it's at your
spouse, whether it's your children,
nothing productive comes out of it because you may say and do things
that you regret later. How many times has it happened to people
who when they got angry said something and they regretted it
later.
1000s of times may Allah protect us.
This is not a character. This is a trade that Allah has given us. So
we are not Peschiera is not to eliminate anger. You cannot
eliminate anger.
You have to direct the anger correctly. When you see Allah
subhanaw taala orders being violated you should feel angry.
If you feel nothing then remember that hadith we just talked about.
So this anger is an important part of us but it has to be correctly
directed. Rasulullah Salallahu Salam
has been reported never to get angry for a personal reason. No
matter what
What they call them, no matter what they did to him, no matter
what they threw on him, he never got angry. When did he get angry?
When would he get read sometimes, and his vein would would swell up
here when allowes orders were being violated.
So we have to learn to direct our anger
lack of higher
lack of modesty,
lack of higher us Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi salam defined
higher as he says every Ummah, every nation has a defining
characteristic.
And the defining characteristic of my ummah is a higher, this is the
defining characteristic. He says everything that higher enters it,
beautifies it.
Okay?
So when we have higher higher itself is beautiful.
He said,
whatever, if you have higher, you have higher,
higher that modesty, that thing gives you higher, which means
life. And if you don't have higher, it's the opposite is you
don't have life. You're living like an animal. And he says,
someone who doesn't have hire, let him do whatever he wants. Why?
Because there are no restraints. Hire looks beautiful on brothers
in their actions, and it looks even more beautiful on our
sisters. Okay, higher modesty, not in your face. Not this, you know,
aggressive to teach you. You should be aggressive and you
should be this and you should be loud and you should be no.
You say what you have to do? gently, softly that's what you
have to do.
Juergen cowardice. And I'm not going to go into the details of
that. How men rum,
uncontrolled anxiety and depression. Why is this a disease
because again, it reflects on the weakness of the Tar Heel within
us. Because we have not understood the pada and kodra of Allah
subhanaw taala that this what Allah subhanaw taala meant for you
will come to you, nobody can stop it, and what he has not given you,
nobody can bring it to you. And this has been explained in many
Hadith of the Prophet SAW Allah listen on the famous hadith of
Edna Basara Viola anima. When you were sitting in the back of
Rasulullah Salallahu Salam again in the cat on the camel, and also
Allah Subhana Allah son has this little boy, his first cousin
actually sitting there, but he's a little boy. And he says, Yeah,
well, I'm a little boy, should I teach you something he is writing.
But he uses Rasulullah Salallahu Alaihe Salam, he's the best of
teachers. He uses this as a teaching moment.
And in that long Hadith, he describes this death remember,
whatever passes, you was not meant to hit you, and whatever hits you
comes to you was not meant the pens have been lifted, and the
scrolls have dried, this is uncluttered of Allah subhanaw
taala. If you know that, if you understand that truly and
internalize that it removes anxiety, because this is what
Allah has ordered. Why should I be anxious? If Allah has, why should
I be depressed, there may be biochemical reasons which is
different. But most of us don't have that. It comes from not from
this uncertainty,
of not knowing what Allah subhanaw taala and that his mother and
father will overtake us.
And then we have the diseases of our Shabbat, the Lord knows, you
know, wanting this and wanting that uncontrolled things.
And the diseases, so these are all lowly desires and the diseases of
Shewhart which is doubts, which then come in our Arcada and belief
systems, which is an internal thing, that everything we have
doubt you know, is there really a day of judgment? Is it real?
Is it going to happen? Is there a creator? Is this this is Quran
truly the unadulterated preserved words of Allah subhanaw taala or
was it written by somebody else? This Muslim sometimes talk about
this? Are these the words of Rasulullah sallallahu. Is this
meant these Shewhart these doubts, and the opposite of doubt is a
clean
you
certainty, certainty. That's what we, we strive for.
There are several other things which you know,
laziness is a disease. So I've sort of tried to summarize some of
these disease states of the heart without going into detail because
there are more than 20 of them. If I spent three minutes on each, it
would take me a whole hour. But again, this is meant to be just a
sort of reminder, so that you can go and learn more about these and
if you find some of these characteristics, and again, we
said we have to honestly look within ourselves. If I have some
of these, then there is a solution. This is not just for
identification. There are solutions in our Dean because our
Dean has the answer to all the problems polyoma uc molto
lacantina come this day we have perfected your deen you don't need
to go anywhere else you have the Quran and Sunnah it will answer
all your things. So if you have a particular disease of particular
trait of these things, then you go to a person of knowledge of
practitioner not just a person of knowledge of information, and say,
I find this within myself.
Give me a formula to overcome it. Just like you go to a specialist.
We have specialists Allah subhanaw taala up out of his mercy has put
specialists in our in our OMA who can treat these spiritual
diseases. Say these are diseases of the heart. The moment you feel
slight chest pain and pressure we run to the cardiologist because we
are so concerned about
coronary heart rate, heart heart disease that I'm going to die. But
that's the worst that can happen right? You drop dead.
If you die with any of these camaraderie
it doesn't end with that death would have been a mercy. Because
the people in Jana
are going to say yeah, Malik to the keeper of Jannah. ask Allah to
give us death. So we may be relieved of this. So we these are
more serious diseases, we need to see a spiritual cardiologist to
remove these things from us. So look, make a list.
Write down, I like to take notes of you know, if you see something
about yourself, write it down document, you know, I have
disliked many of the people who come to the doctor's, you know,
sometimes patients come with typed pages, seven pages, every symptom
that you can imagine is there. My general rule when I see that is I
know this patient has nothing wrong with them. But if you're
honest,
if you're on because they've been on the internet surfing in that
you can find every symptom, and then the imagination good. But
here,
we have to write down and seek solutions for them.
I'm going to start I still have about five minutes on the next
part of this,
the skier which is I've called the fruits of this gear, the benefits
you're going to see from this process.
And the greatest is what we call what I will call as the
actualization of the lead. And if you get that in your heart, and if
I get that in my heart that will change our being completely.
What does that mean is to recognize a loss subhanaw taala
truly as what he is and who he is, and that will give us an
understanding of what we talked about the color and color the
destiny of Allah subhanaw taala the wisdom of Allah subhanaw taala
why certain things happen.
And what that does is helps us react properly to the trials and
tribulations which is the name of this dunya
See, many of us want this dunya to be perfect. What is the definition
of perfect means Jana?
Is this dunya meant to be a Jana? No, it is a place of trial and
tribulation. But there is even a Jana in this dunya and some of the
scholars have said the one who does not enter the Jannah of this
dunya will not enter the Jana of the Astra and the gender of that
dunya is to feel that wounds that intimacy with a loss Renate to
feel connected to Allah subhanaw taala what that gives you of
pleasure is like being in paradise.
And if we achieve that, then you're going to enter Janelle but
again going back to this is a place of trials and tribulation
and storms that come in your life, many different ways.
Allah subhanaw taala
may test you with well,
it has to do with poverty. Most people who are given wealth as a
trial, don't consider it a test
because they only consider poverty as a test. But it's a trial Allah
subhanaw taala mentioned in the Quran somebody gave more to test
what they do with it. Do they show gratitude? Do they use it in the
right way? Do they use their money to buy the judges and produce
corruption? Okay.
Allah Swanton mentions that he mentioned about
what we call CIFAR ish.
The one who's been given less, who is below the poverty level, that's
a test. What does he do to remove that? Does he do sub? Or does he
try his best in Halal ways
to earn that?
The one who's been given help, he doesn't think that this is a
trial. It's only when the sickness comes, then we think it's a trial.
But health itself is a trial to see how you use your health. Your
youth is a trial Allah gives you strength. Yesterday, I was talking
to a 17 year old because at 17 What do we think treat our
children today as Oh, he's just a child. When he's 25, what do we
say? He's my baby?
Because he's the youngest. My wife and I, my wife always calls my
youngest. We use the baby in the family.
Rasool allah sallallahu alayhi wa sallam was on his deathbed
Salallahu Alaihe Salam
in the pangs of death.
And he's sending out the biggest army that has gone out of the
Muslims against through the superpower, the Romans.
And who does he make and charge the general of this army, an 18
year old who is called the beloved of the of the Beloved.
Osama bin Zayed son of the Beloved.
The son of zayde, who Rasul allah sallallahu alayhi salam called his
adopted son. His son is 18 years old. In that army of people like
Omar Abdul Hakeem Barbara the Allah Han, major companions. 18
year old leading the army, every time he wakes up from his, from
his stupor of death, he says, Has Osama left with the Army has Osama
left with the army and people are doubting there is in the army
itself. There is no bias. He made this young unexperienced boy as
the general
there are three things Justin aside there are three things that
Rasulullah salAllahu alayhi salam stressed in the last moments of
his life
one was this he kept asking about the army of Osama Osama bin Zayed
The other thing most of you know a Salah Ursula Ursula
and the third thing that she kept saying was and be kind and give
the rights of the slaves
of the slaves
you know these three things this is this is the Jeremy only column
that he was given you know the few words these three things summarize
your entire Deen
How is that
the army of Osama bin Zayed was being sent out to preserve Islam
to protect Islam.
Salah fulfilling represents the head of what fulfills the right
your vertical connection with Allah subhanaw taala that if you
guard your Salah, you will obey Allah subhanaw taala and
everything else. And the third thing if you take care of the
slaves and give them the rights, obviously you will give the rights
of everybody above that.
You're dealing with people you're dealing with Allah and preserving
the three instructions in which the whole thing can be summarized.
Then came to Medina through a 19 year old
anybody know his name.
When we had the people from Medina come to Hajj, Rasul Islam was not
spreading Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi salam used to go from camp
to camp. In one year there was a group of people who listen to his
message he said you also we accept we want you to come to Medina
send us somebody who will teach us then takes a 20 year old Musa been
a male or the Alon center. The only chance of spreading the he
sends a young young lad
because this Dean's spread
Because of youth, young people, energize people, so youth is a
blessing from Allah subhanaw taala that has to be used and we
shouldn't pamper them and say oh that child, so little child, okay
when this heat comes into our hearts, we develop what is called
a hub for Allah subhanaw taala hub is the ultimate love, and if we
love Allah subhanaw taala and that's the only way because we
know who he is.
Then we love everything that he loves. And who does he love the
most?
Rasool allah sallallahu alayhi wa sallam.
Then we would have loved for a surah Allah, Allah, Allah, Allah
is her love for everything of about him. You love to hear about
him. You love to read about him. You want to spend time with him.
We cannot spend time yesterday we reminded the Rasulullah sallallahu
alayhi salam said that I would love to see my brothers
said yeah, the companion said Yara Surah onto your brother. He said
no, you are my companions. My brothers are those who will come
after me who have not seen me but who bring him on on.
Okay, so we want to hear about him we want to when when we talk about
Hadith of the Prophet salallahu alayhi salam.
So, today there's extremes people say well, I don't accept Hadith. I
only believe in the Quran. This level of Cofer itself. You know,
when one of the four great Imams who's best known for this thing is
Imam Malik, Nima Medina, people used to come to his house.
People used to come to his house with questions. And his maid
servants would go and find out what they were looking for. And he
would say call them and said every time somebody came
because they wanted to hear a hadith
the great Imam would go take a whistle, put on his best clothes,
and then come out.
So he was asked about it. He said, Because I'm going to be reciting
the words of my beloved. This is my adult with him. There is a
narration one time he was taking a class about Hadith about the words
of Rasulullah sallallahu. This is how you honor them, this is the
other and they would saw him sweating and his face was read as
if he was in great pain.
But the class continued to its conclusion than some of his
clothes as Hopkin said, Yeah, ma'am. You look like you are in
distress. So he said, Why don't you raise my shirt so there is
this shirt from behind? There were there was a scorpion that had
bitten all over his back. He was in great pain. So why didn't you
say something? He said how could I stop when I'm talking about the
words of Rasulullah Coronavirus?
That's why Allah subhanaw taala gave them the MACOM the stations
that they have a
love for a sort of muscle and there is we cannot make any
progress if we don't have love for Rasulullah and it's not just a
word. If you love Allah in quantum to have bone Allah what is the
condition for terbaru knee your baby Kamala then follow me in
everything in the external sunnah.
And the internal some external sunnah look like him look like
him.
And the internal sunnah even more
have his o'clock behave like
then what will happen? Here be boo Kamala the certificate has been
given, then Allah will love you, if Allah loves you, cases clause
nothing more, nothing more.
If somebody becomes the Beloved of Allah, can there be a higher MACOM
than that? No.
So we should love everything about
rasool Allah some lives.
You can only love someone that you know if we know nothing about him.
How can you love him?
You need to know exactly what he was in his house. You need to know
exactly how he was in the war. You need to know how exactly he was in
Maccha housing Medina how he slept, everything he did how he
ate.
He sat like a slave. He never reclined
besides that because when sister has
I just this is an aside, there is other way of learning also, may
Allah Subhana Allah bless the sister she is sitting on the floor
the true other of learning
is to sit on the floor with him and nearness. So I would suggest
for future when we have this and we all growing, whoever can and of
course you know, then there is Roxa for people who have, who are
elderly who have got knee problem back problem, you can sit in the
chair it's not, but the humility that comes from nearness and
sitting on the floor and sitting as close to whoever's teaching
you. It has an effect.
So try and do that as much as you can. And if you can, yes, you can
sit at the Smarthub it's not my crew, but you're looking for
something more.
This is how the Companions learned. Because being closer to
the ground,
is more humble. And this is part of the other of learning.
That's why we are closest to Allah Subhan Allah is above, but we are
closest to him when we are the lowest in Sajida.
Humility
one, when Allah smart Allah hope and all comes to Allah Sumantra
does not reveal Himself to us in this dunya because our hearts
cannot take it.
Our hearts cannot take it Allah subhanaw taala centered the jelly
on the mountain.
Evaporated Musa alayhis salam gone
okay, one bit, but two came to Rasulullah sallallahu sallam said,
yeah Muhammad I have done this, this, this, this this?
Will Allah forgive me if I accept Islam? He said yes. He said I
shall do Allah Allahu Allah. He accepted Islam. After a while he
said, said Ya rasool Allah, no, he said, Yara Sudha Allah
when I was doing all of these evil acts, was ALLAH watching me?
Rasool Allah SallAllahu sallam said yes,
he held his chest, said Allah was watching me and he expired, right?
Because that reality came that Allah was watching me when I did
all of this. Of course, he would go straight to Jana because he is
now sinless, having taken the shahada and then die.
To sometimes the hearts that have been purified cannot take there is
a narration about in the old days about a caravan, you know, for
Hajj. The caravans used to go from Egypt. And in this caravan was an
elderly blind woman called woman bent over could hardly walk. And
it's a long journey from Egypt, to Makkah.
And her dream was
to see she couldn't see but to feel by. Every time the caravan
was stopped, she would ask, Have we reached the Baitullah? Have we
reached the battle and people got fed up with her because every time
it stopped, she would go on about it. So they decided not to tell
her when they finally got to Maccha they took her
and they took her hands and they put it on the wall of the Kaaba.
And they said, Yeah, shefa had that beta. This is the beta of
Allah. She said her mother by the law she grabbed it died right
there. The heart couldn't take it love, love for the bite of Allah
because of the love of Allah.
So may Allah subhanaw taala inspire us and put his love in our
hearts and this will come Inshallah, as one of the fruits
and byproducts of the process of this gear. Inshallah we'll take a
break here, and then we will
reconvene in about 10 to 15 minutes and talk a little bit
about a clock Subhanak alarm technician