The Souls Deepest Secrets
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The transcript discusses the impact of recent incident that was revealed through a holy spirit's visit. It emphasizes the importance of remaining humble and not wanting to admit one's mistake. The speaker discusses factors affecting a person's fit, including arrogance, stubbornness, and taqleed. prioritizing desire and need is crucial for healthy life, and honoring others and showing one's faith in Islam is crucial. Everyone should show faith in Islam and not just highlight their actions.Transcript ©
In Surat Al Araf, Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala
says,
And recall to them, O Muhammad
when your lord took from the back of
Adam alaihi wasallam all of his progeny, all
of his offspring,
and made them testify about themselves and also
against themselves
by asking them,
Am I not your lord and master? Am
I not your king and maker?
And they all said,
we certainly testify to this.
And Allah says, I did this in exchange,
this encounter
so that you don't come on the day
of judgment saying, we didn't know any better.
So you don't come on the day of
judgment saying, we were oblivious to the fact
that you are our lord and master. The
next verse continues to say,
or so meaning or so that you don't
say,
Like our forefathers did this, wasn't us, we
were born into this
rivalry with god, equivalency with god. It wasn't
us.
And so of course, none of us, my
brothers and sisters, remember this. This happened in
our first world, the world of the souls.
Before we were born into
this world when our souls were installed into
our bodies.
The hadith of the Prophet salallahu alayhi wasallam
make it clear to us that we were
all pulled out. Can you imagine the first
person ever to the last person ever,
like specks
of how tiny and how many and just
you can't discern one from another.
But this incident
obviously
was purged from our memory And that is
why a person is not fully liable
until the Quran comes to them. And that
is why Allah azza wa jal said to
the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam, I reveal
to you have al Quran, this Quran. So
that you may be warned by it. Sufficient
warning happens through it and whomever it reaches.
Because whoever doesn't reach, he can't recall that
he already accepted
that Allah is his lord and master. So
this was purged from our memory. However,
the impact of it, there are deep traces.
There is like a secret that is unshakable
about every soul because of this encounter, because
of this incident that we don't recall. Very
vividly, its impact is very vivid, and there
are 2.
The first of them is that every human
being knows
because of this incident that Allah is their
Lord. Meaning, there's a supreme being. They're not
Muslim yet, but the notion of I have
a creator, that creator is 1. He is
supreme. He is almighty.
He is the king and I am subjected
to him. I'm not the king. That whole
idea of bastard and slave is pre built
inside all of our fitra. It's in our
nature. It's instinct for us.
And subhanAllah,
no matter who you are or where you
are, even Fir'aun himself didn't just know god
but his fitra betrayed him. When he said
to Haman,
O Haman, he's telling his architect,
build for me a tower so I can
go up
to see the Lord of Moses. How did
he know up? Why didn't he say dig
for me a well or dig for me
in the ground so I can excavate the
Lord of Moses? It was in him that
the lord is most high
Right?
And
not just for out, you fast forward 1000
of years until this very day, some remote
islander,
anywhere,
past or present,
they didn't meet their parents, they didn't meet
anyone, they will still look for something to
worship because they believe they are subjects
of another. It's prebuilt. If they cannot find
the lord of might and the god of
truth, they'll pick a stone, they'll pick a
tree, they'll pick whatever they assume in their
hearts to be grand at that moment.
But at the end of the day, every
human being, every human civilization,
they haven't all had education systems, they haven't
all had craftsmanship
but they all had worship. Why? It's universal.
It's in every last fitra. But this fitra
which gives you a built in recognition of
god can get corrupted. And the scholar said
he gets corrupted by one of 3 things.
The first of them is kibr,
is arrogance.
And arrogance is you refusing to admit the
truth.
And this is the most lethal of the
3.
And this is You know
who said, build for me a tower to
go high, to go up and find the
Lord Moses, that was just like a slip.
He was saying what?
I am your Lord the most high. He
would Who's the most I'm the most high.
He just slipped one time. He wasn't trying
to admit it when he said, build for
me a way to go upward.
So this is arrogance. So refuse to admit
the truth and this will corrupt and destroy
your fitra faster than anything else.
The second is
is stubbornness. And the difference is that is
you refusing to comply with the truth.
Every time you refuse to comply with the
truth, this corrodes your fitra. And this corrupts
your fitra and could deliver you to a
place that you never thought you would reach
at which is your lack of recognition, sufficient
recognition
of your God. See, everyone has a fitra
but some people it is so foggy for
them that it's not enough to make a
decision about. It's not enough for it to
intervene in my life, to demand of me
certain actions.
Inad will do that.
And
Benu Israel, they are tragically the poster child
of stubbornness.
Right?
Slaughter a cow. What kind of cow? Okay.
Okay. What kind of color? Okay. Okay. Like,
what kind of function does it serve?
This foot dragging, not just with the messengers
but with any truth,
adds to the corruption,
increases
the sickness of your fitra.
So when when the child and pay very
close attention.
The youngsters out there, every time you foot
drag with your parents,
it doesn't just get forgotten. This has a
stain.
This has an impact.
Then you get married. When you refuse to
comply
with the rights you know should be delivered
to your spouse, This inad,
if you were asked a hypothetical question, you
would answer right. But in practice, you're refusing
to extend it. This is very dangerous.
If you're on a trip, there's supposed to
be an amir. If you're 3 people, one
of you should be calling the shots on,
we're gonna pray now or later, we're gonna
stop for bathroom and coffee now or later.
There has to be an That is the
sunnah. For you to say, no, I refuse
to accept his
decisions. And they're not haram, they're not sort
of like, gonna endanger your life, that is
called
When you're in a community, when you're in
a masjid, and there's a policy, or there
are organizers,
and you try to make up any and
every excuse to not comply,
this comes back on you. Just know that.
You can convince the world but you could
also be doing in yourself.
Right?
The third of them and the and
the most hard to recognize of them is
called the taqleed.
Taqleed is basically socialization,
social conditioning. Right?
You know we spoke in Ramadan about the
herd effect. Taqleed comes from the word
to to have
a a a collar on your neck. Right?
And so taqleed is when just, you know,
my parents did it this way or I'm
comfortable doing it this way, whatever the crowd
is doing, I don't wanna ruffle feathers. I
don't want to discomfort myself. I don't want
to risk sabotaging
my relationship with the crowd.
And that's what most people say regarding
their reasons for their positions being right.
It's rather their positions they are so used
to and fond of. Right? Because of their
environment.
So each of these 3 will corrupt your
knowledge of god himself
even though it is pre installed in our
fitra.
We said there's another trace for this encounter
with Allah. The other effect, the other trace
of this encounter with Allah
is actually related to the 3rd,
the socialization, the taqleed
which is the fact that you didn't just
get to know Allah on that day,
in that first world. You actually got to
know each other.
You see, we all have a built in
knowledge of god. We also have
a built in
sense of who I want to be close
to and who I don't.
You know, human beings, naturally, they're clicky, and
that is fine, so long as we know
the boundaries of justice and rights and responsibilities.
Right? We call it chemistry.
This person has my energy. I have their
energy. Right? We gel well. Why do you
gel well? Do you know?
A big part of this, the Prophet salallahu
alaihi wasallam explained in the authentic hadith when
he said,
The souls. Long time ago, The world of
souls. They are soldiers
or armies that were conscripted. You know what
conscripted means? Basically, imagine an army, These were
assigned
to group a and they were assigned to
group
b. He said, why? How?
Whichever souls can recognize each other, they gel.
Talaf literally means to like fuse or gel.
They become friends.
And whichever souls don't recognize each other, they
just they drift apart.
You know, every single human being has a
story about like, I see this person, I
know you. And maybe you do know them.
Maybe you just saw them in your doom
scrolling. Link. We've seen so many people online.
Maybe you just have a bad memory or
tech dementia or something. No. But it could
have certainly been. Sometimes it's because you were
familiarized with each other in another world. That's
why it happened.
That's not justification always to play along, I'm
part of this herd and you're part of
that herd. But that is the basis. Right?
There are people that are just easier for
you to be friends with, not the next
person. Normal. Fine. Don't try to kill it.
It can't be killed.
And likewise, it is not just faces. It
is also personality. Sometimes a person's personality, you've
never met them before. You get to know
them. Within a few short minutes, you feel
like you've known them your whole life. Why?
It's because that soul
met that soul,
and the soul never died. It just awaited
for its birth in the earth,
awaited in the heavens. The prophet alaihis salatu
wasalam in the night of Al Miraj,
you know, he said, when I went entered
the first heaven, I saw Adam alaihis salam,
and I saw so many individuals on his
right. And every time he's He looked at
them, he smiled. And so many individuals on
his left. And every time he's He looked
at them, he cried. He wept. And I
said, O Jibrid, what's going on here? He
said, these are the souls of his offspring.
These are the souls of his children. On
his right side are the people of paradise.
On his left side are the people of
the fire. Right? And so they're awaiting there
in the first sky. And then when Allah
destines that this is your generation now, this
is your date of birth now, that soul
comes down from the heavens where it was
waiting. Allah's wisdom and determination to get installed
into a body in the womb of the
mother and be born into this world. And
so it stays within you. This is the
second trace, if you will, of that encounter.
And now for the challenge.
The challenge is
when there is a standoff
between the desire
and the need of the fitra to ascend,
to have an upward relationship
with Allah aza wa jal and to enhance
it, Not always the case but when there
is a standoff between your relationship with the
most most high which is in your fitra
and you wanting to have a relationship, a
sense of belonging,
right, to
horizontally now with the people, with the social
spheres, with humanity? Right?
What do you do when there is a
standoff?
You see, both of these are desires. These
desires desires are unfulfilled needs. That's what a
desire is. Your need is not yet fulfilled.
So to fulfill them each properly is the
only way out. What does that mean? That
means to prioritize them correctly. Because if you
prioritize the relationships with people which is normal,
right, over your relationship with Allah which is
normal and necessary,
then you're going to have a dysfunctional life
and permanent unfulfillment in this world and in
the next.
When there is a standoff, that is when
you must prioritize your relationship with Allah over
your relationship with the people.
You know, one of my teachers, he used
to say,
the night prayers. You're enhancing your relationship with
Allah in private. Right? Most sincere of prayers
many a times. The night prayers are the
antidote.
They are the cure
to likes and shares.
You know, everyone wants to be recognized, sort
of wants to like be liked, and people
talk about them, and people share news about
them, people show approval of them, and thing
But
what if you're sort of fixated on that?
It's a disaster.
But when you start having a relationship with
Allah and conversations with Allah and reflections on
the words of Allah and appreciation for the
gifts of Allah through the Quran and the
night prayers, you don't need it anymore.
They like me, they don't like me. It's
I'm fine. I can handle it. It's not
the end of the world because Allah gave
me reassurance
when he said,
Put your trust in the most mighty, the
most merciful.
He sees you. You wanna be seen?
I see you. I see
you. You know, even in English, I see
you means I appreciate you. Right? I see
you. I see you. I see what you're
doing. I see you. We recognize you. We
validate you.
The one who sees you as your eyes,
meaning at night.
And your movements about are about, meaning among
those who are prosper I see you. So
once you have that, you don't need as
much of this. And that is the why
the poet, he said,
That perhaps I will Like make a firm
decision already. Stop playing games between these two
categories,
this need and this need. Right?
Perhaps I will
despite my need. My need to connect with
people as much as I do,
Despite my need, I will disappear. I will
fold myself away. Meaning go off into private.
Have some private time with Allah and seek
my refuge in the prayers and in the
seclusion.
Then he explains why. He says, because people
I figured them out already. Right? He said,
people,
they desert me, they turn their back on
me at my first mistake. They forget everything.
And Allah, he accepts me with all my
flaws.
Brothers and sisters, that is fulfillment in this
world.
And whomever does not rank these 2 correctly
will continue to chase the inferior
and replaceable
over the superior
and irreplaceable.
And then after that chase, they will realize
that the pain and anguish of that will
be even greater in the next world.
The prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam, when Abu
Salam radhiallahu an died, he walked in, he
had passed away and his eyes were wide
open. So he walked over sallallahu alaihi wa
sallam as you should if you're ever in
that situation and closed the eyes of Abu
Salam
And then he explained to the people why
people's eyes remain open sometimes when they pass.
He said,
When the soul is pulled, the
eyes follow it. They follow it upward. The
soul wants to go back up.
But the Quran,
to add to the image now,
itself which we began explaining,
speaks
on the fact that the soul when it
does go up at death for those that
did not invest in their relationship with Allah,
did not recognize him as the one and
only, the uniquely absolutely perfect. Right?
They'll
door And, that will be the beginning of
the doom.
May Allah protect us and you. And, on
the other hand, those who had invested
in faith and good works, in tawheed, in
distinguishing Allah out,
in singling him out and everything particular to
him,
the doors of the heavens will open for
them.
And then they will be given the 1st
installment in glad tidings
before they are returned to their grave to
await the full installment on the last day.
And speaking, brothers and sisters, as I close,
regarding
the,
doing the right thing even if people don't
accept it, even if it's not popular.
I want to, I need to, before I
step down,
honor those who are putting right now on
university campuses and in the streets their schooling,
their education,
their careers,
their income
on the line to do the right thing
and to popularize that the right thing be
done.
It blows my mind to see the
justice for Palestine
actually finally turning a corner and out of
the universities
of all places.
The places that were systematically
targeted to create a narrative that would ultimately
have graduates that form policies, all of that
was there and this is the place that
it's all crumbling in front of them.
And I wanna say, brothers and sisters, number
1,
those in these rallies, those in these sit
ins, those in these encampments,
they are not just
standing for peace and freedom and justice which
our Islam demands of us to stand for.
They are doing something that the constitution of
this country
celebrates and cherishes.
So by no measure are they doing anything
wrong. And therefore,
we are obligated
not just to let them
but to laud them, to celebrate them, to
support them.
You know, everybody's outside. Like it is the
the the snowball effect is unbelievable.
The
the professors are coming out.
The Jews that are against genocide are coming
out. The 70 to 80 year olds that
help change narrative and make the Vietnam War
unfavorable and had to end are there. 70
80 year olds. The ethnic minorities who have
very hard economic challenges ahead of them are
out there. I saw a Mexican father yesterday
saying if my daughter is risking being arrested
for this,
then I need to at least be outside
with her. Her. I'm the proudest father in
the world right now.
And since that too is the case, we
as Muslims need to know that we are
obligated to
condemn those trying to silence them and never
resemble those trying to silence our brothers and
sisters
that are doing this.
I'm going to be very clear here. Musa
alaihis salam, he made a mistake once
and he said to Allah
Because of the great favor you've conferred upon
me, oh Allah, I will never support the
criminals.
Allah has conferred a great favor upon every
Muslim.
Do
not fall in line with those trying to
silence them. We believe that Allah is a
razaq,
the ultimate provider.
Do not discourage the youth from being out
there.
You know when Imam Ahmad Rahimahullah, when he
was persecuted,
the jailer, the man at the gate said
to him, you know, I hear you making
dua against
the oppressors and those who aid the oppressors.
Do you mean me? Like, is your dua
gonna hit me?
He said, no. This aid of the oppressor
is the guy who cooks for him and
the guy who makes his clothes. You are
one of the professor oppressors.
You're category 1, not category 2.
To volunteer
actively support, serve the function of.
May Allah
never include us in that category.
And if any of them face some discrimination
or face some some force,
then we will then reach out to care.
We will reach out to civil rights orgs.
Most of that will not happen to most
of them. Alright? And we too in that
case will be standing by their side as
we do today. May Allah continue
to accelerate the collapse
of the Zionist project. May Allah end the
occupation.
May Allah
end the genocide and everything that this genocide
was predicated on. May Allah further expose the
lies and further cause to panic panic these
oppressors. May Allah guide us and guide with
us and strengthen us and cause our impact
gives us.
gives us.