Mubeen Kamani – Isha Khatira
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Created us
in the best form,
in the best manner,
in the what best way.
And we went through some detail talking about
why did Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala say this,
and we went over how Allah subhanahu wa
ta'ala gave you and I aqal.
In today's reminder, I wanna bring up
a verse where Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala talks
about
this life that he has given us.
So he says that you are the best
of my creations,
and the life that you live, Allah Subhanahu
Wa Ta'ala sums it up
in one eye.
And I find this very beautiful because at
any stage in my life,
I can pinpoint where in that ayah I
currently am.
And all the previous places,
I remember those times as well.
That one time I was in that stage,
and one time I was at that stage.
And the unique thing about this ayah is
as it goes through the different stages
that, in San, you and I progress through,
each stage that we pass and move on
to the next stage,
we look at the previous stage and say,
I was wasting my time.
I wish I wasn't doing that. What I'm
doing now is important.
And Allah subhanahu wa'ala said in the Quran,
verily, the life of this dunya is.
The first two stages, and you can bring
them both together,
is playing without any meaning, without any benefit.
I have a 2 year old son at
home.
My 2 year old, Mohammed,
he has a toy where he presses the
button.
The toy pops out.
He laughs,
and then he closes it again, presses the
button again, it pops out once again, and
he laughs. And he could do this for
hours,
and it would just drive me crazy,
but that's what laryb is,
playing without any meaning, without any benefit,
just entertainment.
Tells us that from you then go to
Lahun,
and this type of play is
while y'all were coming in, you probably saw
some kids playing basketball outside,
and that type of play, it had benefit
for them.
You
know, they're they're
telling themselves, if I can play more basketball,
I might lose some weight, I might build
my cardio up, I might build my stamina
up, maybe I might have a future in
this sport.
And if you ask the person who is
dealing with this youth now to sit down
and play with their 2 year old, 3
year old sibling with that toy,
they'll say, absolutely not.
That's a waste of time. Why would I
do that?
Now I understand what the ball is. Now
I understand what the controller is. You know,
if I play
Fortnite or play, you know, the newest game
out, I may be able to get into
the competition and be, you know, be the
best at it.
Then Allah
tells us that this stage of your life
is only temporary.
Then the next stage,
This now youth becomes a teenager.
And he looks into the mirror and he's
impressed with what he sees.
And he spends time.
Now, this person will spend hours in the
gym.
You ask a person that's beyond this stage,
you wanna spend hours in the gym? They
say, absolutely not. You know, my wife married
me and where that say, halas.
I don't need to be in the gym.
This person will spend hours online looking at
tutorials
how to tie their hijab
or how to put on their makeup. Why?
Because everything
is about
zena. It's about beautifying yourself and making sure
that you actually
play the part
when you walk into a room that you
are the center of attention,
that you are presentable
in front of people.
But then Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala says this
part of your life
is temporary as well.
And then you move on to the next
part
where
it's
where it's competition
with one another.
Where are they going to on vacation?
What kind of house do they have? What
kind of car do they drive?
The job that he has, the bank balance
that he has. And Imam Ghazali
looks at this one
phase of our life,
and he gives it a title
of a disease in the heart.
In his ahiya ululunuddin,
now Imam Ghazal alhamtulillahi, you have to understand
that,
he
went through a phase of his life where
he was a top scholar,
absolutely top scholar. People came in thousands of
miles to come learn by Imam Ghazal
He had authored many books at the age
of 20.
And at one point, it was like Imam
Ghazal
sat down to speak like this,
and after saying, Alhamdulillah,
Allah took his tongue away.
He wasn't able to say anything.
He wasn't able to communicate,
share the thoughts
that he had, share the reflection that he
had, teach.
And Imam Ghazalah alayhi actually takes a sabbatical
for roughly around 10 years.
During this time, his brother, Ahmed Ghazali,
writes a poem
to his brother and says that, how long
will you be the stone that sharpens
blades,
that sharpens swords?
That you sharpen everybody else, but you yourself
remain
dull.
And then that's why Imam Musa, he takes
some time. He refocused himself, and he comes
back and he writes, And
in his
he writes
a a bridge version,
which is called,
the beginning of guidance. And in beginning, guys,
ma'am,
he takes the disease of the heart, and
he summarized it into 3.
And in these 3, he talks about as
hasad
with one another.
You know, one is keeping up with the
Johnsons,
but the other is hasad, which is a,
you know, he says it's a more
more it's a greater
disease than that.
And that he defined hasad is when you
see somebody else with a nirm of Allah,
and not only are you jealous or envious
of it, but you don't want that person
to have it as well.
And the prophet
shared many different hadith about it, about hasad.
He says that hasad and iman cannot be
combined in a believer's heart.
Another hadith,
near by Imam Ahmed Abdul Ali, Imam Raulsula
salallahu alaihi wa sallam says the hasad,
it burns away
your good deeds.
The same way that a fire you have
a bonfire,
you have a campfire, and you put some
dry wood in there. And with a crackle,
within 10 minutes, within 15 minutes, that wood
is absolutely ash.
And Rasulullah salallahu alaihi wa sallam said, this
is what hasad does to your
aamad.
Now a lot of times we look at
hasad and a one direct one dimensional
approach
of our property,
of our materialistic
things. But you have to realize that hasad
is actually beyond that.
Sometimes the hasad that we have is a
someone's knowledge.
Sometimes the hasad that we have is somebody's
control or power
or the say that they have in the
community or the effect that they have, the
following that they have.
And people now, it's
competition
with one another.
And then then Allah subhanahu, in the last
part, says, the last stage of your life,
you went through playing without any meaning and
playing with meaning,
beautifying yourself and competing with one another, but
then comes a time in your life where
you become old.
And all you want is
All you want is to gather
your wealth and have your children around you.
You wanna be in communication
with your children.
A person now puts a price tag on
their life. I lived a life of 50,
60, 70 years.
What do I have
to show value of these 60, 70 years?
How much money have I saved or how
obedient or how close are my children to
me?
And
this quality,
this space
can be
categorized as the lack of ganat,
the lack of contentment.
And we talk about contentment.
A great scholar comes to mind by the
name of Ibrahim bin Adam.
He was a king of bulk.
Ibrahim bin Adam Rahmatullah.
His situation was that at one point, he
was a king
and he had a huge gathering at his
in his palace.
And people were drinking, people were having fun.
It reached a point of the night where
everybody was passed out. Ibrahim bin Adam, he
hears on the roof
some footsteps.
So he said, do you want let me
go and check what's happening.
He finds a person,
and this person is looking around here, looking
around there. Ibrahim adham asked them, what are
you doing?
Said I'm looking for my camel. I've lost
my camel.
I'm looking for my camel.
And Ibrahim Ben Adam said, what kind of
biblical are you?
That you're looking for your camel on top
of my palace. How would your camel get
past my detail,
climb up my spiral stairs, and get up
here on top of my cam on top
of my palace?
And the person replies back, if I'm Bilqwuf,
then who are you?
You're looking for Allah
within
your palace.
I'm looking for my camel on top of
your palace, but you're looking for Allah
as a king inside of your palace.
And if by then,
the next day he wakes up and he
says to people, guys,
I'm
done. I resigned from my position.
And many years later,
Ibrahmun Adam is walking.
And this is what panat is. Panat is
to be content with whatever liver little you
have.
With the
at that point, once you have it doesn't
mean anything.
You're not worried about gathering more, but whatever
little you have, you're content with that. He
takes a piece of bread, dips it in
the water. There was a river there. The
river,
the name said might be dipped in the
water, and then he eats it. And the
people around him said that, do you want
just a few years back, you were the
king. And you had maidens that were feeding
you, and meals were being prepared for you.
Many many different types of bread and many
different types of meat was prepared for you.
And today, look at your state. You're dipping
water you're dipping bread into water just so
it can be moist and it can go
down your throat.
And Ibrahim,
he replies back by saying, if the kings
of this dunya
knew the pleasure
and the simplicity
of being a servant to Allah subhanahu wa
ta'ala,
they would come with their sword and they
will wage war for this pleasure.
And this is the last stage
where Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala talks about the
Quran.
Where
we just want to gather more and more
and more. But there is a combat to
that, and that is to be content with
whatever little little Allah
gives us. We pray that Allah makes us
from those people that make the most of
the sages that we are in and prepares
to meet him on the day of judgement.