Omar Suleiman – Fleeing from Darkness to Allah’s Light

			Salam aleikum wa rahmatullah wa barakato. Scenario ministry if it was not recommended Rahim al hamdu
Lillahi Rabbil alameen for one Illa Anil blind Ameen when Arqiva to them, Let's have him along so
they will send them about a kind of avocado so we can Mohammed in Salalah hiding the Salah, and only
he will soften yourself into some into zero. So, first and foremost, just again to clarify, I think
I confused a bunch of people with what it is that I'm doing. This is the nightly reminders that
we're going to be doing inshallah, Monday, Wednesday and Thursday, where I'm just going to be
drawing some lessons from sort of Brahim, but I'm not going to be doing a deep dive into the Tafseer
		

			rather, talking about some of the lessons that can be gleaned from this beautiful sutra. But Tuesday
night inshallah starting next Tuesday, for that Tuesday and then the following two Tuesday's, so
three Tuesdays we're going to be covering the life of Ibrahim alayhis salaam, and as we covered the
life of Ibrahim It is said that will take us into the month of the hedger and in the first 10 days
of the hedger, there will be a very special series in sha Allah Tana and then after that Tuesday's
will go back to the first inshallah Tada. So some of you have been asking when that series is coming
back, and that's when it's coming back into Nikita after the first 10 days of that. So inshallah
		

			Tada. Yesterday I was talking about this first AI and particularly this idea of Bluetooth region,
that you would take the people out from darkness.
		

			And then Allah subhanaw taala says This was bacala He is the one who removes people from darkness to
light. Now I want to talk about tonight, this idea of Mina a little naughty, you know north, from
darkness to light and what exactly that means because it's the purpose that's really listed here.
That is, that is mentioned here a lot Julio Latina, Armando euregio, homina, Guru Murthy, the note
that Allah subhanaw taala being our where the God being our protective friend, he guides us from
darkness to light and this is the book by which we are guided from darkness to light. And the
Prophet slice of them sooner is what guides us from darkness to light. He is the manifestation of
		

			that book has his practices has been salicylate is the manifestation of that book. But I wanted to
reflect on this idea of Mina little Mati Eden, from darkness is to light in other word vullo. Matt
is the plural of darkness. In English, there is no equivalent, there is no darkness is in English,
it's just darkness. But why would Allah subhana wa tada use little mats in the plural? And then know
which is the light in the singular? And what is something that we can take from that that's evaluate
what are some things we could take a value? Well, I think it's important for us to actually look at
the way that the professor Dean did talk about this. So typically, you'll find that the scholars
		

			have talked about this from the standpoint of a non being belief, which is light, and then a little
not darknesses, which is kofler, which is disbelief. And so it's the different layers of disbelief,
some of them spoke about it in terms of who that was. Well, nada means pretty much the same thing.
And I'm not going to go too much into depth with it. But guidance versus misguidance. The point is,
is that these are looked at as two opposite ends, right? One of them faith, belief, guidance, being
upon a clear straight path having purpose and clarity, and a destination to look forward to. And the
other side of that, being everything that counters that right everything that's the opposite of
		

			that. Now in the last contest is little Matt and he refers to
		

			the path of guidance is one however, Allah subhanaw taala also sometimes refers to guidance in
multiple forms. And that is when he's talking about the pathways to guidance and within guidance.
And so if you think about the lanes of guidance, when you're going towards the same, the same
destination, when a law some kind of which it says whether the ninja had to find out and at the end
of the home, Sudan or those who strive in our way, we will guide them to our pathways think about it
as lanes on the path of guidance that all of us are on the same path of guidance with the night
Tada. But then there's the lane of charity, the lane of fasting, the lane of knowledge, the lane of
		

			the recitation of the quarter, and there are things that we excel in that that really increase us
and that push us on that path of guidance, but there's only one light here, okay. When it comes to
the modal mods, if you're talking about in the theological sense right there, you know, especially
in the capacity of idol worship, you can go from one idol to the other idol. You could you could
lose yourself in you know, in jumping from this to this and trying to find something that's going to
fulfill you and what's going to end up happening is that you're going to jump from darkness to
darkness the darkness until finally you land upon in sincere pursuit lights you land upon clarity,
		

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			Have a man. And you're guided back to the last panel tab. But there's, you know, something that I
really want to reflect on here, which is beyond that this idea of jumping from one insecurity to
another insecurity, jumping from one path to another path jumping from one thing to another thing,
until you really realize that there is no escape no refuge from Allah subhanaw taala, except to
Allah subhanaw taala. So what I'm about to share with you, I'm going to say this, because it's very
important to say, what I'm sharing with you right now, is not the Tafseer of romance either nor it's
just a reflection on the idea of the plurality of ways that are away from Allah subhanaw taala, and
		

			the singularity of that path back to Allah subhanho wa Taala. And the clarity that comes within that
path to Allah Subhana hoghton.
		

			The way that the scholars described this is really powerful. Okay, there's a Hadith of the Prophet
slicin, where he mentions a person who's on the path of guidance, and there are doors that are on
the side of that path. And on top of those doors, there's a color to misguidance. And then on top of
the car to misguidance, there's a color to guidance, the car to misguidance tells you to come, there
is a curtain that conceals those doors. If you if you leave that path, and you end up going into one
of those doors, then that can take you away. And the shape on is not concerned with necessarily
which door you take, he just wants you to not be on the path back to a loss of habitat. Right. So
		

			the shape on wants you to remove that curtain and end up there, okay, and end up on one of those
paths away from God, where you're not coming back to a loss of habitat. So if you can catch you with
this, then he's pleased because as long as he's got you here, you can't be going this way, you can't
be going straight, okay, you can't be on that path back to a loss of habitat. So he's pulled you in.
And one thing that that I just found really beautiful as I was reading into the Tafseer of little
amounts of the North is that it's it's almost like the, the reverse of this example. And that the
literal nuts are these veils this curtain that stops you from experiencing the light of Allah
		

			subhanho tadas guidance. And so it's like a curtain draped in front of you. And so if you can
imagine a person who's like stuck somewhere, and they've got this curtain, the ultimate curtain
being fulfilled, right, but you've got this curtain in front of you. And if you remove that curtain
and another curtain gets dropped in front of you, or you're now behind another door, and there's
another curtain blocking you The point is away from that path of guidance, you're away from the path
of clarity. And back to the last time, I was just reflecting on this, that a lot of times, we run
from one sin to another, from one bad relationship to another bad relationship from one drug to
		

			another drug from one pathway that we think is going to give us happiness, one sense of validation,
per se, to another sense of validation. It's like you keep running from all of these things. And one
of the greatest blessings from Allah subhana wa tada is when a person realizes the disappointment
that happens when you're away from a loss of data when you're not on that path that a person finally
turns themselves back to Allah. If the if the purpose of sin is to obstruct you from guidance to
obstruct you from Allah subhana wa tan, right. And, you know, the curtains keep dropping in front of
you. The doors are variety away from Allah. And it's like, I jumped from this, I jumped to that I
		

			tried this out, it didn't give me fulfillment. I tried that out. It didn't give me fulfillment. And
eventually you realize that that light is so beautiful, right? That light is so beautiful. And
again, this is reflection not to see it right now. You know, I think of that conversation between
her Oculus and Abu Sufyan, where he asked about Sofia, and about the Muslims of Sofia, and was not a
Muslim at the time. So when someone becomes a Muslim, do they ever leave their faith out of
displeasure with the faith? Okay, not do they leave their faith because of other reasons? No. But
like when someone tastes the sweetness of the sweetness of faith? Would they really leave it? And
		

			the answer is no. Right? The answer is no. Because if I can experience that light, and I, you know,
and I experienced the beauty of that light, why would I go drop another curtain in front of me? Why
would I go jump off of this path. And so the safe ons job is to distract with the doors with the
pathways with the curtains with whatever it is, just so that you don't get to experience the beauty
of that light and the beauty of that way to a loss of habitat. And of course, there's an
implementation of this. Yeah, even outside of darknesses and things of that sort, but just the
things that we place ourselves.
		

			have security and and our sense of happiness in this life that just are bound to disappoint us right
so you put it you put all of your all of your eggs in this basket that I will be happy if everything
is set in this way and I'll be happy if everything is set in this way. And it's strange isn't nobody
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			in his local Agha Baron de Luffy related law that you taste the the torque the torment of being
attached to other than Allah subhana wa tada thermadata horrible Minho either not even barely, will
inevitably. And then you don't run away from that thing back to the blessing of being welcomed and
loved and embraced by Allah subhanaw taala through his path of guidance. And so sometimes a person
wonders, you know, why is this happening, and this is so disappointing and falling apart, and this
is falling apart. And you realize that everything that drives you back to that path of guidance into
that light of a loss of Hannah Montana is a blessing is a blessing. And sometimes that means,
		

			you know, turmoil that causes the curtain to be moved aside. But the point is, is that there are so
many ways to be away from Allah subhanaw taala. But there's only one way back to Allah subhanho wa
Taala. And that is of course, abiding by the Sunnah of the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam. And
we pray that Allah Subhana which can allow us to follow this rightful guidance that was delivered
through the prophet, slice them and then demonstrated in the person of the profit slice, I'm in the
way of the profit slice. And we pray that a lot places on that way of life at a loss of habitat
allow us to be filled with that North filled with that light of guidance, and to be torchbearers of
		

			that light guidance. And we pray that a loss of Hannah Montana, allow us to be guided upon it and
through it, and we pray that Allah make us steadfast upon it until our death and that we are raised
with it Allah Ameen desert from our fate on Charlottetown. I'll see you tomorrow night at the same
time. Salaam Alaikum warahmatullahi wabarakatuh