Omar Suleiman – Seeing With The Light of Allah

			Dear brothers and sisters, I want to stay a bit with the topic, at least for another two or three
hold the most of this idea of what we can perceive based upon what is presented to us, and how much
we trust the faculties with which we are perceiving the world around us. And so last week, we talked
about the job. And we talked about this idea of the ultimate deception and the ultimate distortion
of reality and where a person can no longer see beyond what is right in front of them. And the
tragedy of that being compounded by a person trusting their own faculties to a point that they
assign divinity to them. And I want to talk about this in sha Allah Tala. In an extended sense, I
		

			want you to think about two people that are looking at the exact same thing, and having the exact
opposite reactions to it. Two people go to medical school, one person as they study the detail of
Allah's creation, and they study biology, and they study all of the miracles of birth, and they
study all of the miracles of the functioning of the human body, they come out and they say,
subhanAllah, how amazing is the creation of Allah? How merciful is ALLAH SubhanA, which Allah to
have allowed us to function in the way that we do? How dependent are we on Allah subhana, which
Allah with every single process in our bodies, another person goes to medical school and has the
		

			exact opposite reaction, comes away with that and says, The human body is incredible. Human beings
are amazing. Look at how advanced medicine is, and attributes all of that to the creation as a means
of rejecting the Creator. Same thing is true. When you look around at the universe around you, some
look at it, and they see the signs of Allah subhana, what's out of the Signs of God, and that brings
them closer to God. Others look at it, and do not realize that they are coming to the most
unintelligent conclusion that all of this is from nothing. And they use that as a proof against God,
or the existence of God. Then you look at the signs, the ayat of the Quran, divine revelation, some
		

			read it, and are moved by the first few verses that they hear and immediately perceive the divinity
of these words, the words of ALLAH SubhanA, WA, tada, others approached the Scripture, with the
intention to skew and to misinterprets and to debate and to argue, and so they find themselves in
constant argumentation, while the other person is absorbing the revelation with humility. You know,
subhanAllah, think about I remember once coming across this meme, where you had a person that's
standing, and he's standing in the middle of a garden, and everything around him, and it's beauty.
And he's saying the Thought Bubble is where is the proof of the existence of God? Where are his
		

			miracles? As if he's completely blinded to everything that is around him. Now, is it that Allah
subhanaw taala has not already put enough out there was one of the element mentioned when the
Mushrikeen when the disbelievers of Mecca demanded that the prophets lie Selim slit the moon as a
proof. They didn't realize that the existence of the Moon was already approved for them. And the
splitting of the Moon was only an added Hogen added proof against them. Why was it that they were
not able to connect already to the obvious existence of a designer and a creator? And that's why any
moment, Rahim Allah says, I'll happily serve the McDougal cinnamon McDougal enter and Enology lady.
		

			It's not that the truth is built. It's not that reality is built. It's that you are veiled from
being able to see reality. The problem is not the existence of these things. The problem is the veil
between you and this reality and this truth and in reality, you will see what you are looking for.
You will see what you are looking for. One of my favorite statements from hedge America Chavez
Malcolm X Rahim, Allah to Allah was what he wrote in September of 1964. When he decided to go to
aamra, Malcolm made one hedge and he made ombre as well in September, but there were no cameras and
no press and no reporting.
		

			And when he was asked why he said, I need to go sharpen my spiritual eye. I need to sharpen my
spiritual eyes. So he went to Amara in September. What spiritual eye is he talking about? And what
does this have to do with the entire scope of what prophetic vision is when a person can see beyond
or when a person is blinded in the opposite sense when Allah subhanaw taala says in the Hala
terminal absorbed, it's not that the eyes go blind. There are people that can't see with their eyes.
		

			But they can see when I can tell them Kuruvilla TIF is slower. Rather it is the hearts that go
blind. There are people that can fully see with their eyes, but their hearts are blind. And there
are people that can't see with their eyes, but their hearts can see. And that is the eye that Allah
subhanaw. Taala is talking about the vision of the hearts, which refers to a sense of discernment,
wisdom, guidance, the ability to perceive properly, what is happening around you. And if that is
blinded, then nothing makes sense. And nothing yields any good. And Allah subhanaw taala, of course
tells us when canopy had the atma for whoever Tiana will not lose Sabina, Los Angeles and whoever is
		

			blind in this life and they will certainly be blind in the hereafter and completely a straight it's
referring to a different type of blindness. When a person cannot see when a person cannot perceive.
And you ask why is that? How do I get to the point of being blinded to reality where I can't
perceive I hear verses from the Quran and they don't move me sitting next to someone in a hotbar
lecture and that person is crying within three minutes and they're clearly moved by it. I'm already
falling asleep and five
		

			one person on their phone cannot focus the other person just the words it tequila haka, Ducati he
just the I act to be mindful of ALLAH SubhanA wa Tada would move them what is it about my heart and
what is the route their heart and what is it that's not moving me anymore? And there is this verse
in the Quran where Allah subhanaw taala describes it, one Kalibo fgdata home obasan Qmr lamb you
know, be a Willa Murrah one other thing, fetal Leone him Yama Hoon, Allah subhanaw taala says, and
we will turn away their hearts and their eyes, because they refuse to believe in it the first time
they encountered it.
		

			And so we leave them in their transgression, wandering blindly. Now pay attention to the idea, first
and foremost, the heart is turned away, and so the eyes are turned away as well. When the lens is
messed up here, then the lens gets messed up here as well. And Allah says something very specific
because they refuse to believe in it when it was made clear to them the first time.
		

			And so as a result of that they're left wandering blindly in their transgression.
		

			And what this is referring to is conscious rejection of Allah, when you recognize it the first time
conscious sinning. Now obviously, the most conscious rejection is when you realize that the truth is
in front of you of guidance the first time and you turn away from it. But there are other
manifestations of that as well that are not as severe. But it speaks to the same concept that you're
told that something is haram and you keep doing it.
		

			Conscious sinning, even if it's a minor sin, you consciously go to work every day, and you know that
there's something haram about your work. You consciously delay your prayers,
		

			some conscious type of insistence upon sin and as a result of that, the light is being extinguished
in your hearts, the sins extinguish the light of the heart, the constant engagement of a sin in
regards to your speech, you wake up every morning, and maybe it's your address, the conscious
sending over and over and over again, minor or major, of course, major is worse, conscious and your
transactions conscious in the treatment of your family conscious in the engagements of a haram
relationship of a forbidden relationship. And the entire time, you're doing that every time you're
doing that, you're closing your eyes to what Allah subhana wa Tada has revealed to you and you
		

			recognize, and eventually what starts to happen is that the recognition starts to go away as well.
		

			So you don't even recognize it anymore.
		

			Other people recognize the bad manners of a person who's inherently foul or, you know, consistently
foul, and that person no longer recognizes anymore, because you engage it on a consistent basis. And
so Allah subhanaw taala is saying here, that you're unable to see anymore because of your rejection.
If you insist upon rejection, then you're going to insist upon blindness of the heart. And so you
think of this analogy. If you enter into a dark room, and there are no lights in the room, it
doesn't matter if you have fully functioning eyes, the layers of darkness are not going to be
penetrated without what without light. So even if you can see if you're sitting in a dark room, you
		

			can't see anything, your eyes are working, but the layers of darkness are not allowing you to see
anything.
		

			And so what do you have to do? Turn on the light. Open the window,
		

			see what you've been missing out on? Now, what happens is that some people want to stay in the dark
because what happens when you see the light for the first time, hurts your eyes and then
		

			It's uncomfortable. The light can be very uncomfortable the first time that you see it. And some
people would even have a tendency to do this right?
		

			Turn it off, close the door, turn off the light. And that's what ALLAH SubhanA wa Tada speaks about.
And I want you to think about two opposing ends of this phenomenon here. One of them is the idea of
the rejecting hearts, hearts, Allah pulumi him or Allah seminary him Weida Abba Sati him Alicia
Allah,
		

			that Allah subhanho wa Taala seals their heart as they insist upon turning away, and their hearing
they can no longer hear. And there's a veil that is placed on their eyes. That's one extreme.
Compare the idea of the rejecting heart to the Hadith, of the loving servants, where the prophet
slice on him says that Allah has sent him an eye that he would he have been held that whoever takes
a beloved chosen servant of Mine as an enemy that I have waged war on that person, and no servant
comes closer to me with anything that is more beloved to me than the obligatory deeds they act upon
the obligations. And then after the obligations they keep on coming close to Allah subhanaw taala
		

			with what an elephant would the voluntary good deeds as well they give more charity, they pray more,
they fast more they, they do more and more and more and more, until they gain a special love from
ALLAH SubhanA wa Tada. And if I love that person, I become the site with which they see and hearing
with which they hear.
		

			Compare the two Subhanallah on the opposite sides of that spectrum. And this is where you find the
very famous narration and telco philosophers minutes a week narration week Hadith from the Prophet,
slice alum of which the meaning is authentic, that beware of the philosopher the insight of the
believer, for no younger will be no Rila because he sees with the light of Allah subhana wa Tada.
And it's confirmed by another narration which is authentic that in the Leela here, Ibadan, you're
referring to NASA bit to assume the prophets I sort of mentioned that there are people that know,
people around them, Allah has servants of his that can perceive things at a deeper level. Because of
		

			that deep insight and insight that is born of righteousness, the opposite of someone that stubborn
upon rejection, and insight that is born out of the willingness to constantly listen, and obey and
follow and grow and develop and do more and more and more and continue on that journey towards Allah
subhanho wa taala, no matter what obstacles are presenting themselves to you.
		

			And what ends up happening is what they can see with the light of Allah subhanho wa taala. They have
vasila they have philosophy, they have insights, they have the ability as Allah Subhana Allah says
in the field, it can I acted in which I was to mean that there are signs for those people who have
that insight, that deep ability to perceive and to see by the light of Allah subhana what's out.
Now, it's not some like secret equation. It's not something that you take a course for. It's
literally an unrelenting pursuit of truth and the commitment to it when you discover it. That's all
it is. An unrelenting pursuit of truth and the commitment to it when you discover it and what ends
		

			up happening. Well, Medina Jahad, do phenol and at the end, now, I'm Susanna, those who strive and
are Wait, then we guide them to our paths. And so Allah reveals more to you and more to you and more
to you. It's also not when someone's seeks to say that I'm seeing things and starts to undermine
revelation or makes claims and starts to command something amongst the people No, because this
person is not using that unfolding reality and perception to gain control over people but rather to
glint gained closest to Allah subhanaw taala by following the way of the prophets lie Selim so
things become clearer. reality becomes clearer to them, they're able to discern better, they have
		

			more wisdom. When they read the Quran, they take more from an IRA than another person takes from 100
ions, because they're listening deeply and carefully not extracting new rulings, but extracting the
deepest form of Moneda being admonished and being reminded by those verses. And so the greatest
example of that is I want to know how Pablo the Allahu TADHANA when you look at our model, the alota
animal and the miracles that unfolded for him, these things that would happen for him. When our
model the Allahu Taala and hope is standing on the member and he sees something happening 1000s of
miles away from us, Saudi Jabin
		

			says sorry, of the mountain
		

			that was due to our model, the Allahu Anhu was exerting himself
		

			in that pursuit of truth, unrelenting pursuit of truth and then commitment to it when he founded his
Deep Pondering upon revelation, when the Quran would come down and agree with almost all the low
tide I know it's because when all the low tide I know would hear the quran being revealed or the low
tide I know, would immediately absorb it and follow.
		

			He was in deep control
		

			With that revelation of Allah subhana wa Tada his seeing of dreams, not dreams that you know, I saw
something and so the Day of Judgment is going to happen in 2023. You know, a strange star is going
to appear in the sky. You know the prophets I'm told me you're the one and you go forth and none of
that.
		

			But true dreams for the believer. That's an added level of sights and added level of vision and the
prophets lie some sudden a hadith in Sahih Muslim. He said Allah His sloth was salam electoral buzz,
Amano lamb taka drew el Muslimeen tech debo was Dockercon roja as taco come Hadith he said,
sallallahu alayhi wa sallam that when the End of Times come?
		

			A believer would hardly see a dream that isn't true. The righteous believer will see true dreams,
dreams that give them insights, dreams that further expose that reality around them true dreams and
the most truthful of you and speech are the most truthful of you, and the dreams that you will see
more vision, a heart that can see a heart that starts to transcend. And so I want to end with two
points here. There are three levels of the sights that they're either not mentioned, with the light
of Allah subhana huzzah Allah. And they're very easy to remember the first one is seen through
deception, seeing through deception.
		

			And so a believer would see through the deception of the job, by their Eman Allah subhanaw taala
would allow them to see that it's written across his forehead, there are things that the believer
can see through by virtue of their minimal belief. And so seeing through deception as the first
thing and if you're not a deceiver, then Allah subhanaw taala will give you the Sith, the
truthfulness, to see through the deception of others. The second level is seeing through
distraction. So see through deception, and then see through distraction. Zenit would hate to dunya
the distraction of the life of this world, the distraction of the material world from things that
		

			are more meaningful from things that are more righteous from things that are more real. So you see
through distraction, how do you see through distraction by the remembrance of Allah subhana wa Tada
the wicked is the medicine to that you constantly remember Allah subhana wa Tada. So you see through
distraction, and the third one is to actually see through dunya.
		

			You see through this material world, by placing your sights on the hereafter constantly. The AF era
is not some unknown abstract world that doesn't have any meaningful consequences to your everyday
life in this dunya. Rather, you act as if you've already seen in Jamna. You act as if you've already
seen at all because it drives you consequentially. Now, obviously, the effect the impact of seeing
with your eyes is not like the impact of knowing it. But the consequence of it in regards to abiding
by the truth of Revelation, it says if you have already seen paradise and hellfire, the longing that
you have for Allah is as if you've already seen them, the longing that you have for Paradise as it
		

			as if you've already seen it. So it creates that greater level of longing. And this is where the
prophets lie. Selim said, that axon is what in terms of luck and that guitar that you worship Allah
as if you can see him. When you start to worship Allah as if you can see him and if you can't see
him, then he you know that he sees you.
		

			And as I am Rahim, Allah Allah Allah said, that is the manifestation of that is what and took me to
Allah because it became public, that you come to Allah with your heart before your body that before
you even get to the prayer, your heart is already there before your body has already has arrived.
And you are focused, as if there's no one else around you nothing else that's around you. And that
is something that we all strive for, for the entirety of our lives to have that level of focus in
our prayers. May Allah Subhana Allah grant us that exon May Allah grant us that excellence Allah, I
mean, and your brothers and sisters Subhan Allah as you find people that embrace the truth, despite
		

			all of its consequences. I want you to think about people that put their families on the line,
because their families might reject them. That put entire lifestyles on the line, everything that
they knew, because they've seen light of that guidance on the line, and how Allah subhanaw taala
looks to that person. And him did a lot of blaming, we have another sister that is embracing Islam
with us today through very difficult obstacles and circumstances and many barriers, not necessarily
hearts, but barriers that would be there. And that should be an inspiration and a reminder to all of
us, that when a person has a commitment to the truth,
		

			that the consequences will be put in context of that pursuits and the reward will be even greater
May Allah grant her and all of us that reward may last points out forgive us for our shortcomings.
May Allah Subhana Allah grant us vision with our hearts and the ability to act upon that which He
has given to us in the most loving and obedient of ways alumna Amina Koulibaly Hello stuff a lot of
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