Rasul Suluki – Mawlid Talks Realization
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The speaker discusses the importance of acknowledging and embracing the negative consequences of negative experiences, such as discrimination and fear of recognition. They emphasize the need for humility and a focus on oneself to overcome these negative experiences and achieve a fully realizational state. The speaker also emphasizes the importance of forgiveness and mercy for one's mistakes.
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We praise the Lord and ask his peace
and his blessings upon his servant and his
messenger, Mohammed, his descendants, and upon all the
righteous until the last day.
Last week.
There was a line of the
poetry
that was
caught my attention when
Sheik Ahia mentioned it again, and that was,
I have attained realization
through my incapacity,
my submission,
and my brokenness.
And I was
just thinking of how
opposite this was to the way
and the time that I was raised in.
You know, when you're coming up,
you're looking for recognition.
You're looking for stardom
in this country.
Being a star, being famous,
being known, having a renowned.
You know, as kids, you
saw entertainers, and you wanted to be one
of the temptations, or you wanted to be
one of these people that
when you stepped into a room, you everybody
stopped breathing.
So this really goes against
the way
the way we were raised,
and the emphasis in this society about
being something and being
known.
And so,
this humility
that is being called for in order to
have this realization
is something that can come through
not being known
and being insignificant,
which is even racial issues that are hard
for people
who
have been looked down on
to grasp this
because it goes against
wanting to be
accepted, wanting to be
seen as somebody.
When you've been told your whole life that
you're nobody,
there might be a tendency
to want to be something in the eyes
of other people.
Herein,
it prevents one from having this realization
because it can only come through humility.
And this humility
is the opposite of this recognition.
It's
the opposite of wanting
people
to know you're renowned and to know that
you deserve some kind of
special attention.
And so much now is
on
recognizing
me. I'm so important
that I have to have a page
that you
come to and know all of my doings
because I'm so famous. Everybody has a biography
now.
And you wonder what
what registered you to be even someone that
I would be interested in reading about?
But nonetheless, it is
it is through this humility.
And being low,
especially when you've had trauma in your life,
is something hard to grasp.
So for the one who has trauma,
it is that we recognize, and
discrimination and all the other things that come
with that, it is that we recognize
that Allah put us in this situation.
He doesn't burden us with more than we
can bear.
Therefore, he knew that we were strong enough
to bear the trauma that we had. Therefore,
we should think, Allah, and
think,
and,
Allah,
and, alhamdulillah,
that you made me strong enough to endure
this. It
might have killed somebody else, but it didn't
kill me.
It didn't cause me to go down.
It actually is a strength for me because
I know that you pulled me through this,
and you have some greater plan for me.
And for those who are high,
it is to get low.
And part of that is
I don't want to be known.
I don't want to be picked out. I
don't want to be seen.
And
in this way,
if you are seen, it's because Allah is
raising you to be seen and not. I'm
raising myself to be seen.
And there's a big difference in the 2.
One is that I'm focused on
other people
and the other one is I'm focused on
Allah.
And when I'm focused on Allah,
then I don't care what people think about
me. I don't care what they see.
I don't care what they hear from me.
I'm only concerned with what he sees and
hears.
And in this way,
we can get this beautiful thing called realization.
And we ask the Lord to give it
to us and have mercy on us and
pardon us
for our shortcomings and thinking that there's something
other than him.
And ask him to give us this realization
and make us the humble people.
That will be among
these followers
who you open the door for in this
realization.