Rasul Suluki – Sincerity in Worship

Alhamdulillah.

Wassalaatu wa sallamalana bi Muhammad

We pray you, O Lord, and ask his

peace and his blessings upon his servant and

his messenger, Muhammad,

his descendants, his companions,

and upon all the righteous.

And we ask Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala.

We,

lost a

dear friend

in Jordan,

Habib,

Dingle,

who's,

Sanders

on a few of the

Islamic

online

educational

sites

and we

want to make Dua for him

and

he

read something really

kind of

you know, you read a lot of stuff

and you hear a lot of things, but

they don't always hit the mark

at the time

that you are hearing or reading them.

But then there's some things that hit you

and you say, okay,

this

is this is me, I need to do

something.

And this was in the book Wayfarers to

God,

And he makes this beautiful point

that I've read the book so many times

and

you know as I said it

it's something set to mark

and this point that he made was on

sincerity

and perfecting one's worship.

And a lot of times we're looking at

our worship and we're thinking,

on the outer

aspects of it.

So am I standing right? Am I hands

right? Or am I

do I know these ayats that I'm reciting?

Or

so it's more

external

perfection.

And we sometimes forget about the inner

aspects of the salah.

And the biggest one of them is sincerity.

And he mentioned this in regards to

concerning ourselves

with

the act of worship being accepted.

You know, we do these acts, and for

how many years have we done them?

Over and over again, we do them.

And what he said about our

our predecessors,

mister Solis,

was that they were more concerned

about the act of worship being accepted

than

the act itself,

which is very different

from,

you

know,

some my interactions.

I won't say yours, but

mine

is that

you think about getting these things done in

a day.

I got so much thicker to do. I

got so much reading Koran to do. I

got

so much,

salats and sunnah salats, and I gotta get

this in before this time. And now that

they're gonna put the clocks back, that's just

gonna speed everything up now. So you gotta

condense and try to get everything in.

But a lot of times, it escapes us

to get it in

with sincerity

and quality

and

you know seeking

these,

this relationship

of closeness with Allah

And this is the point that really hit

me was the fact that he said

when the act is accepted by Allah,

he then

sends nur

into the heart,

which in turn

purifies

the heart.

A lot of times we're thinking, 'I gotta

scrub the heart like I scrub for woodoo

or wash for

woodoo', but this is not,

this is

all in Allah's control.

And I'm not going to get there

until these acts of worship are done with

sincerity,

and the effort to draw near to him,

so I can be working like

a beaver for 50, 60, 70 years, and

never hit this mark

of trying to get this sincerity

in my heart

so that Allah will accept. And

one act of worship that Allah accepts

is, you know,

like the atomic bomb going off. I mean,

it's not that it's gonna destroy things. It's

just

the power of that on the rest of

what you're doing. So

this is what

we

got from this book,

to

Allah, one of my favorite

Sufi books if you want to call it

a Sufi book. It was one of the

books that

if you want to straighten yourself out, this

is the book to straighten yourself out. No.

That it's

better than the Quran, nothing is better than

the Quran, but

the language and the way that it's

set

will be a great help. So

even though you can't find it on the

market now,

you have to go online, I think, and

maybe get a PDF or something, but

nonetheless,

his point, if if you're able to

connect with this just this one point, sincerity,

which in turn

will cause

not cause,

but by it, Allah will,

by his mercy,

grant you

this nur

that then will purify your heart.

And once the heart is purified,

SubhanAllah,

we've arrived,

and this is the arrival that we ask,

oh Lord, SubhanAllah,

and we ask,

this accept our brother Habib,

and that he make his grave spacious, and

that he give him

gender field or dose

and surely we testify

to the fact that

he was a beautiful,

sincere,

and

just

a beautiful person. Oh, Allah, we thank you

for letting us have him for the time

that we had him,

and we say for

him.

And I hear it? And