Rasul Suluki – Staying Firm On the Path
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The speaker discusses the importance of balance in learning to handle one's behavior and learning to be a master. They also mention the relationship between fear and hope and the importance of mastering one's behavior. The speaker emphasizes the need for specific actions and behaviors to achieve success in life.
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Alhamdulillah, WA, salatu, wa salam alai, Muhammad, wala Ali. He
was Ali. He was salam.
Alhamdulillah. I could repeat what had already been said,
which is, you know, we love coming here,
and
I'll share with you something that
I realized just recently.
Know, when you get old like me, people have suggestions for you.
Until you're old man, you got to be careful with your balance,
because if you fall and break your hip. It's
it's over.
So they said, Maybe you should take a Tai Chi class.
So one of the brothers in the community, he teaches
Tai Chi. So I said, Well, maybe I need it get some exercise anyway.
And so I took the class with him,
and it always begins with them, telling you that the teacher is
connected to the teacher is connected to the teacher is
connected to the master.
And so
in Tai Chi,
every little move has to be exactly
like they're teaching you, you
know.
And so I'm learning that, you know, you got to put this foot
here in this hand here, and it can't be like this. Not too tight.
Not too loose. Has to be a certain
and so while I'm doing these things,
I'm starting to think,
what's the relationship to me as a Muslim?
And the first thing
that they said was, is to help you with your balance,
but you have to do it exactly the way they tell you to do it if you
want to get the benefit from it.
And so I said, Wow, this is like the dean.
You have to have this balance between fear and hope,
and if there's no balance, you fall and break your hip.
So
I said, Okay, I understand this. Now
you have to have this balance,
and you have to be particular about the way you do it,
particular in that you have to follow the teacher.
And the teacher is a master who followed the master, who followed
the master.
And all I could think of is
our beloved prophet, so long,
and
in making our Salat, what happens when you get older and you've been
practicing for years, there's a tendency to not be as particular.
You know when you first learn how to when you first become Muslim,
as in the conversion here you
you're very particular.
But as time wears on, start to get a little loose. You know, maybe a
lot
you go
through this and you're not as particular as you used to be.
So the point that they made in this class is that if you want the
benefit,
you must do it like the master.
And we have a Master,
the Messenger of Allah.
And what is our particulars? Our particulars are through meth head,
the sheiks, they conveyed to us exactly what the Prophet sawallah
did. And any one of them that you follow, there's particular things
that you should be particular about,
and the less particular you are, the less benefit you get.
And so when we wonder why we're not getting the benefit
from this Dean,
and we may be dealing with problems and we're just strapped
with a lot of difficulty,
maybe we need to look at our particulars and
make sure that we're doing what we're supposed to do and the way
it's supposed to be done,
and that we don't lose our balance,
and by not losing our balance, as it says, the fear.
And the hope of the two wings of the bird.
And if they're balanced, the bird can fly,
and if they're not, then he's always going to fall.
So we ask Allah subhanahu wa, we have a master.
Here's the messenger, Muhammad Sallallahu, alaihi wasallam. And
there's nothing better to follow, and there's no one better to be
particular about. So we ask Allah to make us particular about
following the messenger Muhammad, sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, our
master and our guide back to Allah subhanahu wa we ask blessings on
him and blessings on his whole family, his descendants, his
companions and all the righteous Allahumma, wabiak wa Shah, Wanda
ilahila and tawaul. Salaam Warahmatullah.