Rasul Suluki – Staying Firm On the Path

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.