Sajid Ahmed Umar – Purification Of The Soul #01A – Shari’ah meaning of Tazkiyyah, Rooh & Nafs

			Bismillah al Rahman al Rahim al hamdu Lillahi Rabbil alameen wa salatu salam ala rasulillah. While
early he also he was a limited Sleeman kathira en la Medina my bad Allah Houma La La Molina, el amor
alum Tana in the cantle Alamo Hakeem Allahu alumna Maya and found that one Bheema antenna. Was it an
Ironman watermelon? Yeah, Carrie, Frobisher, actually sorry, we're still really angry. Washington
Odetta melissani Yakubu Ali,
		

			all praises belong to Allah subhanho wa Taala. We praise Allah subhanho wa Taala we seek his
assistance, and we seek His guidance and we seek refuge in Allah subhanho wa Taala from the evils of
our souls and the adverse consequences of our deeds. Also, if Allah subhanho wa Taala decrees
guidance upon then none can misguide him, and will serve Allah subhanho wa Taala decrees misguidance
upon then can guide him and peace and salutations. Be Upon the final messenger, Muhammad, Abdullah
sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, I bear witness that there is no one worthy of worship besides one
Allah, and that Muhammad sallallahu alayhi wasallam is his final messenger. My dear brothers and
		

			sisters in Islam, by my dear mothers, my dear fathers, Assalamu alaykum warahmatullahi overcast, I
welcome you all to our series on purification of the soul, or in the Arabic language, this kiya to
neffs. This series, my dear brothers and sisters, is a very important one. Islam came and brought
manifest importance to it. The Quran teaches it, those who lesson Allahu alayhi wa sallam taught it
as well. It is from our Sharia, to purify ourselves. Because you and I, my dear brothers and
sisters, my dear mothers and fathers are more implicit than we are explicit or should I say our
implicit is more important than the explicit today Alhamdulillah a lot of importance is given to our
		

			outer appearance, how we look how people perceive us, and without us realizing and insha Allah
that's the case, because we always think good in our fellow Muslim brothers and sisters, and this
message is for myself first and foremost, before it is for you all.
		

			This happens perhaps without realization, this whole concept of giving importance to the outside or
the outer, rather than the inner. And the poet very eloquently said, that you and I, we are more
inner than we are outer, or we are inside and mankind because of our heart, because of our soul,
more than the fact that we are bodies. So this is why a series such as this is important. And let me
add from the outset that this series is just a short series is just a short series in this
particular series, I hope to introduce to you all the meaning of desica the meaning of knifes, I
hope to introduce to you all the discussion of the scholars pertaining to the actual study of this
		

			gear to knifes or purification of the soul and its ruling, I hope to share with you all certain
principles pertaining to test gear to neffs or purification of the soul so that perhaps we could
benchmark ourselves against these principles and try and formulate an understanding of how we can
better purify ourselves, how we can better purify our homes, how we can better purify our schools,
how better we can purify our work environments and how better we can purify our communities. So
inshallah I hope to share with one in all certain principles pertaining to this and insha Allah
insha Allah to kick things off, we will discuss just a few points cited for us by our scholars as
		

			they have deduced from the Quran and the Sunnah. Pertaining to those factors that bring about this
gear to knifes or purification of the soul. In our lives. We ask Allah subhanho wa Taala to bless
our time together, and we ask Allah subhanho wa Taala to make us a gathering. Yes, it's a virtual
gathering, but nonetheless a gathering. We ask Allah to make this gathering one which is pleasing to
Him, one which is only for his sake, one which he has a good word and follows it and we ask
		

			vasubandhu attallah to make the knowledge that we learn together evidence for us, and not against
us, Indeed, Allah subhanho wa Taala is upon all able, my dear brothers and sisters, the term desica.
What does this mean? This here is an Arabic term. And for some of us, we've probably heard the term
time and time again, perhaps in a room. Perhaps at a weekend course, perhaps on a lecture that we've
been listening to online or anywhere else. We've heard this term test gear, test gear, is an Arabic
term. Now this term obviously existed before the advent of Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wasallam.
Because the Arabs spoke the Arabic language. And when they use the term ghesquiere, the Arabic
		

			dictionaries teach us that they refer to one of two matters, they are either referred to talk here,
or bahara, which refers to purification or they refer to the concept known as Ziad or increment. So
linguistically, we say test here refers to two meanings, either purification, or cleansing
something, or the concept of developing something, advancing it and growing it. These are two
linguistic meaning cited to us by the Arabic dictionaries related to the term desk here, in the
context of our series together desk here to knifes we would define it as gear as the purification of
the self and its development. So basically, in the context of our series, we want to bring together
		

			the two linguistic meanings, the meaning of purification, and the meaning of substantial growth or
development. So Ezekiel for the series refers to the purification of the self, as well as its
development. inshallah, we'll understand this, when we go into the actual principles that bring
about the scale, we will see from it, that those principles mandate and dictate a process of
purification and as a result, development, insha Allah, then we have the term nefs, because Saskia
to nefs. This is the title of the series. It's made up of these two words, here, and we've
understood Alhamdulillah. What does akia means? What do we mean when we refer to neffs? Left, my
		

			dear brothers and sisters, again, is a term which we've heard of, perhaps sometimes we've heard it
in the context of it referring to the south. And perhaps sometimes we've heard it in the context of
it referring to the south end, in reality, this term nefs is comprehensive, it's universal, in a way
or form, and does entail the soul. Sometimes, even though the soul in the Arabic language has a
specific term known as the rule.
		

			And given its comprehensive nature, it also entails what we call the self, the self meaning, the
body that exists with the soul, outside of the womb, of its mother. This is then so comprehensively,
when we see the term left's being used, then most likely, it refers to this concept of you and I
living in this world, where our souls and bodies are united outside of the womb of our mothers, and
before death. This is what in particular, that Neff refers to, even though it has been used in
certain contexts to refer to the salt. Now, let me bring your attention to help you understand this
to a hadith of Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wasallam. For once, when one of his companions passed
		

			away, his eyes remained opened, the person who passed away had his eyes opened, and Rasulullah
sallallahu alayhi wasallam said either side, a roof, that's better who another that when the roof is
lifted, the eyes follow it. And this is the reason why the eyes were open. Or as was taught to us by
Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa sallam. Another point to note here is Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi
wa sallam didn't say either, so at the knifes, that when the knifes is raised Rasulullah sallallahu
alayhi wa sallam said either so at the roof when the soul is raised, because here there's a
detachment between the soul and the body. So the soul by itself can only be called through. But when
		

			it's attached with the body, which we've just defined as the self, then this term nefs, given its
comprehensive nature, can be used to describe the room. These are slight nuances in terms of how we
find this particular word used in our Sharia in terms of the Quran, and in terms of the student of
Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa sallam. So we've understood test here, and we've understood nefs and
I think from the outset, we can clearly understand that our discussion in our short series is
		

			pertaining to the implicit the inner, we're not going to be talking about how to directly beautify
our outer, but the cause of discussion is concentrated towards the implicit and the inner. And by
default when you fix the inner, the outer becomes beautiful as well and inshallah we will see that
as we traverse through our series. Now, if we look in the Quran, my dear brothers and sisters My
dear mothers and fathers we see Allah subhanho wa Taala describing for us then and Allah subhanho wa
Taala describes it as something that exists in three states. Now some of the scholars have said
there's three types of knifes but the
		

			chosen opinion especially for the series, and this is the view of the mainstream scholars is that
the knifes is one, but it exists in three states. When we look from person to person, we see three
types of neffs or four to be more particular the left's in three types of states, the knifes in
three types of states and this can also apply to a particular human being we find a human being
living in his or her life and throughout the stages of their lives. We see them manifesting a
particular type of neffs so Allah subhanho wa Taala has taught us in his book that the enough's this
neffs can exist in three states in sha Allah. What we will do now is take a short break. I'll leave
		

			you to digest over this brief introduction and inshallah, when we return, we'll discuss the three
states of the neffs as taught to us by Allah subhanho wa Taala in his book, don't go away. Salaam
Alaikum warahmatullahi wabarakatuh