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today we'll look at beb it Towba
we'll take a little bit of that and then we'll go into Oh, yeah.
Can we say someone is a Willie? Well, we asked the same question.
Can we say somebody's a moment? Can we say someone as a solid?
What's the difference? Right? The answer is I love and Nina
according to our assessment, Allah He served in NASA human made
enough supplemental cider in several minute lowly up. So it's a
short form because many people say can you say someone's really you
can't declare you can't declare that you're even a moment forget
what Lee you cannot declare someone's but you could say based
on our assessment, Allah and His Messenger has given us signs of
Amen. Signs of Sn
E, there's Iman there is the lowest bar, then there's a Salah
and then there's elderly, what's the difference? The Imen it's
basically someone who some of its signs is he observes will do.
Right? This person observes will this person goes to massage it,
but that doesn't necessitate that he successfully avoid since
enlarge and that doesn't necessitate that sometimes he
misses a prayer or even skips it. He could still be have many cents
but he's a moment. Then you have a sada that person in the public
sphere of life we never see him missing an obligation or for
committing an infraction from the prohibitions, maybe in private.
And we all do that. And we ask Allah Toba
but an Mugford I mean, we make Toba and we ask Allah for Allah
but the solid level is that you don't see from him any missing of
obligations or you don't see from him committing since
the Wali is the one who you do see from him going above and beyond
you see him busy with knowledge. You see him busy with data, you
see him busy with a bad day.
And you don't see from him the infractions of sense even minor
sins in public. So that's essentially the
the when we say we're reading about the Olia yes those whom we
assess because the Allah and His Messenger give us signs.
Well, top beds Anna Bill bathy on whom Allah has made it like a bad
for us to search them out. How can Allah tell us Kunal ma such a
clean
well spit enough second mandala the near Dona bomba to rushy make
be with the Saudi clean? How can I be with them if I can allow to
assess them? So we assess the outward and that's what Satan
almost said, we assess the outward, okay? Likewise, when we
say someone is a first step, this person is a sip. It means he
physically objectively does sins in public. Like he owns a liquor
store. I'm not assessing his heart or his ending, and I'm not having
Kibet over him. Just be very careful. Condemnation of public
sins. And arrogance are two separate things. You have to take
one and not the other.
to Amazon, who warned against the people who no longer condemn evil.
When they see it in public, and they cover it up. Why does he want
he said these people are destroyed? Why is that? Because
now, you're basically protecting people who sow corruption in the
land openly. All right, you're protecting them. So when we see
sinfulness in public evil, oppression of people,
it has to be set in public. Good. Nobody imagined someone says,
Listen, go easy on Netanyahu. Yes, he's genocidal, but we don't know
what's in his heart. Right? Like why why does that sound
ridiculous, but other things are also the same thing. Okay, but the
truth of the matter is we're going to condemn it, but we're not going
to for the Muslim who is a facet. We don't believe in having
arrogance over such a person. Because you never know Allah Tala
may swap your positions, so condemn, but with dot for the
with Rama that's that's the way of the of the Sunnah. And so that's
what we have to so that's why we when we say how the Wali had the
minute Olia is no different than saying how the minimum minion was
sada Hey, no, no one seems to have an issue saying this. He's from
the sleight of hand. Hey, should I marry my daughter to so and so?
Yeah, he's well, it's sada. He's a Saudi meaning you never see from
him since. And you always see from him for fulfillment of
obligations.
So same thing when we talk about the ODM. What we mean here is
based on our personal
witness of his behavior, he's He has many signs of Sn, he cares a
lot about the DEA, and he's doing all these above and beyond, et
cetera, et cetera, keep in the company of automatic memorize
Quran, study and feta, etcetera.
And most of all, a Vikram and Shula.
It said, and I haven't seen it myself, but it has been said,
away as Neil really
cannot really commit a major sin.
And the answer it is said that Abdulkadir Jayla, and he says we
can Amarula further MACURA, which is an earshot he says basically,
the destiny of Allah is established. Essentially, he's
saying the answer is yes. But the sins of the Olia the way that they
fall is the correct way. Which is namely when I say fall, I mean
momentarily, not permanently. When they commit some infractions when
they commit some sins, they hate it while they're doing it. You can
do something and hate it while you're doing it. Most people who
are dieting, they hate the fact that they're like eating a
cheeseburger at an 11pm but they do it anyway. Because we have two
sides to us. We have an intellect and we have enough's. Sometimes
you're too tired to control your knifes
and so your intellect overtakes your neffs overtakes your
intellect which you know that's you end up becoming what's known
as Neff slow worm, the blaming self
because your mind is telling you to to behave one way but yourself
your knifes is too strong at this moment in time. Okay, so at that
point,
he hates the sin while he's doing it. He covers it up he erases the
tracks of the sins. When you do that you're you're imprinting upon
yourself that this is wrong, that this is bad.
Thirdly,
you
immediately make Toba
maybe give some sadaqa but immediate Toba
and that's that's the right way to if if a person was to fall into
sins there's a right way to do it and a wrong way to do it. Or I
should say a less dangerous and a more dangerous okay
if you're on Instagram Yeah, I do see your questions. You can put
them in but it's not q&a time just yet. You can put it in but just
put it in again when we hit the q&a time. God Allah, Allah Allah
Allah wa tubu it Allah He Jamia, you heard me no no la la TUIfly
Hoan. If we want to community to succeed, then what we need is
collective Toba
collective tilba. Right? to It Allah He Jimmy and all of you. So
from from the one of the best things to encourage is everybody.
Make Toba? Like a constant encouragement for everybody to
make Toba? I think Allah knows best the path of Wilaya in this
day and age is not the path of so much a bad that you read about the
people of the past. It's more like so much Toba.
Like they because you're literally wearing a white suit. Some people
imagine you're wearing a white suit and someone helicopters you
down and drops you down into a home. No problem, you can preserve
your white suit. Another one in the street of New York, another
one in the street in a farm. Each one that suits is going to get
more and more dirty. How about if they drop you in the Amazon
rainforest with a white suit?
I sometimes I feel that that's the life we're living. Now give me a
nice white though. Nice white Imama. And air drops you right
into the Amazon rainforest and says keep the third Wait. Who is
going to be the best one when you get from one end, the beginning of
your life to the end of your life from beginning of the rainforest
all the way to end of the rainforest.
Who is anyone going to be white? But some people will have cared
and wash their job right away. And others sort of gave up on it.
Okay, they used the hardship as an excuse to just do nothing. But oh
others they try to avoid as much as possible. And then they washed
constantly. They washed they look for clean water to wash. At least
the one guy who gets there who does that for his whole life. This
job will be
much less soiled than the one who didn't care at all. One who didn't
care at all that still was going to be ripped up bloodied. Okay and
destroyed. So that's the difference.
And we'll welcome Mohammed ibn it has an in the photo UK this is one
of the great so it wants to kill me. If he's the same one had been
photo
caught up here it is because they're all named
Akbar and I met him. Muhammad
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was he you call up a dozen Muhammad ibn Jabber.
Call it had nothing to say you don't have the luck Allah does not
have an executory ACARA doesn't have a beat, called as a male to
Ana sub nama li Kenya Kulu semi auto Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi
wa sallam yaku at EVO Mina them became another but the one who
repents from a sin is like the one who has no sin. We either have
Billa who Abdon lamea guru them Oh Subhan Allah them. What is the
meaning of this heavy Hadith? If Allah loves a abd his sins will
not harm him. Does it mean he's allowed to sin? Now? Does it mean
he has a green light go commit sins? No. It means if Allah loves
the appt from the signs of that love, He will teach him the right
way to make Toba
and the right methods of washing his sins and then Allah will bring
upon him
the rest of the washing if he couldn't wash enough, in other
words, you make dope as much as you can, but you can't you can't
fully wash it right? Allah Tada finishes his cleanliness and
purification through sicknesses through hardships through loss of
wealth. So he washes a lot of his own sins how, as soon as he commit
has a bad day. He gives sadaqa we today, you know someone who has a
need going send him 10 bucks on Zell 15 bucks on you know, this 15
bucks. It's like nothing right? But you know, that's gas for
somebody. Some people when they have
you know, my, some kids call those cars mosquitoes or flip flops,
like 19 9200 and that's still moving, right? It's like 30 years
old. These people they need help, right? And they go and work in a
restaurant or somebody they need help. 15 bucks sadaqa $20 Set up a
Zell Cash App is just sell the person setup. Just say it as a
gift from me. Right and you intend it for yourself as a Toba
make will do be good to peep to the elderly be good to the sick.
Generally smile in the face of people you will know know the ways
of washing away since then, you may have washed away 80% of your
sins. Then Allah Tala, you stub your toe, boom, that's another 10%
then you forget
your homework at home. And you're like all upset. Okay, you gotta go
back and be late. That's another 10% Little things like that start
to pile up and now all of a sudden, you've suffered enough and
that finished a purification suffering is part of purification.
So here Allah subhana wa Tada says, if Allah loves his sins
don't hurt him. Okay
this is a Tedman with them be Camilla them Bella
that's in red. So that's the Hadith. So who is saying what
either have Allahu Abdon lamea Dora who them so Metalla is it
also the messengers that Allah is and can you look that up on what
Yeah, it's the same but for some reason they have half of it bold
red and the other half not so it gives you that oh hum and no
Hadith on occur. Yeah, look at that, please. And it's Beva Toba
which is with one quarter into the book.
So Metalla in Allah you humble a to wellbeing while you're able
Matata hearing? Pinera? surah Allah ma Allama to Toba? Colin the
Dhamma was the sign of repentance. Ultimately, what is the sign of
repentance?
Regret is regret this is a terrible day that what I did was
terrible. Okay. No Damn I regret the Willie the person who was near
to Allah the solder the moment never says you know what? I'm
gonna make Toba but it was good right?
robbed the bank. I feel bad about for the victim but let's celebrate
good with the money doesn't work like that. So anytime that's a
person
feels in his heart, a an acceptance. He accepts this
behavior as okay. Or as some people say, it's destiny. You
know, everyone's gonna commit sins. Look at the world today is
all filth. And he sort of like, accepts it for himself, but in a
lesser way, like, Yeah, I know what's wrong, but everyone's
doing, oh, here's where it's worse he this is sinful. By the way,
what I'm about to tell you
is to point to those who have worst sins than you. That's
actually sinful. Because the Prophet commanded us to look at
who's better than us. We should always say, must upon Allah, so
and so would have never done what I did. And he lives in the modern
times the way I do. So how was he able to do it? He would have never
done that. You don't go and maybe go to a party that you shouldn't
have went to and take a couple sips of beer, or wine.
And then look around said, What did I do? I took a couple sips
these guys drink the whole bottle. You don't do that. You don't look
at those who are less than you in what's bad. If that's the case,
then next time you lose some money, and you don't you look in
your bank account and it's empty, say, Oh, wonderful, because there
are some people with far less money. No, you don't do that.
Right. So a
really important point because a lot of people pat themselves on
the back. You know, we're late to jump. At least we made it to
drama. I'm telling you people say this all the time. And I always
point blaming, you know, my arch rivals in the masjid and my
nemesis and some of them are my friends. Right? I have a lot of
friends who do some things that are not great because they're not
there are an Angels walking around in the streets that I can be
friends with. Right? And I'm no angel myself. But my arch rivals
in the masjid are the people who sit on the walls and put their
feet up. If I had full total control, I would hire bouncers
dress them in thobes. Well, we got plenty of bouncers here in New
Brunswick, right? And we got Muslim who wants to go figure he's
a bouncer at a bar, but he's a Muslim. You know, people convert
and they don't change your job all the time. And I no one, I would
hire them. Were thorough. And your job is to walk up and down. I know
Friday. You don't need to be bouncing on Friday. So you're you
have time. Friday at one o'clock walk up and down. No one sits on
the walls, and no one sits in the back. You push everybody up until
the masjid now has a discipline to it. Right? People aren't going to
discipline themselves. They need to be disciplined. Then they'll
get used to it after a while but no but up off the walls. Respect
Gemma. Respect jump off the walls. Get a
nice big six foot five 300 pounder. I don't even know if they
make soaps that size. You know, probably the Saudis. They they eat
so much. And the Khadija you know they're so big. They just eat so
much. No offense to Saudis and Khadija but you know, it's true
what I'm saying. Just go there, right? We'll go and find me a
skinny little Khaleeji. No, I'm I'm generalizing no offense to the
colleges.
Who is more obese than the Americans? There's only one people
have Aegis. Is this is a fact. Oh, go look it up. Anyway, we tangent
there, but respect the Joma get off
off the walls.
Good. How did I even get into that?
You know, how do we get into those brothers who are on the along the
side? Respect the drama.
So, you know, one time I said, you know, I was talking to your
brother and I said, I despise when people sit along the walls, and
they put their feet out and drama. And if I was in charge, I'd put up
a full bouncer there to educate them and give them some
discipline. And he said, Man, at least they're coming to Joma. So
that's not that's not right. When you're talking about a flaw,
respecting the obligation here, you're what you're not supposed to
do is reference a worst flaw. You're not supposed to do that.
You're not supposed to because you're lowering the standard here.
You're not supposed to say oh man at least there's someone up to
jump in. There's some people skip them. You're not supposed to do
that. You're lowering the standard. Okay, so next time, if I
key your car and I scratch it, that's some people's keys. We've
got keys far worse than you. We would you accept it. No, it
shouldn't happen at all. So the standard the Prophet wants the
standard to be up.
Not down.
All right on YouTube lagoon. I will answer your question later.
What are you? This is a cat question. Binta lagoon and her
name is lagoon you know that is milk Baron camel.
You find the chapters on Zika. Bintulu.
America in what obesity? Well, who's number one number one
oh the Hawaiians okay.
Yeah,
that's why they're there a lineman in the NFL.
actually get coming to the mic so people can hear you. He said
number one is the Hawaiians some
Well,
the Samoan Pacific Islanders are number one. You have other brands
and obesity. How are we? How is America 38 We're not even good at
that anymore.
America is 41 and obesity and non like 42% of Americans are 42% of
Americans are obese. And then 38% of us Saudis are obese. I'll tell
you who the other 62% are. It's the it's the South Asian workers
who are starving, right? That's the other 62%. Anyway.
Merman che in Hubble's law, he mentioned Binta Eben there is
nothing more beloved to Allah than a youth who is a penitent to
youth. Why because the youth is someone who should be essentially
drowned in sins and forget about Allah because the dunya is right
in front of him. His whole life is ahead of him.
And we'll call that it was stuff Imam I believe he means your
avoided duck a Toba to our Luo Man zielen min min as it is certainly
keen whoa Well, Uma, common mimma Kometa polybrene
the first step in our path of Su look.
The path to Allah is a Toba Hey, Alma did you find that hadith
Babbitt Toba should be right away by the toe.
Okay, how do you got to look it up actually just look up
at a woman and then become another umbrella and see if it has a
continuation. I don't know why they did that where they put half
the Hadith in bold so confuses a person out to what's the prophetic
statement and what's the addition?
How could it go to Toba feed over till Autobot Rudra. Toba is to go
back. Okay tabula rasa, what Rudra Americana myth movement fishery
in
linguistic in Sharia it is to return from what is blameworthy of
actions in the Sharia, of course, not Pat's anymore.
Okay, Illa Maha Maha Mudra for Sharia to that which is Mahmoud or
praiseworthy and the shittier.
Right, we stopped here. So now we owe to Allah stuff to be restarted
Sharia. For some of the baraka are these old works. Now, quick
question for you. It's very important, from what things that
cause people to be drowned in sins is a risk food that is haram.
Food that is haram, it causes a person to be drowned in sins.
And that's one of the meanings of
min Nobita min haram info Ella bynner. That which flesh that
grows out of sinful earnings and sinful food, unlawful food is more
appropriate to be in the fire doesn't mean he's going to *
because that child is innocent, but is Ellerbe enough. And it will
be one of the causes of someone committing sins, that the food
that they're eating is not necessary is not lawful, or the
world is not the only reason. Because many people they used to
be in sin, and they used to now they're good. They stopped coming
in those sins and they were eating the same food. So they were eating
out for the first time but they're committing some sense. So it's not
the only
source reason people commit sins.
What is the difference? Somebody asked between a halal what by
Allah subhanaw taala says, halal, he commands a see what is headed
Hello by Eva. So l Halal has a baseline that is necessary and
obligatory for us to only eat that. So number one, it may refer
to the animal itself. And there's some difference of opinion on
certain animals such as horses, donkeys and mules or certain
seafoods in the mouth hubs. And of course, there's agreement that the
human being and the pig can never be eaten. There's full agreement
on that. After that, there's SLF And fifth, but the first comment
on halal food regards the animal itself. The second meaning is that
it may be synonymous with the word the BIA which is that the animal
that is halal to be slaughtered properly, okay. So that is in
generally what the meaning of Halal means, and this is wedge up
for us is obligatory for us only to eat that, as for a by tube,
buddy and refers to other
treatments of the animal.
And actions by the people who graze the animal and slaughter the
animal that would be obligatory upon them, but not obligatory for
us to restrict our eating. To give an example, it is sinful for a
person to slaughter an animal in front of another animal, it's sin
any
mean treatment to an animal is sinful. You're feeding it junky
food with the possibility of feeding it good food, keeping it
caged up and not being able to, quote answers, what are anomic
them, let your animals graze, let them breathe fresh air be out in
the open and eat from the grass. Okay, so you don't do that because
you're gonna save more money, and it's whatever, and you have your
chickens living in this terrible condition. So he is sinful on
that. But we're not obligated to now add that to our questioning.
You may
as a recommendation, but it's not an obligation. That's a
difference. So ad Khaled for us is obligatory, we must ask about
that. But we're not obligated to ask about is it that you are
recommended to do so. So your is recommend what reason being it's
very, almost impractical and impossible to verify. But in the
case, where it is possible to verify is to ask, Well, how was
this animal treated, and to prefer the animal that's treated better
than the animal that's treated worse? The animal that's treated
worse, the person doing that is sinful, but it's still had, let's
say a person did every possible discouragement and sin. In in
regarding the animals he slaughters in front of other
animals? He Yeah, he's mean to the animals. He doesn't feed them good
food. In other words, he feeds them the worst feed. He doesn't
let them graze. He traps them. Right. All these since he's got
those since then he's locked. He says Bismillah and he slaughters.
Yes, that's
Halal still, although it's not by you.
And we would not say that this food that you eat is going to be
sinful against you. It's not going to be alright so that the meaning
of Hala yerba
you found the Hadith Read It For us it is it's pretty much that's
sort of the full thing. That's gonna be commanded and love. So
well maybe measure
the love in my throat. And but is there more to it? It seems like
that's it. I don't see anything else present.
So he doesn't say imagine my bolo might be something. Okay. I think
okay, that's separate from you. What's the full the money? You
want to hear that one? Yeah, I think that's the exact wording of
that hadith is
either a hub where either I have biller who didn't love me or Dora
who them
and then it says Phil Metalla in the low head with Toby and
everyone's auto hitting. And then it continues P layer a Sula will
not allow me to tell the call and the Dharma. So that gives you your
Sharika and who had eaten well had.
Okay, I guess it just enough.
Over here, it seems like it's separate.
But they're both seems like they're both nourishing. I mean
here too. It's highlighted and nourishing. So Okay. With that
wording that have no?
Good. Let's turn to the stories of the Elliot now.
We turn to the lost soul who became a man of the way
hedge Mohammed of meekness. Today we're reading from the OTO Morocco
and I know one brother.
He opened up the video and he saw that we didn't read a lot less
time, two videos ago, so make it up for him by reading a lot. With
the departure of his regular driver seat in Mohammed Abdel
Habib asked his Fukada meaning his disciples to help him find a
replacement.
After looking throughout making us they returned, saying there's one
very good driver but you wouldn't want him.
Why is that said the ship. They said, he's in degenerate open
center.
Okay,
a drunkard, and he lives in a brothel or the villa. So
are you live in chukwueze of Czech Republic or what? A drunkard who
lives in a brothel find him and bring him to me. The chef said,
the man who shared the ship's name his name was Mohammed
appeared sheepishly before the great worldly, eyes lowered and
guilt Subhanallah the even the sinners back then had shame.
The Sheikh offered to hire him immediately on the condition that
he refrained from drinking while on the job. In other words, if you
work with me, don't come with any alcohol.
He says, I don't like the smell of alcohol. That's why the shifts I
don't like the smell so don't don't have the smell of alcohol on
you when you come and drive with me. And the driver agreed and he
took the job.
Said Mohammed began working for the sheriff driving him to each
Mejlis that he had to go to if he had to visit somebody, he would
drive him there. So
All day, he's driving the ship, wherever his check needs to be
dropped to shake off. So what time do you need to be back one hour,
so he's free for an hour comes back. That's how these drivers
operate.
He would go driving to visit the homes of people visit masajid.
Okay, go to different gatherings, etc. He spent every day with one
of the greatest odia of the age.
And he became completely sober. Gradually, he would not just drop
off the ship and leave, he would enter the gatherings of the
he would enter with the shift in the homes if it was not private.
And finally, one day, he asked to shift I, I'd like to move into
this area. Now the Zoja has little apartment little areas where
people can live.
Turned out that he had been keeping up his daily prayers. In
the brothel, he literally lived in the roof
must have been like upstairs in the downstairs or something. But
he and he was praying in the brothel.
And he felt that he should leave
isn't allowed to talk about such sins. It's allowed if the person
wants to reach out to the other centers that have the same sin as
him.
This man slowly, slowly, slowly,
completely changed his life
to the point that he felt he could no longer associate with those
people and places and all of his association became with the chef.
You see how
easy these Michelle, they they transform people. Like does Hank
just drive me around? That's it. And by osmosis, he slowly gets,
it's almost like by osmosis. Until after a few years with no
instruction. He completely changed his life around
once he Mohamed Habib died, the driver had had Jim Hamad was
devastated. He was like a man shipwrecked. The proximity to the
shaved had transformed him
and that's it and that's the picture
the previous one there was the picture of that
one of those that disciple now we go to the one whose giant heart
was intoxicated with Allah intoxicated means completely
overcoming him.
This is when he hasn't LBT of meekness
and he's wearing their the Imama in the correct way in the Maliki
school, you know that Matic disliked somebody to wear the
Imama you know the way that we usually wear it just with tails.
He disliked that nothing wraps around the neck, you know that?
You know, it's in the furrow is
you know this we've been doing the series on the photo is section on
appearance. So we did the section on the beard, we did the section
on what else did we do?
Did a couple things. But part of that oh dyeing hair we covered Oh,
the haircuts we covered. Right.
And in that section, he gets into the turban and he says he
mentioned that medic dislikes, the turban. I think it's like a light
dislike not a heavy dislike any because we see many of the automat
will just wearing the turban like that. But magic like that the
turban be worn and with a strap under the chin because that's how
the prophets of Allah always set him on the sahaba.
That's how they work. Now Molly Hudson, was known as Al Majid
Dube. What does this term edge dude mean? It means someone who is
ecstatic someone who is intoxicated, and someone who is so
attracted to everything related to Allah subhanaw taala that
overcomes him.
Okay.
His job was to crochet and sell woolen hats.
That's what was his job was.
That's how he earned a living. And that's what his job was. Somehow
he managed to support a large family just by crocheting woolen
hats. And he used to say, in the making of the hats was his shaking
of the date tree. Meaning this is like a symbolic act that I'm
doing. And the true that is comes to me from Allah and from
different places, which would probably make sense because
someone who who set who makes those hats crochets woolen hats is
not going to be able to support a big family. So the wealth must
come from different places.
Whereas Oakland high schooler doesn't write a lot gives the disc
to people from where they know not and
Even though his job
would never have provided that amount of amount of wealth, all
right, Allah Tada the Quran Chapter of Mary tells how she was
overcome by the pangs of giving birth to Prophet Jesus, Ali Salam,
while alone in the desert as she rested under the palm tree, and
Allah inspired her or commanded her to shake it. Miraculously
fresh dates fell down from the tree to feed and comfort her.
Although it's a time that as many say it wasn't a time that dates
were there. Because if that was the case, why would she shake the
tree she just plucked the dates. Good.
Either way, it'd be miraculous because it let's say the dates
were too high up and she can't reach it. When she shake the tree
that's not going to knock the dates down. Right, a woman who was
probably 14 years old, who just had gave birth will not have the
strength, you know, to shake a tree so much that the dates would
fall down. So either in either way, it was a miracle from Allah
Marchesa from Allah, or a cut off as much as a comes with the claim
of prophethood.
And a Kurama come is the same thing without the claim of profit.
So fresh dates fell down from the tree to feed and comfort her.
So they use this simile for turning to Allah in prayer and
remembrance when you need and doing any simple job, at least you
did that to sub you did your job of working at Allah provides the
rest.
Yeah, if you ever took him a present, he would exclaim, Allah's
mailman has just arrived. Subhanallah whenever you people
brought him a gift. That's what he would say. Alright, this is also
him.
That's him too.
And it says being in the company of someone like moody Hudson was
like being near an open radio that is constantly picking up new
signals from difficulties looming on the horizon to the thoughts in
your heart. So you had to be careful where your mind wandered
when with him. It's narrated, I'm going to tell you the story on the
side that say normal came upon a man who was a Christian. And this
Christian was causing Michigan, the problems were that he could
read people's minds.
He could read people's minds. And Alma was very upset. He's causing
fitna. So Omar finally said, I'm going to take care of this myself
and he went over and he banged on the man's door. And as he's before
he spoke up, the man said, enter son of Kata.
So again, how did he know who was behind the door? So Omar said,
Tell me exactly how you do this are also meant to punish you.
So the man said, every time my neffs desires something, I say no
to it, until I reach this state. I reach a state that I could sort of
have a knowledge what do they call it an English
with a P. But anyway, they he could basically see what is have
knowledge that wouldn't be available in normal means.
Not psychotic, no, not sort of telepathic, but like there's
another word that starts with a P I can't remember what it is. But
it's one of these words that it's one of these these things that
Alma was very upset about. So almost said Promise me you'll stop
doing this. And and I think that the men end up entering Islam. I
don't know a lot. But
no, no, there's another word for this.
Not perception.
Not a premonition because premonitions. Like maybe it's just
speculation. But anyway, we'll I forgot that the term for it. But
he had that. And he would contradict his enough. So people
who contradict their neffs a lot of these openings happen for them.
It's like a psychic power, you could say, Yeah, it's like a
psychic power.
So that psychic power developed in that person. So that's why we say
there is a spirituality that is of the earth. Right? That doesn't
benefit. It's of the earth it's earned by doing certain things in
the earth and what it is is contradicting the neffs and Allah
knows best. We're just relaying things that we heard. It's not
like we have experienced with this stuff.
Okay.
Like a lot of the people who went crazy about
it the jinn
marrying people that the Imams talked about this suit, he talks
about everyone talks about it, and everyone went crazy. Don't go
crazy on me I'm transmitting from from from reliable sources. So
they are telling you that they know what happens so and it's not
something you have to believe anyway, so you're gonna believe
that it was done and don't believe it. But we do we did from that Jen
thingy.
took a precedent in that a woman who could get pregnant through the
sperm of a husband who's either divorced or dead? Can she go get
an IVF? And become
pregnant from that?
And have a baby? And the answer is no. This is the ruling that a
woman cannot become pregnant
without a husband, because then people will say about her, you
know, this woman? What is this pregnant without husband? Now you
open the door for everyone to become pregnant without a husband.
Right? So that's the concept and that the whole point of that I
remember that discussion with some of the fuqaha is because based on
that fatwah from medic, they
came up with that conclusion.
Right that it's unlawful for a woman to get from her deceased or
divorced husband, and let's say his genetic material is saved, to
go get
that pregnant from that.
Even there's no * involved, right? It's a procedure. Still,
nonetheless, not allowed to be Muslim when we're not allowed to
be pregnant without a husband.
At the time of the at the beginning of the pregnancy, of
course, halfway through the pregnancy, there could be a
divorce, no problem, right. But there would be
the idea would be the giving of birth. Let's get back to the
stories of the odd out here.
You had to be careful where your mind wandered with him. When you
were with him when he recited the Quran, he often recited suit its
use of and I could feel the force of it passing through him like a
tidal wave. His recitation would produce in his listeners, a
feeling of all that was spiritual and physical. It is said that half
of the world's beauty was given to the Prophet Yusuf and what he has
is preference for reciting this chapter was fitting as he also was
exceedingly beautiful in face any character. Visitors to his house
were always served large, delicious Moroccan meals. One day,
a group of us were sharing a meal of couscous with him. After all
had eaten their fill. There was a large amount of couscous left in
the plate,
moody house and then proceeded to make a series of large balls of
the brain in the palm of his right hand. One by one, he gave a
portion to each person present. As he did so he mentioned a deep
insight into their character
and,
and
spoke about things about their future. And all of them turned out
to be true, meaning things that he hoped would happen to them in the
future drop basically, and all of those dogs warm was to jump.
Next, we read about the lumberjack, and Faqir see the
alley.
A beautiful example of one in a constant state of remembrance.
CGIT ran the Zoja in macness. After the death of the sheikh, and
his youth he had worked as a lumberjack. A tree fell on him,
putting him in a coma.
In his coma, he would have visions of CD Mohamed Habib who he had
never met, he would have visions of the shape. But at that time, he
had never met the shape. He didn't even know he existed. In these
visions, the shift taught him a rod dua, an idea. And he's been
reciting them every day since then.
When he came out of the hospital, he eventually came to meet the
chef directly and realize this is the one that came to him and his
dreams. With his he had a disfigurement and his eyesight was
almost gone due to this incident. But he was a joyful man and he
never had regular income. But he lived totally dependent upon
Allah.
He even mastered a few words of English.
Whenever I visited him, he would say to me in his thick accent,
drink tea,
eat a lot, sleep a lot and wake up little a comment revealing
impressive insight into the type of person I am. Although it took
me 40 years to decipher the layers of wisdom in his words. In other
words, that was specific to the author who's giving advice to the
author like this is what's going to suit your your body type that
you
sleep more. So how is it we can he can say that when we have Hadith
of the opposite, or the hadith is in general.
Decrease your food, decrease your drink, decrease your sleep in
general. But there could be a situation and a sickness and a
condition in which someone benefits from the opposite.
There's another beautiful
story from Satan. I used to have a Madea on the intention of why
someone would live like this.
came upon a man he passed by a man and that man from Benny salah, it
was sleeping. So he say nice, it did what he wanted to do. And on
his way back, he found the man sleeping still. It's It's Apollo
was this. So he nudged him in? And he said, you've been sleeping half
the day. Right? And he said,
Isn't this had to dunya all tribulations and tests?
And said now isa said yes. So this head to dunya is all tribulation,
it's all tests. So the man said, so I'm trying to sleep through it.
So
say, according to this story, say Nisa says, Go back to sleep.
Alone was best if that's, you know how reliable these stories are.
But it's like a story. That's it. And it's not something that we're
going to take a Sunday from. But
see, it was one of those men whose religious practice led to a deep
understanding on the nature of the soul, allowing him to give advice
tailored precisely to the Constitution of the person he
addressed.
So his knowledge was not intellectual, but rather a result
of observation and intense spiritual training, having learned
to be in harmony with the dunya. With the world, he had the gift
also, of knowing what was in people's hearts, like an open
book, this basically there are signs.
You can see if someone's anxious, you could see if someone's sick,
etc.
Due to his appearance and circumstances, he was someone whom
the modern world would have easily dismissed. But I'm grateful that
he was a consistent presence during all my trips to Morocco in
the last 40 years as the author and there you have two different
pictures. There's more.
There, there. Let's get that other picture when he's older, even. So
you have pictures of him throughout the ages.
Are there throughout the years? There's another picture of him he
says On a recent trip to Mykonos. I asked him to take me to the
Friday prayer. As I didn't know where the mosque was. He laughed
at the idea of a blind man being anyone's guide. Despite his
disability, he led me expertly through the winding streets of the
Old City until we reached the Masjid. After finishing the
prayer, I saw him standing outside he looked as if he was begging,
walking over quietly, I put coins into his hand, then returned to
this hour half, half an hour later he arrived saying Where did you
go? I thought you were working. So I left you here. I said, I
replied, I wasn't working. I was waiting for you. I realized then
that I had imposed my own presumptions on the men completely
misunderstanding the situation. Here was someone spending his time
and energy, despite him despite his blindness to serve me as a
host and a guide, says the author and I assumed because of how
impoverished he looked that he was there begging and needed time to
beg. His greatest priority I learned was to please Allah and
serve the creation.
As the years passed, despite his continued poverty, he became more
and more dignified, and his demeanor became even stately.
I was devastated on receiving the news of his passing in 2017.
It's upon them.
Next,
Leila Fatima, the wife of Sidi Mohammed Al Habib.
And he titled this story, the lady whose eyes are fixed on Paradise,
telling you Nobody
enjoys old age more than the people of Allah. They spend all
their time and they could and their focus is all on
the moment they're so leaves their heart, their body, and they have
that next experience the roof without the limitations of the
body.
And important part of the infrastructure of this area lies
with the women, often hidden from view. They organize many things
behind the scenes and produce meals for the full Cara who would
often arrive unexpectedly at inconvenient hours. During my
later visits.
Sita Mohammed bin Habib's widow, Leila Fatima would always appear
from behind this area's large wooden door welcoming me and
asking you about the well being of my family and my friends. I was
always amazed by how much she resembled CD Muhammad himself.
There was a softness about her like that of the shape. She had
walked her own path towards overcoming the ego and was
actually in her own right.
A lifetime of companionship seemed to have blurred the lines between
them. In her you could see the shape. Even after his passing it
was as if they had fused.
Oh
were that there were so few women in this book in 2004, I sent a
message asking to photograph the surviving wives of the shape. To
my surprise, they agreed, however, I was unable to make the trip
until 2006.
When I suddenly felt an urgent impulse to go to muchness you know
England to muchness
quick flight.
However, I was Wentz 2006, I arrived with my wife who promptly
disappeared into the women's domain, she returned uncertain
whether we would get a photograph of her or not, of Lala Fatuma,
because she was very ill Miraculously, she was much better
than next day. And as I entered the women's area and looked into
her eyes, I saw someone who was inwardly already in paradise
despite her frail health, she welcomed us warmly asking about
our children and our mutual friends. As she moved out into the
courtyard to sit before my camera, within six weeks, I received news
of her death.
These people at the end of their lives,
everyone surpassed you, the community doesn't truly need you
anymore. They surpass you in service. They're brighter than
you, they're smarter than you when you get older.
They're they relate better, right? They're relating to the to the to
the world better to the youth better, especially as the world
keeps changing so quickly. So what's left for the elderly? What
is the advantage of the elderly? It's their spirituality.
Their neffs is no longer strong anymore. Imagine your all your
life you're fighting this wild horse, sometimes it obeys.
Sometimes he doesn't. Well, as the horse grows older, he stops
resisting so much. And if you simultaneously to that, have
trained it, how to remember a lot go to masajid feed people attend
these gatherings, right? Remain silent and stop arguing that stays
and that increases while the resistance of the neffs decreases.
You become like one of these odia you gotta go okay. All day and all
night. Indifferent. kedma no sadness. lako Fornari him Walla.
homea has a noon, no sadness, no grief, all that and that's why you
need a community to do this.
You need a community, right?
You need a gym out. To have these gatherings and to be able to
attend without needing attention in the gallery. That's the key the
knifes has to be trained. Don't worry about attention. Do not
become an addict for attention.
You get that as me as he says here, enough sediment in now what
I've been telling my ego to do for 40 years finally, the horse is too
weak now to rebel. I wasn't successfully controlling it in his
prime. But now that it's old, it doesn't even rebel. Okay, look at
the next picture here. This is Lala Zuleika and look at the
village behind her it's beautiful that Moroccan tiles called silage.
You know what maybe we'll get some silage and put it in the back
here. What do you think of that Omar? Yeah, that's what we'll do.
Look up where we can get some silage. Get it shipped over here
and glue the tiles here right we'll glue all the tiles here and
we'll have a beautiful gorgeous leach background and be like these
zodia
the walls if we're going to put the gold
put the gold
what
on the would
be nice but the what is already here. If there wasn't would we do
that we're gonna put the delete all these all these backgrounds,
but this leads there. Yeah.
Let's do Laker is the next. This is the humble servant of the
Zarya, the wife of another wife of Sita, Mohammed Habib, she had been
the youngest of the sheiks wise but she was originally from
Algeria not Morocco. It's really should be the same erase that line
completely. One of our the what is the politics of what is our
politics? Our politics
is our politics is that these lines between the sum of countries
should be dotted lines. king of Morocco, okay. You're the king of
your country but three fourths of your army has to go to the
National Army of the OMA
let's say let's say half only half for your internal use of
protection and the other half for the OMA and you should share the
same currency. And all the Muslim nations put dotted lines between
their borders, borders and all the presidents come together and
choose one amongst them
will be the the leader of the United
United
OMA, what do you want to call it? The United States of Islam? That's
a bit tacky, right? Because the USA is already got the USI doesn't
have the ring to it. Right? And they should have that. Just call
him me. Forget Khalifa it's too big of a term, it has a lot of
conditions.
I mean, it can be from kurush, then good, but from one from
amongst them
to be the leader. And if it's what's best is to agree on terms
then yeah, so five years, there'll be the leader for five years, then
the next but the leaders of these countries, right? will be will be
one of them.
Because leaders respect each other, so not going to be someone
outside, you know how powerful that would be? Well, the first
thing you do is one currency for all of us.
One currency for all of us, and one army.
And then federal, a federal law between the nations. That means
from Morocco to Algeria, I don't need a visa, okay, from Algeria to
or you could put some parameters, basically, you could put some
parameters, you can create a green card system, because you can
overflow the system and bother the neighbors, but bother everybody
else. So you create a green card system. So you could travel
however you wish, but residency, maybe you could say, you know, you
get a six month Green Card visa just by having having that in
other words, what I'm saying is ease up the travel between these
nations, in some way, shape and form. That's our politics. That's
our political vision, I should say.
I'm a supportive of medics.
pneumatics is a group get their website up on automatics is a
group where they're they're focusing on the Khilafah related
things. Right? It's like politics is based on the the the affairs of
the city, the Polit. The poly city, right Constantinople,
Istanbul that pol relates to the city. So they made it automatics.
The matters related to the OMA, what a beautiful OMA, that would
be.
So you're not you're not just joining the nationhood.
Okay, dotted lines between Morocco and Algeria, Mauritania, Mali,
Chad, majority Muslim country, if I remember correct, and night
Niger,
Sudan, Egypt, Tunisia, that's all Africa. Now extend that Turkey.
You're all ones Syria, Lebanon, Philistine
and mattala. So we can't really do anything there. But we'll surround
that Atilla
Saudi, Kuwait,
Qatar, Emirates dotted lines.
But who this theory, who are we kidding? In terms of some of these
people accepting that the powers that be but that's the theory, and
everything's got to start with an idea, right? You got to start with
an idea.
Anyway, she's from Algeria. And that's what got me on that tangent
because we have in our masjid, Moroccans, Algerians, and they're
always debating, right? And they're always saying stuff like
what you guys did to us and all that stuff. Right? And some of us
are like, Guys, stop. You're one nation.
Do you both eat couscous? No, I'm just kidding. The dean. That's
what unifies us as one nation. But of course, you can have countries
so just dotted line and treat it like a state the way New Jersey,
New York, Delaware, Massachusetts, Connecticut, like that.
We sat with this great lady in her small room, where she had little
more than a thin mattress on the floor, and a small butane tank she
used to make us tea. The room felt more like a camp than a residence
reflecting the prophets words sallallahu alayhi wa sallam on the
fleeting nature of this hieratic dunya this life. I am in this
world like a traveler who takes shelter in the shade of a tree
before resuming his journey. So look what she absorbed from her
husband from the shake. This is
good
spammers, tons of spammers always
getting time to sit in her presence was an immense honor, as
the women of the house assumed values of service and humility, as
adeptly as the men if not more, and she was often busy serving the
community. She said that she did this quite anonymously, cooking
food for people who never saw her embodying the belief that fame and
reputation are dangerous, and they are a distraction from life's true
goal.
And they're as dangerous as material luxuries fame and
material luxuries are dangerous. These are dangerous things.
Extremely dangerous. In October of 2017 I visited McNasty with a good
friend who had
never had the opportunity to travel to Morocco since he had a
history of heart problems. I was concerned for his well being but
he was keen to visit
and we timed it so that he could be back in London for another
heart operation. I really wanted him to experience the Habibi
Azalia. This is where all these people are, or they're living in
this area called Habibi and named after the Sheikh Mohammed Abu
Dhabi. It's like a little kingdom inside the country, but a kingdom
for Fukada for humble people, for you know, lovers of remembrance.
He says that as we entered Allah Zuleika, the last surviving widow
of the Sheikh was sitting by the ship's tomb. As soon as she saw my
friend, she says, I've been waiting for you. I have seen you
seven times before. In other words, she's had visions of him
seven times, she immediately put her hand on his heart and started
making dua for him. This was the first time they had ever met.
Afterwards, I thought this could have been the pre op, before the
operation awaiting him back home. Nine weeks after the meeting, Lala
zilliqa was laid to rest, she died.
And she was buried next to her husband. Her passing was the end
of an era but I'm truly grateful to have had this last meeting with
her in the world.
All right, let's go to the next one.
The hidden successor
moody Hashem Hashem. LVT comes from three generations of
spiritual adepts.
Look at that picture. Look at that, standing with that thought
of in front of that village. How amazing is that as a sight? We
don't judge righteousness and probably by, by images by throbs
by backgrounds by aesthetic. It's not how we judge things. aesthetic
is not how we judge things, but it is something beautiful and it's
usually in the lodge. I mean on your head will German Allah's
beauty, beautiful loves beauty, and that refers to physical
beauty. Because the man who asked that had asked about oh my oh
messenger of Allah I love beautiful clothes and beautiful
sandals is this arrogance. The Prophet den said and Allah Jamia
hippo Demet Allah is beautiful. He loves beauty. So that refers to
let's get a different picture. That's a rough picture.
Maybe the other one.
This one? No, not this this one. Look.
Let's get this is a great picture right here. This one. See this
one.
So usually, if there is beauty on the inside, it's going to spill
outside.
And that's why the people have to solve ended up producing a
beautiful aesthetic in their culture.
All right, he goes on the surface. Moody Hashem was a successful
businessman and a sincere disciple of his shapes, et Muhammad
Muhammad. He even owned a patisserie in the new town. So
sometimes they had an old town or sometimes in a new town, which was
more advanced, more modern. We always look forward to gathering
at his house where we were served exquisite food in contrast to the
simple meals of the Zoja. I particularly loved the corn de
Gizelle. Almond patisserie, flavored with orange blossom water
and served with hot mint tea. As we sang verses of the D wine of
Sita Mohamed Habib, when it has Hashem served others in a way that
never called attention to himself, to the extent that it was
sometimes difficult to really see him. His humility was so profound
that he often blurred into the background of our gatherings,
leaving us oblivious of his true station with Allah.
After a 40 year hiatus, I had the good fortune of meeting him again
in 2012. In much changed circumstances, he was now the
spiritual successor of Sita, Mohammed Habib, in other words,
he's in charge now, as as this man sat humbly before me generous as
ever, with servings of couscous, and corns, the gazelle
I understood that the humble businessman and servant of the
Fukada we knew in our youth had all the while been undergoing an
internal spiritual transformation. Throughout life, there are certain
people who are slightly out of your focus in the background, who
are part of the general landscape at a particular time, but then
suddenly
perhaps in a lesson in humility brings them into focus right
before your eyes. See it. And here is a picture of the Zoja it's not
this is not their zone. This is the zone of Mali Idris a fanny.
There's two diseases.
Right, if I'm not mistaken
And this is the zone. I went there in 1998. But this is a more
updated picture. And this is of course, patronized by the state,
the state, the state of Morocco, the Kingdom Morocco takes care of
this building and so it's so beautiful. I don't I don't think
he actually includes that.
The picture of the Habibi azoic
Hey Omar, any chance you can look that up?
The Habibi is oh yeah
I've never seen a picture of the inside of the Habibi is Oh, yeah.
That that they are all centered around.
Alright, the next
Willie that we're going to talk about we are going deep into this.
And we are reading from a book called meetings with mountains.
We're living in such a
tough and materialistic and nasty age really, in many ways that we
need more cures to the heart and reading stories of Olia is
definitely one of them. It said that it has an adversity stated
and the Coslada intensivo Rama some attributed that even to the
messenger sallallahu alayhi wasallam but endemic rissalah Hain
tends to Rama nother narration said of this author enter the
crostata Hinton as the Laura Hammett many mercies is comes down
when you talk about the righteous read their biographies.
This next picture is the gentle giant
Sharif Headjam Mohammed of Fez, city of Headjam. Hamad lived with
his family and a 500 year old house, one of those beautiful
yards built into one of the greatest gates of the wall
surrounding the old Medina, the old city of Fez, entering an
inconspicuous door inside the gates arch you suddenly face a
staircase so massive it seemed made for giants. On climbing the
stairs, you would meet the large and imposing figure of hedger
Mohammed, he was an adept in the sacred sciences and despite his
powerful presence, he was a much loved host, not unused to feeding
20 guests at a time. We visited him often to join in circles of
remembrance.
His home was a fortitude or was a fortified oasis where souls could
be at rest. The scent of incense mixed with the cooing of doves on
the roofs
and the distant bustle of the souk outside the gate. This is the city
of Fez, it's exactly that description. It hits you the city
of Fez hits, you saw the Old City, there's old and the new, the Old
City and have been there in over 25 years. hits you so hard.
Everything dissents, the sounds what you don't see. You don't what
you don't hear. Because the old city of Fez has no cars in it.
It's literally an old preserved city, a German convert named Titus
Burckhardt I believe he's a convert. He went un un he went
their way back
centuries decades ago. And he wrote for the United Nations, you
must preserve the city. Like you cannot you have to make it law
that nobody can change the city. So and it happened. So it's a
preserved city in that respect. It's winding roads, a wall around
the city gates cutaway in is pretty much in the center of the
city. It's a huge question.
And the ancient jobs are patronized In other words, a pop
maker will be making pots, right or a man tanning leather. So
they're so it's they're trying to keep it as preserved as possible.
All the sounds hit you the sounds of horses walking constantly, and
mules and donkeys clack with their hooves clattering on the streets,
the sound of people calling out for different things they're
selling greengrocer maybe a milkman who knows
the sounds of
or you don't hear now what do you don't hear you don't hear cars at
all. No motors. And the sense that you hear that you smell the
leather tanning is their biggest business there. You just smell so
much leather that you're constantly smelling it.
The even a little whiff of the smell of an animal so it gives you
a feel that you're in a you're in a city but there's you're also
close to nature.
It's something else the city of Fez if you ever have a chance to
go see him again. I haven't seen it for a long time. 25 years I
hope it hasn't changed but
But you you hear Bert
words you smell the scent of incense. You hear the people in
the souk walking talking.
So he said we often spent the night sleeping under thick
handmade Moroccan rugs in his house.
And that's it. So, just like
a regular person in that orbit of that Habibi Zoja
next person, the guardian of the cloak should Eve moly when he
hasn't even hedged Mohammed, now his son, you go to the man now to
his son.
Until a few years ago, Sheedy from what he has said the son of should
have had Jim Hamad lived in his father's old house and continued
his custom of hospitality. He is an extremely humble and fine
looking men. One day we were searching in the marketplace for a
traditional button, put a noose, but a noose is a cloak with the
hood. We got one right here. It's a hooded cloak and Moroccans wear
it over their robes. We wanted to photograph as a cover picture for
a sound recording of imaginable Sadie's famous poem about the
Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa salam known as the Buddha.
If you remember back in the day, there was a CD set on the
boardroom. So they wanted to put a bullet up on the on the cover. We
want somebody Hudson's for lunch one afternoon and told him of our
quest, he casually mentioned that he was in possession of an old
one. As he produced it he explained that it was the shakes
CD Mohamed Habib himself dumbstruck we could hardly believe
our good fortune. This spiritual heirloom was perfect for the
purpose and was featured on the box of the recording anyone who
has that old recording would know that would see that
oh my did you do have the picture here? Are we stopping here?
Do we Do you have the next person are we stopping here? Okay, so
let's do the next one to.
Next to see the fool who already have FES.
The one who sold buttons and ribbons. A sign of CD for dooleys
position in the sight of Allah was his being seated close to CD
Mohammed Habib at all large gatherings of remembrance. During
the day he could be found in a small shop in the Old City of Fez.
Surrounded by sewing supplies, I would sit and watch him measure
out yards of ribbon, or count out buttons for his customers. Did
they know who he was that this was one of the side of Ain hidden in
the marketplace. He was said to be both a great fucky a scholar of
the Sharia and a Master of the inward spiritual science of
purification to solve.
One when his beloved Sheikh left this world it was said that the
light of his knowledge had passed to CD fool al Houari years later,
near the end of his life, I visited CD football in his humble
home and was saddened to see that there was no one learning from
this great man of knowledge. In a tradition that has always
venerated the learning. This lack of attention for a man of his
stature was a sad sign of the times. I asked him who had
inherited the mantle of the shape. See the full dual confided that he
had a written document from him, allowing him to be the head of the
order, but that he did not want the responsibility of taking on
that role, and he was physically unable to cope with it. But he
reminded me that Sita Mohammed bin Habib was a manifestation of the
light of Muhammad sallallahu alayhi wa sallam and that light
never dies, CD fools, sight and hearing continued to deteriorate.
Although physically frail, he was totally coherent regarding
knowledge of Allah, and would seem extremely youthful and exuberant.
Whenever he spoke on the subject. When I visited him with two
companions, he seemed at first to be in a coma. After a while he
came out of the state and began conversing with us on various
aspects of the soul, like a deep sea diver, rising to the surface
of the ocean only sits to submerge himself in his former state after
the meeting was over.
And he became very old afterwards. So there are pictures of him in
his old age.
And that's it. We're stopping at page 76. Right here, right, Omar?
All right, that's the last one. So we'll pause here. And we'll pick
up next Tuesday, but in the law,
we stopped here. And
I didn't want to comment on a lot on this. But there were many
people who may not know things that may be assumed in the book
and I don't like to leave anyone behind. So that's why I want to do
to comments on that.
All right, let's do a little bit of q&a.
A few minutes of q&a and then we wrap up for the day
could you please provide a Jazza for reading had dead rats who was
watching online? Yes, all of you can do the
way to de Latif and ROTC Bill had dead
all of you can do that and pass that on and pass on all of the old
odds of hola hola says Heavy Bombers booklet
on of God.
So
I'd be warming this booklet on Earth God, shall Allah benefit a
lot from from reciting from those
can you? Where's the video on haircuts? It's a short go to
Safina society channel is it a shorter video can't remember. But
go to Safina society.
YouTube channel then go to the shorts.
And then
you'll see it there
the old rod can be found at Safina cited.org/wood W IRD.
Safina society.org/wood
Skin fade haircut is what the video is called he'll, he'll put
the link in the chat right now.
If two people have the same dream at the exact same time is that a
true dream? Likely?
What is the best English tafsir probably the best in the most
thorough is a tough seiad called
What's it called?
It's by Mufti turkeys dad.
Yeah, Mufti Sofia's money, is it Sophia? ZMan. Ma riffle Quran and
it's a PDF, metaphor Quran. You can get it from there
how do people learn about this heavy BIA and Peter Sanders, all
of us learned about Peter Sanders and I'm lucky for white men and
these
elder statesman who came back with these stories and these pictures.
We all learned about it from Sheikh Hamza Yusuf, he was the
person who introduced this to all these people, like none of us
would have known. Most of us would not have ever heard of any of
these, you know without him, so Allah reward him for that.
What is so special about to soave? Is it test kit same thing,
same thing, purification of your heart and draw near to Allah to
Allah through the Quran a bed
what's the correct dua for Salah till Hajra I saw a specific video
dua in your video but I thought it was supposed to be the dua of to
us so there's two jaw alhaja one
it has in it
an address to the Prophet sallallahu when he was on and the
other is is not does not have that.
Okay, do you want me to
find that for you? I have it saved as an album here.
Do us
Okay, so the first draw alhaja
hold on sub
Well, here's one called Draw el curb. La ilaha illallah Halima al
Karim Subhan Allah Bellagio. Adim Subhan Allah Hey Rob this summer
where to sub A What up Belarusian Karim that's from if not best from
the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa salam it is known as Dr. l cup
okay
okay so no actually don't have all of them here.
Anyway, but
hold on.
Ah, here they are. Here there
so there are two The first one has in it a to us sort of a list of
artha Allahumma in the US Alka we're at the word Joe elaida.
saying to Allah Oh Allah I turn to you.
I asked you and I turn to you by Mohammed Nabi you're Rama yar
Mohammed in Nicaragua to beaker Illa. Robbie. He had he had the
heat he took the Allah Masha filthy. This is called the Hadith
of the blind man.
Kathmandu in Haneef, which was taught after the passing of the
Prophet salallahu Salam, which is a proof that it is for everyone
not just at the time of the Prophet Seisen so it says here
alone many as Erica dayco Allah I asked you and I turn to you turn
to Allah be Mohammed by Mohammed, the prophet of mercy, oh Mohammed,
I have turned with you to Allah
in my need
so that it may be fulfilled. Oh Allah make him an intercessor for
me, Allah who must show fair who fee so that is the first
one that you may have known as Dr. Hodge. The second one says
after a you pray to rock us recite that Da is one you pray to rock us
and recite La Ilaha illa Allah will Haleem will Karim Subhan
Allah Byelorussia Rahim Al hamdu Lillahi Rabbil Alameen es el Luca
Mooji bertera Matic waza Imamura dickwella Nema termin colibra was
Salah mataman Cooley if letter that leave them Bonilla Fatah,
wala Hammond Illa for Raja wala hydrogen iela Caribbean Illa
Kadota Yama Rahman.
The translation being La ilaha illallah al Halim al Karim, Al
Halim, slow to anger al Karim, the generous Subhan Allah so we're
hoping that this tribulation that I'm in is not punishment. That's
why you calling on the name Al Halim and we hope that it produces
good so that's why we call in the name Kadeem al Halim al Karim
Subhan Allah Hara Bellagio Salim Praise be to Allah Lord of the
great throne.
At hamdulillah al Amin, Praise be to Allah Lord of the Worlds. I
asked you by everything I asked you for, I should say, I asked you
for everything that brings your mercy Mooji betta rock magic that
which comes with it and brings your mercy with it well as a monk
fanatic, and the things by which I can be forgiven.
What at any moment deliver the the fruits or the spoils of all good
deeds. In other words, the benefits of all good deeds
was salam in quality and safety from all my sins. In other words,
I have sins, but hopefully they won't harm me. They won't bring
with them harm. Learn tally them but the Lovers don't leave me with
any sin except that you forgiven it. Well, I have been in love for
Raja nor any anxiety except that you relieve the anxiety when I had
jetten here like Lika Durban Illa Kavita Ramallah I mean or any need
something that I want extend that has in your pleasure? Except that
you fulfill it for me. Yeah Are hamara I mean,
okay.
Those are the two dua of Hajah.
If Allah having hands is TestDb wouldn't Allah loving also be
touched be? No because loving has nothing to do with anything
physical.
We say that Allah loves without a need to love.
That's the difference is we may love with a need. You love your
husband, you love your wife, and you need them. And that's one of
the reasons you love them because you need them. Okay. And you can
be injured by losing that love. So, those aspects of the love is
Allah's love is different. He loves without a need.
He loves without a benefit. You love your wife, you benefit from
her. Right? He loves without a benefit.
And if
and we are injured by loving and not being loved back, what do they
call that unrequited love?
You can't harm Allah. So you see how we have purified our concept
of Allah's love from that which is limited to creation.
Likewise, if Allah exists, and we exist, so is that a likeness know
Allah exists?
in and of himself, he exists without the need of any support.
He exists without ever having been created. He exists and he's cut
you how you incur you ever living will never die and and sustains
himself, he has no need for sustenance. We are the opposite of
all that we live. And we were bought into the existence into
existence and we will come out of existence and we only exist
sustained, we need sustenance.
So that's the difference. So as much as I like Luffy Yes misstara
co love the. So what similar is nothing but the word but the
essence and the nature. One is Belfie and one is funny. One is
Infinite
and one is finite.
That's the difference. Okay
to so wolf in this area we take from Habib Ahmed bin Salman
Hatfield, which we did his biography a little bit yesterday,
if you listen to that someone's asking you here.
But a lot of us originally came upon these to you,
you know, you came upon these shoes in the 90s.
These Moroccan scholars and Moroccan shoe. And then we also
were exposed to the shoe of Yemen. And they were younger. And so a
lot of us gravitated towards the shoe of Yemen.
And that's what we talked about yesterday.
If someone disrespects your father, do you have to keep ties
with him?
No.
You wouldn't be offending your father that way.
If it would offend your father, then you would keep a distance
from him.
All right, if a person let's say, has, here's a question. I'm not
gonna read the whole question from Look, man, but I'll give you the
summary of it. If a person has sexual relations with their
spouse,
do they have to take Walsall right away? The answer is no, he should
remove the adjuster from his body make wudu then he could
doesn't have to take a loss right away. Then he could do what he
needs to do after that, and he could maybe be intimate with her
again. Okay. So hosel does not have to separate each one.
You can eat, sleep, do whatever you want, you removed an address
and make a full we'll do at least you protected from shades on that
way. Even though you don't have what and the only thing that
breaks that will do is another intimacy. So going to the bathroom
does not break that will do that will do does not allow you
anything except that it protects you from Shaytaan
that's
what is everything calling to solve and to Ischia. Why do some
call it to so often Others call it Tez? Kia answer to that is that it
says Kia is not verifiable.
So the expert in Tez, Kia would be praising himself and making an
unverifiable claim. Because purification of the heart is not
something we can see. So we can't verify it. And on top of that,
you're praising yourself. If someone was to say, I'm a
specialist into Skia, I'm an expert into Ischia.
That's actually the opposite of the purpose. Right The purpose of
the purpose is humility. Now you're bracing yourself as opposed
to half is Quran it's verifiable you can recite right in front of
us
faqih scholar of the law. Yes, by your your the way you answer
questions, what you say what you write it's verifiable knowledge.
Right? So it's a verifiable objective fact in the world.
Whereas anything that has to do with the inside a, you're making
the biggest claim, are you claiming that you're purified.
So these people then want it to take something more humble. Not to
make a claim, but to say that this is what we're trying to be like.
And so at the time, they used to wear wool,
and so they said that people have wool, and that's what the Sufi
comes from, and to so it comes from that, which is that we're
trying to be like those ascetic people who went without the dunya
and turn their life to Allah, fully, who were known to wear the
cheapest material at the time, which was wool. And that's where
the name came from. That's how the term
like hola use that game I forget the eye but that was that was a
calm, Allah says in the Quran, do not make this gibberish don't make
claims about yourself.
Do not make claims.
So that's the meaning of it. And of course, there was sayings
afterwards that it began as a good thing. Now then people took to sew
off as a business. It's an outfit you wear now everyone thinks
you're pious. So it lost its original purpose according to you
know some of the
poetry about this regretting that then it became fashionable then it
became a way to
puff yourself up by wearing these cloaks and covering yourself and
having beads and having sticks and having all these things. So he
says that it used to be something that was a way to Allah Now it's a
way
to dunya. And so you have to know always keep in mind that sometimes
these things, terms and ideas migrate, and they become one from
something that symbolizes something great. And now it may be
just something that's showing off. So people have said that, and some
of the great scholars said that it was super chat.
Some of the saying but awfully again, rough Alia Dane is
something that involves raising your hand before it's that could
be an after tech beer, and it is an Fabiola, or a sunnah in the
Shafi and humbly schools, but not in the medical or Hanafi schools,
they don't raise their hands, except in the opening Takbeer of
the Salah is a bit out to wipe your face after da la, there's a
tyranny the Hadith on it,
it's not a bit out to do that, it could be a full de la. To do that
is Safina going to be like zaytuna,
I don't think we're going the route of the liberal arts college,
we don't have much interest in that we'd much probably be more
interested in something like double Kasam
or even data cinema.
Those are schools in Chicago that just focus on
the sacred sciences and they go deep into them.
The difference is, data set M is almost more of a Dao up there,
they reach out to the people. And they have great scholars in their
in their institution, and they reach out to the regular people.
And they're more I would say youth and dowel oriented. And spiritual
oriented. Dr. Carson is now opening up a master's a PhD,
they're going to be a proper accredited Shediac University,
focusing more on like policy papers and
almost their Dawa is to go to those who are on the high levels
of policy and affect that, more so than reaching out to the people
and bringing in the people in which is the vibe, you get a data
center. So those two are two great institutions in Chicago. Probably
two of the best column, of course, is a great institution.
Probably more like data center, um, but I would say
more of a western culture.
So if you have someone off the street would probably feel right
at home at column. So there's a feature there an advantage there.
Each of these schools, you know, the way that it turns out becomes
really beneficial in a different way.
Adam says what is an SRE an SRE is a school just like there are four
schools of thought. In Islamic law. There are three schools in
theology. There's the mid school, and there is the maturity school
and before them both is the mid school. And so the mid school Oh,
I forgot to seminary Of course, too. There's it in Tennessee and
other wonderful seminary can't leave them out. And Institute of
knowledge in LA, I believe they're in LA, a lot of schools coming up.
But in actuality is These are schools of thought in theology,
regarding questions that came up after the time of the Prophet
peace be upon him that needed he had.
And the essential he had of the the goal of the theological
schools of the SID and Metro add their goal is to show that there's
no internal inconsistency between the texts of the Quran and the
Hadith.
And so the first thing that they tackle is any claim that there's
an inconsistency between the two, not only the texts, but lower the
lower some of the text, the necessary implications of the
text. So they look at what the text is, what does it imply? And
is there an apparent contradiction elsewhere? We know the Quran and
the Hadith have no contradiction, but there may be an apparent
contradiction, what seems to be a contradiction. So they resolve
that that's number one. Number two, they tried to show that
Islam, none of the Creed's of theology of Islam, asked for us to
believe in any incoherence is
to show that this is a now we believe in what we don't see,
that's not incoherent. To believe that things exist, that we don't
see, is not incoherent. If we have a trend, a transmitted report
about it, a reliable report that it exists, the rejection of
anything that cannot be demonstrated right in front of us
is a foolish idea. And that's essentially what scientism is. So,
so we do believe in miracles and other worlds and other beings that
we don't see angels, jinn and all those things, but what we don't
accept is can in consistency in
language to believe two opposite things like the Trinity. So, so to
show that none of our beliefs are irrational meaning, not that we
haven't things that we haven't seen, that's not what irrational
means. Irrational means things that contradict each other, like
God is three and one simultaneously. Okay?
So that's that's the second goal of these theological schools what
is the third goal is to refute heresies that arise within the
realm of Islam, heresies that likened God to His creation, or
heresies that limit the Islamic law and say know that Islamic law
is only for the past and not for today. Okay, that's the essence of
the progressive liberal movement,
heresies regarding rationalism, naturalism, and materialism that
negates miracles
because of a hypothesis or a belief that we can only believe
what we can see with our own two eyes.
We don't accept that we believe in transmitted knowledge. If a
prophet or the Quran in the messenger SallAllahu Sallam
transmits to us the existence of something unseen to us, we accept
it, if the transmission is sound, the heresy of attacks on the
Companions once you attack the Companions, now, you really sow a
seed of doubt in the Quran itself and in the Prophet himself. If if
his own disciples are not trustworthy, then who is
that simple question, right? Secondly, they're the ones who
transmitted to us the Quran and the Sunnah. So if we can't trust
the initial transmitters, then who do we trust. So the attacks on the
then refutations of insertions? So their heresy can be a rejection of
something that's in the religion, and it also be an insertion of a
new idea, like the inmates theory of the shot, or another profit
theory of the Qadiani is then part of this, these theological schools
is to assess what are the what's the gradation of heresy is all
heresy the same? Immediately out of Islam? No. When you deviate
outside of a belief, or bring in a belief that contradicts something
within that has no proof, then the the there's a level of heresy,
that not all out of Islam, sometimes the heresy could simply
be,
you're wrong in that and that's it. Like in that belief, you're
incorrect, but you're not a heretic. And if you are, what are
the implications of heresy? Secondly, there can be a heresy,
which keeps you remain in Islam.
But your good deeds are not accepted to Allah.
We have Hadith about that. So the question is, what are the beliefs
that render you a Muslim whose good deeds are suspended? They're
not acceptable until you fix your belief? What are those heresies?
The third one is the heresy but Dhamaka heresy that puts you out
of Islam altogether? What's that? That of course, is the rejection
of what is known in religion by necessity.
Alright, so when you ask what is an STD, I'll give you the summary
of the actually met God the purposes the purpose of this
school of thought in theology is to answer questions that came up
after the time of the Prophet salallahu Alaihe Salam, just as we
have schools of Islamic law,
that to answer questions that came up after the time of the Prophet
peace be upon certain things don't need scholarship, or they're
crystal clear in the Quran, that God is what do we need scholarship
now to assess that? Of course not. Good. So likewise, in theology
questions come up that needs to be answered. So atheists bring
attacks from outside of Islam,
regarding Islam itself, and our theology it needs answering.
So those points that I just mentioned, are the purposes of the
theological meth hubs,
which are the SSID and the Metro add before them. Both was the
Hanbury school of thought and that they have their own awkward and
their own differences on how they answered these questions.
And between them between the humbly and the sad it was an
attempt to it began as an attempt to do something good, which is
refute some heresies within Islam. And that is a group called the
Morteza. But they went astray. They they're there they were they
tried to cure a disease. They ended up with the worst disease.
It happens. You try to fix a problem. You've tried to fix
something you made it worse.
The Esha Ira came to
fulfill the same concept of solving inconsistent or apparent
inconsistencies without going astray.
I hope that's a good summary.
What is the ruling on touching up the eyebrows as men? You can you
are allowed to trim your eyebrows. It was told to me by a humbly that
Imam Ahmed himself used to do that if it's too bushy, you are allowed
to trim that and cut that. And
if there is excess such as in a unibrow, you are allowed to trim
that up, but you are not allowed to shape your eyebrows
because that would be a resemblance to females.
Who was Imam Al Ghazali Pamela Zadie was one of the theologians
of the Shafi and Ashati schools of thought. And he ended up also
being the one who showed how Islamic spirituality could exist
on the tracks of the Sharia. Because spirituality. It has a
good and a bet, how to approach spirituality in Islam without
exiting the Sharia. And that's what he showed in his great book
here along with Dean in his early in his first life. He was a master
of all the sciences of Shetty, as Sam said, except Hadith, because
there weren't fitting in Hadith at that time, there was no crisis
related to Hadith, so he didn't delve into it, it is set. But he
was a master of well suited FIP he was a master of the footwork,
footwork, meaning the actual rulings also being the
methodology. And he refuted so many
heresies in his lifetime, that he was called the proof of Islam.
Then he had a type of crisis, internal depression and crisis
that caused him to leave all of that and seek
the sciences on the path of the heart. And he felt that I've
mastered everything rationally. But I still feel empty on the
inside. And that's where he ended up agreeing with the people have
to So Wolf and authoring his hiya OMA Deen, which shows how
to establish a spiritual path within the bounds of the Quran and
the Sunnah and the Sharia.
How to be self confident without falling into arrogance, simply by
returning all the gifts that you have to Allah and knowing that he
could take them away at any minute
what are the differences in the names? Yeah, causa.
Yamaguchi.
codger
implies the ability over all things. The subtle implication is
he is his is everything that's his Powerful Over All Things. And
Moqtada gives an input implication of his power over difficult
things. And Allah knows best but that's one of the things I read
about the differences on clouds and mock desert. And you can see
the differences there in the desert, his book on the 99 names.
What is the day like at Safina site is similar to what happens at
mocassin. And Maqasid is different. They have their own
building, and they have their students and it's not like a big
public community. So what that gives them an advantage to do is
to have a team with something called a tag team. And atmaca said
they open up I believe before budget and they have Epcot all day
and all night at certain times you have Epcot and that's why you go
you spend a weekend with them there you feel come up clean.
Here in our Masjid here we operate out of a public we have a masjid
open to the public. Right? Everyone comes in, it's a bit more
boisterous. And there are a lot of strangers and it's a lot harder to
establish a set of tea when you're dealing with a lot of events
happening. Weddings, means funerals. So this has a chaotic
feeling to it sometimes mbyc Right mentioned is
like MBSE is kinda like Mecca vibe. Yeah. And no classes like
Medina Exactly. There was a brother who said that he spent
Ramadan both both places. And it was like Medina's MacArthur was
like a peaceful Medina vibe. And MBSE was a loud, boisterous,
chaotic vibe, right? Like the powerful vibe, but also chaotic,
boisterous, not as you don't when you have 1000 people coming in the
building, right on big days, you can't have the precision and
perfection and delicacy. So
we have a masjid. We have classes throughout the week. And we have a
God at certain points during the week, not every every day multiple
times as it is in my closet. And we have a soup kitchen so we
operate out of two buildings. The soup kitchen, of course runs on
Wednesday and we need to increase that we really need
To increase it one to one more day.
And
we have the studio upstairs. So it's a different vibe
with equal height. See, it's like flowers each fruit in each flower
is gonna produce a different fruit.
Did Abul Hassan Al s. Shetty repent? Yes, he repented from a
desert. He was one of the top more desolate scholars
and young and up and coming leaders of the Morteza lights in
bustle
south of in the south part of Iraq. And he saw a vision of the
Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa salam,
in which the messenger told him read my Hadith. So the problem
with the mosque desolate they tried to solve a problem of these
apparent inconsistencies in the texts, by misusing reason, by
taking assumptions and applying them over Islam, like assumed
moral ideas and philosophical ideas that have no basis and then
forcing them on Islam. Well, what ended up happening is they had to
remove certain things like certain miraculous things, they didn't
believe in miracles, they didn't believe in
that so they missed when when you hear that the Imams hated Kalam,
they hated the wrong Kalam progressive Muslims today, they'll
take ideas that are liberal Western ideas and impose them on
Islam. The Morteza light did that write out a little bit more
refined and philosophical level. And so they rejected many Hadith.
So I wouldn't necessarily saw this vision of the Prophet sallallahu
sallam said read my Hadith so he took all of his Morteza Lee
rational books, put them aside and just bought an under set with
Hadith and read Hadith, day in and day out.
Then he came upon another vision of the Prophet sallallahu sunnah,
in which the messenger said to him, I told you read my Hadith, I
never said, Leave off Kalam. So he took from that, that what he needs
to do is formulate the correct use of logic and reason in Islam. Is
it possible that Allah says repeatedly in the Quran, do not
think, do not use your intellect? Is it possible then that we don't
have we don't have a correct use of intellect and logic with the
sources of the Quran, Hadith, this was the sad approach. There must
be right there is a correct way to use your intellect and a wrong way
to use your intellect. And he then went
his entire career after that was to then
show how to use the intellect. Where is the role of intellect in
the analysis of the text? Is the role of the intellect that if I
haven't seen anything that I don't believe in it? No. That's the
misuse of intellect. Right? It's essentially at the end of the day,
remove any apparent contradictions from the text and the lower some
of the texts the necessary implications of the texts.
Alright, so see ya, medicine really makes a good point in his
Cobra,
where he says that essentially, like even none of the people who
reject aka like they reject the intellect and stuff people are
literalist. It's actually the refuting themselves because he
mentioned that knuckle like transmitted knowledge is built
upon intellectual knowledge, amazing observation. We have two
sources, we really have three sources of knowledge. But religion
is really determined by two. There's transmitted knowledge.
There's rational knowledge and there's observable knowledge. So
part of our religion is based on observable knowledge, right? But,
but not the foundations. The foundations are based on
transmitted knowledge, but what what makes this transmission
sound? That's a rational concept, what makes a transit a
transmission believable? And what is the meaning of words? Right?
What are the meanings of words and Allah tell us in just number 25,
we revealed to you in Arabic Quran so that you may talk the lune
Quran and RRB Allah Allah contact alone. It's an Arabic language so
that you may think properly so language and thinking, like what
are the meaning of words? How do I know what the meaning of a word
is? It's all this is use of intellect, the correct use of
intellect. Right? What we do not believe in at all is that we only
accept an Islamic belief or a transmitted belief. If it makes
sense to us that's like a false
it's like a false idea related that people relate to that Scheid
know Allah Himself commands us to use the intellect so the question
is how, what are the rules? What are the ways what how would we use
our intellect that's the right and when you when you have that now
when you face off against an atheist
or
Right, the language between you is intellect. And that's it. It's
reason and language. And that's how you can defeat them, or
neutralize them at the very least. So then I would have been sad went
on to the member of bussola. And he said, Whoever knows me knows me
and who doesn't know me, my, um, I don't know if he use the name Abu
Hassan or uses first name. And he basically said his name. And then
he said, I was an imam of the Morteza lights, I no longer am and
I have removed the Morteza lism from my belief system, as I remove
this cloak, and he took a cape from his back and he threw it.
So he wasn't no longer Mr. Desley. And he fought them after that.
Another thing actually, that was interesting is so you know that
like people that say, Oh, were added Hadith, you guys are the
people of logic. So tell me exactly this whole idea of Hadith
and the science of Hadith. Where did it come from? It's purely
rational science purely. Like there's no like, the peroxide
Salam did not give us like these conditions, and everything that
this has to be, you know, it has to be matassini. It has to be you
know, but everyone's with Bobbitt and mandolin, there's no Island,
like, this is something rationally that the only man they thought,
and it's okay, what makes something a sound transmission? So
they came up with these, right, these conditions, right? And
that's how this works. It's built upon a rational approach to
transmit a knowledge. Exactly. So if you're a hadith guy, I'm a
young man, you know, How about how about? So what you all heard? I'm
gonna just say, is that?
How do we know what to believe? And what not to believe? And how
do we rank them too? So if one person tells me, there's class
today,
one trustworthy person tells me there's class today, five
trustworthy people tell me, there's no class today? Which one
do I follow? Right? How do I analyze that? Well, it could be
that the announcement came later, a different announcement occurred,
and he missed the first announcement. So the way that we
accept a narration, then interpret it into action, because remember,
these aren't just stories, we have to act upon it. I need to know to
go right or left, right.
So I need an action. So interpretation is also purely
rational science. In other words, what does the word mean? How do I
what happens when it seems that there is an opposing narration?
What do I do? All of these are rational subjects. So I'm gonna
talk to you soon all over the Quran, do not use your intellect.
Know, if a person doesn't have an intellect, the whole should air
doesn't apply to him. So what does that tell you? The foundation from
the foundations of
being a Muslim is to use your brain properly, do we not have
grammar? How was how was the Arabic language spoken properly?
So what is the goal of grammar to to protect our tongue from error,
and to help us understand the meaning of language,
the message of the language, likewise logic, the correct use of
the intellect and to help us to not fall into false understanding.
And it's often said, the first person to use his intellect, with
Allah's words, is bliss. The correct answer is the first person
to misuse I went oh my gosh, I bliss No, I Well, I'm an actor
LPs. The first one to misuse his intellect was bliss while he was
released, this is yeah, he's ready. He only judged by the
outward that's your that's his mistake. He made a conclusion that
the fire creature is better than the mud creature. Where do you get
that conclusion from? From his own self. So he misused the intellect
all of atheist ideas.
All of them
are misuses of logic, logical fallacies. That's how IBLEES gets
you. He gets you by logical fallacies. And the way out of that
is actual true understanding of logic.
Oh, it's 330 SubhanAllah. We've been going a long time ladies and
gentlemen.
Well, one last question How does to so with work practically
practically, you study the diseases of the heart, and you try
to remove them from yourself envy what is the cure of envy? Do I
have envy, lust, gluttony, hatred, laziness in religious worship,
love of the dunya too much the fact to the point that I disobey
Allah for it all of these diseases of the heart you study them and
you try to see what are the cures on the inside from them. And these
are found in in very well known books and then you go on the
offensive what is offensive ultimately if you're a beginner
you're thicker is La ilaha illallah and you repeat that all
day and all night you sit down take a break and recite Leila for
10 minutes. It constantly doing that. Okay, and that's the going
on the that's how that's the soap. So you have to scrub
right but you need to add so
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recorded to be like, well, US
In Santa Fe Atlas il Alladhina amanu I'm gonna study hot water
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