Shadee Elmasry – NBF 22 Words of Advise From Ibrahim Ibn Adham
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we'll see what happens today. We're around stories of the odia.
And we're going to talk today about one of the most celebrated
one of the most earliest, Elia that we have in our history is
goes by the name of Ibrahim had been added to him and a lot of you
have heard about the great Ibrahim Edom and ALLAH SubhanA, which is
sometimes one of the signs of his Kaboul. His acceptance of his Olia
is that he spreads their name and he spreads their the Kra they're
mentioned and their name is widespread all throughout the
lens. And sometimes it's it's not true what they did, sometimes
Allah Tada, it will spread about
stories that are more pious than his actual behavior. Okay, and
that happens. And there was one time a man who came and he heard
people talking about him, and the hum monkey, and the people said
Subhanallah so and so I've heard about him. I've never met him and
but I've heard that he prays all night, and he fasts every other
day. Subhan Allah and they were like Allah, Subhan Allah, masha
Allah, he said, Oh Allah, you spread about me something greater
than my own reputation. He said, Well, and he told his companions
will lie. I've never had a period where I've fasted every other day,
nor do I ever did I ever pray the entire night. Okay, but Allah
Allah will spread about his a bad more than what they've done. And
it's assumed that this could be from the meaning of that we've
transformed there has in essence, they're good, they're bad deeds,
it's a good deeds, or that we've taken their good deeds and
expanded them. That's the mentality you go through when you
read these stories that that don't always come with SN need. Everyone
I am in Isfahan. He was one of the first to write a lot about the
great scholar or the great worshiper, he never behaved like a
scholar or acted like a scholar or was a scholar. Although he did
study Ibrahim and Ed's him, he's from an Arab family that lived in
Persia photoset. He's from Tamim
from the Arabia of the central Arabians, that's, that's where his
origins from but they lived far away in hurrah sun in bulk. So
he's Persian in his culture, lived with the of the Arabs that lived
that had migrated there. And his father was a landowner, his father
was a rich landowner from that area. And he had a lot of hunting
grounds. And the story of Ibrahim is that evolves, it begins with
two things. There are two things by which it begins. And this what
I'm going to tell you is one of the ways that it gets sewn
together. The first thing is that he was a pompous and rich kid,
right there. As you know, these rich kids, they have to find
different hobbies. One of his hobbies was not really a lawful
hobby, was basically get on his horse go into the, to the land
that his father owned, and he would hunt, but not for food, just
purely for fun. So one story says that he was there was a fox and
other story says it was a rabbit and other stories as it was a
gazelle, whatever it was, it was an animal, and he had no intent to
eating. He was just hunting it for fun. And as he was about to hunt
this animal, the animal spoke. And in another narration of it, he
just heard a voice and says, and he had the hooked Have you been
created to do this? So he set out to elaborate on the regime. He
thought shaytaan is messing with him. He went again, he chased it.
And as he's about to fire, he says Allah the hooked. He said, Oh, the
laminate on the regime. shaytans messing with me here. Then he
chased after it again.
And then you've heard the voice. Yeah, Ibrahim murli her who looked
Oh, Ibrahim, you are the creator for this. And he realized at that
time that something amazing had just happened. Allah subhana wa
Tada sending him a message to get to start behaving right. So he
said from that point, he began to change his ways. That was the
Starting point of changing his ways. When he started changing his
ways he got involved in his family's politics. And the family
politics at that time was that they were supporters of the
Romanians, and that the best ever Muslim, the revolt had started in
Persia in courtesan, they had started the revolt there. And when
they started that revolt, his family and his whole tribe, they
were on the homemade side, and they were against this revolution.
And they fought against this revolution. But I've almost
conquered them and defeated them. And so he fled. So these two
things happen at the same time of Abraham and Adams life, that he
had his religious revival, or he had a complete transformation of
his Deen. Yet at the same time, he got himself involved in embroiled
in some political matters, that forced him out. And he went from
Persia, he went down until he reached the mountains of Syria,
and he loved the mountains of Syria, and he lived there. As he
said, he would say, Everyone who sees me thinks I'm West West, they
think I'm crazy, but rather I prioritize Hajj and Gaza over
bread and water. That was it. That was a saint. He was a complete
Zahid. He was from the school, like you can say away some
Academy, which if you remember, always, Academy never made it to
the rank of samba. So he's never a hobby. So there's a reason why he
was never as a hobby because his way although it exists in the OMA,
it's not the example. Nobody could wake up and say, You know what,
I'm gonna follow the method of voice at Academy, I'm never going
to marry, I'm never going to have a job, I'm just going to be
homeless, and worship Allah subhanaw taala and sleep wherever
I sleep, you're not allowed to actually do that. Only if it
happens to be that your life, then that's your life. It could if it
happens, and it happens, Ibrahim even had him. He went to Syria and
he went to Kufa and he went to the different lands and he studied
Hadith. And back in the day, studying meant studying Hadith. He
took Hadith from Sophia and authority,
the great scholar, Sophia and authority, and he read from him.
And then he took on odd jobs. And he bounced from different odd jobs
to different circles of shoe to different massage tours of Allah
and when there was how he would go to hedge. But if there was a
husband, he would go to as well.
And he never married and he never stabilized in terms of having one
job one wife cetera, et cetera, et cetera, the way other everyone
else stabilizes. He never did that. He was just wondering like
this, one of his job
is that he, he was guarding grapes one time can ever even add them.
Yeah, they're so common. And we're going to take this from one of the
more solidified stories of Ibrahim and Edom, only a small pager. So
there's a lot of stories of Ibrahim an ad to him. But this one
is from a resettle push at one of the more trustworthy books, and
again, these things don't have to be with the Senate. It's the story
and it's just sort of transmitted down by the pious, alright, and
the scholars read it and we consider it that it says if Allah
is rewarding these these ollie up, you know, with the by being on the
mention of pious people's attempt to be pious by reading their
stories, so he says here, he was garden grapes. And he had an
attitude of always being against his knifes. That was his approach.
His Dean was contradict your neffs at all times contradict your
neffs. So a guard came, and he says, Give us some grips were
taught, give us some grapes. So he says, I'm not allowed to do that.
And my the owner never said this. They said, You know, it's not
gonna hurt. We're guards and it's only a few grapes. He said, No, I
wasn't ordered to do this. So the guard, they got into altercation
and the guard Hit him.
Hit him on the shoulder over his shoulder. Okay. So
we expect someone to fight back not this type of dervish who was
against his neffs he comes back to him and he says right here hit me
right here on the head is going to be good for my neffs to get hit on
the head. Right? Be completely obliterate the ego. The guard
looked at him said this man is crazy. Let's walk away. Right and
they just walked away. So in that abrupt Savall him and I RC is
Allah hit this this center, hit him here, he's just disobeyed
Allah the guard said this Madison St. Walked away, most of his dua
was can available dua e Allah manconi mean Volitile Marcia de la
Zita attic, O Allah transmit me move me from the humiliation of
dis, of of disobedience
and to the glory of obedience, because disobedience in the
afterlife is considered or in the heavens. It's considered
humiliation. If you had news that said that so and so walked around,
Urinating in public, or so and so walked entered a room or something
with defecation all over him and all over his face.
So that's humiliation in this world. So likewise, if someone
sins with their eyes, that news goes up to the heavens, your
record is going up. That's how it's received with disgust.
Malayaka looking at it with disgust, you may love sins here.
Wine is always put in a nice bottle. Zina is viewed as like,
like, a thing, like at least you're desirable if you're
committing Zina, that sort of there's sort of a thing there
where at least women like you, right? But that's in this world
where some sins are wrapped, not some the problem of the Allah
subhanaw taala tells us sins in this world are wrapped with
sweetness on the outside, and it's bitter on the inside. So Hellfire
has been surrounded with desirable things. So most sins appear very
desirable, right? Most sins do appear desirable with temptation.
But in the after in the heavens, they're in there only in the real
form, which is disgust. And it's something that the minute I can
meet with disgust, okay. It says here about about him that he fled.
And he had a few companions, wherever he would go, he would
make a few companions. They would sit in the circles of knowledge,
and they would worship Allah day and night, and they would take our
jobs and they would fast and they were all extremely thin and skinny
from the amount of fasting that they did. And then they would just
move from place to place to place he says, I can, Ibrahim says,
according to Evan Neumann is funny. He says I cannot enjoy life
outside Syria. He loved a Shem he was from it. He moved to Germany.
He died in Shem. He said I'm a one I'm wandering steep in the
mountains, living the life of Taqwa.
No dunya whatsoever. As we said earlier, this is not the Sunnah,
but if it happens to somebody in a phase of life or otherwise, he
says those who find me they always say he's delusional.
Or that he's just like, he does just does odd jobs here and there.
They only view him as that. He said, Well, Allah it seems these
people they have no value for halogen jihad, and all they value
is the loaf of bread in their mouth. Okay. In another story
about him. He says here that he spent some time in the Syrian
desert, in Halawa worshiping Allah day and night. There he met a man,
this man began to teach him at IsaMill all them
the name by which either do it or be a job. If, if a person calls
upon Allah with this name, this isn't all them. Allah answers his
dua.
And then he walked and he came upon another man, he came upon the
ramen, a salami,
have the ramen salami, he came upon him, call it Ibrahim. He
says,
I came upon him and he said, it must be other Ali Salam Who taught
you that. And, and in the literature, you'll find that other
is the same man that met said no Musa. It has a unique status that
he has, he lives a long life and he doesn't live like other humans.
He lives under the shadow of every prophet, but he doesn't eat he
doesn't. He's very unique. And he dies, only the Africanism. And it
said that the jug kills him, that he's the one who splits who's
split. And the story of the DeGette, splits them in and then
brings them back together says Now do you believe in God? He said,
Now I'm actually more certain that you're the judge because the
Prophet predicted this. So allow Adam about this, but it is in the
works of many, many, many more fecit in and you could read it on
your own. This is not my theory that I've heard that is somebody
who lives a long life. And he meets many sleight of hand and is
said that he met me no uh, we used to meet said no further every
other year in the last 10 nights of Ramadan, in quotes that said,
an Imam and now we used to do RTF and invested OXA every other year
in the last 10 nights of Ramadan. And there he would have meetings
with a new member whether or not I can't say imam or not, because
he's not the leader of Muslims. He's a figure that exists in the
pious in the works of the books of piety and the kasus of the Olia
will call Ali Raja and fifth off, he was making throw off one time,
and a man came to him and he said yeah, Adam and Nicolette and
Rudra, the Salah in a hat that says a sit talk about so a man
came in he had a appearance of piety. So Ibrahim even Adam came
and he started to tell him certain things and he said there are six
things that you have to traverse. At some point in other you must
experience it's not going to be all the time, but at some point or
other you must experience these six things in order to be really
truly called pies. Alright, so what are these things? He says
number one, close the door, have soft blessings and open the door
of roughness and and hardships at sea
One point in life, you cannot be a pious person, at least some point
in life, you're gonna have to face hardships.
That's the first thing he said. He said, number two, you close the
door of fame. And you open the door of humility
that you have to, at some point, you're just a regular person. Now,
by the way, sometimes, you can have a person who is extremely
glorious in their wealth, right? They're extremely wealthy, and
they're extremely popular. Now, when they want to humble
themselves, they go to the opposite extreme, and they wear
the patch clothes, and they're completely zero. But guess what,
that's also very much attention getting. That's why there are many
Imams if you read in their books, they say, Do not wear the clothes
of the poor. If you're not poor, don't wear the clothes of the
poor, only two things could happen, both of which are bad
number one, that they may think you're eligible, and they give you
a Zika. Whereas you're not you don't need Zika. Number two, they
may think you're so pious, that he doesn't even care what he wears.
He's so pious. That's not good for you either. This is really one of
the reasons why it's one of the sayings of emetic. He did not like
the long beard. Why? Because you're gonna show to fame for your
piety or something, have a beard fist length, or whatever people
call a beard. Good. That that's the end everyone has that. A lot
of pious Muslims have a fist length, or whatever your society
calls beard. Okay, that's a beard. Why do you need to have one that
sticks out? And everyone talks about you? Okay? So this, this
type of shahada live as a Shahara meaning live as a show does not
mean the unique clothes that say, Oh, he always wears that red
jacket? No, the best is Shahara means people will call you pious.
Okay, that's it. Yep. It's summer. As Suma is reputation, people are
going to talk about you. Okay? If he is physically showing yourself
to be more pious, for the sake of other people, to looking at you
and saying that, so he said,
the door of humility, sometimes the most humble thing is to be an
average Joe. Right? What every other Muslim does, sometimes
that's the most humble thing to do. Because if you if you're doing
the thing that 50 other people do, and what's the big deal? So it's
oftentimes
going from one to the other from very worldly and materialistic
extreme to now a very pious and you get patched frock, and you're
just praying all day. And you're just that because that's also a
way of getting attention.
There's also famous and infamous, someone's tries to be famous, he
wants to be beloved by everyone. He fails at that, what does he do
to be hated by everybody? He's still getting attention. Right?
It's still an attention grab. It's just in reverse. It's almost a
little bit. You want the attention so badly, it's perverse that you
want I'd rather be hated by everybody than ignored. See,
that's a complete that's the problem. You're still wanting
attention. So to be ignored, is deadly for the for the ego? To be
ignored? Because you're just so average? Right? And that's one of
the values of the audit of the Muslims, right? What's the audit
of a Muslim? Well, we pious Muslims when they dress a certain
way. That's pretty common, right? Common thobe. Right. The beard may
look a certain way common, were certain common, so everything's
common about them in terms of, it doesn't look like you're more
pious or less biased than everybody else. Just one of them.
That's really tough on the ego. All right. Remember, Libertas is
shahada is any way of acting or behaving that people would say
you're pious. Okay.
All right, next he says here a 30th Tell the lip Bob Raha which
I've done bubble George. Alright. relaxation and ease. Close that
door. Open the door from Abuja. Jaya hit your showerhead.
Struggle, spiritual effort, spiritual effort, this a Beretta,
it takes work and that's why that's, that's why we're here to
keep pushing each other. Every time I say it is a motivation for
myself.
You put effort in the Prophet, there's one Hadith that mentioned
60 days of Quran to be read. That shouldn't be like a minimum. Right
there you look at the sutra that you're reciting. It's got 30 eyes.
The next one's got 30 eyes read them both. At least minimum.
All right, recite. reciting Quran daily for a working person is not
going to happen without extra effort. Not gonna happen except
you doing it. One time a shift from Yemen. His moods said I'm so
busy. I can't recite. He said recite on the motorcycle while
you're going to work. So she got a guy with his wife and goodies
recited put on on the motorcycle, because that's how they transport
that's the cheapest transport is a little, little motorcycle. A
second they call it so it has to have Majah this thing has to be
with effort fat
thing is not easy. It's with effort of God is not easy. It's
with effort. If someone sees the My man is going up and down, up
and down, it's because you don't have a steady state. You don't
have a steady with every morning and every evening you don't ever
miss your ODOT
we're robbing to travel to Cuba but know what's after bizarre. You
close the door of sleep and open the door of being awake, waking up
waking up in the middle of the night and is the greatest time for
dua, the province I set him said it's dubara coulees Salat Al
Maktoum bat
dubara solids and metal bats were fijo Filemon and Wolfie jofa Lane,
mythological actor had in the province. I said I'm in the middle
of the night closer to the last third. Okay, so
that's if you if you don't wake up at that hour, drinking some good
amount of water before you sleep, not too much, but a decent amount.
You have to go to the bathroom in the middle of the night. And
that's going to be your alarm clock. Welcome to toliko berbeda
Levina watch after horrible fucker, that
the times in which you have no need for anybody to the time in
which you can't you barely have enough to live. This is fucker at
some point or other. It's actually good to feel that a little bit.
Now you can at least relate to people but also you feel how needy
you are to Allah, you'll find yourself making dua like you've
never done before.
Because at some point or other to taste being in need. It's
extremely good for our souls. What's sad is a technical babble
ml, which after Babyliss Jeju Island modes, close the door of
having these long dreams and long hopes and open the door to be
getting ready for death. Okay, and imagining that death could come at
any moment. And when you do that, what you're actually doing is
you're releasing air out of the balloon, you're releasing all the
pressure, why are you pressuring yourself to have this perfect life
here in this life in this dunya that pressure can't be all the
time. Sometimes you strive and sometimes you let it go. In the
daytime, you should strive. Once the night falls, you have to let
it go. Palace imagine that this is my last night. That's it, I live
my life I'm done. What you're doing is you're releasing so much
pressure from yourself. And you're letting your cell yourself relax,
colorless, I lived. Now I'm gonna go meet my Lord. And you could
close your phone, you could close everything, don't talk to me,
don't check my email, whatever and completely just go into a
spiritual state in which it's over. I'm done. I'm gonna meet a
lot. So then you put your head on the pillow, imagining that you
release, you wake up the next morning, you get back to work. The
problem is one or the other. You can't hop on one foot. Right and
expect to get anywhere you have to walk on two feet, there must be a
time of Raja striving for a better life from Allah subhanaw taala
getting a better life from Allah in the head, for the sake of Allah
for the sake of just having his bounty. And there has to be a time
where you cool that all off completely, where you say hello,
my life is over. I'm done. Today I sleep I die. I go to the
afterlife. And you're gonna find yourself. You can do this forever.
You know, burn yourself out. And if you have too much of the
current modes and hellos, life is over. You're not supposed to be
like that at 9am You're supposed to be going out and striving.
You're not supposed to wake up at 9am Say Kalasa to dunya. And this
is life is over blah, blah, blah, you won't get anywhere in life,
you will find yourself you will wake up in 10 years and realize
everyone is married and has kids and has money and you're just
like, zero. What did you get? What did you get out of life? Do you
have to still live? Alright, so there's a time for this. And
there's a time for that. It is said call it a Saturday. But
Abraham I was a companion of Abraham, Ibrahim and we'll even
add him. So I got sick. So he spent all on me. He worked extra
to get me food to get me medicine. Okay, and I wanted some food and
his sick people, you should give them what they desire. Like never
tell you that when you're sick. Your mother says eat whatever you
want. The doctor says whatever you want to eat, because it's as if
your body's saying this is the nutrient that I need. So he said
he desired a certain food.
And Ibrahim went out and he got him that food. Now when he when I
got better, and we were going somewhere I said Ibrahim, you're
walking. He said yeah. I said what happened to your donkey? He said I
sold it. Sold it. Would you sell it for he said you wanted that
food? Right? I had to sell the donkey for that. Right? So he
says, What am I going to ride?
He said then he got sick a second time. He gave him a ride to the
doctor. He carried him on his back to the doctor. This is the type of
Sahaba that Ibrahim had. Right with his with his people, those to
those people. There's a book by Abdul Rahman a tsunami, you should
read it. It's it's called the
Um, book of chivalry, the book of civil rights seven foot two. In
it, it says that there's levels of relationships. And this is
actually important to talk about there are levels of relationships.
There's there's the relationship of you just simply you, you
someone is your brother in Islam at that point there's the very
bare minimum relationship. Now I want to set you free about
something. When we read these books of piety and everything,
there is nothing greater than the Sharia. The Sharia when it gives
you a right, you should never imagine that
following your right or taking your rights your how cool is
lowly, for example, the shitty I says, what is up good Hola, como
jofa? Yo, if someone knocks on the door, and you don't want to talk
to them, right. The Cydia says that the person in his home, he
may be busy. Maybe he's not in the mood, maybe he doesn't want to
talk. He has absolutely no obligation to talk. The person in
his house may say to the person who's knocking go back, or may
simply not answer the door at all. Like I could be sitting in my
home. Someone's knocking at the door. This is because we don't
know our law.
And I say who's knocking at the door? So so and so's knock on the
door? Well, I'm doing something right now. I don't feel like get
in the door. You may think oh my gosh, that's rude. What do you
say? Let's look at the shittier
Yeah, you're looking at either Akela como GL for Joe who is
Calico. You don't know people's business, their state. I might be
in. He might be with his wife. He might be educating his kid. He
might be scolding his kid. He may just have had a fight with his
wife. Leave them he might be eating. He might be dirty. He
might be have taken his clothes off and he's wearing his garbage
clothes in his house because he's just so tired.
You have the absolute right if the phone rings not to answer.
If somebody
knocks on the door, not to answer, it's your right. So some people
they take think this this piety is that I have to bend over and be a
doormat for everybody. No, it's not. What's more pious than then
then then the shittier for both as my rights and my responsibilities
at the same time. Now if it's like what is it responsible? If it's my
parent, that's different. If it's an elder, that's different, right?
Because there was there are exceptions. That's the general
rule. You never have to open the door for anybody. I don't have to
answer anyone's calls or anyone's messages. Okay, you know some
people's they sent me a message Oh, you didn't answer me. Excuse
me? You don't understand the relationship here. I don't have to
answer nobody has to answer anybody. Everything is a courtesy.
So that is simply a Muslim to a Muslim he just has basic rights.
That's it like the five rights the prophets I sent him response and
responsibilities that if he sneezes say at hamdulillah if he
invites you to oedema if the teller then go to it. If he dies
go to his Jenna's if he's sick ask about him. The five rights of a
Muslim if he greets you respond the greeting. So then there's
people that you start to befriend a Saba, you keep their company on
purpose, you willingly keep their company and then there's the
Khalil, the very close friend who all your business and between that
there's a so deep, so there's a saw someone who's generally you
keep their company were in the public mosque. The message is
public. Masjid is a place where we we make our friends. Why? Because
everyone goes there. I can hang out with you. I could not hang out
with you. It's up to me. If I see when the prayer line, I can go
pray next to you. If I don't want to I can go praying to someone
next up. No offense, no offense should be taken. You can befriend
who you want in the masjid. Okay, as long as I'm not intentionally
not answering your Salam.
So then, from the masjid emerges a Sahaba. All of us are as hard as
long as we're in the same place at the same time we know each other.
That's a samba. Okay, we're in each other's company.
From there, we choose our study, our friend, the friend is someone
you trust know, and you enjoy to be with them and you invite them
their house, do they invite you to your house, amongst your friend
circle, not all friends are the same. There's the best friends,
I'll clean. The clean. He's totally in all your business.
You're in all his business. Willingly, you love each other
that much. Okay.
I'm actually a bit suspicious about this, to be honest with you.
Most of the time, I find that women are like that. They're in
each other's lives a lot. But I also also oftentimes see that they
can get burned a lot too. Because sometimes it just things don't go
I like the level of Sahib and Saduak those are the best levels
right? But at the same time, don't forget you have rights. You don't
have to befriend everybody. You don't have to talk to everybody.
This is a right Allah gave you you should never feel guilty for
taking it. Good.
So,
unfortunately, I had a brother the other day who basically
interrogated me on WhatsApp. Wait a second, why am I bothered by
this? It's my 100% shutter a right to simply ignore the person. What
he thinks he thinks, Why do I care? Right? It's my right to do
that. By setting it up to Dakota, Joe foot Joe, let's go, Look, I'm
gonna have to answer you. I don't know you. You're not my elder,
that you're my ammo that I really have to answer you out of a dub,
or you're my father or You're my chef or someone who owes who I owe
Huck to. So you have to give yourself that right. At the best
relationship is the Sahib in the city, the Killeen, you have to
pick that very carefully. All right, I don't know how people
that lead each other into each other's lives so much, what
happens if this thing goes sour? People change all the time. So
point being is that you can you can read up on that in
medicine, Salamis book, the book of chivalry. So
this is Ibrahim ibn Adam, who went on to live a life of piety and
zoot absolute zoo hood. Okay. He's a Persian, and he's ended up
buried somewhere, they say either he's buried in Syria, in one of
the hills of Syria, or he was buried outside of Constantinople,
where he went on one of the raids of the general area, we would call
Anatolia, because when they call below the room, they left the room
was Anatolia, what we call today, Anatolia or turkey.
Concepts and well being the Capitol Building Center, but they
had a lot of land outside that, okay, and they owned all that
land. And so the Muslims would go, and there would be the skirmishes
back and forth and said that he died on that day, or in that
battle. Okay.
All right, folks, that's our story for one of the earlier of the day.
And, you know, there's not a lot of information about him. But it's
one of those that you can't have stories of the odia. Without
mentioned and the Decra of the great, Ibrahim said to him, it's
as if ALLAH SubhanA, which Allah has wanted him
mentioned on the tongues of the Saudi of the Saudi in which is
these books, they've mentioned them, and when we read them, we
always read his name, one of the top names, the tomb of Ibrahim
even adds him even battuta visited Jabba Allah traveling through
Syria, and he writes even about duty, you know, even about due to
the great traveler, he says, at the tomb of Ibrahim Edom is a fine
religious house Zoja there's a Zoja for worshippers. Zoja is not
a public mosque. But it's semi public, but it's not a masjid.
It's a place for the worshipers, right for the devoted worshipers,
okay, and there, they have a fountain and a water pool and food
is served to everybody. That's what we're going to make here. The
data center. It's going to be like Azalia. And food is going to be
served and people are gonna come in and learn about Islam. It's
intendant, the person who was running it was Ibrahim Al Juma.
Hey, okay.
People came from all parts of Syria to visit this Zoja on the
night of mid Nistor Shabbat, which is coming upon us this for
Shabbat. And they would make dua and spent all night in a bed
they're making dua, and then he said a great Fair is held here, a
soup, a fair meaning all the merchants come and they sell
things outside of this area, and stuff of all kinds is sold there.
And the Fukada who have renounced the world, they stay there, and
then they take part buying and selling in the soup. Yes, they've
run out to the world but they still need to live so they'll buy
and sell or they'll they'll help put up the tents or whatever. And
they'll work there so
that
in about two weeks it says that he went and he saw the grave of
Ibrahim Adam and it was right and right next to it was a Aizawa
there, okay. And the Zoja are very special places, they're places
they're the abodes of the worshipers and these are bed are
people in different forms of stages of life, sometimes old
retired, sometimes youth that just have some time of your life before
they move on with their life. Sometimes they're penitent people
sometimes they're they're alcoholics who have repented from
their alcoholism and they need a support group to firm down their
image and their and their and their habits. The way are great.
This data center is going to be a Zoja our data center is we already
have delighted highlights every Monday night did they did it this
week, right? The little carrots every Monday night, folks are up
for crop meaning people they're coming for Allah subhanaw taala it
public mosque is different. Public mosque, huh? Yeah, we have Aki to
deduce there. Right. The public mosque is different. It caters to
like the the gym
generality of the OMA okay. And the zawa is a place for those
types of faqeer as they call them, according to even about Bucha it
was a celebrated place, okay, and that a nice mosque was constructed
around there like a public mosque. Okay. In the Mameluke times when
the min Luke's took over and they traveled to Syria, they built a
big mosque next to the tomb of Ibrahim had been Edom, and one of
the Sultan's he describes it as follows, he says, The Sultan
arrived at Jabara. Okay, located on the coast, and he visited the
tomb of shift Ibrahim and Adam, and Jabba is a small town next to
the coast of the Mediterranean Sea. Alright, and its inhabitants
are very simple people. The inhabitants were very simple
people. So Tom kites Bay, this famous Old Town Catesby, he
officially visited the tomb of Ibrahim even adds him, okay.
And so
go on, and on goes the story of Ibrahim and Ed's him.
Here's the story. Ibrahim even adds him.
He was in battle. And he was an Emir. He was like a young prince.
One day, he sat at the council, and his palace in his dad's
Palace, an era with a camel came in. Ibrahim says, Where are you
from? And he said, Where are you going? He said, I'm a camel driver
hoping to stay at this area. He said, What you talking about? This
isn't this isn't a rest stop. This is a palace. The man said doesn't
belong to you. He said yes. He said to whom did it belong before
you? He said to my father, and whom belong before him. He said my
grandfather. He says I understood and where are they now? He said
they all died and now I own the palace. Ibrahim did not say this.
He said Abraham. Did I not say this is just a caravanserai which
means this is just a pitstop.
Right? The RMS it's a pitstop. No, it's not a pitstop. It's a palace.
He said ways that your dad had it, your grandfather had it. Now you
have so it's a bit stump, right? It's a pitstop, they're all dead.
And now you have it, and soon you'll be dead, and someone else
will have it. Ibrahim understood that he would soon die. And that
King ship ownership was transient. And that's one of the reasons that
helped him leave off. I had to dunya this little incident that
happened with this man. Alright, let's take a break here. And let's
go to our
Instagram questions, and Instagram given us a hard time. And let's go
to Ryan, anything we got today? Yeah, we got some good questions.
All right, let's hear it.
First one, has been asked what's the balance between extravagance
and humility? What is the balance between extravagance and humility?
Anytime that anything is up for grabs? that anything is relative?
Or subjective? The answer to it is in the lives of the pious, look at
how the pious Muslims live
and be like them. Okay, so you're not the first person to ask this
question. Right? So, the pre people before you ask this
question, and people before you ask this question, they came to
conclusions. So anytime there's a judgement call, look at the order
of the solder hain. This is called orifice solder in the custom what
is the custom of the soldering? So if a if a person today is called
the Zed, right, and we agree, he's someone who leaves off the dunya
for sure, he doesn't only own two garments like the olden days, the
ancient times. In ancient times, Zed literally owns two garments.
And when he washes one, he wears the other, and vice versa. But
today, no one wants to garments, even the most aesthetic person
will have a couple pairs of pants, couple shoes, right work shoes,
maybe dress shoes, even if he's the most aesthetic person. So you
it's all relative. So look at the customs of the people around you.
Okay, next. This is a good question.
Brother must have his priorities straight. He said, Is there any
way for people like us, you know, average people to make a law or
honey?
Is there any way to make a lot our Khalil? The answer to that is
really we just traveled the path of the Olia. We never make a lot
or Helene, nor to say Brahim make Allah huskily. Allah is the one
who chooses. Say now Ali was asked one time how do I come to know
Allah? The person
said No, it says how Allah wishes to make himself known to you.
That's how you will know Allah to Allah. So the answer to this is,
is we don't do this thing. You just do your job. And Allah will
open whatever path he wants for you.
Next, okay, so there's one. I've just been wondering this for a
while. And since we're talking about Ibrahim, like how
interrelated are people's names and their virtues that they had
up how interrelated are people's names and their various virtues.
So it is often said we need something like it is often said
that Ibrahim even Adam ended up living like Ibrahim Khalil
Ibrahim, Satan, Ibrahim wandering around, of course, the first half
of his life because St. Abram did, eventually, he had children, and
he had a lot of children. And he settled and then he had saved an
estimate and Makinson is hopped in a ship. So
but it's sometimes will happen sometimes that a person will
reflect his name. It's but not all the time.
Next, so this one's kind of related to the afterlife, but it's
still relevant today. When we die are our souls in the grave or in
the bars. When you die, your soul is in the buttock, which has a
certain connection to the grave. What's the nature of that
connection? Allow Adam but it seems to be that it hears the
visitors of that grave. And it here's what's happened and what is
said to it at the visitors of that grave.
Alright, Hudson came back with another one. He mentioned what are
the basic edits, I would argue that we should have in our day
I would go for what is the basic Odin of God, I would go to the
what's compiled at Safina cited.org backslash wit, if you
could put that in the comment section. So if he incited.org
backslash wood, and there's the other side of the morning, which
is what to do Latif and the other part of the evening, which is lots
of Bucha here. And then if someone recites Quran, what is what he's
capable of, in between two pages, 10 pages, that's you know, within
what's considered good according to you know, the way people
worship and they do their a bed, that would be considered very
good. And stabilizing. Unfortunately, sorry for the for
the Instagramers they're given us a hard time and Instagram. Maybe
if we stay off Instagram for the weekend. We'll be back to normal
on Monday but they're just give him a headache. And I can't see
anything they keep popping up some ridiculous message that says try
again, we limit how often you can do certain things on Instagram, to
protect our community to protect our community from what what did
we do to your community? Tell us if we think you made a mistake,
you made a mistake.
Okay, so I can't answer anyone on Instagram. All right, keep going.
Alright, someone asked when Allah answers are dua, is a pre eternal
answer. When Allah answers or is it a pre eternal answer,
everything that Allah decreases pre eternal, all of Allah's
Kabbalah is
the Kabbalah is something that within an Allah's knowledge, of
course, no doubt. It Jabba to Dawa is when you ask for something that
happens to also be and Allah has knowledge
of Kabbalah is what Allah has planned for you and al Qaeda is
his ability to bring it into existence. That's the difference
we plan and we may not be able to bring it into existence. But Allah
plans and he's plan will come into existence no matter what.
So we don't have to someone just popped another one. But I have a
question personally, what's, what's the seekers? Like? What
level should we be on and looking for answers and signs from a lot
compared to just accepting the way that things are?
The question of what, what at what level? Should we be looking for
signs from Allah versus the just accepting the way things are? And
moving on? The answer is that we should be at a high level of
searching. But the real question is, how do we seek a sign from
Allah? And what is the sign look like? What is an indicator that
something is from Allah? So, for example, we have the method of his
Takata as our guidance. And the sign that something is from Allah
is that it's become easy.
It's, it's right in front of it is become easy. Which doesn't mean
that if something is difficult, that you stop, no.
No, when it becomes easy, that's when Allah is supporting you.
Right? If it's become if it's difficult, that does not
necessarily mean that you have to stop it. But if the path is
blocked by Muhammet by prohibitions, then you have to
stop. Right? If the path set from x to y, is requires you to do
certain things that are forbidden, that's when you know you have to
stop. Otherwise you can keep going. But the sign of Allah
Sophia, and His blessing is that he starts to make it easy. Right?
So you want to understand that make ease is the sign of Allah's
blessing, but the absence of ease does not mean you have to stop the
presence of prohibitions. That's where you have to stop
Any other questions for today? I guess one more question. Yeah.
A close relative of mine passed away not too long ago, the day
before she passed away she was asking to go home. Is this suggest
that perhaps she was referring to her future home in Jenna.
She's had a close friend had passed away and right before she
passed away, she was asking to go home. I'm assuming that she means
here that she was speaking to herself. Right? I want to go home
or just saying that in a in a not not semi conscious state I'm
assuming and Allah Allah, maybe that is a good sign that they are
speaking about their other worldly life. We'll never know.
Yeah. All righty folks, welcome Hello, Clarence subharmonic Allah
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