Shadee Elmasry – Selections from Fath al Bari Part 1
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100 ELO Salatu was Salam ALA,
talking to me.
All right, so this booklet here
is pretty critical this booklet here. And you should have to in
the office blue booklet called selections from pet buddy by 1100
Ross Kalani, and this selection here is really about
things that are sort of overall life issues that people take for
granted and relate to the subject matter of death. Okay. And
usually, the people put this this the scholars and the people that
pass they put this under the category of NACA, which is the
section on words that soften the heart. All right, so namely,
things that soften the heart and the heart hardens. spiritual heart
is different from the emotional heart, the spiritual heart hardens
from worldly matters from being too engrossed in the dunya. Okay,
whereas the emotional heart, heart is for different reasons,
emotional heart may Harden,
similar in different emotionally, you your heart hardens towards
someone, if you have a great distance from them. Right. So
likewise, the spiritual heart hardens, when you have a great
distance from Allah subhanaw taala. And in specific from the
afterlife from death and afterlife. If you have a distance
from death and afterlife, then at this point,
your heart starts to harden. And the busier we get in life, the
harder our hearts will become, until all of our event is a mere
routine. Even if someone is working in the field of Tao, like
you're working in the field of charity, I'm working in teaching
is very easy for someone's heart to start hardening. Because at
this point, your work is for Yeah, it's for the sake of Allah is for
the afterlife. But at the same time, you have deadlines, you have
budgets that you have to meet, you have a lot of situations, okay,
that you got to,
to meet. And it's worldly, in a sense, right? You got deadlines,
you got budgets, you got bills, you got all these things, it's
actually very easy to start
losing track of yourself, okay, and losing focus on the purpose of
this type of work. But if someone is sincere, I've never seen
anyone. Okay, I've never ever seen anyone in the field of Dow be it
in charity, or in knowledge or in anything related to masajid or
anything that is
dedicated to the afterlife and to the people. Except that if they
are sincere, slowly they start to change, they start to change very
slowly. And I like to think that if someone's being trained in the
deen and educated in religion, okay. And they're growing up, as
they grow up, they're not going to keep attending classes, right?
They're not going to keep sitting in on classes and go into summer
camps, right? So Allah subhanaw taala will then has a way to,
to keep training these people, okay? And his training for them is
to put them on the job to put them on the job in the realm of doubt.
Right? And when they're put on the job, they're there by force, okay.
And they're there every day. And this is actually part of their
training. Okay. So we don't realize it, but we have people who
are working in the field of doubt,
or any Islamic type of work, otherworldly work, we don't
realize it, but we're still being trained. Alright, we're still
being developed. And if we take this stuff seriously, if we take
these matters seriously, and we start practicing them. Now what is
a very simple practice, right, a very simple practice that most
people take for granted. And mostly we do it
in front of other people, not as of showing off, but because we're
embarrassed and we have no other choice, a very simple practice to
pull away from worldliness. Okay, to pull away from worldliness, and
to sort of practice death and afterlife, or leaving this world
is to sit after the slot for your common test that everyone knows
stuff what a lot three times SubhanAllah 800, Allah Akbar
unfinished La la la la la don't sad killer until the end of it.
Most people actually say, you know, look, I'll just do it while
I'm walking back to my desk, or what have you, they skip it. Okay,
but believe it or not, why do people skip it? It's actually very
hard to just now. So all you have to do you have no choice, but to
sit there for that extra 60 seconds or more 120 seconds, okay,
in the middle of a moment that you didn't choose, okay? And it's not
like I'm doing thicker when I want No, right? It's, it's, it's a
moment that's out of your control. This little simple practice. If
you say to yourself, if you, if one does it over a lifetime, they
will slowly wean themselves off of the rush. The rush of worldliness,
and this is what we're in, we're all in this rush of dunya. Even in
Islamic work, right? You got to publish a paper you got to publish
put out a video, you got to put out a commercial for your
organization, you got to put out a poster, you got to put out a
marketing campaign. All this it's a rush, we're in a rush. This is
the this is how America is and how the ruling class of society is is
how the Muslims end up becoming. Alright, we don't realize this,
right? The Muslims end up becoming like this, we end up becoming
exactly like what our ruling class is. And it's a big problem.
Because when you're ruling culture, the dominant culture,
okay, is non-believing, atheist secular materialist, you will find
that these things will start slipping into us as well. And this
is a big problem. People don't think about this. People don't
think of how effect how much effect the ruling culture the
dominant culture has on how we even view our own religion. I
mean, Muslims in America, we almost operate like we're
capitalists in our organizations organization has to make money, or
else you fail. So there's always a financial wing to the
organization. Right? We are marketers, right? Everyone's vying
for everyone else's attention. So did where did we get this from?
Okay, we got this because the culture forced us to do this. The
culture forces us do some things that are accepted some things that
are not accepted. One of the things that our dominant culture
forces us upon forces on us is that the dominant culture is the
separation of church and state. So in France, that means they're
basically enemies of all religion, okay. But in America, it means
that no religion should be given preference over another religion.
Right? Okay, so, this doesn't just mean that the government will not
sponsor or financially sponsor any religious activity. No. Okay.
Actually, in Australia, in certain places, separation of church and
state means that the governor will not government will not prefer one
religion over another. Okay. So they'll actually fund religious
operations, okay, which allows them to monitor them, okay, which
is pretty smart from their standpoint, but they won't prefer
one over the other. Now, let's get back to the point. When we say
that we don't prefer one religion over the other, this permeates in
our culture, and it permeates in our culture to the point that we
take the verses in the Hadith that have to do with
other religions. We soften the line, right? Because the whole
culture is about accommodation.
Inclusivity right. Inclusivity accommodation, and this because it
breeds a lack of pride that Muslims have in their own Deen.
All right. And it's not all of them, but a lot of people okay,
and actually the opposite increasing, people are fed up with
it right. And they feel like this political correctness is driving
me crazy. I can't say I can't hold that this is this is what is
superior etcetera, you got to be so inclusive and politically
correct. What we have to do is return Eman is built on a firm
confidence that everything that the Prophet peace be upon him said
is true. is more true than anything else. Okay. Amen. is
based on that if we don't have that, okay. If we don't have that,
then we don't have Amen. All right. Are you mad is gonna go
nowhere. And one thing that you have to insist on whenever you're
studying, Okay, whenever you're doing any matter of Deen, okay.
One thing you have to insist on, is we do never
talk about the deen Okay. From the Quran only perspective, right? We
have to delve into the statements of the Prophet peace be upon him
and this is very important because this is what this book is about
sayings of the Prophet peace be upon him. And the importance the
great importance of analyzing every word that the Prophet peace
be upon him said, Okay, and this is basically the foundation of
this is perfect, pure one.
100% confidence and belief in the Prophet peace be upon him and in
the judgment of the collectivity of Islamic scholars, right. The
scholars of Islam collectively are always right. Collectively, not
the scholars of New Jersey in 2015 or Cairo of 1995. No, overall from
the time of the Sahaba all the way to us there are certain things
that is so Noah GEMA scholarship has never deviated from right,
this is always correct. And this is inserted in the Quran surah 20
Set 115 All right, well, many of WA era
severely removed meaning. Normally he matola honestly Jahannam was at
Masirah Okay, whoever chooses a path other than the path of the
believers, so what believers are edging out a religious path, only
the scholars the scholars are telling us what to do what to
believe, right? So they're the believers here means the scholars
because they're the only believers who are edging out a religious
path, the path of the believers, right then Allah says we will
abandon him as he has been us, okay. And we will leave him to the
fate of what he chose. So and we will burn him in * so, so our
deen is not only based upon Okay, belief in Allah which belief in
Allah azza wa jal is something that Muslims Yani, they didn't
really focus so much on they will proving they focus on proving the
truthfulness of the Prophet peace be upon because of you to prove
the Prophet you have proved Allah azza wa jal. Okay, so you got firm
belief in the Prophet peace be upon him and firm confidence that
the scholars have over the ages have gotten it right. They're not
a straight, like what we would say about the Catholic Church or what
the Protestant say about the Catholic Church that over the
ages, they still got it wrong. No, we don't say that. So, page five
here.
This hadith is from the Prophet peace be upon him there are two
blessings in which many people are cheated. All right, health and
leisure to blessings in which many people are cheated health and
leisure. Alright, what are these two blessing a blessing or a NEMA
is a goodly state? Right, it is something defined as benefit
conferred upon another act of kindness. Okay, so
Allah has given us some rights. What are the rights that Allah has
given us? Everything else is a blessing A Nam? Okay, like the
difference between a right and a gift? Okay. The rights that Allah
has over us, he has said, justice, justice. That's the number one
right so what is Allah's justice? If He created us, then he has the
right to do anything with us, right? But no, Allah says, I have
obligated justice upon myself. Alright, so what is that justice,
that we will never do anything good, okay, we will never do
anything good. Except that Allah will reward us for it. Okay. And
this applies for the Muslim in the gaffer, anyone, nobody does an
ounce of good, except Allah rewards us for. So if it's if he
is, if he's a person of disbelief, he gets his reward in the dunya.
Right. And this is how you understand the benefits. Many all
religious people will will will sing the praises of their
religion. Okay, and tell us my religion. I feel this and I feel
that right. And I feel so good when I go to the temple or the
church or what have you, or whatever. We believe all that
right. So how do we explain that as a Muslim? We do we think as
Muslims that just because they're all false belief
that they're not going to have any feelings when they pray or feeling
good? No, first of all, that the human being just like, if you do
jumping jacks, if you're a criminal, or a saint, if you do
jumping jacks regularly, or you jog, you're gonna feel good,
right? So this is just part of our makeup as human beings. Likewise,
people who aren't believers, likewise, anyone who prays the
prayer itself has a physical benefit to people, okay? And if
people are praying to Allah azza wa jal, he's going to give them
the recompense from that. Okay, he gives him the recompense. Okay.
And the recompense is in the dunya. Our belief is not based on
Feeling good. Feeling good is merely is a big part of it. But
it's not the foundation of why we are Muslims and believers, okay,
we're believers because the Prophet and the Quran have shown
us rationally okay, that any explanation of the Quran or of the
Prophet peace be upon him, other than
okay that this is a word of Allah azza wa jal word of the Creator,
okay. And then Muhammad is the messenger is absurd. You bring me
all the prophecies of the Prophet, you bring us all the information
in the Quran that wasn't at the disposal of anyone in the seventh
century and try to explain it
If the only explanation that is acceptable is that yes there is a
God and this is his profit, okay any other explanation? You dig
yourself in a big hole that is absurd. After we confirm our
belief in this manner then we add the layer of belief that when I
when we are in the man, we feel a Sakina okay, we feel this Akina.
Okay, so our Sakina is one of our goals, right? It's one of the
beautiful things that Prophet talks about the sweetness of
faith, right? But it's not the ultimate proof of religion. The
ultimate proof is through rational proofs. Okay? That's why all
Prophets came with with miracles okay. All prophets came with
miracles at the proof of their prophecy, these are called marches
that but the prophets I send them came with miracles but his chief
way of, of showing his prophecy was through his sayings, right his
prophecies that happened afterwards and through the Quran,
okay. Now also we should know that Allah azza wa jal, he may answer,
answer people who are in need, he answers all people who are in
need. Okay, so one of the Hokku the rights that Allah has upon all
of creation that he said is any good that you do, I will reward
it. Okay. Okay, so this is one of the rights that the hippo the
second, Huck. The second right, is that any person who comes to Allah
azza wa jal say with belief, with belief, okay. Eventually he will
forgive their sins with proper belief, law you should be
okay. This is a harp upon Allah azza wa jal that he will forgive
anyone. Now when when we say that Allah will forgive anyone who
believes. Number one, the question two, we have two questions here.
Number one, what is the belief? And number two?
When Will he forgive? This is the second question. So let's talk
about the first one the belief that's our job right? Whenever the
province I send him says Whoever believes in Allah, or or the Quran
says Whoever believes in Allah and the Last Day, okay, whenever Allah
says this, do you think that that means just those two things? So in
the province I sent him comes and says, Whoever believes in Allah
enters Jana. Okay? What if well, the Jews believed in a lot his
time the Christians believe in Allah is time, right? The
handicrafts there was there were plenty of people who believed in
Allah that but weren't part of any organized religion. They didn't
worship pagans, idols. So are they then accepted? No, that belief is
not acceptable. When the Prophet says believe in Allah or the Quran
says believe in Allah and the Last Day, these are all short for to
believe in Allah and the angels and the books and the messengers
in the last day. Okay, as Allah says coolin M and below when Mala
equity will go to be Rosalie William and this is insurance at
Bacara at the end, everyone believes in Allah Kowloon, Amma
Villa and the angels and the books Malay Could you could you be what
Rosalie and the messengers well yo Mala and the day of judgment. So
when Allah says believe in Allah on the Day of Judgment, it's a
short for believing in all six pillars of Amen and ALLAH SubhanA
wa Tada says, another will may have put a bill email for cut
habita envelope, whoever rejects one pillar of Amen, all of his
deeds are meaningless. So when the province I sent him says and what
Allah says Whoever believes in me, it implies perfect belief in all
of the major things that are in the Quran, okay, and in the
Hadith, okay, all of these things, or else our deeds are pointless.
So this is why studying your beliefs, you got to study your
beliefs. In error, a machete said, if you make an error and Phil,
Phil is the rulings that are outward with the body, you may end
up looking like a fool. But if you make an error in belief, you may
end up going to *. Right? People have to learn they're
updated. So in some justice, Allah says it is hard upon Allah, that
it is an obligation upon Allah, that he will not oppress anyone.
In other words, if you do a good deed, you're gonna get
recompensed. If you were mistreated, right? Someone stole
from you, you will get recompense in this life for the next and then
whoever goes to Allah azza wa jal believing firmly, right properly,
Allah will forgive his sins. Now we have to ask the question. Okay,
of course the province. As Allah said, The only sin Prophet said
the only sin that is unacceptable is to die upon shirk, which means,
how does the Muslim die upon shitting then you're not a Muslim,
right? If you're committed, should you not a Muslim? No Muslims can
commit ship, how it has happened before. intermarriage with pagans
is the main
Reason Muslims commit ship all right, you're a Muslim you married
someone outside of Islam.
Alright, this is why a Muslim man is only allowed to marry a
monotheistic right you're not going to commit shirk. Okay, even
though in the Catholic religion it's some * there. There's
worship of Jesus and Mary, obviously right now
in some of them worship Mary and basically all of them worship
Jesus. So there should there you intermarry with a Hindu. This
happens in Guyana, it's very popular. And then you end up doing
in India, it's also Yanni I don't know if it's as common, but you
end up for the sake of your in laws or your wife end up doing
some rituals and it becomes a regular basis and shirk enters the
household. Maybe it's not something you see every day, but
it's out there. And you go ask anyone in Guyana, they will tell
you yes, this happens all the time. There's like interface
between Muslims and Hindus in Guyana. Okay, so you have this
stuff. Now, let's ask the question now. When does Allah azza wa jal
forgive? So this hadith gives me maybe it's maybe I should just
relax then if Allah says, Anyone who dies believing in me, right,
then I'll I forgive him? Well, don't we all believe in the six
pillars of Eman? We should be fine. But no, the answer is that
when Allah says that he will forgive, it does not mean right
away. There are a number of phases and you can count them on your
fingers as six, six places in which your sins are removed. And
we had better hope, we have better hope that our sins are removed in
the first two of these phases. The first phase is in daily life is in
life. sickness.
Okay, poverty, emotional distress, all hardships in this life, remove
your sins.
Number two, the actual moment of death, the actual moment of death
can be for some people so painful, okay, that it will remove their
sense. So the period before their death, or the actual moment of
that. So like the six months of having stage four cancer before
your death, Allah is removing your sense, okay. And hopefully it
removes before the angel comes, or if not than the actual coming of
the angel and pulling the soul out. If that soul is filled with
sins, then that soul is in trouble. And that removal of his
soul from his body will be as privatized, Selim said, as the
removal of a piece of cotton from the cotton plant. And when you see
the cotton be removed from the cotton plant, right, you know,
it's tearing the cotton up, right? So how does that feel? If someone
tears your soul out of your body? The province I send them said no
one speaks of it because it's so painful, they cannot speak. Okay?
Or it may us this may have been in the Gazette who said this in the
book of remembrance of death. And after that
no one talks about death. Because it's the most painful
moment no one's saying, Oh, I'm I'm in great pain and my soul is
coming out, you can't talk. That's how much pain they're in. Okay. So
this is the second phase, the actual pulling of your soul out of
your body. Number three,
your soul your your sins can be removed in the grave. By being
punished in the grave that you will experience the entire life of
the grave. Okay, you will experience that. You're, you're
you're actually being closed in upon. You are experiencing that
your soil is being put on you that you're trapped. And then your sins
take forms. Of course you're in the Spirit. So you're feeling but
you're actually obviously you're not in the physical body, but
you're feeling this and Allah brings your sins out to you.
Snakes as a province, I said them said snakes with you in the grave.
Okay, other calamities wicked, a fire is lit with you in the grave.
Okay. So inside of the grave, which we call the buzzer, which is
a realm that is of the spirit but not the body. So it's very hard to
talk about. It's very hard for us to conceptualize existence outside
of a body, right and outside of time and space. Okay, so
all we need to know is that in that Bozak
is a period of grave punishment for someone and it's very bad. You
don't want your forgiveness to have to go to the third phase. The
fourth phase is the moment of resurrection.
Right the moment of resurrection is very
that the moment of resurrection is basically for the disbeliever and
the sinner and the one who has issues. It's a calamity, a very
bad calamity. Okay? A very bad calamity that is itself a type of
punishment, and then the fifth phase, okay? The fifth phase
is the actual judgment.
And again, for the believer, it's very simple. It's like two
shortcuts. But for
the one who has issues, he's wandering for ages for years, for
ages in years wandering, and calamities are coming, but his
sins come in the form of calamities. Okay? His sins come in
the form of these calamities, okay. And they attack him, and
he's got to fend himself off from these sins. Okay. So the, this is
a big issue situation. And then finally, still, if someone isn't
purified from their sin, the Muslim believer sound pious
believer, even who prayed, but he has so many sins, he is going to
be thrown in the hellfire, alright, for a minimum of sentence
of 70,000 years, and he should be lucky and pray that someone comes
the prophets I send them or whoever Allah permits to do
intercession for him on that day and pull him out of the fire.
Okay, so there are six phases in which we will be forgiven. All
right, and we had better off hope. Okay, that we're forgiven in the
first phase that our sins are removed from us in the first
phase, okay. This is why, as I say, Whoever ponders upon this
enough, it will actually move this person to go and live on a
mountain, or to resign from life. This is why it has that he said
that it's actually
a golf Allah heedlessness of death is actually like a blessing in
disguise. Because if you are always thinking about death, you
will not you will not live daily life, you will resign from daily
life, you will realize it's not worth it. I had better off live,
just
sit by the wall, do my prayers, eat, pay my bills and just, you
know, not talk to anyone and wait till they die. That's what you do,
if you remember death properly. But
as Ali tells us that people are lucky that they have a little bit
of heedlessness of death, they forget death. So they go on
building up the life in the world. And Allah azza wa jal has wisdom
for that. So all of that all of what we just said, was basically
the explanation of what is Allah's justice? What is his obligation to
us? Because this hadith says, There are two blessings. And the
the corollary of a blessing is an obligation a blessing is something
Allah azza wa jal did not have to give us. But he gave it to us
anyway. And what are these health and leisure? Alright, health and
leisure, most people are wasting their time, okay, and waste their
health, they don't realize one of the ways people waste their health
is by saying, basically, they're going to
do all that they have to do later in life, right later in life. And
what you don't realize you fool, you're going to be too old, you're
not you're going to be too tired. Right? Later in life, you're going
to want to do stuff, you're going to be too tired to do this, right?
So people who want to be recited of Quran, right? And imagine that
when they turn 65 and retire, they're going to wake up and
casually recite three, four Joseph Quran and feel so happy. And so
fulfill that so at peace with themselves, okay, they say this in
their heads. When you turn 65 You're going to be so Old and
crumpled it up. And
I mean, they keep saying 80 is the new set. What is it go 70 is the
new 50 or whatever's every year they're gone? Yeah, this is
because health is advancing. But I mean, in most cases, people get
old, right, they get tired. So
this is one of the ways so I think what we'll do is we'll stop here.
Okay, and we can pick up these reflections in Sharla next week,
and if anyone has any q&a, we've been going for about 2930 minutes
now. So if we could take your comments or questions, you could
just type them in
for the next 10 or 15 minutes. Actually, I think our microphone
is working now. Okay, good. Yeah.
I was taking notes as you were talking, and
I think you just made like some really, really fascinating points,
where I think when we're working as hard as we're working,
especially in the nonprofit sector, where there's like
No time to look up
it's the 60 seconds after so low and you can sit down and like just
do something thicker that is so underrated. It's very hard. Yeah.
But it's such a simple thing to do and it's something so quick and
it's also something that's so grounding. So I think I'm
definitely walking away with that gem from today that that's
something that I need to make that regular part of my life. Yeah,
because I mean, anyone who's ever been pulled out of an exciting
situation, okay, it's very hard you get depressed you're living
exciting a fast paced life and anyone who gets pulled out of it
they usually go into depression because they don't know what to do
right and I think that these 60 seconds five times a day is
actually like you're putting a little penny in the penny bank and
then you're cashing that in as soon as we're pulled out of the
sort of rat race and we have to adjust that's how I think about it
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