Suhaib Webb – Hikam Five Our Efforts Reveal Our Values
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Welcome back, Masha'Allah,
to our
journey through the hikm of Imam Ibnata'allah Skandri.
Let's quickly review what we've gone through so
far. So the first hikm talked about trusting
our deeds in a bad way, what's the
sign of that, that we lose our bearings
when tests come. The second was talking about
emergent religiosity, why I wanna pull away from
things, or I wanna take in things, intake,
outtake.
And if that's not with God, then that
could either mask a hidden desire or could
cause me to fall from a noble station
in my life. The third thing that we
talked about was that my
passion aspirations are not going to pierce
the divine measurement, the aqdah which Allah has
granted me. And then the 5th we talked
about is give ourselves a break, be careful
of anxiety.
So being careful of, you know I know
this is right, this has to be right.
That's one thing that can cause us to
fall away, and that's the internal reliance, yettimad
ara nessi.
And the second part of that, which is
the 5th hekam,
is the opposite, right, is being destroyed
by aspirations that didn't materialize in my life.
And so I think about it and it
causes me depression and I become like, you
know, incapable of functioning to the point that
I lose hope in Allah. So one is
I didn't get what I wanted before it
happened, and I lose hope in Allah. Number
2 is when I look back on it,
and I say, oh man, I really wanted
that to happen, why did this happen? Or
something bad happened to me, and it causes
me to question
Allah
in a way that leads to
losing hope in him. This takes us now
to the 6th hikm, and this one,
oh man, this one is no joke, because
this one is about priorities. What are our
priorities? What are your priorities?
If I say I want the hereafter, there'll
be priorities that align with that.
If I want the dunya, there's priorities that
align with that. So the sheikh he says,
you exerting all your effort
for what has been guaranteed for you.
Fi ma tolibamik,
while you are
having shortcomings,
you are failing
in performing what was commanded of you,
dalilun
adam timasil basiyeotimink
is a sign of your blindness
or shortsightedness.
And what he means is, if you and
I are claiming to live for the hereafter
then our
the vision of our heart, walakan ta'malqullubalati
fisudur is directed toward the hereafter.
But if I'm not working for the hereafter,
then that's a sign I'm either short sighted,
I find hereafter in the dunya, or I'm
blind,
I can't see the hereafter. I'm out of
focus. So one of the lessons of this
hikm is priorities
and balance.
Priorities
and balance. So the sheikh says,
ichdihaduka,
fee ma duminalak.
You exerting all your effort for what's been
guaranteed tea free. What he means is your
risk,
your provisions. Allah says in the Quran after,
ala'adhiillah,
ala Allah Here is Oha, that there's nothing
that walks on the face of the earth
or exists in creation,
except Allah
is in charge of its provisions.
Doesn't mean that we get lazy, doesn't mean
that we don't work hard. Remember the second
hikm, tajrid,
pulling away?
No, we have to work hard for dunya.
If you pay attention,
usually when I read this hikom people get
really uber sensitive.
Because
it's not saying don't work hard for dunya,
It's saying if I work hard for dunya
while
I neglect the hereafter,
that's the problem.
But what if we said this,
You work hard for dunya
and you work hard for akhirah.
You work hard for what's guaranteed for you
and you work hard for the akhirah.
What does he mean by
not using the word duminalak,
the hereafter isn't guaranteed for you, you Allah,
he means
you gotta work for jannah,
jannah ain't guaranteed for you.
You have to push for it, so just
as we work hard for dunya and to
achieve
the fruits of dunya, we should couple that
with working hard for the hereafter.
Wa fidharika falyatana fasil mutana fisoon.
Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala said,
This object which is worthy of competition, compete
for it. Allah
says, watulkal jannatulati,
uhristumuhaabi
ma kuntum ta'maloon
Allah said, this is the jannah which you've
inherited
because Allah has blessed and accepted what you've
done.
What you've done, remember the first hikim, don't
get it confused.
So what this hicom is teaching us is
priorities.
Number 1, if I'm working hard for dunya
and neglecting akhirah, that's a sign of my
shortsightedness.
What if I neglect dunya and work hard
for the ekhara, also that's a sign of
shortsightedness.
What we want is,
We want both.
And he says
because what he means is the halal and
the haram. Do I exert effort
to guard my prayers,
to protect my worship,
to observe the khair, and to stay away
from evil?
So here we learn something from this hikim
insha Allahu ta'ala.
Is a sign of your blindness,
is that we have to have priorities,
and we should focus on our locus of
control, be it by the grace of Allah.
Allah has granted us a locus of control
in our dunya, in our deen,
Let's work on that. Let's
make that work to the best of its
ability. Waqhu Allah says khu and fosakuma aharikum
nala, save yourself and your family from *.
Start there.
Oftentimes we wanna go outside of our locus
of control, that's delusion,
but what we wanna do is
focus on what we've been commanded
and focus on our dunya around us. For
example, building personal wealth and power, not in
a way that leads to oppenus, but that
allows me to protect my family, and to
get my family, for example, access to good
education,
religious education, all that,
at the same time I'm doing that, but
not in a way that sacrifices my akhira.
The point of this hicom is, number 1
is, how can I analyze myself? What am
I working for? What am I not working
for? So it leads to, the idea of
introspection, muhasaba.
Number 2 is, what are my priorities? And
number 3 is balance,
siddhi aham zuruk, and we we we we're
gonna teach this book in the future. He
said, you know, taqdimal ahem alemohim shatno sadiapinafikulishei,
putting
priority in what's really important over what's secondarily
important is the sign of the righteous and
everything. So this hichem,
You working hard for what's been guaranteed for
you.
And you neglecting what has been commanded of
you, Dalilon is an evidence in Timarsi of
the blindness
of your foresight, your spiritual foresight make from
you.