Suhaib Webb – Hikam Three Passions Don’t Equal Power

Womani waalaasalamu

Alaikum, Warahmatullahi

wa barakatu.

Welcome to the hikum of Imam ibn

Ask Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala and

We

We ask Allah to grant us truly religious

upright wisdom. We reach now the 4th hikm,

and as you recall I said that the

first 15 hikm

address things that can come between us and

God. So the first one is our deeds,

like how do I understand my deeds? How

do I understand utility? How do I understand,

actions in this world, and I don't fall

into delusion or regret?

The second is the religious,

emergent religiosity,

where I want to pull away from things

where God has put me, that creates a

lot of harm in my life and the

life of others, or I want to over

furnish myself

where Allah has sufficed me, that also can

create harm not only to others around me,

but my hereafter.

Both of them. Both of them. So

don't be extreme in your religion trying to

go too hard, and the other would be

like,

to be rafil.

Ghafilun an amri, right? To be negligent

of affairs.

So between negligence

and hyper

irrationality and extremism is the sunnah, is the

sunnah. And now that takes us to,

the 4th,

and that is,

I'm gonna read it to you and then

we'll explain it. The sheikh, he says,

the word,

you know, Musaabaqa is a race, so sawabeqalhimam

is

the

aspirations

that I have which are extremely passionate and

competitive.

And actually it should be al alhimam asawabik,

there's a reason he did this in Arabic,

we'll talk about that in rhetoric.

Iblafa tasifalmossof,

it's like really cool why he did this,

but it's hard for me to explain it

now. And it'll take us into a different,

different area that we don't want to go

at the moment, but just remember this. My

teacher used to tell me sometimes

I say things you don't understand, because later

on in the neighborhood of knowledge, we're gonna

pass by that house, we're gonna pass by

that residency, and you'll have a little familiarity

with it. So remember that Sawabirk Ol Himem

should be Al Himem As Sawabirk,

but the sheikh

is plain in the language.

And if you think about it, if you're

Arab, it's interesting he uses sabbik first, and

then himmam, because Mosabaka means to be first.

There's a lot happening in the language there.

The sheikh has bars, mashallah. Fasawabiqulhimam,

you

know this passionate,

passionate drive that you have. La tuqriqul

aswarul aqdar.

Cannot pierce, la tuqriq.

Khara means to pierce like clothing. If I

rip this clothing, if I rip this shirt

and there's a hole in it, Uh-uh,

al Khamisa, like

I ripped it, right, so I ripped it,

so

here he's saying Latuhliq,

your

passionate aspirations

cannot rip open a hole,

aswar al aqdar,

in the

fences and walls

that surround

qaba

and qadr,

what has been granted to you in this

life,

your measurement. Aladiqaad

Dara Fahada.

Gubah is the divine decree,

qadr is the measurement of that decree.

I will explain, people sometimes misunderstand

the hadith that dua can change,

Adr.

Adr is known

to Allah, was known to Allah, and will

always

be known to Allah. It can change it

from our perspective,

but it's known to Allah. Talk about that

in the future, but here, Sawaybiqulhimami

latukhriqul

aswaralaktar

That your

passions,

no matter how, you know,

how how deep those

those goals that you have

are invested and planted in your competitive passion,

that's not going to pierce the fortress of

what Allah has decreed for you.

Man, this is incredible because one of the

things that comes between us and God, and

we will never admit it, but our actions,

to send

this is that

sometimes we don't want what God has given

us.

In goodness, we've been commanded as we'll talk

about in the future, if what God has

given us is bad, or evil, or goes

against the Sharia, we are commanded to oppose

that. That's resilience.

That's resilience.

We'll talk about that in the future.

What we're talking about now is,

in the areas of the permissible,

in the areas of my life, like I

want to get into this grad school so

bad, I work super hard for it, I

write everything, I do everything, it doesn't happen,

oh man I'm angry at God. Why are

you angry at God?

Or I really wanted to marry this person,

it didn't work out, like do you think

God hates me? Why would God hate you?

Hashtag you ain't that important.

Or I'm may Allah protect us, I'm sick,

or I'm struggling, or I have certain issues

in my life that bother me.

I allow that to erode

my faith in God,

and think about the first hicom,

mina'aramat,

i'timad, a'alalamal.

The sign that you've

trusted your deeds here, it's minaalamat

i'timad alalamek.

So the first dealt with our outward actions,

and now in the 4th hicom,

the 3rd hicom, he's talking about resting on

our emotions.

You know to be a good Muslim demands

incredible emotional intelligence,

because we have to trust that trauma is

from God. We have to trust that good

is from God, and we know that it's

from God, but we trust that there's something

good there for us. Wa'asa

Something's good for you, you love it, it's

bad for you, you hate it, it's good

for you, Allah knows and you don't know.

So what he's saying here is, Sawaybiqulhimamlatuhriqul

aswalaaqdar.

Don't allow

your

your desires, and your aims, and your goals,

which are rooted in this competitive passion.

If they don't happen, don't let that frustrate

you.

Aqdar, because you don't have the ability to

do that for yourself.

Leave it to Allah

and trust Allah You La Mumani Khalaqa

Doesn't Allah know better

his creation than you and I? He created

us,

Subhanahu wa ta'ala.

So there's a lot happening in this Hikmah,

Hikam, but something that's really beautiful, the Sheykh

he says, wafihi tashbih al aqdari bi madinah

lahaaswarung

fisiyalati

walhifti ara sibilin Makniya

We'll learn this in rhetoric, but this is

a form of comparison called isti'aral Makniya where

he is making us see the image,

tajsid al afkar, the goal of rhetoric in

Arabic oftentimes is what's called tajsid al afkar,

to give a thought,

a body, a physical image. So he's saying

here is,

if you want to imagine

your passion,

and how it's going to impact the outcome

of things,

you know what, it's like trying to pierce

a impenetrable

fortress,

and the impenetrable

forces fortress is what Allah's plan is for

you. So don't allow your passions,

if they don't

materialize

to cause you to give up.

Also, if your passions do materialize,

don't be deceived by that. Very similar to

the first hicom, the lesson here now is

internal

reliance.

Instead of reliance on my deeds now, I'm

relying on what I think is right,

what I think is right, and there's a

lot, you know, that can come from this

hikm, I mean,

it's it's mashallah, mashallah, extremely, extremely, extremely powerful,

extremely beautiful. So we'll stop here inshallah, we'll

pick up with the next one,

inshallah. Barakallahu fikaum, assalamu alaykum