Suhaib Webb – Hikam Two Emergent Religiosity Needs Direction
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The speaker discusses the hiccup in Islam, including a brother's advice to quit college and a disturbing hiccup in people's behavior. They emphasize the importance of deeds and intentions in shaping one's behavior, and the danger of leaving things in one's life without realizing their intentions. The speaker also emphasizes the importance of not understanding deeds and leaving things in one's life without leaving their aspiration. The speaker uses the term "naive" to describe the fall from a desire to create furnishings of life for oneself, and stresses the importance of maintaining a balance betweenics and pleasure to avoid a fall from a higher aspiration.
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Welcome back
to our explanation of the hicom
using of course the shar,
the explanation of Sheikh Abdul Majeed, the sharnobi,
al Madiki, Rahim,
and we reach now the second hicom.
Before we get into it, I just wanna
give you a few stories that would help
understand and illustrate and kind of animate what
this hiccup is talking about. When I first
accepted Islam, I met this brother at a
masjid who told me I should quit college.
So when I asked him why I should
quit college, he was like, you know, man,
you can't be learning from these kufar, blah
blah blah blah blah blah blah. Right? Really
bad advice.
So I went home and I told my
father like, yo,
because of Islam I'm quitting college. My father
was like, you're crazy.
You're insane.
Then my father, he's smart. He said, what
are you gonna do with your life? I'm
gonna hang out in the mosque and play
basketball, man. I mean think about it. Quit
college, hang out in the mosque with the
brothers, eat biryani, play basketball all day. Yo,
that's the life, yo. You know what I
mean? So my father was like okay, who's
gonna pay for you to play basketball
and hang out in the mosque all day?
The mosque, then I gotta pay for that.
Then I was like, oh, man. I didn't
think about that part. And then my father
said, you're not being religious, you're being lazy.
Right? You're not being religious.
This claim of religiosity
is masking
some laziness.
Now listen to this hiccup, and hopefully it
will make sense to you.
Imam Ibn Utta'ala says, iradatukatajareed
ma'aikamatila
The sheikh, he says you want
Iradatuk
is mudaf, the master,
to the mudafun ilay. Yani, enter to read
kedah.
Tajrid.
The word tajrid is from jarwada
ujaredu,
tajared
and tafail and faala yfailu,
which means to peel.
You think about when you peel something, the
peel usually there is for its protection, to
protect it from the elements of the dunya.
So he's saying you wanna peel something.
And what he's talking about is you wanna
peel
the causes that Allah has
manifested for you in your life.
And those causes
in your life protect you and sustain you
just like the peel of a watermelon or
an orange.
SubhanAllah,
man.
And also to peel something you gotta put
in work.
So you're trying, although you can't by the
way, and I can't peel away God's plan
for us,
but we can choose to try to oppose
and that's fura.
So iradatukatajirid
ma'aikamatillah.
You wanna peel away tajirid al asbab.
You wanna peel away the things that Allah
has manifest for you in your life.
Ma'aikamatilla,
while God akamak,
while God has established you in those situations.
Oftentimes
when people become religious they wanna leave everything.
They wanna step away from everything.
They, in fact, tend to see religion as
being synonymous
with just putting everything in the recycle bin
of life.
Sheik is saying
be careful of that.
Religiosity
that's not guided
and religious impulse,
which isn't directed,
can be a problematic thing, man.
Can be a problematic thing. So here the
Sheikh,
the first hicom is talking about the danger
of not understanding your deeds.
The second hicom is talking about the danger
of not understanding
your motives
and your impulses.
So he says, 'irad tuqatajirid
ma'yakamatila
yakafil asbabi
aiyakafi tarqil asbabi
Be careful
of letting those things go from your life
because it may mask
a hidden agenda,
a hidden desire.
Like me, right? I wanna quit college,
hang out in the mosque with the brothers,
play basketball,
and eat freaking biryani.
Who wouldn't wanna do that? That's shahwa kafia.
The reason he says that it's shahua and
kafiyyah is something subtle.
It's not something that's easily discerned
because
usually people do this in the name of
religion.
And when people do things in the name
of religion that are wrong, it's very hard
for them to see they're wrong
because
they're doing it in the name of religion.
So the first part of this hicom
is warning us about
irresponsibly
letting things go
without paying attention
to what Allah has facilitated
for us.
And the sheikh, he says the sign that
Allah wants something for you
is, of course, it doesn't violate Islam.
And number 2, it's easy for you.
And number 3,
you're established in it.
It comes to you easy and you find
yourself that you're established in it.
The next part of this hikam
gives us the balance of impulse
and the balance of motives.
The sheikh, he says, watiradatukal
asbab,
and you wanting
to cause things in your life.
You wanting
to furnish causes in your life that aren't
there.
Even though Allah has established you The word
iqamah is important. That means
your life is cool. You got what suffices
you religiously
and in the
dunya,
Allah has established you,
Be careful.
This is incredible, man.
He says, and you wanting
to create the furnishings of life for yourself,
even though Allah has already sufficed you,
be careful.
Be careful
of leaving taqatajirid.
Leaving the life, the simple life that Allah
has given you.
Leave the peel where it is
because you may
fall from
a higher aspiration.
Like if you start going for dunya, you
may have Inhitaht. And the word Inhitaht,
subhanAllah, the sheikh uses the same word that's
used to describe the fall of our father
and mother from Jannah. All
of you get out.
And in the Quran it's interesting, I heard
this from Sheikh Ahmediye
that sometimes Allah says, you
too Adam and his wife get out. In
other places,
all of you get out because we were
in the loins of our parents.
We all fell from Jannah. So here the
sheikh is saying, you have a good life,
your deen is tight, your dunya is tight,
you have what suffices you.
And you start to think man, the grass
is greener on the other side, so you
may
sacrifice your relationship with Allah
and the balance that you have in the
dunya
to go for something else, and that may
cause you to fall
from a greater aspiration,
which is jannah and simplicity.
The prophet said,
like simplicity is from faith.
This happened to me when I was in
Al Azhar.
I was there in my thirties, my early
thirties.
And I remember I saw this show, like
what 30 year olds are doing nowadays. And
I was in Eshar, I had less than
$500
in my savings account. I was broke.
And, you know,
I started watching this show and I was
like, yo, I should quit SR. I should
go back to America. I should get a
master's degree.
And I should go work in an office
like all other 30 year olds. Like Jim
and Pam. You know what I'm saying?
And then I got a phone call from
someone that offered me a job to translate
things in Egypt, which paid
in Egyptian
Egyptian terms about the same.
Then I realized like stuff for Allah man,
what am I doing? Like I'm here, this
is where Allah has put me in my
life, this is what I'm good at, this
is what I do well,
so let me just ride the wave. Because
imagine if I left that and went for
the office job. That doesn't mean office jobs
are bad. If you're good at an office
job,
don't go to Eazar.
See what I'm trying to say here? Maintain
that balance.
So the sheikh, he says
You wanting to peel away the things that
Allah has given you after Allah has established
you there, be careful that may mask a
hidden agenda, a hidden desire.
And you wanting
to furnish your life with asbaab after Allah
has sufficed you, causes means asbaab causes,
after Allah has sufficed you
with the life that you have, be careful
because
avoiding that simple life that Allah has given
you may cause you to fall
from a higher
aspiration.