Suhaib Webb – Imam alSuyuti’s Introduction to Orthodox Sufism Part Two
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The segment discusses various topics related to Islam, including the importance of understanding and passion in achieving spiritual growth, following guidance and creating voluntary acts to avoid "monster" and avoid "monster" in order to achieve success. The importance of following Islam's guidance and creating voluntary acts to avoid "monster" and avoid "monster" is emphasized, as well as the importance of fear and hope in bringing people into depression and the cycle of negative thinking. The segment also touches on Facebook and Instagram, as well as a young woman who was a victim of a recent death and a young woman who was a victim of a recent death.
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Let's now continue hamdulillah our reading of Imam DARIAH of Imam
Sina acidity, Rahim Allah Tada and we said that this book actually is
perhaps better titled like as practical to sell off, and let's
quickly just review what we covered last time so Bismillah
Alhamdulillah wa salatu salam ala signal Nasri la Imam acidity. He
begins by introducing what the word to Seoul is and he gives the
definition of Imam Al Ghazali. And you can see it here. Toledo Calbee
de la hito at your car merci WA.
Today Toledo can't be de la heitaro Had your car Oh mercy,
right that sofas to integer need to generate means that you like
peel something away. So to solve his district, if you will,
everything from the heart for the sake of Allah subhanaw taala the
most high while the most high while debasing everything else
accepting that we talked about some of the criticisms of this
definition in particular, and noted that this definition was of
course, the definition of Mohamed El azalea Rahim Allah and I gave
other definitions of the soul with which perhaps are more balanced
and much more nuanced. So anyone to RF will be he was able to see
it in the force. The knowledge which contains the rules and ideas
which are in practices, which allow us to test Kia the word test
Kia means to purify and grow. So to ski it is not an abnormal
growth seems like a cancerous growth. To Ischia means something
that grows in a positive beneficial way it's pure in its
growth. That's why we say best cat for example, in Salta, Katha Yun
or AU her as Cal timer, right find the most pure food so to Ischia.
You can see it here this word is synonymous with growth in purity.
So the growth and purification of the heart while Sfia, two o'clock
and the word toss, fear means to purify, so purifying and improving
character. With Tammy, it'll vital to Balton. And last time also we
talked about in classical text, what is meant by law here and
Balton over here means the outward acts of worship the science that
deals with that it's filled a lot and deals with the emotional
states of people and the state of their soul. And the science for
that is to solve so Phillip is the science of the limbs to solve is
the science of the inner the heart. And of course at times
there's going to be intersectionality between the two
often for example, every major act of worship has a Nia Nia is the
science of the soul woof and the act itself is the science of fit
so you can see how mashallah they come together and work together.
Why the Navy sad will ever do to achieve eternal happiness of
course, which means in the hereafter. Imam Al koshary one of
the early Imams have to solve he said the whole the whole fee
Cooley whole open Sunni Ian will horo Zhu Min hole open Dhoni and
there should be an added flam here in front of the whole by the way.
So it is a whole whole the whole
thing equally whole thing a whole lot in sand Ian while Horos women
whole Lachlan Danny and so it is to enter to embrace and and and
live every noble characteristic which is a pure characteristic and
to evacuate or to remove oneself from lowly character unruly
characters and then we spent some time talking about the idea that
is to solo Vida and we talked about sometimes how religious
passion without being anchored in knowledge can be a problem just
like being anchored without religious passion as a knowledge
we want to have both right. So having knowledge without passion
is love Adobe ally him having passion without knowledge
knowledge is Abideen. So the person who brings together the
emotional components and the knowledge base components
mashallah This is Alladhina and Mr. Lavalle Him those who are lost
pantalla has favorite and we mentioned this beautiful couplet
of and what's gonna be Rahim Allah. And then we talked about
the importance of knowledge fowl and the hula either Illallah who
was still fairly them big word meaning me near to Allah or Yeah,
then we'll talk about a common myth welcome. This verse inshallah
Muhammad. And I think even a better translation, to be honest
with you, of this is learn with an exclamation mark, like learn that
there is no God except Allah, you must learn. So here's the
knowledge. Here's the creed. Here's the practice. And within
this practice is still far for the newb is the purification of the
heart. So if you think about this verse, actually, we don't have
time to talk about it now. It contains the foundations of Islam,
amen. And so
Sam Subhanallah and then we mentioned this nice quote of
Sophia and authority about the importance of learning before
action. And then we talked about the word of Vida. And we noted
that there has traditionally been two schools of thought on Vida and
we gave you the majority opinion of Sunni scholars, noting that, of
course, terms generally do not fall under the purview of Buddha.
And then we begin the actual text and the first nine steps of this
text are really meant to shape certain basic practices that you
and I can do to begin to work on improving our Balton our
interstates we know that the Interstate is very important ALLAH
SubhanA wa Tada says in the Quran after I was availa him in a
shaitana regime, but the F la Hammond Zakka right indeed
successful is the one who works and in seeks to purify and grow
and cultivate his or her soul and soul to allow airflow Harmon to
Zeca you know, indeed, and here the form of the verb is even more
aggressive. Indeed successful is the person who like rigorously
burdens themselves to try to improve their soul. And we learn
something very beautiful. In verses of the Quran that talks
about working on the heart working on the soul working on improving
the outer or the inner, that usually the verb employed is a
verb that means you have agency I have agency, a better way of
saying that is that you and I have responsibility because sometimes
we find people fall into fatalism. Oh, I'll never be better. You
know, God has decreed for me to be like this. I'm so bad, blah, blah,
blah. But the verbs that are used in the Quran constantly,
in the context of worship and spiritual growth, are verbs that
allow us to see that we are responsible. So for example, when
Lavina TEDCO Zedd, whom who the to whom taco at home.
Alessia is the one who is teda, the one who seeks guidance, the
one who works for guidance, the same form as to Zeca. Right, the
person insulted the person who seeks to purify his or herself,
the person who works hard to find guidance Zedd, whom we increased
demand guidance. So there's a few points that I'd want to touch on
before we get started. And that is you can and I heard this from who
says follow Solomon. If you look at the beginning of psalter,
Baqarah, verse 30, through 37, and the story of Adam, there are four
really important tools that will help us as we think about being
responsible for our spiritual growth. Spiritual growth in Islam
is not something beyond your ability. It's under what's called
Tech leaf whether you call it for law or nevsun ELO's the first and
we're only going to talk about a few of them is to think about how
Allah subhanaw taala
made knowledge and the religious knowledge key to our steps towards
Allah. Allah says in the outlet
I know what is kept away from you. I know what is tucked to mourn
what you've hidden. So we become aware that Allah knows all things
then we are aware that Allah knows what's in our outer and our inner
then we begin to trust Allah's teachings and how we should work
on Enter.
Number two, and this gets into the idea of feeling like oh, I can't
do anything, you know, I don't have the ability. Very
beautifully. Allahu subhanaw taala in Salta, Baqarah. For Sajid, the
melodica makes a Jew to Adam
and there's something profound in that that means that everything
around you Allah subhanaw taala has made at your service and given
you the ability to use it for Allah. So Allah says that humbly
lay horrible Alameen so the world around us Allah subhanaw taala
generally has made it for us to use to serve him Sahaja Murthy
somewhere to a mouthful, odd. Allah says everything we have
subjugated for you. So the Malacca even the angels, the second
greatest creation of God, right are prostrating to us as a
reminder that we have the resources spiritually and
physically, to be utilized to worship and serve alone to create
and increase our spiritual capacity. We're going to talk
about that later today. The third I'm not gonna mention all four
because the other one is E bliss. And that's a different discussion,
but the third is just as Allah subhanaw taala ordered the
physical and material to be in subjugation to us look, Isla
IBLEES like all the angels prostrated for sogetsu they are
frustrated to Adam and by default us because in the Quran, Allah
says so wanna come and we created you what's our on that come from?
upon their little mother, you get to stoolie Adam, Allah mentions
that in the context of Adam, this is beautiful. Allah created all of
us, and he shaped all of us and then the tense changes and he said
to Adam, as if to say all of us are in the story of Adam.
All of us are in this covenant with Adam. This is a change in
tense in Arabic is very beautiful. Lt. FET. The point is, Allah
mentions we created you, we shaped all of you. We said to Adam, as if
to say all of you are in the story of Adam, all of you share in this.
So the last point being, again, responsibility. The last point
being that Allah says Fatah demo mill Roby, he can imagine fatale
just as Allah subhanaw taala ordered the Malaika to make so due
to Adam, he also provided Adam with what he needed for the bath.
And this is the point I want you to understand. The malaika and the
physical world are what we need to succeed in our own material life,
but also on the same page, verse 37, he orders
the words of Toba to come to Adam.
So just as He commanded the angels to make so do to Adam, he
commanded the words of repentance to come to Adam. So Allah has
provided us with the inner and the outer through his supreme
knowledge. There's actually a different Quran, the Quran of Imam
even cathedra McKee, who said Fatah dama mele, rugby caddy men
tune not Fattah la demo that's Hudson Anson. This camera is very
beautiful Fatah oedema mill Rabhi. He can't imagine which means the
words of Toba came to Adam,
that the words of repentance came to Adam it he set out to serve
them, as though ALLAH SubhanA wa Taala order ordered the words of
Toba to come to Adam through a means of inspiration and he
repented to Allah. The point here on this page of Salta Bacara,
verse 3237, is the physical world in the spiritual world have been
commanded by Allah subhanaw taala Anna, to be at our service. So you
shouldn't feel like oh, I can't do this. I'm so bad. And we should be
careful of teachers that make us feel that way. We should feel that
we're inspired hamdulillah so in this first nine steps, Imam
assiduity Rahim Allah Allahu taala, who we talked about last
time, is going to give us nine practical acts as well as ideas
that are fundamental in increasing our spiritual capacity. So after
his introduction and defining the soul he says for RKB law fija meet
he had attic B and Tibet a Be Fit idle Farah Ed, what token will
haramaty summon our fill one micro hat? Again, I'm going to I'm going
to read it and I'll underline it for you. So you can follow me says
fall keybie la vie, Jamie had a tick, then you must make Morocco
but you know the little Kuba this is really an interesting word,
though. Cool, that is a woman and may Allah protect us all, who in
ancient times, she lost all of her children except one.
So she's totally cool, but have you ever Can you imagine how
protective she will be of that child? That word to describe that
protective state is maraca and the word to describe her is oral Kuba.
So our relationship with Allah subhanaw taala and being mindful
of Allah mindfulness is at that intensity ideally felt Aki be let
her feed me he had a tick, be mindful of Allah in all of your
states. And someone may ask how how does that happen? How can I be
mindful of Allah and that's why he uses this this B here which is a
super important word b n today by starting the fit a little follow
it with the obligations what Terkel Muhammad and leaving the
forbidden sama and now I feely and then establishing the voluntary
acts. While macro had a token, Makoto hat and then by leaving the
dislike thing, so this first Masha Allah part of the book, Imam asuci
is giving us a very practical way to start our relationship with
Allah to begin with the obligations to avoid the Haram and
then to build on the obligations by doing voluntary acts, and then
to build on avoiding the Haram by taking it to another level to what
avoiding the macro had disliked my teacher used to say to me that the
Nawab Phil and the macro hat, voluntary acts and disliked acts
are like the moats
or like the protective security around the obligations is the no
fly and around the muck around the Haram because if
You've established the voluntary acts, and you're avoiding the
mcru. When shaitan comes, he's going to attack those first. So
you've kind of created this fortress around yourself. And then
we spend some time explaining that and of course we know that this
very beautiful Hadith which everyone should know and we should
teach this especially to people, new Muslims and others, that the
Prophet satellite Some said that Allah Who Subhana wa Taala said,
Man, ideally what Ian, whoever opposes one of my friends felt
better than to Bill harden. I declare war against that person.
Here's the part that lays out the foundation that Satan a co2
mentioned above, while Mr. Tucker Robert E Lee appdb che in a
heartbeat Elijah Mee Mee Mee Mee, mee Mathura to ally that a servant
will not come closer to me meaning ALLAH with anything more beloved
to me, then establishing the obligations, mythology to Ali
masala to formulate those things which like I have declared as
being fought while areas. Abdi Yetta, caribou Isla, you have been
our very hectic and a person will continue to come close to me with
the Nawab, Phil until I love that person. So here we see in this
hadith, the blueprint that he provided up here is supported by
that text and this is why I love this book in particular because
Imam acidity is a scholar of Hadith, and Tafseer. So he's
constantly bringing these things into the discussion.
The second point so after first is in here there are two steps right
the first step is to establish to follow it and then the second is
to establish the voluntary so that's one and two.
The third step is what if somebody struggles to obey Allah like
sometimes you know one time a man he came to say the Muhammad
Sallallahu it was so let me said in a shut up Al Islam, you're
careful, right? You know, he said, now there's so many things to do.
It's very difficult for me What can I do? The Prophet said, lays
out all the Seneca to Bobby decree law, you know, just make thicker.
So sometimes it's hard right to to stay up on all of the acts of
obedience and especially if we're talking about emergent
religiosity. So Imam assuta gives us a third step. And this is
something that we should be doing all the time. He says, What can it
TMM UK? Well, that can at Malmo could be Turkey noon, he assured
Dominus fairly more, he said, make sure that if you can't do the acts
of worship, at least, leave the prohibited,
at least avoid the prohibited and, and this idea of leaving the
prohibited is found in a very important principle of Islamic
law. It's this principle now that we're using to tell people not to
go to the masjid during the Coronavirus. It's this principle
that's being used to help people modify how they're observing
Jeunesses and this is Dr. Matthias Asad Gula, Minh, our main job and
masala, that preventing harm is first before achieving benefit. So
like if if I can't achieve the benefit of doing good, at least
let me not do evil.
And he's saying this is the minimum starting point that start
by dealing with evil and then scale to the point where you can
do the good, you can do the good.
I find that extremely important because oftentimes, people come
back to Faith with a lot of sin, so maybe the best good deed they
can do is to leave evil, right.
And then here we find this
important statement that some scholars mentioned in the past.
I wish this would work.
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Which means like if you're not able to worship Allah subhanho wa
taala, then at least
at least Don't disobey Him.
Allow him to take an a LM total Pilla, our LM in LEM total and
taboo Allah for Allah Tasi you know, if you if you don't have the
ability to to obey Him, and then at least Don't disobey Him and of
course that disobedience is a form of obedience mashallah also
there's a hadith that supports the idea of avoiding evil right first
and then performing good the Prophet satellite some said Man, I
hate to come fudge, Tony abou any man to hate to command who should
be and who here.
First Tony
Who am I I'm about to come be he felt follow men whom I still talk
to him. So whatever I have prohibited you abandon it, we have
this very important axiom of Oslo, Finland where he each T NAB that
the foundation of anything that's Haram is you must immediately do
your best to avoid it. While us will fill our MF you still die.
And the foundation of of orders is ability is still thought. The
Quran says very beautifully. For Allah muster da tone, fear Allah
as best you can. That's also important for like Imams,
teachers, people involved in data, make sure that you know the
ability of the people you're speaking to hottie Bonez Padre
okoli him. That's why the Prophet salallahu alayhi wa sallam, when
people will come to him and ask him, Are you a model of the what's
the best action? He has a different answer every time it's
not because there's a contradiction. It's because he
understands the ability of the questioner. Look at the hadith of
statement A B sallallahu alayhi wa sallam related by Imam Abu Dawood.
When a young man asked him, Can I can I engage in foreplay with my
wife during Ramadan? And the Prophet said no. And the elderly
man said, what about me? He said, Yes, ma'am. I need a Hanafi great
scholar, he said because the Prophet understands to hurry John
Mala to attack the Illuminati, he understands as as the move the the
needs of those two people are very different. The ability that is
still thought of both of them, when it comes to their libido is
very different. So doing good is based on ability, but leaving evil
is a must. So that's why I say not a SUTI Rahmatullah Lee says, Look,
if you can't, if for some reason, you don't have the ability that
you still by to obey Allah, at least, Don't disobey Him. Somebody
asked me, What is still da, what is the ability to find as in
Islam, it's defined under five areas that maybe someone in the
comments and YouTube can write because this is very important.
Again, when we talk about the idea of ministry and serving the
community, it's very important that we understand who we serve.
So the first one is still Torah, is the ability to understand good
and evil, that someone can moralize between good and evil. So
if somebody doesn't understand good and evil, of course, we're
not going to have the same expectation for them. This also
impacts people with Alzheimer's people with dementia people with
OCD, sometimes in the sense that the mental capacity for cognition
is impacted by something. Here we have what's called a more sharp
potentially bootay See, or we should be easy with these people
and kind. The second component of ability is the physical ability.
So the Prophet saw some said for ylim and testator and to suddenly
our human facility Jellison if you can't pray, standing, pray
sitting. So understanding now the physical ability of a person now
some people contacted me and their family has this horrible disease
may Allah protect us and give us a cure? Can they pray, you know,
sitting in their bed of course Subhanallah even if they can make
will do, they can make TMO
the third is the emotional and psychological health of a person.
That also has to be there Allah says Allah in odia Allah healer
homophone ally him what a home. Yeah, Zanna? Are you aware of the
psychological trauma maybe of someone that you're serving? Are
you aware of their psychological needs? Are you're aware of what
language may trigger them? The Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa
aalihi wa Sahbihi said And why does he banned people using the
word Yathrib? He changed his name from Yathrib to Medina because
Yathrib brings with it a history of trauma.
So here we see the prophets I some he cares about the emotional
health of the people the process and said if you love somebody, you
have to tell them sallallahu alayhi wa sallam if the prophesy
son forbid people to walk around with their swords exposed, because
they may harm somebody. What about emotional harm sallallahu alayhi
wa sallam, and the last Subhana wa Tada in the Quran. After the
Battle of ahead, we know the Sahaba they were very depressed
and sad. Allah says, I saw the homeless in the Riveter said in
the house and asked him the meaning of this era is that they
were afflicted by external pain. But the narration of Satan is
Shaba the other student of Imam Osem from the seventh
surah in Accra at Asaba, homeless, poor and poor means they were
impacted by an internal pain. So here I'll remove both. So we see
that Allah subhanaw taala is not only concerned with the physical
well being of the believers, but also he's concerned about their
emotional and psychological health Subhanallah and that's why in fact
what we have an axiom that tilaka will develop left o'clock you're
not allowed to get fat when you're
angry, and the Prophet sallahu wa Tada blah, don't act on anger,
don't act on anger don't act on anger. So the fourth is that a
person who may suffer psychologically or emotionally, we
have to take a third excuse me, we have to take this into
consideration. I'll give an example. A woman came to me a few
years ago, and she said that she told me that she hadn't broken her
fast for six days, for four days, excuse me. I said, subhanAllah why
in the month of Ramadan, she said, because when I was young, my
mother used to call me fat. And my mother used to take me even when I
was 13 years old, she took me to Jenny Craig, La Hawla, wala Quwata
illa biLlah. And we have to be very careful with our children,
especially our young girls, that we don't reinforce this
construction of beauty as constructed by largely wet white,
Western European and American understandings of beauty. We're
destroying them. Subhanallah so she told me when I fast it
triggers my anorexia. So what should I do, I told her eat in sha
Allah get the help you need and then you can make up those days in
sha Allah to Anna but here is how emotional psychological realities
impact her ability to perform the obligations. The last two is that
someone knows l l. They know that they've been informed. Allah says
in the Quran, the 15th verse of the 17 Chapter, woman couldn't
name why the being had done that but I thought are similar. You
know, we don't punish people till we send a prophet to them. Look in
look in the story of Satan and Musa when he takes his people from
Egypt. They were in bondage for so many years Subhanallah they have
Stockholm Syndrome. They love their oppressors. And they're a
traumatized community. We should begin now when we talk about
tafsir when we talk about like Adam leaving paradise, that was a
very stressful moment to use have in the bottom of the well, Ibrahim
in the fire, right? The people the followers of Satan and Musa they
are traumatized, we should begin to also analyze their emotional
situations. It's very obvious that they are traumatized and they
actually love their oppressor. They love their colonizer. So
their their their their excuse me their oppressor. So, when they saw
a group of people making idols, what did they say? After they had
been emancipated? Jelena ILA and Camilla home area can you make for
us idols? Musa he doesn't tell them your kuffaar even though this
is Cofer
to ask to make idols as a former aquifer, he says in common touch
your head on your ignorant people, Ella overall bill Jerry. So look
at the Prophet he doesn't condemn them and kick them out of Islam
and cast him from the religion, but he recognizes the fact that
they need to learn. So the overall bill generally. And then the last
is that there are no existential things that cause someone to have
to modify or leave an obligation, an obligation. For example, now,
the Janessa you know, the way that we perform the jazz Janessa called
to spittle for it right. And also then filk has changed because we
can all gather together and watch the body now. And we can all
gather together to bury the body. So again, when we say that doing
acts of worship are based on istilah ability, ability means the
following. Number one, the ability to moralize number two, the
physical and financial ability like Hutch for example, number
three, the emotional and psychological health. Number four
is that the person knows about it. And number five, that they're
they're not being impacted by the external reality here and now as a
Dalia, if someone is involved in Dawa, or a sheikh or any mmm,
these are the rubrics that you need to use when you're looking at
people and trying to help them and serve them. Well, Allahu Allah.
Now that takes us to the fourth and this is where we stopped. And
the theme of the fourth step is what to live a life of purpose.
How to live a life of purpose. Allah subhana wa Tada says in the
Quran, you know, mahalo kind of semi word, he will adore him by
you know whom bow tila. Allah said we didn't create all this for
nothing. And we know that insult was there yet Allah says one man
Hello Cthulhu in our is Ilya boo. Maori Roman home risk one. What do
you do in Utah Amon. Allah says, We created gentlemen to worship
Me, a Leon bordoni To worship me. And sometimes we find people.
Yesterday I have a class I teach Monday, Wednesday and Thursday for
13 and 15 year olds martial arts for free through Swiss my school,
and Subhanallah that's one of the things that came up. We have 1000
Young people registered in that course. Ma sha, Allah Subhan Allah
because they're all home.
And they said to me, you know, like Allah created, it's just to
pray.
Like Allah created us just to fast. I said, No, no, no, no, no,
that's not
not the meaning of any bad so then I asked him, How do you define
worship or their definitions of worship were very myopic.
Oftentimes people confuse the general understanding of EBA with
the understanding of the Folk Aha, the Stila Hillfolk fuqaha masala
Al Faqih, and Fettke. Of course, in FIQ, most of the Ulama have
felt that they defined a Betta as prayer, fasting hedge, and sucker.
But broader scholars defined to eat betta, Coloma you hippo hula
hota Allah we all die is everything Allah loves.
The that's very profound. Because the Quran makes it very clear that
Allah loves all good and good as mashallah infinite. So Satana a
SUTI Rahim Allah, he now teaches us the key to living a life of
purpose a life of worship. He says what enter Fillmore bear he
believes
that when it comes to the permitted things, it's your
choice, what it means it's your choice, a talk, I will fail. It's
your choice to do them or not. So earlier he talked about the
obligations, you got to do them as best as you can the prohibited you
must avoid them. Now he's going to talk about the permissible and if
you understand Islamic studies, you see what acidity is doing.
He's actually walking you through filled with to Soloff. So to solve
his married to Fick, so he didn't get in some kind of weird
psychological discussion. He said no, here's the wajib here's the
Haram here's the MOBA. Here's the macro here's the now I feel as
though he's taking you through the filter of the soul if he's keeping
to so with married to the Shediac and that's why this text is really
nice and very practical. So he's what enter Phil MOBA. He believes
we are you know when it comes to the permissible it's your choice,
you want to play fortnight with your kids, you can you want to go
play basketball, you know, these are things you want to go shop and
whatever this is, be your choice. But then he says what in this
should be in what in a way to be he a BA, our tell us Sula, Elijah,
I will khalfan al haram. For Hassan
this part is really beautiful, Masha, Allah man, it's really
nice. And it teaches us the
way to live a life of purpose. Because if we can all live Islam
by doing the obligations and avoiding the Haram, the majority
of our life is to permissible so the majority of our life wouldn't
be for Allah.
But here say not a SUTI Rahim Allah this word, an await meaning
if you made Nia with your MOBA, be he a bill, a MOBA.
If you made intention with the the permissible things that you do
like basketball, playing video games, with your friends, going to
the mall, whatever sleeping, if your intention through that, for
example, community service
is obedience, or you're using it to achieve worship a bar so I use
the MOBA to help me in worshiping Allah like sleeping, like eating,
or I use the MOBA to stop me from haram. For example, physical
relationships with one spouse, right, ideally should be a way to
control their sexual urges. For Hassan, than that's good. So what
he's saying he's touching on a very important principle in Sunni
thoughts, especially with the majority of folk Aha, is that the
permissible if you make an intention to establish obedience
to God with them, or you use them to achieve the obedience of Allah,
or you use the permissible to keep you from haram, then you will be
rewarded as though that is an act of worship, Allah will reward you
for it. And that's why in the Quran, Allah calls the people who
make intention a lot, a lot of ravine because they are close to
meaning close, close to God through their intentions. So their
life now becomes a life of purpose. Their life now becomes a
life of meaning through a Nia now we can appreciate the statement of
Satan in the beasts on Allah hottie was a lemma in Amara metal
vignette. And that's why the prophets Allah is somebody said,
the Buddha sadaqa you know, every time you have a physical
relationship with your spouse, this is a charity.
And when they asked him said Allah, he was Sanoma
Is there a charity in sexual relations? He said, Yeah, because
if you did it in the Haram, you'd be punished. So the opposite of
the Haram is you'd be rewarded. satellites that I'm this what we
call in filming.
In the future, we can talk about it more formal Mahadeva so the
opposite so if you were to do this and it was haram, than its
opposite, inshallah would be halal and be rewarded sallallahu alayhi
wa sallam. Thus in your daily affairs, if you couple them
with an intention, it is an opportunity
there is, if you couple them with an intention, there is an
opportunity for you to live your life for a law and to expand your
talents and services to others in a way that transcends the worldly
benefits. Look how beautiful Islam is. It allows you to simply move
beyond a paycheck, right to simply move beyond the restrictions of
the world. Through your intention, you can turn these permissible
things into blessings in this life in the hereafter Allahu Akbar,
Allahu Akbar. And that's why I'm so humbled when his son came to
him. And he said, LC Nia, give me advice. He said, and we, he said,
always have a good intention. Like everything you do try to have an
intention, sha Allah and you know, that's something that requires
work. But it's a very practical thing. You know, you want to go
work out today. I went and ran I haven't been out. And almost a
week I went and tried to run I would call it more like a crawl.
But I was like, I make intention to do this so that I can like pray
more. You know, I'll be healthy. So the MOBA
either no way to be he or TA, our tawassul Isla a PA, our cuff, Anil
Mohammed for Hassan, then that's a good thing, Mashallah. That's a
good thing. So even keto, you know, I'm saying if you want to do
keto, we try to get in shape, stay healthy for the sake of Allah,
even with the right intention, and my experience in life. I'm not
that old. But I ain't that young either, is that when we do those
kinds of things, there's Baraka there's blessing, mashallah,
Mashallah. Mashallah, the first step is that we should be aware of
our shortcomings. So after we've established the obligatory acts,
and we've limited the forbidden and then we've started to use our
permissible, we've coupled them with an intention. Maybe we get a
little arrogant, and we start to think, Wow, I'm the greatest thing
since you know, he needs some Mosa wow, you know, I'm I'm the
greatest thing since sliced cheese right? As soon as he says, You
need to be aware of this, be aware of your shortcomings, because when
I'm aware of my shortcomings, not to the point that it leads to
depression. Right, not to the point that it leads me to despair,
but I should be aware of my shortcomings, to the extent that
they inspire me to be better. So is Anneka more Kasara female ttbb
You should know once you've he says once you've observed what I
previously mentioned, then you should be certain that what you've
presented to Allah is deficient
well under column two Wafaa min hockey law heated up and that you
did not fulfill the rights of God even the weight of an atom
what that means is it's impossible for unite to ever fully thank
Allah for his blessings. So then we're constantly Wow Buddha
Rebecca had yet to Kelly clean. So we are going to be constantly
thirsty constantly trying to do better constantly trying to
increase our worship. There is this hadith of say na, na na ra
Jhulan your Theodorou Allah watch Iman, Yeoman, Woody that Isla yomo
Chioma that if a person were to fall in prostration, from the day
of his birth, to the Day of Judgment, yeah, move to female
Bartylla in di pleasing Allah, the Hakata who Yom Okayama that would
still not be sufficient to compare it to the blessings of Allah and
the hereafter.
Allahu Akbar, so constantly feeling the need to get better
never get satisfied. Never allow your nurse to tell you yeah now
mashallah, look at you. Wow, no.
That's why Subhan Allah say no, I'm not on the Hata Radi Allahu
Anhu you know he would be sometimes spotted talking to
himself and saying like, Good job good job you fear to Allah but you
can do better. Like you can do better you can improve. So
oftentimes people get this twisted they get so self centered that
they get caught up oh, you know, I can never please Allah. I'm so
bad. No, no, no, you worship a Lord, who you always want to try
to do and realize you could never repay him for his blessings.
But as Allah said, to say no Muhammad was a term known to stick
theory while you're a big FAST BEER right don't consider the good
you did but be patient stay was
The sixth step is why talking to Annika Lyster. Lester behind him
in our head is humility
is humility. So after all of these things if you're doing these
things right, and you realize that you have shortcomings constantly I
have shortcomings when Tony amatola are so the outcome of this
should be humility.
And here the translation you must believe that you're not better
than anyone else. Imam asuci in his footnotes he said we're in
Cana Valhalla, Rafi, even though maybe your your material success
and your educational success in the things in the world make you
look as though you're better than that person. Don't believe that
think about small talk. So to recap what Reba
you know that the example of those two guys Jana Tanium and Anna, who
had two great gardens and one of them you know what else in the
filter Jana Takata Masha Allah, Allah Allah Masataka imata wala
eroded to rugby right in isa you know I don't I don't think the
hereafter whatever comes the material blinds him in causes him
to lose his humility.
So it's very important
that we feel this way saying that your mum hustle bustle used to say
I never leave her room until I feel I'm the most in need of
Allah. Masha Allah. What is humility, though, because
sometimes we confuse it. Humility is different than confidence.
Right? Arrogance is different than confidence. So sometimes people
confuse the two.
Being humble. Most importantly, as the Prophet said, needs to submit
to the truth. He believes he's not humble about our stock bar. It
looks down on people. Number two is not sorry, he refuses to obey
about our stock about our Can I mean, carefully.
The second component of humility is not to look down on people and
to feel I'm better than others, my McCombe is better than them. And
this is in the following areas. Number one in my spiritual state,
oh, I know that I'm better than this person. Number two is my acts
of worship. I know I'm better than this person. Number three is in my
material success. You know, I'm better than this person because
I'm more successful than them. And number four is with family. So you
know, my family is good, their family is bad. I'm better than
them. This is not humility. So two things make up humility, or
arrogance. Number one is to deny the truth about what's stuck about
number two to think you're better than other people and a higher
Omean Hall. Hello, Carter, Neiman Nereo. Dr. Holman Dean, I'm better
than him. You made him from a health from from clay, you made me
from fire. So he believes he has both traits. And we should repent
to Allah for this. The seventh step is to have the fear of Allah.
And what he means here is the fear of your ending for in Nicola Ted,
that email Hatim I say that as soon as he says because you don't
know how your ending will be.
And people don't like that word, fear men. They hate it. It causes
them distress, especially when the world and this conference create a
value for them. Islam values both fear and hope, seeing them as
essential to life, a life of purpose. So a life of purpose is
going to have the fear and the hope as antibiotics sometimes I
need fear. If I'm lazy, I'm neglectful I need to be fearful of
Allah. Sometimes if I found myself sad and defeated by sin, I need
hope and Allah.
So both of them are key to balancing myself to live a life of
purpose. If a person is overcome by fear you may give up on face if
a person is overcome by hope he or she may become laxed I heard one
of my teachers Shut up the handloader put it here Mashallah.
From EB Yemeni said a hopeful Rajat Lin maltman cos Jana Han,
Jin Haney municipalist theories to say that fear and hope to believe
are like two wings on a bird. A bird can't fly with one wing. So
the believer his or her faith can soar except without fear and hope.
Email Mahaki me, masha Allah Masha Allah this poem. I'm going to read
it quickly but he talks about fear and hope in a beautiful way. He
said to walk I know to buy in our budget, it will healthy.
He said, you know, come every day he said constantly be between fear
and hope. Tasha the Nuba what Tarja I will told you why Fidel
Karami you know, you should fear yours and now he defines what is
fear and hope tuckshop the loop a tougher out here if you should
fear your sin. What totaled you i Fidel Academy and the other side
you should have hope and Allah's forgiveness? Fell how awful man
Oh, I thought Taqwa will have that model bar to Europe be what Jim is
to me Well, Ethany he said you know what is fear? Fear is what
causes a person to have taqwa and encourages them to seek the
happiness of their Lord, and to abandoned see
And in sinful behavior because earlier called Rajam Allah have
your hopefully toss derpy be more. Be more be mo de rugby Bill desert
allow them. Yeah Allah. He said, you know and that's how hope is.
Hope is something that encourages you to affirm the fact that you're
going to meet your Lord who has an incredible reward for you. Well,
hopefully in Zed of Dahlia, punto de cana, you have the Raja, the
amneal Makary. When Nick I mean, and he said too much of fear is
going to cause someone to fall into depression. And too much hope
is going to cause someone to forget that Allah can do what he
wants.
And that the plan of Allah is in the hands of Allah. So he says
something so nice fella to federate water to fret work on
wasa so don't be too extreme and don't be too lacks with either but
be balanced. Well, methylome Mr. Rahman have a stuck him and
whatever Allah subhanaw taala has ordered you to do. Then do your
best to establish it. Son did wakad of WebShell was was started
in beautiful do we were Rawai where Luigi policy then what
domain and then he mentioned this hadith of Syedna Mohammed sai sung
Komodo Muslim or the verse that said they do cardio to actually
roll the process do your best seek to be close to Allah have good
deeds was to in vivo? Do we worship a little in the morning
while Bill rahua He and you know a little bit at the night what Logie
in deep into night costed costed and what Domi and stay consistent
on that. But mashallah what he gives you is kind of a beautiful
understanding of fear and hope. Here also is a beautiful statement
of Imam even though I am because maybe somebody asked which one is
more important and this is addressed actually here by Imam,
Chef and our dear the great Egyptian scholar, masha Allah
Masha Allah Shepherd, their dear Raj woman, or the man that a
shepherd that a dear he said in a hurry that which is a poem we
teach to our students at my school Swiss. Well her label Hofer Allah
Raja he was certainly Malacca Billa Turner, he said you should
prefer fear to hope, meaning, ideally, people tend to be laxed
and lazy. Like we see this virus. I was in New York City the first
week or two. Most people they weren't listening to The Stay At
Home policy. They're relaxed. And then stuff for Allah. What did it
take for people to realize you have to obey is unfortunately
people being hurt. So he's saying people tend to be very lazy for a
liberal Hofer and Raja so use fear initially to inspire you, but I
heard from one of my teachers, mashallah that this depends on the
situation of a person maybe we'll have labor Raja al Houthi, maybe
somebody at that moment, they need hope more than fear but the
default and look what even though Amy says and you will call it FISA
that you know, a person in a good state of health and while they're
still young, often they should think about being fearful of
Allah, Allah Raja, we're in the whole Rajahmundry dunya your call
we do not have Raja IANA Jonah Hill healthy. And he mentioned
that, you know, as people get older and they begin to leave this
world, we should inspire them to hope but of course,
that depends on the situation. The next is to submit to Allah's plan
was Celemony MB likely to Allah Wakaba
said you should admit you shouldn't submit to the order of
Allah and Allah's decree
the Umbra of Allah, I'm in the academy, in the Kabbalah, and the
other is how things come to us in our lives.
The Kabbalah is the outcome what happens? He said sell them to
them. Submit to them.
He said Mark Tukey then enter who lair Kunal Illa now you read and
you should believe that nothing happens whether good or bad except
Allah wanted it mandatory and not what you want it one of the areas
that this really impacts people is
because oftentimes the Battle of Kabbalah is not only in the
material world but also sometimes we find a religious people they're
impatient, I want to be better I want this I want this I want this
I want this but you're religiosity is not in your hands in that
garden demon but you can guide who you want and who you love and who
do you love more than yourself in a cul de sac. Well I can hola hola
de Masha Allah guide to he wants so be patient, Imam even on Tala
Skander he has a very beautiful discussion about he said Allah
your Kunal to a huddle ama deal our PA Matt Ilha if you
Mooji Saba Mooji Lea sick do not allow the delay in in an answer
and you're making all this do I don't know
Allow that to cause you to despair for inevitable domino luckily
Jabba Allah has promised to you He will answer you in one way or
another
female yeah Tara hulak la Murphy Dr. Holiness sick it what he chose
for you not what you chose for yourself. Well Phil walked in
leather you read left and walked into the to read in a time he
chose for you, not the time you chose for yourself. And I will say
this is the greatest battle for people
is submitting to
shallow we're going to talk about that more in the future as we go
through the text and the last as we finished. And these are the
nine also to begin the path. The next also are the individual
responsibilities. The next foundations are things you and I
have to take on individually to foster our capacity. These nine
are like general ideas he wants you to think about general things
you can do. Establish the obligations, avoid the Haram do
extra good deeds, avoid them accrue, stay humble, feel that you
could never satisfy the blessings of Allah be pleased what Allah has
given you. Those are general things next, he's gonna get more
specific. The last he says what yet to interrupt you. But what a
nurse oh my gosh, think about the Instagram and Facebook page. Now.
How much time do people spend looking at other people? And how
many? How much time do people spend looking at that and feeling
like, oh, I don't have what they have or they're not as good as me.
There was recently an article on ESPN magazine about three years
ago about a young girl who went I think to brown on a full
scholarship, non Muslim woman. And you know, she had a scholarship to
play to a cross and she killed herself she walked off the parking
garage and to her death. May Allah help her parents it's very
difficult. And so how long when they found the her suicide note
she said you know what, I was looking at Instagram and I
realized I'm nobody you have a scholarship to brown dude.
So he said what Yeah, can talk to you but I had a Nursey don't get
caught up looking at other people's affairs Alternaria home
or that you start shepherding that you're all up in other people's
business, whatever just says Who will I have to bother about blah,
blah, so don't spy on people. Don't get up in other people's
business focus on yourself, except where the shittier has allowed it
and we're going to talk about that next time inshallah Barak Lo Fi
comm we can take any questions that you have just come a little
later on. Our time is up now it's been an hour or so Allah wanna say
Mohammed said Imani. C'mon
Baraka Luffy Imam, I just wanted to share with you a couple of
questions that we got. And I think I just posted the first one in the
chat here. So if you can kindly Yeah, so this hadith the Hadith
found an imam Bihari I don't understand why people are arguing.
And this day and age especially with what's happening how people
online are arguing about this hadith is very clear. Some people
are saying this is we bet this is an octal and so on and so forth.
Listen LPS they're both inshallah the same thing and we hope the
best from Allah. So anyone who dies in this, we hope Allah
subhanaw taala will accept them as martyrs. But we should not be
arguing about these things, especially with the non learned
people. Right? If we hear our Imams or Meshech say hello hulless
and sha Allah these people and your mama COD has a very beautiful
essay 52 reasons why someone can be a sheep Shaheed, besides dying
on a battlefield and one of them is this and we should you know,
can you imagine if someone recently lost a relative and they
go online and they see people are going oh, this person wasn't
shaheed? Yeah Subhanallah the callousness of people. So 100 the
hadith is clear the Hadith via it's very clear that inshallah
it's a means of martyrdom, we ask Allah to accept
those people who have been impacted by this, but we should
not be arguing and discussing these things in a way that leads
to like, division and so on and so forth.
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