Suhaib Webb – The Hikam Perspectives & Attitudes

Welcome back to the hicom of Sayna Imam

imam.

As we said before, the purpose of the

hikam is to explain the phrase which the

prophet called a treasure from the treasures of

Jannah.

You may be asking why does it take

so long

to produce this? When I was really occupied

at the university, that's why I pulled away

to give this a full time effort.

But most importantly, like,

this is heavy stuff to teach and to

live with.

So when I come across these hacom and

I review them and I study them, they

impact me. And so it takes time to

sort of calibrate

and put into words,

like, these hikim.

Shatan

means it's called

which means

it's a noun as like a verb.

And that's how you can tell

a book

is is layered in different knowledges that you

have to know if you wanna learn it

and if you wanna teach it. And to

be honest with you, the hiccup is like

coffee cake. It's very dense, it's very thick.

You have to have knowledge of the Ilmukkareem.

I I encourage anyone who's teaching the hikom

that has not studied Ilmukkareem

not to teach it. You have to have

Arabic language, you have to have balara, you

have to have mantak, you have to have

usulufik, you have to have firk

or you may inadvertently

provide meanings which don't align with the different

layers of knowledge which are in the text.

So

there's a great distance.

The one who evidences

with Allah.

Is it heavy?

And he's getting here at a higher level

of consciousness. That someone that doesn't use the

world to prove god,

they can use god to prove the world.

That's deep.

So it's a means where.

Where. In Balaga there's a reason why he

used el.

We're not gonna talk about that now because

that would kind of take us off off

where we're

headed. But here, there's a difference between the

one between the one who

evidences

god

to prove creation

and the one who evidences the creation

to prove God.

That's what he's saying. And he

says The one who uses God,

Allah

as the foundational proof for everything around us,

is the one who makes the truth known

to those who can recognize

it.

And is able to

use this

to touch the hearts of the people

and also to use the existence

as we talk about in

And now you see the purpose of the

elokalam with the hicom.

Because when he says

that Allah is the only

true

permanent infinite thing that exists.

Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala.

So the one who can use it as

the foundation for everything

is going to touch the hearts of the

people, the people who are looking for the

truth.

And those who use

creation to evidence God

is because they haven't came to the proper

conclusion that Allah is.

So you can see imam,

ibn al ta'ala was was Ashari.

So his format of teaching is going to

come from what I teach you in the

essentials of Islamic faith.

And now hopefully you can appreciate how Swiss

works together.

You see that?

So the sheikh is saying

And he said, if that's not the case,

then when has Allah ever been absent so

that he would need someone to prove his

existence?

Ta'ala.

And when has he been so distant

from his creation?

That you need the creation to prove him.

This is not underlining verses of the Quran.

Quran.

He's not saying that

these things cannot be used,

but they shouldn't come first.

We should not use the creation to shape

the creator.

Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala is beyond the shape.

We should not use the creation

necessarily as the foundation by which we understand

the creator and the Dean.

This is very important now in the age

of social media. Dan Malone has a great

study that shows the more people are on

social media, the less they truly understand their

surroundings.

What he's saying is that get to knowing

Allah properly,

learn the foundations of faith correctly,

and then use that to interpret the world

around you. Not the world

to interpret Allah, Zohojal.

And that's a higher level of consciousness,

a higher level of presence,

a clear lens by which we see.

We ask Allah

InshaAllah we're gonna mention it one more time.