Suhaib Webb – The Hikam Thinking Things Through

Assalamu Alaikum Wa Rahmatullah.

Hope you guys are doing great.

It's been a while. Alhamdulillah.

Reflecting on the book, the hicom of Imam

Ibn Utta'Allahu Eskandri.

And after talking about

those things that can kind of subtly come

between us and our relationship with Allah,

he continues

with

kind of the second phase of the text,

and that is talking about those things which

can help us increase

our relationship with Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala.

As you recall, the first he talked about

was sincerity,

Ikhlas.

And then moving from sincerity, he talked about

interval isolation

as a way

to

enhance our sincerity and

also to lead into what we're gonna talk

about today.

And that is a tadabbur.

The word tadabbur in Arabic

is actually from the

word Dubur.

And of course,

And

Dubor actually means Quebec.

So Tadabur,

if you think about the world today and

where we are and how people are living,

very powerful because

we're surrounded by a very shallow, shallow, shallow

kind

of curated world

where the depth really isn't appreciated anymore. Like,

remember Lupe had that song. Lupe had that

song, dumb it down. Right? Everybody wanted him

to dumb down his language.

So a is to think

so deeply about something

that you enter

and then you go exit its back. Like,

you think about it in every way possible.

So you run into its surface.

You submerge yourself actually come out the other

side of it. That's Tadabur. SubhanAllah, man. Arabic

is

dope.

So it implies that we move

beyond kind of the shallow understandings

that nowadays are presented towards people. A lot

of that has to do because everybody's rushing.

Everybody wants to go fast.

And you think deeply.

So now the sheikh is gonna talk about

a.

He says something amazing, man.

He says,

He says, Rahimullah.

That all of the creation

is.

If you translate

actually means like darkness.

But a better word for it here is

like the abyss.

Actually, something better means nonexistent.

A vulma here means

it doesn't exist.

And the only thing that brings light to

it,

is the presence

of light therein.

Light can have a number of meanings here.

But, of course, 1st and foremost,

is that it it deals with the knowledge

of Allah.

That somebody sees when they look at creation,

the names and attributes and qualities of Allah

that we talked about in essentials of Islamic

faith and that we talk about in the

master's creed.

That by looking at the world,

I see

the world

through the lens

of Allah's

Allah's existence.

This is a very heavy hiccup, man.

And it it it really is impactful.

Because nowadays,

instead of seeing

the world through the lens of God,

It could be argued that many people see

God through the lens of the world. Case

in point,

how many Muslims do we run into when

something doesn't go their way, they say God

is mad at me? No, he's not. You

don't know that. Maybe God is pleased with

you.

You may love hate something that's good for

you,

but we're looking at Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala

with the same utility,

in same shallowness that we look at, say,

the New York Stock Exchange.

The sheikh now is challenging us to invert

this,

and he's challenging us to see

the world

through the lens of faith.

Now the question comes,

how do we get to that point?