Suhaib Webb – The Hikam Thinking Things Through
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The speaker discusses the book's title, starting with the idea of sincerity and interval isolation, followed by a discussion on the language used in the book. The speaker then talks about the book's title, which involves the concept of the abyss and how it can be impactful. The speaker challenges the audience to interpret the book's title and see the world through the lens of faith.
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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?