Suhaib Webb – The Wisdoms (Part Sixty Eight) Messages To Your Soul
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The importance of being around Allah's blood to protect oneself and their family is emphasized, along with the concept of "immediate moments" in Islam. The speaker emphasizes the need to present one's feelings to others and use their brain to make them feel better, as it is a gift from Allah. The importance of avoiding negative emotions and not letting them overshadow others is also emphasized. The speaker explains that anything from Allah's gifts is a gift from him, and anything aligns with the Sharia is from sh basis. The importance of protecting and evaluating gifts from Allah is also emphasized.
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Welcome back to the hikm of Imam Ibra
Ta'ala. We'll reach now around the 68 or
so hikm,
and this section actually is talking about
the etiquettes of
emergent religiosity
coupled with the etiquette of recognizing Allah's blessings
in our life.
Like like, how do we how do we
treat those things? How do we engage those
things? How do we protect ourselves? And also,
how are we careful?
Because others around us, you know, charlatans
and sometimes people
put on a kind of a spiritual spiritual
aura
and so on and so forth. Like, how
do we protect ourselves and our family?
So that's what he's gonna talk about now
with the focus primarily being up on us
as individuals.
And the first one is that
moments of guidance and moments of spiritual bliss
are not something we can achieve. They're gifts
for Allah.
We can work hard for them and we
can push into them, and we'll talk later
on about what is that sign. Because unfortunately
in in an age
of hyper consumerism,
where
individual pleasure is the focal point of society,
People have sort of reduced
religion to shout out moments of feeling like
I feel like this, I feel like that,
I feel like this, or I didn't feel
this, or I didn't feel like that. In
Islam that's not how we define this. We
define
being near Allah is worshiping them, for
worshiping Allah, alhamdulillah,
then that's sufficient. We don't we don't have
to
like
have a feeling.
It's something very selfish.
Right. But in Islam, remember this. It's not
transactional.
In the hereafter,
the transaction
We'll be rewarded with Janabi Nilah
and Allah's matshira and ridwan. But in this
world,
we don't locate
religious work and practices and righteousness
as a contract in the sense of transaction.
I want to do this so Allah will
do this.
Because that also leads to fakers, man. You
know, people that have made sort of Sufism
into like a passion. They've made it like
how they look, how they dress, how they
act.
That's not that's not what this is about,
man. That's that's a reductionalism
that's
simplistic.
It's and it's it's
myopic and it fails to take into account
the dynamics of people's growth
and where people are coming from.
So the shaykh, he says, right. He moved
a lot.
What are the, you mean it's like things
that run.
Yeah. Goody.
So I worry that L ELA here are
those things that we find sometimes, those feelings
in our heart, in our soul
that are encouraging us to do good.
Sayyidina Sheikh, Ibadanajeeba,
he mentions here, you know,
that Imam al Qulshaydi
Rahim
Abbas says,
That
is something that comes to the the soul
of a person, the heart of a person,
means of inspiration.
That is beyond our control. So they are
from the Fuddl of Umar. Darika Faddlullahahi
tihimeyasha.
The blessing of Allah He gives who He
wants. Simply put, the call to guidance,
the call to worship,
the feeling to be a better person, the
feeling that draws me to being more responsible,
living for the hereafter,
those are all that's
not something like weird and spooky.
What's calling you to good, what's calling you
to goodness, fear and those kind of things.
I need to give my life together. I
need to, you know, put things in order.
That experience,
that epiphany.
Is from the word that
He talked about
and he said Because maybe someone else wants
to ask, like, how do I know if
it's from Allah? How do I know if
it's from Shaytaq?
I have these different feelings. How do I
know? Any feeling that we have, first of
all, as Imam Abu Hasibi talks about, we
should present it to the sharia and see
what the sharia has to say.
Khalas, that's the first thing.
So we weigh it, but mizan a shot,
and
then use your mind. If someone's telling you
for example, you know give me your house
and give me your
wealth and all of this and you'll be
nearer to Allah, use your brain.
Use your mind.
Don't allow yourself to be exploited. Use discernment.
Nobody is above being subjected to critical thought,
right, within our our spaces.
No sheikh, no imam, no teacher, no
peer, whatever.
No.
Everybody taht
and nosihah. Everybody is everybody's under sincere advice
and scrutiny.
So a Sheikh Abdulqara Al Gilari or Himo
lysis sifatli
alwari dratiivahiyah.
What is the difference between them and
shaitanic inspirations?
Number 1 is that
from Allah those good feelings and inspirations from
Allah are beyond our control.
You can't you can't like prepare for them.
You can't do something that makes them happy.
They're gifts from Allah.
And you can also not make them
stop, like there's no cause that you can
evoke that will make those stop.
And it's not something that, like, a specific
time or situation that you can make them
happen.
Meaning, it's all from Allah.
And the opposite of that, something that you
can make happen, something that you try to
cause to come into play, something that you
attribute to something other than Allah or you
can make it come or go, that's some
shit.
It's a little ambiguous with respect to the
shaykh.
Let's frame it in a more simple way.
Whatever goes against the Sharia is from shayba.
Whatever aligns with the Sharia is so
oh.
Say be Iba'm ibn Abi ba'alata Allah touches
on this first eddab and that is that
we realize that we cannot cause this to
happen. It's a gift from Allah. So that
means for us in our own life,
we leave it to Allah, alhamdulillah.
But also we're careful of people who may
claim
to have that special kind of power, that
special kind of influence, that special kind of
charisma
that can make a wadidat happen.
That
from Allah
For the Sheikh he says
That
usually
these
they come without any preparation.
So also that means the third lesson if
you're having those feelings now
don't allow your insecurities to suffocate you.
Don't be like, oh, I'm such a bad
person. I'm not worthy of this. Remember the
very beginning I said that each hicom has
duality
for the sinner, for the saint. So for
those of us like myself who struggle with
sin, so oh, why would Allah choose me?
I'm not worthy. Allah chose you. It's not
your business.
And for someone who is righteous, alhamdulillah
living a life, which is Sharia compliant.
They shouldn't also become arrogant. Oh, wow. It's
because I'm so good.
Because that wasn't the case then you would
find people that would say I'm gonna do
this, this, this, and this will happen. I'm
gonna do this, this, this, Allah will do
this. I'm gonna do this, this, this, and
that will happen. But Allah is
maridan subhanahu wa ta'ala
Subhanahu wa ta'ala, Allah is the one that
causes all things to happen. Nothing can cause
him. Nothing can stop his will.
Everything is by his choice.
That's what the Quran says.
Allah
chooses
your
means Jannah
but it could mean any form of Rahma.
Anything that leads to Jannah whoever he wills.
Ras Fardullah is the one who you know
chooses who he wants
for those special ones.
Salma'udaba
this is something beautiful. They said the reason
that these things happen suddenly
without any preparation. Here's some of the reasons.
Number 1,
it's really nice.
That, you know,
it's from
Allah came out of nowhere, man.
And that
someone will respect it
and be pleased with it. It's from Allah.
It's from no one else.
And
that
you know you will have an attachment to
it like a protective attachment to it and
you will understand it's worth because it's from
Aziz.
So like 3 nice
sort of hiccup you know
Like coming suddenly the reason these things happen
without any type of preparation or announcement is
number 1 you know it's from Allah.
Number 2 your happiness will be sincere this
is from Allah. And number 3 you'll look
after it you'll protect it.
You'll look after it because you know it
has value.
We'll stop here Barakula Assaykum.
We're gonna continue this Beyin in the next
lesson talking about
you know,
in our old space, how we should be
careful, how we should be careful communicating
perhaps gifts that Allah has given us, and
then also how we can evaluate
people that may be out there trying to
amplify
and exhibit
those gifts.