Suhaib Webb – The Wisdoms (Part Sixty Eight) Messages To Your Soul

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.