Suhaib Webb – Uqud al Juman (Lesson Eleven)
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First of all, my apologies for the extended
absence here on YouTube and other places at
Swiss.
I was blessed to acquire COVID
the week 2 days before
Eid. So I was lucky. I I was
able to complete my Ramadan, would like maybe
more forgiveness.
So many sins and mistakes I've made. So
Allah gave me that ginseng boost at malfira.
And alhamdulillah,
harabillaramin Allah is most merciful and most kind,
Alhamdulillah.
We're reading from the book,
The stringed pearls, like a necklace of pearls,
related to the faith and creed of the
people of Iman by Sheikhul Islam, Salim, Al
Bishri,
al Azhari, al Meriki al Ashhari,
who
dies around 13/35
after Hijra. You'll find a lot of information
about him in the first
in this series.
This book is very important for creating
a a first step
towards appreciating
a much more, perhaps, in-depth examination of Tawhid
than many of us are used to, as
well as preparing us for greater texts. And
that's one thing that I believe in when
we teach books.
There there's a process involved. We start here.
We slowly
begin to move up in our
studies.
Of course, pearls
as a metaphor is really powerful because, you
know, it's not just one pearl. It's many
pearls. So the idea is we have to
continue to dive.
Right? And we have to take the oysters
out, and sometimes there may be no pearl
in an oyster. In other words, knowledge requires
effort,
resilience,
dedication,
consistency,
you name it. And it's very important to
appreciate the fact that, like, for example, as
I heard from one of my teachers when
we were reading Al Bukhari, Sahih Al Bukhari,
years ago, that Imam Abu Bukhari set it
up this way. Even some of the first
narrators in the first few hadith, people really
didn't think these people are weak, but they're
not weak according to the system and the
isnan that Bukhari is mentioning.
The idea is you gotta work for this.
Right? And we have to raise the bar
a little in religious studies. And the challenge,
specifically with the North American Muslim, is that
they may be perhaps more invested in secularizing
religion
than introducing religion and and and and if
you
will,
sanctifying, which is not really the the word
I'm looking for, but cleaning up, if you
will,
sacralization.
And that's why I like to tell people,
maybe your problem isn't with religion.
Maybe the problem is that the way you're
living is so foul, it doesn't align with
religion.
Like, perhaps you're so into the secularization
of what's going on around you, of course,
without realizing it that, yeah, now religion doesn't
make sense to you. Because the logic of
the world around you is heathenry.
And that's why Sheikh,
Shaharawi Rahim Mohola used to say Alayna
and
It's a very beautiful statement that we have
to
mold the world that we live in with
religion and not mold the religion
with the world that we live in.
Subhanallah.
Modernize religion. No. No. No. We need to
take modernity
as best we can.
And
if you will
purify it with our deen.
Subhan Allah.
Allah says to remove from you the filth.
Now we reached a section on
the
or those things we have to hear.
And that is a very important word. And
I remember my exam one time in in
the 1st year. I didn't know what a
was.
So I was like a sem yet. What's
a sem yet? And the teacher said,
The unseen.
And the reason Scott will say a sem
yet is that this is not something that
I can
feel. This is not something I can infer.
This is not something that's coming from me.
I have to hear it from the mouth
of a prophet.
I have to hear it recited from one
of the, and now the only preserved sacred
text, Al Quran.
I have to listen.
The sheikh, he says
It is an obligation upon you, and here,
of course, something is missing.
According to the Sharia
and Tarifa,
and Allah
that Allah
revealed books to his messengers.
And the best of those are 4, best
of those books.
The
first is the Quran.
So the Quran,
the Torah, the Injeel,
and then
the Psalms or zabur given to David Dawud
alaihis salam.
Muhammad
And the best,
most virtuous messenger
is prophet Muhammad
Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam.
And what it means is,
the most virtuous of the prophets is prophet
Muhammad sallallahu alaihi wa sallamah,
then Saiduna Ibrahim,
alayhi salatu salam,
and then prophet Nuh who is Noah
And then the sheikh, he teaches us something
called
a
What does
a mean? We say that in the issues
of
aqaid,
What that means is we don't have a
clear evidence in issues related to theology,
it's best to say Allahu
Alam.
Allah said don't don't engage in what you
don't know, and that's why it's called a
Sam iyat,
meaning that the tarjih
is given us to sukut
before kalam
bi adamaddalil
mirab bil annam
It's very important to remember this axiom.
If there's no evidence, it's best to stay
silent.
It's best to stay silent. Of course, there
are times as we'll talk about in future
text, whether ulama, those who are qualified
have to engage. But for the
uneducated
for the uneducated,
al aslu
assukut
is to say silent. So here the sheikh
is it was Sheik Al Azhar twice.
Sheik Al Islam.
And he says after, you know, the mentioning
the
the the hierarchy of the virtues virtuous messengers,
after
mentioning say,
after say, the Muhammad
then say, Ibrahim,
Isa alayhis salat, then noor, he says after
that we should stay silent. Why? We don't
have evidence for it.
We don't have evidence for it. So it's
called a Tawakuf.
And Usul Ufilk, Insha'Allah, will study this in
the future.
When to stop? Al wokuf means to stop.
Mokafasayalat
is where you stop the car, it's the
parking lot. Faluwakf,
stop.
Stop. And that's
contrary to the current of today. Everybody wants
to to share, everybody has a feeling even
with no training. And sometimes with training, they
wanna get into areas that they're not specialized
in.
And we believe that all of them were
complete,
As we talk about in
That they were free of anything that would
contradict
their responsibilities
as prophets.
And we believe in all of them.
As the Quran says, we don't differentiate between
them.
And it is an obligation upon you religiously
to know that Allah
there are angels.
Well, whom what are angels?
They have we believe they have bodies.
Right? Beyond our 5 senses,
but they have a form.
That they are created
from light.
And that these Malaika, they don't eat, angels
don't eat, they don't drink, they don't sleep,
they're not they don't have gender.
And that
they do not commit sin of any shape
or size. That's why if you listen to
the the line of Sheikh Ahmed Al Marzuk
Ismatuhum
Ismatul MBA
kasehir Maraikah.
That the that the the infallibility
of the prophets I like to use the
protection that Allah has given the prophets. Is
that given to the angels? Meaning, Allah protected
them from falling into sin.
Allah says,
Allah says in the Quran that the angels
do not disobey Allah. Surah Taherim verse number
6,
that the angels do not disobey Allah.
And what Allah has commanded him
And they
perform
what they have been commanded.
So there's no Maasi,
and then also there's Adet. So here we
see something.
If somebody wants to improve
their iman and their state with Allah, let
them look at this verse.
Very beautifully,
They don't disobey
and they obey. So we see the malaika,
a
a
a
life,
a
purity
is
someone
who
has.
The angels do what they've been commanded.
And what they've been commanded. And also there's
a point in
That a command and we talked about this
in in the section on on on commands,
that a command implies either I have to
do it
or I don't have to do it
or I have to leave it. Excuse me.
And here we see the angels both.
And also you pay something pay attention to
something here really interesting. Why does it begin
with?
They
don't disobey Allah because leaving evil
leaving evil, it should be at one of
the forefront of what we do in our
spiritual growth.
So is it Tuhali before Tuhali or Tuhali
Khabara Tuhali in the Tasawaf?
Here we
see Let me make Tawba and stay away
from evil.
And then begin to acquire good deeds.
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And the angels we believe they reside in
the universe.
And they come to the earth
at the command of Allah.
And the best, the most virtuous of the
angels first is Gabriel
and after Gabriel is Mikael
and then Israfil
and then Azrail.