Walead Mosaad – AlFath alRabbani of Shaykh Abd alQadir alJilani Class 18
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Well, that. So humbler, we are here for yet another foray into
the work of Cydia to clergy learning, where he dean or the
Lord who has had total of Bernie was saving a lot of money.
And we have reached
20th discourse.
And as we have seen throughout the discourses, the 19 previous ones,
there are certain themes that the chef
does reiterate and emphasize. And I say reiterate and not repeat.
As we looked at the last discourse, the chef pulled the air
in the field Erica the karate man can and will call God somehow our
shahid. So, and also the personal Quran,
where they give in a declarative meaning. So Vicker remembrance
means, sometimes when we hear the same concept
a few times over and in different contexts, then this is better for
what they say test beat and myeloma to, to confirm it and to,
you know, to plaintiff because the way that we look at knowledge,
it's not information. I hope people don't make the mistake. I
think what we're trying to do here is information.
Information is an encyclopedia information is a Google search.
Information is self help book. But what should see that apology
learning is trying to do here is trying to impart knowledge in
right, that which was described by Imam medica, and others as nor as
light, the awful lot of time offered, as a light that Allah
subhanaw taala puts in the hearts in the martial law having a
variety here are the ones who truly have hucha.
reverence and awareness of Allah subhanaw taala and those who have
knowledge, so, our our deen it's a paradigm of knowledge. It's not a
paradigm of power, it's a paradigm of knowledge. So
going, getting to know Allah subhanaw taala reading the signs,
right? We call the verses in the Quran signs yet because they point
to Allah subhanaw taala we call the signs in new creation,
in the field of semi virtual, although the lady on the hurry
there is right in the creation of the heavens and the earth and the
switching of daylight and today, there are a there are signs. So
signs means that one has to have knowledge in order to understand
and interpret the site and to see what is behind the exterior of a
vial of something. Right. And we mentioned that two of Allah's
names avoid one bolting, right, the law who the one who's
outwardly manifest and the one who was hidden, and so will tune in
all right, that which is behind things and behind matters.
They're constantly resetting, as we said in the previous session,
there are constant messages that Allah subhanaw taala is sending
our way. And each one is specific to us. So whether we know how to
read them or not how to read them, our happiness and our
ability to cope with all of our circumstances are going to be
predicated on that, how well we can read the sides, right, when we
have a total collapse, ability to read a sign, then we call that
when, or or delusion. So and my womb
reads the sign and thinks it says something but it's actually not
saying that at all.
And the highest form of reading assignment is called the end right
knowledge, which they define Interlocal share Oliver Hawaii, so
understand something, as it exists in reality. So that means there is
a reality there is a Walther that can be read, can every single,
secret and mystery of that reality be known to man can one possibly
know everything about if no, not ordinarily, because there is to
that reality there is the scene reality.
Adam would call shahada and then there's argument like, or element
Milliput. So there is a scene reality that we can perceive with
our senses. But there's also an unseen reality that we perceive
with the eye of our heart or the eye.
Some of our heart or with Kadoma at cleanses shift said in a
previous discourse or with the the stable feet of our heart. So
attributing these things to the heart means that we can see behind
the edifice, we can see behind the facade, if you will behind the
Mirage and see what is actually there. But in order to be able to
do that, one has to tap into that inherent intrinsic faculty of
pulsera of insight that each one of us has the ability to tap into,
but that's going to be predicated on our ability to follow the
commands of Allah subhana wa Tada. So, it's going to be a spiritual
insight, not a purely intellectual one, and certainly not a purely
rational one. And one of the
I would say maladies of the ages, we try to rationalize everything
we try to find a
reason that can be rationalized and what rationality has has meant
in our age is to be able to trace it back to something of the scene.
So something that we can is tangible, something that we could
see something that we can measure. So, the modern person, unless that
thing could be
seen under a microscope, or seen under a telescope, or seen with
the naked eye or seen with binoculars, but nevertheless seen
then we have a hard time accepting that it's real. So the angels are
real, the jinn are real. Gender and not paradise and hellfire are
real Allah subhanaw taala is real. The prophesy Selim is real is not
a historical figure is real. All of the prophets before him are
really similar lariam Jesus has some of Mary's real Zakariya, they
would, all of these people are real, the people of her calf, the
people of the cave mentioned in the Quran are real saying that say
there is real. So all of that is reality. And our ability to fathom
that reality and to
say, leverage it and make the most out of it is not going to be just
commensurate with our Amen. just accepting is true, but also our
level of econ, our level of
certainty in that so we can have varying levels of certainty, the
one who was most certain, nothing's going to shake that
faith of theirs. This was the level of certainty the highest
level certainty of a moccasin deal. And that's how he got his
nickname, a CDF. Because when he was told that the Prophet SAW
Selim had done this, what seemingly impossible journey from
Makkah to beta Democritus to Jerusalem in one night, and then
he not only that ascended to the heavens, and spoke to God,
and saw him in a manner that was commensurate with His Majesty.
They said that that's impossible. So they mentioned this to me, what
was the deal? And he had not spoken to the prophet sighs So
then yet, when he had come back, and he merely said, Well, if he
says that, that's what happened, then that's what happened. So that
was his level of sick of sincerity of loss and didn't know anybody.
So data will help. Alright, here's one who believe firmly and
complete certainty in the heart. So Amen. Then uncertainty are
things that you learn the things that you practice, they are
learned, things you learn, and things that you practice, not just
things that you read off a list and say, okay,
they say you have to believe in that. And I believe in that no.
You know, tell him what harder, it's an active verb. So he is a is
a noun over from the word Wah, and two wide, which means to make one.
So you're continuously recognizing and making Allah the one not that
he's, he's not one without you recognizing it, but our ability to
continuously recognize that most
certain and
quintessential
truth that Allah is One.
That's something that human being has to continue to practice the
Sahaba used to say to one another, the other movements are, you know,
come on, let's do some Amen. For an hour. And this type of eternal
uncertainty may not necessarily be gleaned by reading, scar on the
refutations of
misconceptions about Islam, what their culture will have a lot to
show that there was a particular genre so most of our books of
creed and theology are kind of centered on that theme. They said
the way that one builds a con, one that one builds certainty is by
practicing Islam and practicing towhid. And the first thing in the
top of the list for that is the cruel law is the remembrance of
Allah subhanaw taala it's Taqwa of Allah subhanaw taala
Either it's still heat. It's Manasa. Eman you know the
different stations of Eman of, of southern or forbearance of sugar
gratitude
muhabba of radar so loving the divine and everything about Allah
subhanaw taala and everything that he loves little bit follow up on
contentment with Allah's decree. So these are my resident email.
Right, these are the stations of Eman that you will go through, or
you can call them the seasons as the shear kind of alluded to
earlier, the seasons that we go through, right. So sometimes we'll
be solid, and sometimes we'll be shocked. Sometimes will be
patients sometimes will be
gratitude, when the province or send them was offered
what we would think to be today, a very easy way to do the dour.
He struggled much in countering and dealing with even his very own
family members, his own uncles who who loved him and appreciated him
and leave their valuables with him. And were so happy with him
when he was born. But yet, as soon as you mentioned this Tao or this
reseller then it was like they didn't know him anymore. And how
difficult must have been for the heart of our province or
ascendant. So last fall, Madison's an angel to the province art
Sullivan says, after all this difficult if you had Allah can
make about hot Mecca, all of his gold and it'd be for you. So the
whole valley the whole land of Mecca will be gold turned into
gold and then you can use that to become a leader over them and you
can buy influence and you can buy power and they will see that you
are the source of this gold and then everyone will follow you. So
kind of seems like a much easier route
to practicing and national Dawa and spreading the message of
Islam. But the prophet talks to them refused. He said that. He
said it's better for me.
A juror who Yeoman for Athol Ravi, they were Ashbury omen for
Ashkelon. Okay, Michael sorry, sir. It's better for me that I am
hungry one day for aldora eating right? I more fervent in my
seeking and in my supplication with Allah subhanaw taala
what ash Valley Omen, and then I am satiated another day for Ash
guru. So that I may thank him and show gratitude and recognize the
minute that our gratitude is due to Allah subhanaw taala. So
because that was the reset, what type of reset it would have been?
What type of message would have been, if it could have been just
bought with gold? That's not the result of Mohamed Salah Salem.
That's not the result of Isa Maria. That's not the result of
Musa Imran. That's not to say that the message of any of our
prophets, any of our messengers, but their reseller was one that
the meek shall inherit the earth. The result was one when the
promissory said and said that he asked the last one with Allah to
be raised with and Messiah keen to be raised with the downtrodden and
disenfranchised. And this Deen always came to the downtrodden,
disenfranchised first. And then when did countdown five and
disenfranchise? Then Allah subhanaw taala gave them the Hoja
and he gave them the Maharajah and he gave them the cola and he gave
them the earth. He gave them the inheritance after that, and
they're the ones who will inherit the earth. Not the Javan era, not
the tyrants, not the despots, not the autocrats, not the Haughty not
the arrogant. None of them. We see those archetypes in the Quran,
karoun Fear hound her man, none of them numerals. None of them
inherited earth, Allah at that level, right, he humbled them and
humiliated them. And he left some of them as an area that when I'm
in Falfa area, as we've mentioned, about fill out to be left as a
sign an area after you. So
this dean then is is not about
Tammany technique. It's not about capturing and acquiring and
accumulating. Anything that Allah has found that puts on this green
earth.
It's about accepting that which Allah puts in your heart,
accepting that Allah puts in your hand and all that that takes out
of your hand, what Allah puts into your heart, and what's all valid
chooses to take out of your heart to deal with your circumstances as
they call. This was the prophetic exam. And it continued to be the
example practice by the noble companions. And then it's having
the successors and then to have a tear in the successors of the
successors. So this is the dean in Medina and the lioness lap. This
is how it's understood. This is how it's practiced. This is how it
came to the Prophet commissar send them and the rest of the prophets
and messengers before him, or that you marry him of those are worth
of Destiny met
So
I'm gonna skip around a little bit here. There's some excerpts that I
wanted to read from the text that I think are important
so
in the beginning,
he talks a little bit about I'm just going to paraphrase about the
people of Baghdad and how there was much hypocrisy, and there's
very little sincerity, and people speak much without doing much. And
he said, doing much, saying much without doing much less washy, and
it doesn't bring any value doesn't have any
purpose to it. And he said, it's like,
a door, a house without a door, or with more often with any auxiliary
buildings connected to it. So it's very empty, very empty. You can't
use it. Well, you can't spend from it. You can't leverage it to bring
happiness or good to others. So then he says,
of roar. So he says the spirit of our Amell so just like bodies have
spirits have a wha? So do Amen. And this is a theme that you find
it in many of the books of Teskey, if not secondary, also mentioned
that he said that Ahmed also called him that deeds are sower
taught him there are forms that are held upright, right or that
are raised in front of you that you can see.
But the secret within them, you know, the serum is visually
flawless. The secret that which gives them value is the presence
of sincerity in them. So share here of the clergy Danny Says
similar thing or Roho and his loss. What will he do with the
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happy as urgent.
So, here is talking a little bit about the different
McCombs or stages of fernet in the sense of kind of overlooking your
own human attributes and then being more in tune with the divine
attributes. So he says here
can find it
Do not be so stupid, face the other way and you will be on
target carry out the commandments of the sacred law, observe its
prohibitions and comply with a degree of decree of destiny. Out
of all the people in the few individuals have the hearts ins
this anesthetized with the drug bench SFX metaphor of intimacy of
one's direct division which I had a nearness code so that they do
not feel the agonies and afflictions of destiny. The days
of tribulation pass without their being aware of them. So they
praise Allah subhanaw taala and give thanks to him for the fact
that since they were not present, they could offer no resistance to
their Lord, misfortunes before the people of the Lord and Allah as
they befall you.
There are those among them who endure with patience and there are
those who transcend both the misfortunes and the patient
endurance thereof. The experience is painful when faith Amen is
weak. When one is still a child is born with patience when one is an
adolescent youth, with acquiescence when one is mature,
and with cheerful acceptance when one is near, and looking with his
knowledge towards his law or his Lord, I soldier then come
transcendence or the labor and annihilation fernet when the
hearts and the
innermost being the seer, or in the presence of the Lord of the
truth, that this is the state of direct division and conversation
harder. one's inner being Balton is annihilated one's existence is
who is an isolate and obliterate in relation to creatures it has
brought into being in the presence of the Lord of truth of how
Passagen while on this side, it is obliterated and vanishes away.
Then if the Lord of truth so wills, He resurrects the person,
if he wishes to restore him, he restores him and reassembles is
dissolved and disintegrated, disintegrated being just as you
will reconstitute the bodies of all creatures on the Day of
Resurrection. After their dismemberment and fragmentation,
in the case of creatures that hugly or assemble their bones,
their flushing their hair, then your order is Seraphin to blow the
spirits, Ottawa into that, as for these special people, we are
discussing, He restores them without intermediary with a
glance, he annihilates them and with a glance, He restores them.
So what is he talking about?
People can be at different levels of spiritual maturity. So, he uses
the analogy of a child and then a mature person. And then someone
who even goes beyond the maturity of acquiescence right of
acceptance of Islam, and into a state of Avila into a state of
contentment, and then into a state of fernet where, where everyone
else sees it as a calamity and sees it as a trial and tribulation
and out of nowhere of Allah subhanaw taala sees it as Hawk
Mala,
sees it as the Kolob as the decree of Allah subhanaw taala and so
this one is NOREV Allah is so busy in the remembrance and in the gaze
of the sublime towards him and busy with that or her that they
don't have time to think oh, what type of trouble Am I am and what
type of tribulation Am I in and sometimes this affected even the
Sahaba in a physical way. It is said that during the visit within
Fundex in the alley, an arrow because it was kind of like, you
know, skirmishes across the trench doors open.
They don't feel like those things are affecting them. They are not
piercing them right. So just like the arrow when the Valaria right
when the different trials and tribulations sickness, loss of a
loved one, loss of wealth, loss of
the loss vital data because they know Allah's place with with them.
And that's how we know you want to know your McLamb with Allah you
want to know how important martial law if you are if you are an adult
in a casa, if you're amongst the people who are receiving this
special energy and attention from Allah subhanaw taala then look to
what Allah has mclubbe with you. How do you have the emery law and
contentment and Taqwa with Allah subhanaw taala then you will have
your answer.
And just to point out the Hadith. So some of the Hadith begin with
learning how to combat cancer, right? None of you truly believe
until this. So when he says now you will have commanded the men
are completely men. This is what we're talking about. We're talking
about the day we're talking about the law with the added costs up so
forth, then you're stripped away, then you're in a habit that you
eat. Right then you understate of
the jute
or two types of jute, right. So there's a reduced where you think
you're independent existence, which is a false sense of who you
are not independent existence. And then there is a true sense of
voodoo that you are a modular biller. Right that you were meant
to be at all Illa here, that you exist, because a lot of our
chooses for you to exist,
to be able to imbibe that on the level of the sin on the level of
the innermost being.
That's when the prickliness of trial and tribulation, no longer
has the effect on the seeker no longer has the effect on the RFP.
Yeah, because they now have kind of an armor, right? They're busy
with their Lord. So when their focus is with a lost battle with
data and the Qibla of their heart also becomes a loss of data and
not just a prayer. So it's as if they're in prayer all the time,
because their heart is continuously pointing to Allah
subhanaw taala then these Binay as you mentioned, then these
these trials and tribulations will not affect them, like they affect
everybody else. So then he talks about this word resurrection. This
is what's called a clot. So after you have the fernet, after one
becomes oblivious to everything around them and is focused upon
Allah subhanaw taala and Harlan Ekman, right, the, the the state
that is more complete is that Allah brings you back. But now he
brings you back in a different way.
So you are renewed, but you are renewed with Allah subhanaw taala.
So you see the ASHA, we've applied Allah, Allah Yeah, you see the,
the existence of things, by virtue of Allah subhanaw taala, causing
them to exist, not that they have an independent existence, and then
your environment becomes mad harlot, and that mild hug. So
you're dealing with a father, you're dealing with the Creator,
and not with the creatures. And in the last section here,
he kind of points that out. So I'm just going to move to that in the
interest of time,
which is page 135. For those of you who are following,
he says that the set of his quest for the Lord of truth, the genuine
secret and read, cannot bear the sight of creatures or the sound of
their voices.
He cannot bear the sight of the tiniest fragment of this world and
cannot bring himself to look at any created entity, his heart
becomes distracted, my absent and his eyes glazed, he remains like
this until the hand of Mercy Rama lights on the head of his heart,
bringing him tranquility. So this is true in the beginning of one's
path. When there's a young fella, when there's an awakening and
realization, and they, and then they see Wait, there are commands
or prohibitions on doing my best to do them. But all these people
are not. And this person is transgressing, and that person is
trying to progressing and this person is doing something wrong.
And so there's nothing. There's a feeling of offense, when you see
all of what you perceive to be transgressors around you. And so
you can't bear even to see that. You always want to be in a place
or in a state, like at home, right, like in Medina, like in
Mecca, like with the sheriff or with the teacher, you want to be
in those tribal environments. And then when you feel like you're
brought back to what you consider to be, you know, the real world,
you see all of this darkness, and you can't bear to see them. That's
what he's describing the hardened Woody. His heart becomes
distracted, his mind absent and his eyes glaze.
He remains like this until when the hand of Mercy of Allah AKA a
lights on the head of his heart, bringing him or her tranquillity,
he remains inebriated or Macron. Right in Divine Presence until he
inhales the perfume of nearness to his Lord. whereupon he recovers
consciousness. When he is firmly established in his affirmation of
unity to heat, his sincerity has lost his direct experience or
metaphor of the lord of his Lord, and His knowledge and love of Him.
He requires stamina and abroad tolerance of creature creatures,
strength comes to him from Allah subhanaw taala. So he carries
their burdens without string. He approaches them and seeks them
out. While his work or her work is wholly devoted to their welfare,
he is not distracted from his Lord for the twinkling of an eye.
So this is an IRF This is Kami, right? This is one it was
complete. They are not put off by the world. They don't think
secretly inside as many of them reads are the ones who are still
in the beginning of their path, that Oh, I wish this would be this
way. And then you know, I think I will change this and I will change
that.
The cabinet and as we learn knows that every single thing the way
that they are Allah subhanaw taala does them.
There's a hikma there's a there's a wisdom, there's a reason behind
it.
One very, very fine point I want to bring up that remember, shot
only brings up that I think
is important, but a lot of us don't consider it is when we see
affliction. In this life. When you see tribulation for others, that
is we see poverty and we see suffering, and we see famine, and
we see sickness and we see all of these things. Never ever lose
sight that Allah subhanaw taala is behind all of that for a reason.
That doesn't mean that we are wealthy. That doesn't mean you are
content with the affliction. But do not let your sense of outrage,
whatever situation that we're seeing, come to a degree where you
begin to question even subtly, the divine decree. Maybe Allah
subhanaw taala has a reason why that person is in that situation
right now and maybe they're going to get something out of it that
you cannot foresee that you have no idea about. And this is very
much in the same way. The story of Musa al Haider sort of calf was it
he said I'm afraid of
Musa objected to everything. And what it is it is a victim in
Nagaland Tatyana Sabra
you will not be able to be patient with me. Why because other Kenyans
are some of these Imams happy o'clock, clear on Instagram. He
was doing things according to the healthier flow, in other words, to
the Divine Wisdom, the pure divine wisdom, without looking at the
Sharia.
Musa he set out his objections were based upon the Sharia are
based upon. Yeah, it's wrong to kill that little kid who didn't do
anything wrong to you. And why would you put a hole in that boat?
Right? They're gonna drown? And why would you rebuild that wall
after those people didn't want to help you? That's what he was his
objection. So I was a shitty bass objection. But when he said Happy
o'clock, but from the reality that only Allah knows about and then
Allah gave some of this knowledge to include it. And then he said
him, that was not the case. So when we see things, you have an
eye with the Sharia and I was the healthier. So the eye of the
sheriff says No, that's wrong that pupils people, they should have
universal health care and they should be able to go to the
hospital not worry about where the insurance or not if they're an
emergency state. Yes, absolutely.
930 o'clock, with the aisle outraged at the decree of Allah
itself in as much as it comes from the decree or the one who decrees
it, namely, Allah Spano Tata. And so the way that we should work
towards wronging injustice is and writing and justices and bring
about resolutions should be firm should be resolute. But it should
also be humble. Right? And it should not be. And I say this way,
I hope with, you know, with as much
sincerity as I could I could muster I, because I see too much
of it today, it should also be with humility. And it shouldn't be
flavored by outrage, continuous outreach all the time. And I see
that within the Muslim community, it's happening quite a bit. You
know, we're outraged at everything. And let's just take a
moment. And to slow down this pandemic we're in, for example,
it's a great example, you can't really blame anybody. You want to
blame the US president because of not having a good response or
blame this person fine. But at the end of the day, he didn't make it
come about. It wasn't his negligence that made it spread in
the manner that it did. This is a lost battle without it. And so
let's let's look at some things with either Haleakala let's look
at things with, with the eye of seeing the reality of things as a
lost battle data makes them be and at the same time, we are firmly
planted in the Sharia. And so
he then goes on to say, The Apprentice aesthetic and with as a
head, who is a novice in his aesthetic practice, and that if
he's already he will run away from creatures.
As for the aesthetic was completed his training Zed and cam and fees
over the far from worrying about them running away from them, he
will actually go looking for them, because he has become a real
knower, or if Allah subhanaw taala and one who really knows, Allah,
neither flees from nor fears anything apart from him.
The novice flees from offenders and sinners, while the
accomplished master on Monday seeks them out. How could he not
go looking for them when he is in possession of all their remedies?
This is why a search in my wise men, Rahim Allah said, No one may
laugh in the face of the sinful offender, the facet, except the if
the one who truly knows him.
When a person's direct knowledge of Allah Maota is completely
becomes a guide toward him, he becomes a net with which he fishes
creatures from the ocean of this world. He's given the strength of
bliss and his armies to flight, he takes people by the hand. So, you
know, look at the Sahara, look at the soul of a chef Africology
Danny, you know, one of the things that Sophie's in general to solve
gets often maligned with his, it's very introverted, it's very inward
looking, it doesn't care about anybody else. It seems to be just
kind of, you know, self help. And, you know, let me hide in my room
and work on myself and I don't care what's going on in the world.
That's completely enough that the attitude of seat off the footage
in it. He said, If Allah subhanaw taala has given you gifts, just
like someone who's been given wealth, in terms of material
wealth, there was as a cat to be paid, right? There's a lot Eva,
there's something you have to pay in order to purify that and show
gratitude to Allah subhanaw taala. Same thing with knowledge. Same
thing with your generosity of soul with your caring with your
compassion. If Allah Allah has put a lot of compassion and Rama in
your heart, he's put it there so that others may benefit from it.
So don't run away from people don't hide from them, don't be
afraid. The prophets I send them welcomed everybody.
Everybody came into the machine, the one who the desert Bedouin who
urinated in the corner of the masjid the one who call the
prophesy somebody's first name, the ones who didn't know anything
about Islam, the ones who were not quite yet Muslim but asking about
it. All of these people were welcome in the circle of Prophet
so I said, and so this I believe, you know, this seed of the
Father's canola he puts a man head she puts a rubber damage program
and methodology by which we can revive this OMA and he did it in
his time. And there are there are lessons to be taken from a
his discourse in particular, that can also be implemented this time,
his level of caring for the welfare of others, his compassion,
his dedication, I think are all very, very noble qualities. And we
ask Allah subhanaw taala to avail us of something of that, and to
bless him and to continue to
make those who study his work and follow his path. And his museum
that has an add in his scale of good deeds and that they continue
for him while he's in the higher level Sofia and the life of the
boss off as we speak right now. And we also want to also lift all
of the trials and afflictions and tribulations everyone's going
through, and to continue to bless you all and to bless us all. So
I'm going to stop here in sha Allah