Walead Mosaad – AlFath alRabbani of Shaykh Abd alQadir alJilani Class 22
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The transcript describes a course on planning and achieving success on achieving success by planning and achieving goals. The course is designed to help people achieve success by planning and achieving their goals, and is designed to help people achieve success by planning and achieving their goals. The importance of striving and struggling in achieving success and outcomes is discussed, and the use of God as a purifying act and the need for people to be aware of their obligations is emphasized. The segment discusses the impact of the law on people, the concept of " pest apocalypse," and the transmission of Islam. The importance of finding a place with God and the divine attributes of the universe to be effective with one's life is emphasized, along with the importance of learning and practicing to be effective with the world. The segment also touches on the concept of "ence" and how it can affect one's behavior. Finally, the transcript describes the importance of accepting circumstances and not just accept it.
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others is very important and profound compilation of 62
discourses lecture sermons of St.
Shephard Allah Maha do not apology learning right along
or we have arrived to the 24th this course. So, the 24th out of
62.
And if we had to choose a general theme,
and we see it in the first few lines of this discourse, this idea
of allotted Vera Mala
salted Vir, which Sudima thought translates as management
to difficult word to translate
because dobara shape means the back of it or the end of it or the
completion of it. So, the idea of Tanveer is to plan, not just plan
but plan I will translate as planning to desired or expected
effect.
The promise is and it is mentioned in some of the way yet to be
wellness from Malaysia.
To view this one measure that we're
effective planning or good planning, or looking towards ahead
at the results of things is half of nations half of livelihood of
half of making a living or seeking a sustenance. There's one
particular book that some of you may be aware of that was written
about the whole idea of Tet viewed
as third wave is spotted via the City
of Ottawa and a secondary who we mentioned often so it's more
famous workers at Hickam but he also also has some other books
like the Azure argues and then we've spotted here then women's
enlightenment in realizing that you cannot have to be at a spot
and it's it's a failed project to do this type of planning to effect
with Allah subhanaw taala. And this book if the book about
not like the secondary if read, kind of on face value.
It's very possible that people will misunderstand what he's
trying to say. And in fact, he has sexing sections in it that really
are very clear that he's not saying that wants you to be
fatalistic and sit in your house and just wait for things to happen
and you know, but what he's been out when he advocates and what
Gene any other line advocates also is to
not to have this codependency of if I would borrow a word from
psychology
you know, an emotional codependency upon what you think
is going to be the outcome of something the expected or desired
results. The results are up to Allah subhanaw taala and we're
trying our striving our say, right, when they said insanity
Lama Sal NSR yo, so for Euro, some ladies out is that an ova that's
what we know. And there is nothing for the person in the masa that
what you strive for which you struggle for oneness I also for
Euro right and you're say you're struggling and you're striving
will be seen by lots of filmmakers that lives alone, just alpha, then
Allah will give you the complete Jazz at the reward. So it's, it's
for the striving. Even TS Eliot, the famous American novelist, I
think and poet, he said that
for us, there's only the trying everything else is left up to God,
which is basically you know, the whole that is a very nice
summation of that meaning, which is we make sci fi we strive we try
but
our codependency upon what we think to be the results in an
emotional way, sets us up for failure.
That's why I thought he called it at 10 we write this then we it is
a spiritual enlightenment elevation. When you realize that
you can't manage with Allah subhanaw taala he's the one who's
managing the affairs for you
So it's futile to try to do that. So yes, we plan and yes, we
make intentions. And we do our best for what we think is the
right thing to do. But ultimately, keep in mind that Allah subhanaw
taala, he is the one who is going to determine how things are going
to turn out, and he's going to determine the outcomes. So for us,
the striving and struggling is the outcome. That's the whole point.
And then the outcome is up to a lot.
not up to us. So you've you've done your part, you've done that
which is meant to live, I mean, that which allows multiple
requests from you by striving and struggling, and that's why we talk
about Jihad and Bottin. Would you have a VA here? Right, the energy
head is that not striving and struggling and or just leaving it
up to Allah for us to kind of purify our intentions and
purifier? No, this is something we have to take an active part in.
And no one else is going to take an active part on our behalf. This
is something we have to do for ourselves. And the whole Eman yet
all the levels in Minnesota and Amen, the McCombs of Amen, and
then Yukon and certainty. All of that also is going to be
predicated on us striving and struggling and making the most out
of things and struggling with our new force, with our egos and our
passions and our appetites and all those things. That's all part of,
you know, the object of life and then we fell off the motorway
hired at the beluga comm a Yukon is anomala the one who was created
in multiple higher deaths and life, Leah beluga, calm, right. So
you may be tested and tried a Yukon asset or Armada and then
your combatant then to determine who is the best amongst you in
terms of deeds in terms of works. So he says in the beginning, but
I'd
like to share equal hackers or Jonathan Beatty he when he been a
full sequel, what he had to call multibuy called what the Hoshi
comb Wolfie recall on him what I can with a lawyer ID and then
we'll call worker could help as a judge, frankly, whether to worship
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kingdom and
the kingdom and anymore when Sakata the kingdom descending
sublimator cannot do this anytime. We have thought about the Mandela
young folk who live in Florida Wow, for who you know behind me
and different viewing me all over Europe, Ron Alonso again, you will
typically be my Usher while
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So just look at that part.
It says do not associate the lord of truth
in his TED beer, or here he says planning and his knowledge is in
with your own cells and the foods, your passions, your Weir, and your
natural impulses, your TBR and be aware of your duty to Him when
were you and others are concerned.
Certain wise man made the mercy of Allah be upon him or his board I'm
saying comply with the will of the Lord of truth and have in relation
to creatures and do not comply with their wishes in relation to
him. Whatever gets broken, gets broken over gets restored gets
restored. We saw this phrase before from sheer because I'm in
Castle angiogram and in Java, Jonnie if
the will of Allah that is going to happen, whether we accepted or not
accepted, so over acceptance will be broken and whoever gets
restored will become restored. Learn compliance with the will of
the Lord of truth from his righteous servants who do complain
otherwise seek out exemplars, seek out mentors examples, who will
show you how to effectively actualize that. So it remains mere
kind of theoretical
ideas until we actually see people who show us how to live it. And
that's why I think many many questions usually arise about this
particular subject in particular, because we have very few examples
in front of us to kind of show us that balance between
tend to be until actually right between your own sort of planning
and how you do it and what code and then how to, you know, rely on
Allah subhanaw taala and you know, I have been my personally I've
been very, very, very fortunate and humbled that I've seen
that just wondering
Two or three or four. But I consider myself extremely
fortunate. I've seen many examples of people I believe, who have this
balance of documented view. And the last thing I would describe
any of them as would be lazy, or fatalistic, or just sitting around
waiting for things to happen, actually, I see them as non stop.
I've traveled with some of these people and spent a significant
amount of time with him. And I can't keep up with them in terms
of their schedule, in terms of, you know, all the things that they
do during the whole day, and the things in their bed and their
worship at night. And all of the people who are dependent upon them
and all of the needs that they're seeking to address.
These are the people that I consider to be our exemplars and,
you know, the best that mankind and humankind has to offer right
now. And I consider them to be the audience of Allah subhanaw taala.
And that's what I see from them. And not what one would
assume to be the case, just going by the face value of the words,
don't have any idea. Just rely on a lot, you know, think about
yourself, and it gives you an impression, if you miss read it,
that there's this type of, you know, insular,
isolationist idea around this discipline of spiritual sciences,
or the soul, that is not concerned about the world that condemns the
world that leaves the world to the people of the world, and the those
who are passionate about the world and us, for us, the people who
have the asset, oh, we're just concerned about data and the rest
of them can, you know, basically, go to help for lack of a better
way to say it. That's not the case. What I've seen when I've
seen it, actualized and in practice, know there is a great,
great concern for the world. In other words, for the OMA for the
people who inhabit the world for humanity in general. And I know
these people who who stay up at night thinking about the plight of
the OMA and in them I see the the Mohammed attributes I see the
Prophet Muhammad twice and also, he is the one who's the progenitor
of all of this and they're the inheritors and he is the one who
had this
him right, this this if the man this aspiration and concern for
the whole Ummah and his refrain all the time with the almighty
Almighty. He didn't really say the word no, he didn't say the word I
write is concerned with viewed the microbiome, so forth. So
this idea then is in order to be able to to be effective with the
world right to be effective with it or to be effective with the
community, your heart has to be in the right place. And your heart
has to be in a place with a lot has to be a place with God has to
be in place with the divine miracle of life all around you and
the envy and the revealing and the enveloping of the Divine
Manifestations of the divine attributes all around you
constantly all the time. Right and so their job really is with the
last one they're discourses with Allah subhanaw taala even though
they're talking to me and you in words we can understand, but
really they're talking to Allah. And really, Allah is the one
talking so I lost my entire the whole
Academy, right he's one speaking and one will follow up and he is
the one receiving the discourse. Last one alto executive homeschool
oh and Hamid horn Mohammed, this is this idea of finat right idea
of being extinct or annihilating the, you know, the the paltry
human comings and goings and attributes would be lower call and
then being elevated to a point where habitable machmood Decker
homeschool, the one who praises the one who's being praised the
one who is remembering and hit the one who is the object of
remembrance.
So, then he says Learn compliance with the will of the Lord have
truth from his righteous servants who do comply. As we said,
exemples knowledge is meant to be put in practice not just memorized
and transmitted to the people, you must study and practice and teach
others if you learn and then practice knowledge will speak on
your behalf. Even if you are silent, more will be said by the
tongue of action than a said by the tongue of knowledge. This is
why a certain wise man and other one perhaps the same one as you
mentioned before, may the Mercy of Allah Subhan Allah be upon him has
said if a person's glass Allah healthier gives you no benefit is
serving and while will give you no benefit. This is a very very deep
and important statement when the environment then we have our luffa
who later fell on wild
so here we're talking about you know as a method a secondary said
Mundo Munich Allah when Hidaka Allah high level but I don't I
don't work. All right, that's a song that don't take as a
companion, one who state does not inspire you to Allah
How to Allah and want to speech. Ladies while Allah Muhammad Rasul
Allah in his speech does not indicate her point to Allah. And
another mahalo that we said, Woman Telok Allah Allah, Allah NASA
hack, and the one who is pointing towards Allah and leading you
towards the last month Allah offered not so hard they have
given you
true and sincere counsel.
So
this law then the person's glance, what does that mean?
It means, you know, the face. Physical face is the most noble
part of the creative being.
Right Would you open your mouth even though the law is on our
behalf now zero, right, radiant faces gazing upon the Lord. This
is going to be the hardened account the plight of those of the
FCO Insha Allah, all of us that we will, that we will be blessed with
another way of getting to gaze upon the countenance of God. Right
so our faces and then the countenance of God in a manner
that's commensurate with Allah subhanaw taala that's the most
face to face encounter one could ever hope for so the face carries
meaning and carries a message and
CMAT on free would you call him an offer is to do it I see a healthy
with their signs are there will you harm their faces when Arthur
Institute from the effect of their prostrations only their prayer,
the thicker the light in their face. So that means if someone's
had that has now come out and affected the law here. So the any
sphere to the bottom, right?
You saw our unwavering desire. So, a VOD on one litre bottle, the
vial is an address to the bottom right to what's the internal
spiritual state. So if someone has this interior, internal spiritual
state, and they've had this process of spiritual purification,
then it will come out on the wire.
And that's why it can even affect how personal actually looks to
other people, they may have very conventional features, for
example, in terms of facial features, but because of their,
their bolting there, there's something about them that is that
draws wanting them right and, and gives one hope and gives one
sees aspects of mercy and compassion and so forth just from
the face. So if the love, that's one meaning, right, and if they
don't carry that, that within their in their face and their
countenance, then whatever they say is not going to work, because
it's just words, right? If they if they haven't actually imbibed it,
and lived it and experienced it, and they're talking about it, then
it's not going to have much effect on you. Because,
you know, the heart will pick up on weight, those are just words
coming out, I'm not affected.
Whereas if they come from the heart, and then they are seen in
the Buju, then we know that this comes from
a good place and came from almost fell down. And also another way to
look at it, Allah health means that they're not just talking at
you, they're talking to you and for your own concern and for your
own welfare. So if the law has means there's also a gaze from the
lies, right, from the one who is giving admonition, the one who's
speaking, that,
you know, the, that informs us of their concern, true concern, in
other words, to sit right through sincerity, in the welfare, the
spiritual well being in the welfare of those he means or she
means to address and to talk to.
Otherwise, if that's not there, in the law, health in the glands, and
again, he's talking at us, right, he's got words to say, and he's
got to get them out. And he has to impress us with how fluent and
Farsi and eloquent that they are and kind of getting them out but
they're not really talking to us. Right, and they're not talking for
us, and they're not talking on our behalf. They're talking at us. So
the message is directed in our direction, but it's not getting to
the place we're supposed to go. So for persons glance, Allah has
given me no benefit his sermon as long as will give you the benefit.
When someone puts his knowledge into practice, both he and others
should derive benefit from his knowledge because Allah subhanaw
taala makes me utter whatever he wishes according to the States, I
aware of those present with me. Otherwise there would be hostility
between me and you.
This is his fifth speaker, apology learning and
this is true for those who've seen it. In other words,
The words that come out, are not based upon sort of a selection on
the part of the speaker to see how charismatic they could be or how
many followers they can gain or how many fans they can bring
about. And, you know, they're not sitting in necessarily a focus
group beforehand to see how the words should be constructed and
how the speech should be written. And to address this particular
demographic, and that particular demographic, as we find in let's
say, conventional, at least political lecture room today,
right, because they're soliciting actually, their solicitor if they
want something from you, for them, right, they don't want you for
you. They want you for them. And so they want you to vote for them
or they want you to
pay for tickets to go see them speak or whatever it might be. But
if they want you for you, right, and they're sitting within their
sincerity in them, then the words that they're uttering are not
their words, their words and sha Allah will be inspired wouldn't
him from a loss penalty either because Allah sometimes put them
in that place he's given them the member right and we read this in a
previous discourse back to one before this one. The last one I
thought you makin home right there's this Temkin. So when Allah
you McCune Okay, right. So means it gives you gives you the Macan.
Here's your Macan, here's your place, and your places to address
these people and act on my behalf on behalf of the last battle data
and also on behalf of the province Marxism as a narrative that as a
representative to bring people to Allah subhanaw taala. So when
someone puts his knowledge into practice, both you and others
should derive benefit, because the one speaking is also the one being
addressed.
So the one speaking is also the one who is benefiting and they
should, if they're not the first ones benefiting from the words of
what's being said, and they feel like they don't apply to them more
than anyone else, then no one will benefit, no one will derive
benefit. But if the words are being said or truly inspired, and
they're coming from Allah subhanaw taala then they're addressed to
the person to the speaker themselves before the guests
anybody else.
And so, then both he and others should derive benefit from his
knowledge because the last one what Allah makes me Archer,
whatever he wishes according to the states, well, of those present
with me. So depending upon the people who are present, also Allah
somehow inspire for the right words to be sent in the right
moment to the right audience. And this is just a subset of the if of
Mohamed Salah sentiment of the inheritance that they get from a
promissory so if they're in a have a clear Senate and unbroken chain
of transmission. And they learned from teachers who heard from
teachers and so forth, going back to the Prophet commissar send them
in this unbroken chain of transmission, where there was not
just written transmission and oral transmission, all Ral, but also
oral au Ral, so the oral or the had transmission, all sorts
transmitted from one to the next to the next to the next, and so
forth. And we also see this one shift talks about dead, right
substitutes, literally. So that L is someone who is a full Muslim
has a high rank with a loss of added minimal loss on him. And
once one of them goes, or passes away, or moves away, then there's
one to replace them. That's why they're called an epithet. And so
from one to the next to the next. So this is kind of the state of
transmission, that Allah subhanaw taala chooses, as we said earlier,
by which to preserve this deen and preserve the knowledge of this
unit to preserve the practice of this deem.
So then, otherwise, he said, there'll be hostility between me
and you, right? Because if, if I see you with maybe cash of the
shift speaking, and I see the, you know, the, you know, the hypocrisy
and the lack of sincerity and a lack of discipline, and all those
sorts of things, I might get agitated by that. But last night,
I thought it puts him in a place of tranquility and compassion,
because this is what the people need to be to hear. And as we
said, there were 10s of 1000s of people, according to some of the
things I read, who used to come out to these discourses of
Chicago, the apology, then we'll get on with it in Baghdad and
Baghdad at the time was the the premier capital,
not just of the Muslim lands of the Muslim empire, or the or the
Besut caliphate, but premier capital of the world. No other
city in the world, has many inhabitants or had as many
books in the library, that number in the millions according some
reports, or have as much knowledge production, not just religious
knowledge production, but knowledge production in many, many
fields, as Baghdad did in those centuries, in its heyday, as it
were. And so, so despite all of you know, let's call it pomp and
circumstance that the sheikh Hamza
are in Baghdad he said the only reason I came up to Baghdad is for
you guys. Otherwise why would I want to be in Baghdad, Baghdad I
would be, you know, back home and Gilan or it'd be somewhere on a
more remote provincial town that, you know I can have more of, or is
there more of an isolation and more of kind of easier
environment by which to worship Allah subhanaw taala. But what
brought him to Baghdad, his concern for the OMA right it was a
capital of the world at the time. And so that's what brought him out
of it that his concern for this OMO Mohammed Salah center, and
that's one of the SIFAT
of the air of the Mohammed in legacy of the earth of Muhammad
cisilion that you have this true concern for all the Hulk for
humanity in general.
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he says oh your man according to the extent so page 158 Those who
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Oh young man according to the extent of your aspiration your him
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you will receive
keep your heart far removed from everything apart from the Lord of
truth, so that you may draw nearer to him, die to yourself and to
creatures, more Tanka one.
And the veils between you and your Lord will be removed, right,
because the veil is one of your own doing. It's one that you put
up yourself. So remove them and you'll find that a lot is already
there. You don't have to travel that far.
Die to adherence to your lower self, your passions, your natural
impulses in your habits, die to adherence to people and their
material means there is beb despair of them, and give up
idolizing them. Right. A shift convenient and when I will use the
idolize word like in a positive sense, I realize that guy or
idolize that singer or idolize that basketball player, you know,
what does that mean? You made an idol of them like yeah, actually,
that's you spending a lot of time thinking about them and their
exploits and their statistics and buying their, you know,
downloading their music on iTunes and whatever people do that for
sort of idealization all of that energy that you throw into that,
how the rubella matters should be idolized, after that extent, die
to the quest for anything apart from the Lord of truth, that all
your deeds be for the sake of the countenance of Allah which you can
seem not to seek his blessings, right? In other words, don't make
it transactional. Don't say I give you something you give me
something. What are you giving a lot, he doesn't have it. You don't
you don't have anything that he needs. So he's there you for you.
Not, not for him. So that means everything about you should be
devotional, devote yourself to a loss sincerely, without seeking
anything in return. Be happy to accept his TED beer. Right now he
uses the word management, his degree, his culture and his
workings is a fad. If you do this, you will not yourself will be
brought to life in him. Right, then this
this new force will work with the law and all of these other things
will become weaker and weaker and weaker. They will not go
completely but they will cease to have the you know overwhelming and
overpowering effect upon you.
Your heart will become His abode. Now your heart is all for Allah
subhanaw taala had another Allah this is what Allah gazes upon. He
will transform it as he may wish it will come to be within the cab
of His nearness. Right. Carla means Marquez mean central point
direction of something. So it kava for us is the direction of prayer
platelets Salah right, but the kava of
unwary that the kava of enough a hat the kava have a known as the
that those things that allow puts directly inspires into your heart.
The Calvary is your heart right that's what has to be ready to
receive it.
So, just like the Meccan, calla had many idols 360 islands around
it and when Allah when Allah Subhan Allah send the prophesy
send them a hammock and the conquest of Mecca to liberate
Mecca, he also liberated from the idols. And it said in the read all
you have to do is point to one and they burst and
crumbled into rock or pebble or wherever they were made of wood,
and all 360 of them. So he liberated the kava, from all of
that idolatry. We have to liberate our kava from idolatry too. So
this is our kava and here, liberate it, remove all the idols,
right, remove all of the anxiety, remove all of the dilemma to
decay, the false concerns or the or the frivolous concerns with
things that Shangela Jana hilarya Anik right with things that don't
concern, you
know, move all of that,
you know, stop looking on the pandemic websites and seeing how
many people are affected how people are dying, and this is all
adding to anxiety and has nothing to do about it. Just you know,
take your own precautions in yourself, what are what can Allah
but you know this, this kind of thirst for all sorts of
information, both both true and false and opinions and back and
forth and key that and Pong can all be you know, they're all sorts
of idols that will be hindrances around the heart, right and we're
waiting to receive enough perhaps from all spelled out we want the
meanings we want all of these beautiful blessings and things so
forth. So liberate your heart, liberate your cabinet.
So it will come to be within the cabinet of His nearness, clean to
its drapes, remembering him and forgetting everything apart from
him. The key to Paradise is saying there is no God but Allah,
Mohammed is Allah's Messenger, right, today and tomorrow, through
your becoming extinct or fernet to you to others and everything apart
from him, while continuing to observe the rules of the sacred
law or do the Shut up the newness of Lord of truth, as the garden is
the garden of paradise of the Lord's people and remoteness from
him, is their fire. That's, that's the idea. So what is the agenda
and Kohlberg called it Allah, that's the true paradise, even in
the next life, because all of the things all of the delights at all
is one that is promising for us. What really should
give in Shira right to give like expansion to the heart is that
all of these things a lot more data, there are a sign of his real
law that Allah is pleased with you are the 101 there you can even
share up there. So Allah is pleased with you. So he's giving
all of these things anything you want anything you can think about.
You can have it right in the Paradise.
So that's not the thing of itself. Has you had the NAM all of these
blessings. But the idea that the morning I am the one who is the
restore of such blessings has offered them to you to begin with.
Rather they did have a pump with a last resort. And this is a sign
that there is right that you're in Allah's riddle that he's pleased
with you.
And then the opposite is true. Then the remoteness from him is
the true hellfire, even in the Hellfire in the next life. They
say the flames themselves yes, they burn and they will, to the
degree that if they're burning on your feet, or soldiers or feet
that your brain will boil now as it lemons adequate to protect us
from that. But what is really even more of that Zab is that you're
cut off the remoteness from Allah subhanaw taala that that in itself
is a sign of the emotional hospital. And also you will suffer
all of this in isolation. People don't realize that with the common
depictions of Hellfire is like all of these people like you know,
screaming and yelling and well at least there's a big group of us
who will kind of commiserate, no, we will not commiserate, you will
be all by yourself. It will be a very dark, ugly,
horrible existence. May Allah protect us from that, but that
will not let you or that you carefully this is what we take off
and it was not made for us was made for people who reject God.
But May Allah protect us either way.
So the remoteness in Ward right being far away
So there's there's a type of * also in life, which is a robot,
which is to feel far, far away from, from that far away from
nearness score, that is the true paradise was born. The remoteness
is a true Hellfire even in this life. So what when really people
get, and I believe this, when people get in a very dejected
state and get very down on themselves and things like this, I
think it goes back to the idea of, I don't know where my place is,
with a lot, I feel like I'm far away, and I want to feel close, or
I'm not feeling that closeness. And then we try to,
you know, to, to, to make up for that, that void in different ways.
Right, and sometimes, unfortunately, can go to, you
know, ways that are toxic or poisonous in the way that we can
try to fill that void. And sometimes there are healthier ways
to fill that void, like with human companionship and so forth. But it
doesn't actually fill it in the way that is nurturing and
sustainable, and ultimately
healthy in the long run. So long run meaning both in this life and
in the next life. So I just want to
finish by looking at
one section that I liked, finish off on page 161,
which is the last paragraph
it says seek help from the Lord of truth Allah azza wa jal returned
to him with the feet of remorse and apology, so that he may
deliver you from the hands of your enemies and rescue you from the
depths of the sea of your destruction. Ponder the
consequences of what you are now involved in that it may be easy
for you to give it up. You are shaded by the tree of
forgetfulness, get out of its shadow, then you may see the light
of the sun and recognize the path. The tree of forgetfulness is
nourished by the water of ignorance.
While the tree of wakefulness is nourished by the water of
repentance, the damage and the Tree of Love muhabba is nourished
by the water of compliance or more Fatah
condemned Jamil, look at how it says it. Get out of the shadow of
the shadow forgetfulness, right because it casts a long shadow
when you're in a state of remissive forgetfulness. In other
words, board, remoteness from Allah subhanaw taala get out of
the shadow, then you may see the light of the sun, the moon in
there, and recognize the path. So this tree of forgetfulness is
nourished by the water of ignorance, so cut off that water
of Jahad right of
motive,
reactive emotions and, and that sort of thing and ignorance get
out of that stop watering that part.
The tree of wakefulness is nourished by
the water of repentance and Nadella. Right which could also
mean remorse.
So, as long as you are cognizant, and aware and remorseful and feel
like you, there's things you need to do and it gives you like a, an
inspiration right into heart, then your work will do it. So you will
remain wakeful. In this sense. Subhanallah the word woke today is
used in a completely different way. You know, people are woke
when they're awake to everybody else's faults except their own
lab. Of course, people have faults, but begin with your own
faults, your own shortcomings your own,
you know, deficiencies, your own failings, then, if you get a
handle on that, then you'll be in a better position to help people
with their faults rather than condemning everybody around you.
Look, be woke to your own faults first. So the tree of wakefulness,
nourished by the water of repentance and the Tree of Love,
you don't even have that fear of love of who are the last minutes.
Of course, he's nourished by the water of compliance or more
Ephrata, or I would say it's the slum, or acquiescence or accepting
of the Divine Decree, and accepting of the circumstances,
although sometimes put your way, then you'll have real law, you'll
have content, you'll have ease, and then a lot of small towns will
use you in the way that you were meant to be used. khulumani. So on
the Mahalia kala everybody has been created for the path that
Allah facilitated for them. And that path is going to be as yours.
It's going to seek you more than you seek it, is looking for you
more than you're looking for it. Whatever walk in life that you're
supposed to occupy whatever you're supposed to be doing at this
particular time, or 10 years from now or two months from now, the
last one time is going to occupy doing it just accept it, and go
with it. And do it to the best that you can accept a circumstance
have the proper adamant advocate and all of that word, and all of
the seasons of trial and tribulation of bliss and a
blessing that you're going to go through that we all go through.
Maintain that and you will find
shot a lot the end of the pay and the way it ended the path that
will smoke out it will be closer to you than you could have ever
imagined 100 Negative without me