Walead Mosaad – AlFath alRabbani of Shaykh Abd alQadir alJilani Class 45
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The speakers discuss the importance of the heart and the use of the Hulk in relation to the heart's value and desire. They stress the need for trusting relationships and avoiding irritation. The speakers also touch on the negative consequences of actions that are not aligned with one's values and the importance of building a "overarching human condition" to achieve success and achieve success in life.
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we are
swiftly approaching the last third of Ramadan. This is the 19th night
for many of us. May Allah subhanaw taala accept our deeds and accept
our fasting and accept our however that I will say, our striving to
try to get closer to him.
And we have had the baraka and the blessing over the past nearly two
months or so to be reading from I've had Hava Benny was laid off
menu this evening mohideen of the Father. Gilani are on the law and
who will be reading from the sublime revelation and the divine
merciful outpourings of a chef Alana mohideen of the followers
you learning, arguably the greatest
chef, not just his generation, but of crafts his century and beyond.
And it wasn't because he left behind necessarily
great literary works, or he was that prolific.
In the books that he left behind that we can read the probably
number
10 to 15 or less, the others were more. But generally, there are two
types of Orlova. And sometimes there's crossover between them.
Now the types of automat who write prolifically, and their words then
carry on via their books.
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other others. And then there are some of the we didn't write so
prolifically. But they left behind those who embodied and carried
their message and then transmitted to others. So really, we say Benno
rejet, they built men or they built human beings, who then would
transmit that message, and then it will proliferate. And I think
ology learning is one of those people
was able to do that, even though he wrote as well, even though I
remember because Eddie and others also left behind students, but
their legacy is more properly acknowledged and recognized, via
the works that they wrote were set up ecology learning.
I would estimate that the legacy is in the students that he had,
and the many, many people that he reached within were able to take
his message and spread it very far and wide. And now we we speak of
people who follow the fatherly way or the the way, obviously an
apology learning from all over the globe, from Sri Lanka to
the Middle East, to North Africa, to Malaysia to Indonesia,
West Africa, East Africa, Sub Saharan South Africa, Egypt,
Libya, so forth. So
that is a delene. It's an indication that he was more Fuck,
he was given divine success and divine providence on Long Island.
So we've reached the
52nd discourse out of 62. So it seems that corresponding to the
days of Ramadan internally about Tennessee's left, and perhaps
about 10 or 11 Days and nights are normal enough that we hope in sha
Allah to help to try to finish it for them available, if possible.
So I'm going to
read from something in the middle because I'm going to skip to the
53rd discourse.
And he has something here about Taqwa that I found
very profound. He says, Don't bother him.
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So this is page 330 And like the third paragraph down, he said one
of the wise may Allah be pleased with him as important as having
said, the real meaning of pious devotion of Taqwa is that if you
were to gather up everything that is in your heart, set it on an
uncovered tray, and then walk around, walk all around the market
with it, there would be nothing there to make you feel in any way,
embarrassed, or ignorant one as if it were not enough that you are
pious. When someone tells you to Observe your duty through a law,
you get angry. When someone tells you the truth, you treat what you
hear is insignificant. And then if someone criticizes you, you feel
enraged and take your rage out on him.
The commander of the believers on top of the line who is recorded as
having said if a person has piracy voted to Allah, He does not turn
his rage.
So, this meaning of Taqwa means,
of course, it Hamdulillah this is not true. Also all of us have been
lots of trouble, people can see what was actually going on in our
heart. But to get to a place
of Taqwa of piety of God consciousness, that we will have
nothing that will be embarrassed about. And he puts it in terms of
people because that's kind of more palpable example, but obviously,
last month, I had a home polyarticular she was about either
or Markham and Quinton was with us, wherever we are, wherever we
go. He sees everything that we do. And so,
he is the one that we should fear, he is the one that we should start
he meant to feel shame, and embarrassed for him, that he
should find us in a place other than that, which He has commanded
us to. And that he should not find us where he has commanded us to.
There should be a stat yet. So Dunkwa they have a definition for
it. They say it's avoiding prohibitions and doing the
commandments in terms of Acts. And in terms of the feeling in the
heart, this is what the ship is referring to here. This feeling of
is
of higher of feeling, shame and feeling.
Sorry, that someone especially normal, namely Allah subhanaw
taala should see you in a compromising position. And then
there's different levels of Taqwa. So,
taqwa loop
you know, and the Quran talks about that, what
are your thoughts on working Tamar? Kobuleti, for small, so
it's not the the eyes that are blind, right, but it is the
blindness of the heart that can be blind. And this is what the Sheikh
was talking about in our previous session fits with blue. Right or
for Sahil Kulu so the eloquence of the heart means it's heart that's
alive, I can understand things see reality as it is.
You know, I'm perturbed and undamaged, by, you know, the
comings and goings, and the,
the ups and the downs and the light and the darkness and the,
you know, the the pity, you know, the
paltry nests of everyday life and the piano and the pod and he said
this, and she said that, and I heard this about this person, but
oh, you know what they said this about you. And so all these things
for the Pope and how your husband will stay live, for the height and
the heart that's alive, the heart that is awake.
The heart that has fossa, right that has this eloquence, these
things don't really penetrate sway that they don't get to, you know,
the Sameen they don't get to the, the,
the innermost part of the animals part of the heart of the seer, the
ruler who we actually are, and he gives us some signs of how do we
know where we're at. And the Quran tells us with Athena how tough it
is to witness it.
If it's up to them with tequila, it's not enough to have a lot on
offer that is to will is right they feel dignified. How can we
say tequila? Will you say that to me? Right after that? Well Is that
reasonable is like the chef is saying here, someone tells you to
have Taqwa of Allah, then you feel angry with them like, well, who
are you to tell me that? And why are you saying that? I fear of a
lie, saying that I'm already sure a lot. And then look at yourself,
how what are you doing? Exactly. So, you know, we go through all of
these kinds of motions and so forth when we,
when people, you know,
mentioned something to us about our own individual piety. And it
was the way of the IFP in the way of law, that they would not recoil
at such things. In fact, they would, they would welcome it
because it would be,
it's validating what they already feel in their heart, they don't
feel like they're all that for a while.
And they feel that someone is sending them on whenever they
attend, be allowed to send the reminder to you. So I'm going to
remind you, and sometimes this reminder, can come in a very nice
form, right can come and someone who's maybe really concerned for
your welfare, and says it in a very delicate way. And in a very
engaging way in a way that you can hear it and gives you the
admonition in a manner that your heart accepts it, and you want to
act upon it. And we wish that that was always the case, we wish that
always people will come and approach us and be tender and
caring, so forth like that. But it's not always going to be like
that. Sometimes they will come in a way that is grading. And
sometimes that even borders on just
irritating and agitating. And it seems like they may have a
personal stake of vendetta in it. And so they're kind of sticking it
to you. Don't let that deter you or repel you from at least hearing
them out. And considering what they have to say. And remember
that as Ernie said, this is one of the ways that we can know about
our value, but know about our shortcomings. Sometimes we can
hear from a friend, sometimes we can hear from a mentor or a chef.
Sometimes we can hear it from
just by mixing with people and seeing, you know, similar
attributes that we may be doing or behaviors and we see and others
and then we require that that say, oh, do I look like that when you
know when I'm backbiting somebody that I sound so gossipy and
horrible and I want to stop doing that. And he said sometimes also
it can come on the tongue of someone you consider not to be
like a friend, but maybe an adversary.
You know what, what the call today may be frenemy, right, someone
who's, you know, peer or something of yours and you get along but
also there's kind of like, unspoken competition, and there's
kind of like sticking it back and forth. And that sort of thing.
Might even be a sibling or brother or sister or something like that.
So
because it says don't let that deter you from at least
considering the plausibility
that what they have to say may have some truth to it. And even
said Where there's smoke there's usually fire so yes, perhaps they
went overboard maybe they embellish it a bit maybe they do
have a personal kind of thing against you, but that shouldn't
be the reason you dismiss whatever particular gripe that they may
have with you. So always the corn
and NFC fallen into nothingness, going manners and enough SEC is
what they used to teach us. So be with people against yourself.
Right? So they have something to say then be their advocate, you
know, try to sound like it's like stepping outside yourself and
being on the other side and say, Oh, you're saying this, this and
this about me. But it's not about me now I'm looking at as like a
third person.
Maybe that's possible, maybe I should consider that maybe that's
something to think about. so forth.
And that we
we can have a smoother road to our own Taqwa. We have to
consider that.
You know as we mentioned in the previous session, with our
awareness and our nowhere he in commands and prohibitions left
that you will cover right we don't say this was the color of a law
that I disobeyed a lot. But we say this was my fault by mistake and I
need to do better next time but when we look to others, then we
should give them an excuse and be more lenient by saying well that's
their shaitan he pushed them over the edge or their knifes was
strong and you know they kind of lost out this time and you know to
try to
soften the the the Davina you know the kinda like an
At that you may feel towards somebody because of the way that
they may have managed their relationship with you. And that's
more looking at things behind and happy o'clock. Right. So looking
at that, really they don't operate by themselves, they're merely
instruments of the Divine Will. And so when they're talking to
you, or dealing with you look at as a last gen, if you've given you
with under the layers of humanity that you're looking at, under the
flesh and the bone and the nerves and the soul, that's still the
last final data who's sending you that message. And that's how the
LDS operate. So they would say, you know, if they found
that hook, or difficult
interaction they had with a child of theirs, or a spouse, or even
with their animal, you know, that was that they write their mouth,
they wouldn't bleed the animal, they wouldn't blame the spouse or
their child, they would say, Oh, let me review my deeds.
You know, there's something off, something's off today, because I
am off, perhaps I did something wrong, perhaps I was,
I had made the mistake. And you know, Charlo, the higher that you
are in your MACOM. And the more sensitive you become to these
things, and the more clearly that you will see it, and the more
readily, you'll begin to see things that way rather than
becoming irritable and annoying with everybody around you. Because
that is a type of Axelrod law, it is a type of objection to the
Divine Decree of Allah subhanaw taala. When that occurs, right,
when you become so like in a bad place in a dark place, and be
irritated because of what people say what people don't say, or if
they act nice to you, they don't act nice to you. That's why it's
really really
sad, essential and important that we shore up our relationship with
Allah subhanaw taala, above all else, all those other
relationships then will be refracted via the relationship
with God. And his relationship with Allah subhanaw taala is
productive, it's Bountiful, it's
intimidating, the sense that we're thinking about a lot all the time
and to the degree, lay everyone. Right? But he never actually
leaves the presence, you always feel like you're in the Divine
Presence. It is a type of existence that is the ultimate say
the iPhone, if the MacBook if the kings and sultans knew about it,
they would fight us with their sports over it, to have something
like that. Right?
On our budget, or whoever takes it knows about it and has seen it.
And it's something that can only come about for you though, you
want can explain it over and over again, but it's very difficult to
explain unless one has experienced some of that. So our Lea this is
what they tell us our teachers at once should
you know immerse themselves into divine
presence as it is all around us anyway, to begin with, but to to
strive and to struggle and to try to fulfill the commandments and
avoid the prohibitions and have a good opinion of Allah subhanaw
taala have a good opinion of the Hulk have a good opinion of people
and then in sha Allah you will get there
so one more thing, I think in this
chapter or this discourse
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so he says this is towards the end
HB 33 Second paragraph says, oh your man, obviously the addresses
everybody. Attend to your own needs. Be useful to yourself and
then to others. Do not be like the candle that burns itself out,
while providing light for others.
To not embark on something on account of you, your passions,
your howa and your lower self, your knifes when the Lord of truth
wants you for some purpose, he will equip you for it. If he
wishes you to be useful to his creatures, he will send you back
to them. He will give you firmness and courtesy for dealing with them
as well as strength to endure the trouble they cause. You will make
room in your heart for creatures you will open your breast wide and
fill it with the elements of wisdom of Hickam He will take care
of your inner and gladden your innermost being your city. So now
we'll be happy, not to you. Shortly I've heard his words on
xojo Oh David we have a point of view as a visceral and earth in
Angelica.
He did not say you have appointed yourself. Thus the people of the
world have no will have their own no personal preference, or a
simply at the disposal of the commandment of the hub of Lord is
true of the word of truth, his action, his management and His
will or you have deviated from the straight path do not offer any
pretext where you have no evidence to show.
The highway is right in front of you. What is lawful Halal is quite
clean and what is unlawful Haram is also quite plain. How imprudent
you are toward allah how little you is how little is your fear him
and how great your disdain for his site the province is and reporting
of said, Fear Allah as you see him if you've not see him she surely
sees you or tablet Allah worship Allah if you see my thing because
anyway.
The people of wakefulness have seen Allah with their hearts. So
they're scattered fragments have come together
they have been poured into a mold and become one single item. The
barriers between them and him are tumbling down the outer structures
them of any have been demolished and the inner contents Mahony
remain
the links have been disconnected
between them and if any, that which is not really there of the
dunya and the Lord's have attention to him alone. Then when
this process is completed, he is in a situation which now I
know sorry, the Lord's links have been connected, disconnected in
the Lord's have been disposed to they have nothing left apart from
the Lord of truth, they have no speech, they have no movement and
no joy in anything until they have generally experienced this. So,
when this really comes about, the match was settled where they are
concerned.
First, they leave the slavery or the rest of this world and
servitude or will do to it then they leave behind everything
whatsoever apart from ad hoc,
they do not cease have the unit with Him and in His house, put to
the to and they are put to the test, that we may show you may see
how you behave for any envelope. kafer TAMIU.
There must being as the king the heart is the hub is his chief
minister while the lower self the tongue and other organs are
servants in the presence of these two. The innermost being draws its
water from the ocean of the lord of truth. The heart draws its
water from the innermost being from the seer and the tranquil
self enough, similar enough now it's beyond that low Emma Smith in
draws its water from the heart. The tongue draws its water from
the lower self, and the other limbs and organs draw their water
from the tongue. If the tongue is sound, the heart will be sound.
But if the one is corrupt, the other will also be corrupt. Your
tongue needs the bridle of pious devotion taqwa and turning
repentance from irrational speech and hypocrisy.
If you persevere and this, the eloquence of the tongue will be
transformed into the eloquence of the heart.
Then when this process is completed, it will be enlightened
and the light will be transmitted from it to the tongue, and the
other parts of the body. At this stage, speaking with the tongue
brings nearness and one was in a state of newness of code has no
language, no prayer of supplication and no remembrance.
Prayer, remembrance and speech are in distance part because they
emanate from the heart, not from the tongue. In newness, there's
only silence. In other words, to what Nina stillness, quietness,
contentment, and enjoyment of division. So the show
Can these I read all of this because all of it is very
important, beginning from the part one who said, term attend to your
own needs be useful to yourself and then to others. And I think
this is especially important and poignant today,
where we have many, many Muslims who are extremely well
intentioned, they think and
very
active and looking to change the world and bring good into the
world. And, you know, seeing everything around them. And so we
have this kind of, you know, activist, Muslim kind of paradigm
today. And
I think that's, it could be a very positive thing. But oftentimes, if
it's not done right, then it winds up just being a sort of, as Dr.
Rocky Milan said, recently, part of a grievance culture, part of
just complaining. And you know, and Muslims become just so mired
in securing what they think to be their rights, like, you know, make
sure we have 100 food and university cafeteria, and
it's okay, that we can wear hijab and go to department store, if
anybody harassing us. And,
you know, let's motivate everybody and get out, get the vote going
and make sure we, you know, vote for the right candidates and
become Civic, civic minded and activist. And so all that is good.
I'm not saying that none of that is it's needed. But what is the
impetus behind it? How is it being propelled what's motivating it? If
it just cons, its current science, like it's coming out of just
grievances and complaining, and we just wind up being this kind of
special interest group that is looking to make sure it gets its
piece of the pie in the general greater whether it's American
culture, or European culture or Australian culture. And, you know,
this kind of applies more to Muslims in the West, I think so.
So I use those are those examples, versus, you know, the events of
the past few months, this pandemic has laid bare to us, all of the
myriad issues that all of humanity is facing that is going to put us
in a lot of trouble. And so I think, rather than just picking
and choosing things that seem applicable or
specific to us, as of the Muslim body as a group, humanity needs
us, humanity needs us to provide solutions. And those solutions are
not going to be in, you know, the fairly mundane of Halloween meat
and beard lines, and hijab and all the other things that we tend to
kind of get worked over about, but it's going to be in fixing, and
rectifying the bottom, right? people's souls are suffering.
People know they're suffering, they don't know why they're
suffering, they know something's not right in the neck, they can't
put their finger on it. And so we've come to an age where we
think the, the amelioration of the law ahead of the exterior is going
to give us that satisfaction. So the proliferation of plastic
surgery and
the narcissism associated with it with social media and put people
putting their private information out and the pictures and all these
things are all indicative or symptomatic of something that's
kind of a greater whole is trying to be filled, which is leaving the
hole that's within the soul. And so we don't want to just say the
right words, because we're charismatic, and we're creative,
and we theorize correctly, we want to be more fuck, right? We want to
be people who are going to be the eyes in the ears and the tongue of
God, as mentioned Hadith, footsy. Right, when we get too close to
all of our data with that which he has on us, and then they do the no
effort and a lot smarter than we are, then Allah loves us. And then
it becomes the eyes, the ears, the tongue of the hand, the fourth, by
which we act.
That's what we want to get to. And this is what the Sheikh is trying
to say. So he says, she's definitely been Africa, you know,
have a program of spiritual purification that you need to work
on that you do every day. You know, that includes your, your rod
or his book Quran, that includes some of the mindfulness, I think I
would best describe it, exercises that we've been talking about. So,
you know, think about when someone says it's tough to let you Why
does that aggravate you? Why does it bother you? If it doesn't
aggravate you, then you need to think about should it aggravate me
or should I welcome it? And you know, learn to release and
liberate your lower soul from the preoccupation with people's
validation of you and what they say about you what they don't say
about you. You
release that. Also, don't be a servant to your own women, your
Caprice and your own feelings. Sometimes things that are right
won't feel right, especially if you're not quite in the MACOM, in
the place where your sister, as he's talking about at the end of
this paragraph is speaking to a last panel to add. This is within
the theme has been seen throughout in these discourses that there is
a hierarchy, according to the chef, my team, but also others
have said the same thing. So at your most spiritual inner core is
your seer. And this is the one that has a direct connection to
Allah subhanaw taala. And this is where I was what I will give you
that in Him to be inspired to do things. And then if that's running
the show, then it will be the water for the climate, as he said,
and the hope is one I'll say do this or don't do that. And then
the limbs will fall in line, right. And then the tongue has no
choice because it knows that it is subservient to the heart, which is
getting its inherent. Right. And it's swaggy in a sense, and that
way MPs, that revolution to profits, but the tug of war here
and ham that can come to the idea and sloth hain, well, overall,
when at the end all of these names for people who are living in a
more concerted and focused Muslim life, these meanings will come to
them and they continue to come to them. With sha Allah.
When that starts to happen, then the tongue has to say, You know
what,
you guys are too strong for me, I have to just fall in line, I have
to do what you guys are telling me to do. And I'm gonna only speak
when something is good to say, and I'm going to remain silent. If I
have nothing good to say, because that's what my self is telling me.
And there's always there's also going to be the speech of the
heart. Right. So he talked about the eloquence of the heart
Ficklin.
facade is fun. So it's like, not even saying things inside yourself
in your heart. You know how like we, we play out the scenarios in
our head, and we say like, 10 times over, I'm gonna, this is
what I'm gonna say this person when I see them. And then when you
rehearse it over and over, then you kind of all you make it that
much closer to actually being said. And even though it's against
your better judgment, to say those things, all you need is just a
trigger, a tipping point. And then all those things come up because
you already rehearsed it in your head. But if you never rehearsed
it in your head to begin with, if you began with hostile, violent
and making excuses and dismissing just, you know, the feeling of
Shafi that he talks about here, you know, like venting, you know,
we live we call it grievance culture, I think it's also a
venting culture. We like to vent a lot and people vent all over the
place.
You know, it's like poisonous, because, you know, you see other
people venting, then it breeds more venting, it's like a
contagion, like this pandemic. So you see it all over the place. And
then people start to feel like they're justified in doing it,
this whole phenomena of, of trolls on the internet and people saying
despicable things, and you know, and ghastly things that you would
never imagined they would say to one another in person. But this
has become kind of the modus operandi is how people operate
now. And they feel justified in doing it because they kind of see
it proliferating everywhere.
And we are people after any
province, I sell them I left the delegation came to him. And he
said to this again, delegation, you have two attributes that
Prophet loves along the Prophet love, they said, what is that? So
they said hello to me, I will get clemency your climate and you take
your time before you say something that do something. These are the
prophetic character traits. This is what we want to cultivate
within ourselves and within our children and within our spouses
and within society at large. And you can't cultivate that unless
you're living too. So if we're just so pumped up, and we are, you
know, perpetually outraged at everything, everything evokes
outrage with us and as a grievance and as a complaint, and how can
this be and how can that be and look at this and we put our little
pictures on Facebook and you know, like some video of something
outrageous going on with Google title on it, we don't even know
the whole backstory for that, but you know, we keep we add to the to
the I think the vacuous and very poisonous atmosphere that is
consistent, you know, grievance and venting culture has led us to,
and
while I did I believe this, we are the only group where the last
group left that can put a stop to this nothing else is going to put
a stop to this, no one else is going to give people hope. No one
else is going to show them the the potential of the human soul of the
human condition to transcend all of this to move beyond all of this
to to be in a place where people who feel feel things are fair and
equitable and just and beautiful, and give you the ability to you
know, see the beauty and things all around us. You know,
Muslims build things. They didn't just think about functionality
like in the latter power of the 20th century, they also thought
about the beauty of things. And they thought about beauty that
that addresses the soul, not just the eyes. So we look at modern
office buildings today, and you know, many of the hospitals that
were built in the 70s 80s, and 60s, and,
you know, these modern office concrete block things, and, you
know, the theme back then was functionality, so functional, make
it just, you know, the right size, all we need is a room that's, you
know, three by four meters, or three by two meters, and you know,
same height, as long as a person can stand in it. And it may not
have anything on the walls, the walls are very drab.
Not sometimes not a lot of sunlight coming in. And this is
something that's agitating to the soul, right? The soul wants space,
it wants potential, it wants to see things, you look at Muslim
architecture, traditional Muslim architecture, that was part of the
ethos that we want to do things that are going to give, you know,
Raha ease, and a sense of,
of tranquility and serenity to the soul when it walks into the room,
or walks into the space. And, you know, look at even some of the
massage that we built in Europe, in North America, it looks like
something, you know, out of Blade Runner, I haven't seen that movie,
but I assume it's something about future good reference, my my
issued artists told me that, that reference works, haven't been
hitting references very well lately, but I'm trying to do a
little better with that, you know, something, that's just grading
too, you know, to the sensitivity of the human being. So we have the
potential we built civilizations like that, we've done that. And
when we say we, I say we kind of have a greater sense, it was
alright, our predecessors, and we have to take the same man, you
have to take the same meaning the same principles, and
apply them in a context as we see them. But we can't do any of that.
Unless I really believe it begins with
words of people like siddhappa, because of genetic, you know,
sometimes people call this type of discourse and Sufis, they're
apolitical and quietest. And they just seem to themselves and they
want to go sit in the cave, and maybe they could with a disappear
I don't really care about anybody else, is quite the opposite. The
whole thing is, they're trying to be as beneficial as possible in
the highest sense of the meaning of the word, but by first putting
themselves in space, internally,
spiritually, that they can be the most beneficial and effective for
others. And in order to do that, you have to be Maha sun, right?
You have to this thing has to be a fortress spiritually inside you
need spiritual fortitude. How else can we deal with everything that's
going on outside of you all these things that, you know, and the
rapid change and, and the irritability and anxiety and
trepidation that's all over the place. Depression, we are going to
have probably a huge mental health
pandemic, in the wake of this pandemic as well. Who are the
people who are going to, you know, pick up the broken pieces, and I
would say, also the broken people. And we're fighting over, you know,
whether we should break eight or 20 records in throwaway and
Ramadan, and what they should we do read and should recite the moon
or should do calculations. And these are the things we get mired
in, we have such a much, much bigger job to do, and much bigger
potential of where we're going to be needed. And
myself and my teachers, we believe this is this, this is where it
starts starts with you, as the Sheikh said, If that'd be enough,
second, start with yourself. Each step has been our second work on
yourself. Allah Santana say you are you okay? Allah will prepare
you. And then he's going to assign you to the place that you need to
be. But started here, build yourself, do the best that you
can. And then the doors in sha Allah will be forthcoming and
you'll see them clearly. And when you enter them, you will not be
entered in by yourself, will not be with your hair or with your
crease will not be by your own choice or your will but you will
feel that Allah is pushing you through that door and guiding you
through that door. With all of that, how did I go about it?