Walead Mosaad – AlFath alRabbani of Shaykh Abd alQadir alJilani Class 7
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The church's culture and influence on society is discussed in various ways, including the church's use of people as symbols of fealty, the belief that one is a mirror of one's own values, the negative impact of praying on one's health and mental health, and the importance of faith in dealing with loss. The segment also touches on the negative impact of praying privately and using religious practices, as well as the importance of knowing one's health and wealth, knowing one's values, and following rules and behaviors in life.
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many, the city where he dean will clutter and Gilani, the Mujaddid
and renewer of the sixth century of the Hijra of our Prophet
Muhammad SAW I sent him. So in our
daily sessions thus far, we have gone over a number of topics. And
they are included in these 62 discourses of the shares that he
had given at various times throughout the city of Baghdad, in
the middle of the sixth century, rounds a year 545 or so. And a
couple of years thereafter.
So we're gonna, as we've said before, some of these a little bit
shorter than others. So in this session, I think we'll cover two
of them. So those would be the those who are following along, if
you have a book with you, either in Arabic or English, that would
be the seventh and eighth discourses and measures to serve
that often the eighth and ninth discourses so register Salman or
Tessa, so the eighth and ninth
discourses that we're going to read from.
And in the first one, the eighth one, the general topic is what's
called an MRA or an ephah or Shirke. And as well, so he's going
to talk about kind of purification or spinal data. And it seems that
especially during the time of CW colors, you Lani, there were quite
a number of people who were the cloak of piety, who even
wore the cloak of Masha, which is that they acted and
like a chef, Chef Ottavia, that we're talking about chefs who can
take on disciples and students and oversee their spiritual progress.
As we know,
that thing is true, and it's helped and our true moral being
are being people who can do that. But there are also many
charlatans, and also many people who make claims to that, and
see how the plot is saying just because someone kind of has the
general outfit, you know, not just clothing, but speaks in the manner
that one would expect of a share or acts in the manner does not
necessarily make them so it's something that's in maternal
state. And sometimes this is referred to as a shock and asthma
or the lesser Shirke.
It's not a shock of Cofer. It doesn't put someone outside of
Islam, because there's two types of
doing things are ostentation or other from Allah subhanaw taala.
So there's the fact that Athena and there's the felted Amen.
So the hypocrisy of of creed means you're actually don't believe in
the prophets are seldom and you may not even believe in Allah may
not even believe in God, but you carry yourself as if you do for
some type of specific gain. And this category of people is
mentioned in the Quran. Many, many times there's 13 verses in the
beginning of sort of Bukhara,
the second surah of the Quran in terms of it's
not chronological order, but how it's put in the Quran in terms of
the textual or the scriptural order. And those 13 verses refer
to when definitely an athlete, it refers to the people who are
hypocrites, hypocrites, of athletes, and the ones who say
that
we are with you, but if they go back to their people use that as
your own right as the Quran mentions.
So he's not talking about that category. He's talking about those
who have an effect of an amen. In other words, you intend the deed
for a law perhaps, but also there's schicke in the intention,
so not shirking in your faith and your belief, right, that would be
outside of this them, but a type of chakra polytheism it's not
really polytheism it's kind of
let's call it
poly intention, because it's not about how you view God. You're not
actually seeing more than one God, but your heart
betrays that fact in the way
that you are seeking people's approval or people's praise or
something from them by the particular deeds that you do. And
so we've mentioned also, one of the signs of someone who is not a
true day or who is not a very sincere day, or a call it to Allah
subhanaw taala, or someone who's a Sheikh is that they call to
themselves, or they call to their toddler, or they call to their
away, or they call to their madhhab. Or they call to their
GMR. Or they call to anything other than a last final data. So
what was the CIFA the attribute that our last one without a spoke
about the prophesies in the Quran, where they earn it Allah He is me,
he was the Roger muneera, the EN il Allah, so the one who invites
to Allah.
So then the DA, the invitation has to be to Allah subhanaw taala not
to anything else, that even to that which facilitates your
calling to Allah. And this is a common mistake as well,
where people form organizations that kind of facilitate this
thing, or they have a madrasa or they have a school, or whatever
that is, and that facilitates the invitation to Allah. And when
we're inviting to Allah subhanaw taala we're inviting people, not
because we seek something from them or anything that's monetary
or otherwise, but
because we are seeking their own best interests, we have their own
best interests at heart. And this is kind of draws on the theme from
the previous session. That was session before this.
The idea of and we'll see how of giving sincere counsel and also
and what we know. But at one moment, the believer is the mirror
of the believer. So that means when you look at another believer,
you're actually looking at yourself much in the same way when
you look at a mirror, you see your image, and you don't see the
mirror, right because that where your image is actually reflected
in the mirror you can't see beyond that you just see yourself and
then everything around it is the mirror. So in a sense, we're also
looking at ourselves. And it's the kind of this vein of altruism and
selflessness that much of the Aflac and Islamia is based upon
that names Muslim and Islamic morals and character traits are
based upon this idea of altruism. A lady went out and asked him what
oh, can I be him cos also the ones who give
to others are or prefer others over themselves when Oh, can I be
him for salsa, even if they themselves may have what others
would see as an excuse not to not to do that? Right they have a
Kasasa they have their own difficulties because oftentimes
when we speak in these type of tones,
our internal voice will say to us well, I would love to help out but
you know, I'm not in the mood to help this person or or, you know,
I have my own stuff to worry about or but I would like to but so all
of those sorts of justifications
are clearly not justified by the verse in the Quran we just
mentioned, a lady named Runa and unfussy him what can be him Casals
the ones who give to others or prefer others over themselves.
Well, how can I become Kasasa even if they have something that would
seem as an appropriate excuse not to, but nevertheless, they do so
anyway? So we'll read some excerpts in sha Allah.
He says regular Lancome and Murai Phalguna leaf are called Buenas
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hitting the hero I don't know about you know who caught up.
So we're gonna read actually directly from the translation that
I have, it's gonna be easier. So he calls the Moto E, CD, or
Holland to translate this by him Allah, who by the way is a he
translated this book very, very well very accidently. And he has
passed on so you know, we try to have for him and the intention
that we're all benefiting from the translation fad.
He says the pious pretender or Murai, wears clean clothes, but
his heart is filthy. He abstains from permissible things, and he's
too lazy to earn a livelihood. He eats off his religion. In other
words, he makes his livelihood from his religion. I'm gonna
explain what that means in a second. And exercise is no self
restraint at all. He consumes things that are explicitly
forbidden. His game may be hidden from from the WAM from a common
folk but it is not concealed from the elite house, right because I
mean, younger or younger when we let it talk before us in a moment
we know a little bit the rasa or the piercing ins
sight of the believer is by the light of God. So be careful about
that. So, this would be for the house. He is asceticism or
reserved and obedient worship are all superficial. His external
facade is splendidly fashion, but his interior is a ruin. So, this
is talking about the Murad II,
right, which is to do things and it comes from what I like to see.
So the more that he does things, so that they can be seen.
We find a reference for this and local and as well as Latina, your
own women now and in my own sort of in Mourinho, a London misogyny.
And this is the only verse to my knowledge that is actually giving
a warning to people who pray.
In all instances, it says many good things about people, right,
but in this specific verse, a specific type of person or a
person who prays in a specific way offers virtual prayer in a
specific way for a while you loneliness en el Wale. Yanni could
mean damnation. It could be to be cursed. To whom Lin Muslim, to
those who pray, who are they Alladhina your own Allah, you
know, your own way of knowing the mountain, the ones who do it to be
seen, we have not learned about when you have your own in my own
means they even when they're asked to offer something that is
generally considered to be trivial. As a help for someone
else, someone knocks on your door and they say, Oh, I ran out of
salt, or a neighbor that is or canonbury vacuum cleaner for five
minutes. When you say not can't do it, sorry. But yet, they're the
ones who pray in the first line in the masjid and they're the ones
who are supplicating towards the last panel to add. So there's
something wrong with him. Right because the fruits of your piety
should extend and and other everyone should should benefit
from it. This was the way of our Prophet SAW I said the greatest
person to have ever lived and ever will live. What was his CIFA what
was his main attribute? Rahmatullah Alamy Rama also NACA
Illa rahmatan. Anatomy we have an essential except as a Rama as a
mercy for all of the different awareness. So I mean, means
different worlds. So the world of the incident, the world of the
jinn, the world of human beings in the world of the jinn,
the celestial world, right, and then an ad that is occupied by the
angels and occupied by the gentle spirits. And the last one, right
the terrestrial world which is occupied by us antigen. So he's a
mercy to those worlds, he's a mercy to the animals, he's a mercy
to the trees. So
Pharaoh who modality, movement hadal home with the believer,
they're here, they're good, everyone should have some lots of
that just some health, they should feel something of it. So we have
fallen into unfortunately, this kind of
sort of bad way of practicing religion, sometimes, what I call
it today and is said to be a negative practice of religion,
where oftentimes people associate religiosity and piety, with
intolerance, with coarseness, with, you know, a general
sometimes lack of civility with other people.
Judgmental ism, so all of these things have come to be associated
with a particular type of practicing the deen. Right. And
I'm not gonna say those people are, you know, damned to *. And
they're, you know, they're not very good Muslims. That's not for
us to say, but we can say that in terms of the way that they
practice that religion, if it's being bringing more offense to
people than it is bringing them to think twice or three times about
maybe this is something I'd be interested in.
Then, you know, there's there's something wrong with our practice
of the dean. And one of those are YouTube, right, one of the
shortcomings are shortcomings of the soul and he talks about one of
them here, which is a Marathi old yet, so to do things for people
other than Allah subhanaw taala. So that means the clothes
right are clean and are well pressed. And he says, in a general
sense, but inside the heart has all of this.
All these problems, so there's react, there's ostentation,
there's Vaughn, there's bad opinion of people there's
sanctimony. Thinking about it and everybody else. There is envy.
There's jealousy. There's rancor, there's enmity. All of these
things are a Murad. They're all types of diseases and they, they
kind of stained the heart, even though one exterior and outward
looks clean.
So he may abstain from permissible things, but maybe he's too lazy to
earn a livelihood here. He's talking about certain people back
in his time, who often were attached or associated with some
of the Sufis away. And those were operated with, oh, cough, they had
endowments, so it was kind of like if you can get associated with one
of them. You pretty much had free housing and free meals. Maybe not
the most luxurious of accommodations or the
years of meals, but at least you are covered. But in order to stay
in such a place, you have to be someone who is very interested in
actually following the program that is set by the wildlife,
right, the person who made the endowment, and then it's the chef,
who's there who's going to set the program for you. So sometimes
people who are pretenders would come into that sort of thing. So I
don't doubt that CW clergy 90 Sometimes when I was addressing
these people in his audience, in his measureless, so he's saying
how there's a type of
something you can't reconcile when you're, you know, your your water,
right, you have the scrupulousness, about certain
things,
in terms of your outward piety, but you don't even bother to earn
a living or to try to fend for yourself and those sorts of
things. Because those are harder on the neffs than appearing
outwardly, as appearing as a pious person.
That's what he means by the Ito for his religion. So one is kind
of subsisting on just people's good opinion of how pious a person
you are. And that's what's problematic, and at the same time,
not exercising self restraint, of course, are Muslim institutions,
they need funds, and they need to be run well. And they need to have
endowments, and we need teachers are going to teach there and they
need to be taken care of. But what he's talking about here is someone
who's just on the basis of their piety, they're not a teacher.
They're not someone who's actually providing a service for anybody
whatsoever. They're there for their own benefit, but at the same
time, they're just there to
actually subsist because of their perceived place and their
perceived piety in Islam. That's the problem.
So that's what he means by acts, he consumes things that are
expressly forbidden or haram, they may not be known by the IOM, but
the whole OS can pick out such a person because you know, the Luna
be noted that they see by the light of Allah subhanaw taala. So
what is the remedy
for this type of RIA?
You mentioned that I think a little bit later.
And one of the things he said is to have a true practice of
Tawheed. And a true practice of your head, within your heart is
that your Armel your deeds become solely for Allah subhanaw taala.
So there are some practical things in the deen associated with how to
go about doing that. And there's also kind of some spiritual
remedies associated with that, in terms of the practical things, the
Hadith has narrowed in water and other books of Hadith, that, that
the best of deeds are those that are done privately, especially
prayers, inland microbead, or Illa, Allah. So those things that
are done on a voluntary basis, it is best, especially for the Marine
for the one who is still kind of sitting out on your path. And
they're not quite an example for others yet to do those things
privately. So, to do the robotic, for example, which are the prayers
that are associated before and after the hood and and before
Austin, and after motive, and after raesha, and the forfeiture
those type of prayers, generally to be done privately, not in front
of people. If one has a feeling an inkling that they might be doing
it too, for people to look at them for people to see, oh, look,
Mashallah. It's a pious person, and so forth. So from a practical
sense, in terms of sort of thought, yes, there's a cat, which
is the followed, oftentimes, you can't help but to give that
outwardly. It is from amongst the shot at a dean. It is from amongst
those things that are the staple, kind of markers of the dean. So
everybody knows about Muslims, that gives a cat. And so that
could be done outwardly. But there's sort of cloth which are
considered the voluntary acts, you know, the metaphor that's used is
such as to give it in a way such as the right hand gives an a left
hand doesn't know about it, which is a metaphor for saying, to do it
privately, and not necessarily everyone has to know about it.
And these are ways to help one's heart so that they become less
attached to what any particular expected outcomes they would have
from people about what what they should be receiving from them.
That's from a practical side from a spiritual side. One of the
things that's mentioned in that he said, Sharia for example, of
course and push it and other books is that it doesn't take you to
actually be with amongst people to be Marathi. You can have Ria, even
if you're praying in your house by yourself. So sometimes even those
practical remedies have limits how so? Well, if you're praying in
your house, and as you're praying, you're thinking, Oh, if
you know, how'd you mum Dora in the mission could see me right now
then he'd think I'm a stand up guy, and he'd be thinking, this
and this about me. So you're thinking about people
I'm seeing you, even though there's actually nobody in the
room, or you give some thought, and nobody knows about it, but you
said, If people only knew that I was doing this, then they think
something else about me. So there's still this kind of
attachment in the heart to, you know, this particular outcome that
you want from people, and some of the few of the machines in the
past, they have used what we would consider today to be kind of very
austere and difficult tasks for people. So to break that, that
connection that they have with, with this dependence upon the
accolades and the praise of a lot of people. So sometimes they would
have them even go if they were a prominent alum or scholar, if
Nigeria was one of those people, how many of Nigeria who was later
scholar lives in the 17th century,
or 18th century, and he
was a very prominent scholar in Morocco. And his Sheikh told him
that, you know, you have a lot of attachment, it seems like to your
students, and people looking up to you and thinking this much about
you, and so forth. So one of the spiritual remedies he recommended
or had to do was to take off the scholarly clothes so that you
know, the emammal that are that were and, and the Juba and the
cloak and all those things, and to wear the tattered clothing of the
beggars in the street, and then go back in the same mosque, that he
was an imam at that he used to give lessons that that's a very,
very heavy thing on the nefs, extremely heavy thing on the nose.
But he did it. And then he said afterwards, I entered into kind of
a new understanding and a new relationship with Allah subhanaw
taala, that I didn't have access to before. And probably if he
shifted and have him do that, we wouldn't be mentioning, Ignatiev
his name today still, because he would have been still a good
scholar and still someone that people listen to and learn from
and learn Hadith and Tafseer, and fifth, and all of the Islamic
subjects. But
he is considered one of those people, especially in the Chateau
de sencilla. One of the great automat of that of that study that
way, and especially in Morocco, and motive, and probably if you
haven't done any of that, we would have really not thought much about
him, because there are hundreds, if not 1000s of others like that,
who didn't go to that particular path and was trained in a
particular way, like imagi. But so now, these are the people that
their memories still remains and their legacies still remain
because of this intense spiritual training they went through. Now,
we're not saying that people have to do that today. But, you know,
everything is proper parameters. So, you know, maybe sometimes we
have to get creative with ourselves and think about, well,
maybe there's a particular way that I can be less dependent upon
people's opinion of me, you know, maybe I don't have to drive a car
that represents the particular socio economic class that I belong
to, or that I feel I belong to, maybe I'd have something a little
bit less, right. And, you know, that may seem trivial, maybe see
nothing, but if your heart feels that, you know, if there's a
little nudge at your heart, and there's a little kind of
hesitation, when you think about things like this, then that means
there's still helps, right, there's still kind of holding on
to something and, and not letting go completely for lost battle
data. So soon after the father's unity, he says, If you want to do
it, right,
you have to come completely stripped in front of Allah
subhanaw taala, he actually uses the word out again, naked, and
he's that doesn't mean naked of your outward clothing, he means
naked of your inward clothing, all your pretenses, all of your
perceived maklumat that you think you have in life, all of these
perceive things that you think you're about, come to Allah's
final data, and cast all of that aside, put all of that
on the jump on the side and come towards file data with your COC
completely empty, and then that Allah smart Allah filler for you,
rather than having all of these expectations and these
anticipations and how things should be and, you know, if I do
XYZ, then you know, 123 will happen back to me, and so forth.
So, make your Tauheed not just to do heat and everything. And the
epitome of low heat is to see nothing in the wood or to see no
wood in the wood to the left. That's kind of the epitome the
apex of it. So not just knowing that Allah is behind everything,
but also know that there really is nothing besides the last panel
data. And that's a sound principle, even in Islamic
theology. Because Allah subhanaw taala is existence is unqualified,
our existence is qualified, namely by the will of God so if Allah
didn't want us to be we would not be and if he didn't continuous
continue to will us to be, we also would not be so. So we're only
here by the pleasure of Allah subhanaw taala as long as he wants
us here soon as he doesn't want us here anymore in his pre eternal
knowledge and he knows when that's going to be we will we will cease
to be so
This is something that it's a tenant of our athlete, that's a
tenant of our Islamic belief, but it should also be a tenant of our
spiritual outlook, our spiritual makeup, you know, to actually
really have this witnessing of none other than Allah subhanaw
taala is something that we should, we should aim to strive for. And
sometimes that takes you contour to really like have this tissue
read and really stripped down of all of your pretenses and all of
your possessions and realize it or to mean anything and they don't
add anything to who you are, they do not define you. And then you
come to the last point already for him to to actually he will define
you and he will say that you are Abdullah, you know of all the
things that he said with the money I'm could have said in the cradle
Jesus, the son of America could have said in the cradle, when he
was brought to his people by his mother, Mary. Maria Medina has
said I'm the first words that came out of his mouth, he said in the
Abdullah, I am the slave of Allah subhanaw taala. Or in the greatest
moment that has ever happened for any human being that we just
talked about a few nights ago and it's about when marriage the night
of the
night trip and the ascension to Heaven of our profits always had
them in both body and spirit Subhanallah the SR, the rd lay
them in and Michigan haram and Masjid Azza Subhanallah the SR.
So, AB de so he was called by abt he was called the servant and this
is referring to our Prophet, Mohammed salah I said
so your your, your goal should to be an apt to be a servant. Right?
So the cardinal
the, the Savior, the real true leader is the one who gives
services the father is the one that is that is able to lower
themselves the one that is able to recognize they have their own
shortcomings. And the one who is able when they get into some sort
of fractious confrontation or interaction with someone else,
before they blame the other person, they look to themselves
and say, it must have been something I did not necessarily
think something I did wrong to that person. Even if they are the
instigator then you could still say it's something I did not that
I did to them, but maybe something I did with a loss final time. You
know, the ODM when they did find themselves in the sort of, kind of
something didn't go right during their day. Like they would say no
other words in depth. If my my mountain my animal like was not
very cooperative with me, he doesn't get mad at the animal at
the mule or the donkey or the horse or the camel but he said I
did something in my relationship with Allah subhanaw taala and this
is Jani ishara tembi Or I limit them be it's kind of an alarm or a
warning Allah has given me to set me straight. So I get right back
out agenda I get right back up on
the straight path, or low Anna.
So I'm going to move on to the ninth discourse
which talks about if Tila to some degree, which talks about trial
and tribulation, which has been a running theme as we've seen CW
ecology learning. He begins by mentioning
one of the Hadith or attributed Hadith of the prophets I send them
in Allahu Allah you as it will Habiba where they can judge you
absolutely.
And I found a similar Hadith to this that is so here that is a
true Hadith narrated by Imam Muhammad in his mustard on a
shorter che thing, which means that following the same rules and
criteria that are behind Muslim followed, he found this hadith
even though they didn't include it in any of their collections. And
just as a side note, just because a hadith is not in Bukhari and
Muslim doesn't mean that it's not so he doesn't mean that it's not
one of the most more rigorously authenticated Hadith. Both Bukhari
and Muslim are Hadith compilations and summaries, we know that both
of them and Muslim was a student of inequality or their Lord whom
had hundreds of 1000s of Hadith at their disposal, and that they had
memorized from heart. But yet each one of them only uploaded a small
fraction of it about 7000 Islam about for a small fraction of
those including the repeats of the Hadith that they had at their
disposal. So it was really
random mattala They chose specific ID. There are many, many others.
So how do you that's why most of you, I'm afraid is bigger, but he
has both had Sahaj and Hassan and life in his collection. So his
narration
said that an NSF pneumatic that they're returning from a
particular expedition and they were traveling with their animals
and then there was a young child like in the way
A and A woman saw her son and the young child in a way and she said
in the evening, you know, my son, my son, she was worried about, you
know, the horses trampling over him with a camel feeding image,
she was able to retrieve him, and so forth. And then the prophesy
center spoke to the sahaba. And he said,
you know, this woman, she would never want anything that happened
to her son. He said, Well, Allah He, the Allah subhanaw taala.
You know, lay up heavy bow for now,
you know, in other words, it's not done as as a method of torture,
Allah does not want to put you in the hellfire. And any tribulation,
that we find here, as mentioned in the version narrated by side of
the closet, well, I can call the up telly. It's therefore empty.
Let. So one of the things also that is very important as part of
one spiritual makeup is not to look upon the different trials and
tribulations that are happening to them as a punishment from God.
See, God the Father, actually, in other words, said that, if you
view it as a punishment, then it is a punishment, it's punishment
enough that you think it's a punishment. And he said that you
should either treat it as we've mentioned before, with patients
forbearance, or withdrawal which is the higher way with
contentment, because it came from Your Habib, your Mabu naming Allah
subhanaw taala. So if you truly love Allah subhanaw taala then
know that whatever he puts in your way, it's as a way to test you so
that he can raise you in rank and raise you in degrees. And also
maybe to help you along your path so that you get rid of some of
your attachments and affiliations, that if you were to continue in
them they would bring about a bad result for you, either in this
life, or in the next slide. So we have to believe that about Allah
subhanaw taala.
So Allah does not torment his loved one, but he may well put him
to the test.
So, he says, the believer is secure in the knowledge that Allah
subhanaw taala will not make him experience something as a trial,
unless this will result in some benefit, either for this world or
for the hereafter. He therefore accepts misfortune cheerfully
bears it with patience and harbors no resentment against his Lord,
his Lord as origin keeps him distracted from the affliction.
Oh, you are so preoccupied with this world, you should give up
discussion of the spiritual stations or maklumat because
you're talking only with your tongues not with your hearts.
You're turning your backs on Allah on his words and on His prophets
and their followers in reality and the Hatha Yoga, those who are
their deputies will have and their trustees Oh, see
your core quarreling with destiny and omnipotence and Macatawa
Qudra. You have contented yourselves with the gifts of
creatures instead of the gifts of the lord of truth, and his
blessings. Nothing you have to say will be given and hearing by Allah
and His righteous servants until you repent, make your repentance
sincere and lasting and comply with destiny, and the divine
define decree and call that with other in what is to your advantage
and what is to your disadvantage, in that which gives honor and that
which is humiliating, and affluence and poverty and health
and sickness and what you like, and that which you dislike.
So
as you can see a running theme here, especially when we talk
about Teskey and spiritual sciences, is
the first pillar of faith dealing with Allah subhanaw taala. Also,
and then the sixth pillar faith element, we'll call that we'll
call the retiree here shortly, believing in Allah and cover that
in the in the destined, Divine Decree, failure here which already
So here he's kind of giving us
an explanation or discourse on what Katie he will show that he
means so whether you like it or you dislike it, whether it's
health or whether it's sickness, whether it's affluence, or whether
it's poverty, these are all circumstantial things, right? And
they are not indicative of your MACOM of your station with Allah's
final data. So if Allah gives you sickness, that doesn't mean Allah
is displeased with you. And if Allah gives you health and wealth,
that doesn't also mean that he's necessarily pleased with you.
These are things that are circumstances, what are the true
LMS? Whether the true signs of Allah being pleased with you, is
how do you deal with these things? And how do you feel about him?
When you are afflicted with something you don't like? Are you
still pleased with your Lord? Because if you are, then that
means your Lord is pleased with you. So if you want to know your
MACOM with God, then what is Allah's McCollum with you? Where
is he in your heart? But if you are a sunshine servant, and you
only like when nice things are happening to you, and when good
things and health and wealth and ease and that's how you react
favorably towards Allah subhanaw taala and otherwise you do not
react favorably
then you have to question, Do you truly love God? Or do you truly
love the Neoma? Do you truly love the blessings? Or do you truly
love and money? I am the one who is the bestower of blessings. So,
whatever circumstance ALLAH SubhanA, Allah puts in our way,
then we should, at the very least be patient with it, not see it as
a punishment. And see it as a reminder, see it as Adeeb, right.
Rob Bukom, you debacle as he did for the province or send them your
Lord will also give you a deep, he will nurture you along the way
towards him. And sometimes that will include things that you may
not like. But in the long term, they may be things that are better
for you. And we do this thing with our own children. Right, we don't
give the kids chocolate every day. We try to get them to eat brussel
sprouts and
tomatoes and cucumbers and, you know, healthy things. And then
sometimes
we will treat them with a treat, right. And the treat should be the
occasional thing. It's not the thing that you get all the time.
And we believe that's better for the children, right, because we
don't want them to be spoiled. So this sort of same terms also apply
to the believer. You know, Allah doesn't want you to be spoiled in
the sense that you're only pleased with him when he's pleasing to
you. But he should be pleasing to you in all circumstances.
So he also has a very important section here that I want to go
over briefly
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so that you may be followed, serve so that you may come to be served.
Follow the indictments and decrees and aka do well up door and serve
them so that they may come to follow you and serve you. Submit
to them until they submit to you. Have you not heard the sayings of
the Prophet SAW Selim. As you pay allegiance, so shall you receive
allegiance, committed unity then according to how you are, so shall
authority be conferred upon you.
So, usually when this, this discourse follow, so that you may
be followed, serve that so you may come to be served, it means in
order to be a proper leader, and this is true, you have to learn to
be a proper follower first. If you are never a follower in life, and
you're always looking to be the leader, you're not going to be a
good leader. Because if you don't know what expectations are for the
follower, then how are you going to be a proper leader, then it
becomes more about the ego. And leadership is there because
it's a necessity and Allah subhanaw taala put some people in
a position where they have to help others. And so the leader is
actually the servant, and not the one who's kind of an overseer or
overbearing upon the follower. And then the hope is that, if the
follower is too in their followership, then one day they
too will become a leader. And that's what he's saying, here
follow so that you may be followed serve, so that you may come to be
served. But here he's talking about an aka Dr. Wen, Akbar. So
follow the Kadar serve the kadai. It means whatever circumstance
that ALLAH SubhanA, Allah gives you in life, serve that particular
circumstance, maybe Allah didn't make you wealthy.
And so serve the circumstance of not being wealthy. And maybe I'll
give you something else. And that's where he wants you to be.
Maybe Allah didn't give you good health, maybe he gave you a
chronic illness, then serve that particular circumstance, there are
lessons that you're going to look to be learning and gifts that are
to be received, that may be unique to you in your particular
circumstance. And that's true for everybody. Everybody's unique, in
a sense, and we're all the same at the same time.
So we're all the same in the sense that Allah subhanaw taala is going
to give us something that's going to be a trial and tribulation, one
another. No, I'm not going to be shaman, I hope you will join us a
minute and we will enforce you with them a lot. Surely, we will
try with all of these things, some loss of profits and loss of life.
Some loss of loved ones or friends, all these things are
going to happen to you throughout your life. And that's it do that
well and abalone, Allah subhanaw taala yuksom will be dedicated
will be the key. He swears that this is what's going to happen.
And so the reason that some of the students have Why does Allah need
to swear
Hear, or in other verses, because we don't believe it,
unfortunately. So, you know, they say in in Arabic rhetoric or
bellezza, that when there's a key debt, when there's many emphasizes
to kind of drive the point home, it means you're addressing someone
who doesn't really believe it doesn't really want to believe it
so well, and everyone that can be shaman and hopefully will join,
we're not assuming more than one if, you know, you will lose,
you'll have hunger and you'll have fear. And you have all of these
things shortly, shortly, you will. And now, perhaps for the first
time in a generation, we can say on a worldwide scale wall feeling
that we're feeling some loss, some loss of at least of our freedom,
at the very least, if we're under a quarantine or under a type of
social distancing self isolation period. At the very least, we're
having some sense of loss of freedom. And why are we surprised?
Allah subhanaw taala has promised that this is going to happen. And
so let's serve our circumstance, let's have the proper MACOM for
the particular circumstance that Allah Subhana Allah has put us in,
and then we will find that circumstance will serve us. And
that's what sort of apology Danny's sake if you serve it, it
will serve you. If you follow it properly, with the proper edits
and advocates, then you will find that it will follow you and rather
than it being the master review, you will be the master of it.
That's the whole idea. So Allah subhanaw taala makes us here, he
puts things at our disposal if we are up to the task. So we are
supposed to be the stewards of the earth we have been given the Amen.
Right, we've been given this, this trust over the earth and so, if we
are at the level of taking on this manner, taking on this
stewardship, then Allah will make us the US those stewards and who
will make us Eduarda right, he will make us the inheritors of the
earth. But if we are not, then say you stepped on Coleman Aruna, then
he will find another group to do it. So either we can choose to
take up that mantle we can choose to accept the responsibility of
that stewardship by following the mandamus and decrees as he says
here, dry powder and the commands and prohibitions. So that means
the two types of cam that will have coal and so what Allah smart
Allah commands us to do certain things have you some ad hoc
metallic Leafy, Allah commands you to, to pay this again and pray and
so forth, follow those commands and there's more revisions. Then
there's an aqua tech weenie and Hulk, Allah creates things and
integrates everything. And so also to accept that Allah is the
Creator, and accept his color and color and accept that he has sole
sovereignty over all of the affairs of the universe. That is a
core principle of core belief, and should be a core spiritual,
spiritual Pinnacle within all of us. In sha Allah, Allah, Allah,
Allah, Allah, and I'll stop here in sha Allah. Allah mean