Walead Mosaad – Session 6 Beautiful Islam
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The speakers stress the importance of spirituality and religious practice in Islam, as well as the need for graduation or reunification of Islam's practice of Islam. They emphasize the importance of deeds and the use of the Halia for spiritual connection, as well as the importance of engaging with Allah and praising him. The root cause of problems is identified, and guidance is essential in achieving success. The concept of "f shadow" is emphasized as a way to indicate likelihood of success, and guidance is required in a situation.
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Without further ado, let's get on with Alameen Allahumma Salli wa
Sallim wa Barik. I remember with Iraq and Syria I mean, so you
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Hamdulillah I believe this is our fifth session.
The session is entitled beautiful Islam. And many thanks to the
beacon team
and CD au For hoping to get started this evening. And as we
have been discussing over the past, what has now been a month or
so,
looking at the
divide, so called perceived divide between religiosity and
spirituality, or between religious practice and between spiritual
connection. And we had mentioned several times that
most people are very interested in spiritual connection, most people
are interested in feeling something bigger than themselves
and feeling a sense of purpose and a feeling a sense of connection to
something sublime and something sacred, as it were.
But the issue then becomes how do we understand that in terms of
religious practice, and sometimes religiosity, religious practice or
ritual devotions of religion, have often been maligned to some
extent, within our tradition within Islam and even within other
religious traditions. And sometimes, I think the cause of
that may be the perceived gatekeepers or the those who
decide the criteria for what religious or sound religious
practice looks like. And sometimes that
can be abusive and distressful.
You know, the Quran mentions that those before us at the Hollywood
rock band, while ILA and Hindu Nila urban doula that they took
the monks and the
the rabbi's as lords other than Allah subhanaw taala. So what was
perceived as the
those who would give you access or those who would facilitate your
connection to Allah subhanaw taala would often also be
sometimes the purveyors of abuse. And in this case, the greatest
abuse is to take them as
more sacred than God or just take them as gods, besides, or with
Allah subhanaw taala. So that's why you find many people today are
very much interested, I think, are one of the reasons people very
much isn't in spiritual connection, and may not have
really, that big an interest in religious practice, especially
organized, religious practice. And that often comes in the form of
like, July for Muslims, obviously, and church services for
Christians, of all denominations and
synagogue
and holy days and high holy day services for for Jews. And so I
don't think the problem, if we're going to call it that is unique to
us. But I think we can also find the, the root causes somewhat
similar, as well. And if we, you know, I've made these sessions, a
little bit of real talks of going to engage a little bit of real
talk.
If we look at most of the Friday services, at least in
in the United States that that I've had access to that I
attended.
They they are subpar. And part of the reason for this is
many reasons. But I think one of the general reasons is we have a
failure to appreciate the moment
and a failure to appreciate what are really the needs of Muslims
today. And it takes people who are very well versed in the tradition
itself and the disciplines of Islam. And it takes people also
who are very aware of where their congregants are at where the
Muslims are at where their people are at. So instead of talking at
people, right, we have kind of like the standard sermon and this
is the things I have to say. We talk to people, right and we're
not just talking to, you know, specifically we're talking to
their hearts, we're trying to get something across to them that
insha Allah when they leave the message they
to come away with something, and not just fulfilling a mere
obligation or routine, and so forth. So I think, you know, one
of the things that is going to be very important and critical and
essential in having some sort of revival, or reunification of our
practice of Islam and then its connection to spirituality is the
Friday Juma is the Friday service itself has to be reimagined, in a
sense, not reformed, not kind of changed the rules, but reimagined
in the ways that that, that we're actually doing it. And that's
something that's not an individual effort, or even one single mosque,
but that that's a conservative community effort on my wide
effort, I would say. So, anyway, we're not really here to kind of
look at all those particular different issues, but we are
trying our best to make it something that's relevant, and
something that is going to address the needs of the community.
So when we're talking about beautiful Islam,
and we said that our frame of reference here are some of the
works, particularly the work of Ignacio and their secondary and
heckum. And one of the reasons that this particular work is
resonates so much is that the meanings in it are timeless, and
they are
based upon
not just, you know, one, one person, one man's
creative sayings, you know, he got creative, and he came up with
these things. And he sat there and thought about it, what would be
the best way to phrase this? No, it's actually there's a whole
community behind him and like even secondary, right, which are his
teachers, and which, first and foremost is also the loss of Art
Center, and his own personal connection, his own spiritual
connection to Allah subhanaw taala. And so what we're seeing
and things like the hicom is the end result of what a spiritual
connection looks like.
And you know, and you can call what he comes up with and not what
he comes up with, but what he's inspired to write these words that
are ill Hemet, right where he that means things that Allah smart
Allah put in his heart, you know, that's how we see it. Or in Hemet,
things that Allah inspired him to, that is not, you know, that
doesn't come out of a vacuum. That's, that's years of work.
Right? That's years of spiritual work that's years of sitting with
teachers that's years of self purification, and working on one's
shortcomings in one's failings and
tolerating,
hurt from people and tolerating people's idiosyncrasies, and, and
people's inconsistencies and so forth. And, and kind of, you know,
imbibing really the, the Muhammad in discipline, right, the
discipline of Muhammad SAW I send them in vicar and play and be laid
and observing all of the
observant aspects of Islam, right, the ritual aspects and, and
obviously, as we said, you know, the high virtues and the great
virtues of the deen of patience and forbearance and gratitude and
good character tolerance of others temperance wisdom, and then also
removing vise right and struggling with that. And that comes
from an account of a pedagogical
review, it comes first its primary, right, because you have
to remove vise and then virtue can be allowed to enter.
And you can't really be
virtuous and vices driven at the same time. Because they're
opposites. Like they can't coexist like oil and water. And so the
removal advice and what they refer to as a definitely, and then the
embodiment of virtue that they refer to as the Halia, right?
sweetening the soul, as it were, and then comes the potentially
potentially means, then the connection, right, the spiritual
connection is what you can call the tragedy, a tragedy a means
to Mr. McCullough share any thought how can I hear, you see
the things as they are, as they're manifesting, and as they are
manifestations of the beautiful names and attributes of Allah
subhanaw taala. And that's, you know, that is the connection. It's
not some sort of false, you know,
practitioner, Guru based
aggrandizement of the self. And then you know, disguising that and
it's masquerading as some sort of opening or nirvana or some sort of
spiritual enlightenment. When it's really just a celebration of the
self, no, enlightenment is not is going to come out except if it's
the,
the replacement of of celebration of the self with the celebration
of God.
You can't be celebrating yourself in the same time, celebrating
Allah and having that opening to to seeing orality as it is. So we
had mentioned last session or last week
about
rectification of acts rectification of deeds. And you
mentioned some of the the hiccup
that Ignatov secondary mentioned in this regard. You know, he says
deeds are mere forms and their spirits are the presence of the
secret of sincerity within them. Right. So what gives life to the
deed or to the spirit, the religious observance is what's
behind it. So there are forms, right? The prayer and the
standing, it's not just exercise, or calisthenics, or some
enlightened form of Tai Chi or yoga. No, but the movements
themselves are significant and the movements themselves
can lead to spiritual connection, and can lead to what they call
Halloween and Temkin. Right, the the coloring of the soul, right,
or the flowering of the soul, let's call it and then it Temkin,
right as the root well with test beat, you know, to be well
grounded in that
recognition of the Divine Presence and all things. So the
rectification of that of our deeds begin is really a matter of work
of the heart, right? I've worked rectification of the soul, but we
work on the outward aspect,
initially, in order then, so then we could look towards something of
a higher plane, like the rectification of our fickle the
rectification of our thoughts, and of our states, and of our
ability to deal with circumstances and what we consider to be adverse
events, and our reaction to them.
And these things, you can actually advance in and you could develop,
and you can become a much better person for it, rather than just
reacting emotive ly and reacting in the time based upon a kind of a
lower enough Sani
place
of the soul versus something that's on a on a much higher place
that never really leaves or never loses sight of a lot of being in
college, and Alim and aware and knowledgeable of all the things
that are happened and he's the ones who's who's making them
happen. And he is the one who is you just didn't you know, he is
the one who is renewing creation. And every infinitesimal moment,
these are the hackers, right? That's the reality. And we can
acknowledge that intellectually, but at a higher level, we can also
witness that spiritually. Right? And that, that becomes one of the
facade that becomes one of the fruits of putting in this work,
right? And that we can wait a minute, I'm seeing reality
differently. Now. I'm not so swayed by
the Mirage, right? But I actually can see what's behind the edifice.
And man, you are in my belly. Right, the meanings behind the
facades. So
this session, I want to talk about something related that may come
logically, perhaps in the same in that order, or maybe not, but the
idea of how do we engage with Allah subhanaw taala? And
specifically, how do we speak to a lost part of that? How do we
engage with the last month on how do we speak to him? How do we ask
for things? How do we remember him?
Those specific things. And
one of my teachers once said that
he said to tabula he found that speaking to Allah is an art form.
Right? There has to be if you do it with understanding, and you do
it with what's really intended in the way that we engage with Allah
subhanaw taala it becomes a totally different thing than just
kind of routine.
Every every utterance, every word, every letter from every word has a
significance, especially if they're the words of ALLAH and
then you're reciting them back to Allah. And the Prophet SAW Selim
said that with every letter of the Quran, there's a significance and
a reward. And he didn't he didn't say Elif Lam mean half he said,
elephant Heartfilia will have form even half. So even those three
letters that begin some of the sorrows like skeleton Baqarah and
so that look, man Eliphalet me. He said, elephas is a heart and is a
letter and lamb is a letter and meme is a letter number three by
themselves. So each one of them is significant and of itself. And if
that's true for those letters that carry a meaning that may be
secret, and not known or not easily discerned by most people,
but they have a meaning of the last that Allah intended in them
then what about the whole rest of the of the Quran and ASMR Kemet
and IATA Motorshow Behat Earth and maki met the commanding verses
that are clear and that are there to guide us and then the AR 10
watershed we had layer four Nikephoros villainess, not a lot
of people know the meaning of them but they care
meaning,
and perhaps one could infer that for those that it does carry a
meaning or that it can convey a particular meaning requires a
higher level of engagement. Right, and not just on an intellectual
level and deciphering the Arabic.
And, you know, using what's at your disposal of knowledge of
Arabic rhetoric and composition, but also a higher spiritual
understanding, right? That's, that goes beyond that. And this is what
people like mmm, because earlier in the RV, they talked about that
the Quran is a bar, right? It's an ocean, it's a vast ocean. It's an
immense ocean. And you're just looking at the fish. You're just
looking at the outer shell, when you're looking at what we call
Tafseer. Today, all of the deficits that have been written
that are explaining the meanings of the Quran, the vast majority of
them from poverty, anybody can feel and so forth the deficit
tafsir for the great alum who just passed away recently shahadi
Savani are high Mahala. You know they're they're giving you they're
conveying you the main meanings, but to dig deeper, right requires
any level of engagement with Quran a level of engaging with Allah
subhanaw taala that goes beyond the cursory that goes beyond just
as Ali mentioned in, in Johanna the Quran, just the basic
exterior meanings are inward meanings that will only come to
those who are able to approach the Quran with Safar, right with
purity and purity of intention, les masu Illa motohiro No one
shall penetrate it. No one's actually touch it. Inland mocha
Harun and with a whole minute loop or minute Oh, *, woman, a real
woman
30 That woman, a Shakira, right? The ones who who are free and pure
from doubts and pure from illusion and pure from all those things
that would cloud one's Masirah or spiritual AI to actually
understand those meanings. So
if we talk about well, how do we speak to Allah subhanaw taala and
what's the purpose of it? So the general word when we engage with
Allah subhanaw taala is this word called Zick right Zelle Kathrada
and Latina is called you have good Allah here on offer you have a lot
going on as you will be him as it was that good luck if you don't
want that get off. It's mentioned many times in the Quran, first
good ally of Coco, which will let that fool you know remember a lot
he remembers you so this remembrance
ethic and other verses has been with decades, right men was
accurate means that there's there anyone who remembers.
So
an idea to fumble about words can be understood by their opposites.
Meanings converse about so what's the opposite of remembrance will
be something like forgetfulness.
And some of the scholars of Arabic said the incense, incense, which
is what we are an ncid can be possibly derived from the word
NESEA. To forget, so instead, one of the meanings of being an
incense is in this Yen is that we're forgetful
and we're forgetful of, obviously the conventional forgetfulness, I
forgot where I put my car keys, that type of forgetfulness. But
more importantly, that forgetfulness of
what are we doing here? And what's our purpose? And
you know, am I acting towards fulfilling that purpose that I
lost? My dad has put us here for that type of DCN.
And some have said also the word incent comes from the word owns.
Right, which is just a clip, I will claim Oh, lemon Kenema as
they say, so switching the last two letters. So in SEL, we're
Anissa. So nice, yeah, nice to forget and is nestled
on sand means to find intimacy.
So both of those meanings actually relate to a loss penalty. Right?
So you find Owens will also be Lau also be harder to rob right once
or intimacy in the presence of God. Or you could be the opposite.
You could be messy. You can have messy and you could forget that
that's there to begin with. And then you become busy with your
your neffs. Right, your insomnia as it were, or the basic part of
who you are and not the the more meaningful and more significant
part of who you are. So then the Vic, the main purpose of it is to
to root out or to counter an MCN when they say so laferla is a type
of new cin. But it is the type where you're not even aware that
you're in a state of Nyssa that you're in a state of forgetful
On this incentive often overlooked often doesn't even know that
they're missing out on something. A man Nessie as soon as you remind
them, like, oh, yeah, that's right. That's what I'm supposed to
do.
But laferla It's kind of a deeper type of forgetfulness. So the
vicar is supposed to counter this.
And, you know, I would think the way we look at it that our default
state is not the Kafala, it's sick. Right?
If we are left to our fifth law, if we're left to our primordial
state, then we are people who, who have liquor who remember, and who
remember the most important moment of our
ancient life, right when the souls were created, and we were there to
and then we all worship, we all bore witness, before Allah
subhanaw taala when he asked us to Berbick Mahalo, Bella Shahidan.
And we said better, of course, you are, Lord, we bear witness to that
show hidden and so in a
dismal Shahada.
The shoot is not just intellectually, okay, make sense?
Bear witness? No, it means I witness it, right body, soul,
spirit, everything sees that it bears witness to it. And so some
of them have said that vicar is just actually really taking us
back to that point, to the remembrance of that moment. And
then if we remember that moment, at least even on a, like I say, a
subconscious level, but on the level of the of the ruler of the
spirit or of the CDROM, the innermost part of the Spirit,
then we reconnect, and then we are the soulful and spiritual beings
that were supposed to be. And not just these Corporal entities that
yes, have flesh and blood and circulatory systems and
respiratory systems and so forth. All those things that maintain our
life, are how we understand to maintain the physical life, but
the spiritual life which has a direct connection to the next
life, that
also needs to be maintained, and it needs to be taken care of, and
it needs to be paid attention to. And so vicar, then is that.
And there are many Hadith talk about vicar, how about the angels
looking for halacha zyk that look for the circles of Vic. And here
in the sense, it means many of them said circles of knowledge. So
even learning something beneficial is a type of victory. It's a type
of remembrance, because we as as the sons and daughters of Adam,
that's what we're here for. And that's what makes us unique from
all creatures that we can learn and we can know.
And we can observe and witness reality,
on its highest level. So that's something that's quite important
in terms of who we are as human beings. So
what then about thicker? How do we go about doing it? What should we
be thinking and so forth? And how does that relate to what we know
about Allah subhanaw taala? How does that tie in? Well, as we said
earlier, to reality, what will believe about Allah subhanaw
taala. So much has been written about vicar and we're gonna go
over some of the Hichem that I've not heard about it.
But basically, you can think of the remembering God as kind of
three main ways to do it. Three main
branches, if you will, three main categories. So
there is
prayer praise, so we praise Allah subhanaw taala that's a way of
remembering Allah subhanaw taala.
And it's not coincidence. That's how we start. When we resort to
Fatiha after the best meta we say Al hamdu Lillahi Rabbil Alameen.
Right. That's praise. And we as Muslims have been kind of it's
been ingrained in us and conditioned us that we should get
used to saying that a lot. Because praising Allah is not just an
acknowledgement of Allah elements, and it's not acknowledgement of
everything you have, is from Allah subhanaw taala. So when we say
Alhamdulillah, which literally can be translated as deep praise, it
means, you know, you find it most times translate as all praise,
because they say Allah for lamina listicle oxygens, which means it
covers all categories of praise. So any type of praise is that you
can think of is due to a last panel data, first and foremost.
And, you know, we can praise Allah subhanaw taala for the near term,
we can praise him for all of the bounties and gifts and favors he's
bestowed upon us. And that's one way to praise him, or we can
praise him because he's worthy of praise. Right, and that's actually
looking more towards the attributes and Names of God and
that's how that relates to that. And that was the way that
The Sahaba and odia and our prophets are praised the last
panel data
Landowski center and Alec intercom I think that enough sick and even
the recognition that you can't properly praise Allah.
Right. So, you know, in human interactions, we think, okay, they
gave me a gift, I said, Thank you, I give them a gift similar now or
even. But there's no such transaction with a loss function,
you will never be even there, there's nothing you can do that is
going to fulfill the or equal or equate to what he's giving you.
And so the greatest form of praising him than which was the
praise of our Prophet, sorry. So that means acknowledging that you
can't properly praise Him.
And that's really a very important meaning. Right? If if our way with
God, our engagement with him is thinking, we're paying him back
for something, or even worse, that we are soliciting something from
him by doing these things, he required all of us and then we're
getting something in return. That's very transactional.
And our relationship with Allah is not about a transaction. It's
about devotion. It's about dedication, it's about
commitments, about sacrifice, it's about recognition that everything
you are that you have, and everything that you ever will be,
is only by Allah, by Allah's pleasure, and only by Allah's
Will, and only by Allah's
love of you, because he could have chosen someone else to give all
those things to, but he chose us. And so the Toluca did Maha the way
of love the way it would have been done is to, you know, never really
have a moment that goes by where you're not cognizant or
acknowledging of all of the things that you have, and that they are
due to Allah subhanaw taala. So praise. And then another aspect,
important aspect of our engagement with Allah is supplication a DUA.
And this is probably the one people are most familiar with, I
shouldn't say most familiar, but
the one that they probably think about the most, or go to the most
or see it as the one that they are in the greatest need of the DUA.
Right? We have to ask Allah for things because, you know, things
are not going to go right for us unless we ask Allah to do it for
us. And it would not go any other way except by asking Allah.
And this is not untrue, that sentiment, but it's not the whole
truth.
The promises are seldom said dua muffle a bad and why are they bad,
right? The DUA is the marrow or the core of a bad and hear a bad
it can mean Obaldia, right of servitude, and of service to
Allah.
But sometimes people get the impression that when I'm asking a
law, I'm actually trying, I'm asking him to serve me in some
way. Right? There's something that I want, there's something that I
need. And I'm asking him to give it to me. And,
and it's a recognition that no one else can give it to you. Which is
absolutely true. No one else can give it to you. But
is that the best way to to engage with your Creator? Again, it
becomes a little bit transactional. You know, I'm
asking for something, because I need it. And only he can give it
to me.
But supplication is so much more than that. There is so much more
than that. And we'll see and some of the hiccups that we're gonna go
over kind of the nuance in understanding the the power of the
Duat
and so forth. And we have a fixation with a DUA and Mr. Jab,
Right the answer dua, and this dua and Mr. Jab, sometimes we narrowly
define it. Like Allah, Allah gives me exactly what I'm asking for in
the time that I'm asking for it. Then my thought was unanswered, or
Asha, who unheard sometimes I've heard people say that, how come
Allah doesn't hear my dua
which is, if you followed with us from the beginning, and that
leader, that's impossible, that Allah doesn't hear your thought.
Because he was semi or one bossy. Yes, makrolon mismo.
He is, Samia, he hears everything. So even the things that are not
even said he hears them, he hears the, the hot water of your heart,
right? He hears the thoughts in your heart that you never even
said to anybody. So that can't be true. So if we're firm, and we're
clear on, you know, the athlete aspect of that, and there's no way
that almost all I can hear what we're asking for. So then we have
to think about it further. Is Allah truly not answering my lot?
Or is there something more going on here? It's not a question of
Allah not hearing me. He certainly hears me. And if he doesn't give
it to me in the way that I want, exactly. And Allah so far has also
Eileen and Hakeem. Right he is most he has complete perfect
knowledge. Complete perfect.
Wisdom, then I should also know I know a lot than I know that maybe
the thing I'm asking for and the time that I want it, it's not the
best thing for me.
And maybe a last one with Allah, since it was an act of love to
bring me here to begin with and to put me on this planet, then
perhaps it's also an act of love. For the last panel, tada. And as
much as we understand how love emanates from God, that He is not
giving me the thing that I want in the time they want, exactly as
they want. And he may be reserving it from another time or maybe
delaying it. Or maybe he's gonna give me something much better.
And then one may ask, well, then if that's true, the winemakers a
lot to begin with. If Allah knows everything, and everything's
settled, and and that sort of thing. And then that takes us back
to well, what's the relationship between you and the last panel
data?
Oh, and Mahmoud won't tell us the whole Mahboob one, one Rob
watermarble. Right, he is one that is worshipped. He is one who is
sovereign over all things. And you are the one who is in service to
to towards the law. And that relationship has to be predicated
on a recognition of our journey wanted for fear. He is the one
that needed anything, and you are a complete need of everything. So
if you are completely of everything, why would you not ask
for it? So it's an act of worship to ask, right? And we'll look at
that a little bit more. And then the third
way of engaging or speaking to a lot that I think not a lot of
people may have heard of or cognizant of is what some have
called a rehire. And I translate this as keeping, you know, in the
sense when we say,
you know, may Allah bless you and keep you. What does it mean for
Allah to keep you up? Right, keeps you Jana, you're still around, but
also to take care of you, rehire. And this is like a football bat.
So we're not really asking a lot for something. But we are speaking
to a lot or we're pleading with him, or we are
having a Munez Yeah, we're having conversation with him. So some of
the profits, for example.
What did you say? And he said, When he found this sickness that
he was in, in the in the millennial dollar into our camera,
I mean, that's not really see a lot that's not in the form of an
asking something statement. In the Messenia. Door. I have been
touched by harm
or hammer, I mean, and you are the Most Merciful of those who show
mercy. Right? It's like, any Iranian up, and he there's the
idea there's a recognition only Allah subhanaw taala is the one
who can take care of you and keep you in and so forth. What did you
notice if you left the room moon, in the belly of the whale? C'est
la vie, you know, in Sub Saharan Africa in the continent of volume
in started
running in the form of La, La Land, there's no God except you
Subhanak Glory to you in equal to the volume. I am from the volume.
I am from those who have wronged. Again, it's a statement. What did
moussaka he said I'm say, when he
helped the two daughters of Schreiber of Madeon and
went to the well and got the water for them and then he sat under a
tree. What did you say?
In the in the Lima and gentlemen hiring faculty.
For that which you can send down upon me, I am in complete need.
What are the prophesy Selim say afterthought if in the Bustan of
our deaths
in them, there can be an audible fella who barely
if you are not angry with me, none of this matters. The important
thing is that it all get up. And that's why some of them say they
would say ultimately, we want to talk about Saudi.
Ultimately, we want to look at like Saudi, you are the one that I
seek, and your pleasure is what I is my purpose? And some of them
would say, Allah who may Allah know they don't really, you know,
Allah is with me, Allah is Seeing me right so there's a statement of
the mafia and the statement of Murasa wala novel LA and Allah
sees me
and you know, this is what kind of looking at the ever Presence of
Allah not as something that is
like a proverbial spiritual hammer to knock you over the head and
scare you and to you because you could interpret the verses that
way. Well, we'll hold off from a NEMA Quinto
way alone. Welcome Ina. McClinton was with me wherever I am, and I
can't hide all the bad things that I do, then, certainly I'm going to
be damned then because I can't hide anything from the last panel
data where you could look at it. Well, we'll hold off from a nun
according to the annual laws with us everywhere we are. How
beautiful is that? How blessed it is that we're never alone.
And the prophesies, I'm reminded of Ibaka CDFI in the cave, let
ASAN in Allaha mana. So obviously this Mallya he was talking about
there is the opposite of an Hosen. Because he told me, said, never
let that happen. So he's not telling well in the Mahabharata or
be careful what your deeds because Allah is watching us, who's a
robot. He is the best Muslim to ever lived. During that
generation, obviously, after the Prophet SAW, I said, but he's
saying that doesn't, don't worry, don't grieve everything we find in
Allah Mahayana in Allah, Allah, Allah, Allah is with us. So this
this type of Kitab it's very beautiful. And it's something that
was done by the prophets, and then many of the scholars and the
elderly and the, and those who, you know, were blessed enough to
be given these deep, penetrative, profound meanings and
understandings. It's something that just comes out, right, and
I've been with people you date, that's how they talk all the time.
That's just like, like who you're talking to, but they're talking to
Allah. There's this Kitab there's this.
You know, and some of them it's not even words that come out.
You know, one of the earlier he said, for 30 years, people thought
I was talking to them, but I was actually talking to Allah,
my Shabaab, my relationship is with Allah, they're there. But I
see them as just intermediaries and tools of Allah I'm not I'm not
really, you know, my main relationship is with, with the
provider and the sustainer. And
Allah subhanaw taala.
So, you know, we want to have this ever present to address engagement
with Allah. And it needs that be always be with the tongue at a
higher level, it's with your heart.
Right, and you don't have to, you know, be someone who's whose looks
like he's speaking to himself and look weird. I'm not saying that,
but someone who, whose heart is constantly engaged, but the first
step is remembrance with with the tongue. Right? And then this
thicket of the tongue then will lead to that Shuddhi engagement,
right? So we're witnessing of God and everything of the heart.
And some say that
vicar and shoot are kind of on the opposite sides of each other.
Why? Because vicar means that good. Remembrance means there's a
remember. So there's the I, there's the you in that saying,
Oh, I'm remembering I'm making the butcher who would, is the, the,
the, the covering or let's call it the, the encompassing of the
divine attributes over the human attributes. So the shine and mush
would become one. Right, so the one who is doing the witnessing,
known as being witnessed in for in, in essence, are one because
you're, you're not aware of our making the, the enter, the AI part
goes away, so and then then it becomes shoot, and it's not really
evicted anymore. Technically it is but on a higher plane from from
Ushahidi understanding from a witnessing understanding, it just
becomes all witnessing or shoot. So
you know, that's, that's, that's kind of the goal of the to get to
that point. So that you have that
you know, I'm on the province so I sent him he gave the will see you.
You know, may your tongue ever be wet with the thicket of Allah
subhanaw taala you know, and some of the Hadith mentioned you know,
be a decade and remember a lot until they say that
you know, they think you're crazy. And in the Hadith of the Prophet
so I said I'm that's included in the minutes to set it in the other
class that we teach. Saba philosopher we don't you know, the
majority rule the ones who do have freed the one who like single
Allah out for everything who, who are the men who may rasool Allah,
Allah Medina instead, the newbies be the killer, right? The ones who
are so
consumed by the remembrance of Allah subhanaw taala and because
one of those things, you can't do too much of it.
You know, no one can no one ever said to anybody, actually, you're
doing too much.
It's doesn't happen. Right? It's good Allah Zichron cathedra right,
of course the Quran Kathira remember much so you could be
doing whatever you're doing in your daily routine or daily day
but you could still be
called Hi Eva zyk your heart could be alive with the remembrance of
Allah subhanaw taala. So
let's look at some of the hicom
that if not mentioned, he has one particular indica. Let me start
with that one.
Where he says, Do not abandon remembrance stick for your lack of
presence with Allah in it. For your remissness of the remembrance
of Allah is worst
You will miss this in the remembrance of Allah. Perhaps he
will raise you from a state of remembrance accompanied by
remissness, to a state of remembrance accompanied by
awakening, and from a state of remembrance accompanied by
awakening to a state of remembrance accompanied by
presence will do, and from a state of remembrance
accompanied by presidents to a state of remembrance, accompanied
by absence of all the third one being remembered when the messy
one with
almost any kind of disease, and this is not rare for a loss final
data. So really, in those, I don't know, paragraphs, like three, four
lines, he pretty much summarized and epitomized the methodology of
the
if we didn't have anything else that would teach us about about
doing it and how to do it. This might suffice us in that sense.
And, you know, this is to me, this is one of the Hichem that is a
clear sign or a delete or proof of the set the sincerity of hypnotic
secondary, I can't imagine, someone just came up with that,
and, you know, like to be clever. This is a meaning that was put in
his heart. So he says, Don't do not abandon remembrance for your
lack of presence. Right? In other words, you don't feel the
spiritual connection. You know, in our parlance, in modern parlance
today,
while you're doing it, don't abandon it because of that. Why?
For your remissness, right, your forgetfulness of that or lack of
spiritual connection of the Roman Salah is worse than your miss this
in the remembrance of Allah.
So if you fail to abandon altogether, then that's
remembrance, lack of words of Allah altogether, rather than lack
of her doula presence in the remembrance. So your your tongue
is still obeying God, your tongue is still present, as it were. So
you're saying that you know in Allah, Allah that Allah Muhammad
Rasul Allah, the how to lead him to lead him to learn how to lead
Subhan? Allah Subhan, Allah Subhan, Allah has to be alone
Amarin okay, it has to be alone are working. So even if your heart
is not in that, but your tongue is. So that's a part of you,
right? And your tongue has your DNA in it, right? And the cells
are there and the DNA is
it's kind of the blueprint for the rest of your body and most of
their cells. So maybe the cells that are working with the tongue,
right? They are going to, you know, what are they where they
say, the COVID vaccine, the messenger RNA then comes in sends
its messages out. So maybe the tongue will do that for you. And
it'll send the signals and then maybe that signal will reach the
heart. Right? The real heart, the spiritual heart. And that's what
we'd love for a second scan that he's saying here. So it's much
worse just not to do it at all. And that goes for all the all day
by that. Right? Yeah, I was praying to five times a prayer,
but there's just not like, you know, it's not there. For me, it's
not happening, I must not be good at it or no, that's nothing
doesn't mean that it's a gift in of itself to be able to do it,
even if you're not feeling that connection, because as we said,
that part that presence part, that connection part that feeling like
it's affecting you in a profound spiritual way. That's not really
in your control. That's not your that's not your thing you should
be thinking about are busy, busy with, we do these things as are
taught our teachers taught us in different Omraam habitat, and
decided, we are fulfilling the divine command, die in of itself
is a type of thick, so you have at least that, when you're doing it.
When Allah says to you as quickly as critical was glory of God
called remember me, I remember you, well, if you remember was the
tongue in sha Allah, Allah will remember you back. And Allah
remembering the back and mean, he gives you that remembrance in your
heart. So don't give up on anything because you're not
feeling it or you're not feeling enthusiastic or
it's become burdensome, or whatever it might be, it might
become burdensome, and you might not have the same appreciation or
enthusiasm as maybe you had a while back. But perhaps that is a
test doesn't necessarily mean you did something wrong you might
have, it could be a type of kind of warning or signal from Allah.
And you know, Allah doesn't give warnings and signals except to
those that he loves, and he wants to good for them. Otherwise, you
could live in a state called st the lodge is to dodge means
seemingly everything is fine, even though you are not putting the
effort in and engaging with God, but like your life, otherwise
seems fine. This is called STED Raj. So that's the digital woman
hyphenate Allah will only indicate the meeting will do them for a
while, but eventually they come up in smoke. So it's better to get
the you know, the red blinking warning lights in this life, then
the next life.
So
perhaps you will raise you from a state of remembrance accompanied
by remissness Like you're not there's no connection
into a state of remembrance accompanied by awakening, right?
And that's awakening is what we call the initial spiritual
connection, right? Awakening, because before, what was it before
that dissolve left? Roughly means you're in a state of forgetfulness
and you're not really aware of it. You don't know. In other words,
you don't know what you're missing. So when you when you
awaken, you're like, oh, wait a minute, what was that? What was I
doing now? Now I see something different, completely different.
And that's kind of the initial
spark, as it were. So then you have the awakening. And then from
a state of remembrance, accompanied by awakening to one
accompanied by presence or do, right and that's the real
spiritual connection people are looking for. And then from human
presence, to one accompanied by absence of all but the one being
remembered.
Right and labor to uncover the messy one that core. That's the
real presence. So Allah subhanaw taala, how others should Okay, now
you have Bishkek.
Allah, so Allah doesn't want to associate any with him. So in your
heart, if you're remembering him, and you kind of think about other
stuff, at the same time, there's still presence, Allah is present
in your heart, but so a million other things. But when you get to
a state of only Allah,
right, and this is the state where you're not even aware of yourself.
So your own self awareness kind of takes a backseat. Because the
awareness of God is so powerful and so profound and so strong,
then this is what the chef is describing here. I stated once or
coming by absence of all but the one being remembered. And that's
the real object of the, that's the real purpose behind it, to get to
that state. And that takes work, you know, that takes, you know,
you may have to say something, many times, you may have to say
that you had 100 times 200 times in a row, try it, right with with
presence, so maybe eyes closed, and try to zone out everything
else, and see where it takes you. You know, and this is what the
mechanic would say that you keep seeing until you're in a state
where it's kind of like you're witnessing, as if you're not doing
it, right, as if it's just, you know, happening, and you're a
witness to it, but you're not the five, right, you're your Mfold,
you see that you're Mfold you're not the doer, but you see or you
are the recipient of the vicar, right. And this is when that part,
fifth gradually as critical, right as critical. That's the point we
want to get to, that Allah remembers us. This is the deep
spiritual connection. And then after we've done that with your
tongue, and then you leave that particular setting, the Anwar and
the Fehmarnbelt, and the fruits of all of that stay with you,
they remain with you, and they have a powerful effect. And some
of them even tied it in with with with physicalities. They say, you
know, try to avoid drinking something very cold for half an
hour after that, because vicar is heat, right? And it's and it's
light, and it will, it will permeate the body and permeate the
soul. So if you introduce something called this kind of like
extinguishing that and putting it out and shutting it down, so
the remembrance of Allah is very, very, very powerful. If we do it
in a very dedicated and, and committed way.
So another hokhmah.
Now, these are kind of doing more with
the edit of supplication. Right the of dua, and why is a type of
thick, that's probably the most important lesson we should
remember. That law is not just about asking for something that
you need. But it's a tie. It's a way of remembering a law. And
that's why we included it in this general category of the right, we
said there's praise, we mentioned the praise aspect, and he said,
There is
supplication to, and then there is the higher right mentioning Allah
having this engagement and relationship and evolving and way
of speaking to Allah subhanaw taala.
So, you're on a basic level, and this is the first Hekima that
second, mentioned in the hikma regarding the Hichem regarding to
art, he said, Do not allow the perceived delay in the answer of
Providence, the only Allah accompanied by fervent
supplication to lead you to fall into despair.
He has assured you of the answer in the matter he chooses for you,
rather than in the matter you choose for yourself, and in the
time he desires, rather than the time you desire.
This is like, let's call it do one on one.
This is essential and critical. If we were just to imbibe that aspect
and that understanding of God, we would have so much ease and
facilitation after that.
So
don't think person you know, and we translate here as perceived
delay.
Even though that might have been Arabic, but that's I think the
meaning the perceived delay, it's not really a delay. It's your
expectation.
What's your wish that it gives me right now? I want this thing right
now or I want this mosquito, I want this problem to go away
immediately. And that's normal human sentiment, if you're sick,
if you're, you know, something is troubling you, we don't want
trouble. And we want it to go away. And that's normal. And
perhaps Allah gives you trouble, so that you may call upon him. But
when you call upon Him, call upon Him in the manner that is
commensurate with the majesty of God.
Not someone who is not aware of that. So first step, don't allow
the perceived delay. Even if you keep asking, right forbids
application to lead you to fall into despair.
Right? Don't let it lead you to YES to despair. And you feel like
why is the law not answering me? Why is he not hearing me? Does he
not hear me?
All those all those statements are completely untrue statements.
Right? And your spiritual I should say, wait a minute, you can't say
that. You can't take that. Because we know Allah sees everything. And
he hears everything. And he's completely aware of everything. So
that's not a possibility. So I shouldn't go into a state of
despair, because I think he doesn't hear me or he doesn't see
me or he's not paying attention. I will.
So
when he says he has a short you have the answer.
How is your shoulder the answer or the Ernie a statue? bloco?
That's correct. But only a statue block.
The only aesthetic level, right? This is what's called Tala Bucha,
Allah Tala. And then it's Magic Zoom in Arabic. So it means it's a
it's a it's a, you know, a journey. It's a command and then
the conditional phrase that comes after the command means if you if
you qualify me, I will answer you are the only study of Allah. So
call upon Allah, He will answer you, but how really answer you. He
said, he has assured you have the answer in the matter he chooses
for you.
Rather than in the matter you choose for yourself, and in the
time he desires, rather than the time that you desire.
And if you think about it, and really you don't have to think
that deeply about it. Isn't that a much better deal for us than for
us to say, or I want it in this way. And in this time, minute
Hakeem Mandela Lee Melaka Hormel, Kadir,
Marin, Aziz, isn't a lot of those things. So shouldn't he be the one
who's kind of knows what's better for us than ourselves? So they say
the key to having your duat answered, right? One of the keys
anyways, not only but one of the keys is that you have tough
weeding ejabberd the last one, the last one. So put put complete
agency in the manner that is going to be answered with Allah. So when
you ask Allah Houdini, Allah Shinya, Allah was looking at a
look at the fruit of weed, put complete agency in the answer, and
a lot, you're going to answer the way that you're going to answer
it, you know, it's not for me to say, answer this way or that way.
I've made a request, and I am beseeching you and I imploring
you, and allow answering the matter that he's going to answer
and I'm fine with that. And then that's, that's perfect. And that's
the way it should be.
So
that's kind of one aspect. Another heckler that I wanted also to look
at,
where he says,
closely related, do not request of him to release you from a
situation so that you may be useful in another four, if he so
desires, you can make you useful without releasing you from that
situation.
So this talab could mean in the form of dua, or could be in the
form of a wish. Right? And it's even asking you like what are the
things you should be asking for? How should you be asking them. So
this also is a lot of the root cause of this particular, let's
say stance with God, engaging with Allah, like, I think I do much
better. If Allah put me in that particular situation, you know, if
only Allah smart Allah would relieve me of this job that I'm
in, and I can go study in the hills of, you know, some far off
distant land, where all of the people will behave like the
sahaba. And we live, you know, purely and we drink only organic
raw milk and, you know, then that life is going to be, I really will
be a great worshipper of Allah and I'll be a much better Muslim than
the situation I'm in right now.
To put it bluntly, how that gentleman be left, that's
ignorance of God, why? Who puts you in the situation to begin
with?
I'll put you in the situation. Where you are now right now is
we're Allah wants you to be and if he wanted to make you useful, or
better somewhere else, then he would do that without you asking
him
So you know even the manner that we should ask those things it
should be and that's why the you know the edit for example with
istikhara right we talked about istikhara dua this particular type
of DUA and it's the Hara means seeking the good of something
requesting the good. So in those things that are equally valid,
let's say Option A or Option B or maybe there's an option C could be
multiple things and you want to make the right decision and you're
not sure which one to do. So you do is to follow but what is the
CSR what is the formula right is the hara in Olympia Allah and
Heather Omer Hayden Lee will be will mostly mean fi D and he will
do Yeah, well as you often get the m&e for your Cebu League.
Right when Quinta datamined has an under shadow and you will have
every Muslim in 3d they will have as you will see it in our city for
thrifty unhorsed. If not, that's the Siva, like it's conditional,
Oh Allah, you know, everything. So if you know that this matter, this
choice that I might embark upon is going to be good for me and my
family and the Muslims and it's going to be better for my dunya
and better for my deen and better for my Ashraf and better for my
acclivity andriani. In the end of the day, when everything is
finished, if it's going to be better for all of those things
make it facilitated for me, when Canada and has an O in Arlington
has an M shot only. But if you know that this matter which Allah
knows, obviously, it's worse for me and it's gonna be worse for my
SLR it's gonna be worse for everything about me for sniff
Nyan, who then take it away from me, I don't want anything to do
with it. This is man out of wheat. This is breeding complete agency
with Allah subhanaw taala. So it's in those things that are
you know, permissible, but not in things that are considered to be
like Quran and acts of worship, you know, oh, Allah,
you know, do I do is to call about praying, the five prayers are
going to Hajj or no, not about those things. These are things
Allah has asked of you. You ask Allah to help you in fulfilling
them. Right? And one of the best things to ask is to ask Allah as
aid and guidance in fulfilling those things he's asked of you.
They said, this is one of the best type of art to make. So our type
of application should be general, it should be x, you know,
accentuated by tough week by putting agency in Allah. That's
why the general do you look into the prophesy set, and most of his
thought was very general. Although my idea for doing it has nothing
to do with the hustle, okay, now they will not give us the good of
this life and go to the next life and keep us away from the
punishment for the hellfire.
One of the lot you can ask that's Shamil. Also, almost Allah can
call the failing, like, I mean, whenever you can. So the reason
why I would encourage children is to have them in their view. So I
said that I asked you of all the good things that the prophesy
seven asked you, and I seek refuge from all the all the things that
he sought refuge from the dark Shem it's comprehensive, it covers
everything. And so in general, that should be the touchstone. And
they will ask him for things that are specific, that are halal. But
we don't know the outcome of which is going to be good for us or not,
then it should be in this formula of istikhara those things so if
you say Oh, Allah, you know, give me this person to marry this
specific person. You don't know if there's gonna be good in that,
that needs is the cop. And also is the shadow is the shadow is to
seek wise people and good people and see good counsel on those
things, but you also you want the blessing, even of Allah subhanaw
taala so I think we've come upon the hour we finished it. So I'm
going to stop here in sha Allah is the largest watercolor fuchal
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