Walead Mosaad – The Journey is the Destination The way of the Arifinclass 36
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Salam aleikum wa rahmatullah. Smilla rahmanir. Rahim Al hamdu.
Lillahi Rabbil Alameen wa sallahu wa Sallim wa Barik. I remember. I
mean, so you didn't know more than Oh, have you been quality A union
A quality looser and more hygienic, Michigan was even worse
at what they did Adam waterfox Mohammed Abdullah Al Hashimi,
hoorah Shiva Arias, have you been? Well, from what I'm about.
So we're at our penultimate session, at least for the time
being.
The journey is the destination. Looking at particularly at
this reading that we're doing have a book entitled, quote, velocity
Fein, written sometime in the sixth century of the hijra,
roughly around the same centuries as
Daddy, for example. And
so far, what we've been seeing in this particular set of chapters,
dealing with spiritual refinement, and spiritual discipline, as we're
ending towards the end of the set of chapters, is if one does indeed
want to avail themselves of a higher reality, and a higher
spiritual consciousness, and awareness of those realities, then
really, the main thing is to get a hold of oneself, and to get a hold
of one's passions and one's ego and one's desire and so forth.
Because there's really nothing in the way it's, it's there.
But as the author said, one needs to polish the mirror of their
hearts, so the heart is merely reflecting the reality. So if
there's blemishes, just like if there's, you know, concave or
convex mirror, or there's some discoloration in the mirror, then
that which is reflected, the image, which is reflected in the
mirror will not
faithfully reflect the reality of that thing. So the image will look
distorted. And basically, this is the metaphor we use to describe
how people look at things and interpret things. And
you know, sometimes it can reach a level of,
you know, ultimate disconnect with reality, some people just see
things that are not there, or they perceive intentions and
motivations of others that are not there. And as we said, in previous
sessions, this goes back to their own mirror. So, if their mirror is
distorted, right, then they will tend to be suspicious of everyone
else. And if someone has a polished mirror for the heart,
then they tend to try to think the best of people, this doesn't make
them necessarily naive, or
make them fall easy prey to to connive errors and charlatans and
so forth because also the reality will be reflected like this. But
even if they sense this discrepancy in the motivations and
intentions of others, it does not lead them then to
condemn the essence of that person right as the wet rather it says
okay, there's a particular situation maybe there's a
background we're not aware of so forth and so they take our abahani
right Lord like stance on this which is to give people a second
and third and fourth chance and to be Rahim and to be merciful and to
be
lenient and to be climate and so forth. And that that comes with
these beautiful character traits that the Prophet SAW I said Lim
mentioned that that's why he came in other words to live with me
Matt macadam and after that almost not ahead of the outside ahead of
LA freeway have not come except to complete perfect character a
beautiful character in other words, still my lemon, I've not
been sent except as a teacher. So
you know to be in that particular space of absorbing these meanings
and then being able to conduct yourself and to engage with all of
the different relationships both human and otherwise so even with
other creatures with animals with the environment with the water
that you use to make will do for example to be just in the manner
by which you use it and promise Orson also did not leave that
stone unturned and he said that
that one should be economical in the order that they use what okay,
I don't know how to jet even if you were on the banks of a flowing
river, right which seems like an endless supply of water but
nevertheless
you know, this is the
the the matter of engagement of the believer with everything
around
Have them and in a sense, then they sacralized everything,
everything that then has as a sacrosanct city, right and in
viability or what we call a format to which that should not be
violated and should not be transgressed. So,
Surely these are things that we are, we're striving for, and we're
aiming for.
So, as I said, penultimate session. So we have two more
today, this session and the next one. And in these last few
sections, he's looking at, particularly the Qur'an, or the
manner by which people can interpret and understand things
from the Quran. And we had begun this in the previous session that
he started talking about it, and that some people will be privy
to deeper and more profound meanings of the Quran. And this
may not necessarily be commensurate with their level of
Arabic are how well they understand Arabic rhetoric, of
even though that's certainly a consideration on the part of it.
But it's going to be more about the, the the stillness and the
pureness of their hearts, in the manner by which they will not just
understand and comprehend the Quran, but the meanings that will
then penetrate their heart. And it's our assertion, I think, as we
said in the previous session, that this will come about even if
someone doesn't understand the words of the Quran. So it's quite
possible someone whose first language is not Arabic or doesn't
understand the Quran was reading it, that the meanings can
penetrate, even though you don't know the, the, the meanings of the
words and there's a hadith and mustard, that kind of, there's an
earshot or there's an indication that
you know, one lot, not the indication but the meaning of the
Hadith that one will
reap the reward of reading the Quran. Whether they understand it
when family woman does it for him, with understanding and without
understanding, so there's an indication on each chakra, that
that reward may not just be the word of the tilava of Akira of
reading it per se, but also something else that may come
that will affect one Allahu Allah. So this next section that we are
embarking upon first lumen Assad in the Quran, Al Karim
Minar Surat Al Quran Al Karim from amongst the secrets of the Quran
and Kareem
while I'm Rama cola and no Khurana Barun
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la SallAllahu he says no that the Quran is a deep or vast ocean
there is no shore to it.
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and who can sad
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minute battery in La La Nova hurry he was a bit modified to who and
is your worry while you're working at Latisha Medallia Cara who have
a Moodle who are Mariela yet utterly another Euro Yatta
so he says
the similarity
in your reading of the Quran or completing the Quran hotma will
Clara by Thilawa and your memorization of the Ybarra
memorization of the words of the Quran
is like someone who looks to a deep vast dark ocean Lhasa Helena
who knows shore to it and he does not know anything of the sea
except the outward color of the sea.
So you might see it like darker or less dark and obviously that
depends upon what's underneath it or you might see it as blue but
that's what you see you don't see beyond that.
That's why he says was a bit modified to onion Jojoba yo
athlete right and he's unable the knowledge is not penetrate the job
ahead and the lower feet
which are the pearls and the
The rubies are the jewels and the rubies that are underneath.
And remember that was actually here when his book, Giovanna Quran
he talks about also Jawahar and Jacquet, he also divides them into
jewels and rubies talking about particular verses of the Quran.
So anyway here so the knowledge is not penetrate to the inner part of
the Quran, right, which he describes here as jewels and
rubies and that the samurai they have Karhu right. So the deep, the
cod is the deepness of the ocean that's where you find them. We
will move to who and where you can't see from the outside. Well
Mariela to utterly Nasri. ruijter Who, right and that which for
someone who's looking for far away can't see them. Well lo Nova who?
Me
stool Omri when he and he said that outward color is like the
armor and the Navy is like the commands of the Quran and the
prohibitions of the Quran worldwide worldwide. Right? Why
then why it is the promise of reward or the threat of
punishment? Well, my wife Well, I'm sad, or Matakohe movie about
that, right? Well, my wife and admonitions and Umfeld parables
stories of the Quran, what might a cool movie about that right? And
then those things pertaining to a VEDA? Right? Yeah, he will
come from illustrative healthsuite You have over area Camila Mara for
quite a Tupelo. These are hereby that these are acts of worship. So
the Quran does talk something about that, but he describes all
of that as a loan of via
that is the outward aspect of the Quran. And as I should mention,
because it takes the same approach, have you read Johanna
Quran is sad, he says very, very similar thing. And I would not be
surprised if
if Elijah is basing his description here on something he
wrote.
We'll call this terminal Quran. Allah Jojoba Oil Cleator module
don't feed that man a Chanel alayhi wa Ramana NASWA who the
fair he reminded me of a valid question Riva hurry.
One of the algo Lea Phoebe had a straw.
He said and the Quran it contains within it, as we said, your head
and your feet there within it, these jewels and these rubies. Now
SHODHANA la he was Nana, who is he? Right? And that which we have
indicated, sometimes right throughout the text, as we've
seen, but almost none. So the Shara and the rums and they said
the Rams is deeper than the ishara. The Ishar is a subtle
indication and the Rams is even subtler than that.
The 30 So we use subtle indications because it is subtle
in the nature of it is subtle, you can't really express it outwardly.
Or
overtly, I should say, the man let me actually follow Chris
Riverhead. What about the development of a battle? I suppose
especially for someone who only has stopped the crystal ball here.
Right, the one who's on the outer shell of the Quran, and doesn't
see more than that, and has not risen. To dive into right.
Basically we're saying it's available is like diving or
Raphael is to rise. So rise to dive into the behind us roll to
the
the ocean of secrets that is within the Quran.
So that's not going to happen for as he said, I had a vibe, where he
says what am I here for hard work off while Trishula here. So the
people have that word or the let's call it the exclusive outward so
they don't see the inward. And, you know, he's gonna talk about
this a little bit more Lawhead and Bolton. And just just before we
get into that, it's important that
in the early days of Islam, and this is after the time of the
Prophet SAW, I said that there was some contention about this issue
about what do we understand of the Quran? Is it just the outward
meaning of it? Or is it also inward meanings? And if there are
inward meanings, how do we interpret that and so forth. And
so there were groups that came up, like the VA Hiriya
and the VA hadiah were of the opinion that we only take what is
literally meant by the Quran, or a fraction of them said that at
least then there was
the opposite of that and bothnia right, but it means the N word. So
the boutonniere said no, the outward meanings is not what is
meant. Don't trust that we're looking towards the boss any
meanings, right? And this was closely associated with also the
smiley or the math hub of the Ottoman Empire. So the botany
meanings is What is Allah means. So really, they were both trying
to arrive at what is the divine intent behind the words and the
meanings of the Quran.
And sunnah, whatever. But the people of sunnah, and let's call
them the normative practice, and mainstream of Islam, they said the
Quran has ever had and Barton. So the law here is our guide, that
word meanings our guide, but this does not preclude
our ability to interpret other meanings that are within the folds
of the words of the Quran themselves. But these are the
meanings will never be incomprehensible or incompatible
with the law had meaning right without word meaning so they're
never going to be contradictory. They're never going to that word
means going one way everything is going one way and they can't both
be true at the same time. They both have to be true at the same
time, just like we mentioned the reverse of the other day. Larry
masu Elon Motoharu right, no one shall touch it except those of our
of the hotter so outward meaning means are beyond will do if you
touch the pages of the Messiah, and then the inward meaning is the
If the meanings of the Quran will not penetrate a heart that is
impure. So both of those meanings can can coexist with one another.
So, the way we look at it is they must coexist, that we can
understand both of them at the same time without contradiction.
So, if however you stop only at the outward meaning and say
there's no inward meaning, then you've taken a lot of, you know,
the potency of the Quran itself. And the opposite is true. If you
say there's only about 10 Then also you rob the Quran of what it
is. So it's actually both so when he or when he says what I'm here
for for the work of while Krishna is are here. So the people have
heard they stopped at the outer shell they didn't go deeper than
that. Well, our budget of hammer home furnace a woman as a family
him minute, are we JG LM LM your heat will be ill me he may miss me
Roman Civil Assad.
So he said, the people of the VA here. And there are
misunderstandings. He says we're our budget of hammer home. Right?
So our lack of understanding or what you could say, crooked
understanding, first of all, man is to be a family minute, are we
judge? Ma'am, you're here to be ill be him in some room and Cyril
Asad. So basically what he's saying is, they heard some of the
button meanings like Lena Sue Elon Masaharu, the meanings and only
penet will not penetrate the impure heart will only penetrate
the pure heart. And they said, No, it doesn't mean that it means you
have to have only and not that other meaning. And so when they
heard about the meaning of this inner taharah
this inner purity
nessa Buddha, right? Either our judge, they said that's wrong,
that's crooked. That can't be right. Me my semi Roman citizen a
straw man came up to me he right because they're not aware of it.
Let me repeat or even be there like, their knowledge did not
encompass those other meanings because they didn't taste that
meaning they didn't experience it. And this goes by the general
principle that insane I don't leave my edge hella. A person
generally is going to be an enemy to that which do they not? They do
not know that which they are ignorant of, at least at first
contact with such a new concept. They'll say no, that's not right.
Because I never heard of it before.
Unless they're what we call munsif Right and munsif the one who is
you know objective in their approach to things even if they
never heard them before will say oh, you know, I never heard that
before but it could be true doesn't mean because I didn't hear
it doesn't mean that doesn't exist.
Right so like they say this is another Clyde Adam in which they
let you do or Adam elude
adamant which then which means just because you don't feel the
thing is there or you're not aware that it's there doesn't mean it's
not there. Maybe you didn't hear about it before but that doesn't
mean it doesn't exist. Or that meaning can't be valid.
Come on The Club. Yeah. Hello, gee, you're a coupe what G filmer
at the answer will come Helene Marathi Well immediately and then
Papa big Talaq.
Not a very nice thing to say. But he's this is the example. He said
just like someone who's probably Healthwatch, who's not very
attractive.
looks in the mirror. Right? And they see the ugliness in their
face. And they affiliate or they blame the mirror for the ugliness
not themselves. Right. So this is the same thing. Well, let me edit
the NL Corp hobby Vegeta Allah and they're not aware that it's
actually the ugliness of of your face. It's not the mirror. It's
nothing wrong with the mirror but something wrong with you. So here,
these
followers or students or scholars, their mirror didn't pick up on
those meanings. So they didn't say that something's wrong with them.
They said something's wrong with these people who don't understand
the law items how I understand
it, lazy militia without a good lube. So the people have the
thought of the outward or the or the exclusive outward, Lizzy
milkfish they suffice themselves or stayed only by the outer shell.
Well, tautoko lubob And they left the essence
for when the Kaduna homelab web, so the doors were slammed shut for
them. Those doors didn't open. What do you mean a halal belt in
no one modality is very full of your animal hijab, or 40 hat Lamb
of wearable for now Lulu Bab but the people have to feed the people
of actualization and verification. This is what
they verify these meanings they actualize them within themselves.
Often from those who believe there's about a meaning no on will
are harvested ASVAB right. They were not distracted by the ASVAB
right just by the mere outward intermediate causes for rofan
Human hijab so the veils were lifted from them. Well,
fortunately home will have web for now we'll do bad. Kind of a poetic
way of saying, Well what you had long will have web. Then the doors
were opened
For now do a little bit. And so they were able to achieve and
understand the essence of the thing here, namely the meanings of
the Quran, rather than just the outward, the outward shell. So
this is kind of actually, if you think about it the way he's
talking about it's, it's extraordinary.
Because if you look at, let's say,
you know modern linguistic and linguistic analysis and things
like that, there have been many movements that have happened.
Probably the one that is most dominant right now is this thing
called deconstructionism, which, which basically says it's not
really important what the intent of the author is, if all that
matters is what you think it means. And you're not looking
towards the intent of whatever the author said, then you can make it
mean whatever you want it to make it me, just kind of just Derrida
and others this kind of oversimplification, but that's
basically the crux of the argument.
Whereas here, we're saying No, Allah, smart Allah certainly had
an intention. And Allah subhanaw taala is limitless. And the
knowledge that Allah is metallic can impart to us also is
limitless, because he's limitless. And so there are different ways by
which Allah, Allah can impart this knowledge to us. And one of those
ways is obviously, the Quran RBU movie in right, it's in a clear,
precise, pure Arabic language and Arabic language is full of
mysteries and secrets. And those who study even a little bit of it
will see that you can't even get to the depths, you know, the
limits of what the Arabic language can express in terms of language
and you know, the prophesy. centum said, No, you're here to deliver
in Llandovery that no one can encompass the language except the
prophets. So and language itself is a divine gift, or a lemma Adam
Smith Aquila. And Allah smart, Allah taught the names of all
things to add them knowledge, which even the angels did not
have, at the time, so.
So that's kind of still though, at what a certain level that that
knowledge can be imparted to us. So it's also going to be
predicated on one's ability to
avail oneself of those meanings on your spiritual mirror right on
your heart. So some people only see something outward, but then
others will have a deeper connection and engagement with the
words of the Quran. And I'd say also, this is true for the words
of the Prophet SAW Selim to some degree as well, but not exactly
the same way as the Quran, and also to the words of the
interpreters of the Quran and Sunnah your engagement with those
those texts is going to be also commensurate with you know how
spiritually inclined and and how spiritually disciplined that you
are, you know what you read the Word and comes back to you. And
then you may see something that's not there. Because it's something
that's in you, but it's not in the text. And this is often what
happens. And this is what I think deconstructionism does is, you
impose a very necessary level, right, not at a Rohi or soulful
level, but at an F 70 level of consciousness, as we've talked
about earlier, and you impose that the words, and then you want the
words to mean that because that's what you want them to mean, on the
level of your ego on the level of your knifes. And now we're seeing
this also on the level of people imposing meanings upon Islam and
wanting Islam to mean certain things, and to stand for certain
things, because those meanings are there for them on their next
level, right? Due to, you know, outside influences and from
intellectual paradigms other than a snack. And now they want kind of
STEM to fit
in this in the box, even though it doesn't actually fit in there. But
again, based on an upstanding level. So, you know, we don't say
that,
you know, there's a monopoly on what the Quran means and what it
doesn't mean, and that it's limited to a certain class of
people or a certain gender of people or certain ethnicity or so
forth. And they've just kind of tried to keep people out. And it's
a, it's a way to protect their position, and it's all about the
patriarchy. And these are things that you read in even somewhat
some Muslims right today. But for us, at least in the Sunni
tradition, anyone could be an interpreter, anyone could be in a
position to derive these meanings. But, you know, that's going to be
commensurate with what level are you are engaging, if you're an
engaging with your neffs, right to use kind of a spiritual paradigm,
if you're engaging with your ego, and your neffs with the text, and
then you come back to us and say, These are the meanings that I
think they mean, then we're going to have to measure that against
the well known criteria that have been established, you know,
throughout the centuries, and if we find that it's not standing up
to scrutiny of the well known criteria, that we have both
criteria that go back to the Arabic language and to the
the
issues of consensus within the religion and so forth, if you're
violating any of those things, doesn't matter what you call
yourself, or how big a chef you are, how big your turban is, those
meanings that you
extrapolate, or you think extrapolate from the Quran are
going to be rejected. Right. And this is pretty much what
circumscribes, or what's kind of the boundary of the border of how
we understand the snap, if we were to remove that there's no more
snap than Islam will just be the self defined thing that anyone
could define by themselves. And remarkably, all of these people
who wrote books like this, and yet and
you know, there's, there's a level of diversification and a healthy
level of dissent as well, they don't always agree on everything.
But they all go back to the same basic premise, the same basic
framework is that Allah certainly meant certain things or mean
certain things were the words of the Quran, and he wants certain
things from us. And he also left it up to us to struggle and to
strive. And this idea of he had in in deriving those meanings, and
one can avail oneself of that if they are properly trained and
qualified in order to do that. So, you know, you want to be a pilot
of what's now defunct the 747. But let's say Airbus A 380, or
something like that. And, you know, you think you can do a great
pilot the plane but go through the proper training, do the proper
training, get your hours and then you get in there and maybe you
have a different way to land or different way to find a different
route to somewhere else. But if you've done the training, then
that's something then that can be taken against
the proper criteria. But otherwise, it's just your ego
talking it's just you're nervous.
So, the next section
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have the exclusive outward one resume and we talked about this
before a resume or Ross right, which is kind of the formalities
that have the affiliations of your own existence basically is how it
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So here he's saying
he says no may Allah have mercy upon you
that
the people of the law here have the exclusive outward it's like a
group of people who went to the palace of the Sultan or of the
king and they looked at the out the barracks and the walls and so
forth of the palace from the outside and Xena and it's a
dormant for how was the hydrophilic so they were so
impressed by the palace from the outside that they're just like
looking at it and they can't turn away from looking at that.
But the people have what he calls the tactic the people of authentic
authenticity and verification and actualization mean at the bottom
those who affirmed the bottom meanings is like a group that left
another advisor oscillate Malik so they didn't look at the outward
walls of the palace. What I'll do is bear but lotta other majeeda to
embed right and they didn't
we're not distracted by any, you know, intermediate causes to
of how to open the door like keys or things like that, for the
hermit crab, so they rushed towards the door for what they do
who Clodfelter hatoon in area.
So rather than a key opening, they went to the door and they found
the door was open for them. What opened the door for the hatoon
area, right, so the AMA, or the special consideration here of the
king, for example, or of Allah subhanaw taala, an example of the
Quran opened the door for them. So they entered, and then they saw
the jewels and the rubies. And this is what they were enamored
with. Then they looked at the face of the king himself. And that was
even
even more bewildering than the actual Jews and rubies.
So then they went to the people who are outside and just looking
at that were part of the palace and the walls, they said Come
inside. Look, what we found is way more than what you guys are
looking at outside. Then they said to them, we were prevented from
entering
that which busied us with looking and observing the outward
construction of the palace from going in. So the ones that
entered, they said, if you had seen that which was inside, you
would have not been distracted of what you see on the outside. And
if we had seen the face of the king, right the lord over this
palace, then nothing would have visited you from that because that
is the most amazing thing from a doctor Metella Shafi GmbH SQL, so
that what you actually have seen would be nothing would diminish in
your eyes. But this is due to your incapacity and to your success.
It's highly cool, right and to your depraved state that you
didn't see more than that.
And, you know, you can think of it also like a more modern example
is,
you know, there are buildings that have impressive facades and, you
know, look kind of constructed in a way with with ornaments and
adornments and so forth. But, you know, no one's gonna say I've been
to that place, unless they actually go inside. Right? If you
go to the steps of like a museum or something like and you don't
know, go inside, but you're just looking at kind of the doorman
from the outside and you see the line going in? And you're like,
No, I'm just kind of like looking at from outside. Can you say you
actually have been to the Smithsonian or you went to the
natural Museum of Natural History or anything like that, or the
Metropolitan Museum or the Louvre in Paris unless you actually go
inside. So those who don't go inside and think all that is there
is the thought here. Right? And this is a particular type of
archetype of religiosity as well, we should mention that tend to
reduce the deen to kind of just a laundry list of do's and don'ts
and halal and haram.
Which, of course, no one is denying that's part of the deen.
But that's not all the time. Right? And so then there's not
this,
this deeper understanding and deeper penetration into, you know,
how is Allah communicating with us? What are the meanings of the
last phone call that can, can can provide for us and this provision
is something that's renewable, day after day, you know, you find a
few keeper a weird, sha Allah, this is a goal, everyone should
have a word of the Quran, and you know, something you do daily, and
no matter how much amount it is, you will find the Quran becomes
part of you. It's, you know, you can't stay away from it. It
becomes, you know, part and parcel, and you have to go back to
it. And that's what were the means, like, it draws you back to
it. Yes, so amongst the meaning of where to do something you do
regularly, but it originally means like watering hole and so it
brings you back to it, right because there's where did that
Lola woodland McKenna where he that if he didn't do the way that
then there's no way that we're ready, that is what is from Allah
to you. And the word is what you do, to avail yourself of the wetty
that of that which is from Allah to you. So if you don't have the
level of the Quran, if you don't have vicar,
if you don't have a regular, you know, sessions with yourself of
Maha Sabha right to review, what am I doing with my life? And how
am I functioning in these relationships? And am I keeping up
my end of the bargain? Or on my end of the deal? Am I fulfilling
these people right or am I not doing it? You know, Mogera said
Maha Sabha, my neffs you know, to sit with yourself and to, to
review these things with yourself. These should be a rod, you know,
these are not just things to do once in like, you know, a moment
of epiphany, maybe the first time but then it should be something
that you do
regularly, or Sharla.
So, I'm going to stop here, of Islam data Allah, and then
hopefully we'll get through the rest of it.
In tomorrow's in the next session, in sha Allah
hamdu Lillahi Rabbil Alameen