Yahya Rhodus – Becoming Vessels Of Divine Mercy
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We will be remiss if we didn't just
take this moment to really show gratitude to
our lord, subhanahu wa ta'ala,
for gathering us in a gathering which he
is remembered, subhanahu wa ta'ala, in which the
greatest beloved, our prophet Muhammad, sallallahu alaihi wasabi
was sent in, is remembered.
And these are meanings that move our hearts.
And if they're not moving our hearts is
that we need to look very deep within
and be able to till the earth of
our souls to be able to receive the
mercy that is descending in this very moment
as we gather together in a blessed gathering
like this.
There are people here in this gathering that
know what is called
There are hearts that they know how to
be that are means for the mercy of
Allah
to descend.
And this mercy is the source of all
good, not only in relation to the individual,
but in relation to society, in relation to
everything that is around us. And were it
not to be for hearts like this on
the face of this earth, you and I
would not be standing here or be in
this very gathering.
It's that hearts that know how to be
means for the mercy of Allah
to descend.
I remember being with our teacher and we
had just entered into
that, non Muslim country. We're waiting to go
through customs.
And I asked him, I says, what happens
when one of the warathat al kuml, as
they call them, one of the great perfect
inheritors of our prophet, sallallahu alaihi sallam, goes
to a place in which that there are
non Muslims?
And he paused very briefly, and he said
one word. It's a single word that is
very easy to say, but it's comprehensive
in meaning. He said, rahma,
mercy.
This is what happens.
Great people wherever they go.
Is that wherever they go was that the
very spaces that they touch remain perfumed
from these blessed souls that know how to
be mean for people to be able to
receive mercy. And this is one of the
greatest sunnahs of all that is a forgotten
sunnah of our prophet, sallallahu alaihi sallam, which
is the sun of mercy
and of rahma.
And nothing is more needed in our time
for our own selves and for the people
that around us, the Muslims and the people
that we're living with in these societies.
People are in absolute
need of this rahma,
of this mercy, and this noor, and this
light, where people only to know what are
in gatherings like this and the sweetness
of them, the pleasure of them, and the
way that they fulfill you with the very
depth of your being. People
would gather and they would run to them.
But we wanna take this opportunity with these
special hearts that are here, person after person.
Unfortunately,
that Sheikh Semer couldn't make his, but inshallah
make it tonight. B'nishallah, he's here with us
in spirit. What an honor. What a blessing
to have someone like that visit these lands
where we only to know the people that
are visiting us, but the true people of
Allah are the most humble. They are oftentimes
the most unassuming.
People have a image in their mind of
what they think true scholarship is. But when
you see true scholars, you realize how humble
they are. But these are people that if
you love them, you will attain high degrees
of closest to Allah, subhanahu wa ta'ala, let
alone if you love them and then benefit
from them. And there are many things that
could be said. You could look at the
outward
and the it's gone, not only in terms
of the Quran, but in how many of
the sciences of the sacred law and their
connections back to the prophet, sallallahu alaihi, sallam,
but then when you speak about the inner
sciences
and the states of these individuals like Sheikh
Zamer and that recently
that someone had that blessed me to hear
a dream that someone had about Sheikh Zamer.
And it was a long blessed dream, but
to Kholasa was it of, as that the
prophet
said, is that anyone who loves him, we
love them.
Anyone who loves him, Rasulullah said in a
dream, is that we love him. We draw
near to Allah by loving the likes of
Sheikh Samar, believing
is that we'll become beloved to Rasulallah
himself sallallahu alaihi wasallam. And if you're beloved
to Rasulallah, you're beloved to Allah jalajalalu.
What a blessing. And to have people like
Sheikh Mehul Siddiqui,
to have people that have these unbroken chains
of transmission
back to the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam,
and where we only to realize, although we
oftentimes veiled, for what happens in the unseen,
don't look about the people that are around
you. How many angels are present? How many
purified souls are present when people like this
are present? And let alone all of the
other blessed souls that we have here. People
that took from great people of Allah, Subhanahu
Wa Ta'ala. And what we take from this
is the essence of this deen
is connecting to the messenger salallahu alayhi wasalam
and connecting to the true people of Islam.
Were this not to be the case, Allah
Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala would not have mentioned in
the Fatiha iyah that each and one of
us recite at least 17 times a day,
ihidina sirata mustaqim. This is a command, but
it's a dua in the form of a
command, and then Allah Ta'ala immediately connects it
to sirata ladinanamta'alihim.
We don't just speak about the straight path
in and of itself in an abstract way.
We immediately speak about then the path of
those whom you have bestowed your favor upon,
and we all know by now that this
is tafsir Quran Bil Quran, who
over obeys Allah and his messenger.
Those are the people that Allah
has bestowed his favor upon. Prom.
Immediately connecting us to the essence of these
meanings. This is the reality of this deen
is to connect to the great people of
Islam.
This is, you could say, the quintessential trait
of Ahusunuwajama.
People that have the correct perspective about the
messenger of Allah sallallahu alaihi sallam. And I
always wonder what book people are reading, what
Quran are people reading,
how many references to the rusul do we
have, how many subtle indications point to him,
how many times the Allah speak to him
with the kafat hitab in this second person,
subhanahu wa ta'ala.
How many verses are there to connect
our hearts to the messenger of sallallahu alaihi
wa sallam and by extension
his great inheritors that come after them. This
is the essence of the deen. This must
be revived.
Because once this happens,
then you start to see
great things that you could take glad tidings.
The fact that these blessed souls have been
able to sit with the great masters of
this deen, some of these blessed names that
we've heard, the very names of which when
you mention them, mercy descends.
They've been saying this from the earliest time,
Sofiane Ben Rein was from the Tabi'in, and
it wasn't just him. There was many who
said this, and the zikris salihin tanzirar rahma.
If you mention the righteous, mercy descends.
One of the Habayeb Habayri bin Shehab said
is that when you speak about the righteous,
and this is why, when we're in our
gatherings, this is what we should speak about.
Look at what Imam Abu Hadifa said, is
it was more beloved to him than a
lot of outward knowledge, including the science of
fiqh to speak about the great men of
this religion because this shows us real examples
of people that were validated by Allah ta'ala
and to put their knowledge into practice.
But he says that when you mention the
righteous,
there is a cloud that forms in the
unseen known as the Sahaba tat Tofiq, the
cloud of Tofiq. And then it rains down
on lands
and anyone that is touched by this rain
is that their heart is granted guidance by
the blessing of Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala. So
not only do you benefit, not only does
your heart benefit, not only do you get
uplifted,
and there are so many things in this
world that are creating anxiety and creating worry
and creating sorrow in our hearts. You and
I need to focus upon what is really
important,
remembering the righteous, speaking about the great men
and women of this religion. And when the
heart is attached to them, then you start
to realize all you have to do is
hold on
while we're still here on earth
and try to follow their way and remember
the words of Allah
When Allah
that teaches us about these great men
is that they have been truthful
to the covenant they have taken with Allah.
They're from among them are those that have
that turned to a past and turned and
have passed away.
And there are those who are waiting, but
what is their trait?
They didn't change anything at all, and one
of the meanings is is that they remain
firm on those same principles that they saw
their teachers living by. They were manifest in
them, and you could only imagine what their
teachers were like, that you could only imagine
what their teachers were like, the highest degree
of integrity and istiqama
and uprightness that you can possibly imagine. The
highest degree of scrupulous as people who are
constantly in a state of the remembrance of
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. So when we come
together in a guiding like this is that
we don't just come here for our own
selves. And I will leave everybody with this.
We come to these gatherings on behalf of
our families,
on behalf of our friends and our loved
ones, on behalf of people in these lands
that we're living and on behalf of the
ummah of our prophet Muhammad sallallahu alaihi sallam.
When I mentioned to our teacher, Sayd Haq
Umar, that we were doing this reading with
Sheikh Samr, he said to make the following
intentions,
nasradin
walhuda wal haq, to give victory to the
deen, to give victory to guidance, and to
give victory to the truth.
That it'd be a means to rectify
the ummah of our prophet sallallahu alaihi sallam.
It'd be a means to ward off harm,
not only from us and ward off tribulation
from the entire ummah of our prophet sallallahu
alaihi sallam. And this is what we hope
when we gather together like this with blessed
hearts like this with a visit the likes
of Sheikh Samar is that it'd be a
means of abundant good. And
seeds are being planted. That as long as
Muslims are here in these lands,
these seeds will go strong and they will
bear great fruits
and they will give its fruit every season
by the leave of its Lord
Inshallah leads to the flowering of the sciences
and a means in opening and
opportunities for people to connect to Allah and
to the Messenger of Allah. And we ask
Allah to accept us and
to bring about abundant good for all of
us and those that are behind us and
people in these lands. And it'd be a
means for the spreading of Hidayah and the
guidance in of the of the deen of
our prophet Muhammad sallallahu alaihi wasallam. And it'd
be a means for people to have access
to true
authentic knowledge
based upon revelation,
which is the knowledge that everyone is in
absolute need of that is Musulillah.
They will take them to Allah, subhanahu wa
ta'ala. You ask Allah to give us tofiq.
WussallAllahu
Wa Ta'ala.