Yahya Rhodus – Futuwwa Being a True Servant
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The importance of physical and spiritual closeness is emphasized in achieving spiritual and heartfelt closeness. The Prophet's statement of intentions to be in the correct way is also discussed. The importance of learning in understanding everything and the need for parents to reinforce it in children. The importance of being an apt of Allah is also emphasized. The importance of knowing the reality of Allah's existence and the need for parents to reinforce it in children. The importance of being a slave to the rule of Islam is also discussed. The importance of being an apt of Allah is emphasized, and anything that is not a good job is a w intented state. The importance of being a slave to the rule of Islam is also emphasized. The speaker emphasizes the importance of being an apt of Allah and that anything that is not a good job is a w intented state. The importance of being a slave to the rule of Islam and the need for parents to reinforce it in children.
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Salah more Allah Rahim Al hamdu lillah wa salatu salam ala
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hamdulillah what a great blessing to under the name of Satan and
Muhammad sallallahu alayhi wa sallam the very best of occupation
May Allah subhanaw taala bless us all, with an intimate connection
to him such that whenever we mentioned his name whenever we
send Sarawak in benedictions upon him Sallalahu cinema hearts come
to life. And we feel a closeness because a closeness is primarily a
closeness of heart. Yes, physical closeness has its importance, and
there's no doubt there's a reason that say no, I'm going to help up
that after having been stabbed in the fajr prayer and realizing is
that his death was near. He sent His Son to the house of say the
Aisha and he said, that seek permission from Aisha but say to
her, don't say them either, meaning the Commander of the
Faithful say that Omar asks your permission to be buried next to
the provost, I sent him in his companion of a book
he looked at because if he would have said that immutable meaning
is seeking your permission, she might felt obliged just because he
was the commander of the faith who was the leader of the Muslims at
that time, but he said
that seek permission that from her and say Omar seeks your
permission, and say to Aisha, even though of course, she wanted to be
buried next to her husband, the best of Gration, Cena, Muhammad
and her father, she permitted say no matter because she knew how
beloved he was to the prophesy centum how close he was to say no
Bakr Siddiq, and after this reached say No Mr. That she
permitted him to do so. He said nothing was more important to me
than that. Nothing was more important to me than that. And
there's no doubt physical closeness is important, but
spiritual closest closest of the heart is really important. And
there's a beautiful nuance to this story of say to Aisha, one of the
things that we did on the last Earth trip in May, Allah had
opened up the door for us all in Shona Tada. To perform Norma again
soon beaten the light to Allah. There was a model of the way that
the Chamber of Seda Aisha looked during the life of the prophet
Salah licen him after the prophesy centum passed, and then after her
father's, you know, Booker passed, and then after a settlement, a
hilltop passed, and essentially, there was the main room, and then
there was like a courtyard. And during the life of the prophets,
Allah said, they would have used that home in different ways. But
the prophesy centum was buried, and what seems to be like a
courtyard which is attached to the bedroom. But after the Prophet
pass, said Aisha moved her bed from that room so that it was next
to the grave of the prophets little license. And she did the
same and kept it there when the sanem Bakr Siddiq was buried there
as well. And so when you see those pictures of that, where you go to
actually since an homage to the prophesy centum, where I will say
that here is where you send Saddam's to the prophesy send
them, the prophesy centum is laying on his right side facing
you, because the Qibla is behind you, and say no Bakr Siddiq is
just a little bit behind him, this moving towards the right when
you're facing that direction, and that behind him this way. So no
matter how top is that further back over here like this, but
after say, no matter how taobh was buried in that place, she put up a
screen. And sometimes she would visit the grave without her scarf
on during their time. But once Saint Omar was buried there, and
he was in the grave, he's in a grave, she would never go to the
grave without putting on her hijab. And this was their
understanding. And there is a Hadith in the collection of a
Buddha that states is that there is no Muslim that you will go
visit in the grave that used to know in this world, except that he
will know the one who is visiting them. He'll know the one who is
visiting him. And that when you greet them, they greet you. And
the way that our teachers say to him you have to have you called
them a sock off but he says for us is that we just see the outward
part of the grave but for them, it's like looking through a glass
window. They know who comes to visit them. And this is why it's
so important to go visit your parents if you're able to do so to
visit your brothers if you're able to do so. This is not a culture
that is very much a part of our
Our culture here in the United States of America in many other
places in the Muslim world, unfortunately, but our Prophet
encouraged us to visit graves, that and he said clearly and we
all know the Hadith are used to prohibit you from visiting the
graves of Allah for Zorro habit visit them, because they remind
you of the afterlife, anyhow, is that she put up a screen, then
between her and this Blissett place then where the rest of
creation was two companions were buried. So when we think about
closeness is that yes, physical closeness is important. And surely
the a lot of article titled bring the believers close to the
Prophet, Salah lice, and I'm in the next world, but internally,
this is the danger someone could be close outwardly, but be very
distant inwardly. What we really want is spiritual, heartfelt
closeness, in addition to physical closeness. We don't want to be
from those people who are distant inwardly and outwardly, we want to
be close, inwardly, and outwardly. And sometimes people who are
distant outwardly, but the hearts are close inward, they are
significantly closer than those who are close outwardly, but
they're distant inwardly. And so we strive for both. And then you
find these beautiful stories of the Prophet sallallahu descendents
concern for his OMA, sometimes the prophets concerned for his ummah,
is even more when they're further from him, then when they're
actually close to him. And this is the same for the great inheritors
of the prophets. And they say the reason is, it's like a mother,
when a mother is close to her children, and her children are
within eyesight, she feels comfortable, and she'll relax. But
as soon as they get a little bit further, as soon as there might be
some impending danger, she's going to be much more vigilant, she's
going to be much more careful and to look after them much more
carefully than she would if they're close to her, and there's
not that imminent danger. So may Allah subhanaw taala, through
these gatherings, bless us to be close to the Prophet salallahu
Alaihe Salam, and open up our heart to his teachings, because it
is in understanding his teachings that you and I will be, and have
the ability to be the way that we've been created to be. And this
is the opportunity that every single one of us has, and the
Prophet Salah liasons teachings aren't a key that opens up the
door for us to experience that. And part of the beauty of these
teachings is that not only are they alive and applicable, in any
given time, but they bring life to any individual and any given time,
they will rectify any given individual in any given time,
they'll bring us to life. So one of the things that you'll find,
and that when we look at many of our principles that we have our
religious principles, some of them don't seem to fit very well in the
modern world. But look at the mistake of the way that that's
framed, who wants to fit into the modern world.
When you say things like that, you're taken as a given that the
modern world is something that needs to be or should be fit into.
Who wants to fit into the modern world? Who wants to fit into the
toxicity of the modern world who wants to fit in? Yes, of course,
there's good things in the time in which we live. But the general
trend is a trend of decadence. The general trend is a trend of a
downward motion, who wants to fit into that, and we cannot be so
intellectually stagnant that we think that that's our goal is to
fit Islam into the modern world. On the contrary, is it is
synonymous truth. It is truth with a capital T it tells us how we
need to be in any given time. And of course, that includes the time
in which we live. But what we need to strive to do is to understand
Islam as it is so we can make the changes that we need to make. And
one of the great examples of that is how our deen teaches us to be
an apt to be a slave and servant of Allah subhanho wa Taala only
our deen teaches us to submit to Allah. Our Deen teaches us to not
allow ourselves to be enslaved by anything in creation. And this is
one of the great principles of spiritual shivery as Imam as soon
as he says well minute for to witty and your corner 100 minute
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is from fatawa to be free from enslavement to the world and what
it contains, so that one can be a slave to the one who owns the
world in its entirety. What a beautiful principle
What an empowering principle? What an uplifting principle. What a
healing principle. Think about how much people need this. How much do
people need this? How many people are enslaved to their passions
enslaved to their job enslaved to the way that they view the world
enslaved to an addiction or habit that they have enslaved to
something that they've acquired enslaved to a particular hobby or
whatever way that it might be. And this is echoed and two very
beautiful statements of Ibn Allah Allah, who wrote this amazing book
of aphorisms that they say it's like the it's like the distort.
It's like the constitution of the Olia. It's like these are the
rules they abide by. This teaches you the lofty principles that we
have to know intellectually, first and foremost, and then strive and
struggle with ourselves every day of our lives until we die, to at
least try to move in the direction of attaining them. No one's making
claims, but we should talk about them because there's solace that
comes to the heart even in just knowing them intellectually, let
alone when we even just start to taste their sweetness, and do we
realize how much suffering we are saved? When we start to experience
these principles, even if it's at the level of just knowledge,
knowing them? Every time you think about them, it will start to
remove these attachments which will make you feel better it will
make you more healthy. So one of the first ones as he says, and to
Haroon Mima into and who is you are free from anything that you
have despaired from? Well, I've done Lima and tell the whole Palma
map and a slave of anything that you desire.
You are free from anything that you have an aversion towards that
you despaired from. And you are a slave to anything that it is that
you desire. The two words there yet in Tama thumb is this greedy,
avarice avaricious type, desire, and yets is where you've
disparaged from somebody, you have no hope to attain that particular
thing. Because why when you despair from something, it's a
sign that it's no longer in your heart. And when something's no
longer in your heart, you no longer consider it. But when you
desire something, then you love that thing. And whatever it is
that you love something and will do anything that you can do to
attain that thing. It's as if that you're worshiping that thing,
because that becomes the criterion whereby which your behavior is
guided.
The next one states not up to shame Illa Kuntala, who are bidden
Abdon, that never will you love something, desire something or
like something, except that you will be a slave to it. Well, who
Allah your head, but Allah to Allah does not love for you, and
to Guney lady I've done that you be a slave to anything other than
Him, then He subhanaw taala, Allah wants you to be a slave to him,
only, not to anything else in creation. So if we think about
this blessing it that these busted aphorisms, and this principle of
spiritual should we think about what this does, this lets us know
that you and I need to work on this. And these principles we have
to reflect upon, and we have to think about, and we have to go
from the principle to the practice. And in the process of
reflection, it will become more and more clear to us exactly how
to put them into practice, how it is that we can live in this world,
but not to be overly attached to it, to be in this world, but not
to be of this world, how that we can take part in it. We have
family, we have friends, we have children, we have clothes, we have
possessions, we have worked, but not let those things imprison us.
And sometimes there's very subtle differences between the two. And
there's very subtle things that transpire at the level of the
heart that dictate whether or not someone is almost as if that
they're worshipping or it's almost as if that on the other side of
the spectrum, that it's in the correct way is that they are using
it for what it is in seeing everything ultimately being from
ALLAH SubhanA wa Tada. Allah only wants us to be an ABD to him.
And this is something that we should strive for, and the same
meaning is that mentioned and one of the blessings statements of our
Prophet slicin This is a Hadith in Bukhari and the Prophet salah.
I sent him talked about the deplorable state of the one who
was a slave to money, a slave to his clothing. Teresa Abdullah deny
what did him the Prophet said sort of lace on him? How wretched is
the slave of the Golden silver coin? Money? Well cultiva tea well
Cammisa, which are that a type of clothing and a type of garment of
some sort. So What a wretched state someone is enslaved to
money, ie money becomes the criterion for what they do. Even
if it's haram. No, they want money. There's no regard for
whether it's hot out on I'm willing to do haram because I want
money. And if I get money, this is what I'm going to do. Once I get
that money. That becomes almost like an ILA almost like a God that
you worship. Because it is the way that you conduct yourself is based
upon attaining that particular thing. Just as your desire can
become an ILA like a like a God that you worship, your AKA, your
intellect, can become like an ILA. It's a type of shirk, actually,
for you to believe that everything must be understood completely. By
the intellect, there's things that the intellect can't understand.
But if you trap yourself in that type of understanding, you will
that prevent yourself from attaining other types of knowledge
as a result? How can the intellect fully understand the Arsh? The
throne of God, the Throne of Allah subhana, WA, tada, you can
understand that it exists. But can you see the OSH with your
intellect? How can the intellect fully understand the existence of
Allah? How can the intellect fully understand an attribute of Allah,
you can know that he exists, you can know that he has attributes?
How can the intellect fully understand even matter? Just what
is right here, it seems so close to us. What is matter? There's no,
that single definition of matter. Because at one level, some
scientists even use the word mystery, not in the Scooby Doo
type sense, but in the real sense, that something that the mind can't
fully comprehend. And we don't even fully understand matter. And
what actually is matter? They say that it's slowed down light. Well,
what is that? It seems like we're whole, but are we really all like
it takes you down this path of like, what is creation itself.
And so this all points to the fact that we're limited in what it is
that we can know. And anything that we take that as a source for
what it is that we do in the decisions that we make, if we're
not careful, we can become an opt in a servant to that thing, a
slave to that thing. And so our Prophet is warning us SallAllahu
sallam, how wretched is the one the slave of the silver in gold
and silver coin, and of that different types of clothing, if
he's given in DLD, if he's given he's happy and content with them.
Yeah, if he's not given that, let me know that he's not happy, and
he's not content. And so what our Prophet is teaching us here is, is
that we should only be an apt of Allah, that this is a wretched
state to be in how many people this is their only focus, from the
time I gotta get money. And it starts early. And unfortunately,
sometimes parents reinforce that. Right? You have to get a good
education at this time, because you have to get this type of job.
And I'm not saying we don't get a good education or have a good job.
But we have to be careful as parents to reinforce this in our
kids is that the whole goal is money. The whole goal is to get a
good job that is high pain, the vast majority people in this
culture, that is their criterion. That is their criterion. And if
they don't say it outwardly, that's what they think, when they
ask someone about what kind of job they have, what kind of background
their what type of college education they have, and all these
other types of things. And I'm not saying that we don't go to
college, I'm just simply saying, This is not our criteria.
Our criterion should be one of service. Our criterion should be
one of know your God given abilities, find out what you're
most passionate about and what you do best in serve creation through
that. And someone who does that and as a halal income in doing so
in the aroma have spoken about in great detail about what is the
best type of profession. They've already dealt with this. We know
the very best types of professions. And it's not working
for one of these tech companies. It's not working for the
government. It's not working for that, that, that companies that
are that building types of technologies that are destructive
It's doing what you do best, but serving creation through it. And
this is the way that it was always seen. And this is something that
you and I that have to revive and have the correct frame, even if
it's unpopular, even if other people's criterion is one of money
and a stature. Don't let that seep into your heart. And don't let
alone don't become a slave to that. Or that's what you worry
about. Think about all the decisions that you make lead up to
that, we should realize that Allah subhanaw taala is in control. He
owns everything in creation, subhanAllah data, and everything
belongs to him and will return unto him to Vertica to Allah, that
our own selves our own, borrow everything that we have, even
though yes, you might own something outward in reality, that
all Dominion belongs to Allah subhana wa Tada.
What we need to do is to try to strive to realize that now and to
find great joy in being servants of Allah subhana data and not
allow ourselves to be enslaved by creation, made these meanings open
up to us, may we come to understand them and to know how
they apply to our daily lives in May Allah subhanaw taala free us
from the reigns of various from the chains of being enslaved to
anything under the have been enslaved to his creation and bless
us to only subhanaw taala. To be that do find have to fake it or
Buddha and realize that we were absolutely servants of hymns for
Heino autonomy law to give us Tofik and all of our affairs are
solo lies in Muhammad and Raja Sabha Salam Hamdulillah.