Yahya Rhodus – Futuwwa Being a True Servant

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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.