Yahya Rhodus – Futuwwa Having Fear of Allah
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The speakers discuss the cultural and spiritual practices of Islam, including the importance of being a means for others to experience their experiences and avoid fear and hope. They stress the need for actual knowledge and practice to achieve success in life and discuss the fear of death and the negative consequences of fear. The importance of fearing and hoping for a positive state is emphasized, as well as the need for actual knowledge and practice to achieve success in life. The segment ends with a discussion of the importance of bringing information and being a partner in one's life.
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Rahman and Rahim Al hamdu Lillahi Rabbil Alameen of Lada surah. To
attend moto Salim. So you didn't know Maulana Muhammad and while
early he also hobby he was sending me and said hi Nicola elmen Anna
Ilana ILM Tana in akintunde, ali Moroccan water Hola, wala Quwata
illa Billahi al earlier Adim.
In these gatherings of Iman and Hamdulillah, Allah subhanho wa
Taala has exposed us to a discourse that we asked him to
make it transformative Subhan Allah to Allah, and to make it a
means for us to implement these meanings and bring them into our
lives in the light to Allah. And then as a result, to be a means
for other people to also experience this beauty. And when
our teachers were fairly recently asked about what people should be
doing in the question or asked about a particular continent,
which people should be doing in this particular continent, which
is primarily a place where Muslims are minorities. And our teacher
responded very simply, very clearly, and the true inheritors
of the Prophet sallallahu Sallam understand this meaning, he said,
be people of good character, and interact with everybody around
you, in the very best of ways, and focus on raising your children.
It's that simple. IE, learn your deen put it into practice, and
those that are under your influence that you have an ability
to affect, especially your children, raise them in the best
of ways. Because think about if we raise our children, well, then
they're going to outlive us, they're going to be able to
transfer those meanings, through that upbringing to people that
they're going to be exposed to then. And think about the people
that you know, in your life that impacted you. Oftentimes, it gets
back to the way that their parents were, how it is that they were
raised, how many people that are like that, how many people that
are like that, that you find that there's some type of secret in
that person from the way that they were raised. And this is the way
that Allah subhanaw taala has made this affair everyone has an
opportunity to draw near to Allah. But there are certain people that
have special blessings that come to them as a result of their
father, their grandfather, their great grandfather or whatever it
might be. And when Allah to Allah mentions in the Quran, what kind
of whoo hoo, Masada Ha, their father is, which is the literal
translation was righteous, referring to the two orphans, that
in the story of Musa alayhis salaam, and some of the
commentators say that it was their grandfather on their mother's
side, seven generations back their seventh grandfather. And as a
result, Allah subhanaw taala caused that special thing to
happen. So we should never neglect this and to understand that this
affair Ultem is about living the realities of this Deen. And this
is the single most important thing of all, that should preoccupy us.
And as those that had mentioned, we should be concerned about all
people. And we should see people in this country as our people, as
our brothers and sisters in humanity, that we are required
before Allah subhana wa Tada to reach out to them, and to help
them and to be means for their guidance, even if they don't want
it. Even if they don't respond to the call. Even if they mistreat
us, even if they say bad things about us, we are required to do
what it is that we're supposed to do. And we should see these types
of things happening as a result of our shortcomings are result of
that us being unable to really reach people in a way that is
pleasing to Allah subhana wa Tada, we should have this him in his
concern that should move us in our days and to move us throughout our
nights. And various things that are happening in the time which we
live, that are sources of fear for a lot of people. There is that
widespread fear for a number of different things, and fear that
we're going to become physically ill fear that something's going to
happen by way of losing a job or something of that nature, fear of
a lack of fear of different sorts. And I want to approach this next
great trait of chivalry from this particular perspective, and how
every time that you and I have fear due to the uncertainties
around us, in terms of our own health, in terms of our
circumstances, in terms of the state of the country in which we
live and so forth and so on. This is
A that great opportunity for us to replace that fear with the fear of
the one who we really should be fearing, which is a lot.
And every time that you and I fear something worldly, we should be
reminded of the fact that ultimately our fear should only be
of Allah. Allah gave us fear as a means to protect us. If we didn't
have fear and hope as human beings, we wouldn't be able to
live. Both fear and hope, motivate us. And both fear and hope prevent
us from doing certain things. Normally, you only think that fear
prevents and hope motivates. But both fear and hope, motivate and
prevent, there's certain things you don't end up doing because you
have hope. And there's certain things that you do end up doing
because you actually fear and fear and hope are very much a part of
our lives as human beings. But what we are taught is to then
understand these human instincts, if you will, human emotions,
oftentimes how they're referred to, in the modern world, these
feelings that we have, and then to be able to have them to become
virtues, muntjac saving virtues that can help us in this world and
in the next world. And so what the scholars of this science say is
that when we look at our state, and we understand everything that
we've done in the past, every single one of us knows the
thoughts that we've had, and the things that we've done, we can
hide it, from even our spouse, maybe we can hide it from certain
things from even our closest friends. But every single one of
us knows what we've done. We've all known the things that we all
know what has happened in the past. And this is why the Scholars
have this sign say is that you always have to keep this as part
of your spiritual practice ie fear. Fearing that had Allah we
don't know what's going to happen in the next world. If Allah to
Allah takes us to account ahead, Allah Menorca shall he Sabbath.
Whoever is asked details about their reckoning will be punished.
And he said then you'll see the light reckoning is Mujaddid
autodidact, Matt, where actions are just shown but we're not asked
in detail. If we're asked in detail, which one of us is gonna
be able to respond before a lot about what we all know that we've
done and I'm speaking about my own sinful soul. First and foremost,
no claims are being made and we're in this together. But in the end,
we will stand before Allah alone.
Lisa beno vain who told you man, there will be no interpreter
between us and Allah, we will be asked directly in the earth that
we did certain things on will testify against us, our limbs, our
tongues won't be able to speak in our limbs, our own limbs will
testify against us. There's nothing we have nowhere else to
go. But from the beauty of Allah subhanaw taala is that everything
else in creation that you fear you run away from?
But Allah, you flee to him.
You flee to him. I who become Minka I seek refuge in You from
you. I seek refuge in Your contentment from your wrath, I
seek refuge in that the well being you grant your servants, right
from the from punishment, we seek refuge and Allah subhanaw taala
law Melda wala Minja Illa Illich there is no refuge and there's no
safety, that from you except with you. There's nowhere to flee
except to Allah for federal illa Allah. And that's the beauty. And
you and I have to have fear has to be a part of our spiritual life.
And when the scholars sometimes present it, they talk about in
Amman, class water and then fear. Because if you have to you first
and foremost have to have knowledge behind everything that
you do. But knowledge isn't enough because you have to put that
knowledge into practice. But that's not enough. You have to
have knowledge, put that into practice and you have to be
sincere. You can't do your put your knowledge and practice
insincerely. So you have to have knowledge behind everything that
you do and know what you're doing. You have to put that knowledge
into practice and you have to be sincere. And then after that, we
should move up towards what I scrupulousness Where we're careful
about what it is that we do is not just anything that we do. And then
even they say at the very end still, you have fear because you
don't know the outcome. And the beautiful thing about this type of
fear. When we fear worldly things, Allah subjugates us to our fear.
But when you fear the one who deserves to be feared he protects
you. From what it is that you fear. The only safety from
hypocrisy is fearing hypocrisy. The only safety
Have that having a bad ending this lesson I want to offer is fear of
having a sweetheart or having a bad ending. And so the more that
we have fear of what we're supposed to have feared, the more
that Allah protects us subhanho wa taala. So this is a part of the
spiritual life. And in this context of this word said, they
actually mentioned in them in short, the sit the pain melasma
did have the highest saints, the elect of the righteous, those who
are truly close to Allah and nearer to him, one of the
conditions is that they always are in states of fear of Allah. And of
course, they're balancing fear and hope. But it's there, you don't
reach this degree of piety where it's like, oh, there's no more
fear. And they have a fear because they don't know they're Indian.
And they don't know if shaytaan is going to lead them astray in the
last moments, and because their fear is only of Allah, they don't
fear shaytaan intrinsically, their fear is, is that Allah will
subjugate them to shape on.
So the only protection from shaitan because shaytaan is like a
dog. And if you try to find a dog, and if it's a strong dog, Yanni,
it might not go so well. But if you just simply call the owner,
the owner can just whistle or just say something, and then the dog
just obeys.
And so chiffon doesn't have any power and of himself. In Nikita,
shaytani, Canada, if ultimately his plot is weak, all he can do is
Whisper. But we don't know if we're going to fall victim to that
whispering or not. So our fear is Allah subjugating us to shaitana,
Salah cinema, with Afia, especially in the last moments.
And there's a story that even Josie mentions in his book, see
for the software. The title of his book is about the description of
the elect. And this is a story of the great Imam, Imam Ahmed had
been humbled. And his son narrates this story, his son Abdullah, and
how, when his death approached, he was there with him. He was right
by his side. And he describes in detail that he had that a that
piece of cloth that getting ready for his death to do what you're
supposed to do. Should the left Yeah, he as such with a piece of
cloth. And he said when he's witnessing this, he said he would
see him profusely sweat, and he would lose consciousness, and then
he would regain consciousness. And then he would see him say and move
with his hand lab that not yet. No, not yet. And he's wondering
why he did this one time, and then two times. And then the third time
when his father began consciousness, he said to him,
that you know, what is happening? He says that we that think in a
time like this, that you start sweating, and you're going to go
and then that he described to him what he heard him saying, and so
the event is an imam. I met him in Hamburg. What did he say? Yeah.
Bonet Oh, son of mine. He says, You haven't understood. He says
that it believes LA and Hola. The Iblees where la cursor is that
came to me biting on my finger saying to me, I met foot Danny,
Ahmed, that I can't get you anymore, or that you've escaped
me.
And then I was responding to at least a lab that had to admit not
yet until I day. She Aton is trying to get him in the last
moments. Like yeah, I got you. And Imam Ahmed understood. No, I can't
say that until my soul is taken. So shaytaan was trying to get him
in that last moment and trick him in st and foot turn us down and
foot Tony and he witnessed this is that you've escaped me. I can't
get you anymore. And then my mom was in law that he wasn't denying
the shot. He wasn't doing no he said love but I haven't escaped
you yet. And then Allah to Allah blessed him with a personal
Katima. And this teaches us is that what we want is test beat
from Allah. Allah to make us firm in that moment. And fearing a
super hot mess from a man we should fear having a bad seal. And
this as we fear we should also as some of our teachers have said
that ask Allah Tala for a personal Hatim a good seal in every dua
that we make. Because asking Allah for a good seal breaks the back of
shit on they say, it breaks the back of shitload. And so, thinking
about this is from a man now
This fear, of course has to be balanced with hope. But I also
want to present that a verse and so that our man What does Allah to
Allah say, when that we have fear here in this world, Allah to Allah
will not join for a servant between two fears.
The more we have true fear of him here in this world, the more
safety and protection we'll have in the next world.
So we have a choice. And fear is an uncomfortable thing to talk
about, especially in the modern world. But it's important because
there's a lot of us fear a lot of different things. And that's
harmful for spiritually. And there's an opportunity especially
in times like now that are uncertain, that there is
widespread fear, let's trance let's change that fear into fear
that's actually helpful for us. And then it will make us feel
better here in this world. It will lessen the negative type of
anxiety that one has about worldly matters, because you'll constantly
be reminded about your mortality and returning to Allah subhanaw
taala which is very spiritually healthy for you. But Allah tomato
data says, What am I in half Mr. camara be Jana tan, the one who
fears the MACOM of his Lord. And that this can be translated as the
standing before his Lord, He will have to gardens to gentleness. And
the bit I made dunya that mentions the only authority of Allah in his
center that goes back to all thought the suburban Masood
occasion a revelation of this particular verse. And
incidentally, tonight has been about Sid. And the story is about
St. humbucker. So deep. And on one day, he started to think about the
piano. And he started to think about everything that was going to
happen on the pm and the scales, Jana and not the angels lining up
the folding up of the heavens, and that the mountains being
pulverized and all of the other that phenomena they're going to
happen on Yom Okayama. And then, when he was reflecting upon this
reality, what did he say? He says that I wish, I wish that I was
hooded. Hodor is like herbage it's like greenery like grass, that
things that are eaten that by animals. He said that I wish that
I was grass literally like herb edge on the earth that is eaten by
a behemoth that is eaten by an animal. And I wish that I was
never created.
Because he was reflecting so deeply on these realities. It led
him to say that Vanessa tallied is another result Allah river
revealed this verse, What do you mean half a mahkamah, Robbie,
Janet.
And as for the one who fears the standing before his Lord, He will
have to gardens fearing the Reckoning and that the that he
Allah to add a will honor this person by giving him two gardens.
And they say that this could literally be two Gardens in
Paradise will stand on because agenda is a booster that are that
filled with red rubies in green gems of different sorts, Messina
at Cooley Bustan me at center, the breadth of each one of these
gardens is the distance that it would take for you to travel in
100 years. This is a reward that Allah tomato Tata will give you in
the next world, or as some of them have said that like him and who
shady. He says the first gen is here in this world is that Allah
Subhana Allah data will allow you to experience the halau with the
TA, the sweetness of obedience to Allah to Allah, while Ro hilcorp.
And that the beautiful nature of proximity to Allah,
here in this world. And so this is the amazing thing is that if you
fear the one, you're supposed to fear Allah that protects you. And
he allows you to experience these beautiful things here in this
world, and then that he blesses you as well with paradise in the
next. And as they refer to his agenda 10 more out of that the
paradoxical states that are left out or brings to the hearts from
those who know Allah subhanho wa taala. So when we do this, Allah
blesses us in this world, and in the next world subhanho wa taala.
And one of the ways that we can train ourselves to do this is that
every time that we have any type of
of fear over a worldly thing, pause and put in place of that
fear of standing before Allah, fear of what is going to be our
state. When we take our last breath, fear of what it is that
we're supposed to fear, and then that Allah to Allah will move from
states of fear to hope, fear and hope, fear and hope. And when our
fear and hope is motivated by love, it will cause us to reach
the highest degrees of fear and hope. Because when you love Allah
and want to meet Allah and be close to Allah, and to attain the
contentment of Allah, your fear will be in being distant from him.
Subhan Allah data, your hope will be in attaining a gaze upon his
noble countenance Subhan Allah Tada. And this is why we always
have to have a good opinion of Allah. Never forget that,
especially as we transition into the new year of the Gregorian
calendar. And that even though we're in 1442, and Jumada, oh, one
of the Islamic calendar of the history of the calendar, we should
always have a good opinion of Allah subhanaw taala. And that in
sha Allah, no matter what happens to us here in this world, even if
it's a tribulation, may Allah to Allah protect us and ward off
tribulations from us, we should see that there's a divine wisdom
in that and there's a hidden blessing in it. And there's
something that oftentimes we can't attain except through that. And
there's a maturity that will develop and atonement for sins and
blessings behind all of that, if we see it as such, and have a good
opinion of Allah to Allah. And when I said Hassan was talking
about these words, it just crossed my mind this poem that we recite
so often, called companion Morumbi. And in the fourth stanza
is that Imam Abdullah bin added her dad, as he says, limb as well,
Bobby Walker, that I am still I continue to stand at your door,
and you knock on the door of Allah by constantly supplicating him
relying upon him and all of your different states in turning to him
for a demo, Robbie, Goofy, and then he makes the photo Hammurabi
will goofy, that have mercy on my standing before you through my
prayers and supplications, and so forth, while we waited for the RPF
that I am that I continue to remain in the valley of your
bounty for a demo, rabbit goofy, is that make that this permanent
for me? And then he says, Well, he has no one who has them. And that
I adhere to having a good opinion of you at all times, to the Layli.
For our Kili. We're Halle fee. It is my intimate friend, and my
ally. So three of the degrees of sadhaka as a new member, how does
going dimension between this line and the next line, what I need see
what jealousy to the lady want to hurry, and it is my niece and my
Julius which is one of these degrees. So it's his Hill and his
Khalifa and his knees and his jellies. And so meaning is that
this applies to our brotherhood, and that we want this between one
person and another. But also to is that taking companionship of
personal and biller of having a good opinion of Allah and all of
our states, such as it's our hill, it's our intimate friend. It's our
belief. And this comes from a health which is to swear an oath,
and your ally is the one who swore an oath to stand by your side. So
it's your heartleaf it's that that person that will be down for you
and be there at all times for you ie your good opinion of Allah in
it, you're a nice, the one who brings intimacy to your heart, by
being close to you and your police, your sitting partner, the
one that you spend time with and associate with to the lady on the
hottie that all day and all night God companion Robbie means so
early with the formula to how to bring these that realities into
our lives or hamara. Amin and to bless us to have that removed from
our hearts completely the fear of anything other than him subhanaw
taala Oh, how we're in need of this. I mean, a lot of adequate
data out of is as a result, plus us to move up into the degree of
those who fear Him solely for the for because he deserves to be
feared Subhan Allah to Allah, and may we have our hopes in him
because he deserves to have us place our hopes in him subhanho wa
Taala and may Allah Tada buses to have a good opinion of him in all
of our different states, despite what happens to us and protect us
and preserve us and ward off all tribulations from us and from the
Ummah of our Prophet Muhammad salallahu Salam wa Salatu was in
Mohammed Al, Salam hamdulillahi rabbil aalameen