Yahya Rhodus – Futuwwa Leaving What Doesn’t Concern You
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Sir Lemoore Isla because he
will set out to sit down at at a Sula while early he will suffer me
well man, why Allah at hamdulillah Al Hamdulillah, we think Allah
subhanho wa Taala for all of his blessings, the blessings that we
are aware of in the blessings that we are unaware of the outward
blessings and the inward blessings. And we ask Allah
subhanho wa taala, to give us Tofik to always be thankful, and
to show gratitude for his blessing SubhanaHu wa Tada. And if we're
able to do that, a lot of other God that has promised us increase.
And this is why they say is that sugar is the page of the net map.
One of the ways to preserve your blessings is by showing gratitude.
The more we show gratitude, the more thankful we are, the more
that we are taking the means to preserve the blessings that we
already have, and then expose ourselves to more. And this is the
nature of the believer. We are thankful for what we have, but we
also want more. And in relation to the world, it is blameworthy to
desire, what's in the hands of people to have tama to greedily
desire what's in the hands of people. And it's a very low
aspiration, to want to resemble them in relation to their worldly
success. But Tama desiring what is from the presence of Allah
subhanaw taala, desiring his gifts, desiring what He bestows
upon his blesses servants, is from the essence of faith. And that's
not considered to be something negative. On the contrary, that is
what we should all want, we should desire that great gifts from Allah
subhanaw taala. Because as they used to say, time and time again,
time and time again, is that we were not created so that Allah
could benefit from us. We were created, so we could benefit from
the blessings of our Lord Subhana wa Tada, the masala colony, the
Yerba Halina Bell Holika, Lina ballet, and they use the language
of commerce rubber is
that it is rubber is Prophet, Allah created us so that we could
benefit so that we could come to know Him so that we could receive
His gifts of handling data, not the opposite. Allah does not
benefit from us, whether we worship Him or we don't worship
Him wherever the we know him, or we deny his existence or handle on
data that doesn't harm our Lord in any way to record data. We are the
ones who benefits when we acknowledge the existence of our
Lord. And we are the ones who benefit when we worship him
sincerely, and we do righteous deeds, and we thank him and
receive that increase subhanho wa taala. And this next great trait
of fatawa is a very important trait in all times. But especially
in a time like ours, where we're exposed to so much, where there's
so many different things that distract us, we live in the age of
distraction. And through primarily modern manifestations of
technology, there are a multitude of ways now that we are distracted
in ways that previously people were not.
And this is something that especially this trait that we're
going to be speaking of, we need to understand in think about very
deeply in strive to apply it to our lives. Because living in the
type of world that we live in, it's very easy to get drawn away
from what's going to benefit and the next world, it's very easy for
us to get derailed, and to forget the whole purpose of our
existence. And what it is that we want to spend our time doing now
here in this world so that when we transition to the next, then when
we enter into the grave, and it's loneliness that accompany us in
the grave that we want to be have a sense of intimacy that comes
through righteous deeds and things that we've done now preferring the
next world over this world, which takes the form of us doing things
for his sake Subhanallah data. So if we right now in this moment,
whether we are here in person or whether we are following online,
or whether we will watch it at a later time, make a righteous
intention to be here for the sake of Allah. We're here for Allah,
and that we seek blessings from Allah for being here and doing
everything that is that we're doing, remembering him seeking His
forgiveness and instead of water upon our Prophet Seisen
supplicating him with beautiful supplications that came from the
heart of atrophying Billa people that know their Lord and know how
to ask him SubhanaHu wa Tada by doing all of this and making a
righteous intention to do so.
We are actively doing what was mentioned, we are preparing for
the next world.
And when we returned to a lots of other metadata, those times that
we spent doing these types of acts, will, we will realize then
how precious they truly were. And we will wish that we would have
spent more time doing those same things, we would have wished that
there was a Molad every day of the week, and multiple times of the
day that there was different types of modalities and gatherings of
remembrance of different sorts, that would protect us from all of
these other distractions that are trying to that that creates a
sense of dissonance in our heart. And this is what happens naturally
from all distractions is it creates dissonance in the heart.
And the more sensory that we let in is that the more clouded the
heart becomes. So when we talk about purity of heart,
purity of heart manifests when you sit down and you try to remember
Allah subhanho wa Taala in solitude. If you have purity of
heart, you'll be able to remember him without distraction, you'll be
able to remember him without your thought strain. You'll be able to
remember him without thinking about things that are
impermissible. You'll be able to to remember him with purity and a
state where it by which that you can actually concentrate whatever
form of remembrance that you are reciting or you are reading. So
this next trait of for tuba as a mama tsunami presents it to us
says, Woman in photo with the issue Khalid Abdi Bhima Yanni he
mental Hall, CF Allahi wa Hawala. It is from for to what spiritual
shivery for a servant to concern himself with his own actions and
affairs. And really what it says here is Ishihara abd one is
preoccupying themself, because that's always remember the
statement of Imam Shafi. The two great things that he learned from
the people of disco off, one is that your time was like a sword,
you either cut with it or it will be used against you and cut you
down. And the second is that the knifes your own self, your ego, if
you do not preoccupy with good. It will take you into evil. This is
the nature of the knifes you have to go out of your way to preoccupy
it with good to fight the natural state of entropy of doesn't enough
spiritual entropy, where you move into a state of disarray. You move
into a state that is displeasing to Allah to Allah by virtue of the
nature of this heavy knifes that will bring you down. The spirit is
light, and we want to ascend and to rise up and to do what is
pleasing to Allah subhanho wa taala. So preoccupying YOURSELF BE
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with that which concerns one.
And this is really, really important, because we've all heard
the hadith of our Prophet slicin him, but we should look deep into
take a bit of a deeper look into what are prophesized Saddam
Hussein. This next this trait of a photo is an echo of a hadith Minh
Hosni Islam and Marie Turku, Mela, Yanni from the excellence of a
man's Islam, is his abandoning is his refraining from delving into
that which does not concern him.
So what the question really is then, what concerns us. And if we
think about our day to day activities, if we think about the
things that we say, and the things that we do, the things that we
talk about the things that we asked about? How many of those
things actually concern us. And the Hadith that was just quoted,
is so important.
And that Imam nawawi says, this is one of the three Hadith and many
of the other Hadith scholars as well, that they say I lay Madonna
and s&m. There's some say threes other say four. There's different
the interpretations of this and the books of Hadith. But some say
that there are three Hadith that is there that are the axis of
Assam, meaning they're so important, they're very at the
heart of the essence of what Islam really is. And one is the hadith
of intention, the others about the Hadith about the halal and haram
being clear. And then there's this hadith
leaving that which does not concern one is so
such an important Hadith that Islam is, it's considered to be
the axis of Islam.
And when you look at what the scholars say about this, this
relates to our code, our words, our fear, our actions, it relates
to another what it is that we look at, and it relates to our
physical, what it is that we think about.
So relates to our words that we stay, it relates to the actions
that we do, it relates to what we use all our limbs for, but
specifically what it is that we see, just as it relates to what it
is that we think about.
All of those things, ideally, we should be using, for the sake
Subhanallah data for something that's going to be of benefit.
Now, the amazing thing here, this doesn't mean that we can worship
24/7.
And this is where intention comes in. There's times of course, where
you're going to relax. There's times of course, where you're
going to have
that just kind of worldly conversation with people and with
family and so forth and so on. But what is your intention?
What is your intention behind it? When you relax, when you exercise
when you take it easy? When you eat a meal? What is your
intention? If your intention is right, and you're making a
righteous intention behind that, even those acts, relaxing, and
yes, taking a vacation, having fun even
even sounds strange saying it like that? Yes, you get reward for it.
If when you relax, your intention is to strengthen yourself for
worship for learning, to do righteous deeds for his sake,
subhanAllah Tada, you have to relax your human being, you need
time off. And if you make that intention, that time that you
spent doing that is actually a form of worship, that you get
rewarded for from ALLAH SubhanA wa Tada. So through the power of
intention, you can unlock the all of the different aspects of your
life, and help them become worshipped for the sake of Allah
subhanho wa Tada. So it's to think about the words that we say the
things that we do, what it is that we look about, look at and what it
is that we think about. And what really concerns us from those
various things. And when Our Prophet said, that person in
Islam, he might come out of Sudan, this is from the perfection of
someone's Islam is that we reach this state of uprightness, in
relation to fulfilling the commands of Allah to Allah, and
avoiding the prohibitions, and to doing what is pleasing to Him,
such that
the vast majority of things that we do we realize things that are
necessary for our deen and for our dunya, for our religion, and for
the world. And that's really the criterion of those things that are
considered to concern us. And those things that are considered
that to not be of what concerns us, are they really needed?
And that's fairly an easy criterion when we think about our
own selves. And then a lot of other people will say that, okay,
well, I'm asking about other people, I'm reading a magazine, or
I'm following the news, or I'm reading something online, I'm
looking at my Facebook feed, because it's important that I be
aware of what's happening in the world, so forth and so on. It gets
back to your intention. What is your intention? And listening to
the news? And how many people pays the cat on the time that they
spend
on social media? And the cost of social media? Is that okay, that
1/40 of your time, 2.5% of the time, so however much time that
you spend there, 2.5% of that spend making dua for the people
that you're reading about. So if you're listening to the news, if
you're reading articles, if you're that finding out what is happening
in the world, does that translate to even one minute or 30 seconds
of Duaa? Or actually doing something to help people? So yes,
it's important to be aware believers are aware of the time in
which they live, make the right intention when you are attempting
to be aware, but also what are we doing about it? Because we have to
be careful on one hand, you could be overloaded by just hearing bad
things in the news, which the vast majority of things that are talked
about in the news, tend to be negative, tend to not to be
positive. And we know that our teachers are actively involved in
establishing new stations at all.
Also present good things that are happening.
Now to try to do that and Western lens is a whole other that
question is that even possible that with Western media, but this
is important for us just as we find out about some of the things
that have gone wrong, we should also know about some of the good
things that are happening in the world. Because despite all of the
wrong despite all of the problems and tribulations and all the
things that are going bad, there are a lot of good things happening
to and across the world. There are beautiful stories of beautiful
things that people have done that are inspiring. And then in the
end, it's one of the most beautiful statements that I've
that I've ever heard, if you could if we could put this into
practice, our lives would change completely sated have You almost
said men, Nevada, el mahasin, Gemma El mahasin,
whoever, when they look, whoever notices what is good and
beautiful.
That is what they will accumulate and acquire is what is good and
beautiful. So you have a choice, you could only choose to look at
what is ugly, in bad. And if you constantly look at what is ugly
and bad, that very well might be what seeps into your heart. Or
that even when you're looking at something bad, you could also try
to notice the silver line, you could look at it from a different
perspective, you could try to notice some of the opportunities
or the good that is in that bad or that wrong that you are seeing.
And that's another meaning to that, because you will find you
will look at things that are wrong. But if you notice what is
good in things, and you try to focus on what is good, that's what
you become. How many of us are strong enough to just learn about
what is wrong all the time and to still remain upright or not. And
this is why this trait is so important, preoccupying ourselves
with what is important, and focusing on what's going to
benefit us in the world emammal disease definition the head, he
says, of what concerns us is that
were you to speak and that the kid NIMBY couldn't be Milo Sakata
anulom tell them is that you only speak about things that were you
to remain silent about those things, you would fall into sin.
And you wouldn't harm yourself in relation to the present life that
you're living in in the future. What am Tata daughter for
Halloween? I'm
so meaning one was when do we think about that criterion?
Meaning that,
you know, do I have to speak in this instance? That's the mountain
was added criterion, meaning that some instances you have to speak
and if you don't you fall into sin. If you don't, he says it
doesn't concern you. And if it's not going to lead to Dadar
remember that word today, nobody will do that it won't harm you. If
you have what am I in this world life or in the life to come? That
is a very different criteria. And that is a very lofty criterion.
But this is here not so that we can say that, Oh, this is the way
that people were 1000 years ago. We have to bring this into our
lives, and to really think carefully, how you and I can
slowly move an inch towards and move in the right direction of
putting this into practice for his sake. subhanaw taala and when we
do this that we will find is that there is enough that we need to
come to know about our own selves, and, uh, specifically our faults
and things that we need working on to keep us preoccupied. And one of
the beautiful aphorisms of Ivanovna, Elissa Kennedy is that
he said, to show woof aka the Adama button or fique minute
YouTube so you're wanting to come to know to show off his like you
want to know something?
You wanting to know the faults that are hidden inside of you
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YouTube is better for you than what is been hidden from you in
the unseen.
So when people read stories of the Olia that they want to that have
things happen to them like what happened to them to know secrets
and things of that nature. And there's a story of heavier Alia
hub she is that one time that he realized it was a very righteous
man who was selling that a type of food that normally it's not
associated with an honorable person selling it, but having it
helps you as a person and we'll see how he realized that he was a
very special person. And he asked to come visit him. And so he goes
and then the men who was selling this food, realize that have you
have she had an intention in doing so? And so they sit down and
they're
together. And the first thing that this man said, and no one else in
the marketplace knew who he was, he seemed like a very normal
person. And he said, Do you want to speak about the Luma Hadia or
the aluminum Muhammadiyah? Do you want to speak about knowledge in
relation to the relates to the Presence of Allah or the relates
to the secrets of the Prophet Muhammad Sallallahu sallam, and
then have already that said to him that I want to let's talk about
the secrets of the knowledge that relate to the Prophet Muhammad
Sallallahu sallam, and then they had a conversation that extended
for a long period of time. And at the end, this righteous man, I
looked at her earlier, she said, he said, For you to have spent
this amount of time that we just spent coming to know one of your
faults.
So that you can purify your heart from it is greater than everything
that is that we've talked about.
And this is the perspective so even in relation to spiritual
matters, let alone relation to things that will drag you down and
preoccupy you let alone things that will drag you into what is
displeasing to Allah subhana wa Tada. This is something that you
and I, that have to put into practice, and enclosing the
beginning of sort of mini minions we heard is that which begins with
me noon, and let it home. pizzolatto team has your own
successful indeed are the believers, those who humble
themselves in prayer? What's the next verse say? Well, the the new
home and the lovely Mardi Dune, those who avoid idle talk, and
that, that that's that same meaning. That is indicated in the
Hadith of the Prophet says them and then this blesses that trait
of Shiva of spiritual shivery, those who avoid idle talk more at
Dune, they turn away from it. They are those who that focus on what
is pleasing to Allah data and what concerns them. And time, there's
not enough time to go into all the details of the application, but we
should reflect upon that. What really concerns us was reflect on
the things that we say the things that we do, the things that we
think about the things we spend our time doing, what really
concerns us, and how can we start moving in the direction of okay,
turning away from certain things, not getting bogged down or
preoccupied by certain things they're going to that very least
prevents us from drawing near to Allah subhanho data, and there's
so much more that we could be doing things that we know for
sure, are going to help us and benefit us in this world next
mulato photocatalytic give us Tofik and bless us and all of our
affairs will sell a lot I see Muhammad Allah do so be sent him
Hamdu lillahi rabbil aalameen