Yahya Rhodus – Futuwwa Poems of Praise

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while earn he will behave woman why Allah was quite a say a few

words before turning it over to Sheikh Ali. And I really want to

just translate this very beautiful Casita, this poem that said up to

Fatah recited, and he's recited on other occasions as well. And just

very briefly introduce these very blessed and radiant words by

saying, there is a tendency with Islam, in the modern world, and

especially in places like the United States of America and the

Western world, to only focus on what is practical. If someone's

speaking, if they don't give you a practical benefit, that somehow

there's no worth and what it is that they're saying. And while it

is very important to be practical, first, we have to decide define

what that really means, and understand it correctly in all of

its dimensions. But secondly, we have to also understand that the

Muslims who came before us in the quote, unquote, traditional Muslim

world, across the world, the remnants of this tradition, which

still remain, when you go, and you experience the beauty of these

places, they're all pretty much the same. In their reality, even

though there's a cornucopia of beautiful diversity, outwardly,

inwardly, they're very similar. If you go to gatherings in Morocco,

they're very similar to gatherings in Egypt, they're very similar to

gatherings in Indonesia, and Turkey, in Yemen, and so forth,

and so on. And there's an incredible traditional beauty,

about how they understood how to live how to implement the Quran.

But in particular, the Medicis, the gathering of remembrance, and

what it is that they asked for, and what it is that they do in

those gatherings. And I personally believe that this is one of the

single most important things to grow here in these lands in which

we live, this understanding. And you could look at it from the

following perspective, that one of the very blessed souls said Islam

is not a serial is Suriname is truth. And according to the

dictates of truth, you have to conform yourself to truth, as

opposed to making truth conform to what it is that you want. Your

Hawa, your desires, if that was the case, and I remember this

always, from previously being a Christian before I became Muslim,

and just you hear different people think just all these really wild

things about what they think is going to happen in the afterlife.

And some people think this, and some people think that and, oh, I

think this is going to happen, I think that's going to it's just

all how up. And it's all based upon their desire in illusion,

truth you have to conform to. And what we have to realize is, while

there are certainly good things in the modern world that we need to

adopt and use for the sake of Allah to Allah, there is a lot of

toxicity as well. And the more and more we distance ourselves from

these traditional ways of living, the more harmful it's going to be

on us in for us, in this world, and in the next. So I'm saying

that to say, we have to force ourselves to understand the

discourse of the Olien, the Saudi and the righteous, and the great

saints who came before us force ourselves to conform internally to

seeing the beauty and and understanding why they speak like

they speak and say what it is that they say, even if we don't

understand. Some of the slides that were reciting aren't even in

English. But a lot of the poems that we used to recite when we're

in gatherings in these spaces, we didn't understand either.

And still don't, but you still benefit immensely from them.

Because the secret of them penetrates the heart because they

came from hearts that were alive with the remembrance of Allah had

very real connections to Allah and His Messenger, real connections,

living connections. And so in that light, I want to just translate

this because it's so incredibly beautiful. And this is a poem by

Habib it been Mohammed had have she who passed away about a little

over 100 years ago in the year 1333 of the hijra, and he was

known for his intensely close connection to the Prophet

sallallahu Senan he said, How well to an Aussie if at Habibi body, my

fame and for odd minutes then add Qurani I tried or I am trying to

describe the beloved Salah liason with some of that which my heart

is understood from the Quranic praise. So he's acknowledging that

his praise really is following what he understands from how Allah

praises the Prophet sallallaahu Santa for Wadjet to Kohli, Leia,

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the conclusion that everything that I have said, does not even

fulfill an Adam's weight of the smallest portion of the Lord the

gifts that Allah gave our profit satellites and ocean shot just the

smallest fraction. Not even an atom is weighted the smallest

fraction of this divine gift. Min a and you're able Melkonian how

there are 10 How could my words ever truly describe or articulate

a presence and Madhava cannula coolly Sani, the praise of which

every single tongue has been unable to articulate men by the

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Allah has himself has praised him in the Quran. What truly is the

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Allah de corte Hassan, he was sued Kofi Imani. So I asked Allah to

bless me with the bat, firmness, fortitude, steadfastness upon that

which he has singled me out with in having these gifts that he's

given me my understanding of the prophesy Sam and to have true

pneus in my faith will come my father colobus Euro alkyne and

just as he has given my heart the secret of connection to the

prophet be Habibi be his beloved Eumundi be dedica Janani as it

even feels my entire internal been with it. Fair issue for you the

Creighton Habibi, Mona Aman. What is the result of that if this

happens? I will live

in the remembrance of the beloved Munna Amen. In a state of bliss.

Just pleasure upon pleasure, will be the Vickery mon bossy. 10.

Jimmy has a mandate through his remembrance, I will be in a state

of bust, expansion, happiness, joy at all times will fulfill Akbar.

And then in the next world, I will attain great success Bureau at

watchI. And gazing upon his face his countenance, while the law who

any and his contentment of me the agenda makhani, in the very

greatest and best of all places, so you see the connections. So the

NG had pointed to that line that we recited, that tell us what will

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say to her deja vu, or said Android spoke about, and that last

line arena was her Rhossili that caused us to see the face of the

messenger. Well, what well idea well Batali, and His blessing wife

and his daughter, but we have a double and we asked her that if

we're not from Advait, we asked for that with a dub. Well, Ben is

for holy, and that her best blessing children that are these

great blessing children of them rugby Ajibade Ebola, we ask you to

quickly answer that prayer. They all ask for the same things

because they know that when you're close to the Prophet slicin him

and the his blessed family and the close companions to the prophesy

centum is that it will be a means for you to experience all of the

different types of bliss in paradise. We have lots of

political data that bless us to understand these meanings have our

hearts to be attached to them and to be means for them to come to

life and our own hearts and the hearts of our family and the

hearts of those that are in this community and throughout the

places like the United States of America and the Western world and

whatever Muslims may be on the face of this earth whistle a lot

is getting hammered and what I do is have your sentiment handed out