Yahya Rhodus – Futuwwa Seek the Company of the Good
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Quwata illa Billahi OLALIA Ali, Al Hamdulillah. We think Allah
subhanaw taala for all of his blessings. And in particular, we
thank him for the blessing of Hua, the blessing of brotherhood, and
having brothers and sisters in this world, who we share with
them, the greatest thing of all, which is our man, our faith in
Allah subhanho wa taala. And when you have believers come together
for a lot of adequate data safe and you love each other, for his
sake. So Hunua data, you strengthen one another, as our
Prophet Tada salAllahu alayhi wasallam is that the believers
strengthen each other, the way that the walls and foundations of
a building make the edifice strong, when we come together for
his sick, when you love or his sick, that we become stronger in
and of ourselves. And there are this is one of the needs that we
have as human beings is to be around good people. And the people
who take the spiritual path seriously are very, very careful
about who they choose to spend their times with me to spend their
time with, and that not only is this a principle a photo of
spiritual shivery, that it is one of the most important things of
all in life. And highlighting this importance. One of the poems said,
one of the poet said, and in muddy letters l was Sal and Carini, that
don't ask about a man. rather ask about his friend, and Nikolina
Bill McCartney macdaddy. Because the friend is going to follow the
way of his close friend. So you don't ask about the person. If you
want to get to know a person you want to find out something about a
person. You look to whom that person spends his time with. And
our Prophet sallallahu Sallam that also spoke about this meaning in a
more eloquent way, Sal Eliza, and when he said that, and moto added
Dini, Helene, that a man is upon the religion of his close,
intimate friend. And so that if you want to know where you're at,
that one of the measures, as we previously mentioned, is Salah.
You want to know the state of your heart, look at the state of your
heart when you pray. But another indicator we have these indicators
at home to the law is to look at who we spend time with. And who
are the people that are close to us. And one of the great Imams who
came before us. Yeah, had been a Razzie. Now the Allah Tala and
home is that he said a statement that should cause us to reflect.
And that his words are very eloquent. He says Lo, ha, just to
say
that we're the blast to take place, ie yom, Yom Okayama to
happen. And were you to see that people who befriended each other
want to sue the people who befriended each other in this
world for the wrong reasons, Kay for your federal about them about
how they are fleeing from each other. And where you just see only
how that the people who befriended each other for the right reasons,
and had true love that would come close together and be with one
another. It would suffice. And then he quoted the verse in Surah
zakura, when Allah subhanaw taala says, A Hilah or Yomi them
battledome knew about them, I do want Elon Musk 13 On that day,
friends will become each other's enemies, except the righteous on
that day, friends will become each other's enemies, except the
righteous and other words is that those who loved each other for the
wrong reasons here in this world, when the sub the means for them to
gather here in this world, which usually was one of how that
Vainglory and that negative desire. When that's gone, no
longer will they be gathered together in the next world.
Rather, they will flee from one another and they will be enemies
of one another. But this is not the case of the monoterpene ill
McKean Allah Tabata quota Allah that made them an exception as for
them, that they will be spoken to very differently. What they will
experience will be that great bliss and they will experience the
bounty of Allah to Allah because the verse that comes right after
that, which is understood who will be told this will be said to them
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as unknown, there is no fear for you today, nor shall you grieve.
So this is something that you and I really need to think about is
that who is our Helier? Who are the people that are really close
to us, and who are the people that we choose to spend time with. And
don't think that the people that you spend time with are the ones
only in person. Nowadays, through modern Applied Technology,
unfortunately, it's easier to have bad companionship than it ever was
before. And it's impossible, that you spend a lot of time with these
various people, watching them in movies, or watching their videos
on YouTube, or following their posts on Facebook or Instagram and
seeing their pictures or whatever else that people are doing.
Hearing their words and listening to what they have to say, it is
impossible for you to do that, without being negatively affected,
you will be affected. But the heart of an individual is very
subtle. And they say that just as your physical eye, a small piece
of dust gets in your eye, and all of a sudden, that you're bothered,
and you start squinting, and that blinking and trying to get that
piece of dust out, your eye gets a little bit red, you might tear up
a little bit. That's the sensitivity of the physical eye.
And the eye of the heart is even more sensitive. We are affected by
everything that happens around us. What we see is etched into a
heart. And this is one of the reasons why we have trouble
concentrating and prayer, concentrating in a moment
concentrating during a talk, that protecting our heart is a
prerequisite for us to have a state of Sabah, a state of purity
when we remember Allah subhanho data in we're in gatherings of
goodness. And so you and I want to take this very seriously and be
very careful about who it is that we spend time with. And that who
it is that we let our eyes see and who it is that we let into our
heart. We should let Rasul Allah salah, liason Him into your heart
is that you can't send enough subtle Watts upon him, that you
can't praise Him enough, you can't learn enough about him, you will
that expire before you ever even learned a fraction of who the
Messenger of Allah really is Salah lady sent him. And that is
something that is going to directly benefit. Because one of
the greatest ways of all, to receive a personal Hakima is to
send abundance autowatch upon the province and have a look of your
CALB and have your heart attached to those who Allah and to long for
him and to want to see him in a vision salaallah alayhi wa sallam,
and you latch on such that every time that you hear one of his
attributes, every time you hear his name, we should be saying
sallallahu alayhi wa sallam that our heart should long for him. And
that should move the love that is in our heart and stir it up. And
every time that we hear his name, every time that we hear his
attributes, that it should strengthen us and Iman, and it
should increase that connection. And likewise those that we spend
time with our Prophet sallallahu Sallam gave us a beautiful
criteria. Because he was asking a hadith narrated by Abuja, Allah
that au Julissa Aina hare, who are the best people that we could
spend time with, or literally sit with sitting partners your jellies
is your sitting partner, but in general, who are the best people
that we can spend time with? And our Prophet sallallahu Sena
mentioned three traits men that God or Kamala, who are
the one that when you're in his presence, and you spend time with
them, their mere presence by just seeing them you're reminded of
Allah, His presence remind you of Allah His countenance been with
him when you see him remind you of Allah? And someone says say well,
what does that mean? When you've seen people like this you know
what it means?
There is something that Allah to add a crowns in adorns the people
have his with them when you're in their presence. You just feel like
you want to do better. You want to repent, you want to get yourself
straight. You want to be close to them, you come to love them.
They're sweet, they're beautiful. And they follow the sunnah of our
prophesy says how our Prophet was when he spent time with him who
came to love him. But they have this trait when you're in their
presence. It's just so easy for you to remember Allah. And then
when you go out of their presence, as we've heard tonight, that it's
harder for you to maintain that state that you're in when you are
in their presence, a sheikh Allah was teaching teaching us. So
imagine being with the Messenger of Allah, and then having to go
home. You love your family, of course, but the messenger of allah
sallallahu Sallam that a man
Imagine being with him. This is the same feeling that you have,
that when you're with your show you, when you're with your beloved
teachers, you don't want to leave their presence. Because a lot to
add brings forth here in this world, that something of the
bounty of Paradise and the bliss of paradise so that you can have
these glimpses when you're with the true people of paradise. And
the signs that Allah Allah gives are you to know who these true
people are. And that, as our teacher has said, most Sahaba
totally jolly that will with a taking the companionship of being
with the true people of Allah, who are always loyal. And they fulfill
that their trusts name and holiday feed dot infinity, it is eternal
bliss brought forth here and this perishing world, what a blessing
from Allah subhanho data, and don't think these people are gone.
And don't think these people that aren't accessible is that you make
an intention, and you will be amazed about what happens. And how
Allah to have adequate data put you in there, that compact gives
you their companionship, and from the blessing of Allah is that many
of them now, even through the means of technology, that have
gatherings that you and I can attend, it's accessible to
anywhere to anyone across the face of the world. And all you have to
do is attend. And all you have to do is to turn on your device.
These are the type of people you want to spend time with. You want
to be synchronized with when they do things. And to have that be a
priority. And how many times in their gatherings do they say and
repeat virtual time and time again, is that the one who is
present with us and the one who's listening, the how that and the
assignment, the one who is present with us, and the one who's
listening, the one who is present with us and the one who's
listening. And the difference is normally technology decentralizes.
And what that means is if you watch people praying on TV, it's a
very different feeling than you're present with them. You see them
praying has a strong impact upon you. But this is the exception
there's the Olia is that they can from the power of Allah Tabata
data, if you will, spiritualize technology, ie from their
blessing, when you follow if you really can't be there in person is
that by virtue of still making the intention to be there and doing
your part ie following the live stream. It says if you're there,
and the blessings that come to them, will come to you from the
blessing of Allah subhana wa Tada. And Allah has called that
adequately shade, and he gives whom he wants whatever he wants to
plan on what to add it. So the first trait is someone that when
you're in their presence, they remind you of Allah was that if he
enemy C'mon, Tico the various things that that person says,
increases you in knowledge. In other words, he's a person of
knowledge that knows his Deen. And that when you're with him, you
learn new benefits that you liked to read more books is that you'd
like to learn the shootie of Satan and Muhammad that you learn
various for wide and various benefits. There are people of
knowledge. And then the last trait was that Godot Campbell, here at
Amarillo, and that his actions remind you of the hereafter. It's
a person when the time of prayer comes in, it's time to pray, even
if you want to finish watching whatever it is that you're
watching. He's a person that if he wants to that make an appointment
to do something he's going to consider what is the best time to
do it, and to make sure that he's able to practice his Deen in light
of whatever it is that it wants to be done. There are people that
their actions themselves remind you of the hereafter. You see them
different when it Mugler time is about to end now later to Joomla
comes in, they're a different person, that the special times of
the day, they're a different person. Their actions in and of
themselves remind you of the hereafter. Those three criterion
are given to us by our Prophet Salah license so we can have a
measure of who it is that we let ourselves get close to and who it
is that we want to spend time to. And the beautiful thing is and you
see this time and time again, the righteous are not people that
don't allow people to be near them, anyone who's sincere.
Even if they numb themselves need to get themselves together. They
welcome you. And in fact, beyond that even bring you close and you
don't even deserve it. You're messed up at working, you need to
be worked on but they bring you close because of your intention.
And they know that you love and they know that you want to do
better and when they bring you close
You sit with him until your heart is saturated with light. And then
all of a sudden you want to change from the blessing of their
presence and what your heart is received by way of mercy and
light. You want to then change and get yourself together and to take
your religious life seriously, to prepare for the meeting with Allah
subhanho wa taala, which this whole thing is all about. And
enclosing, that there's a blessed hadith of our Prophet sallallahu
Sallam in the collection of a top Iranian that tells us a little bit
about these people of Sahaba that we should take companionship with,
when you establish a bond of love with him for his for his sake.
subhanaw taala what does he have in store for him? And Allah to in
our Prophet said suddenly I said him, layer bathin Allah Guam and
Yama, Yama, that on the Day of Judgment, Allah will bring forth a
group of people fee will do him nor they will have light in their
faces. Allah monobrow, look, look, they will be on pulpits made out
of pearls, yellow bit of humaneness that the people that
are around them and see them on the Day of Judgment. And these
rays platforms being honored by Allah Tabata cortada they will
want to have what they have. Lace will be MBR they're not profits,
well as Shuhada nor they martyrs Humann want to have buena villa,
they are people who love each other. For Allah sake, look at how
easy that is. If we just come to a gathering like this, and to make
an intention to love each other, for Allah sake, spoil the plot of
chiffon. Don't let him have get into your heart and to bring
arrogance or envy or any of those things that will destroy hatred
and rancor and these nasty things that pollute the heart, and to
create enemies here in this world before the next world. Don't let
him spoil that. Don't let shit on spoil the community. Don't let
shit on spoil our places of learning. Don't let shaytaan spoil
our mosques, and our that special places that we go to worship him.
Don't let him spoil it. Maintain your purity and love each other
for his sake. Subhanallah data and look what our Prophet is saying
they will be on pulpits with have light and beyond pulpits of pert
with pearls made out of pearls. And the further description goes
on to say men Kabyle shut down. They are from all different
tribes, all different backgrounds. And just look in this gathering
here where there's not even that many people present. How many
people do we have here from different parts of the world
gathered in a gathering when there's not even that many people
what a blessing from Allah, all these beautiful skin tones from
very light to darker and everything in between. This is a
NEMA from Allah subhanaw taala, that men village shatta that
they're from different places. They come from different places.
And then what though, you tell me your own, what brings them
together? They have different backgrounds. They're gonna have
different lineages, but what brings them together each time yo
and Ida Vickery Allah yet Corona, what brings them together as the
remembrance of Allah, and they're remembering him subhanho wa taala.
If we make that intention, when we come to gatherings like this, and
go out of our way to find good people, that their presence
uplifts us and reminds us of Allah, their words increase us and
knowledge and their actions that remind us of the hereafter. Then
inshallah Tada we're moving a step closer to Felicity, which is what
we all want, and that all of the animals in the world that we know
that are going to become extinct, after Allah raises them all up and
there's clean sauce that takes place between them. But there is
an exception to that is that they say the dog that is that from the
one that was with the hobbit Gaff.
The dog that was with the companions of the cave, is that
Allah Tada Tada will allow him to remain alive and to be in
paradise. And that you mentioned the kelp when you recite the
Quran. Normally a dog is not something that you mentioned.
But in the Quran, it's mentioned. Why? Because he was associated
with this OS hobbled calf. And there's a different there's
difference of opinion, whether it was a dog that just followed them,
or whether it was a dog of one of the companions of the cave or
whether it was the dog of a shepherd that they passed by on
the way going to the cave that join them and remain with them.
And in that some narrations these aren't weak because they're that
ancient narrations is that a lot even made the dogs be
Can you say that I'm going to that guard you? And this is what Allah
Allah says when he says what cuttlebone Basutoland era he he
been will see heat is that the that dog had his four legs out at
the entrance and then later on and sorted cap that when they say CEO
coolin Atha Robin kaboom. They will say there are three different
about their numbers. Their fourth is their dog will you call Luna
Hamsa Sadie some calaboose Some say that they will be they were
five and that the six was their dog. The dog is mentioned among
them rutschman middle Hey, we're gonna step out on with them you
know whom Cal boom, some say seven and that their eight was their
dog? That if that dog is mentioned with the Asaba gaff, and he's a
dog, then what about you and I and we love the righteous in the
sardine. What about if we take their sword by by having taller of
their Hikayat loving their stories, reading their stories,
mentioning their names, imagining them, visiting their graves and
our minds imagining that we're in front of their blessing places and
visiting them being with those that we can be with here in this
world and the righteous and making an intention to come into contact
with every one of the ODR of Allah unless we die upon that intention
and then we be around the very best people possible that we have
in our particular local area. If we do all of that Allah to America
title raises to the highest of degrees and He will bless us with
that which he gifts He'll bless us with that which He blesses the
elect of the Oleana Sonny not from anything they were doing, but
solely from His bounty. May Allah Tabata Kota, give us Tofik and
open up the doors of his mercy to all of us was on a lot. I said
Mohamed Anwar, it was ugly, Salam Al hamdu Lillahi Rabbil Alameen