Yahya Rhodus – Futuwwa Speaking of Spiritual Matters
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Sir Lemoore Allah hi guys ain al
Rahim Al hamdu lillah wa salatu salam ala Rasulillah. While early
he was so happy woman, why Allah Hamdulillah that we are in a
gathering that mercy is not only descending and the unseen it also
is physically descending upon us and inshallah to Allah we take
glad hosts with this blessed rain that is coming down that is Hadith
that we are being that is fresh from the presence of its Lord
subhanho wa Taala that just as his mercy is coming down physically by
way of rain, that inshallah Tada we will all be able to receive His
mercy as well. Subhan Allah went to Allah. And the greatest way to
receive His mercy is to be in his remembrance, and to be in
remembrance of his bus had prophesied and know Muhammad
sallallahu alayhi wa Sahbihi, salam, and reflection what a
blessing it is. To have this ability as a human being, to be
able to remember and to be able to reflect, and to use your
imagination. And they're very best of ways. One of the blessed lines
that we just recited, relates to the beautiful rolda This very
blessed place that our Prophet testify to some of the lies and in
between his blessed grave and in his between his bus at pulpit, is
our older money all the Jannah and the ruler, my says that were you
to swear an oath by Allah, that you are in Jannah when you were
there, like you wouldn't have to execute your oath, because our
Prophet said Salah, the son of it, that was our older men reality
Jana, but the poet said May Allah to Allah be pleased with him in
bow that any if it is distant, and I'm unable to reach it well as
Amazon haha, for Tim 32 Holiday Yeah, so no Surah T, my
imagination of it, if I'm unable to physically go, is the very best
of all things that I can imagine. You could be in the worst of
places outwardly but in the best of places inwardly Well, Morrow,
men hate to call but as it has been said, A man is where his
heart is. And so when we reflect upon the older Sharifah this
blesses that place that Allah subhanaw taala has honored the
believers with by virtue of our Prophet sallallahu sallam, when
we're in gatherings of remembrance, we should use our
imagination. Imagine yourself in the blesser road of the Prophet
sallallahu sallam, imagine yourself coming before them wotja
Sharifah Imagine yourself encountering Rasul Allah at the
Hode. Imagine yourself seeing the Prophet sallallahu samyama gamma.
Imagine seeing him in your blessing in a dream, a mat use
your imagination, in the very best of ways. And the nature of the
imagination is such, the more that you imagined something, the more
that it becomes part of you and will lead to the first signs of
which will be in your dream state. Why is it when you think about a
lot of things outward and you're inclined towards things that are
worldly, that you have a dream about them dreams are of three
types, one of the three types is that it's could be enough, see
it's egotistical, based upon what you inclined towards what you
think about what you crave, you tend to see in your dreams, they
could also be demonic, but they could also be angelic. And the
more that you think about the blessed Prophet sallallahu sallam,
and if you've seen him in your dream, then you'll know how to
picture his radiant face son, Allah Alejandro sabe Salam, as the
poet also said that his words who could Mamoon his blessing face on
a lot of you said him is the greatest of all proofs as the
number line minister and when he saw that blessing face of the
Prophet sallallahu sallam, he said that by Allah, that is not the
face of a liar. And how many people from coming into contact
with Rasulullah salAllahu alayhi salam were they able then to
accept the truth of Islam because his radiant presence penetrate
into the depths of their being. And by extension, this is the job
of all of those ambassadors of the Russo after him sobre la si B
syndrome, those who are bearing his message and Allah tide has
placed it upon them shoulders to be a means for other people to
experience the beauty of that all of those who came before us did
when they testified to the truth of la ilaha IL Allah Muhammad
Rasul Allah. This is a meaning that we hope that you and I all
live, and there is no other reason for us to be here in these lands
Other than this, than to be means for people to come to notice will
Allah as one of the elders, that who has now returned to Allah
subhanaw taala said in the context of the United Kingdom, he lived in
England, he spoke to the Muslims there and addressed him saying,
you've brought to this country many things and aspects of your
cultures that you've brought to
his country has adopted. He says but when are you going to bring to
your people Rasul Allah? When are you going to bring to people, the
messenger of allah sallallahu Sabi Saddam. He This is of all the
things that we can bring anyone this is the greatest thing of all,
bringing people the messenger of allah sallallahu alayhi wa aalihi
wa Sahbihi Sanam, but that has to be reflected first and foremost in
our own behavior, in our own character in our own reality.
Alhamdulillah Allah has blessed us to come together. And this is a
night of remembrance in many ways, remembrance of Allah remembrance
of the prophet but also using our imagination and reflecting upon
beautiful past experiences that ALLAH SubhanA wa Tada has blessed
us to have, when we are reciting the Casita, Allah, Allah be
another that the end part of the society qasida of this poem is all
about the blessing graveyard in this very special city of tidying
the graveyard in its entirety, as known as Bashar. And in this
specific graveyard, where you find many of the great side, including
the member had doubt himself is the blessing graveyard of
Zimbabwe. And he says Anna Bashar Jadot sahaya Brahma toolbar, and
that the reign of Allah subhanaw taala His mercy has covered this
place Bashaud
the benevolent one, the one who gives Subhan who want to Allah,
and this very blessed place, how many blessings souls are buried
there in and we even though we might be on the other side of the
Earth, if you attach your hearts to these people, and not just
them, any of the righteous folk wherever they may be on the face
of this earth, by attaching your heart to them, you benefit from
them, because under the care of Saudi Hinton's Rama, when you
mentioned the righteous mercy descends, which is how we began
this evening, when you mentioned their names, mercy descends when
you recite their poetry, mercy descends, angels gather, purified
spirits gather, even if we don't see them. Allah subhanaw taala
blesses the believers with this. And this is what fi leads to this
good feeling that you have in your heart, when you come to these
gatherings. These gatherings here are in conformity with what our
Prophet brought Salah liason, and why do you leave feeling so
uplifted? Why do you feel so reinvigorated? This is because of
the mercy that is descending from the blessings of Allah subhanho wa
taala. And it's in remembrance of these meanings, that you and I
prepare ourselves to be able to deal with the day to day grind, to
be able to deal with the problems that we're all going to face, your
brain in this world, as we go through various stages of our
life, various trials, various tribulations, but at hamdulillah
is that we have people when you connect to the righteous folk,
there are people of Wafaa there are people of loyalty, there are
people that will be there for you. And there are people that will not
forget you.
And Al Hamdulillah, as we were thinking of this, these blessed
souls who are here with us today, and among them, Sheikh Isla de May
Allah Allah protect him and preserve him. It's what a blessing
to be back with him and to be reunited with him. Allah subhanaw
taala brought us together into the Atlanta and remember visiting him
there on multiple occasions in the house that he was renting and
seeing him in the gatherings and Subhanallah to be reunited with
him. And I wanted to share a benefit. It's something that he
gave me that benefited me immensely inshallah Tada. And this
is something that from the bounty of Allah subhana wa, tada, this is
the way brothers are to one another, they benefit one another.
And he had asked they did have you have Omar about the intentions
that one can make if they're going to reside in tittie him.
And these bussen intentions are indeed tensions that you can make
when you're in team, but you can also make them by extension and
other places as well. And this is the nature of the words of the
Waratah the great inheritors of the Prophet Salah liason, and is
that their words is that they expand and they give more and more
benefit, the more and more you reflect upon them, and the more
and more that you share them with others. And he said the first
intention that you can make this into the mass, elevated Rasulullah
sallallahu Sallam immersing yourself and the family of the
Prophet sallallahu sallam, and those that might visit sometime
soon. These are the intentions that we want to make immersing
yourself in the family of the prophets, I send them and this is
perhaps one of the most concentrated area of the family of
the Prophet sallallahu they sent him on the face of this earth now
we might not have that. We might have that for instance, that
members of the prophets household that we can benefit from here like
say it up diff Adama law busted with other was set up the Fatah
and his family and the other side and members of the family of the
Prophet SAW liasons household who are here with us
But we can immerse ourselves in the love of Ambit. Even though we
can't physically be there by immersing yourself in the love of
Al Bayt. It's as if that you are there with them. The second
intention that he said you can make as an infura it Allah Faline
to Allah. This is one of the reasons we chose this particular
location. Is it so that we could be in a place where we could
worship Allah and learn this Deen uninterrupted?
And it's actually a good sign that there's not a lot of restaurants
here. It's a good sign. There's a lot of a lot, a lot of fancy malls
here. It's a good sign, there's not a lot to do on the weekend.
And if people want the dunya is not far you can go down to Philly,
you can go to New York is not far if you want it.
But we should try to put ourselves in places where we can flee to
Allah and not everybody has to live in this particular area.
Because you can flee to a lot in the middle of the city. But when
outwardly you're in a place where there's less distraction, it helps
and we sometimes have to come and recharge our batteries. fleeing to
Allah is a principle of this Deen. But this is one of the intentions
that we can make. And when Allah Tada says that in the Quran, that
fear ruin Allah, a federal and Allah Flee to Allah. Allah Allah
Majan a number of meanings of fleeing to Allah. What does it
mean to flee to Allah? Flee to Allah, by fleeing from Cofer to
Eman from disbelief to faith, Flee to Allah, by fleeing from
disobedience to a state of obedience, Flee to Allah, by
fleeing from a state of heedlessness to a state of
wakefulness, Flee to Allah by fleeing from a state of
heedlessness to a state of remembrance. And then there are
more meanings that are no my point to that relate to this, these are
all things that we can do practically, practically, fleeing
to Allah subhanahu wa Tada. This is one of the intentions that we
can make and reside in any particular place. And then to beat
Howard Houston without the law, we've all taken a covenant with
Allah to botica data. But there are principles whereby which you
and I can have said to have been from the people that have not only
fulfilled that covenant, but we fulfill that covenant well with
our son. And being in a place where you have like minded people,
where you worship together and learn together and spend time
together. This does test beat, it roots these meanings in you
firmly. And this is what we want to do. We want to be there by each
other side and help one another. And to do this work together until
the day that we meet our Lord Subhana wa Tada. And we don't know
who's going to go when some of us might live a long time others
might not live so long. But we need to be there for each other
until the end. And then we make the intention of if Yeah, sooner
than most of us on the live center. bring life to the Sunnah
of the chosen one, our Prophet sallallahu sallam, what a
beautiful intention. Let's all make that intention to bring life
to the Sunnah of Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, every
single sunnah that we bring to life. Just imagine the happiness
that we're bringing to the heart of the Prophet sallallahu Senem
the Sunnah of SI wack, bring it to life, all of the Sooners of
voodoo, bring them to life, the Sunnah of clothing, bring it to
life, the Sunnah of sin and bring it to life. Every Sunday that you
implement every sunnah that you bring to life. There's immense
reward with ALLAH SubhanA wa Tada through that immense reward, man
Asuna T by the man. Yeah, man, Mata Nessman Suniti follow Edward
amid Shaheed in one generation, whoever brings to life what people
have literally killed what people have abandoned from my sunnah. He
will have the reward of 100 martyrs,
man domestic abuse, unity and facade, the Almighty whoever
adheres to my sunnah when my own ma when my community becomes
corrupt, they're not living up to the standard that the prophets set
Salalah I send and follow me at Shaheed you have the reward of 50
motors Mina Omen whom ya rasool Allah from us or from them or
messenger Allah Bell Minko come rather from you and why because
you found people to help you and they don't find people to help
them as our Prophet said that subtle ly send him think about the
blessings of that and this is why you and I can never ever despair
no matter what make an intention to bring the Sunnah a life while
I'm ill behind to put it into practice yourself. When was sama?
Yeah, shed yeah it and the last intention is to take part in
bringing life to his
sacred law, you and I have to be people of knowledge. We have to
learn this Deen. We have to learn that how to worship Allah with
knowledge. We have to learn the various transactions in the
dealings we have to learn fic in relation to every aspect of our
life Fick is of the utmost utmost utmost importance. And this is why
some scholars have said even though the meaning is general,
that when when the Prophet SAW sent him said, Man, you did what
manually below hate and you felt both a dean, whoever Allah was
good for he will give him Fick in the deen. Now that that meaning is
general, its understanding of the dean, but the scholars of FIP that
have the greatest portion of that understanding amongst all of the
other sciences. This is why many of them say that they tend to
quote that in reference to fit the science of studying the legal
rulings of this Dean.
Because of its importance, learning this Deen learning FIQ
worshiping Allah subhanho wa Taala with knowledge and then we will
see the difference. And if someone thinks that they know everything
that they need to know that I challenge you to read even a basic
book of fic and after you finish reading it, come back and we'll
talk because you start to realize that I will have what are called
Zilla villa, things that I thought I knew I actually really didn't
know. And in closing, we just wanted to share and it relates to
everything we've talked about. The next great trait of fatawa of
spiritual chivalry. And this trait is as the new mama * says,
Well, men Elfo to Whittier Kabbalah Anil Hawa, Allah metadata
Sahaba, aha, it is from fatawa to speak of spiritual matters
according to your own state.
In other words, that you should not talk about the things that you
have not lived. And there's a beautiful story that he mentions
that relates to an experience that Mama Junaid had, and in this
experience that Imam Junaid meets with this very special young man.
He calls him a Fatah, which is from the same this is where the
word for to what spiritual chivalry comes from. And that it
means a young man, but here is obviously this is a special young
man. So it's not just any old young man. This is the Fatah in
the physical sense of being young but also in being special. And
that having these traits of spiritual chivalry on the bank of
the Euphrates, and so he meets this young man, and he says about
this young man, it's as if he's carrying all of the worries and
troubles of the dunya on his shoulders.
And imamo Junaid that asked him this is the mama Junaid asking
this young man. The fact is even asking a question indicates that
he's something special. He says that when does someone's Wafaa
loyalty become perfect in the world? When does it become a
complete trait within one
and then this young man says immediately yeah Junaid Minerva,
Allah does Eleni is actually from this trait of Wafaa loyalty, that
you shouldn't have asked me that question in the first place. So
remember, Junaid said that I despaired from getting an answer
from the young man and then all of a sudden he summoned me some into
this is the man with your name Johnny Soto Luffy Helga that
there's these special people in the world and it's not about age.
It's not about age. And he said, Yeah Junaid for me to explain why
fat before actually, for me to explain loyalty, without first
showing that loyalty is not from the way the righteous.
And one of the first things that we can take from this is that what
kind of encounter is this?
These encounters can happen in the secular world, but they don't tend
to the more secular society becomes the more hidden Allah's
people are. But they're still here. And they're still here,
sometimes in ways that you don't realize they're still here. But
what beautiful, that what what a beautiful aspect of a traditional
society, that you actually come into contact with these type of
people regularly. And anyone that spent time in traditional
societies, these types of experiences tended to happen.
And sometimes they weren't so rare. You encounter very special
people that you learn amazing things from. And sometimes you
don't even realize in the moment what happened, and it's through
their spiritual insight that they told you something that didn't Oh,
it clicked later, and you'd already parted from that
individual. And then in general, though, even the person is not
particularly special or below
I've been to a lot of other cortada is that we should see what
people say, as coming in from Allah subhanho wa Taala and try to
learn the meaning that is being directed towards us, despite who's
speaking. And sometimes we learn great meanings unexpectedly, from
different types of people. And then there's these amazing stories
that you hear like of Imam Jafar Asad duck, where he heard that
someone who had been drinking he was intoxicated, reciting lines of
poetry, he gets off of his mule, and writes down those lines. And
he was then asked about that, like, what are you doing? Imam
Jaffa esodoc. And he said Al Hekmati Darlington moment, that
wisdom is the last property of the believer. They said, Why did you
get down off of your writing beast is that this is the other book
Teleki. This is the etiquette of learning.
And some people might hear that, and they might question that, but
the point here is that this is an imam. He knew exactly what he was
doing. He knew what he was doing. We take wisdom from everyone. And
we have to, though, see everything as being from Allah in order for
us to really benefit like that. But the other that meaning here
really is, is that you and I have to that, realize where we are. And
one of the wise said, Rahimullah on an autofocus on an officer. May
Allah have mercy upon someone who is not deluded by their reality,
literally, they're worth 100 and offset the worth of their own
soul. And one of the ways that this arises is when the son of
Satan, I'm gonna bin Abdulaziz bought a very expensive ring. And
then it was like worth 1000, that Durham's and when he found this
out, he wrote him immediately. And he said to him, as soon as this
letter reaches you, he said, sell it in feed 1000 bellies, feed 1000
people. And he said, Rahim and I want you to reflect deeply upon
Rahimullah imminent out of pocket, NASA. May Allah have mercy upon
someone who knows their true worth, ie, we are all caught up
before Allah to Allah, while impoverished before our Lords of
Hanoi data. But by extension, it also that tells us something about
how it is that we should be in relation to what we speak about.
And ultimately, we shouldn't be speaking about things that we are
not really familiar with. We shouldn't be speaking about things
that are beyond our scope. And we should just be thankful that Allah
subhanaw taala has blessed us with Allah illa Allah Muhammad Rasul
Allah, and do the best to impart the very little we have. And I
remember Sheikh Hamza used to always say this, and he's not
exaggerating. If you rewind and go back in history a little bit, none
of us would have even been students of knowledge.
We would have been blessed to sweep the floors and clean the
toilets, of the students of knowledge. And no one's making any
claims. All we're trying to do. And the work that we're doing here
is the very little that we've received. And it's not little not
because of us, but because of the blessing that comes from them.
It's not little, but from our own perspective, the very little that
we've learned and acquired, we're trying to disseminate it. And
hopefully that allow, put blessing in that little that we've
acquired, and that little that we're trying to disseminate. And
that little inshallah that'll bring many hearts to life not from
us, because as was mentioned, the result is from Allah subhana, WA
Tada, but because of His mercy, and from His bounty, subhanho wa
taala, but in sha Allah, that if we're connected to these people of
Wafaa, these people that will never leave us in the dunya, and
the bizarre, and the Akira. And sometimes it's not even living in
their society, sometimes it's one encounter with them, one gaze from
them, the fruit of that will be everlasting in the next world.
These are the true people of Wafaa. These are the true people
have loyalty, because loyalty is not necessarily just being for
your brother unconditional here in the world, it can manifest like
that. And that's great. If it's for the right reasons, but royalty
is really what happens on your piano. Whose ranks are you in
Yeoman piano, who's going to be there for you and who's going to
be able to be there for you, your best friend here in the dunya if
it's not for Allah, that Allah like the close friends will be
enemies on your McLemore.
But the ones that I have that really that for the sake of Allah
Tada that established a connection with you. There'll be there for
you, and Allah to Allah will permit them to the end
intercede for you and to be there for you and to be means for you to
attain his favor subhanaw taala may Allah have adequate data give
us Tofik and bless us in all of our affairs and give us great
opening and shall lay out Hamid Amin and bless these gatherings to
continue him and we all receive His mercy Subhana wa Tada. We had
lots of other Katara forgive us from all of our sins and to have
mercy and we're going to make a special fattier for the father of
sensuality, who returned to his Lord subhanaw taala Hey May Allah
Tada forgive him to have mercy upon me out of her mother Amin and
bustling with the Shiva I've seen the Muhammad Salah license to
expand his graveyard Muhammad Amin and enter into paradise without
any reckon Jana Hamada Amin was all a lot as seen in Mohammed and
why do you stop yourself when hamdu Lillahi Rabbil Alameen