Yahya Rhodus – Futuwwa Strength in Realizing Weakness before Allah
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The speakers discuss the importance of bringing together various types of
remedy conversions in different locations and finding the right way to be in a situation. They also touch on the need for people to be present in large events and the importance of worship. The speakers emphasize the need for people to be present and focus on their feelings, as it is crucial for their health. They also discuss various categories of poverty and the importance of strong spiritual presence.
remedy conversions in different locations and finding the right way to be in a situation. They also touch on the need for people to be present in large events and the importance of worship. The speakers emphasize the need for people to be present and focus on their feelings, as it is crucial for their health. They also discuss various categories of poverty and the importance of strong spiritual presence.
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salam ala like as Al
hamdu lillah wa salatu salam ala Rasulillah while earlier he was so
heavy heat woman why Allah
hamdulillah hamdulillah here but I demean and we thank him subhanho
wa Taala
for allowing us to be in a position and to be in a place into
being gatherings where in which we are reminded.
We are reminded of the meanings and realities of these deem of
this Deen so that you and I can understand it and comprehend it
and hopefully strive to put it into practice. Every single one of
us is in need of attending gatherings of remembrance with
both of their meanings, in terms of learning, in terms of invoking
Allah, in sending sunnah walked upon His Prophet, Salah licen him
supplicating him subhanaw taala these are the two meanings of
magentas gatherings of remembrance, and sometimes both
meanings are combined in one. It is for this reason that it has
been said, if you want to know the state of a community,
look at how many gatherings of remembrance with both meanings are
in that particular community. Whether it be a city, whether it
be a village, a large city, a small city, a smaller village, if
you want to know the state of any given place, how what is the state
of the Majelis, a city or place that doesn't have Majelis is dead.
It is spiritually lacking.
And people when they enter into those places, they'll feel
alienated, they'll feel lonely, they won't feel alive. And then if
you go to a place, and this place might be remote.
And I remember this being in the metadata of our blessing teacher
motto, but that has Rahim Allah, Allah is in the middle of the
Sahara Desert, roughly 500 kilometers east of the capital
city noxa. And there weren't really any roads getting there.
There's the main road, which was kind of like a road, but you spent
a lot of time on the side of the road because it was smoother than
the bumpy that potholed road. But then you get there, and you're in
the middle of the desert. And there's only about 115, roughly to
200 people total. Most of those been students, depending upon the
time of year, there's a little bit more than others. There's not a
lot of people in the camp.
But I don't ever remember ever getting lonely.
And you're there, you're far from your family. You don't even think
about like doctors or my health or anything like that. You don't
think about any of those things.
And you don't really miss people, even your close friends.
Because there's something unique about being in those places. Where
you're learning the deen, where you are remembering your Lord, and
you're around the true inheritors of the Prophet son license, your
heart comes to life. And the same thing goes for being in many other
blessings cities on the face of this earth. cities that are alive
with knowledge and remembrance
are true cities. And in those places, this is how hearts truly
benefit. I remember I think it was in 2008 Going with Dr. Oman and
she kept to hachimura to we first went to * up and then we went
to Damascus. This was before the war had started made a lot of Otto
Qatada return it to better and then it was before and bust them
with flutter to Azure to our dear brothers and sisters, in places
like Syria and the many other places that are going through
immense tribulations.
The city was alive La ilaha IL Allah, how many gatherings were
taking place in the blessing city of Damascus. On any given day, how
many different shoe had classes? How many different gatherings of
remembrance in different places, whether they be a mosque or in
someone's home or whether they be in another place? Many different
gatherings. And this is something that this is the way these people
were. And they didn't have just one place for them. They would be
in a mosque, they would be in the madrasa. They will be in your
home. They will be in like a Zarya type place that's made for
remembrance of ALLAH SubhanA wa Tada and sometimes they'll be in
the middle of the marketplace. Sometimes there'll be in places
that you don't expect.
And the point being is this is how true people of a law are. They
want to focus on what benefits them but we are in need of this.
It
At least once a week, being in a gathering of remembrance, and in a
gathering of learning. And this is of the utmost priority for every
believing Muslim on the face of this earth. This is not just
something for a student of knowledge. No, a student of
knowledge has multiple gatherings that they attend daily or weekly,
depending upon whether they are fully freed up to learn or not.
But the common Muslim, and we're all common Muslims, we need to
have opportunities every week that we remind ourselves. So this is a
blessing from Allah subhanho data, because by the nature of our
knifes, if we don't call it to something that's higher, it will
naturally that fall into what's lower, we have to put that energy
in. And we mentioned this not too long ago, but the same meaning
applies, we have to keep putting energy in, keep putting energy in.
And in this context, what we want to learn about today, all of us
together, is another one of these golden principles of fatawa of
spiritual chivalry. And this principle goes hand in hand with
our true nature as human beings. Because we know that we're an
absolute need.
Even those who deny the existence of a creator, are still an
absolute need. And they don't think they are ask them to stop
breathing, hold their breath for a few minutes, ask them to keep
their eyelid open for a minute or two. Ask them to that, that not
eat for a period of time. We're all in need.
And the believer
is the one who recognizes the honor of being in need
and sees it as a gift from Allah Tada.
And this is one of the meanings that we can take from the words of
Allah subhanaw taala in surah Fatah Yeah, you are NASA intimate
Folker will Allah will law who Allah * Hamid, that oh people,
oh humanity, it you are in need of Allah and Allah, He is the self
sufficient and the praiseworthy Subhana wa Tada.
And one of the commentators said on this, is that he didn't say
that your foot caught out here for you, to belittle you, or to
humiliate you, or to lower you, on the contrary, literally, to honor
his servant.
Because once you realize your true reality, you realize that you're
in need of who
it's through our realization of our impoverishment before Allah,
and that we are in need of Him in every single second as though
known and message he said, every one of us and thought of firewalla
in every single breath that we take every single blink of the
eye, and every single that moment that we are in, we are in absolute
need of Allah subhanho wa Tada. This is an honor because we're
moving away from ourselves. And we're moving to an understanding
that the reality is this whole affair is about coming to know
Elijah legit.
So, this trait of fatawa is as follows woman and fatuity melasma.
To add double fuckery frequently,
it is from fatawa. To maintain, to cling to, to adhere to
the various etiquettes of Faqad here probably translated something
like spiritual poverty or spiritual impoverishment, if he
could lay it out
in all states, now that's lofty,
that is lofty.
But if you read the autobiography, the biographies of the greats,
this is how they were. They realize their need before Allah,
complete impoverishment before Allah Jalla gelato.
And we oftentimes suffer because we're distant from that meaning
to the extent that we think that we're the one doing things to the
extent that we think that we have a say in the matter is to the
extent that you and I suffer, but if we realize that we are truly
impoverished before Allah Jalla Jalla Allah in every single
moment, we realize that through our impoverishment that he is the
linear This is what Allah says, Will lo who will learn you will
Hamid and they mentioned here the secret of Allah saying that he's
both l honey and Al Hamid and this verse is Eleni that's fairly clear
because
For the fourth quarter, and he is the running he is the one who was
truly independent, enrich and self sufficient subhanho data. But when
it is said here al Hamid, one of the commentators pointed out by
also adding this Great Name of Allah the Praiseworthy, it
indicates that the servant benefits from a lobbying Eleni
because there's a lot of people in the world that are that men that
have a an outward type of wealth, that we would call them wealthy or
rich. But they oftentimes don't benefit people. They might hold on
to their wealth, they might not spend it in the right way. So
their wealth doesn't benefit. But when it comes to Allah, who is
absolutely independent, subhanAllah data, he's also
Wilhemina. And to the degree that we realize our servitude before
him subhanho wa Taala will be to the degree to which we benefit
from his name and was neat.
And he's also an Malini. He's also the one who enriches, and this is
a meaning that we learn from our teachers, is that when you realize
that Allah is the honey in the movie,
you never belittle any act of goodness. You never belittle any
gathering. You never know that gathering the law of Allah could
be in it. The contentment of Allah could be in it.
You never know. One thing that you do one phone call you return to
help someone one smile that you give someone one letter that you
teach, you don't know. That could be the real law of a law could be
in that. And we took some of those stories this past weekend, on in
the retreat of book 40 of their helmet Dean, where there was
multiple people that were seen after they passed away mafatlal
oblique? Well, how did Allah subhanaw taala deal with you. And
look at the things that they said, in sometimes it was something that
they might not have considered that their best act while they
were here in the world,
answering questions of elderly people that small that cycles of
prayer at night, and things of that nature, we don't know what
that act is going to be. But we do know that Allah is Allah Vani and
Al Maloney. And in any gathering, he could cause us to reach the
highest of degrees, any gathering, we could receive the Fatah, Akbar,
the greatest opening. And this is why in every gathering, we should
go into with the intention of becoming purified. Maybe we had
certain traits of character that were struggling with one
gathering, boom, it's lifted,
because of our intention.
And the more people that are present in the gathering, in here,
when it comes to these matters, it's about the heart. So even
though we're prevented from meeting outwardly, if people are
at home, I know it's hard at home to actually get the kids in, stay
in front of the monitor and to actually pay attention because
things are happening, phone calls are taking place and text messages
and all these other types of things, but to the degree that we
can focus and concentrate, and be present, and do our best. That
distance is not going to harm you never know what's going to happen
at any given gathering. It could be a means for our purification,
it could be a means for us to attain a high degree of closest to
him some 100 data. But when you have people coming with those
strong intentions to those gatherings, whether they're
physically present or following online,
that will contribute to the quality of that gathering. That
gathering will be weightier and it will be regarded more highly,
especially in the higher realms, especially amongst the Mueller
ICA. And then when it's highly regarded amongst those realms and
with the mullah Iike Of course, it's going to be more beloved to
Allah subhanho wa Taala and this is why every single person is
important. When we say that mahabang Ya know, rainy we're
welcoming Rasul Allah, the light of our eyes Allah Allah I sent
him, let's all of us every time we say that every week, welcome Rasul
Allah, to these lands in which we live. Welcome his Sharia his
sunnah his Deen his teachings, what he's given us his inheritance
Allah Allah sent him on behalf of our people. Let's welcome Rasul
Allah,
that let's welcome rasool Allah to these lands because we all know,
forget all the rhetoric, we don't even need to go there. We know
what's going to happen. Those of us that have converted know what
happens when you say La Ilaha illa Allah and you start to experience
the beauty of having your heart be expanded by Allah Jalla gennaio
those that were even born Muslim that took their demons
Here's see know how much benefit they get from La ilaha illa.
Allah, we don't even need to turn towards that we have certainty
about this. And we need to be patient with people who don't yet
taste it. Because if they tasted it, they would never say the
things that they would say or do the things that they would do.
They would actually, as it's been said, that people of worship and
people of learning, those two different statements were the
kings of the earth. And they use the word kings, because kings,
traditionally, monarchs were very common.
And pre modern society, they always want the best of
everything. Because they're kings, because they have ways to the
acquire it and experience it.
They used to say that were they to know the pleasure that we're in,
and sort of layers first to those who are praying at night in
worship, and those who are learning sacred knowledge, they
would have come to us and fought us for it.
Meaning that that's what kings often do, is that they end up
having conflict because they want something they want to expand
their kingdom or whatever else. But this is where true happiness
lies, is in worship of Allah Jalla Jalla ALLAH. So ALLAH then says,
to show how much we are in need of Him, in the next verse, in your
shirt, you have gone way out to be healthy, and God
that if he willed, He would have done away with you. And he would
have produced a new creation, oh, my daddy, could Allah Allah He be
ICS that is not something difficult for Allah. Allah does
whatever he wants. And so we realize, in your shirt, you the
hip come, he could completely do away with us.
And then what Majan never existing, Allah gave us existence.
And were an absolute need of Him in terms of us being brought into
existence and actually being alive. And that's what's called
the net Matilija had the blessing of being created. And then we're
also in need of Him in every single moment. And this is called
the narrative. And that is that for him, sustaining us, in all of
the things that need to be in place for us to be sustained.
It is from Allah and everything is that under control. And one of the
beautiful things that our teachers said today, and that this
beautiful, that way of approaching how we view things, and that he
was talking about how so many people were being pessimistic
about how hard next year is going to be. And he was like, know, that
we know those be shot at coming. There's glad tidings that are
coming in the next year. And so he said, essentially, that we're
going to take those glad tidings, that's going to be our
perspective, in other words, and that what it is that we trust, we
trust in Allah. And he said, then let all of that just go back on
them. Meaning that if this is how you're thinking about what's going
to happen in the future and you're being negative and pessimistic,
then just you take that, but we're going to take the big shot from
Allah Tabata Katara and the glad tidings that he has in store for
His servants subhanho wa taala. So the Allah Ma says that there's
four types of fucker, the word in Arabic for impoverishment is
fucker. And it could refer to actually not having something and
that's actually the third category is fuck Quran min el mal not
having wealth. But there's two that come before that. The first
is fuck Quran minute Deen
being impoverished in relation to your religion.
And that's where there's something that you need for your D but you
don't have. It could be like, a knowledge that you need to know.
It could be like a particular question that you have. It could
be like being around certain people, whatever it might be.
There's an impoverishment that you have in relation to your deen. And
that could also manifest on your Akiyama where you are the true
person who's bankrupt where you come with good deeds, but what
happens is that you've insulted people and you've harmed people
and done many things, and they start to take from your good
deeds. So that is one of the worst types of luck. And that's one of
the types of fucker that the Prophet sallallahu Sallam sought
refuge in Allah to botica data foam because he said Allah Mindy,
I really became an advocate. Oh Allah, I seek refuge in You from
Faqad from poverty. That's one of the first meanings is poverty in
relation to your deen and closely related to that is the second
category which is focused on mental Yaqeen not having the
degree of certainty that we should have, which Lee
leads to things like fearing poverty. And one time, there's a
story where there was a few students studying with one of
their teachers. And the teachers asked them, What was the fucker,
the poverty that the Prophet saw a licen, who sought refuge in Allah
from? And then one of them said that we're meaning that someone
not have wealth.
And then they were then instructed by someone who knew that the
correct answer would have been there to say, I don't know, please
tell us instead of answering the question.
And so they kept studying with the same teacher. And then, because he
was a person of inner sight asked the same question again,
eventually. And they said, We don't know. See, do you tell us.
And he said that the poverty that the prophesy centum sought refuge
in was the fear of poverty, because you could be the
wealthiest person in the world. But if you fear poverty will be
poor, you'll be in a constant state of agitation. So fearing
poverty, that comes from a lack of certainty in trust, and that Zach,
the one who provides subhanaw, taala, and all of the other
meanings that stem from that. And then the third type of poverty is
that fucking woman and man not having enough wealth. And so the
first two categories, the scholars are miserable, they're
blameworthy. We have to work and learn our deen consistently, that
same theme of learning regularly, just as we have to work on
improving the state of our certainty. And then the third
category of actually not having enough wealth, is that the
scholars say, if someone is content, and they have the ability
to remain patient, it's not blameworthy, not to have wealth.
And in fact, it is those who are lacking wealth in this world and
don't have the means that will enter into paradise so much
quicker than the people who do.
And if someone actually has the ability to remain patient and be
content, and not envy, the person of wealth because of what they
have a desire within their hands, and so forth. It's actually a
lofty station and can be very spiritually good for I know,
that's a very strange way with an Western mentality of perspective
to put forth. But that is what the Buddha might say. And as our
teachers and I remember Sheikh Hamza saying this that is that
we've lost in many ways in the modern world, the sense of
honorable poverty.
Many of the great people of Assam scholars righteous people, were
extremely poor. Many of them didn't have a lot of wealth. And
one of the things that Muramoto hush Toshi comes, as I recall was,
is that knowledge is the wealth of the poor. And what he meant by
that is, is that, generally speaking, is that the vast
majority of knowledgeable people and people that were open and
willing and able to free themselves up to learn, that is
just was their predicament here in this world. So there's a lot to be
said for that. So the fourth category is, fuck Quran mean mercy
will Allah Subhana Allah data, where we have FUCKLOAD, from
everything other than Allah. And what that means is that we find
our Athena because the opposite of fucka
is that we find our sufficiency with Allah. And so we're
impoverished in the sense of everything other than Allah, in
other words, is that we don't feel in need of it.
And this only comes from us. actualizing, that trait inside of
us where we feel in need of Allah in every moment, that is one of
the most blessed ID moments of our lives is where you and I feel in
need of Allah.
And we should bring this to heart when we're alone. I'm in absolute
need of you.
And the more that we do that, the more that state will carry over.
And Allah shows us that we're in need of Him, when we get sick,
when we get injured, or not able to do something that we want to do
when we're tired. Faqad Yeah, I am impoverished.
And I'm content, and I'm broken before you get up. This is a
beautiful state to be in. And one of the beautiful two hours in
Malmo has an Ashanti, which these are the great emails when they ask
these things we just seek Baraka through their words, even though
we're the most distant to people from them. But we ask Allah to
Allah to bless us with something of these realities. Even if it
just be a little bit Alucard fucker mercy whack I asked you to
be in a state of publishing in relation to everything other new.
Well, Rena Baek in the fine my sufficiency through you had to
learn to shut iliac so that we only witness you
In other words, is that by being impoverished and not in need of
the world is that this helps us be more aware of our relationship
with Allah subhanho wa taala. And then in closing, they mentioned is
that fucker is one of the four great traits of udia. Everybody is
our servitude of Allah. The first is fucker. And we can again
translate this as spiritual poverty or absolute need. And
Allah has Lena sufficiency. The next is loose humility. And the
opposite of LoL is is that honor.
And then there's IJs, which is inability. And the opposite of ads
is Quadra is power. And then there's bluff, which is weakness.
And the opposite of weakness is cool strength. So fucker, will I
just in love are the four traits or the four traits of OBEDIA of
servitude to Allah subhanho wa taala. So in English, what is
that? That's poverty, humility, in ability and weakness. And the
blessing here is, the more that we realize our fuckup our
impoverishment before Allah, the more that Allah to Allah enrich
us. The more that we show our humility before Allah, the more
that he will raise us in degree, the more that we are aware of our
inability, the more able Allah will make us, the more that we
realize our weakness, the stronger we become. So our strength in the
real strength that we need to have strong Iman into that all of the
manifestations of strength in a religious sense. When we go
through tribulations and all of that, it's not just like hey, I'm
gonna take this on hidden I don't know. Our strength is in realizing
our weakness before Allah.
And if we can realize our weakness before Allah, Allah will make us
strong
in relation to all of these manifestations that we need of
strength of our deen Allah subhanaw taala give us Tofik and
bless us to put into practice these busts of traits of spiritual
shivery. May Allah subhanaw taala bless us to realize to have
realized within us our fuckup or little our ads and our dark
subhanho data, and may we all experience the beauty of being
enriched by Allah and being raised in degree by Allah and in being
the empowered by Allah subhanaw taala to be given the strength by
Allah to be adequate data may that we have lots of other good data
that bless us to realize us this within ourselves and to follow the
sunnah of our Prophet I sent him completely enrolling hourly or
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