Yahya Rhodus – Futuwwa The Blessing of Islam and Its Light

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Salah more Allah, Allah Allah Rahman and Rahim Al hamdu lillah

wa salatu salam ala Rasulillah. While earlier he was like a biggie

Woman, why Allah.

One of the beautiful poems that we read a little bit earlier, was a

poem by Sheikh Mohammed bin and Hubby,

the great scholars and righteous folk, the western part of the

Muslim world, in Morocco. And in this poem, he is we're counting

the blessings of Allah subhanaw taala upon him, Kim, like a

minion, mutton Alia how many blessings you have upon me,

indicating that blessing after blessing so many blessings. Allah

subhanaw taala has showered us with so so so many blessings upon

us. And what I'm done, Marcin in a layup. And you still show me a

certain you still show me this benevolence? In this goodness. And

I experienced all of these favors that you give me day in and day

out. And then to remind us that we had nothing to do with us. He

reminds us from the very beginning of the 25th Harsha Janina, you

have nourished me in the womb, as an embryo? Did we choose to be

created that we asked to be created? Did we have anything to

do with how we were cared for when we were in the womb of our

mothers? From the time that we were young walk on telly Pablo

holiday? Yeah, you were there for me even before my parents,

Allah subhanho wa Taala was there for us, even before our own

parents. And this is something that we all know.

But we were reading recently, in book 39 of the union with Dean

Kitab at Epcot on the book of reflection, about how one of the

great aspects of reflection, it's a component of it. And then

there's other components that this leads to is to that, quote,

reminding ourselves of certain meanings, and allowing those

meanings to settle deep within our being.

And every time that we are reminded of those meanings, and we

allow them to settle, and we allow them to impact our hearts, then

there is a deep secret in this insofar as it leads to the

realization of what it is whatever it is that we are remembering in

that particular moment. In this case, we all know that Allah was

there for us, before our parents, but when you really think about

that, that strengthens you.

And that allows you to approach life and to approach the world of

means in a very different way.

And then he recognizes that helot 30 Muslim man, well, I will follow

calamari if in the BIA, You created me as a Muslim, even those

of us who became Muslim, the reality is, it's all from Allah,

whether you were born Muslim, or whether you became Muslim. All

gifts even though outwardly we define them as you have certain

gifts that are Wahabi and you have certain gifts that are QSB certain

gifts that are divinely given and other gifts that are quote,

unquote, acquired. But the reality is even the gifts that are

acquired, ie that you put a little bit of effort in to attain that

gift. It's really from Allah Tada because Where did you get

everything that you needed to even

move outwardly to acquire that gift is from Allah Tada. So the

convert and the one who was born in Assam ultimately is the same.

Ultimately, they're in the same position.

So you create him as a Muslim and we're not to be for your bounty. I

would never know have known the prophets Allah Allahu Allah the

service.

I would never have known the Prophet sallallahu the center. Do

you realize the Shaka and the ANA

and terrible state that we would be or we never have to unknown say

dinner, Mohammed Abdullah

as people that entered into this Deen about non Muslim friends that

they know from the past, many of those Muslims who went to school

with people who are not Muslim, where are they what are they

doing? What's their lives? What are their lives like?

What kind of state is that to be in where you're chained by the

constructiveness of

of cover of disbelief. Imagine never ever knowing the Prophet

Muhammad Salah license. That is scary. That is really scary.

It's from the father of Allah subhanho data that we know, our

Prophet sallallahu sent him. So what then should we be doing? This

is what he says next is Judo Hakan, Allah giovine That I

prostrate truly on my forehead. As Judo hack and other giovine We

should be in a state of frustration. And when we stand up

to pray, it shouldn't be a burden upon us.

We shouldn't pray like chickens,

no, prostrate even those young folks that have started to pray.

You've reached the age of seven. You've reached the age of 10. Even

before you become legally responsible, do not pray like a

chicken.

Do not pick the ground with sujood. Train yourself from now to

give parents hack in when you are in prostration.

Realize your utter humility before Allah glorify Allah and show

gratitude to Allah that He gave you Tofik to prostrate before him

Subhana wa Tada. There was a beautiful experience. I had one

time in the main method in Liverpool, England.

And there was a very blessed scholar there who live close to

the masjid and used to go there and teach. And in this particular

masjid, as is the case and so many of our massage in the West, which

it's only fairly recently common in the East,

where now a lot of people pray on chairs.

It wasn't really common in East because actually, you can't at

least in some schools, you can't sit on a chair, if you can

actually sit on the ground. If you can't, for some reason prostrate

before you can sit on a chair you have to sit on the ground.

And he was bothered by the fact that so many people felt with the

slightest bit of difficulty. They started praying on chairs, and

from him for him. He was troubled by the fact that people weren't

prostrating. And he was just imagine how horrible that would

be, not to be able to prostrate.

And then we went back to his house after that he started he commented

on this. And obviously he has mercy of the hearts if someone

really can't sit, because they have bad knees and they can't sit

on the ground. So then you sit in a chair, then there's a

dispensation. But if you cannot stand you hunched over, if you

cannot hunched over, then you sit on the ground, and you still

prostrate. And then if you can't do that, you move to what comes

after him. But his whole point was, they're being prevented from

sujood. This is a person of a man of faith. We don't want anything

ever to prevent us from pseudo we should actually make that dua.

There were people who loved personal much one of them said,

Oh, Lord, you know how much I love prayer. If you permit anyone to

pray in the bazaar, after you die and you go to the intermediate

intermediary realm, permit me to pray.

He loves prayer so much even wanting to pray in the bazaar.

And this is something Allah does grant people, our province sizes

and Mr. Hadith in Sahih Muslim, he said that I passed by the grave of

Moses on the night of the later to Israel and Mirage, and he was

alive in his grave praying. He witnessed this all Allah Allah,

but it was obvious Saddam. And why because the pleasure that these

folks experienced from prayer, spiritual pleasure is greater than

any physical pleasure. It is much stronger and more powerful, and

more pure and more angelic and more celestial than any other type

of pleasure. If you eat too much, you get indigestion, you don't

want to eat anything else, that if you sleep too much, you have body

aches, and you feel weird, and the nature of the things of this world

anything in too much. You don't want to see that thing for a long

time. Sometimes he will eat so much of one type of food, they

might Acoma Kamala gets sick, they don't touch that food for 10

years, or whatever, Yanni. That's the nature of this world. That's

not how it is with spiritual pleasure. It takes a long time to

receive it because you have to work hard, but then when you

receive it a lot. Nothing is more blessed than that.

And we had an experience earlier,

where we went to a place to record something for someone.

And subhanAllah this place was not the very best of places you could

tell that it was a little bit dark and that the

Different things that they had

as decoration in the house, the state of the house, you could tell

it wasn't a good place.

And

while we're there you were We were constricted.

And leaving both of us felt the same thing like something's wrong.

It's something's not right in that place. And so Hamdulillah we did

the router with a mom and her dad after that, and it helped. And

then Subhanallah some of the traces still remain when you're in

a dark place, it affects you, it affects you. And then you come to

the moland which is filled with light. And you sings the praises

of the Prophet Muhammad, Salah, liason and you start to realize

how insignificant darkness is in front of light.

You start to realize how when you're flooded with light,

darkness doesn't remain in your heart gets flushed out. But then

it really made me think about that very blessed line. It's one of the

most famous lines of poetry of Imam Abdullah bin Ali with her

dad. Now, no Pharaoh in Raha were her Warden was Tara nettement. It

is Sara, Allen, Yama, Khaled visa, is that these words are very

closely related, even semantically three of them. But now no fear or

aura, we are in a state of ease, and repose, enjoy, and calmness

and relaxation. The blessing of Islam is the very blessed greatest

blessing of all that can be received.

And if you look at the root meaning of this word, Raha

Raha as a verb, it can mean both a violent wind and a gentle wind.

And some of them point to the different meanings between react

in React, and react, usually having the more connotation of

being a violent wind. And the linguists speak about these

nuances. But even so the word roar and Raha are both related to each

other and also astera.

But one of the meanings that we can take there is, in relation to

the winds of tribulation of this world, everyone's going to sail

through the dunya.

But for some people, it will, that

they won't be in a good state when they do so. And for others,

there'll be raised, some people are lower than some people raised,

Allah Zarafa. And he's the Harford and he's the Nafa. And he's the

Dar subhanho wa Tada. And two people could go through the same

exact situation, one person less than the other person that it

lowers them this Allah to Allah subhana wa avea. But if you really

think about that, in reality, from the blessing of faith in the light

of faith, do we even realize what we have? We are enrolled in in LA.

And we are in a state of Abode West era.

What do we not have as believers? And as we exited, and we started

talking about the darkness of that place, we quickly were reminded

like, no, no, don't talk about it anymore. Just make the could of

Allah Tada. And this is important.

Because there's no doubt there's darkness in the world. There's no

doubt there's darkness in certain people. There's no doubt when you

go to certain places, there's darkness. Because when evil has

been done in a place, it's a place where there's a lot of shayateen.

And there's a reality to the unseen.

And you have to protect yourself when you go into those places. But

you're reminded of the blessing of Allah Tada upon you when you go

into another sacred space that is filled with light, and is filled

with blessing and how easy it is to dispel that darkness. But we

have to be careful. Yes, we should critique darkness. Yes, we need to

be aware of the time in which we live, but only to the extent that

we need to avoid that evil, but we should be focusing on the light.

And sometimes we get dragged into that, where we complain too much.

Where if you talk too much about evil, when was the last time when

you really started talking about the end of the time and all of the

terrible things that are happening in the world and all of the

darkness and all of the evil that's there. When was the last

time that you left feeling good about that?

You don't leave feeling good when that happens. Yes, you can talk

about it to assess it to understand it so that you can

avoid it but after that best leave it in focus on the light. Do what

it is that you can do to draw nearer to your Lord subhanho wa

Taala and do acts of goodness and

Salawat make dua pray all of these different beautiful forms of

worship that we have, that will fill the heart with light. And

that will dispel all of that darkness. And this is ultimately

what we want because the reality of our faith is a light that ALLAH

SubhanA wa Tada has placed in our heart. And the greatest way to

strengthen that light is to do what pleases Him subhanho wa Taala

and to recite his book to recite the buzzard words of our profits

on the licen and then to recite the blessing words of the

inheritors of the Prophet sallallahu sunnah who put the

Quran and the Sunnah into practice, and therefore what it is

that they said and what it is that they were inspired to say, has a

very strong impact on our hearts because of the light that is

embedded in those blessings words. May Allah have adequate to add a

fill our hearts with light buses to be able to travel upon the

street path in a lot of time to make a strong and protect us from

being negatively impacted by what is happening around us and bless

us to be means for other people to experience the light of la ilaha

illAllah Muhammad Allah rasool Allah, may our faith grow strong

and by means of us may people experienced the realities in the

blessings in the war in Raha in the harbor in the Sierra of the

nettement Islam, the hydro for Alfia or Salah as you know

Mohammed and Whitehead, you sabia Salam when hamdulillahi rabbil

Alameen