Yahya Rhodus – Knowledge & Wisdom Imam alHaddad #1
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we had a bit of a break, post Ramadan and we ask Allah subhanaw
taala to
make the blessings of Ramadan firmly rooted in us shall know
that they came, they were received in Sharla they will stay
one of the metaphors of the heart is like a bucket
and a very large metaphorical bucket. And a bucket has the
capacity and potential to hold water with certain conditions, one
that is facing the right direction so that when water flows, it's
able to catch it. If it's inverted in us a loss and I'm gonna Apphia
that is not going to receive water. Secondly, is that it can't
have any holes in it. And sins are what plays holes in the buckets of
our hearts. The more that we sin, then the more that the hare and
the Rama and the baraka that we receive is that it goes right
through and
and falls out. And nevertheless is that we remain positive we have an
outlook, that even if we fall short, we keep moving forward. And
this is what our Prophet taught when he said well sbsc hotel
Hacienda del tiempo ha and follow up a badly with a good deed and it
will erase it. But the person who is in a state of witnessing that
they fall short while doing everything they can to remain
upright is not the same as someone who is constantly falling short
and striving to that pick themselves up. So we're gonna
continue on in sha Allah Tada with this ro ha. And the name roja in
the Arabic word and language
is a word
that is used in a number of different ways. It stems from a
hadith of a prophesy centum Otto hatoon feasability law, or 101
visa bill that Heydo Mina, Daniel mafia, a Rohan a going out once in
the afternoon, and I'll explain what that going out means is
better than the world and everything that is in it. And that
has a military meaning. What if someone is fighting a just war to
go out to sacrifice for the sake of Allah to waterco to Allah is
better than the world and everything that is in it but it
also has various degrees of metaphorical meaning. And we know
because our Prophet said satellite sent him is that anyone who leaves
their home with the intention of seeking knowledge that that person
is feasibly law until they return. And even if you only traveled two
and a half minutes or three minutes, or walked about 50 paces
here and your intention was knowledge fillable Ellen? Is Allah
Allah Allah were something to happen to you and I were we to die
on our return or in the moment. If our intention was sincere, we
would die as a shaheed. That is one of the martyrs who that gets
the reward of martyrs even though they're buried normally, as
opposed to the true meaning of martyrs we learned in the books of
filth. And so learning is that one of the metaphorical meanings of
that struggle and striving. So from this thorough how is that
done after ASA and the aroma have taught us
and told us is that we have two different types of risk. We have
risk hissy and risk Magnoli. That is we have physical sustenance and
we have spiritual sustenance, and our physical sustenance is
distributed in the inner realm after sloth and Fajr. This is why
that we learned in a narration
is that to stay in remain in a state of worship, after you pray
the fajr prayer until sunrise. Is that better for you in terms of
acquiring your physical sustenance than it is to travel and trade all
throughout the earth? And it's counterintuitive in a sense,
because you think Wait a second, the early bird gets the worm if
you define that outwardly as Okay, the first person who gets out and
works gets in or has an early work date and so forth and is out there
working and that they're going to it would seem that make more
money.
And then be more successful in their business. But we know that
there is an inter the entire world is interconnected, the inner realm
and the outer realm and risk it from our perspective of faith is
ultimately from Allah. And that we know that allow what that means
will facilitate your sustenance, in ways that he won't facilitate
it for other people in all of the meanings of facilitation. And so
to spend that time in a state of worship, which is one of the times
that we should really preserve the time from fajr until a shamrock
until sunrise.
Is that is a way to obtain sustenance, physical sustenance.
And they say that spiritual sustenance is distributed after
ASA
is distributed after ASA. And this is for this reason that in some
places in the Muslim world, this is the choice time to study books,
that refined the heart, to hammer the meanings of that realization
of Sn into the heart, the best time to study them is after also.
So in that vein, is that we've just tried real hard because it
doesn't really translate well into the English language, and with the
intent with the intention of exposing ourselves to the Sweet
reasons of Allah subhanaw taala as mercy
from here on out are these for the time being, the row will consist
of three parts, we'll begin with a very, very brief reminder on some
of the intentions that we should have in various aspects of our
life. And we will be doing a summarized version of the book of
intentions but happy sad, like the rows have been Mohammed bin
alveoli, the Rose was the teacher of the Quran have said, Have you
only been heavy, and he based some of his book or good portion of his
book off of
the original work, which was keytab. And yet my Sheikh Ali
Sheikh Ali Bin Abu Bakr, who is that lived many centuries that
ago, but he based his work off that work and it's of its very
beneficial, and he'll get into some intentions that check it
didn't cover intentions, like what do you make, when intentions do
you make when you're drinking tea?
What intentions do you make when you're drinking coffee? What
intentions do you make when you're driving in your car, there are so
many different intentions that you can make in virtually every aspect
of your life. The key is, is to learn what they are and to talk
about them time and time again, and to just constantly remind
ourselves of the importance of intentions into teach ourselves
how to make them. And keeping in mind that the self, the early
people,
they used to teach their children, the science, if you will, of
intentions, the way that a Quran teacher would teach a student a
chapter of the Quran. And so that if you look at this beautiful,
that metaphor, it's if you have someone who's learning Quran, it
is a process of learning the letters and then putting
connecting them and then learning to read and then spending a lot of
time in repetition. And then that after you've memorized it
reviewing the time that goes into hip, the Quran and learning a
chapter of the Quran, even before you actually put it into practice,
or while you put it into practice, it's a long arduous process. And
likewise, is that this is the process of intentions and learning
what it is that we should be making in terms of intention, how
do we distinguish a righteous tension from a that muddled
intention? And what are the the various intentions that we can
make in the various aspects of our lives. And in that regard, there's
three important and this is review. For those who have heard
this before. But you can never review the intention enough is
that there's the three most important dimensions of the
intention are purity of intention, one.
And that
that greatness of intention two
and continuity of intention three.
The first one is obvious being sincere in your intentions. The
second one means making multiple intentions for everything that you
do.
And you could add to that as well, the state of heart while you make
multiple intentions, is making them strong. And that having that
making them definitive
in that really having strength of heart when you get into something,
and when you actually embark upon something
is a and this is that the slight difference between Nia and Azzam
is that intention is you are exercising your will to do that
particular thing. That resolution is that nothing is going to stop
you from actually doing that thing. And that this is very
important because it's a very subtle Step. If your intention is
not strong, there are 1001 ways that chiffon will try to Bilka
prevent you from actually doing what it is that you set out to
intend. And this is why of the six categories of SIDS of
truthfulness, according to the model is it one of them is that
truthfulness in terms of your Azzam, your resolution, after you
make an intention, part of truthfulness is is that you make
sure to carry out what it is that you intended. And there's stories
upon stories about this. And this is something very, very important
for us to know. Because how many times in our daily lives, do we
intend to do something, tend to give out wealth and tend to help
someone and tend to that do someone a favor,
tend to call someone and tell them to do something, and then a whole
bunch of things happen. And then if you don't jump on it quickly,
it might subside, or it might wane slightly, the strength of that
intention, and the next time that it might not be there in the way
that it was previously, and in this regard, is that after you
know that it is that you should do something haste is a good thing.
Haste is blameworthy for the most part, unless it's a blink like
decision that you have to make and respond to a particular situation
instantaneously, which we need to learn how to do that as well. But
for the most part, major decisions in our life, what we want this to
any, we want to have consideration, want to take our
time, and we want to that really think things through to praise to
harder to seek advice, and to go through a whole process, because
as soon as from Shaytaan, but it at this level is that when you
know that is this is something you should do at this point. What is
praiseworthy is to hasten to do it, so that you don't lose the
strength of that intention. So
we have sincerity of intention, we have that greatness of intention.
And then thirdly, we have what you could call continuity, that making
sure that in all of your different states that you're making
intentions, serious, sincere, that you're making big intentions in
everything that you do. And if you combine that and you implement
that in your life, your life will be very different. Even in a time
that is defined by Takata Busy Man, where the time is literally
getting closer together in the way that is experienced subjectively
by us is that time is not the way that people before us experienced
it for us. There's much less blessing in it, even in times
where there's a lack of blessing that in time is that by turning
your entire life into an act of worship, by way of intention, that
you will see every single day as an opportunity, every single
moment as an opportunity. This is why the intention is just so so so
incredible, that someone's gonna say that it's not useful in tough
of all knowledge that someone has said that it enters into 70
different chapters of end of knowledge. And it is it is so
central to this Deen
in the greatest Hadith collection of all begins with the hadith of
intention for very good reason.
So, we wanted to review the intentions for service. And in the
for those that are might follow in the book of intentions, the
English translation, which is not really ready available, though, I
was told that it should be printed fairly soon because the law
is that
it has it has Dawa. And I think that the best way to translate our
personally is service because the essence of Tao is service. And if
we only translate Tao as something like propagation or calling to
Allah, it would seem to that limit the scope of its true meaning in
the minds of many people. So there are 16 intentions that we can
make. And for those that are following online or everyone here,
if you can add any to this, please do and we can add them to the
list. And we very well might find other intentions that we can make
and sometimes there
you could have kind of an overarching intention has a lot of
other kind of like sub like intentions that relate to it. And
that's a good thing to do as well. So it's that's definitely there.
But it shows us kind of how
We have to do this. So we intend to serve, number one, to draw near
to Allah. And that's obviously the intention that we make for
everything is that we do
to to obey the command of Allah. Allah says Urdu either Sibelius
beaker will Hekmati when what we have, in the command form a do
call, right to the path of your Lord. So this is a commandment
from Allah.
So we intend to obey the command of Allah to three, to follow the
messenger of Allah and the righteous predecessors.
That's an intention that we make, to follow in their footsteps,
their entire life was service.
And
the greatness of one service is yes, defined by the state of one's
heart while they're serving,
not always in terms of what they're actually doing. So that
you could have someone who might only in their life help 15 people,
or 20 people, you have someone else that helps 200,000 people.
But the state of heart of that person while they're helping those
15 to 20 people that are in their circle of influence is so great is
that their service is greater with a lot of adequate data that
doesn't detract from the outward level of service. Right, but the
state of our heart is very, very important, while we serve, and
that, that making an intention to follow in in the second aspect of
that is, is that how much of our life do we spend in service? In
other words, to what degree are we willing to cut back from the
mobile heart, the permissible things to spend in service, the
permissible is permissible, you can't fault someone for
doing something is permissible, unless that person becomes
extravagant in the spending of their wealth, or they just start
wasting too much of their time. You can't fault someone for
staying within the realm that permissible. But what a difference
is between that type of person between someone who that tries to
make every single moment of their life service. And don't think that
you have to be in a setting of knowledge to serve, that there are
people that they just go from the classroom, to the home and in
home, they're making the intention of service. They're making the
intention of Dawa in their own homes, in terms of the character
that they have in terms of how they interact with the people in
their household in terms of what they actually do in their
household. And that we know that the sunnah of our Prophet, Salah
lie they are so your southern is that he was the most humble of all
people. And he was in the service can if he hid Murthy Allah He, he
was in the service of his family. He used to mend his own shoes used
to sweep the floor solo, like he said, and he used to cut the meat
in he used to milk the goats. And he would help around the house,
such that one of them would say is that kind of fill Beit Hanina, he
was in the home like one of us. And that was also the way that he
carried himself with his loved ones is that there was always a
degree to which that he preserved. There's no doubt his that dignity
and but the way he carried himself at home was he was very light
hearted and very approachable until it was time for prayer. And
then one of them would say, it was as if that we did not know him or
he did not know us. Us. Now it's time for Allah. And so
immediately, that when it was time to pray that he would that adjust
accordingly. So Allah Allah,
it was obvious Salam. Third intention is to bring life to the
Prophetic teachings,
to bring life to them.
And that we have to be the change that we want to see in other
people. It begins with our own selves. It begins with our own
household. It begins with our own community begins with our family
and our friends, it begins with ourselves and bringing life to the
prophetic continues. Because that's intention that we make
five, to spread knowledge in facilitate practice. So
specifically, we can make that intention to spread knowledge
and knowledge not only in terms of
that, quote in the Quran, or the Hadith, but the knowledge of how
to be in in what situation. So the knowledge of * of state in
terms of how to respond. And so you could teach someone a lifelong
lesson without saying anything
without saying anything in sometimes, that when you don't say
anything
that's actually was that was the right thing to do. And you're
teaching people and not all of Subhanallah
We have this false notion that all of the great teachers that came
before us, they were these very eloquent speakers that were big
turbans, and robins.
Subhanallah, it wasn't always like that. They're always there's
always been teachers that have spoken very little, that one of
the great scholars of the Comoros islands, have you been I've been
I've been soulmate is that when students used to read with him, he
would give virtually almost no commentary, he would just let the
books be read. And his presence was an elixir that allowed those
meanings to become a reality in the hearts of the people that were
before.
That was just who he was. And I've had other friends that have told
me about different shoe, where that they would just sit with
their students.
And there wouldn't be any type of discourse, they would just sit
with them. And from the blessing of the Sahaba, is that the
students would transform. And it doesn't negate that formal
learning, that's a good thing. And we always encourage that. But the
point is, is that you can teach a number of different ways to spread
knowledge and facilitate practice. And this is the secret of what's
called Teleki learning from living teachers is that by learning from
them, you get three things, one knowledge to a correct
understanding of the knowledge, three, the state of the teacher
teaching you, which essentially helps facilitate practice of that
knowledge, put it into practice, that is, number six, to fulfill a
communal obligation service is no doubt, a communal obligation.
Seven to fulfill the rights of others, different people have
rights upon you,
that your family has rights upon you that you spend time with them,
and that you teach them. They have rights upon you. And there will be
people that come Yom Okayama they'll think that they are going
into paradise. And then that when their children see that that they
will say yeah, Rob, bus minha Lala, give me my right from this
oppressor.
And their parents thought that they were going to paradise. And
it turns out that they neglected their children. They did not teach
them the deen and that justice will be exact in the sola Tada,
Santa Fe. Right. And so we have to fulfill the rights of others and
make that intention. And in general, that we all have various
circles of influences and whoever is within our circle of influence,
they have a right upon us that we teach them or help them
or serve them. Number eight, to rectify the community is that we
want to bring people closer together, we want to solve
problems that we want to be like the bee and we achieve that
because a bee emits honey which is ultimately fat. We want to be
people who heal other people's wounds, who bring people together
it's Allah that in vain.
Number nine to remove calamities from the Ummah, of our prophets
Allah sent him by actively been involved in service is that
there's a direct correlation between that and removal of
calamities, the more people that are actively involved, that the
better off everyone will be. And calamities literally are diverted
or warded off.
And the beautiful thing about this is that
not just with Muslims, by doing the right thing by being in the
service of our people in the broadest meaning of the word
people is it calamities are warded off from everyone, not just
Muslims, from everyone that are around us. And that sometimes
Subhanallah when that problems happen within the community, is
that people have wisdom and have insight they look to their
ownselves. And they'll find that there have been neglectful of one
of their old art or that they've been that neglectful of glioma
led, or they haven't been in the proper state of Georgia, or their
heart is not present in some of the gatherings in where it should
be. And that they actually see themselves as that the cause of
rifts that happened with other people. And they blame themselves
for it. That were I to have been in that better state were I to
have to adhere to those Oh, Rod, maybe those things wouldn't have
happened. Because that you'd be surprised how that important it is
for that some people to be in a certain state to allow other
people just to get by. In other words, there are people that bear
things on behalf of others
tend to learn to patiently endure harm, difficulty and affliction
you make that intention.
If you're involved in service of any type, there will be people
that tried to harm you. You will go through difficulties you will
be afflicted, you can't do something that is good, except
that someone's going to say something someone's going to
criticize someone is going to try to maneuver or something's going
to happen. Right? And at first people like, oh my god, I'm just
only trying to do good, hot. Wow. And why is this happening? And
then they might say, I'm gonna leave it. No. So the worst thing
you can do? The whole reason is there's a lot of testing you, are
you doing it for people's approval? Are you doing it for
people to cheer you on or to congratulate you? Are you doing
this for the sake of Allah, if you're doing it for the sake of
Allah, you will learn to develop alligator skin, if you will. And
alligator skin it just caught us Ward's off this harm that comes
from people, and that you learn that this is just part of our
Prophet himself was not free, from people speaking, the ill of him
sold a lot out or somebody sent him. Number 11, which is related
to this is to learn good character. Because you will be in
positions where you must respond with good character, and good
character is an end in and of itself, that you are successful if
you've had good character, even if it means outwardly, that you don't
achieve what it is that you're trying to achieve. You've been
successful if you have good character. And in the end, the
people of the best character will always win.
And they don't, the people of a character actually don't want
anyone else to lose.
But the reality is, is that they will be the ones who win in the
true meaning of winning, most importantly, with our state with
the Lords of Hanoi, tada. Number 12, that we intend to learn about
our faults.
So by mixing with people by serving by being with people by
doing things of this nature, giving Dawa teaching people mixing
with people, helping people, counseling people, being there for
people, visiting people, you will learn a lot about yourself.
And you should see those that as the greatest gift of all from
Allah Tada, every fault that you learn about, you should be happy.
And that you should then direct your heart towards Allah that he
just as he that made you aware of your fault that he is going to
eventually give you a cure. Number 13, you intend to benefit yourself
and others. So you carry yourself on what you want benefit for
everyone.
You want benefit from everyone. And this was the beautiful trait
of the true teachers is that they want everyone to benefit whether
it's from them or whether it's from other people. They don't call
to themselves they called to along the messenger.
And if there's someone that is that more suitable to the teacher
to do whatever needs to be done, they will happily step aside. So
that person can do that.
Number 14
to benefit from others.
So the first is to benefit your own self and others. But then the
14th is to benefit from others, you actually benefit that from the
people that you are serving.
In sometimes someone comes to you in seeks your counsel on a
particular matter. And you're going through a similar situation.
And you know the right you know the answer, because you're giving
that answer. But you might be stuck in a certain way on how to
implement it. And by helping that person you actually
introspectively that know what to do in relation to your own self.
This is one example and there's many other manifestations of
benefiting from others. So to actually benefit from others. And
there always is good in all people you just have to look for it. All
people, there is not a person on earth that is 100% evil.
All people have aspects of good within. And so we should ask Allah
to Allah to unveil that to us so that we can see what is good in
others.
In then
this is actually a repeat I have to edit this. Finally, number 15
is to become beloved to Allah and His messenger.
And we've all heard the Hadith, Al Haluk, IANA law,
all of creation are the dependents of Allah.
A humble man Allah and Pharaoh whom the ER most beloved of them
to Allah are the most beneficial to his creation to his dependents
subhanaw taala.
So these are 15 different intentions that we can make. And
if you think of any other
Those, please do, let me know, I'm sure that we could add a few more
to that, if we really thought about it.
In the first two or three,
pretty consistently will be there for almost everything we do, to
draw near to Allah to obey the command of Allah to follow the
Sunnah of the Messenger of Allah, that will pretty much be there for
everything. And then depending on what it is, is that you can add
that others
type.
Speaking
would you say that
making the intention for others to become Muslim,
is because it's is
isn't correct intention in of itself, because sometimes it seems
like people take that as, like their ultimate purpose, or as they
just want people to become Muslim. So they'll do nice things, and
they'll help out but the whole purpose is kind of like, just
become Muslim just become Muslim. And he didn't mention that
intentions. Yeah, which is interesting. Um,
you know, what I, I think that you could probably get away with it at
one level as an intention, right, that I think, you know, kind of in
a general way, like, you know, I want to, you know, give Dawa to
this person, so they become Muslim. But if you look a little
bit more carefully, and you come to the realization, which is the
truth is that Allah has that Ahadi, you're not making anyone
Muslim really. Right. And I think that, generally speaking, it's
more important to focus on your own way of being, and that be
detached from any particular that effect that you are a means of
that causing, and that in that regard, I think that you will be
much more effective, that by being detached in that way of then
actually making that particular intention. And I think that that
could because hey, Daya is ultimately about light. And the
nature of light is that it shines in so that light, as long as it's
not being blocked by that other person, it will reach them unless
that person is he or herself blocking that light. And so I
think that it's it's not a
prerequisite to make that intention. You're just doing what
is right in any given moment. Right. And having said that, it
does that doesn't mean that if you're speaking to someone who was
not Muslim, and you have the opportunity to that directly, that
speak to them about Allah and His messenger and become a Muslim, is
that you refrain from doing so if that opportunity arises, that we
should do that. And I was reading something recently,
a book about some of the religious trends in America and one of the
statistics within the Christian community is from that the about
2005. Until now, there's been a drastic decrease in that
Christians who feel an importance of sharing their faith with other
people. There's a lot of very, very interesting statistics that
he has in this book. And I would, my assumption is, is that most of
them would probably, that there'll be a parallel in the Muslim
community as well. So in this sense, it's it's essentially one
of the meanings of Dawa, and I think increasingly in a hostile
secular world, people are that feeling more and more that
religion is kind of a personal thing. And it's kind of
embarrassing how many times you don't really, and some of the
loud, that obnoxious conversations at Starbucks or in public sphere,
you don't tend to hear people speaking about religion too much.
Right? It's usually about what they did on the weekend or
shopping mall that they just went to, or just very trivial, that
type stuff, and very loud, and everyone can hear them like across
the coffee shop. But if you oftentimes see religious people
speaking kind of quietly, and it's not something that is, you know,
at best in the modern secular world, that religion can be an
expression. Right? But generally speaking about religion has been
relegated to the private sphere. And that's its own can of worms
and how we deal with that moving forward is a very, very important
question that we entertain, study and respond to. But I think that,
having said that, if an opportunity arises to speak to
someone directly, right, in a way that's appropriate with wisdom,
depending upon the nature of that person, I think we should, you
know, and whether that person is next to us on the plane, or that
person's at the store, and so forth and so on. And we have to if
we don't feel that's the right thing to do. The most important
thing is
The way you carry yourself and the intentions that you make in that
particular interaction. So that's kind of how I see that.
Distributing like books and crayons, do you think that
generally that's a good idea? Or is we should focus more on?
compartment? I think that it really depends on who, in where,
right. So that I think that definitely has its place. And I
think that
all of these types of things, if when we specifically refer to that
this type of data, and if we say data with service, there's a
number of different manifestations. But if we're
specifically referred to this type of data or outreach type of data,
you know, there's no doubt that the, in some scenarios with some
people, giving them books, giving them that translated, a
translation of the meanings of the Quran is helpful, I think the main
thing is to figure out where Allah is, is placed you in relation to
who is there, right. So the people that you see regularly from your
own family that might not be Muslim, or co workers or some
that's going to be slightly different, then that people that
you just see from time to time, but also, there's no doubt having
booths in certain places and just sharing with people, that's very
effective, right with certain people. So I'm very hesitant to
kind of put all of our eggs in one basket. And I think a
comprehensive answer is most appropriate, people are different,
I've seen people that Subhanallah, this can go up and speak to
someone, and it's like, Oh, my God, like that person, just like
just, you know, completely transformed another person. And
because of their personality, and other people are just very quiet
and can't do that. So everyone is different. And I think what we
really have to realize this is that there's 1001 ways to do this,
to be involved in service. And the key is, is that we be involved in
some type of service, wherever we fall in the spectrum. And we do so
with proper intention, and for the sake of a lot of political data,
and then the fruits, I think, what will come after that. So
you know, one example, that passing out translations of the
meanings of the Quran in like a prison,
right, depending upon where someone is, that variable might be
a good way to do it. Right, one of our brothers who's here, that's
how he actually became Muslim,
that he read someone's Quran and Hadas, it was a means for him to
accept Islam shortly after that. So that definitely has its place.
It's about learning how to fit that in with, you know about and I
think that
the most important part
of this whole story is that we just be, that's the foundation of
Dawa is that we just be right. And then
that rooting ourselves in service of our people, we see these people
that are with us as our people, and we're in their service, and
all of those meanings of service. And we fall so short, that we fall
so short on that, and we need to readjust our community's
priorities, right to being in the service of our people. Right. And
what I mean by our people is spanning Muslims, non Muslims,
people who don't even believe in Allah, are people that are in the
gutter, right, everyone, we are in the service of everyone, we want
to be a source of upliftment for everyone.
And then after that, that little take on has specific
manifestations and we, the more knowledge that we get, the more
we'll know how to be in different situations and what to do with
different people. And, you know, some people are ready for a book,
right? Other than that, some people are right on the verge of
converting
that one of the brothers who was who came to Tata, we're the object
folkier, that we were able to meet with him, you know, a couple
months ago, and this person was ready to convert. But it was clear
that he needed to be the one who decided that he wanted to go, it
couldn't be anyone from the outside pushing him. Right. And so
the best thing that if you think that you're going to push someone
away by being that too overt, in your approach, the best thing is
to leave them and to let them come to that and so, it's really
really, you know, it's it's, it's it's a science and an art at the
same time. And,
you know, I think that, you know, we have a lot of work to do in
this regard. And
and then Subhanallah you find I know other people who that
We'll pull over at the stoplight back
you need to become Muslim and it works on some people. So you can't
rule that out. You can't rule that out you have to allow for just
everyone just to do their thing you know and
that
so
all right so let's we're gonna start knowledge and wisdom by
email Illuminati had dad and this his book has just been reprinted
at hamdulillah when beautifully rendered into in the English
language by Dr. Mustapha wedowee. So let's just begin as we always
do when we first start a book with the Fatiha to the author and now
the translator of this book to the office at MoMA, her dad and Dr.
Mustapha Bedouin in the in Lhasa Pantaleo field
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this work in sha Allah and look at the introduction. So if you can
read from page
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this Mina here man or he was so that was salam ala Sayidina,
Muhammad in new service and then in the Name of Allah, Allah
merciful and compassionate. There is neither power nor ability saved
by Allah, the high the immense, transcendent Are you we have no
knowledge save that which you have taught us. You are the knowing the
wise, may God be praised and thanked, more merciful is he in
wiser than any other possessed of mercy and wisdom. He is the best
Creator and Provider. His knowledge encompasses all things
and of all things He keeps count should he not know what he created
when he is the subtle, the aware? He is the sovereignty of the
heavens and the earth. He quickens and gives death. He is Able to do
all things. He is the first and the last, the outward and the
inward. And he has knowledge of all things that are alive the
sustainer his footstool encompasses the heavens and the
earth. And it worries him not to preserve them. And he is the high
the immense I thank him for that which he teaches and inspires.
That which he causes us to say and understand. For all of and for all
and for all his openings and graces that which God opens for
mankind of Mercy none can withhold and that which he withholds none
can release thereafter. And he is the August the wise, may God's
blessings and peace be upon our Master and patron Muhammad
salallahu Alaihe Salam, whom He sent as a mercy to the world's
made the seal of the prophets and the master of the messengers, and
upon his family companions and those who follow them with
excellence until Judgment Day to proceed. These are chapters of
knowledge we have recorded and foundations of wisdom we have
alerted to such as come to mind in the course of mutual reminding,
reflection and meditation, and which scholars worshipers and
travelers on the path often need. We have not arranged them in the
pattern common to such books, that is in a particular sequence
according to the relation between them, so that each would so that
each would cover them in the preceding one. The reason being
that, as we have mentioned, they come to mind on various occasions
during teaching sessions and discussions with which touch on
numerous subjects, some quite remote from the others. This led
to each chapter being entirely entirely independent of others,
the exception being few. The chapters contain comprehensive
principles and summary wisdom. Should a scholar of broad
knowledge wish to convert each chapter into a separate book. By
analyzing its principles and detailing its summary wisdom, it
would be an easy task, as we will as will be clearly perceived by
those endowed with knowledge and perspective, perspicacity and
those possessed of hearts and secrets, those to whom God has
given wisdom and he to whom Wisdom is given. He truly has received
abandon and abandon and go
Good, abundant good, but none remember except min of
understanding. When we began to record these chapters, our
intention was not to publish them until they had reached 40. In
number, however, a long time has elapsed.
Since then, the required number hasn't yet to be reached and a
sincere brother of ours upon learning of their existence,
requested our permission to copy and study them. This made us
decide to bring them out with the benefit to be derived from them in
from them in view. These are valued according to the intentions
and each man receives according to a he intended at this time, the
chapter number and at this time, the chapters number 20. Others can
be added in the future, God exalted willing, it is now time to
turn our intention into action. God is whose help we seek upon him
rest the convenience, meanings, ability and strength are only by
him, Blessed and Exalted is He, God is sufficient, God suffices us
and He is the best of custodians. My success is only by God, and Him
do I depend on to him Do I humbly turn
mashallah, the human being is that naturally endowed with the ability
to follow other people. And this is why when you read the books of
the Imams of the Sneem, is that they are leaders in the way of
good, they teach you how to speak, they teach you how to act, they
teach you how to be, and that the resonance of their great words,
even though we're reading them 300 years later, approximately, is
that it's still there. And if you tune your heart, and is that these
people speak in ways that are not like normal people, their words
are extremely measured, they put everything in its proper place.
And that we oftentimes don't see that the all of what is behind
that the words that are apparent on the page. And that is in and of
itself, that actually is a station to really understand why they said
what they said when they said it, how they said it and how it was
arranged and so forth. And that they combine between a scholarly
approach and that that which a lot of auto Qatada brings to their
heart in the moment. And these are the, the true Illuma ally, meaning
the scholars that put their knowledge into practice. And this
is a trait across the board, whatever tradition that they come
from, is it when they combine these two elements of knowledge
and then with inspiration, is that then that you get the utmost
benefit from their works. And that this is really what we this is
really what we should strive for.
The way that he begins here is that first by realizing Subhanak
Allah and manana Illa marlington in the cantidad, even Hakeem in it
is fading because as at the title of this work is at full solar
elmia will also la Kamiya, which Dr. Mustapha battery, that he
translates as, these are chapters of knowledge, and foundations of
wisdom. So he just translates this as knowledge and wisdom. But
literally, it's L for solid elmia chapters of knowledge and also
Kamiya and foundations of wisdom. But he recognizes here in this
regard, there's no attribution to the knifes
and I remember I was with a friend, and
you had a conversation with city Abdul Hakim Murad. And many of his
contentions are extremely creative in some of the insights that he
has into that various aspects of knowledge. And he asked him about
at one time, and this is out of the humility of said Abdul Hakim,
he said something along as I go, it's just the same old stuff.
And the friend of mine had an interesting he took an interesting
shot from that is that one he obviously understood that is the
humility of the chef who does not going to actually call to Himself.
But on the other hand, he said, in reality, it is just the same old
stuff. You wouldn't call it stuff necessarily in that sense. But the
idea is, is that,
you know,
this whole idea of that what we consider to be new knowledge, that
how do we view that as believers?
And
that
discover is an amazing thing. So I'm not saying that we don't
actively that embark upon a process of discovery, right. But
what is more amazing to discover?
The secrets of the mellow coot or discover that some of the secrets
that exists within the earth.
And there's no doubt that the secrets of the medical roots of
the internal realm of what I'd like to add akin show someone that
equanimity, Ibrahim Mallacoota, similar to a lot of us, it says
this clearly isn't the stars in the heaven because this is female
named Tina. And Allah has mentioned this as that, something
great that he's given that SR Brahim. And that's that we show
Abraham, the medical route to the celestial realm of the heavens in
the earth. And so he says, it must mean that some type of internal
state that he's witnessing that from what a lot to add is created
in the internal realm. So the point here is, is that, that the
discovery that takes place from what exists in Allah subhanaw
taala is creation that's beyond the outward is much greater than
anything we could possibly discover that in the outward
realm.
Anyhow, that here he's recognizing is that all knowledge comes from
ALLAH SubhanA QCCA, transcendent glory be to you. Law in Manila, we
have no knowledge except that what you have taught us, we know
nothing except that what you have taught us. You are the Aleem, when
you are the Hakeem all in in all hikma comes from you.
And that, so you have a correspondence here between those
two names of Allah and the very, the title of the book itself. And
this is the source of all knowledge is realizing that we
know nothing. And no matter how much we know, is it what we don't
know is much, much greater, always going to be greater than what we
do know. And the highest degree of knowledge is actually realizing
how little we actually know.
Subhan Allah isn't an amazing that those that have the most
knowledge, their Stacia is realizing that they know the
least.
So anyways, he says is that the reason that he wrote this book was
because
that as he's in a, as he's teaching, and as he's in a state
of Medaka, into the queue, that reflecting upon his knowledge,
reviewing his knowledge, studying, teaching, reminding other people,
reflecting, pondering that learning lessons from what it is
that he's studying, he says cod, yes. Now, Phil Harding. And he
translates as as is that is, what comes to mind that during this
whole process, is that he realizes that that many of these insights
are very valuable, that you'll come back to. And he actually
mentioned in others mentioned another, one of the other great
authors of the sciences, is that there's certain things that come
to your mind, in the path, it's very important to write them down.
And when you return to them later, you will find benefit. And you
might not have fully understood the importance of it in that
moment, but years later, it benefits you immensely in the
path. It just was given to you five years before method, for
instance, and I know no one, that better and that than that. Then
our dear beloved Dr. Omar Subhan, Allah, everywhere he goes, he has
a notebook, in his constantly ready.
And he has the humility, whenever he attends a conference, he sits
in the lecture of every single teacher, whenever he attends a
retreat, he sits in the lecture of every single teacher, right, we're
like children before him that no just, you know, a tiny, tiny
fraction of what he knows. But he sits in the and takes extensive
notes, and has notebooks in Python notebooks upon notebooks, of notes
that he takes, and then Allah to other places blessing in your
knowledge, that when you have that degree of humility, and that he
was an ocean of knowledge to begin with, but in the spiritual path,
it's of a special benefit, because Allah gifted you that knowledge.
And one of the manifestations of that hadith of getting Tofik. And
having a path facilitator for you to enter into paradise, is that
all of us need to know certain things for our salvation or our
sanctification to just enter into paradise or to become from the
ODI, in other words, and Allah will gift you that he'll gift you
what you need to know. But the key is that we have to be ready for
it. We have to capture and this is where you really have to just
upbraid yourself and rebuke yourself. All of the opportunities
that we had, how many do we miss? How many times we release? How
many times do we not take proper notes? How many times do we not
attend the gathering? How many times are we late? How many all
All these different things, we had so many different opportunities,
and you never know, there could have been something that you had
to have it because of your shortcomings you missed. Now, if
it wasn't due to your shortcomings, the hope is that a
lot of adequate data will give you what you need when you need it.
But if it's due to a shortcoming, it might be that there was a rank
that you could have attained it, Palace finished, kept attain
anymore. And that's how we have to see ourselves. And ultimately,
when we enter into paradise, is everyone will be happy. But
the lower degrees are not like the higher degrees, you know, and then
when we see that, what was our potential, and how that we prefer
this and not over this and that somehow, that we're going to wish
that we would have made better decisions while we're still in
Earthman, Matata, forgive us, and have mercy on us, give us
everything that we need to meet him in the best of states. But
he's saying is that these came to mind. The other meaning behind
this is,
is it by being in gatherings that our Prophet described, were
gardens of Paradise.
Jewels are distributed.
meanings come to your heart, feelings arise, thoughts that are
of an angelic nature, that come much more often in those
gatherings. And so that notice, he's saying that these came when
there was tobacco with kill another anti bot, that you have
special gifts that come to you from Allah, especially when you
devote yourself in these ways to learning to reflection, and so
forth and so on. And so that those tend to be the most pure of
thoughts and the most important of thoughts to in that sense capture.
And that in most aid will keytab to aid knowledge is like hunting
or fishing, in writing it down is like trapping or hooking that
fish, because you can go back to it and you can return to it.
And so that the great Imams when they have these thoughts, is it's
of that the utmost benefit. And ultimately, that everyone's
benefit will be according to the extent of the way that Allah
manifests His name a NAVFAC the one who benefits in you,
as one of the statements in one of our teachers is that men to juggle
a law i Li B Smith and naffaa Surah Kulu never.
If Allah manifests His name and Nafa in you,
everything about you will be of benefit.
And there's degrees. And the most perfect manifestation of the name
of NAFTA is in Satana Mohamed Salah Lila was every enamelware to
Malema not just the general way that that's often presented, as
that I've only been sent as a teacher know, in every single
moment of his life, and everything that he did, and everything that
he didn't do, and every gaze that he made, and every word that he
said in every single moment, whether it was apparently customer
or whether it was revelation from Allah, every aspect of our Prophet
sallallahu sallam was benefit.
And the elective the elective, the Imams, that's their state. And
then there's degrees after that, and the wise person will know how
to extract benefit from the elective, the elective, the Olia
to the elective, the Olia to the righteous people to good people,
to people who's generally speaking, they have some good
states, but not always, to people that are even caught up to as we
learned, in the intentions of Dawa to people that that are in a very
bad state, you will learn how to extract benefit from all those
different people. And if Allah to Allah wills in, that enables you
to do so is that you'll be able to even extract benefit from the
animal kingdom, and even the plant kingdom and even the mineral
kingdom is that you'll learn different ways to that interact
with Allah to others creation
in order to benefit from everything that is around you. So
the moment had dad is saying
is that these are things that are needed,
in which scholars worshipers, in travelers on the path often need.
So whether you're a scholar, right and Adam, or whether you're a
Nasik, whether you're a worshiper, or whether you i modied Salic, an
aspirant who is traveling the path need in is not in order in that
sense of it doesn't have a theme that this is chapter one to
chapter 14, like in the way that the yeah has an architecture for
instance. These are just that at different times, various things
that came to the mind during on the head dad, and what he was
gifted by we acknowledge that he wrote down that for us
And that then was transmitted generation after generation to the
stone age, so that we can benefit from it. So there's no doubt that
each chapter as he says, should a scholar of broad knowledge wish to
convert each chapter into a separate book, by analyzing its
principle in detail in summary, wisdom, it would be an easy task,
as will clearly be perceived by those endowed with knowledge and
inner sight, and those possessed by hearts, and secrets. And that
this is really that was about wisdom, and that it ultimately
reached the number of 40. And 40 is a sacred number 40 is a very
special number. And there are a number of different narrations
indicate about the importance of 40. That almost all, with the
rarest of exceptions, Prophets receive prophecy, after a
completion of 40 years, that the rule has only blown into the human
after three successive stages of 40, the Hadith about whoever
memorizes 40 Hadith, the Hadith about whoever sincere to Allah for
40 straight days, the springs of wisdom pour forth from the heart
onto the tongue, not even in our tradition that also, and the
Christian tradition and in the Jewish tradition as well, that and
even in world history, 40 has been a very, very important number. And
even with modern scientific research, that 40 is a number. For
instance, when it comes to developing that patterns and
habits. 40 is very important in that regard. So 40 is a very, very
important number. And that lot can be said about it. And this was his
goal was to that you also have the 40 Abdol, for instance. So there's
a lot there with the number 40. And we're not being exhaustive,
there's a lot more that can be said about that. But he made it to
be 40 chapters. And he says here that my success is only by God on
him Do I depend into him? Do I to humbly turn somebody shout out to
adda we will start with chapter one, which Dr. Mustafa has titled
as the order of priorities, which I believe the chapter titles are
from Dr. Mustafa, the Arabic original doesn't have the chapter
titles, just to give us an idea of what it is that a mom and her dad
is speaking about. It's highly recommended that we read this
before coming. And then we review after, don't just
suffice yourself with hearing that it read in class, you'll get much
more out of it, if you read it. And I would suggest three levels
of reading. Just read it from beginning to end one.
And then read it a second time with really trying to understand
it at the basic level, what is being said,
and then read it a third time, which is the longest of the three
readings,
focusing on reflecting upon different aspects of what has been
said.
And so the first reading is, when it comes to a chapter, which is
probably just gonna take one chapter a week, we'll see.
You know, that's, that will take you about a minute. The second
reading might take you about five minutes, or maybe whatever the
third reading maybe about 1015 minutes, depending upon how much
time you want to put into it.
And
then, depending upon how you take notes, it's always good to develop
a way of taking notes. Some of us have symbols, in terms of what we
put in the margin and so forth. What is underlying what is not
underlined, what we want to memorize what we don't some of it,
some of these Ibadat, and these phrases should be memorized. And
the benefit of memorizing them is that just if you look at this
first sentence, for instance, the rd phone or nurse of God, and
scholars concentrate primarily on making their faith and certitude
sound and strong. Then there's a comma, and there's a lot more
there.
But oh, and then and on purifying their toe heed from the blemishes
of hidden idolatry. Imagine if you memorize that. And you could
recall that at any moment. And that's something that should
actually be written, right and typed out, or written, handwritten
and placed in somewhere that we could see it a constant reminder.
So there's so developing a process of how we take notes is also is
also important
in terms of the various points that especially resonated with us,
that questions that we might have that we can then ask, and then
things that we want to memorize.
Finish out we've gone a little bit over than what we normally will
ask we kind of get back into the swing of things, but we'll just
take a short couple paragraphs from men in the universe and
so we haven't read much in men in the universe. We're only on page
eight.
There are three books of
Imam of Dr. Mustapha, baduy that are original works that are based
upon traditional sources that he intended as a type of trilogy,
that they all kind of go together. And men in the universe is the
first one, then you have manifestations of the unseen and
Twilight of a world. And so those three books are are meant to be
read altogether. And they're all very, very important books in
there, that some of the very best original works that we have in
English. And men in the universe's is is a dense book, especially the
early chapters, you have to kind of read it and reread it because
he is presenting an understanding of the world that we probably
didn't learn in Sunday school, or that wasn't presented to us that
when we were when we were young, so Okay, so I'm determined to
remain
to remain within the realm of things unfamiliar to most of
today's Muslims. And having mentioned the supreme assembly,
let us recall that when the Prophet may God's peace may God's
blessings and peace be upon him was given the choice between
prolonging his life on earth or returning to his Lord, he was
heard to murmur, oh God, the Supreme company, Arrowfield will
honor the supreme company or assembly is said by many
authorities to be made up of the spirit of roar. The Four Great
arch angels, or archangels, Gabriel Michael Cera feel is that
our field and in Israel, and the spirits of the prophets surrounded
by the throne bearers and other angels, when God passes a decrease
as the Hadith, the bearers of the throne glorify Him, then those in
the heaven beneath them, than those beneath them, until the
glorification, reach those who dwell in this terrestrial heaven.
Then those around the bearers of the throne, ask them, What has
your Lord said, and they inform them, and the dwellers of the
heavens question each other until news reaches the dwellers of this
heaven. Okay, so what he what he's doing for us here, if we go back
to the early pages,
is that he first talks about Allah,
in the he just two paragraphs summarizes what we attribute to
Allah subhanho data. And then he gets into our understanding of the
creation, and says that the first thing created was pure light. And
he wants us to know that there are visible world, there's a visible
world, and there are invisible worlds in the plural. And the
reason he's doing this is he wants to give us our that metaphysical
understanding, he wants to give us our cosmology, how we see things,
our worldview, and so that we can, that have as a starting point, a
belief in the seen and the unseen. And he especially wants us to,
that know, the vastness of the unseen realm, and how in reality,
the dunya, the lower world is the most opaque and densest of all of
the worlds. And that the higher the realm, the closer it is in
reality to Allah, and that there are different realms. And so he's
doing this because that oftentimes, again, we're so
enthralled by modern scientific achievement and discovery, is it
when you really compare that to the way that we actually view the
unseen? What are all of the scientific discoveries, in
reality, it's just a tiny speck of dust compared to something that is
unimaginable. Now, it doesn't mean again, that we are that against
science, it just means is that we need to be impressed by the right
things and put everything in its proper place. So then he speaks a
little bit about the seven heavens, and that how that
relates, ultimately then do after speaking about the terrestrial
heaven, and he talks about the low tree of the limit. And then he
gets into that, the idea of symbolism, which is really, really
important. Because
oftentimes, people that read a hadith and think that they're
referring to an anthropomorphic meaning, or they don't understand
the symbolism of something, they think it's simplistic, and that is
a major mistake, is that symbolism is deep, because it is only
through symbolism that you can just point to reality otherwise,
you'd be unable to articulate, so symbolism Only a fool. Only a
really, really a fool will deny symbolism, and that they're
actually showing their foolishness, even if they have
three PhDs, that if they that are open to understanding that
something is symbolic. And he gets into that in relation to
the attributes of Allah to Allah, when we refer to his hand or his
hands subhanho wa Tada. He speaks about the footstone and he speaks
about the throne, which is the that outward
Are these speaking the largest in terms of size of what Allah says
of the all of the things that a lot of other batata has created.
And that takes us up to what precedes this particular
discussion? Is that when he talks about the language of the throne,
is that we're limited when we talk about the throne, because it's not
here in the tangible realm and the way that we can see matter, that
is right before us. And so this what he says is that there are
obvious drawbacks in using such imagery, right, because you have
two different descriptions that appear to be that irreconcilable.
But the way you reconcile it is that well, it's these are just
descriptions according to the limits of language. Right, for
example, as the throne is usually understood as something that
surrounds and contains, right, so it's called the ocean will hate
the surrounding throne, the same throne is described elsewhere as
the center of the created universe. So how could it be
surrounding and at the center at the same time, the seat of the
roar, in the supreme assembly, the Maillol Allah,
which one of the amazing things about the metadata that comes in
Hadith literature,
and we know that one of the prophetic draws when you eat at
someone's house, a koala Tomica going abroad, or salata, Alikum
and Mala here was that gotta come Allahu fi men and
Janna, you're doing something as mundane as eating at someone's
house.
And that they're making a dua for you that you're mentioned, that
Allah mentioned you to those who are in His presence.
If that's not the ultimate manifestation of making something
from the mundane into the sacred, what is Yanni feeding someone can
be a means for you to be mentioned in the Divine Presence, a lot to
mention you to the Maillol, Allah, the supreme assembly.
And he then goes on to describe what many of the authorities have
said, the great scholars about the Supreme assembly, they're made up
of a rule, the spirit, and then the four great archangels, the
spirits of the Prophet surrounded by the throne bearers.
The elect of the elect of Allah subhanaw taala, his creation.
And so there's a lot there. And this is important that we see
these things as reality, these things a reality,
whether or not we're in tune with them or not, this is reality.
This is reality. And we must have that conviction that this is real,
this is real, and it exists. And once you believe in Allah, it's
easy to believe in all this. Easy, it's easy to believe in miracles,
it's easy to believe in the unseen.
Because you realize Allah does whatever he wants to do subhanho
wa taala. And so he talks a little bit about
here, the bearers of the throne in the example that we find a hadith
of what happens that in relation to that, so let's just take a
nomograms getting close, we'll just take one more chapter and
shall not on the intermediary realms.
Spending these levels is the intermediary realm about where the
spirits abide at death after their departure from this world. It is
said to have the shape of an inverted horn, the narrowest part,
beginning in the end for human invisible domain, and ending in St
Jean, the abode of the disbelievers and hypocrites. While
the widest part is Edley Yun, the roof of which is the throne. The
spirits also exist in this horn prior to their descent into this
world. And after they return there they remain until the
resurrection. Compared with the material world, the boat is off is
subtle, whereas compared with the higher dimensions, it is dense.
So the Barossa is
literally it means like a barrier.
And here, that translates as the intermediary realm. It's
what happens to us, in between this world and between the Day of
Judgment, it was called the bars.
And it will be that different links for different people. And
there's a lot that we don't know about the bars.
And there's very little that we do know we know what we need to know
about it, but we know it is real. And we know that the grave is the
first men's in when Manasa lockers the first stage, or station of the
stations of the afterlife. And when your physical body is in its
grave,
that your spirit which will be held somewhere in as he describes
it here, this inverted horn that the spirits of the disbelievers
will be in
said gene, and then moving up that towards the top part of this
horn, is that what she says here is the roof of the roof of which
is the Thor throne is Elune. And that's why that we know this is
the the the possibility of the human Venus to fall to the as far
as Stephanie, you know, to be raised to the eyelet Alene. And
that still the Spirit, even though it's there in this place will have
a connection to the physical body, wherever it is, and wherever it's
buried, and even if someone were to be cremated, is that a lot of
adequate data will still that make a connection to whatever still
exists from that human being that to their spirit. And so that the
there's no escaping this reality. And he said this is also where the
spirits exist prior to their descent into this world. And so
again, the realm of the Spirit, if you notice in the Quran, we all
heard the verse you said oh, look on a roar they ask you about the
roar. Cool Aurora? Rugby say the Roar is fun. The affair my Lord.
Well, Matt, oh, detail minute. Lila, you've only been given that
a little knowledge? And that the roar? We know there's a reality to
it, that there is a lot of
it's very detailed conversations of scholars going to about it. And
about that, what can we really know about and there's a
difference of opinion there. And one of the great places to
look at that is the commentary of Imams abidi, on the other hand,
Normandin. And he goes into some of the different opinions about
the role. And some of it, it's like, you know, we believe in it
as it's supposed to be believed in, and that it was part of Sheikh
Jihads research when he was at Cambridge. So if you want to speak
to someone in much more detail about it, he's a very good person
to speak about the roar from a perspective of theoretical to
solve for and also from the perspective of a theologian, and
how that relates to the Western tradition and their conception of
the roar. And what can be said about what can't be said about and
what the scholars have that attributed to and not attributed
to it. It's a long drawn out discussion, it suffices to know
that it exists, and that it's much more expensive than the the aka is
extremely limited compared to the ability of the war. They describe
the role has been a Rafa Dirac
the has this incredible capacity to know in perceive. And one of
the things that our teachers taught is that to just kind of
start to understand, what this is referring to here is that there's
a hadith that says if you sleep in a state of hotter, your roar, will
sleep underneath the throne.
And so just imagine the distance between where you're sleeping and
the throne.
Now, if someone comes and wakes you up,
is that your roar returns to you.
In the blink of an eye, instantaneously, how can the roar,
travel that distance? Oh, it's back.
And so that's a whole it's difficult for the Internet to
understand that. And all of this is just kind of pointing and from
here that you have, and this is why it's so important to connect
ourselves to that added thing Mila into believing the earlier we must
believe in the Olia. We must believe in the karma of the
earlier in all good comes from the establishing an attachment in your
heart to the Prophet and the righteous scholars that came after
him. That one of them that said is that that low take a limp to at
Avila min illumine Eman law just to captivated dunya were to have
spoken about an Adam's weight of the knowledge of Eman the
knowledge of the roar. He says that I would have incapacitated
the scribes of the world. Meaning that it just goes on and on and on
and on and on.
At the scribes of the world, but not be able to write write the
knowledge, a Valera and Adams weighed the smallest amount the
tiniest particle bit of that knowledge they would be able to
that write it all down so what about then a multitude of that
knowledge? Anyhow it will stop there being the Unite data and
pick up from where it says in these worlds abstracts things take
on forms. This is a dense book. But this is a very important book
this is
for what it's worth one of my very most favorite books of all many
universe and that you can't get enough of it. You read it and you
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