Yahya Rhodus – Knowledge & Wisdom Imam alHaddad #14
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subhanho wa taala.
So we will resume our weekly roja insha Allah Hotaka and that we
will continue our study of this great book of Imam Abdullah bin
Zayed had edited fullsuit and Mia, translated as knowledge and
wisdom. Before we get into the chapter we'll be taking today
chapter 17. We wanted to remind ourselves on this day are actually
now the night of the second day of Muharram. Today was the first day
of Muharram last night was the first night of Muharram. And the
scholars that like to remind the believers how to end the year and
start the year. And some very beautiful and practical advice of
our teachers say to have your Omar that towards the end of the year,
in fact, on the last day of the year, that he gave eight pieces of
advice to in the year upon what's also applied to what you should
intend in the first part of the year. And so the first thing is to
in the year making true repentance repenting from everything that one
did in that past year.
All sins that we committed privately and publicly between us
and our Lord between us and other people, major sins, minor sins,
all the different categories of sins, is that we in the year
repenting to ALLAH asking Him to forgive us Subhanallah Todd, and
also asking Allah Allah Allah to forgive our shortcomings. And
indeed that we have fallen short and so many different things. Even
when we were doing acts of goodness, oftentimes we fell short
in them, like prayer. So we actually that repent and ask Allah
to overlook our shortcomings in everything that is that we know
that we're doing even if it was good.
And then we also number three, ask Allah to Allah to accept the deeds
that he gave us Tofig to perform. So all of the deeds everything
that we are given Tofik to do in that pasture we ask Allah to Anna
to accept it. If if indeed that Allah Tada accepts a deed, it is a
great sign. It is a great great sign indeed. And as assigned Allah
Tana has included us amongst the people of Taqwa and that all of
the virtues in that are associated with that person, that will be
virtues, all the virtues of the people of tuck will then will then
be associated with that person in the Maya tuckable. Allah homonym
with Ducane, in need that Allah only accepts from the people of
Taqwa. And then number four, is that making sincere resolve to
honor our covenant with Allah. So the first three really relate to
that what is past and now is that as we enter into this new year, as
he wants to have resolve, not just an intention, strong intention,
resolve determination Yat up is a we are going to fulfill this
covenant with our Lord that we took, what is this covenant, that
we believe in him and we obey Him. And this is the essence of the
religious life is obedience as unpopular as that is in the modern
world. This is something that is popular to the believer, is
something that the believer loves. And this is something that we know
we will fall short in but let's make resolve from now in have be
sincere in resolve to obey our Lord Subhan who want to add and to
that honor this covenant that we've taken with him and then is
that we need to make have sincere resolve to revive the sunnah of
our Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, we want to revive that
sunnah first and foremost, in our own selves. We want to revive the
Sunnah, in our household, amongst our family, amongst our friends in
our community, and the OMA of our Prophet, and each sunnah that we
revive, there is an immense blessing in it, the more centers
that we can revive the better. And so let's make a firm contentment
commitment and have sincere resolve to resolve revive the son
of our prophesy centum and have every day that try to or every
week, every month to have more soon as that we revive in our own
life and among other people and then to
Take ourselves to count as it every day before we go to bed,
even if it's for only a minute or two, let's take ourselves to
account and think very briefly about everything that you did
during that day. And take yourself to account if you fell short take
yourself to account and feel bad for what you did feel remorse for
what you didn't ask Allah to Allah to forgive you, the more we take
ourselves to account now in this dunya and the lighter that are
ASAP and our reckoning will be on human piano. This is the way that
it works. Nonetheless, it says when whenever we commit wrong is
that there's one or two things that will burn have to burn that
wrong away. We either burning away with remorse here in this world,
or call it Allah is it we might have to have the fire that burned
it out of us in the next rudeness a lot to us. And I would ask you,
it's better to have the fire of remorse burn up our sins in this
world. And that remorse is not a remorse that makes us throw
ourselves on the ground like a rag on the contrary, it is remorse
that propels us forward. That every time we fall short, we dust
ourselves off, and we keep moving, that is the true remorse. And then
seven strive to raise our families in the best way of all of the
things that he mentioned, this is very important for us to
understand. We need to give our families their due right. We need
to spend time with him. And we need to nurture them and yes, that
we need to provide for them. But the greatest provision that we
need to give our families is spiritual and religious provision
tying them into the sunnah of our Prophet Salah licen and teaching
it embodying in our own selves. So it's then reflected in our actions
and in our words, and they absorb it just by virtue of who we are
before it is that we even say anything. And that raising our
families, this really is a time where there is a lot of fitna.
This is a time where you need to focus on your deen and
implementing your deen to take good care of your family, spend
time with them and raise them in the best of ways. And then do
whatever little service that you can do. But this is a time that we
in all times, but especially in our time, we have to take that
extra step to raise our families in the best way. And then seek
presence of heart in our worship, Allahu Akbar. So that when we do
worship Allah to Allah would present this is the spirit of
worship. This is that the essence of worship, is that making sure
that our hearts are present with our Lord's of hand who are two
other one is that we do worship if we enter into the year if we exit
the past year, and we enter into the new year with these eight
principles, or these eight pieces of advice is that you will find is
that the year that passed will be different different in our
scrolls. And the year to come will be very different because of the
firm resolution the intentions that we've made. From now May
Allah to Allah that bless us and this year may be a year of great
openings for us a year of great openings for our families a year
of great openings for the Ummah of our prophets, allies, and maybe a
year of foliage and relief for us and for our families and for the
Ummah and it made me a year in which there is the greatest good
for us and our families, and the home of our Prophet sallallaahu
Salam. And we intend what the righteous intended for the new
year. We make the intention from now to enter our intentions into
their intentions, into into our actions into their actions in our
deeds into their deeds in sha Allah, that we will do our best to
mirror their way in how they are in the way that they have
perfected their servitude before Allah and the way that they
worship him sincerely solely for his sake to Vadik autonomy that we
reflected in us busy night Tada
Inshallah, we will proceed now with our study of the infosol
elmia. So this is chapter 17. And that remember her dad that opens
this chapter by saying, know that you often hear the people have to
So Wolf, may God spread their benefit. Say that a servant must
be content with what with whatever Allah the Exalted has a lot of him
and must not seek to abandon it to follow his personal inclinations
or the whims of his soul.
I shall not and the Arabic word here that is used is that and Jada
Dobby calm hello to add a fee is that a servant should be content
with where Allah to Allah has placed him. He transmitted here as
where Allah has a lot of him. But a calm is a comma Hola, where
Allah has placed him in
ruin reminiscent of a statement of Imam Malik taking it back to the
early period where he was asked about studying sacred knowledge.
And he said no doubt that is something that is good but
But you have to look to where Allah subhanaw taala has placed.
If you have other responsibilities that take precedence over,
singling out your day to study sacred knowledge, you have to give
those responsibilities precedent, if you have to work to provide for
our family, if you need to take care of your parents, or whatever
it is that you have to do, is there any obligation upon you and
this is, of course, after you've studied, the knowledge that is our
individual obligations, is that you have to give that precedence
over something that is that you want to do, like study sacred
knowledge.
And, and this is that a deep, deep healing at a very deep level of
our being. Because oftentimes we find ourselves conflicted
is that we find our lives that you have to do A, B and C, just to get
by. And sometimes doing a VNC is difficult. You have to work, you
have to do this, you have this responsibility, you have to go
there. And still there is a little bit of time to seek sacred
knowledge, but oftentimes not the way that you really want to do it.
But this is a very, very deep, deep, deep part of our team that a
good percentage of the OMA unfortunately, are not aware of,
or even if they are aware of it, is that they don't know how to
truly deal with it. And it relates to your house, your desires, and
it relates to how we understand how to approach religion
altogether. That ultimately, is the person who approaches his Deen
with the least amount of how allowed amount of desire, that is
actually the truly most religious person, even if they have less
amount of knowledge and a less amount of worship.
There's a whole religion is really about overcoming our how our
desires
and worshipping Allah to Allah, because he deserves to be
worshipped, worshiping Allah to Allah in doing what needs to be
done in all of those manifestations of obedience, which
in reality, are worship of Allah to Allah, in all of those
different manifestations, but distant from the Hawa. And this
manifests in terms of how content we are with where Allah has placed
us. Now, this is a deep principle, and sometimes you have to explain
what it doesn't mean, it doesn't mean that if someone's in sin,
that you remain IN SIN NO. If you're in sin, you must get out of
sin. It doesn't mean that if you haven't, that sought the
individual obligation knowledge is that you just say, Oh, this is
where our last place we know, you have to seek that for the sake of
Allah Tada, what it means is, is it beyond those things that are a
matter of that, that are of unlawful nature, is it your
content, where a lot to add is placed you
your content, and this is also the secret to open up the doors for us
to benefit where Allah to Allah has placed us
in so that, if Allah Tada has that get put you in a position where
you have a livelihood, and you have a family to take care of, is
that is actually a higher thing to remain in that position, and to
take care of your family, than to just give everything up and to go
study, for instance.
It's a higher thing. And that in this regard, certain aspects of
this issue is that they get very subtle. But this is what he says
is that if a lot of data has placed you somewhere is that we
are required to be content with it. And you can understand how
this would then affect your psychology is it if we are
constantly conflicted about where we are, and you're disturbed. If
you're disturbed in this dissonance at the depths of your
being, there's going to be dissonance and you're going to be
disturbed at every level of your being. The Spirit is in the heart,
that fat lie under lie every other aspect of our mean everything that
is the way that we think how we respond to things emotional
balance and imbalance, what it is that we say how we respond to
difficult situations or interaction with people all of
these things. So is that he says here that you hear often the
people of this science the people the science of the heart, this is
what they say that a servant must be content with whatever a lot
exalted, has a lot at him or where he is placed him and must not seek
to abandon it to follow his personal inclinations or the whims
of his soul. So again, to be clear, this doesn't mean that you
don't maintain a balance. Even if Allah has placed you in the means
you have to have a livelihood it doesn't mean that you don't take
time out to worship Allah Tada. Of course you do. It doesn't mean
that you don't take
Time Out to study, of course you do. But this is really a matter of
the heart, how it is that we view where Allah to Allah has placed
us. And he says, The reason behind this is that a law's choice for
his servant is better and more thorough than the servants, and
his management transcendent, and see, is gentler and more perfect,
because Allah has more knowledge, wisdom, gentleness, and mercy.
subhanho wa taala.
Again, this is very, very, very deep. And that
this door that is can open up to us
from understanding things in this way, not only will bring you
solace and contentment
at the heart level, it will open up the door for you to attain
everything that it is that you're really seeking, by doing what you
think that it is that you need to do.
The path to Allah is not doing what we think that we need to do.
It's doing that what Allah wants us to do. And there are certain
things where there's clear there, that's clear, we know that there's
certain ways that we have to be, because Allah has stated, these
are things that you have to have are these are things that you need
to achieve, these are things that you need to do. The Sharia of the
Sharia, the sacred law, is the morality of Allah, it is what
Allah wants from his servant. But then there's a whole bunch of
other things where that you think that, Oh, if I only had the
situation, if I only had that spouse, or if I only had those
children, if I only had that opportunity, I've only lived in
that community, if I only had gone to that place, all of these types
of things, this is where she upon, gets into the heart of individuals
and plays with them.
And that prevents them from really attaining what it is that they
need to attain.
And the reality is we can't attain anything without Allah to Anna.
But it is through that process of being content where a lot to add
has placed us it opens up the door for us to maximize our potential.
And that's all that any one of us can ever do is maximize our
potential, there's nothing else that we can do. And that we're
allowed to add has chosen us to be that is where we need to be.
And that were you to be that other person, you might destroy
yourself. If you have that if you're in a situation where their
sustenance is difficult for you to attain. And you see other people
very well off, if you're well off, you could destroy yourself, and
the opposite. If you're a very well off, and that you thought oh
when I only to have been in that position to that end of it, you
could destroy yourself. We don't know these things are hidden to
us. What is required of us is to submit to where our Lord subhanho
wa Taala has placed us and to be content with what he's given us,
because it he has more knowledge and more wisdom and more
gentleness subhanho wa Taala that more love and more Rama mercy for
us, and that we have to trust in where he has placed us to borrow
Cortana. Again, when you speak this language, there might be a
lot of things that people are thinking, what about this? What
about? There's a lot of things that that doesn't mean so let's
make sure we understand that correctly. What this does mean.
And then he says they may think that being established by a law in
their own particular situation is an unconditional and unrestricted
state, a general unqualified rule. We thus hear some of them uttering
horrifying things and coming up with basis arguments that are of
no value improving or justifying anything. iniquitous and
oppressive rules were argued that God exalted has established them
in their methods of terrorizing and terrorizing the people and
corrupting the lands, rich people in sums of this world confused and
disorderly, taking money from when they should not and spinning it
where they should not, will produce the same argument and say
that God transcend exalted as he has established them in this
state. These are tremendous calumnies and manifest error. So
we can't do what's called the judge will call, we can say
because this is the Divine Decree, and it happened, what she did is
oh, this is just how I am and I can't change. This is a part of
you know, when it comes to doing things that are wrong, is that
someone must desist and come back to the obedience of Allah to have
adequate to Allah. To clarify to be able to say that Allah has
established a servant in this or that the first condition is that
this must refer to situations in states which please and satisfy
him. This is where you see the brilliance
of the scholarship.
Have you ever had Dad, where that if you're going to say that Allah
accom, UK, Vichy, Allah placed you somewhere. And as they've always
said, a theme Hey through a comic Allah Romain, where Allah has
placed you don't try to get out of that, you'll cause yourself a lot
of trouble. But you remember had that has given us two conditions,
that where you can really say that this is that we're Allah to Allah
has placed me. The first is that
it has to be to a situation or state at which is will please and
satisfy him subhanho wa Tada. The second condition is that in his
particular state, the servant must be acting in Allah's obedience in
traveling the path that leads to His good pleasure.
So if someone is finding it in their work life or in their
livelihood, difficult to worship Allah that they are being tempted
constantly, no, it's a good thing in that state to try to that find
another job or to work in a different area or to that find
some other alternative.
But again, you want to make sure that it's really difficult for me,
and it's not just your knifes, playing tricks on you. But
nevertheless, this is the second condition. And then the third
condition is that he should desire and be eager to rise to those
states and stations that are above his own, in the good pleasure of
God, whenever there is a way this is amazing, because sometimes
Allah Tada will open up a door for you. So just because you are in
the means. And when we say that you are in the means. What that
usually means is that you have some sort of livelihood, you're
not freed up to that either learn or to worship or to serve the deen
in some way, you have some form of livelihood, whereby which the it's
a means for you to provide for yourself and for your family. But
then there are times when someone does have that a livelihood is
that they could cut back, for instance, in some way to take a
salary cut, so they have more time to worship or to learn or to do
something or they rearrange their schedule, so that they can free
themselves up to that learn in things of that nature, those are
all considered to be good. Or it might be that someone could take
some time off. And that they could spend that a year of studying a
year that doing something that's of direct benefit to the dean or
something of that nature, or that there are times where Allah Tada
closes doors for you. Without that you're having anything to do with
it. And that's usually the case that Allah Tada wants to move you.
And this is where it becomes very subtle, is that, that if you're in
a particular place, the other job is not to move yourself is to let
Allah move you.
And then there'll be signs of that. And so sometimes you're in a
particular position, and you just lose your job, or something like
that. Or is that you try and try and you move from one thing to
another, this doesn't work out, and then that doesn't work out.
And then that doesn't work out. It's a sign that if it's you
initiated in of yourself, that's one thing. But if the door keeps
closing, even when you're trying, that's a sign that a lot of other
cortada is moving. And so then when a law moves you there'll be
Tofik. And he will assist you in whatever it is that you need to be
doing, then at that time. And one of the great examples is someone
that I've known for many years, as he was living in the United States
of America, he wanted to return home. And he asked his teachers
and his teacher said the same thing. If Allah has placed you
somewhere, don't move in and of yourself, Wait till things dry up,
and use the example of a faucet that said, if the water is coming
out, wait till that water stops, and then you'll know that it's
time to go. And this particular individual was actually looking to
get fired. And he was hoping that he would get fired, so that he
could return home. And he ends up getting a promotion. And he ends
up getting a race and that his sustenance was further
facilitated, which usually is the case the more you turn away from
the world actually, the easier it becomes and turning away from the
world as a matter of the heart. The more you turn towards Allah to
Allah is that the more that your sustenance will be facilitated,
and especially spending the time from fajr to sunrise in worship.
There are narrations that indicate is that it brings about more
sustenance for you than where you to travel the Earth into genre and
commerce. Spending that time this is a time where that risk
has seen physical sustenance is distributed. And by worshipping
Allah to Allah, it's a means for tayseer of divine facilitation of
risk. And the scholars have always been very weary to have your
sustenance opened up for you, when you're not in a good state when
you're not in a state of obedience. That's one of the
signs. And so last, and I will offer you have the mecca of Allah
to Allah, that Allah is leading you astray, because you have gone
straight in of yourself. And that we were just studying the Shemaiah
that over the weekend, and how the Prophet himself Salallahu Salam is
that he chose poverty. And he chose to be in a state where he
will be patient, there'll be days where he could show gratitude in
days where he would be patient. And if you look at some of the
narrations of the companions after him, is that there'll be times
when that things opened up in many of them became very wealthy, where
they would be eating nice food, and they would start weeping.
They'd start weeping.
And that while they're eating this nice food that they realized this
was not what the Prophet did during his time. He ate very
simply Salah ly, cinnamon, usually, he only ate once a day,
the during the time, the Companions, their culture was to
eat twice a day. And usually it was just a little bit before
Lahore and late Ossur. Before sloth and Margaret, those were the
two time sauce that they would eat. But the sunnah of our Prophet
was, if he ate at one of those times, you usually wouldn't eat at
the other and last Allah north of there were guests there that he
would eat with them. That would be the situation where he would eat
twice a day. But usually he would eat once a day, either during that
pre Dalhart period or that pre mulgara period. And that this is
the way that they that saw themselves. And there's a another
beautiful story that we heard from our teachers, where there was this
one time where there was a family, and they didn't have anything to
eat for dinner. And that they brought this up to the man in the
household. And he said, As for us, he said, That's not our see said,
Don't worry, dinner is going to come. That's not our station, to
spend the night without dinner. That was the station that Allah
Allah had for the companions. In other words, that was how they
viewed things they never ever viewed. This is not a part of our
deen to view because we are well off materially that this is a sign
that we are a chosen people, and beloved to Allah a burden. That
was never our understanding. And this understanding is rife in the
United States of America, among other religious communities. And
even amongst Muslims, they think oh, because we're well off, is
that this is a sign, right? And you hear this that quoted often,
like we boast about this, about that the average income of a
Muslim is higher than the average income of that the non Muslim
American. And while that is a statistic that is interesting, and
a lot of people that really enjoy those types of statistics for us,
we have to be careful when we quote that if we think that that
means somehow that there's a correlation between that in our
deen, there's a problem there. Right? Because it's not just about
being better well off materially, there's no doubt, that's not
necessarily a bad sign. But it's only really considered to be a
good sign. If it's accompanied by Dean. If it's accompanied by
making a principal contribution to society, then really, from our
unique perspective, would we consider that to be something that
is truly good, anyhow, that this is very, very subtle. And this is
very, very beautiful, this, the doors that open up if we can
understand things as such,
that they really opened up a door for us to be the very balanced
that in terms of our deen and it opens up the door for us to
benefit where Allah has placed us. And this is the beauty of this
understanding our discourse, ie when we speak to our fellow
brothers and sisters here in the United States, of America,
wherever we're living
is one of actually you don't have to make drastic changes to be a
religious person.
You don't have to make drastic changes. Most people do not have
to make drastic changes. If someone is in apparent haram, yes,
you have to get out of that and plan that to get out of that and
do your best to get out of that. But aside from that, it's really
about just changing your intention. What is your intention
behind what it is that you are doing? It's really about the
accepting where Allah Tala has placed you in learning the ways to
be truly religious. And if someone could give our community those
keys, those very simple keys, it will open up in
enormous doors for us for our piety collectively as a community,
because that the station of contentment is the highest station
of all, is that when say no matter how top chose six people that were
then going to choose the next scale of what was his criterion.
Those were the six people that the Prophet passed away in was content
with them. A prophet was content with that the companions in
general, what is this contentment mean? Come Allah recall, this is
perfect contentment, in other words, is that these people
maximize their potential, which only can happen you cannot
maximize your potential. Without that the trait of law of being
content with the Divine decree and reaching that station, where you
are perfectly content with all of the manifestations of that the
divine decree and where Allah subhanaw taala has placed you, but
again, with these three conditions. So if someone says,
oh, this is where Allah is placed me,
if you want to know whether you're being truthful, and stay in that
or not go back to these three conditions. So what were they is
that first is that it must be in a state that is pleasing to Allah to
Allah. So again, if you're in Haram, you have to get out. And
then second,
is that
in that particular state, the servant must be acting in Allah's
obedience in in his particular state, the server and traveling
the path that leads to His good pleasure. So if you find obedience
difficult, or you find traveling a path to Allah to Allah difficult,
is that a sign that you should look for another arrangement? And
then thirdly, is that, that he should desire and be eager to
arise to those states and stations above his own, in the good
pleasure of Allah whenever there's a way, so you should always be
seeking what is higher. And again, you will know that when the time
is to move on, you will know is that when the time is to leave
something that you are doing, and to move on to the next thing, that
if indeed, that you place your trust in Allah to Allah, and that
you ask Him to show you, what is it you should be doing in any
given moment? And that it's not that there's a textbook answer
here. And even in relation to that teachers, unless their people have
deep inner sight, is that usually they can't even give you the
answers. What they can do is that point you in the right direction.
They can give you principles that then you have to apply in your own
life. But we have all of these other faculties where we know that
how do you know when you're tired?
Well, you feel tired? How do you know when you're hungry? Well, you
feel hungry. We have How do you know when something's hot, it
feels hot, we have all of these things where that we can be in
tune with needs that we have physically. And that this is also
in relation to Attachment Parenting, they always mentioned
these amazing stories were that traditional mothers that
oftentimes carry their babies on their back, know when their
children actually even need to have criminal Kamala relieve
themselves, because they're so attached and connected right to
the child. And so this can even extend even in a worldly sense to
people beyond ourselves, we can sense other things. In other
people. You can sense when someone is stressed out, you can sense
when they're mad and these types of things. And that what we need
to develop though, is the spiritual sense. When is the time
for me to do something or not do something, when is the time for me
to leave something in when's the time for me to stay somewhere, we
develop this sensibility. And if we can develop that it's an
immense blessing. And this is why that is the harder personal
important is that we want to have an intimate relationship with Mr.
Hara. And that our teachers used to encourage us to pray is to
Hatha every single day,
every single day,
and that you can pray a general Istikhara prayer for all of your
affairs. And it's good to do this either for the tutor cuts of Doha,
or the tutor cuts that take place before slotted Fajr. And then you
say the Istikhara prayer that after that, and this is a prayer
that we all need to memorize everyone should memorize is to
Harper either in Arabic or in English.
And then when you reach the point where it relates to that matter,
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I'm in Quinta Tana moon, and had an ammeter, you name the specific
affair, or did you can just say that all of my affairs, you can
make the intention for all of my affairs. And the details of the
wording are found in the hole also that you have there on the shelf
in the Arabic but you could just make the jump all of my affairs
job, if you know that they are good for me, and then you finish
istikhara or all of my affairs, if you know that they're bad for me
to the end of the Sahara prayer. So you're making an ST Hado prayer
for everything that is you're going to do that particular day.
And then the scholar has mentioned is that if you only have a very
short period of time, and you can't pray to to cause and make
the Istikhara prayer is that you can say Allahumma hiddenly was
totally
and that there are some people who do this for even morsels of food
that they're going to take a limit.
Sometimes they just uttered underneath their breath is that
they
and that this is something they say about one of the very best
teachers of ours have you called them as a prophet. Sometimes
you'll make st Hara even for the next morsel of food that he's
going to eat olam affiliate.
Just Okay, this one.
And that it's hidden directory. These are two different ways of
saying that hola choose for me.
But then you have to develop the sensitivity. Because that really
it's about inshallah hustler.
It's about expansion of the heart. But then we have to understand
what are the things that prevent in Sheera. So the more muddled
your heart is, the more desires that are controlling your heart,
the more dunya in general that is in your heart, the more diseases
of your heart, the more muddled your heart's going to be, the less
in tune that with the spiritual that since will you be but then as
the heart becomes pure, is that the response to your that formal
is to Hara, and your response to these minor is too hot, it will be
more and more clear. And you know, by the end, Shara and yourself,
because if your heart is really pure, is that your heart will have
been shut off, or something that is not good.
And that the Prophet only had insured or have solid for good
things. And they used to know that very clearly when the Prophet
dislikes something so a licen him because they saw it in his face,
just as they knew when he loved something. And he was content with
something because they saw in his face, and that the Companions used
to look very, very carefully. Even though the vast majority of them
that described him were young companions, because the older
companions, that says that the prophet had too much Haber, to
like, stare at him. And so the vast majority of those who
described him were younger. And that, nevertheless, that they
would look and look down look and look down they could tell when the
Prophet was happy, Salah lady I do savvy Salam. So we have these
three, these are really beautiful conditions. I recommend that we
memorize these because they are the three criteria whereby which
that we can justifiably say this is where I last placed me
if we're not fulfilling one of those conditions, is that it's our
knifes speaking or shutdown has deluded us into thinking this is
where we've been placed. And then if that is where we've been
placed, then that the door then for Taraki spiritual ascension is
one of contentment.
And that when you have contentment with where Allah Tada is placed
you
is that a non scholar that has content where Allah Tada has
placed him or a non worshiper, that is content where Allah to
Allah is placed him generally speaking, you could say is better
and the knowledge with Allah than the scholar who was not content or
the worship or who is not content? In other words, is that that
whatever it is that you really, really want, why do you study? Why
do you worship Why do you do everything is that you do from
things of good because you want paradise you want to draw on your
to Allah to Allah, you want to attain knowledge of Allah to
Allah, but the greatest door for all of that is contentment.
That is the greatest door so we don't have to make big changes, is
it these minor adjustments, you can attain everything that is you
need to attain right where you're at. And then it doesn't negate
doing other things that you can do outwardly, to the extent possible.
But never ever is any outward situation of preventative for you
for not only attaining paradise, but attaining the highest degrees
of closeness to Allah Jalla Jalla and this is why you have these
amazing stories of all of these different people one of the
greatest is the wife of the Pharaoh asiyah. She's married to
who she's married to the Pharaoh, the pharaoh
One of the worst people has ever stepped foot on the face of this
earth. And she is one of the perfect woman who that walked on
Earth. And you could have examples to of men that were in very
difficult circumstances but reached the highest degrees of
closeness to Allah subhanho wa taala.
And then he says he must not allow anything to hinder him from
achieving this except that he reached the limit of his own
capabilities, but never succumb to indolence, procrastination or
inclination to follow the soul's wishes for indolence in the
gratification of natural appetites, ponder these words and
study them, for their extremely important was. This is what he
says was said, and that the emember had dad among the
inheritors of the prophesy centum he's one of the greatest
inheritors of the prophets, Jomo Kalam, which one of his miracles
sulla sent him. And that, to the degree of their inheritance is
that the inheritors can inherit a portion of that never is going to
be like the Prophet. But they can inherit a portion of that. And
what that means is, they have an ability to be very succinct,
and that only use a few words, but they're packed with meaning, and
what it means to be packed with meaning is that the application of
their words that apply to so many different aspects of your life.
And we're thinking about that in terms of that, you know, who it is
that we take Dean from, is that we want to take Dean from blessing
people. And this is how he metonymy the ends his Shema, he
quotes the great statement of that
they compared to how the tabular in that had been sitting. He says,
Indeed, this affair is Dean, this affair of learning is Dean
fundada. Oh, so look very carefully. Ponder deeply. That
upon who you take your deen, from? Who do we take our deen from?
miskeen. Someone who takes their Deen from Facebook comments? Do
you normally people do that nowadays? From Facebook comments?
Yes, you can benefit from beneficial posts that people post
but choose very carefully, who you follow on Instagram on on who you
Instagram, you're not just looking at people choose very carefully,
who you look at. choose very carefully whose Facebook posts you
read, whose Twitter that that post you read, choose very carefully,
in don't read comments. Don't get involved in that the vast majority
of people that like controversy, they like to read what happened to
this person and that person and this type of thing. Focus on your
own self, really, is that I know we say this a lot. But it's really
serious. Focus on your own self, protect your own heart, and look
carefully to who you take your Dean from. And do not take Dean
from someone who's not been permitted by their teachers to
teach. And less that there is that no other way for you to learn. And
then be very careful in terms of what you learn.
But 100 Allah, Allah, Allah has given us means now, by virtue of
technology to benefit from people far and wide, but be very careful.
Who are you learning from, you should know, your spiritual
lineage, you should know the people that you are taking from,
make sure they have an unbroken chain, back to our Prophet
sallallahu ala Alihi, wa Sahbihi send them so you do not harm
yourself. And then the door will open up for you to have a blessing
in your knowledge. It what does it mean to have blessing your
knowledge is that there could be a very simple teacher who was
actually not even that a scholar or a great scholar. And he said
something.
And there could be someone else who says the exact same thing.
And there are some people that speak that it doesn't impact you
at all.
And then there are other people that say the exact same thing and
impacts you. And then there are people that say something it's
like, it impacts you greatly. And then there are people who don't
even say anything, you're just in their presence. You're like
Subhanallah my heart came to life, what happened. And then there is
benefit to different degrees from those people we benefit from
sometimes that benefit lasts a little while. Sometimes there's
been if that lasts a long time. And then there's benefit that
happens where there's permanent change. There's a problem that
you've been having with your own self for years. You can't overcome
it. You meet one person who's Noorani and Manawa and filled with
light boom.
You overcome it and never does it again come back.
And that there's degrees. But this is why we have to be careful who
we learn from because we want Baraka in our knowledge. And we
want Baraka in what it is that we are learning. Mashallah. And so
what he says here at the end
is that, in relation to this last bit of that, if a door opens up
for us to rise any particular rank, to that move out of the
means, or to have that relationship, a lighter
relationship to the means, is that
if it doesn't happen, because we truly are unable, that's one
thing. But what he says is that we don't want it not to happen out of
our castle, our own laziness, or to Swiff. Or out of our
procrastination. These are two of the greatest things that prevent
us from ascending in rank, just laziness, that spiritual sloth
that to sweep and just procrastinate, I'll do it later
next year. Oh, no, no, I'll do it. Later, I'll do No, you're never
going to do it if you keep procrastinating.
And then that just wanting to have things be easy all of the time.
If you want things to be easy, as that you'll never be able to
embrace the challenges of life. Or life is not supposed to be easy.
If you always want things to be easy, if you want your
relationship to be easy, that no relationship is easy. Nothing in
life is easy. You can attain anything in dunya. Easily, for the
most part, except with rare exception, is that even a
brotherly relationship, it takes work, you have to put something
into it, you have to strive, you have to struggle, if you want to
truly be close to someone you have to sacrifice. And the same thing
goes for our marriage, is it very rarely in the rarest of occasion,
Will a marriage be easy. Marriages take work, you have to work on it.
And you have to put in time, you have to be willing to sacrifice
and you have to be willing to struggle. And you have to be
willing to put time and energy into it. In order for a
relationship to be good. This is the way it is. And that one
practical piece of advice for our brothers that do work is that when
you spend the day that working outside of the home, it's very
easy to want to come home and just relax. That's totally natural. The
home is the meskin it is the place of relaxation is the place where
you need to find serenity and calmness to get what you need to
go out the next day. But be very careful to go solely with that
intention. That when you come home, actually, that's time to
work. And actually, it's the most important time of work. And it's
actually the most important time to serve is that when you walk in
the home, don't expect to be served by a servant, that walk in
the home with the mentality of serving, and those who are there
to receive you that they should also that even though they need
help, and sometimes they need relief, they should also want to
serve you when two people want to serve each other Oh, Allahu Akbar,
that's when things are really beautiful, is that the husband
wants to serve the wife, and the wife wants to serve the husband.
The husband wants to make easy things easy for his wife, and the
wife wants to make things easy for her husband, both of them are
finding ways to relieve the other and to take care of the other and
to serve the other. If that's the case, subhanAllah it will be
nothing but beauty. But is it we should go realize is that the time
that we spend that with family, that is not solely to relax, is it
we have to work and we have to put a lot of energy in to also
preserve those relationships that may Allah subhanaw taala benefit
us and if you remember her dad says that it is more him budget
than he says if everything that he just said is extremely important.
And he emphasizes it in that way it means that is extremely
important. And that again, these books, we could read three
chapters, a session.
I try to go in quite a bit of detail for these for these
chapters. But the reality is that it's not about how much you read
is that these are books that require that implementation. And
that we should all be reading
this book at least once if not three times before we come to
class. And at least once if not three times, or many, many more.
When we go home that we have a whole week in the place that I
studied they had our
Ohio every single day, ideally, we would have a rawhide daily, okay,
might be a little bit difficult for people in our context. So at
least once a week is not too much, to have Aroha. But we need to
reflect upon this knowledge is it, spend some time with it, and
really reflect upon it. Read it over again, see, if you have any
more questions. Think about where you are in your life and apply
those three principles think about you, not your spouse or your
friend you. And that sometimes it requires that we read it for
several days. And even if we read it five to 10 times a day for the
next six or seven days until the next week, is that we would still
just be scratching the surface of what it is that we need to know
and most importantly realize from this knowledge. And the again, the
books remember her dad, or an elixir, if we really open up our
hearts to these meanings, you will transform and you will change. And
he wasn't nicknamed had dad did call lube for no reason. He is the
blacksmith of the heart. He is a master physician. He's a master
Master spiritual physician, he knows the depths of the knifes in
the heart and the spirit. He knows exactly how to articulate that to
the people of his time and people to the people of future times IE
our time and those who are still going to come. So what we need to
do is open up a heart to understand what it is that he is
saying. So that we can benefit be as an ally to other inshallah
Tada. As of next week,
we're also going to be including Riyadh the Saudi heme to this
class, so that we're going to be taking a hadith or a potentially
how depending on how long or short they are at least one if not two,
or three, that a hadith of real solid means we start the class in
that way. And then that included as well, the study of one of the
books in America that impossibly that one other thing, inshallah
Tada, so that it really has the sense of the row, which is usually
there's multiple books studied in it. And that the Riyadh the Saudi
Hina is one of the most important collections of Hadith of all, for
us to learn from, and that just by listening to those Hadith, it's
tarbiyah. it refines your soul, and you learn what it is that you
need to learn that in the school that I studied, is it now it's an
obligation for students are not considered to be graduates. One of
the conditions for them truly to consider to be a graduate is to
memorize rather solanine and not just memorize and forget it, but
to be able to recite the entire book of Hadith from beginning to
end, in addition to memorization of the Quran and a long list of
other things.
So that these are Hadith that we that want to be familiar with, in
sha Allah Tada we will add that component to bring more blessing
to this class using dye data may Allah Allah give us Tofik bless us
and all of our fairs in May this year in sha Allah yada but either
mean to be a wonderful and a beautiful year for all of us, for
our family or loved ones, our brothers and our sisters, y'all
but I mean, we ask you y'all Allah in the blessed days of Muharram
Allah to Allah to take care of all of our needs and to make all of
our affairs easy, yada yada yada hamara Amin Yahama are mean we ask
Allah subhana wa Tada from the blessing of the state of Fatah of
Satan and Muhammad to forgive us for all of our sins all of our
sins all of our sins yada but it mean and to change all of our past
sins into good deeds. Yeah, come on. I mean, you're still not a bad
person walk them in their personnel and Rodan Anna, we hide
in a lot. When are alpha visitors Alpha Hydra, Hydra tend to be