Yahya Rhodus – Knowledge & Wisdom Imam alHaddad #26b
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Oh, Alice, then you can achieve that ranks that no one else can
possibly achieve when you combine those two things together. So
anyhow, haka Tawakkol, Louis, is that we want to rely upon Allah
subhanho, wa taala, and all of our different affairs. And so there's
an outward form of to alcohol and then there is an internal reality.
And what this really is about is remaining firm in recognizing is
that all benefit comes from Allah, all harm comes from Allah. So we
want to be with Allah Gela gelato in all of our different states.
That imam who shady says, when he talks about a cynical photographer
being truthful in our Tawakkol so remember, we said the sixth degree
of sin is silicon for a while
is being true in your states, one of those many states is to occur.
So what he says here, is that how do you know whether you're being
truthful in your state of reliance upon Allah, placing your trust and
Allah is that Adam and NZ ash and that fact, you're not bothered,
when you don't have something?
Okay, and that's not just in terms of like a salary, although that's
one of the main examples, but you're not bothered.
You're not bothered, let alone panic or anything else, you're not
bothered. And then was a while it is step shot a bill will Jude and
nor are you happy when it's present?
Which is amazing. You might think, like, how could you not be happy.
If someone that gives you a lot of money or you make a lot of money
or things are going really well, you gotta be careful.
The people of Allah with Allah and all different states, whether
they're without, or where they are with, is that there are people
that control themselves when they receive. And they use it properly,
because they realized Allah could take them in, it's a trust on
their shoulders, and they have to put it in a proper place because
their trust is in Him in all their different states. So on one hand,
they're not bothered. And on another hand, that they're not
particularly that happy about it, either. They're thankful when they
receive in their patient when they go without. And then they even go
beyond that, where is that they are thankful when they're patient,
they're thankful, beyond being patient when they go without. And
when they have they prefer others or themselves. That's an even
higher degree.
But these are degrees of our son that we must know that we can
strive to, that try to attain. So is that what does the Prophet say
here? So I sent him if this is our state, where we could strive to
have to walk called True Tawakkol in literate says Hakka Tawakoni he
the true right of placing our trust in Him, what would be the
result? La Rosa comb, he would provide for you, he would open up
the doors of your provision, the in ways often times that you least
expect
and so nothing is more practical in receiving sustenance from Allah
than placing your trust in Him.
We oftentimes relegate practicality to our dimension,
this is a huge mistake for the believer. Practicality begins with
the heart. Nothing is more practical for you to sit after
slotted Fischer, and to bring that time to life with worship, placing
your trust in Allah making dua, then we're someone to be traveling
throughout the earth with merchandise that they're trying to
sell.
There are they to go off early to work, is it if you have to go off
early have to go off early but the most practical thing that any one
of us can do in relation to our sustenance is to place our trust
in Allah. Do we not read the Quran, Allah says, Woman yet to
work on a lifer who has bull
it's all there is whether or not you and I open up our hearts to
receive these meanings. May Allah open up our hearts is what we're
here for. We're not here, just to talk about these things is that we
hope from the blessing of this measures. And the blessing of the
shield that are behind this measures is that he does make our
portion as we always say, La Calacatta Lisa, we don't want it
to be just a moving of the tongue. We want these realities to become
a reality as in us. When Allah says whoever places his trust in
Allah that He will suffice him for Hawa has been hulless nothing else
needs to be said. If Allah Tada suffices someone done your
sufficed, no matter
what anyone says, No matter, your risk is not in the hands of other
people there are merely means.
And I remember one of these beautiful stories that our
teachers used to tell. And these are stories that they're there.
They're really beautiful even if we're not there. Because it takes
us for moments into the world of the righteous, where there was two
righteous people.
And one of them gave the other some, some money, or gift of some
sort. He said, Hey, good luck. Take it, it's not for you. And the
other one, as he received it says, hatte lambing Give it to me, it's
not from you. So the one who was given it was given it for Allah,
not that person, the one taking it, saw it from Allah, not that
person. Right. And obviously the sun is that we think people so it
doesn't mean that we don't think people for that the gifts that
they give, but the point is, that this is the measured, people are a
means. And that usually when people are overly concerned with
the means Allah subjugate you to them, and tires you out, because
of your mistake and approach to the situation. Whereas if you
detach ourselves, you will find wonders of the way that a lot of
subjugates hearts to you.
And you'll realize they can't do anything. They can't prevent you
law, man. Yeah, no, man, I'll play it. One more thing that no one can
give what he's prevented and no one can that prevent what he's
given? Period. Right. This is what we say that after every prayer
and to remind ourselves of the reality and here's why Dean is so
practical that imagine that we really say that with concentration
after every prayer why are we saying that? Because we very well
might be in that situation and two hours or less or more that same
day. Maybe there's multiple instances of that.
So anyhow, law Masako, calm Komagata local theater, and
that I will learn their rates. A Hadith he says is that the Prophet
Salah liason recited to me this verse, woman yet tequila alone
Maharaja, and as it whoever has Taqwa of Allah, He will always
give him a way out until he finished the verse. And then he
said that Oh, I will love her though Anna NAS coulomb, aka
there'll be high like a tomb. We're all all people that only to
put this verse into practice, into that take from the meanings of
this verse, it would suffice them
in that
in this beautiful analogy that our Prophet gave us sunlight, and he
gives us the analogy of the bird
and that just as we see birds that they wake up before dawn, at that
they are very active in chirping in the morning, and in the
evening. And that they're singing and then they're flying around.
They're going out and looking for sustenance and a lot out of
provides them so this idea of tough will do a they go out in the
morning,
came Olson, and that this means literally hungry is that their
bellies are empty.
Well, Toto, they return in the evening, bitten with their bellies
full. And that the last point here is that notice the Prophet
sallallahu Sallam
did not teach us that telecoil means that you don't strive
outwardly for your sustenance. The analogy that he gave us one of the
bird birds don't just sit there and wait for a worm to drop from
the sky. They go up. So to welcome never ever negates putting effort
in to receive your sustenance. Allah has guaranteed for us basic
sustenance.
Most of us go well beyond our needs. Most of us in this day and
age are living very luxuriously. There are still many poor people
in the world, of course, but most of us, especially in the place,
like we live in United States of America are living that very well,
even the poor people compared to the most poor people of outside of
the United States of America. There are exceptions to that, of
course, but anyhow, is that you're supposed to put that effort in and
that that email, crocheted he mentions here a beautiful
statement that indicates to us is that taco really its place is the
heart
and the outward movement of the limbs that we go about to achieve
ourselves.
sentence and all of these other things that we mentioned that
relate to our risk is that it does not negate that to occur
whatsoever. But to echo goes hand in hand with submission and
acceptance of the Divine Decree, whether something is facilitated
for us or not, whether we receive it and we obtain it, or we don't,
is it these great qualities of the heart that they all go that hand
in hand? So it is important to to note that, but what happens is
that the more trust that we have
How can you put this into English
the less immerse that you become in the means, the lighter if you
will, your relationship come, it becomes with the means. And other
words, you don't have to tire yourself out as much, you're not
stressed out as much. There's a divine facilitation that comes
with just a little bit of movement.
The stronger the trust of in your heart, is that the easier you see
what things will be outwardly, they're less stressful in all so
forth and so on. And the greatest example of that is our blessed
Prophet Muhammad Sallallahu Sallam who would give out all of his
wealth every single day, complete trust in Allah to Allah.
On the new day, all of his wealth, anything in excess, he would give
it out. And then he would start today a new relying completely
upon Allah Jalla gelato. And we always need to remind ourselves is
that the proverb the poverty of Rasulullah sallallahu sallam was
chosen, he chose poverty, he chose to at times have things and other
times that Be patient and to not have. So we should always remember
the merit of that may Allah had to give us Tofik and to bless us to
be people who place our trust in Him subhanho wa Taala
so we have reached chapter 27 and alpha solid elmia If you could
just please read from page 76.
Bismillah al Rahman al Rahim Al hamdu Lillahi Rabbil Alameen wa
sallahu wa ala Sayyidina Muhammad wa ala alihi wa sahbihi wa sallam
in knowledge and wisdom but Imam Abdullah ibn Ali Al Haddad, may
Allah preserve him, increase him and benefit us through him, me.
Chapter 27 On attending to the requirements of this world, and
those are the next.
Anyone who accords his worldly life and his life to come equal
attention inwardly shows them the same degree of concentration and
eagerness and outwardly exhibits for both an equal amount of effort
and serious pursuit is excessively foolish and unreservedly stupid.
What then of anyone who gives more attention and effort to his
worldly life, and what then of anyone who pays no attention at
all, nor exhorts any effort for his life to come? We ask God to
guard us against this and all other afflictions and dangers and
to guard our loved ones and all Muslims. I mean, I mean,
those who give their worldly life and their life to come equal
attention deserve to be described as foolish and stupid as stated
above, because they do not differentiate between that which
is better, more permanent, pure and more spacious, and that which
is lowly, ephemeral, turbid, disturbing and narrow.
They are similar or even stranger and more extraordinarily than
those who treat equal diamonds and dung, or pure gold and Clay had
the life to come nothing to its credit but perpetually and freedom
from flowers, they should suffice for it to be given superiority and
priority. As one of our virtuous predecessors once said, may God
have mercy on them. Had the world been made of perishable gold and
the hereafter of permanent clay, we should prefer permanent clay to
perishable gold. What then when the reality is the reverse? It is
evident that those who prefer this world to the hereafter or doubt
ridden suspicious people, while those who treat them equally are
unintelligent fools, and only those who prefer the hereafter or
intelligent, resolute believers. All blessings are God's He bestows
His favor upon whom He wills guidance is God's, his guides whom
He will He guides whom He wills he is the wise the knowing
mashallah, that actually doesn't need much commentary. That's just
a very
A good reminder about what we give attention to.
And it's very easy to see what it is that we give attention to. It
does not mean that we neglect our worldly life know, is that we live
in the world is that we, that work we that, and working is not from
dunya, as we've already spoken, as long as we have the right
intention behind it, and that we set limits, and we make sure that
we uphold our prayers and things of that nature, the obligations
that are upon us, and that we have to work we have life is not that
supposed to be easy. This is the nature of the world in which we
live, there's going to be hardship. So it doesn't mean that
we don't live worldly lives, and that we don't exist within the
world we do. But we also have to devote attention that to the
hereafter, to make sure that on a daily basis, there are certain
things that we have in place to mitigate the harms of excessive
focus on the world, because it will harm us that not just
spiritually, it harms us in every other way as well,
psychologically, emotionally, even physically, it harms us, we have
to take the time to that focus upon our hearts and our souls and
our spirits. And that the more God conscious we are, is that but the
better we will perform all of our worldly duties as well. And that
this is why we have to have time during the week that we spend
learning, we have to have time that we spend on a daily and
weekly basis worshiping, we have to have gatherings of remembrance
that we attend, that are there to ward off tribulations from us that
are there to bring about great blessings for us. And as we
constantly repeat is that it is so important that we have an
attachment to Majelis gatherings Majelis of the code gatherings or
remembrance and Majelis of N gatherings of knowledge and the
other great
that
that thing that we want as well to have in our lives is sarpa good
companionship, to have teachers that we spend time with that we
learn from, to have righteous people that we visit, to spend
good time with family and I have a good set of friends and that these
are from the great blessings of Allah to Allah. And if we have all
of these in one place, we have to be very careful to fall into Quran
and Yama to being ungrateful for the blessings of Allah Tabata co
ATOD. This is what Xi Athan will try to do is it when people are
absolutely immersed in blessings from every way is that he'll try
to start creating fitna between people, he'll try to start that
convincing someone that the grass is greener on the other side that
he will create problems between spouses, you'll create problems
between parents and their children, he'll create problems
between people and other people in the community that he will that
that try to convince us that there's something else that we
should be doing or somewhere else that we should be and that make us
not be able to tolerate so and so or such and such or whatever, and
so forth and so on. His thoughts will be many, because is that he
is especially working hard on those that are trying to do
something for the sake of Allah Jalla gelada
the people that he already has, he doesn't need to focus on the
palace. Already that falling into sin and he wants to work
especially hard. Just as that thief that wants to get into that
house that has the most money or the precious jewels and jewelry or
whatever else something that he wants
her let's just take one more chapter and Shawn
actually, that's a long chapter
so just skip ahead to 29
and then we'll come back and do because 29 short, and then we'll
come back and do 28 Next week.
Chapter 29 The balance between good and evil acts.
He who is either unable or lacks the energy to perform all possible
good works should not for those reasons, abandon them at all, or
abandon them all, but should engage in whatever is easy and
accessible. For goodness attracts goodness. small acts of goodness
attract great ones. A little invites plenty
And as has been handed down, goodness is a habit mashallah
beautiful. Look at this. So this is titled Dr. Mustapha bed we
titled this chapter, the balance between good and evil acts look at
this very, very beneficial advice that he was either unable or lacks
the energy to perform all possible good works should not for those
reasons, abandon them all. And this applies also we hear stories
of these great righteous folk that, that did incredible amount
of worship or had these great feats that they achieved or this
great amounts of knowledge that they sought, but should engage in
whatever is easy and accessible. So the nature of the human being,
and this is really the knifes as it when we're still gripped by the
knifes is the knifes either wants to have all of something that
doesn't have anything to do with it. It either wants to be the
knows most knowledgeable person on earth, or it just doesn't want to
seek knowledge whatsoever. It either wants to fast every single
day, or it never wants to festival stay up all night in prayer or
that not pray at all the nerves doesn't like to just wake up in
the middle of the night and five minutes prior to rock out and go
back to sleep.
It wants more in So in both cases, we can't follow the knifes
and so if we're not able to do that these abundant amounts, we
should still do what is easy and accessible.
Small amounts small things they mean so much, especially in the
end of time.
Just praying five daily prayers and our time is immense. Trying to
pray them in congregation trying to that at least two out of the
day pray that in a masjid or a masala. This is immense
that these are great acts and then if we add small things and our
time especially that we can achieve great things by just doing
small things. So she a thon and our knifes are both working
against us to achieve this. So this is an advice. And part of the
rationale behind this is goodness attracts goodness, there's
something about doing small things is that it brings about all other
types of good in your life, not even directly related to that
small thing. So those two records that you pray for salata Doha,
you have to be at work early, but you sneak away, when you take a
break 10 minutes and you pray to it across, which takes two or
three minutes at work.
That will bring not only that goodness in relation to the prayer
itself, but other things, goodness attracts goodness, small acts of
goodness, attract great ones. So there's something about that
getting used to doing acts of goodness, have said hasn't
mentioned this in his that a few weeks ago, about the importance of
habits, and that would hate to attitude come out what odd, as it
has been handed down. Goodness is a habit. So that even if you're
not doing a large number of Acts, there's so much to be said for
developing habits of doing good, even if they're small. And that
will that change who you are as a person and really define who you
are as a person by doing it.
Now
similarly, who he who is incapable of abandoning all evil must
abandon whatever of it he can, for a mixture of good and evil is
better than lighter than total evil. Look at that. Look at that,
that is so beautiful. He who is incapable of abandoning all evil
must abandon whatever of it he can.
For a mixture of good and evil is better and lighter than total
evil. What is shippon want us to to completely give up and despair
and hope which is from the Kibera the new it's a major sin to
despair in the Mercy of Allah. He wants us just to sin. And then if
we're doing one sin and we can't overcome it, I'm just a sinner. So
who cares I give up I'm going to do whatever. No, just because
there's one thing you're struggling with and you keep doing
and you're sending keep repenting every time you do it, have remorse
repent to Allah intend to never do it again and try to stop
but don't let that open up the door for you just to keep it other
sense. If there's other things that you could still control
yourself regarding control yourself, stop short somewhere.
Even if you can't stop everything that is you what wisdom that is
amazing wisdom. And I'm always reminded of the story that I heard
she comes to use have mentioned that he was on an airplane one
time and there was a flight attendant who was helping him
And she was working in business class. And he noticed that she had
to serve other passengers that were not listening. She would
serve them alcoholic beverages. And that he asked her, you know
about this, like, doesn't this bother you that you're in a
position where you're serving alcohol.
And that she looked at him. And she said, it does bother me.
And she said, every time I serve it, I serve it with my left hand.
And she said, on Ramadan, that, I ask other flight attendants, that
if someone requests alcohol that they serve and so I don't have to.
It's not good in any case, but look at the man that's still in
the heart. Look at the man that is still in the heart.
And someone like that, that is broken, even if they fall short.
Subhanallah the Mercy of Allah is Corrib it's near. Its close.
And this is why that again, if we can't leave everything, try to
still do something. Don't at least be comfortable with it in your
heart. Don't justify what you're doing. Admit that it's wrong and
be broken before Allah. That's better than justifying it. And
trying to make the Haram Khaled.
Know that it's wrong, do what you can and die that in a penitent
state.
Good Works erase sins, as in the Hadith, follow a sin with an act
of goodness and it will erase it and in another. If you commit a
sin, follow it up with an act of goodness and it will record it.
hidden sins with hidden acts of goodness public with public.
A servant afflicted with evil and transgressions must never
altogether turn away from God, nor from good works in obedience. For
otherwise there will remain between him and his Lord, no
avenue for reconciliation, or for returning to him. Let him heed the
lesson in the story of the highway man who shed blood and robbed
Muslims of their money, money. A virtuous man one saw him do these
things while fasting. He asked him How can you do what you are doing
yet fast? The man replied, Yes, I am leaving an open channel for
reconcilation and will not sever all links between myself and my
Lord. Sometime later he saw the briggen ambling around the Kaaba,
having repented and was told by him, that fasting reconciled me
with my Lord and got that
he was a highway robber. He was a brigand he was robbing caravans.
And someone offered him something to drink
that as they were stealing people's belongings, so on the
caravan, he says, I'm fasting. So it looks like you're fasting,
you're robbing a caravan, but you're fasting, like how does that
make sense?
And then what did he say? That I am leaving open a channel for
reconciliation
and will not sever all links between myself and my Lord.
And then later on, he sees him
circumambulating the Kaaba.
And what did he say? Is that that fasting reconciled me with my
lord. Look
like banana muffin? Yeah. It's one of the most beautiful dogs our
teachers to always use Aloma cabana Alhama fina, I will accept
us as we are, except us in the state we are in accept us, as our
condition has us Europe, accept us as we are. It is now evident that
Muslims should maintain a state of entire goodness. It is now evident
that a Muslim should maintain a state of antagonism complete
absence. However, if this is not possible, if he has been hindered
by his ego and its appetites, and this leads him into any manner of
evil or sin, then he must firmly preserve those acts of obedience,
which he finds possible and easy. And God is the patron that
praiseworthy subhanho wa Tada May Allah Tabata Katana give us toll
free Gaya with the Hamid and accept us and may Allah to Allah
blesses to be able to realize these minutes era hamara Amin
Allah whom we ask you to assist us in avoiding evil and in doing good
alone verses to be from the elect of those who uphold with that
which it is that you've made an obligation upon us and to never be
the where you've prohibited us from being yada Hamid army and
fill our hearts with the love of you and the love of Your Beloved
Prophet Mohammed Salah and Masada tena Sahaba and the tab in and all
of the earlier man what does that tell me that have lived throughout
the ages until this very day and age Allahumma plus has to be able
to follow in their footsteps and buses to be able to subdue our
passions and to subdue our egos. And to give us two feet to fortify
our hearts set the shaytaan has no soltana over us Yahama Amin and
then Bill
I seen in America I remember her dad be with us and when he's
getting these in these books in a way that facilitates for us their
practice. Yeah, a lot of changes our perspective and blesses to put
everything in its proper place. Yahama Dr. Muhammad Amin yeah
hamara Nene, also a lot as in Muhammad and while he was abused
Salam will hamdulillahi rabbil Alameen