Yahya Rhodus – Knowledge & Wisdom Imam alHaddad #28
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The speakers discuss the history and use of Jihad in various cultures, emphasizing the importance of knowing its history and use for personal gain. They also discuss the importance of finding people who are actively with the same type of person as the customer and finding people who are willing to work hard and balance. The speakers stress the importance of respecting religious values and finding people who have a strong faith in Islam to avoid false accusations and avoid negative consequences. They also mention the need for people to have a strong faith in Islam to avoid false accusations and avoid negative consequences.
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happy woman. While we're going to continue our study of Hadith from
the collection called to go to full validating the abridgement of
the other Salim. This hadith is and Jabba Radi Allahu Anhu ha la
palabra de Luna Nabi sallallahu alayhi salam, Yama or hood
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So, Java narrates that a man said to the Prophet salallahu Alaihe
Salam on the day of
where will I be,
if I am killed, he said in the garden. So he threw aways, some of
the dates that were in his hand and then fought until he was
killed. This is a Hadith both in Bihari and Muslim. And this is
very important, because it says in the context of jihad, that we
clarify the true meanings of jihad. And our teachers speak of
this because there are so many attempts not to speak about jihad,
people end up understanding what Jihad isn't, and that all
civilizations honor their martyrs, all civilizations honors those who
sacrifice their lives for a noble cause. And when you look at the
just war, like theory of Islam, and you understand the true
manifestations of it, as was the case with those who fought behind
the Prophet Muhammad Sallallahu sallam, and it's the same for
those who fought behind the Prophet Moses, and the same for
those who sought fought behind other prophets who came before us,
is it these battles were justified and these battles were to
distinguish truth from for precious? How could that have died
in the people on Earth only, that you do physical combat types, you
have jihad, enough's, where you fight against yourself or falling
victim, to the following of the thoughts of the shale team of
minutes before a lot, that is jihad. That is a daily struggle
for us. And then the second degrees was people where we do
what is right, and we stand for justice, we help the societies in
uplift the societies in which and then there is the type of Gi where
there's physical combat in war. And that has to have certain
conditions where there has to be that a that Muslim ruler, and a
lot more details could be said about that, how it's misunderstood
and who it is misunderstood by. But in our day and age, the focus
is on the first two types of jihad, especially for those of us
in countries like the United States of America, we struggle
with ourselves, and we struggle in our, for the good and betterment
of society, is that the third type of jihad has no place for us, and
the society in which we live. And let us just be absolutely clear
about that. So that we can read these narrations, just as we
should to learn about the importance of sacrifice. And all
of us agree about that if someone that sacrifices for what they
believe in those beliefs are valid reasons to sacrifice for, how
could that not be respected? And how could that not be honored? So
these are Hadith can sacrifice this can inspire us, and that to
teach us how it is that we need to sacrifice and really, that any
intelligent Muslim that even knows the basics of their dean can know
what the supplies do what this doesn't apply to. But
unfortunately, in the day of shaking Google, and that people
that lacking that learning knowledge in the proper ways that
it has been learned traditionally, from living scholars with unbroken
chains of transmission to the Prophet Salah license,
unfortunately, their perspective has become warped. And
unfortunately, that a lot of people have been preyed upon in
been indoctrinated with a certain type of ideology that has a
misunderstanding of what Jihad truly is, and that there is no
meaning to this type of jihad without first starting with the
jihad of your own knifes. And the classic example of that is what
our teachers always reminded us of, say, not even ever thought of
on the battlefield, is that he is in a that valid manifestation of a
war and he's about to strike his enemy after they went back and
forth. And then his enemy spat on him. And then he stopped.
And someone witnessed this and later asked him, you were fighting
your enemy going back and forth. And then you're about to give him
the death blow and you stopped. Why did you stop? And he said, at
first I was fighting him for the sake of Allah. And when he spat on
me, I felt that I was going to then kill him for the sake of my
own self, for the fact that he spat on me
Imagine that level of self control in the midst of a battle.
Imagine that, to be able to control yourself in that way in
the midst of a battle, and your life is on the line into withhold.
This is a clear proof that these were people of self control. These
were people who, as our Prophet taught us, is that in this type of
situation, is that their intentions were only for the word
or of Allah to remain supreme. They were not finding a vengeance,
they were not fighting for that anything worldly. Their intention
was for the sake of Allah to Allah. And what do we take from
that, when we are doing the jihad in the way that is appropriate to
us, that is in relation to our own selves and in bettering our
societies and contributing to our societies, that that is our
intention, we do it solely for the sake of our Lord subhanho wa
taala. And so is that when he heard the Prophet say this, and
this is what Prophets do is that they have access to knowledge that
we don't have access to, and that he affirmed that where he would be
would be in paradise, where he to be sincere, and fighting for Allah
sake, is that he through the days from his hand, and even though he
could have very easily How long would have taken the dates, as it
he threw the dates that to the side, and then that he that fought
for the sake of Allah to add until he was killed. And there is a
similar story in this took place in the battle or hood, there is a
similar story in the Battle of better that we also know about in
the aroma talk about this, that some have said it was the same
person. But then many of the commentators on Hadees say that it
was actually two different people, this first person even though they
have similar names, and this is part of the confusion. So the
first one who was in the Battle of betta his name was Ahmed have been
her man was the second one closely to this closely with a very
similar name, or maybe even in her mom. And that was in the Battle of
better, where the Prophet SAW license said to them, that stand
up to a paradise the breath of which is that of the heavens in
the earth. And then he said that all Messenger of Allah, the breath
of Paradise is that of the heavens in the earth? And the Prophet
said, Yes. And he said button button. And then the Prophet said,
Why did you say this button button, which is a phrase that you
saying, it's a type of expression of praise of the greatness of that
that matter at hand? And then he said, is that oh, that messenger
of Allah, I only said that, because I desired to be from those
people. And then the Prophet gave him God tiny said, You're from
those people.
And then he said that, at that moment, he had dates in his hand,
and he put them aside. And then he said, that were I to live long
enough to eat these dates, is that that would be a long life. The
Prophet just gave him good times that he's run the people of
paradise. So he put the dates to the side, and then he went to the
battle, and he was murdered, for the sake of Allah Jalla Jalla
Allah. And we know that these true martyrs, the true martyrs, not
those that think they're murderers. And that just in this
regard, I remember clearly hearing one of my teachers say, is that
reminding us of the hadith of our Prophet sallallahu sallam, where
there are people that think, in their warped understanding of
jihad, that they're somehow doing some type of good. And they might
think that they're seeking Paradise, he says, but it's likely
that it's going to take them to the opposite abode, because they
have not taken heed to the words of the Prophet. So some men
khatola more I hadn't lamb era. Or I heard tell Jana, whoever killed
someone that the Muslims have a treaty with will not smell the
scent of paradise. It's very serious. People think that they're
doing something that's going to take them to Paradise, but it
could do the opposite. That's Allah to Allah. s&m would Apphia
the true martyrs, as they are alive in the presence of their
Lord, as Allah tells us, what to cool him and Yocto Luffy is really
learning and watching but that can lead to show don't do not say, for
those that died in the path of Allah that they are dead, rather
there are alive but you do not realize it. And another verse,
what attacks a Mandela you know, Cthulhu VCB rely on water. Do not
consider those that died in the path of a law that they are dead,
but do not have been years upon. Rather they are alive in the
presence of their Lord, receiving provision. So may Allah Allah give
us a correct understanding. And to that allow us to be inspired by
these blessings, stories of the companions who sacrificed
everything and that
willingness to sacrifice, combined with correct knowledge and taking
from true inheritors of the Prophet sallallahu sallam. When
those two things combined are three things combined, Allah is
that there are immense results. But we have to make sure that the
people we are taking knowledge from are the true inheritors of
the Prophet Salah license, we should read in detail, the
description of Rasulullah, Salah lice, and we should read about his
characteristics, and then know who the true inheritors of the Prophet
are, and then we should learn from them. And we should learn how to
purify our heart from them. And we should learn how to also
understand knowledge, and we should learn about what knowledge
is authentic, and what perspective it is, we should have it we should
learn about their methodology, and we should embody it and we should
live it in then that we should strive and struggle in our
societies to bring about good we are people of Sun is that we are
not people of destruction. We are people of our sun. We were people
that want to build, we are people that want to give back. We are
people of service, and we are people of good character. Even
when people that want to wage war against us. We don't want to wage
war against anyone. And that our Prophet sallallahu Sallam told us
last night at the man note your call I do do not wish to meet your
enemy for either locatable festival two. But if you meet your
enemy, remain steadfast as that we are not a war hungry people. We do
not want a clash of civilizations. That On the contrary, is that we
want there to be coexistence and that we want to benefit from other
people in humanity and mutually complete one another imperfect one
another. This is the Quranic vision. And unfortunately, is that
on both sides is that you have some people that are really
pushing for only things that really people that are influenced
by ship on in demons want is that people in the right mind need to
come together on both sides and to realize that in light of this
madness and chaos, we need people of reason. And people that are
hanging on to the remnants of that early Prophetic teachings and
Muslims need to go back to the sunnah of our Prophet sallallahu
sallam, and to recognize the danger of the time which we live
in to do the right thing and to be vocal about these other tendencies
that are causing destruction in the world, especially from within
their own ranks. May Allah data protect us and preserve us and
bless us all with a clear and unadulterated perspective of this
Dean to take from these great inheritors in insha. Allah live up
to their methodology that they spent so many years developing in
living and then has come to us that in this very clear cut way,
my lot to add to give us Tofik.
SMIL
Smilla Rahmanir Rahim Al hamdu Lillahi Rabbil Alameen wa sallahu
Allah so you didn't know Muhammad Ali. He was over. He was salam in
knowledge and wisdom, but Imam Abdullah Ali and her dad, may
Allah preserve him and benefit us through him.
Chapter 32 Cuban company with the virtuous
it is desirable and recommended to associate keep company and mix
with those people of religion and goodness, who are the scholars who
practice what they know, and the virtuous servants of God. This has
many benefits, both immediate and defer. And there are numerous
ideas and other traditions detailing them. However, people
who desire and eagerly seek seek such things differ greatly in
their aims, the first and highest so he's going to mention to us
three different degrees of people that take the company of the
righteous. So he first starts about that framing what is he's
going to discuss, so this is titled keeping company with the
virtuous and the first word that he uses is swearing.
And that slaughter bar is to take the companionship of someone, but
he uses other words here. He also uses the word Mahabharata, which
is to mix with Mujaddid Assa, which is to sit with in a certain
to a certain degree that those words are also included in the
word sorry, but but
perhaps you wanted to emphasize
that these different dimensions and Sahaba is very, very
important. All of the great people from the time of the Prophet
satellite, send him until now the
Their secret was their sarpa. And it's actually not even a secret.
This is the way things work, when you are with good people, is that
you have the potential thing to turn out to be good. As all of the
great real Amma became great Reanima from the enema they took
from all of the righteous became righteous from the people that
they took from. It really is that simple. Nothing is more important
for us than to create environments whereby which the true people have
a lot of people have knowledge and people of piety can be raised. And
can that grow in the environment and to give back to those
societies? Nothing is more important than that. That books
Yes, is that they might help a little bit but not without the
living links of the deen nothing is more important, were we to
understand our priorities here in the United States of America, then
to be means for the arisal of these types of people. Because
everybody needs this. We all need Zorba. We need good companionship
we need to mix with the right people. We need to sit with the
right people. We need to have people that we can ask questions
to and that get good answers from that give us good religious
guidance that is relevant to our lives and will help us and our day
to day and help us to live this Deen. And so that who are these
people, is that he says Allah Dean, the people of deen the real
people who have really implemented this religion were added here, the
people of good and who are they? These are the element Emmeline,
the scholars who have put their knowledge into practice, meaning
they're not just people that have theoretical knowledge, they live
up to what it is that they know. And the bad law suddenly, the
righteous servants of Allah, the solid pain, the pious, these
people we want to do is we want to interact with him on a regular
basis. And so that he's actually presenting this as a given, it is
desirable and recommended maboob and Moraga via its design
recommended to associate keep company in mixed with those people
of religion in goodness, who are the scholars who practice what
they know and the virtuous servants of Allah.
So we know that, but we should think in terms of our own selves,
to what degree Am I in the presence of good people? And
secondly, to what degree Am I taking part in an endeavor? If it
was, it is believed what was just said that this is the most
important thing that will lead to these type of people being around?
What can we do? We have to take this very seriously and think
about this very carefully. And so he says, this is benefits both
immediate and deferred as Sheila well as Sheila immediate and
deferred.
And there are numerous Hadith and other traditions detailing them.
So that there's a lot that could be said that about that in great
detail. But his focus here is something different is that he's
assuming now that this is something that people want. And
now he's going to talk about the three different degrees of people
in relation to those who are actually actively with these type
of people. So the context of this section is not what can we do to
create these type of people? The context is okay, this is an
assumption that it's so clear in our deen that this is needed, and
that any religious person or someone that's taking their Deen,
seriously is this is what they would do. He's giving us now what
are the three different levels. And what this helps us with is to
really know where we're at. And that it does help us as well that
if we are not with good people, we need to do our best to be around
the best type of people available to us. And if we do our best, then
even if the ideal people are not with us, then through the blessing
of the intention, Allah to Allah will give us by us striving to be
around the best people possible in our locale in that our particular
situation that we are in, even if that there are not as virtuous as
some of the other people that we'd like to be with, from the blessing
of the intention. So it's important for us to know what it
is that we should attend. And then secondly, we look at our own
selves and to see where we're at in relation to those intentions
and that we strive to move to the next degree. Even if we find
are self fighting with us? Like, no, I really don't want to be like
that, because then I got to do all of that. Okay, just give yourself
a little bit of time and come back to it, your knifes, you can't hit
it head on all the time, you can't, it's it really is like a
wrestling match. And that you can't go all out. Because you'll
just tire yourself out in the first 30 seconds. So the first
minute, you got to pace yourself, and then you got to wait to your
own knifes as vulnerable, and then you got to get it and then you
catch your enough slipping and you get in a particular hold or
something and then it gets out and then it switches up on you. And
then you have to get out and then you have to get back at it. And it
goes back and forth. This is the way it is. So what are the three
degrees However, people who desire and eagerly seek such things
differ greatly in their aims.
The first and highest aim and keeping company and associate
associated with such people is to study their sciences, learn their
courtesy, and observe the good character, praiseworthy qualities,
good works and speech so as to emulate them and drive oneself
single mindedly toward acquiring their good character and engaging
in their good works. One should associate with them, for these
reasons to the exclusion of all others, this is the highest of all
you are associating with them so that you can be like them.
With the knowledge that they have you want to learn is that the
etiquette that they have, the other that they have is that you
want to learn that at the o'clock that they have the character that
they have, you want to learn that the traits that they had the see
that you want to learn those the righteous deeds that they do the
virtuous things that they say, you want to follow them in that that
is your goal. And it reminds me of a story of a one of the young
scholars during the time of hunger I did have she is that he was
exerting himself in worship. And in learning to the extent that his
mom started to worry about him. Because he was just exerting
himself so much. And she goes to have your ID timesheet, and she
explains that she's worried about her son, and he's doing too much
and working too hard. So have you I did have she comes. And he
speaks to the young man. And he says, you know, just take things
easy. You know, don't worry, do your best Sharla you have
ancestors will intercede for you and just to kind of calm him down.
And he looks at Have you added helps you. And he said that I read
that some of our ancestors are going to have banners on the day
of judgment. And they will be a means through their intercession
for that people to enter into paradise. He said that I don't
want to just suffice myself with being under someone else's banner.
He said, I want to have a banner myself. So I can be a means for
people to get into paradise. And then have your idea to have you
looked at me said if that's your intention, he said, then just keep
doing what it is that you're doing. Meaning that he thought by
that mentioning that to him that okay, he would calm down until you
know, that cut back on certain things. But there's some people
that are like that. And then there's some people that they
think that they're like that, and they're really not those people
should take it easy and be balanced. But the sign that
someone is like that is that they are doing that. And they're like
that in house, they're not waiting for anyone.
And that there's a lot of people that will come up to you and say,
I want to study I want to do this or I want to do that a lot of
people.
And the sign that someone really wants to study is that in the
moment in the situation that they're in then in their they
study is they work hard. They maximize their local resources.
They're not waiting for some that utopian opportunity that they're
going to go overseas or whatever to be in a certain environment.
They start now and that this is their preoccupation. And they
might even be slightly antisocial and you find them constantly
reading and doing things that other people don't do.
And a lot of that mean if you look at the stories of uma Minogue.
They actually mentioned when he was young
that he was a type of child that was rejected by the other children
he never used to play with the children in his neighborhood. And
one of the scholars noticed this is that he was kind of left out
from the other children because he was so different. But that's what
Allah wanted for him. He was destined to become a mama no way.
He was different and that they
He used to mention that the stories for those that knew our
teacher from the earliest times is that he didn't used to do what
other children did. And he'd be sometimes coming home from school
in the morning, and he would let go a different direction, so that
he wasn't preoccupied with in plain with some of the games that
other children were playing. And it doesn't mean that those things
are okay for children, they're okay. But there are some times
some people that are different. And that there will always be
people that think those people are strange. And there might even be
family members that make you feel guilty about it, like what's wrong
with you, right? You know, he's got to fit in, he's got to know
the world. And that if that child really is one of those exceptions,
you you're going to be tested all throughout your life, but you have
to stand strong. And you have to do what you can to preserve them
so that a lot of adequate data will then that give them the gifts
that they could potentially receive. And this is very, very
important, and then is that all of the other principles remain for
that the normal situations with that normal people. And it is
important, though, that we recognize that not everyone is the
same and that.
Unfortunately, people are the most difficult thing. People are one of
the biggest obstacles in the spiritual path. Mahala can nurse
alumnus, the scholars of this time science used to say, as the only
thing that is destroyed people are other people. And obviously, that
we let other people destroy us, we actually lend ear to what other
people say is that we placed too much focus on what they think
about us.
And that, again, always have to remember, if you are trying to be
a religious person, especially in this time, you're going to be a
stranger. People are going to think you're weird. People are
gonna wonder why it is that you do what you do. People are gonna
think something's wrong with you.
And we have to reach the point where that we find solace in doing
what Allah has commanded us to do. And wherever we are, when it's
time to pray, whether we're at work, whether we're in public,
whether we are on an airplane, or in an airport, in a parking lot.
If it's time to pray, we stand and pray for a larger the gelato.
And you never know. But I do know that if we waver and we're always
worried about people think not only will you harm your own Dean,
you won't affect other people.
And I know people that have become Muslim, just by seeing other
people pray. I've had someone tell me that just by them seeing
someone else pray like, Oh, my God, they have something. I want
to be like that.
And we have to remember this is that, you know, this is this is,
you know, the greatest thing that we can do is just being Muslim.
And for those that it's written for them to enter into this Deen
will enter into this Deen. That's not in our hands. But if we don't
do what is it we're supposed to do and hope that there's a result.
That makes no sense whatsoever. And you'd be surprised how much we
can benefit others just by being who we are. I was over the weekend
with one of the teachers. And she was mentioning to us the story for
conversion. And she was with a group of people that were on
official trip to Morocco, and Senegal. And the first night that
she spent the night in a hotel in Morocco.
She heard the alarm go off Fajr time.
And she was sitting at the edge of her bed and just struck her. What
is that? He was very loud. And so on one hand, she was a little bit
frightened, like something must be wrong, like the way we hear like a
siren go off like in case of emergency. But on another hand,
there was something about that sound that just struck her deep
within.
And
it turns out, she eventually became Muslim and took a Shahada.
But it turns out that her mother told her much. Her mother told her
later after she converted, she says Dr. Majid ditty.
So then who is Dr. Majid Diddy when she was born, that the men
who delivered her was a Muslim doctor. And he asked her mother,
if he could, you know, say something, say a prayer for her. I
don't know exactly what he said. But right. I don't know what he's
told the mother but he said something she said sure. So he
called the Alon in her right ear and the
A common her left here.
And subhanAllah years later, she's in Morocco. And that just struck
her. And that was the moment where she then sometime after that
became Muslim.
And it's like, amazing SubhanAllah. And she went on to
explain that she went to the house, and she was later on in
Senegal, and she went to the house of someone, and the men were
separated from the women.
And whereas a lot of you might think, like, Oh, God, they're
gonna think we're weird if we do this, and so forth, and that she
just didn't know, because she had had some of the interactions with
the men in the house. And like, you know, they then explained it
to her, that, you know, the person that spoke to her said, like, our
women are very precious, this is a very public gathering. Some of
these people we don't deem it to be appropriate to be around that
are that women, so the women are separate out of love and respect
for them.
And that she said that, like that made her want to be like those
women.
Right, when she learned about the wisdom behind the hijab, that made
her want to be like, those women wearing hijab. And, you know,
subhanAllah, yes, someone could have the exact opposite happened
to them. But that's not in our hands. We do it is that we're
supposed to do and those that it's decreed that they'll be touched
will be touched, we don't need to change anything. We just need to
remain firm upon rd, and help everyone there are some Muslims
that need help, and we all need help. And then there are people
that are beyond that, the appeal of Assam that also need help.
We're here to help everyone and uplift everyone. But anyhow, that
really what this is about is maintaining our principles, and
these type of people, that when we are around the rightly guided
scholars with the righteous and the pious, this should be our
number one intention. We want to be like them. And let's not fool
ourselves. That doesn't happen overnight. Sometimes you think
because you're with them that you're from them? No. Just because
you can quote their poetry. Just because you understand the
meanings of their poetry doesn't mean that you're from them is that
this requires hard work. These are people that have rolled up their
sleeves, and have done jihad, enough's. These are people that
take that seriously,
and work on themselves. And we as human beings, we admire
perfection.
Why is it that in all professional sports, you admire the best people
in that sport, because they can do what other people can't do.
And all of them, worked hard to get there. Yes, they might have
had athletic ability, but they worked hard to get that no
professional athlete has attained that degree of greatness without
hard work. And thus we admire it, because they can do it other
people can't do. So what then about people that have mastered
the most important thing to master, which is your own self?
How could that not be respected, that they have put that work in,
day in and day out, day in and day out, just like that athlete who
exercises daily watches their diet is very careful about what they
do, and so forth and so on. Rest food and all these other lifestyle
factors, they control it because they want to master their
particular sport, or a craftsman master in his particular craft.
How could you not then respect those that have done this with
their own soul? Because this is the greatest thing that we can do
is to master our own soul. So this is the highest of all degrees and
then others keep their company.
Others keep their company out of love for them because they prefer
God's religion over all else established his ordinances occupy
themselves with his obedience, and strive to draw nearer to him by
the acquisition of useful knowledge and good character and
doing good works. They love them for this and wish to associate
with them to try to emulate them and drive their souls to imitate
their good works and acquire their good character, but only as time
and circumstances permit. When they miss some of those things.
They are sorry in wish they had succeeded in doing them. Deed says
a man who is with a man is with who he loves. Another says he who
emulates certain people becomes one of them. So that's the second
degree.
They don't have as strong as an intention. This is really what
he's getting at what is your intention behind being with them
is that they still want to follow them. They still want to emulate
them. They still want to do abundant good, but it's not as
complete. They're not a
able to follow them in all of their different states. So it's a
lesser degree, but still is that in those things that they can't
follow them, they wish that they could. But it's a lesser degree.
And again, these are categories. Sometimes, you know, there's
obviously subcategories within each of these categories. And
they're not completely static, and people fluctuate between them, and
might be closer to one than the other. But they're helpful
categories, because it helps us that know what it is that we
should be attending, intending. And if we're not somewhere, we at
least know that we should, and we strive to work on it, it doesn't
mean that we fool ourselves again, and think that, okay, I'm really
actually in this third category, which is still good, all these
categories are good, that we can just jump up and overnight be like
that first category, it takes time, it takes time. And we have
to, we have to respect what has to go into it. And when you see some
of your great teachers that are of older age, that have mastered, the
sciences of the religion mastered, that the internal dimension of the
religion in relation to their own self, and are extremely advanced
in the spiritual path, is that we have to be very careful and know
what it is that we need to follow in when.
And that's a very important knowledge that again, relates to
this idea that we speak about regularly of
religious and spiritual maturity, which oftentimes in our societies
becomes difficult because we don't have all of the examples that we
need at the different levels. But still, to this day, in many
traditional societies is preserved. People know what they
need to do when and you have to be patient, because it takes a
lifetime to really do this.
And still others associate.
Still others associated with them to benefit from their bedika and
good prayers, but have neither the intention nor the determination to
follow their example and emulate their pattern. This is not devoid
of buttock and goodness and is alluded to in the Hadith closely
which ends they are the people whose companions never suffered
wretchedness. So they'll benefit even if their intention and being
around those bustle peoples just to get their back. I can't do what
they do. Not going to ever be like them, but I want to be in their
company. And that look at that blesseds statement coming from the
Hadith of the Rasul sighs settlements in Sahih Muslim, they
are the people whose companions never suffer wretchedness. And
that hormonal Comilla Yes, ca b hingedly. So life
has never that ultimately ended up in the wrong place, from the
blessing of them being around them, and will quote the Hadith
and fool just to read it for the baraka it's been translated on the
bottom of page 86 at the end. Now liquidity says though,
go ahead.
This even applies to those who are associated with them in order to
be protected through the good fortune and baraka of their
company from the iniquitous and aggressive among human and jinn
demons.
These will never be disappointed, nor will the Buddha could be
withheld from them. Look at that. Even people that have bad
intentions, even people that are like shale thing, right? Is it
everyone benefits from them?
Everyone benefits from them.
And it might just be that they just not as bad. It might just be
some of that is forgiven if there's they will benefit in one
way or the other. And this is why that one of the words that they
use for these people is like their generosity is like NEDA is like
doo doo does not differentiate which plant that it falls on. It
falls on everything. And these are people that they say is that the
true people are like Earth, whoever walks on them, they only
give goodness back. And this is how they are even people that are
iniquitous, even people that have issues that among the human engine
demons is that good will come their way from them.
And tribulations are warded off from them. And again it gets back
to the same conversation where people to know the blessing of
having Muslims c'est la ilaha illa Allah and establish the five daily
prayers and to avoid the Haram and to observe the halal and to be
supplicating and to be having gatherings of goodness and to be
sending Salawat upon the prophesized. nemen to recite the
Quran to do items of the Quran, these types of things. This helps
every buddy in the vicinity. They will people that have no
idea why it happened. But it's the means for them to get that job or
not to get in that car accident or to be healed when they go to the
hospital or to that be relieved when they're in financial. And I
have no idea.
And it's from those things. And this is why that when we do this,
the more we do, this is the heart and the backbone of what we need
to be doing here. gatherings of goodness, and again, most people
will never see it. So it's just something you have to believe in.
But this is why you need true that great people have the religion to
let you know what's happening.
And then we believe them. I believe them. I've heard you speak
extensively. And sometimes it's from unveilings that they
witnessed firsthand and I believe it, I believe it. No one's
claiming sincerity or anything we're trying Jolo to be abundant
out of my fina, we're trying bus, Inshallah, from the baraka of
coming together as a group probably be about an Inshallah,
that's our hope, not anything that we have, but in the Mercy of Allah
subhanho wa taala. So if all of these people benefit,
then what about those that come with an intention? What about
those that come with a strong intention? What about those that
come to seek provision from the gatherings that they're going to
go back and face life with its different degrees
they will be withheld, however, from those whose aim is to acquire
a reputation and reputation among people for keeping such company,
hoping test to be able to attain to prohibited and illicit things,
thinking wrongly that if people knew them to associate them to
associate with them good and virtuous, they will never suspect
them of illegal practices and forbidden actions. It is not
impossible people have bad intentions, okay. It is not
impossible for some who are forsaken by God and the object of
his anger to harbor such aims. In the chapter detailing the
different kinds of ostentation and their goals. The proof of Islam
Rahim Allah says that some parade their acts of obedience, so that
people may know about them, which makes it impossible for them to
behave with depravity.
If this is possible, as concerns, acts of obedience, it is equally
possible as concerns mixed with the virtuous. The devil is a
manifest enemy, and he uses numerous kinds of deceitful and
fraudulent shattered prisms, among which are these, there are more
dangerous, reprehensible, evil and harmful things still, we ask God
for wellbeing and protection, for he is the best of protectors. So
for the blessing, I just want to read this hadith in Sahih, Muslim
maybe a very good translation of it. And usually we just hear parts
of it. So it's of great benefit to have a translation of the whole
Hadith. The hadith runs as follows. Allah has angels who
roamed the streets searching for the people of remembrance, when
they find people engaged in the remembrance of Allah, they call to
each other saying, come to your task, and they spread their wings
around them as high as the terrestrial heaven. Then the Lord
asked them, although he has more knowledge than they, what are my
slave saying? And they reply, they're extolling magnifying,
praising and glorifying You. Have they seen me? Yes. And they say
no, by Allah, they have not seen you. He then says How would it be
then had they seen me? Had they seen you the angels replied, they
would have worshipped and glorified you more intensely, in
extolled your even more abundantly. He then asked, what
are they asking for? And they reply, they're asking you for the
garden. He says, have they seen it? And the answer no, by Allah,
they have not seen it. Oh, Lord, what if they had seen it? He
asked, and they say, had they seen it? They would have been more
intent on winning, it's more ardent in asking for it, and they
would have yearned for it even more intensely. He then asked,
What are they seeking protection from? And they reply, they seek
protection from the fire. He says, have they seen it in the answer?
No, by Allah they have not seen it. He asked what if they had seen
it? Had they seen it? They reply, they would have been even more
fearful and more determined to flee from it. He then says, I call
you to witness that I have forgiven them.
Allah is calling the angels to witness these angels, that their
duty in their task is to roam the streets and to search for the
people of remembrance. Allah as angels that's their sole purpose.
And in gatherings where you feel a sense of hadoar presence, where
you feel a sense of Polmont Nina tranquility, in Sakina serenity,
it's likely due to the presence of the blessings, angels that are
there in that gathering. Because they're drawn in attracted to
large gatherings of light gatherings of remembrance,
gatherings in which Allah and His messenger are remembered. But it
doesn't end there. Had they seen it, they replied, they would have
been even more people are more determined to flee from he then
says, I call you to witness that I've forgiven them.
In look, one of the angels then says,
this is an angel, bringing this Allah knows everything. But we
learned from this, oh Lord, so and so is among them, a sinful
servant, who was just passing by and join them.
And he declares Allah, in him to I have forgiven. They are the people
whose companions never suffer wretchedness.
Even if someone just comes, they didn't have an intention, a sinful
servant. They're just there without intention, just from the
blessing of being present.
And that's what we want to be like an in relation to this, that a
another Hadith clarifies that there's three types of people. And
we learned about this, that three people came to a gathering one
person that turned away right away, someone else is that thought
about it was about to walk away, and then reluctantly set. And then
the third, immediately set.
And then each one was dealt with, according to their intention, the
one that turned away, Allah turned away from him.
And then the one that was reluctant and then sat, is it
Allah forgave.
And then the one that stayed? Is it, that is the one that is going
to receive that abundant gifts from Allah Jalaja? In other words,
is that where's our intention? Are we those type of people just turn
away?
Not from any specific gathering. So don't think we're referring
about anything specific. But just in general, are we the type of
person to turn away from good, are we the type person that I don't
know, Yanni. I'm shy not to be there. So I'm just going to sit
right in so that, that if we act like that, then Allah to Allah
won't punish us, out of the blessing of the shyness that
prevented us from going away.
But the third is the type of person that we want to be we want
to that be from the people that are in the gatherings of goodness,
love the gatherings of goodness, and in most it best experience the
beauty of the gatherings of goodness, and find intimacy in
them.
And that don't ever, ever, ever want to be away from them, is it
we build our schedule around them.
And that we try to never ever miss them.
And if we do that,
despite how deficient the people are involved in the gathering,
this is about our relationship with Allah Jalaja you life will
change. Allah will change your life, he will transform your life,
he will facilitate things for you that you thought that you were
searching by being absent, but when you attended, all of a
sudden, it just starts to work out. This is Munjal rub, this is
tested and people know that this works. May Allah give us tofi
count up and to bless us to be from that first category of
people. And in sha Allah that if we fallen short, in that may Allah
to Allah bless us to slowly move in the direction, where eventually
before we take our last breath, we are from that great group. We'd
love to add to have mercy upon us Yato but I'd imagine bless us and
all of our different affairs and bless us at the level of all of
our intention. Bless us at the level of all of the acts that we
do. May Allah to accept from us and to be completely sincere and
to have sincerity permeate every aspect of our being yada but I
mean, may we be able to place a trust in our Lord's upon what Adam
he opened up the doors of goodness to all of us and to facilitate for
us a bad, sincere worship of Him for no other reason other than he
deserves to be worshipped so I know what the other and that we
are as a bead. We are His servants and he's commanded us to do so.
Well so a lot as a Mohammed annoyed at you sabew Salam
hamdulillah
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