Yahya Rhodus – Knowledge & Wisdom Imam alHaddad #29
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See the number one with a vertical cinema Sally in Mamilla. Her dad
says in his book, knowledge and wisdom, Chapter 33 The degrees of
halal and haram it is an obligation after the after the
other known obligations that one should seek Halal things, eating
halal food and wearing Halal clothes. While confining once
after that nests to that necessary to fulfill one's needs have great
advantages, beautiful results, numerous benefits, and brings to
fruition momentous and precious things such as indispensable if
one is to clean and purify one's heart, render it more subtle and
illuminated, adorn it with noble upright beliefs, saving qualities
and good character and purify one senses with good works, sincere,
sincere obedience and upright speech.
Legal time so let's start there Bismillah salatu salam ala
Rasulillah while al he will suffer behave, woman why Allah.
This is Chapter 33 On the degrees of halal and haram from Allah
fasudil elmia transit as knowledge and wisdom. And every chapter of
this work written by Imam Abdullah bin agar her dad provides for us
that knowledge that is of the utmost importance. The knowledge
that is in the books of Imam Abdullah and Edward, her dad is
knowledge that we need when we take our last breath and we're on
our way to our grave. This is the knowledge that we're going to need
that when we are in our graves after having lived our lives
within hamdulillah for the opportunity for us to learn it
while we're still here alive and still have that and the ability to
do something about it.
And so he's going to speak to us about the various degrees of the
halal and haram and he prefaces his discussion
by saying that tolerable Hala, that seeking Halal things, doing
that which is permissible is a formula. It is an obligation that
is battlefield Allah, that is after the other known obligations.
So this is something that we all have to do. And in fact, when it
comes to the spiritual path, is when it comes to our Halal incomes
is what we begin with. There is no reality to the spiritual path
without having a halal income. But then it also applies to other
things in our life. Is it making sure that everything that relates
to us is halal. So eating halal food in wearing Halal clothes, and
so forth and so on. That all of this is fundamental to this Deen.
And it's an obligation. It's not just something that is better.
It's not just something that we have a choice in. It is a
religious obligation. And why many of us that think about that food
oftentimes, and associate it to what is halal and what is not
halal. That other times that we forget that it applies to other
aspects of our life, that we don't think oftentimes about our
clothes, we don't think oftentimes about items that it is that we
purchase, we don't think oftentimes about
the work that is the source of our income.
And so he says here, while confining oneself to that
necessary to fulfill one's needs, has great advantages, beautiful
results and numerous benefits and bring to fruition momentous and
precious things. So that what he's saying here is that the more that
we acquire this great, great trait absorb it, that we learn to detach
into renounce is that the easier it will be for you and I to
maintain within the boundaries of the halal to the extent that we
have what's called an aesthetic style for Shabbat is that we allow
ourselves to just do whatever it is that we want to do and follow
our desires is to the degree which that we will that find it
difficult to maintain the boundaries and remain doing what
that which is halau.
Again, this applies at every single level of what is considered
a halau. But This especially applies to our income.
And that if you think about, for instance, those of us living in
Western countries like the United States of America, the way that
the system is set up, and again, there's different types of jobs
that people have, but I have friends that opened up a business
and they that told me there really is only a certain amount to which
you can expand until then you'll be forced to
To take interest loans at a certain point to expand further.
And so there's something about the system itself is that you will
have to make certain decisions, when you reach this point of if
you that are not content with what you have, and you want to expand
more is that you might end up making a bad decision. And then
that you think that you're expanding, but if you're doing
something that is haram, then there's not going to be any
blessing in it. And a very well might spoil what it is that you
already have. But if you would have had this perspective, does it
suffice me hurt us,
and that I know another individual home that had a very comfortable
job, it's enough to support his family.
And he's had opportunities because he's a good employee, to get
raises to move on to higher positions in the company. But when
he really thought about and he compared the salary increase with
the amount of responsibility that goes along with that, and also
that the free time that we'd be losing by for that he had from the
previous job, it wasn't worth it. So he remained. And that this is
really, when you think about this, really, really important. There
are oftentimes people who's that housing that they have a
sufficient supply system. But there's this tendency in the
community that I have to move into a better house, I have to upgrade
to a better neighborhood, the car that I drive is not enough that I
need to upgrade into a better type of car, and it never stops. And
for some people, it becomes a very deep disease, especially when that
there's these other diseases that enter in like hassad with the
biller, and then this really that nasty type of competition, because
there's not competition based upon Goodwill for the other person. And
it's for something that is not worth competing over to begin
with, which is dunya.
If Allah to Allah has given you some pieces of content with it,
this is what we need to speak to ourselves with. This is how we
need to address ourselves. And that
Subhanallah there's just a special blessing around these people. I
know someone who moved to a community,
and lived in an area that wasn't really the nicest of areas, and
lived in a very simple apartment.
And that from the original people that were associated with the
institution that he was a part of, that he's one of the few that have
remained throughout all of the years, the vast majority of other
people that were serving in some capacity either as volunteers or
as employees eventually moved on. But he's still there. And he's
still in the very same place that he was when that he actually moved
into the area. And I think even actually has the same car.
And it's that is formidable, Allahu Akbar, and that people like
this are wise people. And there's a lot of blessings in their lives.
And you can see those blessings in different ways, just their state
itself. And then you look at their children, you look at their
spouse, you look at the people around them, and you just wild,
very clear blessings. This is a golden piece of advice. And so to
the degree that we can confine ourselves to that which is
necessary to fulfill our needs, think about that, even in relation
to food
is that the more more that we open up the door to that eat different
types of food and eat at different restaurants, and all of a sudden,
that we find ourselves compromising, I want to eat this
place so bad and this type of food that God knows what is mixed in
the back room. And sometimes there's hot aisle meat and not
halal meat, and who knows which one you're actually getting as it
cooks separately, and all of these other types of things, but was it
really worth it, that for us to go out and eat at that particular
place? Now, at the same time, that we don't want to make things
unnecessarily difficult on people, but this principle still remains.
So in all of these aspects of our life, we should really think
deeply about it, we should really think deeply about it. And that we
should that if we were wise to really take each category and that
write that our thoughts on each one and analyze our own selves.
And to see that where we are that on a scale of one to 10 one is
complete the hood. Right 10 is complete indulgence or whichever
however you want to do it and then that we could start to see the
steps that we need to take to that get better and better.
So that
eating halal food and wearing Halal clothes he says that has
great advantages beautiful results, numerous benefits.
It's in bring to fruition momentous in precious things. Such
as indispensable if one is to clean and purify one's heart and
render it more subtle in the nominated, adorn it with noble
upright beliefs, saving qualities and good character and purify
one's senses with good works, sincere obedience in upright
speech, My God, what else needs to be said?
Right? All of this he calls it an Aslan Kabir that a great
foundation, and also is the foundation of something, something
you begin with, to the very heart of the matter. And so all of these
things, which what else is like, what else are we trying to do in
life, then to do these things? This starts with that, which is
Hala. And of course, that requires knowledge. And that these various
categories, that and then when you that add a nother dimension to it
is that when it comes to food, is that not only should it be halal,
but it should be valuable.
And there's a lot of modern words that you could very easily include
in the concept of being type.
And that words like being organic words, like being ethical words,
like local words like Fairtrade, that in so forth, and so on,
there's a number of different words that you can include in this
idea of being pipe. And you could extend that to beyond food, you
could extend that to clothes, and that trying our best to that have
clothes that we wear be from ethical sources, shoes that we
wear, and that from the bounty of Allah to others apps at our
fingertips where we can find out this information, the gas stations
that we go to, do we just go to any gas station? Or have we done
just even basic research where none of them I don't think are
good, it's gas, fossil fuels, there's a carbon footprint, no
doubt, but there's some that are much worse than others.
And we should try to support the ones that are more ethical, the
clothing companies, the shoe companies, we should try to
support the ones that are more ethical and that
the the
closer that something is to being halal and pipe is that the less
darkness will be associated with it. So we should always keep in
mind is that halal? Yes means it's permissible to do even something
mcru disliked is permissible to do. But it doesn't mean that there
can't potentially be some type of negative impact upon you. It can
be set up to assist the Bible mentions us about the Makoto
heart, the things that are offensive is that they bring
darkness to your heart.
And that's for Makoto heart. But then also, these other things that
are the opposite of time, is that there's a effects that these
things have upon us. And that we have to have a very powerful
spiritual state, if we're going to be have a lot of those effects
warded off that, that from us. And you can have a very powerful
spiritual state and that remain doing that which is halal, and not
have the negative impact upon yourself as possible. But to the
degree that we have our spiritual immune system that built up will
be to the degree that that takes place. And the difficulty here is,
is that most of this you don't see. Much of this is intangible.
And that but we believe in the unseen, we believe and baraka and
that it's very, very real. And if you've ever that been overseas to
bless it communities in sacred spaces that you don't even need to
talk about, you've experienced it.
And it's different. I remember one of the first going to Mauritania
and West Africa. And subhanAllah. There is so much Bartok in the
time there. It's unbelievable, so much back. And there's a very
outward dimension of that, is it just not as busy as we are? Right?
And they live in a an encampment in the middle of the Sahara
Desert, there's not much else to do other than to either learn or
socialize. Right, but that's part of it. But there's something else
too. There's something about that being in a place that has produced
hundreds of olema in hundreds of her fault, and not just one or
two, but that dozens of pious people that their hearts are
turning to something that happens to you by being in those places.
And I remember
They're going to sleep in the morning. And that waking up and
just feeling just like I slept for so long. I looked at the clock.
It's like 930. Right? So I went back I was like, mashallah have
more time I went back to sleep. And then when I woke up, I was
like, little hoarse, definitely entered.
And look at the clock was like 11 o'clock, as I could still go back
to sit, went back to sleep again. I woke up again. And I was like,
it's like, close to Oslo. It's like close to Oslo, like, you
know, if you feel like you've really slept, and still had not
entered yet. And I think actually, I was really tired from the trip,
I went back to sleep, I think a fourth time, and finally woke up
until her just entered. Like what was it was like, the first time I
woke up, I'd felt like, I was so well rested, that though he was
about to enter. And I remember also that experience, and that how
the remote that you know, things that you could do that you simply
couldn't do here, right, there'll be certain nights where you only
get like two hours of sleep. And it's not just you, all of the
students were like this, or you only you really only have a
certain window. Because no matter what time is you go to sleep
you're getting up at a certain time.
And to imagine like actually going through a rigorous day, after only
sleeping for two or three hours, right? If you try to do that here
and go to work, you'd just be exhausted, you wouldn't able to
get through the day, you'd be impaired, you wouldn't be able to
even do your job. So there's something real, you know about
this. But anyhow, this is his introduction. This is how he's
going to speak about that that which is halal. And then he's
going to discuss also that which is haram. And now he's going to
talk about four degrees. Now, sometimes when we read this, we
might think like, Oh, my God, this is impossible, right? But it still
is important for us to know
that how they viewed it, and you have to know what's out there. And
then you have to see where you are in do better. And as we've
discussed before, just and it doesn't just apply to an
organization applies to your own life as well. If there's a scale
from one to 10 in for one or two, and that's the lowest, right?
Okay, if you learn about what a 10 is, you can't just despair and be
like, Okay, I'm never going to reach a 10 Now get to a two
and once you get to a two, then get to a three. Once you get to a
three, then get to a four. And if you move slowly and incrementally,
you can progress a lot like
legally permitted or Halal things are of many degrees, the highest
and best being that which is absolutely halal, and retain
retains its original permissible, permissible quality in every
respect, such as sweet running water, herbs growing on
uncultivated land, hunted game and fish from the sea that are edible,
insufficient. These are entirely allowed when eaten in the legally
permitted way, with due caution. And with and with the God fearing
intention of using them as assistance in obeying God,
worshiping Him and establishing his rule, and in quantities not
exceeding the strictly necessary. Some of the virtuous predecessors
Salaf. May God have mercy on them. Eight only herbs for so long that
their bodies began to turn greenish. As for Sofia, and
authority, and Ibrahim even Adam, may God have mercy on them. When
they found no halaal of that description, they say simply ate
sand. For them, it was sufficiently nutritious to replace
food. They are herbs growing on some mountains and valleys which a
man can eat nothing else besides God supposed to serve, and
according to his intention, and aim. So you even talk about this
and our time when people think you're crazy. Like, what are you
talking about, like returning green? Is that even scientifically
possible? Right?
Right. I don't care what you all say about that, that these
righteous people were different. They didn't operate as we operate.
And if you've ever met them or been around people that somewhat
resemble them, and our time is that you start to believe in the
stories because you've seen things but otherwise, there's no way to
explain.
Right? Like I've met people that don't sleep for like seven or
eight days.
Like, literally don't sleep for seven or eight days.
Like how do you explain that? Like how could anyone possibly do that?
If they're not in a it How could someone do that? And then like
someone might speak about like, oh, well, that's actually very
unhealthy.
For these people that's not they're different. Right? They
have something else
happening there where they receive sustenance directly from Allah.
But it's one of those things like Don't try this at home. Right? If
we ate sand, it would be very bad for us. But these people were they
were different people. They really were different people. But let us
remember that this is what the tablet in said about the sahaba. I
saw people that if that if you would have seen them, you would
have said they were crazy.
They were Madani, they would have thought that they were crazy,
because of the things that they used to do. And that again, it's
just set that highest limit the Sahaba their level of
scrupulousness was they used to leave nine tenths of what was
halal.
Not only did they avoid the Haram, not only did they avoid the mcru.
Not only did they limit the halal nine tenths of what was halal,
they used to avoid, right in order to create a barrier between them.
And how could you not respect that people that that prefer the
afterlife over this world to that degree? No, you can't do that. I
can't do that we can't even come close to that. We don't need to
say that. We know that. But we can respect that. And we can love
those people. And then we can make sacrifices to the extent possible.
So this is the highest degree of all of these things that are
absolutely that hello from every aspect. But then that not only
that they held on and said but look at how they're consumed.
They're eaten in legally permitted way with due caution in with the
Godfrey intention of using them as assistance and obeying God,
worshiping Him and establishing his role and in quantities not
exceeding the strictly necessary. So it's not just even that the
thing itself, it's how its consumed.
And when you see that you just realized I'm having these. But
again, a lot of people don't believe this. I've seen this,
where I've seen people go days on end without food,
days on end.
And they're right there before you it's not like they're like eating
secretly, they live in tents, right was no way for them to go
secretly eat, right? That they go days on in some of them. But
that's the highest, highest highest degree. And then that I've
also seen people that limit themselves to one meal a day.
That's it. There's no food consumption outside the one meal.
Right, they might have milk, like in the morning in the evening to
drink. And then when we talk about a meal, we're not talking about
like a four course. Right meal. We're talking about raw couscous,
a little bit of butter in a dish.
And I remember eating with this man one time, and no table, all he
does is he has a bowl, and we just plopped down in the middle of the
desert, just like okay here to plop down. And he didn't like to
eat alone. So we ate together.
And that's it. For the entire day he took his took what he needed,
and then no food until the next day.
But again, you can just say no. And I saw that students that were
extremely advanced that were right at the cusp of moving from two
meals a day to one meal a day. Or sometimes it just was too hard
where they ate the second meal. And then they go for a couple and
then they'd have to get in the other meal. And you don't it's
almost like you don't believe these things until you see it. And
when you see it
is that you don't really care what other people think about it
because you've witnessed firsthand that what is really possible right
before your eyes. So that is the highest degree of Hidalgo of all
and then the second
the second degree of halala is that which is pure entirely Halal
in one respect, but not in another. For instance, food and
clothes bought in strictly necessary quantities of money and
by selling herbs and wood gathered from the valleys, reduced
scrupulousness Some of our virtuous predecessors have done
this.
The third degree, the third degree is that which is obtained when the
thing is absolutely a lot in neither of these respects, but
acquired with money earned as a merchant or a craftsman a
silversmith for example, or a tailor. This degree of halaal
exists when these people buy and sell while maintaining the core
scrupulousness vigilance and caution and with the good
intention of using that which they earn to assist them in God's
obedience, in conforming to his injunctions, using nothing but the
strictly necessary to fulfill their needs in the way of in the
way of food, clothes and other requirements and giving the
scrupulous away the surplus weigh in charitable and benevolent Ark
acts done solely for the sake of God the Exalted.
The fourth degree of Hull applies to those people whose actions are
mixed, who are neither cautious
In their transactions know keen to avoid devious things. They are
complacent and show little taqwa in whatever they take or leave.
Thus much of their money is of dubious provenance. And their
possessions represent a mixture about them it is said whoever
cares not where he obtained his money, God cares not from which of
the gates of * he will make him enter
Hello masala usnm Ali, right?
Yeah, Allah.
And this is why this is the time which we live as a time of is
still followed and settled upon the Habib sobre la dia, this
is the time when we just have to repent to Allah night and day and
just send as many satellites upon our Prophet Salah ISON as we can.
And if you that, yes, you can do it. There's always halau there's,
there's always ways to have a hello income. But the vast
majority of young people when they're are on a career track or
looking for work. It's not what it's not what they're thinking
about it. It's some people in general, yes, want to do something
that's hot out. But there hasn't been a lot of thought put to it.
Like what actually is halal? Or is this particular career of mine, a
halal career. And there's a difference between before you
enter into something after you're already in it. And the scholars
used to say, is when anyone would come to them with a question, and
they've yet to do that particular thing, they would point him to the
most scrupulous, that answer possible for them. So the most
scrupulous of things for their based upon their level, they would
point them to me, they wouldn't just open up the door to say
anyone do everything they want to do. But after if they came to them
after having done something here, then they would find opinions to
validate what it is that they did. So there was a difference. And
that hopefully, that we can create a culture where we really think
about very carefully the different types of professions out there.
And we that outline for people, the various pitfalls in the
various types of professions, the various types of things that they
will be exposed to. And if you think about our predicament here
in a place like the United States of America, and just this idea
that people think that if somehow you don't get a college education,
that you're, you're doomed, you're gonna die of hunger. Right, that
I'm not saying that we don't get a college education. But I think we
need to really think these things through, we need to really think
these things through. And that the way that people view that other
types of professions and different types of crafts and trades, and
that if someone just goes to vocational school, this is not,
the way that we should be viewing things is that we should be that
respecting the various types of trades and crafts, and that if you
just think about how many great people before us, that did the
things that prophets that were carpenters, people that were
blacksmith, even farmers, and so forth, is that this is very
important is that we give life to these that types of trades. And
the idea of that working hard with your hands and getting that a
salary for it. But we really need to do a lot of work into that
helping people acquire lawful income, a lot of work needs to be
done. And that really helping people think through what it is
that they want to do from this particular basis. Okay, and again,
we're not against people going to get degrees. And yes, you could
say, Oh, what about the stats that show that people who don't get a
college degree that data and this is the income disparity, and all
these other types of things, if your sole goal is income, okay,
that's one thing.
But there's a lot of other considerations, as well, and that
we should ultimately look at all of these things from the lens of
the dean, and not just to follow people down the lizard hold and
have our own perspectives. And that, and I've always said this
time and time again, is that if I would much rather my son that have
a that profession that some people deem to be that, that
unrespectable then to that have a professional where he like made a
lot of money, and that it was questionable, the source of his
actual income.
And if you try to apply, apply, really the predicament that we're
in, in most case scenarios with most people, is just Yeah, Habiba
trying to find something that in Sharla is Hello
scrupulousness If you use scrupulousness
In terms of your choice,
it's a problem. It's a problem. And I don't mean to say that to
make people despair, but this is the reality. This is the reality.
And
that, you know, it's not easy for people. But anyhow, that one thing
I do absolutely believe in is not just for that a person who's
strong, amen. If you make this a priority in your life, Allah will
open up the doors for you to have a halal income. If you make it a
priority, Allah will open up the doors. If you had a con, if you
had a critical mass of Muslims in America, who made that a priority,
Allah will open up for every single one of them a source of
Halal income. I absolutely believe that. And Allah will change things
for them.
But if you just acquiesce, and just, you know, you're just a cog
in the wheel, and you're not willing to go against the grain
but to take a salary cut, then what's really going to change?
Right, that change happens on the hands of courageous people.
Time.
There are four degrees of Halal opposed to which are another four
degrees representing things which are either haram or altogether
prohibited, restricted, dubious or problematic. The first of these is
that which is altogether prohibited, except in the case of
dire necessity. Examples of this category include Korean blood,
pork and alcohol. The second category is made of things which
are halal in themselves, but forbidden because owned by someone
else. Barley wheat dates and raisins could be examples. These
are haram unless, unless they reach you illicitly, through
either purchase or permissible way, gift or inheritance. Now
the third category consists of such items which are either
originally haram but have become Halal through dubious means
unacceptable to people of truth and Taqwa, who do not depend on
such things, but accepted promptly by those have little knowledge and
Taqwa, who are overcome by the egos and passions of this category
also, are those things which were originally Halal until that were
raised as to whether for some reason, they have become haram.
There is a sign Hadith which states those who fall into
doubtful things will fall into the prohibited like the shepherd who
grazes his animals near the edge of the inter interdicted area, and
is therefore likely to trespass into it. There is also the well
known hadith of Akbar, once married a woman, after which after
which a black woman came along and claimed that she had breastfed
both of them. There are many examples illustrating this
category. And the proof of Islam has written on this model as early
as written on this great length in the section on halal and haram in
the area. Then that books been translated into English by Sheikh
Yusuf do the Renzo it's a very good translation and a very
technical book it's still worth reading but it might need it's
likely to need a commentary it's a very technical book even mama know
we said about this volume of hiya lamb, you elephant is cinema
through the likes of has not been authored in Islam. It's an amazing
work and that in great detail he that talks about the different
degrees of what is halal and what is haram and that the degrees of
scrupulousness in differentiating between when is it possible Sun
whisperings from Shaytaan and when is it actually scrupulousness And
it's really, really helpful.
Now,
as for the US, for the US for problematic things. They are
mostly Halal in appearance, but accept them necessitates
complacency, carelessness as to whom one deals with or takes from
wastefulness overspending, access and pleasure seeking. This is
where the halal becomes narrower and people take risks in what they
use, how they transact business and the pleasures and comforts
they pursue. It is said that Halal does not bear wastefulness a
hadith states, a servant does not reach the degree of the people of
Taqwa until he leaves that which is untainted for fear of that
which is tainted. And one of the companions may God be pleased with
them all said, we used to leave nine tenths of what was listed for
fear of falling into the prohibited and the Hadith narrated
by Hassan son of ally, may God be pleased with them both says leave
that which arises your suspicion for that which does not literally
leave that which makes you doubt for that which does not make you
doubt. And, again, we want to have our opinions be formed based upon
knowledge. And we should ask questions and to probe into issues
into
Research unlike anything else, many other things that we do in
our life before we do them, when we go on a vacation, you don't
just like, oh, that hotel looks good, right? People spend a
significant portion of time researching where they're going to
go, what hotels are going to stay in, what they're going to do, and
looking at reviews and all kinds of things. We do that for
vacations. But we don't do that for Dean. Right? So that we should
spend time thinking about these things and scrutinize them. And
making sure is that we make a good decision based upon where we're at
in the dean.
And if we are in an area, that is not the best of areas to be in,
that we should that find ways right to get out, but with wisdom,
and taking into consideration a number of different factors. But
this really requires that a deep level of the sacred law, knowledge
of the sacred law where
it can be tailored to our specific circumstances.
The next chapter shorts, we're going to take one more chapter in
Shona. So this is chapter 34.
Chapter 34, the insinuations of the devil, among the most harmful
things that can befall a person as he prays recite the Quran or
invokes God the Exalted, or the whisperings in the breast, the
crowding of thoughts, and the egos prattling about matters past and
future, when, okay, so this is what he says. So these are what
are called are called water. These are our thoughts. And
that the course of the Hakim is putting on right now is that this
relates directly to our health directly.
And that the more of these types of thoughts that we have,
especially those that incite in us, anxiety,
or sometimes sadness, anxiety is usually about the future sadness
is usually about the past. And the more that we don't live in the
moment, by worrying about that either the past or the future,
fearing the future, or all these other things that happen, falling
victim to these various thoughts is that the less spiritually and
then at every degree, that even psychologically, mentally and even
physically healthy that we will be, and that the worst thing of
all of this is, is that it takes us away from the path of Allah
Tabata cortada, which are concerned should be one concern,
arriving to the hereafter safely.
Our concern should be one concern a lot. We want to draw near to
Allah from morning to evening. That is our number one concern
Allah, Allah, Allah.
And we all fall short in that we all get distracted. We all forget,
we all make mistakes, we fall down. But we have to keep getting
ourselves back up, keep getting ourselves back, keep beating
ourselves back up. And we then have resolve. This is one of the
greatest blessings of being in the gatherings of goodness. When you
hear the blessed poetry recited about the praise of the prophesy
center, in the gathering, you're like in your heart help us. Right?
I'm gonna have resolve to do this. And to do that, do this, do that.
And you might hang on for half a day or fourth or a day or maybe
one day in the US at the next day. Right? But I'm doing then there's
another guy that comes along with us. I'm going to renew my resolve.
And no matter how many times we break our resolve, let's at least
die with trying to have resolve.
That's much better than just being in a complete state of
heedlessness. Right. And that the hope is, is that just by attending
Holman calm liar's club him Jalisa home is that the greatest blessing
of those gatherings is that at very least Your sins are forgiven.
And your bad deeds are turned into good deeds. Como photo no calm
booty, let's see IG comm has a net. That's the very least of that
blessings. And then there's a long list of others. So that what he's
saying here is men above real Usher added insane right? And
that's not in general but specifically,
when we pray, recite the Quran are in a state of decode
are the whisperings from shipborne the crowding of thoughts? The
Eagles prowling, just constantly speaking to you, worrying about
this and then thinking about this and that, and this is the nature
of things is that the more that we let the sensory in, the more that
it takes root in our heart.
And that they've done tests on this to prove this. But if you
just in passing, look at something and then you quickly turn away.
Yes, there might be remnants of that that remains with you. But if
you look at something and look at something, then that's going to be
etched into your heart.
And that usually, is that when you say Allahu Akbar, and you enter
into prayer, that's when you weren't even thinking about these
things before. And then all of a sudden, you start thinking about
them in prayer. But why is this the case because all three of
these things prayer, the recitation of the Quran and dhikr.
Again, this is the touchstone this is the way that we know our state
of hearts, because this is when it's going to come to the surface.
And as long as we are just outside of these types of worship, doing
other things, were just roaming in one valley to the other thoughts
anyway. But when you're trying to focus, right, and this is what he
said, this is one of the most harmful things, but it's not.
It's not supposed to make us just despair. It's not his point in
doing this. This is why these books take courage. They take
courage, because the vast majority people don't like to be
criticized. And this is why they say is that the greatest sign of
the evil scholars is that they don't like the books even Rommel
has it.
And by extension, you haven't had that. Right, because that anyone
who doesn't want to be criticized, I mean, that's this is just back,
back. But you know, you have to be a certain type of person, right?
Because, like, there's no pretension and we all know
ourselves, we won't be able to fool each other. Right? But we all
know ourselves, we know where we're at. When it comes to these
things, we know where we're at, when it comes to the previous
conversation. We can't fool Allah, we were able to fool other people.
We gotta keep it real, we know we got to know where we're at. And,
you know, let's find a way out, let's find a way to move forward,
let's try to do what it is that we can. Small little things mean a
lot, mean a lot in our time, small little things mean a lot,
then we should never forget that. Like, when the hardest emerged.
When the heart is submerged in these and preoccupied with them,
they ruin the essence meaning an aim of his devotional activities,
and may even ruin the outward appearance as well. Ruin is the
word he used Subhan Allah Now, his state will then equal that of one
who has not performed them at all. Or even worse, this will be
familiar to he who is concerned with this and has experienced in
these matters, who was concerned for his religion, giving his Lord
what is due to Him, and working for his life to come.
When these thoughts and feelings concern, acts of obedience,
unrelated to the matter at hand, they are but but satanic satanic
plots, and attempts to confuse the believer by selling him evil
dressed up as good, because this is what shaytaan does. He has a
number of different tricks. If he can get you disbelieve, he will,
if he can't get you to disbelieve, then that what he'll try to do is
take your faith from you, that if he can't get you to do that, as he
will try to get you not to worship Allah, if He can't get you to do
that, he'll try to get you to postpone worship, if he can't get
you to postpone worship, he'll try to get you to that be hasty in
your worship. If he can't get you to be hasty in your worship, he'll
try to get you to think about other types of worship during your
worship. If he can't do that, then he's going to try to get you to do
it for the sake of people. And there's several degrees of that.
And if he can't get you to do it for the sake of people, he'll try
to get you to do it in a way that you become impressed with
yourself. And then if he can't get you there, is it there's one last
trick that he has?
Which is this is for the those who reach a high degree, is it he'll
try to get you to think that you actually don't need to worship?
And some might say, Well, that's obvious, but not when that they
experience what is that they experience?
Very powerful states, which is that these are people that no
matter what they experienced from spiritual realities, that grounded
in Sharia, in shaytaan, can come in the form of light. But these
are people that are grounded, that even if that happens,
that in everybody leaves a look, I am so torn, that indeed my servant
you have no authority over them. Allah system. And this is why you
have to have teachers to help you pass through all of these
obstacles. And to get through all of these hurdles into that draw
near to Allah. Allah, Allah, Allah Allah. Just as if you were going
to some complicated place and you didn't have a GPS you need a
guide. We need someone who knows the back streets
Since knows how to get where it is that you're going, they
if they concern barely illicit things, this is even baser and
more villainous, whereas if they are to do with sins and
rebellions, this is the worst and ugliest of all. These latter may
cause a servant to be expelled from the presence of God the
Exalted, thus becoming a loathsome refuge refuge,
refuge repudiate. So let the servants beware of this, to the
utmost, let him not abandon his soul to his prattling and
fruitless whisperings, when standing before God the Exalted,
remembering him, communing with Him, praying before his face, or
reciting his sublime sublime book. He who strives strives only for
himself following for Indeed, God has no need of the rules, but none
are granted it saved those who are steadfast a nun is granted it save
He who is immensely fortunate. And if an insinuation from the devil
reaches you seek refuge and God he is indeed the hearing the knowing.
So what is he advising us to do is that the sign that we have fear
from the knifes is that we hear this and we just like, okay, my
son was given
the sign that the fear is from the heart and it's true fear is that
we roll up our sleeves and get to work. Right woman, woman jarhead
in nama Yuja hidden enough say he was Dr. Strauss only for himself
or indeed God has no need of the world's love, honey subhanho wa
taala. He points us to Mujahid working hard striving, struggling,
rolling up your sleeves and getting to work. This is how we
there's no other option does exactly what we have to do. We
want to be hard workers. For the dean, we want to be hard work is
not just in the sense of service. Yes. But
the service that we do won't really be of meaning unless that
we work on our hearts first. And it doesn't mean what people think
is that, oh, you're just saying that people shouldn't be No. The
source of everything that you do outwardly is the state of your
heart. And oftentimes you're on you're doing both simultaneously.
But we need to roll up our sleeves to work on ourselves to work hard
on ourselves, to constantly struggle with ourselves. And
again, it is a constant wrestling match, constant. Sometimes we get
thrown, sometimes we throw our enough's. Sometimes he gets us in
a chokehold and we're about to tap out and then we slip out, and then
just back and forth back at hub, see, Jad it's that sometimes we
win, sometimes we lose, and it's okay. If we get thrown down, it's
okay. If the knifes gets points against us, let's come right back.
Right and
you know, even taking it down to the level of the street.
But there's very tough and strong people that will get beat up. But
what's their response to it? They just cower away and that's it? Or
do they come right back.
And that this is how we need to be with we don't want to be cowards
before our own selves. Even if we get beat. Even if we get thrown
down, we come right back. No, I'm not going out that easy. I'm
standing right back up, I got a black guy, I'm damaged, you got a
broken arm. But you know what, I'm not going out like that. I'm
coming right back.
And then that we might get the upper hand. And then there'll be a
point of weakness. And then we overcome. And this goes back and
forth, back and forth. We'll be talking about that actual topic,
much more detail over the weekend reading the data for the
treatment, lots of adequate data, give us Tofik era was revealed,
put these meanings into practice, yada yada, I mean, this everything
that we do to be and everything that we are exposed to to be from
that, which is you have permitted yada but I mean, we asked you to
completely remove all of the Haram and all of the shuba hats from our
life Yahama Rockne blesses to have knowledge and to move up to the
degrees of scrupulousness and to worship you in the very best of
ways and protect our hearts Yahama I mean, against the evil of the
shaytaan and the evil of our own selves, yada but I mean, and all
of our worries and all of our anxieties that we asked you that
you be suffice you face a fault suffice us of all of that Yahama
Amin versus to be able to direct our hearts to you and all over
different states will solve a lot of sin Ramadan. What do you send
them at home? Did you hear me