Yahya Rhodus – Knowledge & Wisdom Imam alHaddad #30
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The speakers discuss the importance of rectitude, managing one's thoughts and feelings, and maintaining a straight path. They stress the need to understand human thoughts and emotions, pass their tests, and achieve their goals in the next world. The importance of prioritizing one's actions and maintaining a brightness in life is emphasized, along with the importance of learning from the Prophet's advice and being mindful of one's actions to avoid unnecessary failure. The speakers also discuss the concept of "verbalism" and how it can lead to personal growth.
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the book of knowledge and wisdom is the name of the book. The
author is the mom and her dad. May we may Allah allow us the benefit
through him.
We are on page 91. And this is chapter 35. rectitude.
rectitude or uprightness is the karma on the straight path, the
even road leading to God the Exalted, which is devoid of
crookedness, and deviation is most difficult, nearly unattainable,
save the prophets who are infallible, and for the great
people of God, the seduction among the well guarded saints.
God the Exalted has said his trustworthy messenger, be up right
as you were commanded. He sallallahu alayhi wa sallam says,
and be upright as you were commanded, and follow not their
whims and say, I believe in whatever book God has sent down up
until and to Him is the becoming. And he SallAllahu wasallam says,
Those who say, Our Lord is God, than our upright The angels
descend upon them up until
a gift of welcome from one Forgiving, Compassionate.
And he saw Psalm says, Those who say,
Our Lord is God, then upright, no fear shall befall them. Now
neither shall they grieve. Those are the people of the garden
immortal therein as a reward for what they used to do.
Miss Mila was salatu salam ala Rasulillah, while alihi wa sahbihi
Woman, why Allah says chapter 35 of knowledge and wisdom, this
great work of you might love, love, love and it made her dad
Radi Allahu Tada on one of our interview me if Dudding Amin
and he's not going to speak about Istio karma and that can be
translated as rectitude, it can also be translated as uprightness.
And it is one of the very important stations of this
religion is something that we should all seek. And he gives us a
very brief definition of what it is, is that he says that the
reality of uprightness is to that maintain rectitude upon that
straight on upon the straight path.
And that the straight path is the one that leads to Allah subhanho
wa taala.
And he says is that sticking sticking to the straight path,
remaining upright is one of the most difficult things of all. And
the highest manifestation of it actually seems to be unattainable
even unless that person be from the prophets who are infallible.
They are protected from sin before, and they receive prophets
and after they receive prophecy, or unless someone is from the
great people of Allah, the group that are known as the City of
Kuhn. And he calls them here the well guarded saints, for them that
these are people that tread the straight path and maintain the
highest degree of uprightness. And what he's going to do now is,
quote, number of verses from the Quran.
And really understanding why it's so hard to maintain the state of
uprightness, we have to know a little bit about the human being,
we have to know a little bit about what we are exposed to what we are
susceptible to, as human beings. And when you look at the heart of
the human being, and as the scholars of this science have
said, and understand that the heart is a battlefield, it is a
battleground for thoughts of your ego, thoughts of the shaytaan
thoughts of the angels in here you are looking on, and a thought
comes to your mind. And you have an inclination towards that
thought. But then you have to give a judgement. What about what is
the right thing to do with that thought? And then you make an
intention based upon your judgment, but does your desire get
the best of you? Or do you make the right decision? Do you have
the requisite knowledge to know what is the right thing to do in
the moment, and just when you think that you got it, then that
you have a whispering from shaitaan that we can do or he
causes that tissue ish and disturbs you and tries to confuse
you. human psychology is very complicated, and there are a
number of different ways
We are diverted from the straight path. And really to understand
uprightness requires that we understand the thoughts that come
to our mind. And we understand the tendencies of those thoughts. And
then what to do with those thoughts and how to overcome those
thoughts and techniques to manage our thoughts otherwise is that we
are going to constantly be in a state of flux. But this is that
how we are as human beings were weak, we fall short. And one of
the most difficult things of all in this, what we just, we just
went through the book of patience and gratitude book 32 of the
intimate Dean last weekend, in a retreat, and one of the things
that the man was that he said in the book of suburbia is that one
of the most difficult types of patients of all, is being patient
with what he called the Hadith and knifes your inner speech, learning
to control your inner speech. And that is extremely difficult. And
from the blessing of Allah, we're not taking to account for our
inner speech, you're only taking into account for what you do with
your inner speech. But definitely the more pure the heart becomes,
the more pure our inner speech becomes, the more in line with the
Sunnah of the prophesy centum becomes the more in line with the
thoughts of the angels it becomes, but maintaining the uprightness
upon the straight path is one of the most difficult things of all.
And the word in Arabic is a set autists a path is what we call the
set Ottomans stoking the straight path. And we it is the first dua
in the Quran
that we make, it's the first supplication. And if we're playing
praying or obligatory prayers, we are reciting this into at least 17
times in a set Alton was to
guide us to the straight path. And then we followed up with
Siddhartha leadin, and EMTALA him The path of those that you have
bestowed Your favor upon. And look how Allah right there in the
Fatiha, you have the very first DUA and then you have a
clarification of that path. How the path of those that you've
bestowed Your favor upon. So in other words, that we know the
straight path by virtue of those who have tread the straight path.
So we talk about the setup and then we talk about the people who
tread that path, which is also an indication to us is that you
always have to be connected to the living representatives of the
prophet who tread the straight path. Because that is the greatest
way for us to come to know what the straight path is. They teach
us how to put that into practice and how to live up to it.
But what is it that we intend when we say this, every time that we
recite the fatwa we should be present with Allah may Allah
forgive us for our heedlessness and make the intention that Allah
not just allow us to tread upon this path. But eventually that we
tread on the path in resemble the prophets. And hopefully at least
we die loving the significant if not being blessed, like by Allah
to Allah to be from them. And as far as that might seem, from us,
that Allah to Allah is all powerful and he can cause us to
reach and attain whatever he wants to cause us to reach and attain
some kind of went to Allah. So in the next world, is that we have a
real bridge over Jahannam that is called the set. And every single
one of us will traverse the state art, we will all come to it will
men men were in men come Illawarra cannot be a husband Laconia must
have the sun, moon and agility in it.
And there is none of you except that he will come to it. And that
this was a definite decree from your Lord, then we will save the
people of Taqwa. The people that were God conscious that people
that were mindful of Allah Jalla gelato, they knew how to behave
and what it was that they needed to do, and they did it. And Allah
bless them to do it. These are the people that will traverse it, and
people will traverse it at different speeds.
But the degree to which we will traverse it in the next world is
the degree to which we uphold it here in this world.
The more istikhara and uprightness we have now the quicker we'll pass
the traverse in the next world.
And so when we understand that, it makes perfect sense why we have to
maintain rectitude here, because we want to pass that reverse
quickly, swiftly, there will be people that pass like lightning.
And there will be people that pass like a swift horse. And then
there'll be various other speeds and there'll be people that crawl
and that's the lesson I'm gonna offer and then there'll be people
who don't make it me a law to protect us and preserve us and
allow us all to that.
Have a brightness upon the straight path in this world and
cross the traverse in the next word, isn't it to ATA. But my
point here is, is that when we think of it like that in this
world the sit Alton was the team becomes very subtle.
And it's important that we really unpack this. So we know what it
means to maintain a brightness while we're here on Earth, and how
does that relate to actions? And how does that relate to our
thoughts, which are the source of our actions, and sometimes, is
that when you get a little bit deeper, it becomes extremely
subtle. Just as that if you are traveling and you're trying to go
straight, a slight deviation might seem might not seem like a big
deal at first. But what happens even if it's just one degree over
time, you're branching off? What about if it's five degrees? What
about if it's 10 degrees? What about if it's 45 degrees? How
quickly you will move from the straight path. And so it becomes
very difficult to be right on in every single moment to respond in
the way that is closest to being a manifestation, the straight path
is not easy.
And so what he's saying here is that the only people that can
really do it,
are the prophets in the city of clean. Now, he's not saying that
so that we just like, Okay, how about someone to give up? No, he's
saying that so that we can understand how important it is for
us to have this diploma in what it is that you and I can do about it.
And so then we'll come back to that. So he quotes a number of
verses in the Quran, where this is mentioned.
So the first verse that we have here is be upright as you were
commanded. First up him come at Oh, minute. Oh, and some of the
scholars have said is that this is the verse that caused the prophet
to go gray. So yeah, but the new hood will go out to her is that
who's the chapter hood and its sister sorrows caused me to have
gray hair, just understanding the imperative of history of karma and
the importance of that being upright upon the straight path.
First, Tim, come on Mert meet up right, as you were commanded, not
illa Allah.
And then in another verse festa, Tim, come on Motorola to Hua, who
will call em and to be met, and that Aloha mean kitap. And then
another command, be upright as your command and follow not their
whims. And say I believe in whatever book God has sent down up
until and to Him is the becoming.
And up until here means up until the verse that the it ends in that
particular place. And again, here's something specific, that
follow not their whims. So sometimes it's people themselves.
And this is actually one of the greatest veils for us is other
people, is that they're the ones that take us from the straight
path, the people that we are around, and there are traits that
become ingrained in us, the people that we listen to in the way that
we then internalize what it is that they're saying, this is one
of the major causes of deviation.
And then, that say, those who say our Lord is God, then our upright,
and nella Dinoco Rabona, law thermistor, calm.
And D those who say that our Lord is Allah and then remain upright
what is the result at 10 00 Am and melodica The angels will descend
upon them,
the angels will descend upon them, and that they will say to them to
tennis or anyone America a lot a CAFO Allah Hassan who were
absolute Belgian, Belgian Atleti, quantum to idle,
that they will say to them that fear not nor grieve, but rejoice
that the tidings of the garden which were promised, this is one
of the great verses that points to the merit of Islam.
And that it's interesting, that in this verse that there's first a
mention of Allah as our Rob
and Allah, when we speak of him, as Rob, we understand from that is
that He is the giver of Tobia. He and the meaning of tarbiyah is
that you take something from it seed that was planted and you
bring it to fruition.
And so the universe came into existence and Allah Todd will
bring the universe eventually to and after it reaches full
fruition. Just as you have a child that's born and then they that
reach the peak of their growth and then that their life that takes a
downturn, everything has cycles. And when you understand this, is
that part of this is to understand Allah as Arab. He is the one who's
there for us, as we have our ups and downs, as we go through the
vicissitudes of life as we fall
Short and as we that roll up our sleeves and do good, Allah is
there for us in all of these different states. So what
the key is, is that you and I progress, however slow, we want to
be in a state of progression. And progression doesn't always mean
progression like this, that could happen at a certain stage of the
spiritual path. But usually, in the beginning, most people are
like this. A very large ups and downs. And the hope is to the
blessing of spiritual struggle, is that there's a steady increase in
those ups and downs start to flatten out a little bit. So as
you go, that it gets a little bit more like this, as opposed to in
the beginning, having major ups and downs.
And then he quotes another verse and he says, subhanAllah out of
those who say, our Lord is Allah that are upright nor feels shall
be followed them, neither shall they grieve. Those are the people
of the garden, immortal, they're in the afterlife is everlasting,
as a reward for what they used to do, and then he's going to, quote,
a hadith of our Prophet sallallahu sallam.
The Messenger of God sallallahu alayhi wa sallam said, be upright,
you will not be capable fully to achieve it. Aim well and as near
the mark as you can, and know that none will be saved by by virtue of
his works, not even you or messenger of God, they asked, and
he answered, not even I were it not that God and fooled me with
mercy and grace from him. Mashallah, look at that beautiful
Hadith, Allah Subhana Allah. So the prophesy center first
commanded us, he said, It's the chemo.
In other words, have his diploma be upright. But then he says,
well, and so, but you won't be fully capable of achieving it.
So He commands us to be upright, but then you realize that we will
fall short. And look at the inherent mercy in this hadith. So
again, this doesn't mean that we just give up and say, There's no
way that I can be upright, we still have to try, we still have
to try. And as I've learned from my teachers, you've only really
lost if when you fall down, you refuse to get back up. No matter
how many times you fall down. And the key is that you get up, you
dust yourself up, and you get up. Even if you remain down for a
period of time, you dust yourself off and you get up and you keep
moving. You've only fully lost if you refuse to ever get up. No
matter how many times you fall down, no matter how many times you
fall short, you dust yourself off and you get up and you keep trying
and you keep plating within you keep turning to Allah and you keep
trying, and you keep turning to Allah, and you keep repenting and
so forth and so on. So our Prophet and foreigners you will be fully
capable of maintaining the state of brightness, while I can but
said you do work hard Eboo. And he translates it here as aim well in
as near as the mark as you can. Which that said the do is like
telling someone to do your best.
Said you do try your best will potty will get close. Amazing. Try
to be the best you can and try to get as close as you can.
And then why Allah move No. And Nolan Yunju are ahead of Emily,
none of you will be saved by virtue of his works.
So sometimes one of the things that causes us to despair is that
we see ourselves of falling so short, that there's no possible
way we might think that we can be saved. But our Prophet is teaching
us Salah licen him, that it's not our iman, it's not our actions
that will save us. And the word here learn. You translate this as
never, no one will ever none, no person will ever be saved by
virtue of the acts that they do. And again, this doesn't mean that
we don't do X but we don't rely upon our x, we do the very best
that we can we tried to do draws near as we can, and then our
reliance is upon what then if it's not upon our x, the fuddle of
Allah
that is our reliance is on the bounty of Allah. And that's what
we ask a larger legendado if we're taking our last breath or we are
nearing our death, is that we repent to Him and we're worried
about our sins but then we realize that Allah is the all merciful and
we bring to heart a deep sense of reliance upon his bounty.
In if you think about that, what does that really mean to rely upon
the bounty
of Allah it means
is that you don't rely upon anything else and you actively
bring about in your heart that meaning Yeah, I'm relying upon
your bounty. I have nowhere else to turn. I know my axe. I don't
know if anything's ever even been accepted that even my sister
Varney is still fought. Even the way that I've sought forgiveness I
should be making seeking forgiveness for the way that we
are seeking forgiveness, and so forth and so on. But if you rely
upon the Mercy of Allah and His bounty and His grace, you're from
the closest people of all, to the mercy of Elijah, Elijah, is that
not just absolutely beautiful? Like seriously? What beauty Do we
not have in our deen? Really? How beautiful is that? How therapeutic
is that? How balancing is that? To know that reality? Subhan Allah,
it's amazing. It's absolutely amazing. And then another Hadith
says Soufiane ibn Abdullah, may God be pleased with him said, I
said, O Messenger of God, tell me something about Islam such that I
need as no one else. He answered, saw some say, I believe in God,
then be upright, and Ammar. May God be pleased with him said be
upright and do not swerve like a fox. Mashallah. So again, we have
this very concise piece of advice. And this particular Sahabi the
Prophet sallallahu Sallam gave that advice that was the most
fitting for him. And then we all benefit by extension,
telling me something about Islam
such that I need as no one else. In other words that give me a
piece of advice that I can hang on to, is that I'm not really in need
of asking anyone else. Anything else. This is the essential piece
of knowledge that I need to know that if I cling to this, I'll be
okay. And then what did our prophesized him say, Who am I to
be? Let's say I believe in Allah, so most definitely would have a
brightness. Amazing. That's that's the essence of ruddiness belief,
and uprightness Eman and Iman. faith and practice. And then you
find the wisdom of the Sahaba Alexei no matter where that he
uses a metaphor. And that foxes that the way that they run and how
quick that they are, that in cunning creatures that they are in
moving all about, that trying to catch their prey and doing all the
different things that they do is that he tells us to be upright and
do not swerve like a fox. Be upright, and keep moving straight.
And then he's going to describe this quality. rectitude is.
rectitude is the all inclusive quality that embraces all useful
knowledge, good character and good deeds along with even firmness,
absence of wavering to disturbance deviation, or deviousness, look at
that there's a definition. So rectitude is the all inclusive
quality, then embraces all useful knowledge, all good character, all
good deeds, along with even firmness, absence of wavering
disturbance deviation, or deviousness. And those are things
that relate to someone's faith. Is it firm rooted faith, notice that
it doesn't know that there's no disturbance, no one's shaken by
anything. There's no Xav they haven't diverted from the path is
that they have not fallen into false belief. They have not fallen
into bad understandings. They're firmly grounded in this. And then
they continue to do all of these other things, like exemplify good
character and to do good deeds. And if you just think about it, if
you think about, you still come up brightness in relation to your
per?
How are we in relation to our prayer, if we just took that one
form of worship?
Are we praying our five daily prayers? Are we praying them on
time? Are we fulfilling the conditions? That to what extent
are we fulfilling the etiquettes? Are we concentrating there in? How
are we before the prayer during the prayer? And right after the
prayer? how impactful is that prayer upon us? If we just took
the prayer and thought about it? It will tell us a lot about our
stick Lama, or do we find ourselves neglecting our prayer,
postponing our prayer and not concentrating in our prayer, and
so forth and so on. That's one of the great indicators of our st.
Hama is our prayer. And this is something that we want to
cultivate within ourselves. The Imam being concerned too
To maintain and that to that establish the power and all the
means of establishing it.
One of our predecessors said
one of our presidents predecessor said, the all inclusive Kadoma, is
rectitude is become a man of virtue once saw in a dream, the
Messenger of God SallAllahu Sallam and said to him on Messenger of
God, when it was said to you, your hair has turned gray, or messenger
of God
it is hood and its sister in its sisters that have made my hair
turned gray.
What is it in them that did this? And he replied, may peace and
blessings be upon him. His saying exalted as he be upright as you
were commanded
the Hadith which state that hood and its sister has turned his hair
gray indicate that they did so because they spoke of the
destruction of nations, So away with the folk of HUD. So way with
thermal So away with Medan, these are not incompatible with a dream
mentioned. Each has an appropriate interpretation at at its level.
However, a soundly transmitted Hadith has a higher and more
perfect standing than a dream, even though the dream be a
righteous one dreamt by a righteous man.
So he reminds us here that the greatest quorum of all is to
karma. So in Arabic, they actually rhyme. And the word karamo is the
technical term that's used for a breaking of the norm that happens
on the hand of a pious Muslim.
Or as the word Marchesa miracle is the word for breaking of the norm
that happens on the hand of a prophet. And there's ways that the
scholars used to distinguish those two, and then there's other
classifications or what are known as the holodeck could add that
breaking of the norms. And we refer to them as hieratic breaking
of the adult norms, because in reality, every single moment is a
miracle.
The fact that a lot of our core data is creating the world such
that we experience time seamlessly passing into the future doesn't
seem like anything's breaking.
But the reality is a law is creating and recreating, creating
and recreating every single moment we it appears to be seamless to
us.
And what an amazing thing that Allah is that a human Samoa to
without his upholding the heavens and the earth. And the way we
experience time, and we experience it in its continuity, without
breakage is really amazing.
But the reality is, is that every single moment we're that Allah
Tala not to create the next moment such that we experience it to be
seamless, it wouldn't be experienced like that. So when we
talk about breaking up the norms, it just is a different experience
to than what we're used to.
And when you affirm the omnipotence of Allah Jalla jalala,
then you realize that he has power over all things and can do
whatever he wants to do. Whenever he wants to do it. However, he
wants to do it supine, who wants out and through the divine wisdom,
He allows the vast majority of to experience things as normal,
in what we consider to be normal. And then there could be a break of
that. But oftentimes, when we hear cut on Matt, sent me miracles of
the pious that we know that a lot to add a does bring amazing things
at their hands. But what a mama had dad is teaching us is that the
greatest caramba of all the greatest saints, the miracle of
all is for you to uphold a state of uprightness. And why is that?
Because your enough's has a debt. Your knifes has customs it has
things that it does regularly habits in for you to break the
habits of your knifes is the greatest breaking of the norm of
all. So breaking the norms of yourself is the greatest karama.
Most people want to see breaking of norms outwardly. But if you see
a breaking of the norm happen, what's that really going to do for
you? But if you break the norms of yourself, as it's your inner self
and kindness for this and you break it, obviously so slowly, and
that gradually and wisely, but if you can break the norms of the
self, then that you will be in a beautiful state with your Lord
subhanho wa Taala and then he gives us the interpretation of
that. What it was that turn the Prophet SAW lice and that was hair
gray, but it relates to st karma
And that there's relationship between or that to the extent that
people divert from St. Hama is the degree to which that they are
exposing themselves to the Divine Wrath May Allah to Allah protect
us and preserve us
inshallah
I
thought we would take another chapter but maybe we'll limit
ourselves to that today
mashallah me a lot of aliquot Allah blesses to be people of
uprightness, and make us be people who devote ourselves to Him.
subhanho wa taala. Allah to Allah help us to break the norms of
ourself. And to be able to be people of Taqwa and all of our
different states interview people have beautiful character in all of
our different states, yada but it mean, in all of the faults that
you know that we have Europe, we ask You to bless us to overcome
those faults and to veil our faults from the people you Allah.
Just as you continue to develop our faults here in this world. We
asked you out but I didn't mean to avail our faults in the next role
isn't to entirely forgive us for everything that we've done a lot,
and to change all of our past sins into good deeds and to accept us
in Your presence. And bless us to be from those who find intimacy in
your remembrance at home or mean by the love of you and the love of
meeting you and the love of the Hereafter dominate our hearts yada
but I mean, in a way that prepares us to be able to tread the suit
autonomous still came here in this world may we always be reinforced,
have that be reinforced for us? If you fail in Littleton to FEMA you
support us and give us Tofik in that era, but I mean, we'll sell a
lot as in Medan, while Adho Savio Selim be set aside of the hilar
hundreds in it