Yahya Rhodus – Knowledge & Wisdom Imam alHaddad #32
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chapter 37
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SallAllahu ala Sayidina Muhammad in value so
this is chapter 37 from Imam Al Haddad book entitled knowledge and
wisdom
the name of it is the world is but a moment. Imam Shafi may God's
mercy and good pleasure be upon him said the world is but a moment
so make it a moment of obedience. I'll boost the said in his famous
poem, increase in worldly things is to a man but this diminishment
and his profits and other than sheer goodness are but loss. Imam
is married have been a mockery says in the poem where he counsels
his son, till when will you dwell and illusion and distraction? How
long will you sleep and not awaken? Will you spend all this in
the love of that, which God set lower than the wings of a knot? If
all runes fortune from it you should obtain, it will still be
but a morsel in your mouth and a cloth. It is evident from
everything we have mentioned in this and the previous chapter,
that an intelligent man possessed of certainty, wisdom and
discernment should be preoccupied solely with his life to come and
with working for it, and with that, which is strictly necessary
in his daily life to help him achieve his aim in the manner
detailed in the previous chapter. The one who strives strives only
for himself, for God is surely independent of the worlds none are
granted it saved those who are patient and none is granted it
save one who is fortunate indeed.
Mr. Mullah so this is one of the latter chapters in the This is
Chapter 37, titled The world is but a moment.
And it commences with this famous statement of the great email Miss
Shafi a dunya SA, which translates as the world is a moment is but a
moment filter, ALLAH Ta that rhymes. So make it a moment of
obedience. And this is the reality the dunya is like entering into
one door of a house and exiting the rear of the house. And that's
it.
And it seems like everything that is in the past is like a dream.
Hello Mahnomen as we've quoted before, okay, Lindsey Enon. In the
lobby, baby myth, VENA myth, the value of the arrow. It's like
dreams of someone who's sleeping, or like a vanishing shadow. Seems
like it's there. But then you come back to look in the shadow moved,
and increased or decreased. And this is the nature of this dunya
is that it just goes. And this is why that the most important thing
that we can do in the moment, is be in a state of obedience.
And this is why that the true people of Allah, is it what
they're constantly calling us to constantly calling us to the
importance of obedience and the poisonous nature of disobedience.
May Allah subhanaw taala protect us and make us from people of
obedience and to rewire us and to make us people who love obedience
in long for obedience, and that have a passionate connection to
obedience in our heart. And again, as is the case with so many of
these religious terms in our time, who talks about obedience anymore
in the modern world, usually that's thought of as a very
negative thing, if someone's obedient, and it's when was the
last time that a high school student raised his fellow high
school student you're so obedient.
People don't care about these things anymore, unfortunately. But
this is what we should all really be seeking is the obedience of
Allah. Because all good in this world in the next is in that this
is what the whole matter is about. And this is why people have wisdom
like you remember Shafi can summarize it as such a dunya saw
the entire world is its if it is as if it's only a moment, meaning
in the end when we take our last breath, that will seem like no
matter how long it did last, even if it's 120 years, it would have
seemed like just a moment. So make it a moment of obedience and then
the lines of poetry by
and boosting the other. 10 Murthy. Dunya.
Oh, no, sorry, no, this was the traditional perspective, which is
the opposite of people of dunya increase in worldly things is to a
man but diminishment, that's actually not son. The true people
will not don't see that as true benefit and true increase, they
actually see it as that diminishment. And how to
understand that that doesn't mean that we try to be failures in the
dunya. Of course, there's nothing wrong, we've been successful in
the dunya. And in our time, especially, it's good to have your
dunya together to take care of yourself to free yourself up to do
what it is that you need to do religiously. But that there's a
difference between doing that outwardly, in between having your
heart be connected to that or even worse, thinking that your success
is in worldly fulfillment is in world to increase. That's a sign
of Hassan a sign of loss, is that our successes in our spiritual
development or spiritual progress will repair who hate them, Michael
Dell hidey hole Serrano in his profits and other than sheer
goodness, or but loss. And so really, the sign of increase is
that we've increased in hair, we've increased in good and that
as we progress through life, this is what we want, is that we want
to have a foundation that's strong, and the foundational
amount of good that we do regularly, and then we increase in
all different aspects of our life. And then this counselled of the
great human spirit Avenue and mockery to his son Illa cam Talmud
and view oroton, Wolof, Latin, to when will you dwell in illusion
and destruction will come Hakka the no Monita radio club at a tone
peak who had a few how I had the ability ABA law and test Sua and
to so we're Jana, Jana Huberty. How long will you sleep and awaken
we spend all this in a love of that which God set lower than the
wing of Annette, and the Hadith that we all know Locanda to dunya
tidy to in the lie, but Jenna how Baroda where the dunya and
everything is in a to equal in the sight of Allah.
So called caffeine and we're not sure but a map, Allah to Allah
will not have given a disbeliever, a sip of water. And this is a
principle, Allah gives the dunya to those whom he loves, and those
whom He does not love. But he does not give the ocra and preparation
for in this world except to those whom he loves. Allah, Allah does
not give the love of Him and the love of his prophet except to
those whom he loves. And so it is evident from everything we've
mentioned. In this in in the previous chapter, that intelligent
man possessed of certainty, wisdom and discernment. So these great
traits that we all need, and that an alkyl is someone who uses their
aka the intellect, they think about the end of the affairs. And
we took today and a hadith in the Arabic class, la Calaca
or acetyl, Mistura, necesito, la Arkla, to be here.
Right, there is that no use of the intellect like using it to plan
and the commentators say about that, specifically planning for
the hereafter.
Having a program, having a schedule, arranging your life so
that you make sure there are things that you do in your day to
day routine, that are for the hereafter. And what is meant that
being for the hereafter is that you get reward that's going to
benefit you in the next world. And part of the meaning is no doubt
the outward dimension of that. And there's nothing wrong with
planning, and that you want to finish this program and then you
want to move on to this and then you plan to do this with the
condition that you don't rely upon your plans.
So the what's negative is two that either not planned at all, unless
it's your from the keyboard of the Olia that has complete trust in
Allah then that's different, or to plan and then to rely upon your
plans. And I remember, as a young student in Mauritania, I was
probably 20 years old, maybe 21. And you get exposed to what it is
that you have to study. So I remember I stayed up really late
that night, sometimes just before Fajr and one of the students have
neuropathy. It has me on that preserve him. His name is SIBO la
preserver he's a beautiful soul one of the longest students of
Robert that has Rahimullah.
He's been there with him for years and years and years. I used to eat
lunch with him pretty much every day.
A day. And he noticed from a distance the next day that my
light was on too late. In my tent, he said, What are you doing?
Absolutely. I said, I was planning what I'm going to study for the
next 10 years. He starts laughing.
Right? He started laughing. I was like, No, this is important is it?
Late left every
I guess I didn't do what I needed to do that day, I missed the
reading of my law in the lesson I supposed to take that day. And I
planned out my tenure schedule in mortar tenure, of all of the books
that I'm going to study what it is that I'm going to do. And then I
didn't even do my lesson the next day, he laughed at me. And that
these are the type of silly things you do when you're young, and
thinking that you have the answers and so forth. And instead of just
realizing, okay, it's okay to, you know, motivate yourself a little
bit. After this book, I'm going to study that book. Right. But make
sure you study this book, well, first, focus on that moment, that
lesson that day. It is an illusion to think that you're going to
magically turn into an amazing student of knowledge when you go
overseas. Yes, environment helps, no doubt. But you are you. And in
fact, it's very difficult to be overseas and study. It's very
difficult to be in your own country outside of your home town
in study. Very difficult. It is not easy. There's a lot of that
perks and a lot of beautiful things you experience, but it's
not easy. And you'll be tested. And the vast majority of students
of knowledge that I've seen don't last.
They last for short periods of time.
And the we were also speaking today about earlier
in class about the importance of commitment Hamdulillah, the
students have stuck with it, they started it, and they've been here
to this mashallah day, despite having will still have sons a good
teacher. But
despite being stuck with me all these months, and that's noble,
when you start something, you finish something
and think very carefully before you start something, once you
start it, finish it, I was impressed by her Bill Gates one
time say that he reads a book a week. And he says he thinks very
carefully about the book that he's going to read. He says once he
starts a book, he always finishes it, always.
And those are traits of successful people. And we should we have more
right to those traits in the dean. That's how we should be you start
something, finish it. And the nature of the knifes is that it's
fickle. It's volatile, he wants you to do this. And then I want
you to do that. And then I want you to do this. And then I want
you to do that. And that
wants to take you all over the place. But if you could develop
that trait of commitment of that, that dedication, these are some of
the great traits that will benefit you in every aspect of life.
And especially when it comes to relationships, it's one of the
most important traits of all if you're just used to. And
unfortunately, we have a throw out culture.
And we just take things and we just throw them out. And it's
cheaper to get them to get your washing machine fixes to buy a new
one. Instead of fixing that you just throw it out and get
something new. I remember seeing a I think it was like it was an
infographic or online or maybe it wasn't in real life anyhow, that
it was a picture of two old people. And it said had a quote or
neither said in our time in our day is that if something broke, we
fixed it.
And it was like an old man, an old woman that had been married for so
many years. Like in our day, if it was broke, we fixed it.
And there's no doubt that this is contributing to the breakdown of
so many aspects of our society is this throwaway culture. And I'm
just moving on to the next thing. You just toss it up and move on.
And I remember Subhanallah
that when we were in team, do you know those containers that like XR
comes in sometimes when you buy him package. They're very nice.
They're plastic, but they're nice. And
I remember throwing some of them away in the cleaning ladies looked
at us like Why are you throwing those away? They actually took
them in turn them they put them as decorations in their home.
I was just like Subhanallah just things that and from our
perspective, we just toss that from their perspective. And this
is not like looking down upon them for doing it. On the contrary,
they were so simple and so beautiful.
That they had that much appreciation for something that
they would use it again
And to use it actually as a declaration. It just shows you
kind of where we're at in terms of our perspective, and how we are in
life anyhow.
Mashallah, so being an AKA, but also being a Moroccan, someone who
has certainty.
And what certainty does for you, it helps you stay grounded. And it
endowed you with inner sight that penetrates through that some of
the thoughts, the source of which are from your own knifes that
cloud decisions that it is that you're going to make. And
certainty allows you to allows you to see through that, and that were
you to follow that thought that it would tie you up or it would
derail you or it would preoccupy you.
And then also someone who was curious, someone who's
intelligent, how does he translate this one here?
Would he say that he's translated here as wisdom?
Which is this no doubt that's part of it. And then the fourth one is
that a type of discernment type of situation snus mental acuity,
mental keenness is that, again, that you're, you're not just
intelligent, but you're also sharp, and you're able to
understand what is happening around you and to make good
decisions accordingly. So this person who has these traits, is
that what comes from it is that the intelligent man possessed of
certainly wisdom and discernment should be preoccupied solely with
his life to come in with working for it. And with that, which is
strictly necessary in his daily life, to help him achieve his aim
and the manner detailed in the previous chapter. So again, that's
a tall order, that we are that people in our time that we are
completely engrossed in dunya. That from the morning to the
evening, if you really think about our state. And that was one of the
things that hadith reading that we did last year. Last week, rather,
so many descriptions of the companions, you're all law, your
lawyer, Allah, that one of the wives of the Prophet Salah lice
and Him who was on her monthly cycle and asked the prophesy said
about praying in the garment that she was wearing. And keep in mind,
they didn't have the amenities that we have in those days. And so
the clothes will get soiled, much easier. And then the prophesy
centum that asked her that, what does any of you have more than one
garment? Right? Meaning that like, oh, you actually have more than
one garment, that there were a good percentage of the people in
their time where that wasn't the case. Right. That was the
description of say, to fault him that she had a garment that when
she would put it on is that her feet in her ankles will show when
if you pull it down is that hurt? Top part of her would show like
they don't even have enough garments to Musab and Omar that
came in the Hadith, that he was one of the most opulent, that that
Arabs during his time, is that when he died, he had so little is
that his shroud wasn't enough to cover him
is that they pulled it down in his head showed they pulled it up and
his feet showed. And so the profit slice animal tool told him to take
a plant to cover his feet after covering years after covering his
head.
This was their state. And if you think about where we are in
relation to that, some things that we take for granted
that we can put this into practice by doing what we can.
Doing what we can and that yes, you have to work. Yes, it's
unnecessary to work. Yes, it's a part of your deen to work hard to
support your family.
But beyond what is needed to support your family, trying to
remain as frugal as possible. Anything beyond that we should
strive to spend a good portion of that for the sake of Allah doing
something for the day.
No, and then he that quotes the verse. The one who strives strives
only for himself, for Allah is surely independent of the worlds
none are granted it save those who are patient and none is granted it
see one who was fortunate indeed. Let's take the next chapter and
Shawn
chapter 30 structuring time the proof of Islam may God's mercy be
on him writes in his book The beginning of guidance in the
chapter on preparing for the ritual prayers. You should not
neglect your time or use it haphazardly. On the contrary you
should bring yourself to account structure your UltraHD and other
practices during each day and night and assign to each
period a fixed and specific function. This is how to bring out
the bokeh in each period. But if you leave yourself a drift
aimlessly wandering as cattle do, not knowing how to occupy yourself
at every moment, your time will be lost. It is nothing other than
your life and your life is the capitol that you make use of, to
reach perpetual Felicity and the proximity of God the Exalted, each
of your * is a precious jewel, since each of them is
irreplaceable, and once gone, can never be retrieved. Do not be like
the deceived fools who are joyous because each day their wealth
increases while their life shortens. What good is an increase
in wealth when life grows ever shorter, therefore be joyous only
for an increase in knowledge we're in good works, for they are your
two companions who will accompany you and your grave when your
family wealth children and friends stay behind. Claim. So this is
titled structuring time. And this goes along with this type of teddy
bear that we mentioned of time management, which is one way that
you could look at one of the meanings of Ted Barrios, it goes
hand in hand with that structuring our times is a very good thing for
us to do is to really sit and think about all of the different
things that we want to do. And I would actually recommend taking
the time to do this, where you list all of the things that you
need to do.
And that you think about how to achieve those things, either on a
daily, weekly, monthly, and perhaps you could even extend it
to quarterly or yearly basis. But I recommend really recommend doing
this, everything that is that you want to do. Now, you don't have to
do everything every single day. But you might just have times
that, okay, I know it's important to maintain family relations. So
I'm going to make an intention to call my mother twice a week. Or if
you're already doing it twice a week, I'm going to bump that up,
I'm going to call her four or five times a week. And whatever it is
that you do, but you in your mind have set times without becoming
robotic or mechanical, that you remind yourself to do these
various things. So on one hand you on one side, you just list
everything that is that you want to do. And then that you see how
that plays out on a daily, weekly and monthly basis. And you develop
a schedule. And then you try to force yourself then to so for some
people, it's hard to actually develop the schedule. And that for
others, that it's actually harder to actually implement the
schedule. And you'll find that after you develop the schedule, is
that then you'll start to see what it means for your knifes to be
like an untrained, that horse that just wants to bolt. The nuts does
not want to do what you want it to do in the moment, it's going to
bolt, it's going to look for an excuse, it's going to try to get
out of it. And it's going to be happy when it doesn't have to do
it. And if we find ourselves that being happy, when we actually do
have an excuse for something
that's enough sign of the nurses Habiba. It's a sign of a vile
knifes that doesn't want to do what it is that it's supposed to
do.
And this statement, I wish someone could write this in beautiful
English, we can hang it on our walls. This is one of these
statements that needs to be there that written in beautiful English
calligraphy and hanging on our walls. So if anyone knows someone
who writes beautiful English calligraphy, they should write
this and pass it out.
No.
And it's that self explanatory. It's really more about actually
doing it. And that the most important statement here is each
of your breaths is a priceless jewel. Since each of them is
irreplaceable and once gone can never be retrieved. Each of your
breaths is a priceless jewel for us. That every breath that we
take, every necklace is no feasts. Every breath that we take is that
extremely precious with Allah Jalla Jurado and our joy should be
in an increase in knowledge and in good works. Then he writes for him
oh hello
then he writes me God's mercy be on him. Know that a night and a
day compromised? 24 hours comprise 24 hours f1 comprise 24 hours.
Therefore do not sleep more than eight hours for it should suffice
you to realize that if you were to live say 60 years, you would have
wasted 20 which is 1/3. So it's like the opposite. We're told you
have to sleep eight hours. He's saying whatever you do, don't
sleep more than eight hours. And there's no doubt there was a
More Baraka in sleep. And I remember she comes always telling
the story and that when we were living with Sheikh Abdullah, well
documented the grandson of Robert that has when he was living in the
States, as he said he commented the sheikh Hamza that sometimes he
would way, lay down awake for up to an hour before he was able to
fall asleep. And he said, that was uncommon for him, because he said,
when he was in Mauritania, in the desert, he would fall asleep right
away. And it comes up that says, perhaps it's due to a lot of
what's transpiring in the realm that we can't really see, you
know, radio waves, and all different types of, you know,
signals being emitted, and so forth. And that people are their
fifth, or they're not used to it, perhaps, that would affect them,
Allahu Alem, in ways that we are not able to detect yet.
But there's just there's just more Baraka in traditional places, I
remember, times and animal stuff, that you sleep for a short period
of time. And you wake up the next day and have a complete schedule.
And you don't really get tired. Say, where did it like you tried
to do that now it's like, Oh, my goodness, never able to do that.
You try to do it for two days, you get sick now. And so there's
something to be said about but, and the only time but also in
terms of sleep.
And in the end, the most important thing is that when you sleep you
make the intention to
you make the intention to that strengthen yourself for the
worship of Allah subhanaw taala is that the whole purpose of sleep is
to strengthen yourself. So take the amount of sleep that you need
to do what it is that you need to do the next day. And then if
someone wants to cut back in general, cutting back is a good
thing. But you begin extremely slowly.
And you over a period of one month or two months, try to cut back 15
minutes over a period of four or five months, you try to eventually
cut back a total of 30 minutes, little tiny increments, so that
you don't realize even that how much it is that you're cutting
back. And so that slowly and surely is the way to do that. Now,
and he says
he says me God's mercy be on him. If you do this, that is remember
death prepare, prepare for it's coming and patiently obey God the
Exalted, you will no endless joy when death arrives. Whereas if you
are complacent and procrastinate, death will come to you at an
unforeseen moment and you will no regrets without end. At dawn
people are grateful for the distance they covered during the
night and someone with death certainly comes to you and you
will surely have its experience in time. No of the contents of this
afore minted small book is sufficient to obviate the need for
the intelligent alert believer who was active in worship to seek
lengthier treaties dealing with the same matters. A shadowy
scholar once said, what Imam Al Ghazali has included in the
beginning is sufficient for a Sufi beginner. And what he has included
in the way of the worshipers and hudgell obedient suffice is the
one in the middle. And the Revival of the Religious Sciences. Aluma
deen is enough for the one near the end of the path. The matter is
evidently, so for whoever is fair in his judgment and aims to adorn
himself with the best of virtues and attributes. God grant success,
there is no other Lord. So this, this is one of the famous
statements we've heard our teachers quote regularly to under
Sabai coma sawed off at dawn, people are grateful for the
distance they covered during the night. And so traveling at night
and you that traverse a long distance, and then you wake up in
the morning, you realize you're that much closer to your
destination. So that feeling of how you feel that when you
traverse a great distance in the morning, and here that spiritually
is that when you struggle when you do things for the sake of Allah to
Allah, is that when you wake up and realize what it is that you
did that you'll be very happy that you put in that effort to do that.
And because of the joy that will come from it, and that He's given
us a very clear path and I remember when first coming to to
them. And speaking to that have you've added asking him about the
science of the solar roof. And he was explaining that their
methodology there and to name was one that for every book of Fick
that they learned they also had a book of to solve. And of course I
was coming from Mauritania that were very knowledge focused in the
soul was mixed into the environment itself and it was very
personal matter. There in
In a very beautiful way. So I had questions about the soul of. And
he said, the reality is, that's a setup, there's three different
approaches they had to solve. He said, there were some of those who
put knowledge first and then read to solve and learn to solve at the
end. He said, and then you have examples of that scholars who put
to so a first in really wanted to make sure that the the students
were sincere and understood the meanings of purity of heart and
then learn knowledge after he said, and then you find scholarly
approaches where they join between the two, he says in this is our
way here, and how the remote is that for every book of book that
we do, that there's also a book of to solve. And that's very helpful
that way, and he went on to say is that he felt this was the way for
our time, because previously is that society helped you, in many
cases, in the Muslim world. And still, compared to our society
here, oftentimes, that's still is the case, in many pockets that are
left of these beautiful areas in traditional Muslim society. It's
changing, of course, but that now that is something we have to do.
And we have to combine the study of Shediac with the study of the
study of the self, and there's nothing better because that of the
foreign eye knowledge, the only other The third aspect of that is
belief, in belief can be learned very easily. It's not hard to
learn basic belief. And then we spend our lives going into great
detail in terms of law and in terms of that spirituality Shadia.
Filth, and in terms of dissolve, and son,
you know, and then he that summarizes for us that, really
these three books of Imam Azadi
that are sufficient for various degrees of aspirants, and
everything really, that's NBI to hedaya, especially for our time,
if that was the only book that we read, it suffices. And there's
famous stories of some of the great Elia that came before us,
where they got together to put the diet that he died into practice.
And that they said that we're going to force ourselves to put
this book into practice. And really, if that was the only book
that someone really implemented, you really took that serious you
took it seriously and you put those aspects of the spiritual
path into practice you would find wonders in your life.
And then for
the one in the middle, he recommends men has had Aberdeen
which incidentally, I don't know if we've announced yet but that's
the next book we're going to do building later after we finish
this
that we're going to try to finish this book by Ramadan and Ramadan
that I've yet to choose the book we're going to read another book
during Ramadan, we think i Tada and then posted Ramadan, I don't
know exactly when we're going to read min hazard Aberdeen together
being laid out. Now it's going to take a long time because it's a
long book. And we're going to go into detail. So I highly recommend
that you get a copy of the English from now.
That matar Holland Rahim, Allah to Allah has a good translation and
accessible translation of the work. And
I highly recommend that you get a copy of it from now. And if you
can read Arabic to get a copy of both the Arabic and the
translation, this book is amazing man as it Aberdeen is an amazing,
amazing book, and goes into great detail and it's, you know, a very
rich book. And then he says after that is that it's the Highland
redeem. This is for the one that is at the end of the path, and
that this is indeed an affair that is that evident. And then he
quotes the lines of poetry. How excellent are the poets words
gathered provision for the inescapable mankind's appointment
is the resurrection? Would it please you to be with those who
provision is abundant while yours is amiss? Also the famous poem
which begins with I see that daylight illumines for you, the
upright road from which you swerve, and where he says, I shall
advise at times and at times, counsel, perhaps that will avail
perhaps this if you prefer this world over the next verts
attraction, evil choice, it is, when aim and purpose are, who are
the best of us who was the worst? We are prey to the illusion of the
green branches of hope, which never bear fruit. This is a
blessed poem belonging to certain men from Yemen, our master the
plateau of Sheikh Omar metadata bin Abdul Rahman used to like it
and so did the sheikh the exemplar for the Libyan Abdullah Accademy,
a Sheree? May God have mercy on them and spread their benefit that
all that ends
for their benefit and then and that all of his virtuous servants
mashallah Tabata?
Sick I'm with my daughter, the son of Sheikh Abdul Rahman Sokoloff is
one of the great Imams from the battery tradition and someone of
immense knowledge. And he had a photographic memory. And he would
be in the gatherings of his father, Sheikh Abdullah, who
minister cough, who was also some according to some opinions a much
ahead, and in relation to his knowledge of Facebook. And he
said, I was sitting in the gatherings of Philip my father,
and come to love fix so much. He said, that's all that I wanted to
study. And you had a photographic memory like that, even Rama Shafi
is that he'd have to cover the other page, so he didn't memorize
it out of order.
And that his father Cashman during that gathering realizes that his
son wanted to devote himself more to a study of physics and some of
the other sciences. And he called him up after class. And he said to
me, he says, Yeah, well, he said that, that aura lottoland, mineral
ennemi, many elemental, Balton hieromonk be harder.
And these are measured local measurements and team that would
translate something like, right a gram of that internal knowledge is
better than many, many kilos of that outward knowledge. And by no
way was he diminishing, that our knowledge these are people that
mastered that the texts of the Folk Aha, and that were top notch
folk Aha, they even had their own positions on matters that relate
to Fick that were conducive to their particular society, their
masters.
He used to mention about Jacob Bachmann Salem, who was shortly
after my mama, my daughter, is that he only used to teach from
them in Hajj of Imam Minogue. And that that's the book that he would
teach him and other people would teach other things. But that was
the book that he was teaching. They were masters of filth. But at
the same time, his father wanted to point him in the direction of
the endocrinologist. And that that poem that we recite from time to
time, that's a little I don't know, the achmad. That's the poem
of St. Imam Omar and my dad. And one of the things that he says in
there, which indicates is that he did follow the advice of his
father, as a law clerk athel to be generally
Arthur AR Thoreau is defined to discover. So he's saying, I have
discovered, what is he discovered, I've discovered through a
recognition of my ignorance. Luckily, I thought to be generally
right, by realizing how ignorant we really are, by being humbled by
being broken. This is the way that we need to be to really know to
really have unveiled for us what it is that we actually really want
to know. And these great email with when you read their life
stories, you read how they were in the character traits that they
used to have. And so Subhanallah, your heart just inclines towards
them. And they're beautiful words of poetry, are still here with us
to read. And there are a window and this is why reading the
poetry, especially of the people have lost, so important because
that from the blessing of what they were going through in that
moment.
It's encapsulated in those words that we still recite to this day.
And so it's a means for us to that benefit from what it is that they
received that then and think about after all these years, it's still
here. And when you recited, there's something that you benefit
also, that from those words, and this is why that there is a
special benefit from the poetry of the righteous. And this is the
poetry that we want to recite the most, even though that our Prophet
told us Salalah alayhi salam is a shared okell Kalam poetry is like
words, has no Hasson Lockerby Heroux. But be the good of it is
good and the bad of it is bad poetry is like words. And
for those that think that somehow poetry will take you away from the
Quran and the Sunnah has misunderstood the Quran and the
Sunnah. When Allah to Allah says wish your aura or your tibia and
will Allah Woon right, is that the poet's is that they want to follow
them are the misguided, what has been referred to here this is
referring to the jehadi pole
So it used to speak about obscene things. Right? This is not
referring to good poetry, and that there were so many poets among the
companions, it's hard to even count. So many of them used to
compose poetry and the uncle of the Prophet Salah lice, and I'm
saying I'd even ever thought of said of ultimate Betula Zahra said
I'd say no Abu Bakr, Siddiq, and on and on and on and on, right,
the Prophet himself that used to listen to poetry. And there will
be times that 150 lines of the poetry of who might even be salt
used to be recited and the problem kept saying II keep reciting keep
reciting till over 100 lines were recited to him. So if it was a
matter of No, I only want to recite Quran. Why did the prophesy
centum encouraged him to keep reciting poetry for him to hear?
Why do you have statements of that have an abbess that when he would
study hard, then he would close his books and say hat, bring me
the collections of poetry that have that the poets. And so
there's something about poetry that's very special, obviously,
with certain conditions and the words that are recited in there,
but poetry is something that is very special. And it's also a
great way
to that make different types of gatherings.
That connected to the dean.
And if you would just study that, how
the traditional societies and traditional scholarly
methodologies have used poetry, to, in a sense, make different
types of gatherings more religious, it's amazing. And I can
speak from my experience. In water tenure, it was different because
there are Bedouin Thai people, but I've never seen people memorize
poetry at Mauritania, like I've literally seen people that have
memorized 20,000 Plus lines of poetry here in their head,
memorized, literally. Right, and that's obviously on the high end.
But the average type of person that I was round that was a
student of knowledge has memorized several 1000. That's like average,
and Maraba. tahajjud himself, used to love Arabic. Oh, and one of the
most memorable experiences ever with a moto. But the hush was when
I asked to read with him the meanings of his that he only and
they said from his hood, even though he was a master, that in
the Arabic language, He only wrote two poems. One was about the
proper size, and that was about Zoid. And you've probably seen the
translation of the one about the HUD, the one they wrote about the
prophesy centum is less known.
And
that, oftentimes he would teach laying down because he was old, he
was a lot older than, and probably in his late 90s, if not in his
early hundreds. And when I asked him to read his poem with him, he
was laying down and he sat up,
he was laying down on the spot like this.
And he sat up like this.
And he was fully aware, in every every line, I would read the line,
and then he will comment on it.
And I've never seen him, so animated ever. And he was using
his hands, and he was explaining the details of it, because usually
his shutter was very short. Like when you read with him, whether
it's more or less a holiday or anything you read with him, it's
very short.
And then he every line, we went through the whole poem, and every
line, he was just really animated. It was one of my best experiences
ever with him, just to see how he responded to it. And he would
recite poetry every night, the Buddha's Sharifah, you could hear
him.
I tried to build my tent very close to him. So I was I was
fairly close. And every single night, virtually every single
night, you could hear him reciting the Buddha.
Like almost every night, and he just his voice was a big, big,
big, big. Like, what's, what was going through his heart. Any
person who's literally that, like, when you read about the dollars
out of taqwa, like it's right before you like right before this
is a man of hurt us. Like there was a difference of opinion about
Joomla and the city and so forth. And that Mirage had a certain
opinion of the scholar and he says, look in terms of n, what are
the how's it Adam, right? And I know, like the shitty, he says in
terms of water has. He's in another category. Everyone knew
that what I was 100 was in another category. Literally, one garment,
not two.
When he was in his, like, proud
I'm when he was still, you know, very functional. One garment. He
had an the DA, one undergarment, one pair of pants, one pair of
sandals, one of everything one turban, that's it not to.
If he got a new one, he'd give the other one away. And Subhana Allah
Subhan Allah, these are the people we want to be like Allah. Allah,
the biggest tragedy of all.
The biggest mercy above all is the passing of these people. The
biggest mercy but of all.
And the quickest way to remove the love of dunya from your heart is
to love the Olia. Because when they start to go, you don't want
to remain here.
You don't want to remain here. Why would you want to remain?
Like what kind of world is this without these people? When they
go, it's like, my god. May Allah give us you know, you're supposed
to ask for your life to be taken us for life to be good, you know,
as long as life is good for us, but is that it's that one of the
best ways to remove the love of dunya from the heart because when
you love them, you want to be with them. And that when you realize
that they are gone, why do you want to remain here in this world,
that we want to be with them, we want to reunite with them. And
that's what we hope is that, from knowing what it means to love
them. You could only have imagined what their teachers are like, what
their teachers are like, what their teachers are like what these
are people that Subhan Allah Yanni, you see the meanings of
Taqwa when you're with them. Never once in their life, did they ever
backbiting remember how they said that is that I hope to meet a law
and having never backed bitten one single Muslim ever. Right? In
check sama was talking about that some of the LDR there has so
strong with Allah is that no one backs by in back bites in their
matches or in their presence, just by having them present, it's a
protection.
People don't even have the thought or even tendency to do that, just
by virtue of their presence. And if they go things change,
and,
you know, may Allah to bless us, you know, to love these people and
to be with these people, and humbly and they're still here
amongst us. They're still here amongst US military to preserve
them, all of the blessing Michelle, and in the world,
wherever they are, and Allah Tada that, bless us to have a society
here that welcomes them, and that maybe have environments where
they're present among us here.
And the modern world is as hostile as it gets to the people of
Wilaya. And the more that this mess spreads globally, is that the
more hidden these people become, and it's better that they're
hidden. And remember was it mentioned that in the last book
that we took a nice weekend retreat is that to someone who
shows enmity towards one of the people of law, knowing that
they're from the people law is very different than someone who an
intention doesn't know they're from the audience and does
something bad to them? Like knowing and then of
that's one of the worst things that someone can do. So it's
actually a wisdom. It's actually
a mercy from Allah through His divine wisdom, that these people
become hidden otherwise that people would get themselves in
trouble because Allah has Allegra for his Olia.
Allah to other jealously guards them and protects him Subhan Allah
to Allah and Lata to fill our hearts with the love of them
benefit is from this book of cultivate that will be shared with
Houthi rebel rebel remember a little bit already had dad we have
two more chapters in Charlotte chapter 39 in chapter 14 And then
we have inshallah Tada the conclusion May Allah Tada that
lets us to implement these meanings opened up the doors of
mercy to all of us and give us Sophie can are different affairs
will sell a lot as in Ramadan. My daddy sabe sentiment him did he
lie a little bit