Yahya Rhodus – Knowledge & Wisdom Imam alHaddad #6
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Mr. Mandela, so we're going to continue on in our study of
various intentions that we should make. And today we are going to
briefly remind ourselves of the intentions that we can make for
visiting the shoe that is visiting people of a lot visiting scholars
visiting righteous people. What intention should we make when we
go to see them? In his book, have you observed that he mentioned
about seven intentions, and again, to repeat over and over again,
over and over again, this is in addition to the core intentions
that we make for everything it is that we do. And by now we should
know what those are. So we intend all of that. In addition to that,
we also intend to benefit from them in both religious and worldly
matters. For them, really the religious and the worldly is
combined into one. And they don't make that designation to begin
with, because everything that they do that is the true shoe, the true
scholars that put their knowledge into practice, everything they do
from worldly affairs, ultimately is with a righteous intention.
Such that it's realities that are as religious, even if outwardly
that it is worldly, so to benefit from them in both religious and
worldly affairs. And so when we go to see them, that we might have
questions, we might just benefit from their presence, we might see
the way that they interact with their children, we might see the
way that they conduct something to do with their affairs, and thus
that we benefit from them. The second intention that we can make
is to fulfill the command of the Prophet sallallahu sallam, when he
said be in the company of the great ones. So our Prophet taught
us a lot you sent him God soon
and that sit with the scholars but he also told us to that
that that to visit often the cobra, God soon will hide it will
cover up and the actually hot little hook and that when it comes
to
that sitting with with the cobra, which can be people that are
elderly, but also that people that are distinguished in the religion
is that we should that be in their company and visit them from time
to time. And so we want to specifically the fulfill the
command of the Prophet SAW licen and that Allah Tala also says in
the Quran, that Oh you who believe it doc Allah, we're calling them
Assad again. have Taqwa of Allah will Kunal Masada King be with the
people of sincerity that people have trueness.
And this is a command from Allah to be with them. And Allah Tada
wouldn't have commanded us to be with Assad again and less, that it
was of great benefit. So we felt we intend to fulfill that command.
And then we also make the intention to attain from them ie
from being in their presence, the mercy that descends upon them.
So we know that the great pupil of Allah, the scholars and the
righteous people, is that mercy descends, if mercy descends, when
you mentioned their name. What do you think it's going to happen
when you're in their presence, you're going to benefit greatly.
And as a store that we'd like to quote, to encourage us to do this.
There was a man who attended the gathering of Have you ever heard
of it, I'm gonna step off. And he was a good man and people knew him
to be righteous. And then he passed away shortly after visiting
have jaboticaba. In someone saw him in a dream, that he had an
extremely lofty place in paradise.
And
the person who saw the dream said to the man, again, it's a dream,
but you have a number of stories like this, where people would ask
people in their dreams, matha Allahu Beek, What did Allah do
with you? You find numerous stories like this in our
biographical literature.
And the man that said to him, because when he saw him in such a
lofty set, he said, We thought you were righteous, but how did you
attain that rank? He said, I attended one gathering of every
obstacle that was a cough. He said, Neza led to Rama, Mercy
descended, and as a result of the scent of that mercy, I was granted
this great rank Did you see and we should never deem that to be
something far fetched, let alone impossible. This is something
totally possible. If Allah Tabata Katara wills as in anything that
we
Do or any gathering that we attend or any person that we visit, he
can raise us to the highest of ranks. Someone who wants to add in
if we don't think that we've had a bad opinion of our Lord. So that's
an intention that we make is that from being in their presence, that
mercy descends upon us, just as we believe it to be descending upon
them. And then number four, the call center that we just recited,
relates to this.
While we're waiting for the row, how to start to obtain a gaze from
them by which Allah will rectify your state, and all of your
affairs.
And there are certain scholars that
raise their spiritual children through gazes. And they used to
mention in the books, that there was a particular type of turtle
and I don't know the name of this type of turtle. But they mentioned
that there's a particular type of turtle that can hatch it's a eggs
from a distance, and the mother turtle, after laying her eggs
gazes at the egg from a distance. And apparently that then hatches.
And this is why have you been up the ramen? And I'll toss, he used
to say, I spiritually train my students, the way that mother
turtle that trains that her children? In other words, is it
through gazes. And this is that a very, very real thing. While on
the set, I sat in the gathering of Chicago Bachmann, Saddam, and he
gazed upon my gaze, I didn't see the fruit of that gaze for 40
years. So this is why it's so important to visit the righteous.
And if we can't find them locally, which if we are sincere and search
hard enough, you will find them locally. But if you can't, you
should go seek them out. And you should travel to go visit them.
And you should make the intention that when you're in their
gatherings that they gaze upon you they used to tell us and how to
remote is it one of the wisdoms why the elderly people sit at the
front of the gathering, unfortunately, kind of where we're
at, we don't really have like a solid wall, that we have these
chairs that people sit in up here and that older people and
distinguished people sit at the front and one of the wisdoms is
that they were one time sitting facing the people that are in
front of them. So it's so that the gaze is then connected. They grew
up in the gatherings of the righteous and most of the
righteous people that you find if you hear their stories, they grew
up in the gatherings of the righteous. And then they benefit
from them. And this stems to even toward time, one of the recent
scholars, who was originally from Palermo to have it been chair,
Bill fucky.
He was a great scholar. And he ended up in Abu Dhabi, when the
Communists came to holla remote.
And he continued on teaching and giving that were there. And she
comes to use have met him way back in so we're talking now.
You know, perhaps this is, you know, the 80s where he met him.
And when a recent biography was written about him, by someone in
team bought a copy in a gifted a t shirt comes in, there's a picture
on the back of it when chef and one of his gatherings. And she
comes to look at that picture. He said I was in that gathering, he
said I was serving tea in that gathering.
And subhanAllah says you don't realize what you get, when you
frequent the gatherings of goodness. What you can attain from
that, especially if there is righteous people and then that you
want to receive a gaze from them, which is a means for you
ultimately to receive a gaze of ALLAH SubhanA wa Tada, Allah
Allah, we know that many line Rahima today we couldn't be men or
what Alden supima. ask Allah to Anna for a gaze from His merciful
eye, whereby which that we are completely healed and cured from
all diseases of the heart.
And then number five, is that we intend to be
in the gathering of the righteous.
So that relates somewhat to what we previously talked about, we
just want to put ourselves around good people, we're going to put
ourselves around people that are going to bring benefit to us. And
we're the only intention we to make, which is an additional
intention is that just to be in a place where we don't get in
trouble, it would suffice. Because all of us know is that when we're
idle, we're gonna get in trouble. All you need is a phone and free
time. Or you don't even need a phone. All you need is a little
bit of free time. Limit of idleness. No one's around and
we're gonna get ourselves in trouble. So it's better that we
just at least keep ourselves out of trouble by being with good
people. And the vast majority of the righteous that have a lot of
students, most of their students are connected to them at
connection whereby which they're just trying to stay out of
trouble. Not
One of the primary functions of the Olia is to keep people out of
trouble. And we've mentioned on more than one occasion, but it's
such an amazing story in this light in this regard, as a mom or
Walker Adney, there used to be a group of people during this time
where they get in trouble. He would actually pay them he would
give them a stipend.
For them to spend time with him at night, they weren't being hired to
do any work. They said, Look, I'm gonna give you a stipend, just you
spend time with me. And he would pay them to spend time with him.
And he would make the condition is that they come to him at night,
and they stay with Him until the morning. And so that he wanted to
prevent them from going out and doing other things that they would
do at night. And this is their concern for people. And they have
a special concern for people that get themselves in trouble. And
there's a statement of Sheikh Abdul Qadir jeelani, and lots of
other that have mercy on his soul where he said, The righteous
belong to Allah. He said, As for the people that are not righteous,
He said ablow there for me, I'm going to swallow them. And what he
meant by that is, is that I'm going to be concerned with him,
I'm going to reach out to them, I'm going to do whatever I can to
help them. And this should be our Himba is to help all people and to
keep people from falling into trouble. And then intend that
Allah may purify your heart. This is a great intention that we can
make, when we're in the gatherings of the righteous that we purify
our hearts, especially when we're reading books of the heart books
that hammer away, and chip away rather from some of the diseases
that are in the heart and hammer meanings of that submission to
Allah to Allah, and meanings of actualization of the deen into the
heart. And then finally, intent that Allah will bring you together
with that shift in really, as he has brought you together
outwardly. So we intend to benefit from them and to be with them in
this world in the next and there are other intentions that we can
make as well. These are just a summary of some of the few May
Allah to Allah blesses to that always frequently gatherings of
the righteous and to have a connection to them in this world
and in the Baba and in the afterlife, how you don't even live
yet.
Okay, so we're going to Inshallah, read the next chapter of knowledge
and wisdom those that are following along with the book we
are on chapter five page 25.
The spinner spinner Mannerheim knowledge of wisdom by Imam
Abdullah Bernard even had dad, chapter five, watching others when
he says, These days no man of reason and Taqwa shouldn't be
overly concerned with the opinions of others and the expectations
when this may result in his abandoning things which are good
for his heart, or in which he can find some joy and comfort.
watching others and being wary of them has become a tiresome
endeavor devoid of benefit. For people are preoccupied with
themselves deeply committed both inwardly and outwardly to their
worldly affairs, and generally incapable of discernment with
which thing becomes obvious to anyone who gives the matter the
least amount of thought. being constantly conscious and wary of
others is something that people of resolution and determination have
always disproved disapproved of disapproved of. How good is the
saying of the poet, he who watches others dies of grief. While all
pleasures belong to the bowled watching others may have had some
benefits in the past when people were more discerning and had the
time to ponder and reflect on what others did. Total commitment to
worldly affairs and loss of discernment have since caused such
people to dwindle and largely disappear. A person of Taqwa and
reason should therefore strive only for the good pleasure of his
Lord, his own salvation, success in the Hereafter. And whatever
brings tranquility to the heart and joy to His mind, as long as it
is free of sinful or basic behavior.
In doing so, he should pay no attention whatsoever to others,
since they are preoccupied only with themselves, let him attend to
himself and that which is of importance and benefit to him in
this world and the next, reflect on this and be guided, and may God
take over your guidance.
Michelle? No, it's me less. So this is a chapter titled watching
others.
And again, there's great wisdom in these words of the mom and her
dad. And what we hope is that we open up our hearts and minds to
this wisdom, and we have the ability to put it into practice
being
Eli Tada. He begins by saying that no man of reason, and Taqwa should
be overly concerned with the opinions of others in their
expectations, when this may result in his abandoning things which are
good for his heart, or in which he can find some joy, in comfort. And
what he's teaching us is, is that times obviously has changed. And
he's speaking of course, about 300 years ago about people in his
time. And keep in mind, he's in Teddy holida multiman, which is a
very protected society, even to this day, they used to say, is
that were the entire world to be blind, that TuneIn would still be
able to see a little bit. It is clearly more preserved in many
other places. And people that aren't considered to be so
righteous there were they to come to places outside of Geneva,
people would think that they are that great Olia because of the way
that they follow the sunnah of our Prophet sallallahu sallam, and
really the purity of heart that they have, and that it really is a
blessing place as the man who went to visit him. And when he would
keep recounting the story to his son, story after story, he would
tell he would always end the story by saying well whom Bismillah it
could be Asmaa. And you could probably best translate as it is
as if they're angels, in other words, is that they were human
beings, but it's almost like they didn't have desire like other
people had, because of the difficulty of life there and the
simplicity, and the housing, the simplicity of the food and
clothing. And that's one of the things I'd always say there
besides just let things be, just let things you know, just relax
and let things be easy. That it was it was just kind of like that
there wasn't a lot of the pressure that we have here. That certainly
wasn't there in in a lot of traditional societies that was
similar. Anyhow, he's saying that that, whereas you have to know the
time in which you live. And if this was his time, then what about
our time, and really, in any time, it is important for us to
understand the way the majority of people see the world. And the
expectations that they have, in one of the things that happens to
us all is that we're affected by what other people think,
especially if there's a critical mass of people. If you grew up in
a family, and all of your brothers and sisters, and your aunts and
your uncles and everyone else around you,
is putting pressure on you insane if you do not get into an Ivy
League school, you are useless. Right and that are putting so much
pressure on you to get into a top notch University. And then somehow
you don't get accepted to an Ivy League school. And you have to
settle for something else and people are looking down upon you.
Because you're still getting a college education is not what
their expectation with, you're going to be affected by that.
That's just one example. There are many other examples in terms of
our career track, what it is that we end up doing for the rest of
our life, in terms of who it is that we marry, in terms of what
type of house that we have to live in, or what type of car we have to
drive and all of these types of things. It's I was just with Imam
Taha Anwar Milla to add a blessing. And Imam Tahara
was telling me how he had had a very nice car. And then, you know,
he grew up with a father who was very pious, may Allah preserve his
busted father. And his father used to tell him the way of the people
the path, which he embodied the way the people the path used to
say, have what you want from the world, but just don't let it get
into your heart.
And so Montana had a very nice car, and he got rid of it. And he
bought like an older kind of used car. And he said, people would see
him coming to the Michigan this older car, and they come up to
him. And like, are you okay? Is everything all right? They
thought, like, really something was wrong with him. Because the
car that he wasn't driving that he was driving was not like, the
first car that he was driving. And they thought like he was going
through, like, some really difficult time or that he was
depressed or something like that. And subhanAllah just the
perspective of people. And I Subhanallah I've been in
situations where
it's just the perspective that I see some people have, it's, it's
almost like some of these things that they're worshipped. Like, I'm
like, close. I mean, these are Muslims who don't worship anything
other than a lot of data. But some of these things are so dear to
them. It's almost as if they're worshipping them. And it really is
shocking to see that and very unhealthy. And the point of this
is, that in any time, which we live, wherever we are, and
whatever environment that we're in urban, suburban or any other there
are certain expectations and understandings and perspectives
that people have
And when you grow up in that society, who and among those
people in in those neighborhoods, you're going to be affected by
that? You remember her dad's advice is to step back and to
really think very carefully about what are other people's
expectations? How does it they think?
And understand from the standpoint of Dean, what is the true meaning
of success? What is the things that you need to do in your life,
to take care of yourself, and Subhanallah sometimes people, they
can't believe the decisions people make, to move from one area to
another to do this or to do that. And it looks like outwardly,
they're sacrificing their career or that they're taking a huge pay
cut to enter into the mom profit sector, or actually remember that
a situation where the man's son entered into the humanities, and
he really he panicked. Because he started, like, if my son gets a
degree in history, how on earth is he ever going to take care of me
when he's older, and he panicked. And in a very real way people go
through these situations, I was reading something about a
lady from a particular country that was failing her math class.
And so she's decided to go into the humanities, and she said to
her relatives came to visit her, as if like, someone had died in
the family. And they wanted to console her is everything, okay.
And as if you know that people don't have different abilities,
that these things are, I'm just mentioning examples that some
people might be familiar with. And there's a whole other set of
examples of sets of examples, that people might that bring forth,
depending upon where someone lives and what those expectations are.
But we have to be careful of that. You can't live your life for other
people.
And I will say, and this will be a bit controversial, even for your
parents.
Your parents cannot micromanage your life.
As my kids are at least one of them is in the room listening very
carefully. I'm sure of all things, taking notes on that particular
point. But parents cannot micromanage your life. The goal of
a parent is to help their child develop their God given gifts, and
to use them for his sakes, upon what data.
And we have to have the courage to get out of this mold of this
constant worry of the system of compulsory schooling where we feel
like if our kids don't go to this school and do this and do that and
get deterred, or it's a race to nowhere, and it never ends. And
they say no, no, just just in high school, make sure you get into a
good college. It doesn't stop there. No, no, you got to just get
least get in the door and get a job. And then you got to at least
right? No, you're and it just never stops until you're retired
and you're too old. You can benefit from your money. Or if you
do Okay, you go on a few holidays, big deal. Go on a few cruises,
okay.
That is that really what life is all about? Where's the process,
where's the meaning. And I hope that increasingly in countries
like the one which we live in United States of America, that we
can provide opportunities for young people to have career tracks
that they love they feel passionate about, and they're also
meaningful risk will come risk is the last of concerns. Anyone in
our society who is willing to work and have a little bit of zoo hood,
for the most part, can get by not always right, but for the most
part can at least get by if you're willing to work. Now, again, that
doesn't apply to everyone. There are certain situations where
people are in very difficult circumstances, and they don't have
enough to get by. But for the most part, I don't think we have to
overly worry about that. Now, what we have to do is is that that
really help people match what they feel passionate about with career
tracks. And that there's no doubt the more beneficial the career
track, is that the more blessings there will be in what it is that
they do. There's no doubt about that. And it doesn't mean that
something's not permissible, something could be permissible,
but something could be better and even better. And that's really
what we want to move towards is that when we do career, that
training with the youth, is that we that speak from abundance and
tell them about the incredible opportunities that they would
have. And that we have to be very wary of the monster school system,
stifling our children's creativity, because there's so
many opportunities that they have where they to realize in that to
be assisted in channeling their God given gifts to something that
would be of benefit, anyhow, that this doesn't just relate to this
and all in all this these things is that we have to be very careful
living up to the expectations of people.
are living in doing what it is that they want us to do. And so he
says, We should not be overly concerned, we're going to be
concerned but not overly concerned with their opinions and
expectations. And so we shouldn't abandon things which are good for
our heart. And this is another very strange phenomenon. I've come
across multiple people like this, where they don't want their kids
to go down the wrong path. But they don't want their kids to be
too religious either.
They want it to be somewhere kind of in the middle. And they
actually get really worried when they start to get too religious.
Because they feel like religion is going to come in the way of their
goals for their kids, which is very odd to me as especially as a
convert is very difficult for me to understand that.
And, okay, if we're talking about radicalization, okay, that's
another thing. But if we're talking about just that religion,
how could the religion get in the way I was a biller? If you
practice your religion, you will be good at everything you do.
Everything we have in our religion, if you are good in Deen,
it will give you life skills to be good in anything you do. 100%
guaranteed if you just think about the five daily prayers, and waking
up and praying on time, in the systematic way that we have to go
about in that establish a regiment in our lives to ensure that think
about all of the life skills that you get from that, and what a plus
that is, and the way that that relieves stress in the way that it
relieves burdens from you in the way that that facilitates things
for you and so forth and so on. And fasting and across the board.
The wisdoms that we have in our deen is it will give you this it
will give you the skills that you need in life. Just look at the
Prophet sunnah. What else do you need? That should be the real
test. When we hire someone? How close are they to following the
sunnah of our Prophet sizer, everything that they're looking at
now, they used to look at IQ. Now they look then they started
looking at EQ, which is emotional intelligence. And now they have
these tests. That is what they call XQ. They find these really
interesting ways to see what traits that people have to see
whether or not they want to hire them. And oftentimes, these are
traits that you can't learn in school, and you're not going to
learn in school and if anything, school might strip some of them
from you. And again, I'm not saying that we don't go to school.
I'm just simply saying, is it worth people to realize what we
have in our deen. It's everything you need for not only your
religious life, but also your worldly life. Because your worldly
life is a part of your religious life. And this is why the prophets
who came, they came for a Salah, and in my eyes, well, my ash, they
came to rectify our worldly lives and our other worldly lives. So
everything is there. And so if we know something is good for our
heart, is that we can't abandon it because other people think we're
strange. If you have a ship if you have a teacher, and your family
members think that's weird. Or is that instead of taking a vacation,
you spend time going to a retreat, you go and do something that's
like why wouldn't you go to the Bahamas? When you could have gone
here? Why wouldn't you go when you could have gone here, and
that we shouldn't leave it if it's good for her or which we can find
some joy and comfort. And I'm not sure if it may be one of the
meanings that he had that is mentioned here.
And this is something that understood, especially when he
slightly repeats it towards the end
is that we have to realize our deen it takes time for us to
progress. It's like a marathon, it is not a sprint. If you sprint,
you will get tired out. And then we have the famous story of the
tortoise and the hare. And slow steady consistent growth is much
better than quick Sprint's and that's what's going to win in the
end. And we don't have a lot of wisdom in that regard.
By way of examples before us, oftentimes, some people more so
than others, but really how to slowly increase in the
realization of this Deen over a long period of time to not do too
much or to do too little. And to know when to indulge in certain
things from the realm of the permissible and that when to leave
other things that are offensive and to kind of move up in the
degrees of Taqwa it takes time. And that's something that still to
this day with much of the dysfunctionality in the Muslim
world, this is still very much intact. People know where they are
in the hierarchy. They know what to do in the moment. And they
don't make things unnecessarily difficult upon themselves. So
there's two things here. You read the stories of the righteous and
you see what's possible, and then you realize where you're at
And then you take a path to slowly move in that direction. But not
everyone can move as quick as other people can. And so it's
important. And this is what I understand from this, to that give
yourself time to rest, to have certain things that you do to
relieve stress, whether it's something like exercise, or
whether someone likes to cook, or whether someone likes to that go
visit, go hiking or something like that, or to go visit museums or
whatever it might be, have some type of sport, horseback riding,
or archery or something like that, or something that will relieve
yourself from many of the burdens that you face in life, these
things are important. And then there might be certain times where
we leave certain things, and we focus on other things, but learn
how to live in the key areas is that
if there are certain things that we know, we need to do, and again,
the condition is it's in the realm of the permissible.
We can't leave those things because other people think there's
something wrong with them, or they think that they're strange. Or
they wonder why would that person do that? Is it you have to be
comfortable in to carry yourself in a way that you know how to
slowly progress over a long period of time?
No, and he points out here that watching others and being aware of
them has become a tiresome endeavor, devoid of benefit.
He said, because the vast majority of people is that they are just
deeply committed, both inwardly and outwardly, to their worldly
affairs.
If you just settle for less,
and you don't upgrade your home, or you don't upgrade your car,
sometimes people think you're really strange. And in some
communities more than others, they really think you're strange. If
you just, you know, don't have the people even will judge people now
by the phones that they have.
Even jet like people are embarrassed to have certain types
of phones. Because there that person must be, from the Stone
Age, have a phone like that just lets you know, as if something's
Like, seriously wrong with them or something, because they have a
flip phone, or they don't have, you know, a data package or
something like that on their phone, people think that there's
something wrong with them. Or if they're stuff like an iPhone five,
they haven't even gotten up to the six yet. Right? And there's
eagerly waiting for the eight to come out. Right? So that, yeah, I
don't want, I've had the six for so long, and never did upgrade to
the seven. So I'm just gonna go right up to the eight, right. And
anyhow, these types of things are utterly ridiculous. They really,
really are ridiculous. And we got to be very careful that letting
these things seep into the heart. And even if we do have these
things, that the key is, is that to be unaffected by them
internally, and to use them responsibly. And so this is
really, really good advice. And he does say here is that watching
others may have had some benefits in the past, when people were more
discerning and had the time to ponder and reflect on what others
did. Right. So people used to there used to be more discerning.
And there's a lot that you could learn from other people in their
dealings in the way that they did things. And this is less and less
so is his whole point. So we have to be careful. And we need to that
find the right examples because the nature of someone if you're
impressed with someone or something you're in internally
going to inclined towards following that person or doing
that particular thing. This is the way we are in that there's much in
the modern world that it faces at face value impresses us. And then
once we're impressed by it, then we're alert in and it could get us
in trouble. Now I'm so but in previous times that this
oftentimes was the case, a person of tuck one reason should
therefore strive only for the good pleasure of his Lord, and have
this spiritual religious maturity, to simply not care what people
think.
We need to get to that point where we do not care what people think,
as it has been said Mahalik and NAS illness, only people have
destroyed other people. Think about how many people have been
destroyed and ruin themselves
over the centuries upon centuries and 1000s and 1000s of years that
human beings have lived to impress other people to fit in, to fit
into what fit into what.
And in the end, that what's important is is that Allah to
Allah be pleased with us.
His own salvation success in the hereafter whatever brings
tranquility to his heart enjoy to his mind as long as free of sinful
or basic behavior. In doing so he should pay
no attention whatsoever to others, since they are preoccupied with
themselves, let him attend to himself, and that which is of
importance and benefit to him in this world, and the next, reflect
on this and be guided, and may God take over your guidance. So I
thought that was a really beautiful thing. And
that I've been reading recently, I'm gonna just kind of introduce
this in another time, I wanted to go into much more detail.
It really relates to this.
Indirectly, email what was it has in his book 100 Aberdeen whole
section where he talks about seclusion.
And that, what is better secluding yourself, or that interacting with
people. And he goes into the scholary opinions about it in the
way of the people who came before him. And different people have
that different categories that they fit in.
And at different times of their life, they might fit more in one
category or another. And the categories aren't necessarily
static or black and white, sometimes that you are have a
little bit of both, depending upon
the type of life that you live. And
anyhow, he does mention something really interesting, though, for
those that are forced to mix with people, some of the traits that we
have to have. And I just thought this was really, really
beneficial. So this is a device is that the one who that has to mix
with other people or you could say should or obligatorily has to like
in a religious sense, because they have something that they give back
to them. These are the traits that he mentioned these people should
have.
You also must also know that this man and this man, the kind people
need in the context of religion
has two urgent needs of his own in the company of his fellow
creatures. First of all, he needs long, enduring patience,
enormous tolerance,
a kind in gracious attitude
and constant readiness to seek help from Allah.
Long, enduring patience, enormous tolerance, a kind and gracious
attitude and constant readiness to seek help from Allah. Secondly, he
needs to be inwardly detached from people. So this is where there's
overlap. So even if you're with people outwardly, be in really
detached. He needs to be inwardly detached from people, even though
he is together with them in physical form.
If they talk to him, he will talk to them. If they visit him, he
will treat them with all due respect, and he will thank them.
If they say nothing to him in turn away for him, he will take
advantage of that opportunity. So he's not worried. If people aren't
talking to you. If you're not accepted by people, that's an
opportunity, I can do something that's going to benefit me.
If they're engaged in something right and good, he will assist
them. If they indulge in foolish talk and bad conduct, he will
contradict them and shun them, or he may chide them and rebuke them
if he hopes to improve their hearts. He will also fill all
their rights, including social visits in special visits to the
sick, as well as taking care of their needs presented that they
presented to him to the best of his ability. He will not demand
any form of remuneration, or any type of Recompense from them, nor
will they expect that of them. He will not expose them to alienation
because of that failure to remunerate him meaning that if
they don't pay him back for something he did, he won't
mistreat them. They'll just leave them. He will spend on them
generously if he can, and he will be shy of accepting gifts from
them. He wants to give but he doesn't want to take he will be
tolerant of any annoyance that caused him, showing them a
cheerful face and letting them see him in fine form conducting
yourself worrying that nice clean clothes if he was able to, he will
hide his own needs from them,
injuring them by himself in dealing with him in his heart in
his intervene. He also needs to pay special attention to his own
person by giving an opportunity to engage in devout worship.
And then he quote say no, I'm going to help Bob who said if I
sleep through the night I am bound to neglect my own self. And if I
sleep through the day, I am bound to neglect those I'm responsible
for. So how is it for me to sleep between these two? How can I sleep
that
he was so preoccupied
with helping people during the day, that he didn't have time to
sleep, and he was so preoccupied with the state of his own soul
before Allah night, that likewise he didn't know when he it is that
he would sleep. And so this is very good advice that we're going
to have to interact with people, but we have to be detached. And
that if we can have that perspective, and these o'clock who
that are Prophet sallallahu Sallam that said is that the one who
mixes with people, and is patient with them is better than the one
who does not mix with people. And so that mixing with people and
being patients with everything that that brings, is a higher
state, in our deen May Allah to Allah give us Tofik we'll just
read briefly from men in the universe in sha Allah.
So this is on page 16 of this copy, where he says,
the two poles of a dyad may belong to the same degree of existence,
or to two superimposed degrees. In other words,
there are horizontal,
as well as vertical relationships. When a relationship is vertical,
the higher pole is always predominantly active in relation
to the lower one, to take the human being, for example, the soul
or psyche is higher than the body, and thus in the psyche Soma pair,
it is predominantly active. In relation to the spirit, however,
the soul is lower, and thus chiefly passive.
To take a cosmic example, the Divine Throne is active in
relation to the footstool, which in turn is mostly active in
relation to the seven heavens beneath it, which in turn, are
mainly active in relation to the material world. The active passive
relationship of the pair's May, at the lowest levels be considered
one of opposition, as in good evil, for instance, in most
instances, however, it will be one of complementarity, rather than
opposition. And this applies more pervasively, the higher the level.
So again, needs so he's just introducing these ideas to us
otherwise, that there is a lot of detail that you could go into, in
addition to the specifics, he's talking about different
categories. And as we briefly pointed to last week, that this
really helps give us a very good understanding of many things that
are oftentimes misunderstood, including various outcome of the
Sharia. And that understanding that everything that led to
adequate has created has a passive, active type nature. And
some things or people that are active in one sense in another
sense that they're passive, and that ultimately, everything that a
lot of other content has created in relation to him, is passive
SubhanaHu adatta. Also to be mentioned, this context are the
arrangements of multi dyadic relationships in complex
interacting systems.
Commentary. This perspective has been partly studied by modern
systems theorists, with some relatively valid conclusions put
forth. Although they're limited by the very nature of material
science, each system is conceived as composed of smaller systems and
forming part of a larger one. These systems within systems are
in equilibrium, every equilibrium is likely to be periodically
disrupted, only to be replaced by a new balance after a period of
just equilibrium, which is to say that every equilibrium is
relative, and carries within the seed of future just equilibrium.
So he's giving us examples now of that modern research point to that
talk about these active passive pairs in these horizontal and
vertical relationships. Within each system, the lighter or more
passive components are conceived of as orbiting the heavier,
heavier or more active components. This may be literal, as in the
case of electrons and protons in suns and planets, or it may be
less evident as when applied at the social individual levels. If
you really think about that, it's amazing to think everyone that is
circumambulating, the Kaaba, every single one of us has cells in our
body, and that all of the cells in our body have molecules. And if
you imagine the nucleus and the counterclockwise orbiting of the
electrons of the nucleus, it's the same way that we circumnavigate
the Kaaba counterclockwise. And if you grow up to the macro level,
and think about the way that the planets are orbiting the sun, it's
counterclockwise. So everything is harmony. at the macro level, at
the micro level, and everywhere in between, everything is in unison.
Everything is imperfect balance, in reality if we have the wisdom
to be able to see it. In a tribal setting, the members of each clan
may be seen as moving within the orbit of the chants. Chief clans
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and whose authority is the main centripetal force within each
clan. Each chieftain is moving within the larger orbit of the
tribal chief, who was thus the center of gravity of the whole
tribe. In this context the syntrophic that the central
descent centrifugal forces will be each tribe mins egoistic desires
in tendency to prefer in his own wishes over the communal good of
the tribe. at the family level, the members are subject to the
centripetal poll of the head of the family. The dispersing
centrifugal forces will be each member's perception of his self
interest as incongruent with that of the family. Interest
psychically. The souls elements may easily be conceived of as
orbiting around the center of gravity, that is the heart. We
shall discuss this in more detail in the chapter concerned with the
soul and spirit. It suffice it to say here that these elements are
also subject to centripetal, unifying and centrifugal
dispersing influences. This is why the Quran speaks of those
possessed of a loop a core that is a unifying center of
consciousness, somebody that he saw it, for the power of the soul
lies in the harmonizing of all its elements was to remove inner
conflict, work against distraction in the dispersal of attention, in
order to unite the soul and the drive to reach immutable truth.
This is human inner and unification or tow heed. The Quran
states, surely in the creation, the heavens in the earth, and then
the alternation of night and day there are signs for those
possessed of course centered minds, who remember God standing
sitting on their sides and reflect upon the creation of the heavens
and earth or Lord, You have not created this in vain transcendent
are you, so preserve us from the torment of the Fire. These people
possessed us centered minds are those who practice a remembrance
of God uninterruptedly, which is here expressed by they're doing an
opposite, in all possible postures standing sitting on their sides.
Thus, they defeat all dispersing tendencies and when inner harmony
or unity at the highest level, whether they're spiritually within
or cosmically, without all complementary pairs must resolve
into unity, and the greatest wisdoms of all of the Paris, as it
points to toe heat, and the oneness of Our Lord Subhanallah
data. And as some of them have pointed out, if you look at it
mathematically speaking, every number and let's say that things
in creation have a number. Every number is ultimately a series of
ones. So what's for one plus one plus one plus one?
What is seven, one plus one plus one plus one plus one plus one
plus one was one, what is 1734? I'm not going to count all the
ones out. But it's all of the ones until you reach 1734. So even
mathematically speaking, all points to to heat, it points to to
heat, everything in existence, that points to the oneness of Our
Lord subhanho wa taala. And one of the ways that the scholars
understood this is that and everything that a lot of AutoCAD
have created, is that we see preponderance,
so Allah to Allah chose for us to be able to see the sky as being
blue, if he willed, He could have created such that we see the sky
as being
whatever color that fluorescent pink, if you want, he could have
won, he could have chosen how that we see the sky Subhanallah data,
but there's preponderance or he chose it to be in a certain way,
and created as such Subhanallah data. So this indicates that his
oneness and that his power to political data. So may Allah Tata
connect our hearts to these meanings to purify them and to
give us understanding of the steam into blesses not only orthodoxy
but orthopraxy correct belief and correct practicing we Deepu going
between knowledge and practice in May that bequeath a state that we
live and die upon and then are accepted by our Lord subhanaw
taala May Allah to Allah give us Tofik in all of our different
affairs, for Salah Aloha, seated in the Muhammad and on it suddenly
suddenly suicidal Fatiha
how that I tend to be
so we're about to