Yahya Rhodus – Knowledge & Wisdom Imam alHaddad #8
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Miss Vanessa so we will continue on in our study of the intentions.
And
today we are going to look at the specific intentions that we can
make for attending a molded
and a molded is essentially a celebration of the prophets births
Allah Allah who said Lim in all of the meanings that are contained in
it.
There is no doubt that without the Prophet sallallahu Senan we would
not have our deen without the prophesy said and we would not
have the Quran. Without the proper sunlight, I said we will not have
the shittier without the proper sunlight I sent him we will not
have anything that we know of the dean. It is from the means and the
blessing of our prophets. Allah said that all of the religious
blessings that we know have come to us. And when we look at the
reality of our prophets, Allah license, we can even determine
something even
that beyond the deen existence itself, because our Prophet is the
purpose for which Allah Allah created everything in existence,
is it by extension, everything that has been created has been
ultimately created from the blessing of our Prophet
sallallaahu. I didn't have you sent him. So all blessings,
religious and worldly, ultimately have come to us by means of Satan
and Muhammad sallallahu alayhi wa sallam. And so this is something
that the scholars have deemed to be good.
celebrating the birth of our prophesizing celebrating the
legacy of our prophesies and celebrating the life of our
prophesies and, and everything that we mean by his life that
begins before he entered into this world, from the time that he was
born, and all of the Iroha sought the pre prophetic miracles. And
everything that happened during his life, and even on the prophet
has returned to Allah subhana wa Tada is that in that sense, if we
truly understand the expansive nature of the suitor, it continues
on and the bugs off, and it will continue on Yamaha piano. And it
will continue on and on and on evident avid eternally, because
it's not that we're going to enter into paradise and forget and never
again see or meet the prophets a little less. And on the contrary,
is it to believers, to the degree of their love and follow the
proper size, and it will be to the degree to which they are with him
in paradise, experiencing eternal bliss forever and ever and ever.
So when we put everything into perspective, we can see why the
vast majority of the scholars from the Laval prophesy centum have
permitted the mode and deemed it to be something that is a good
thing. And it is a custom and customs can be good or bad. And
this is no doubt, a good custom. And it is a blessing that we have
a bidet Hasina, that like the mode so that we can formally in that
short period of time, celebrate the birth of the prophecy and
celebrate the blessing of the prophesy center. And let the
meanings of love and joy flow from our heart. Otherwise, and our
every day.
The Daily Grind, how many of us are consciously thinking about the
Provo slicer? Very few. So it's a blessing that we can formally come
together and mention him and to sing his praises and to note his
virtues. And there are a number of intentions that we can make in
doing that. And so here in the book of intentions of Habib Saad,
he mentions 10 and we will follow up with some others. And the
actual book that we use here for the motive to really expand our
knowledge of what intentions can be made for this lesson mode. So
have you ever thought says first to attend a gathering to invoke
blessings and prayers upon the Prophet Satellizer so we know this
is a chronic injunction yet you will live in ominous Solu i Lee
was Saleemul Taslima. We are following the Quran when we sin,
prayers and blessings upon our Prophet several lives. And so a
gathering that is established to invoke those blessings and
prayers. We intend to be there in that gathering
to attend a gathering Secondly, which the aroma encourage people
to attend. The scholars have noted the importance of gatherings
and the blessings that lie in those gatherings and encouraged us
to be in there. So we make the intention to be in those bustle
gatherings that the scholars themselves encouraged us to be in.
We also make the intention three to listen to an account of the
life of an Mustafa SallAllahu sallam, and Mustafa is the chosen
one. He is the one the prophet Sallallahu, I said that Allah
subhanaw taala chose. And it's a beautiful way to put it because
when you read the life of the prophesy centum, you are
essentially reading the life of the one that Allah chose. And so
every aspect of his life from beginning to end, what he did and
what he didn't do his stances on things, that the various things
that he said. So the lies in him. All of these are what are called
mulata is the thought their outward manifestations of a lot of
other cortada, choosing our prophets, Eliza. And this is one
of the things that we do in the Molad is that we hear the life
story of our prophesy son. And that's why we make the intention
to that here the account of his life story of his 04 to attend a
gathering of counsel and guidance, generally speaking, in most
moulage, that there is a component of teaching of admonition of
reminding, and that we're all in need of constant counsel and
guidance. This is the way that we are, whether it be in our worldly
affairs or whether it be in our religious affairs, we're in need
of that. And if a lot of Oracle Data
commands, the prophesy center was Xiao with whom Phil amateur, and
seek consultation with them in your affairs. This is the best of
creation who had the strongest and most perfect of all intellects,
but still Allah commanded him to seek advice of people. So we are
always in need of counsel always in need of learning from other
people, we will pick up on things they will pick up people, other
people pick up on things about us that we simply will neglect in
relation to our own selves.
And that there might be certain things that we think that we do,
or things that we don't do, but we actually do do or we don't do. And
having a that outsider that remind us of the way that we should be is
definitely a good thing. And this is something we can attend by that
attending the moment. And then number five, to implement what you
have heard of the Muhammad in characteristics. So when we attend
the motive is that there's no doubt that we will, that hear a
lot about virtue. And part of the secret of the gathering in terms
of what we hear lies in what we do with it after that the whole
purpose of gatherings is not only salvation, but also transformation
is that we want to leave a gathering different to where we
came. And we want to constantly work on ourselves. And this is the
nature of the human being is that we always have to put work in
always have to put work in, and anyone that is successful in
anything, whether it be an athlete, whether it be someone who
has perfected a craft, whether it be someone who's perfected a
profession, whatever it be, is that the people who reach the
highest degrees of success in whatever field that it is, you
will find that they have this relentless drive, to perfect their
craft, to do better, to never see that what they've achieved as
being sufficient. And that more, the more time that we put into
that perfecting whatever it is, that we do for by way of career or
profession or even hobby is that the more ultimately that we will
get out of it and the better we will become in it. And the same
goes for the spiritual path. And so we should make the intention to
put into practice, the list of things that we hear about our
Prophet salaallah idea to say that we set them as characteristics,
and then six to occupy your time and what is good.
And this is the way that we all are, is that if we do not
preoccupy ourselves with good, we will be preoccupied with other
than good. Every one of us, we're all the same. Every human being
has is the same. We all have the same needs. We all have enough. We
all have desire. We all have goals we want to achieve that we fail
oftentimes to achieve all of us that get lazy at times, that we
fall prey to that certain that
tendencies of our own selves really, which is our new fools to
that justify things and postpone things and all of these other
types of things. And that this is why that we have to put ourselves
in situations where we're preoccupied with good and this is
the famous statement of Imam Shafi.
We've probably all heard, but it is really a an incredibly wise
statement and very important in relation to the spiritual path.
And it says is it that you're enough's if you do not preoccupied
with good, it will preoccupy you with evil.
And so it's a good thing just to preoccupy ourselves with good so
that we don't get in more trouble. And this is the way again, that we
all are, is that just by being around good people, one of the
great blessings is, is that it will protect us from some of the
harms being around people that are not so good.
Number seven, to increase the number of people of truth in other
words, people that attend these blessing gatherings that are that
raising the remembrance or means of the raising of the remembrance
of our Prophet sallallahu Sallam number eight so that Allah may
grant you the prophets, character and qualities described in the
modal similar to what was mentioned number five, number
nine, so that your attendance so that through your attendance,
you're able to fulfill some of your duties towards the invoice on
the licen one of the greatest duties that we have towards the
Prophet sallallaahu send them is that we love him, that we love him
that we follow him is that we learn his deen is that we intend
to give victory to his sunnah and to his Sharia and to his Deen
Salah licen him. So there are there is no doubt there are a
number of duties that we have towards the Prophet sallallahu
Sallam and his deen and that by coming together means of goodness,
it's a means for us to fulfill some of those duties. And then
number 10, which is a beautiful one, so that you will be enabled
by Allah with a vision of the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa, semi
center. And if you want you could swear oath upon oath, as if
someone was granted the Blessed Vision of our Prophet salallahu
Alaihe Salam, in a dream, let alone an awakened state
is that you would see the world and everything is in it as nothing
more than as it's been described. And that's when
you will completely that see everything for what it is that
everything that you deem so important. Everything that
preoccupied you and entangled you, if you were blessed with the
vision of the resource, or the law, the service and all of that
stuff, that so many people are arguing over and fighting over and
competing for and all these other types of things, you would see it
as nothing other than a net swing
and relation to what it is that you've been gifted, which is the
blesseth vision of the little Sol sol de la de regardless of your
solemn and by attending gatherings of goodness, especially here these
intentions are for the motive is that that's an intention that we
can make is to see the prophets Eliza
and there's a wisdom in the great collection of Shamal by Imam
eternity.
In the very last chapter
in the Shema Tirmidhi is the Bab the chapter on seeing the prophesy
send him in a dream?
Why would you?
Why would you ever turn him if he mentioned that as his last
chapter?
Why would it be the last chapter?
In other words, after you've studied all of these
characteristics, all the CheMin his outward characteristics, its
inherent characteristics, everything about the prophets of
Isaiah, is that the hope is is that leads to a Blessed Vision of
the Russell Satellizer.
So, in other words is that one of the main reasons we study all of
that yes to implement it of course, but also so that that
implementation move leads to something experiential. And this
is why any discourse that is not pointing us towards experiencing
the sweetness of faith and living the realities of la ilaha Muhammad
Rasul Allah is always going to be that limited. And to some degree,
that it's always going to that push some people away
because people especially in our time are hypersensitive to
religious people to begin with. And that oftentimes that
hypersensitivity is triggered very easily with limited discourses in
ways that people speak and present this Deen.
But when you understand that the whole purpose of this Deen
ultimately is about spiritual realization. It is about our
relationship with Allah in living the realities of this deen and
ultimately it is a gift. Everything in Islam is a gift to
us from Allah. Iman Western I wouldn't ever sign even the more
difficult things that we struggle with.
The reality is that they're a gift. They are a gift. And not
everything is sweet. Back to the metaphor of successful people, you
can't win a marathon and run a one hour and 56 minute marathon.
Right? If that you don't train for it, if you don't impose
difficulties upon yourself, this is the way that things work here
in this world. And the same as in the religious sense is that yes,
there are certain things that are a little bit difficult in Islam.
And when we do those difficult things, though, the reality is
that they're a blessing. Because everything in the deen from belief
to practice to morality in spirituality and having good
character is there for us. It's there to refine us, it's there to
prepare us ultimately, to that experience, the great blessing of
being connected to Allah.
And one of the great signs that someone is spiritually progressing
is that they start to see good dreams. Now, dreams are not
software in and of themselves. So just because someone doesn't have
good dreams, it doesn't mean that they're not a good person. There's
some people that get good dreams, and that some other people that
might not, but generally speaking, is that seeing the prophets I send
my dream is a great blessing. Because our Prophet said, Men are
ani Padma Nami for Calderon. Whoever sees me in a dream has
surely seen me finish it online at the method Ruby, because she had
long can never take my form. shaytaan can take a number of
forms. shaytaan can even come in the form of light. shaytaan can
lead people astray, in very, very weird ways. Shaitaan can come in
the guise of good sheets and has all kinds of subtle little plots
to lead us astray. But shaytaan can never ever take the form of
the Prophet sallallahu sallam, and you could extend that to the
Blessed inheritors of the Russell solidago.
If you see one of the great LDI on your dream is that Shelton cannot
take the form of these great luminous, radiant Olia. He's very
limited in what he can ultimately do. And may Allah Allah blesses
with the vision of our Prophet salallahu Alaihe Salam, and if
it's not something that we've attained, that we should not get
disillusioned and think that I've gone to 100 mullets and I've never
seen the Prophet Salah Leida service Allah
Subhan Allah, I'm just going to give up what is the use? I'm going
to, I'm making this intention, how long am I going to make this
intention?
If you think about it, were you to that go to 100 million Mo's, it's
there that and then be granted the vision of the prophesy center, you
would have gone to 100 100 100 million modes, several billion
modes, after you experienced the beauty of that scene, not a source
of a lot of service. So you got to be very careful, because enough
sometimes, you know, that tries to again, this is what I'm trying to
say the nurse tries to find excuses. These are supposed to be
intentions that motivate us. But if we're not careful enough, we'll
turn it into that a demotivating factor. Okay, I'm making this
intention. It's not something I'm experiencing. I'm not going to go.
No, when you realize the preciousness of seeing little
souls on the licen. Again, it's like anything else in life? Do you
think that all of a sudden, that you're going to just win that some
type of of that, you know, very difficult award that very few
people ever win just overnight? No, you have to spend a lifetime
doing it. You have to spend a lifetime preparing into a lifetime
of work to receive that award. And the same thing is in this, this is
one of the greatest blessings here in this world is to be granted the
vision of the prophesy center.
But the amazing thing is, is that a lot of people never even make
the intention, or we're being taught here is make the intention.
Because then, that by making the intention, it's much more likely
for you to be blessed with that, by the blessing of the intention.
Yes, it's possible no one makes the intention and they're gifted
that but by making the intention is that it's much more likely that
you'll be gifted that one too, is that it's wiring you internally
to understand the importance of the gatherings and the intimate
connection that it leads to with the dorsal Sun lesson.
So only a real lover is going to make that intention because their
heart is they want to see the prophesy center. So that that
desire to want to see the prophesy said and to want to be with the
prophesy center. That in and of itself, in addition to intention
is one of the greatest causes of seeing the Prophet.
And so if someone's looks at their own self and wonders, why haven't
I seen
The Prophet in a dream
will ask yourself the question, Am I longing to see the Prophet
energy?
And if we're not, we need to cultivate that in ourselves.
And the beauty of this is when you come to love the Russell's alive
center,
it has nothing to do with what you do or what you don't do.
You could be the person that falls short the most.
And that does not negate your love of the Russell's. I said,
Yes, that could taint perfection of love, because perfection of
love comes with following.
But it does not taint love itself. And this is why even if you fall
short in everything you do, have a heart that is filled with the love
of the prophesies. And that is the greatest way for you to have your
sins forgiven, along with humility before a lot of humility before
Allah in love of the Rasul Lysa Do you think the prophet is going to
leave you?
He's not going to ever leave you. If you really love your Prophet
sallallahu sallam, he is not going to leave you, even if you've
committed every sin possible in the Sharia.
Why? Because you love him. And the beautiful story which we've all
heard this, but in this context, there was a man who had a drinking
problem.
He kept drinking.
He was taken to task he kept drinking, taking the test, and
then the prophecies and heard someone curse the man.
And the Prophet interjected and said, Do not curse him. That is a
man who loves a law and His messenger.
The Prophet defended that man.
Even though he was falling short, outwardly he definitive.
But he recognizes that this is a problem he has, but it didn't
negate his love for lungs, Messenger, and love. They call it
in the heart, it's called that the knot of hub,
the fire of love. This is of course, a spiritual thing.
And what love does in the heart is it burns up all of the truths that
are displeasing to Allah to add.
Having love the prophesies in your heart, will burn up anything that
will distance you from Allah, it will burn up all of your bad
traits over a period of time, not necessarily overnight.
And this is why it is so so so so important. So we should make that
intention. For time sake, I guess we'll stop there, I was going to
look into the intentions as well that we recite the beginning this
book because there's so many, and
intentions are so so important. Really, if we make these
intentions,
it makes a big difference for our own self and for that other people
who attend, and then other people who are not even that attended.
And I hope that when we come together to recite the motive on
Thursday nights
is that we can all read through these intentions that we have in
this book or from the book of intentions and to make strong
intentions. And if you have 3456 10 people coming together on
a Thursday night, that with these intentions strongly made with
resolution, trusting in a lot of adequate data, there will be a
qualitative difference to the gathering, that people will feel
and then the potency and the power of that gathering that is
intangible that many people will not feel will remain hidden to the
vast majority of people. But the stronger these intentions are made
by a larger group of people, the more powerful that it will be. And
the more blessings that will come and lots of other patata give us
tofi opened up the doors of his mercy to us and fill our hearts
with the love of Satan and Muhammad sallallahu alayhi wa
Savio said
can I
continue on at one have you read chapter eight?
Bismillah R Rahman r Rahim Al hamdu lillahi rabbil
aalameen So, I'm gonna say he didn't know Mohammed in one early
he was he was
reading from knowledge and wisdom.
Chapter eight page 30 The poor, praiseworthy and blame worthy
As for he who seeks the world to fulfill his needs or more so, but
it is not made easy for him to obtain that because his allotted
portion is less than sufficient to fulfill his needs. This is the
poor man. He is not considered an enunciate. However, if as he
strives for his needs, he is scrupulous, and God fearing his
patients and then is content with whatever is a portion to him. He
has said to be a patient, poor man, and his poverty is then
praiseworthy.
There are many Quranic verses and traditions to this effect, among
which is his saying, May blessings and peace be upon him. The poor
who are patient are the companions of God the Exalted on judgment
day. But if in seeking his needs, he loses his scruples and his fear
of God neglects, neglects his duties to God, the Exalted,
becomes impatient and dissatisfied with what God alots him, and then
becomes anguished, vexed, angry and envious of those people of
this world who are enjoying it, he is said to be a blameworthy, poor
man.
His kind of poverty is probably that which was meant when he said,
My blessings and peace be upon him. Poverty comes close to being
dis to being disbelief.
And it is also what he may blessings and peace be upon him
ask God for protection against one those rare occasions. on those
rare occasions, when scholars spoke despairingly of poverty, it
is, it was no doubt to the latter kind that they've referred, but
God and His Messenger knows best.
So this is chapter eight.
And Dr. Mustafa had video titled let the poor brain blame
praiseworthy and blameworthy. And this has been a theme of the past
two to three chapters, in terms of how to understand this world, and
different experiences that we have in it. And he's speak
specifically, in this chapter, very short chapter, most of these
chapters in this lesson book are short, but these meanings that he
is discussing, or sources of healing, that the mom and dad, his
books are taking us into a metaphorical Spiritual Hospital,
that these books are that a source of great solace for the soul. And
that the knifes at first might react to them. But if we can have
a little bit of sukoon, a little bit of rust at the soul level, is
that these blessed words of remember her dad, is that there's
a reason they call them had dad did call lube. He's the iron Smith
of the heart, is that when we just read them, the words and of
themselves, that are actively that healing us at the depth of our
being, in a very, very real way, and I'm not joking. But we have to
open our heart to that we can't resist, just let let these
meanings come into your heart, even if you don't fully understand
them, even if you don't know what to do with them, even if you don't
know how to implement them. Even if you feel like that's something
that doesn't necessarily pertain to you. Is that these words, is
the whole reason he that put them to paper, because he remember who
that was a great scholar, he doesn't really have that many
books in relation to what he could have written, because of how much
knowledge he had. But why did he wrote write what he wrote is that
he did so intentionally with purpose is that he wants to bring
about a good effect in a so is it here he was speaking about people
who
are seeking
various things in the world to fulfill their needs. But they find
it difficult for them to obtain
that that which they need to suffice themselves.
That which would be sufficient to fulfill their needs. This is the
definition in Arabic was called a fakir. Someone who's impoverished
someone who's poor is that they don't have enough that they have
some level of provision, but it's not really enough to meet their
needs fully.
And scholars differ about defining the miskeen and the faqeer which
one is the in a worse off state? And it ultimately gets back into
at one level a fifth issue some scholars understood is different.
And depending upon that the interpretation, one of them is
worse than the other is that one of them is is that they
have virtually no way to take care of themselves. And the other one
has some means, but it's not enough. Okay, so you anyways, you
have the full care and you have the miskeen. Either way that we
would roughly translate these as both of them being poor. And so
they're working, they're trying their best, but their needs aren't
being fulfilled. Okay. And he said that this is why that this person
is not necessarily considered to be Azad. What you translates here
isn't an answer yet. Because for that, though, it has to be
intentional, is it just because someone has a lack of something,
it doesn't mean that they have this great virtue of abstaining
from the world of renouncing the world detaching being detached
from the world. But what he really is concerned about here is what we
do in relation to this. And he's presenting two sides
of what the tribulation that is faced of poverty. And what are two
possible results of it, you will have people that maintain their
state. And they maintain that their piety and their people of
Taqwa and even scrupulousness. And this requires a great deal of
patience. And for these people, is that that very folklore that
poverty is a source of great good for them.
Now, he's speaking here about poverty. But the same thing goes
for people of wealth, both poverty, and wealth, are
potentially either a means for someone to ascend or to decent, to
rise or to fall. So even someone who has wealth, if they let their
wealth caused them to go astray, and to misuse it, and to do things
that they shouldn't be doing, is that that wealth that everyone
wants, they think that they're well off and everything is fine,
is actually turned into a means to harm them spiritually and
religiously. And so it goes for both, but he's just speaking here
about the poor. And the beauty of our Prophet slicin
is that we have in his teachings, that which helps both people of
wealth and both people who are in a state of poverty.
And this is reflected even in the clothes that he used to wear
supply center. Because there's different narrations, there's
times when our profit would have were very nice, close. And then
there's times where our profit would have very, were very simple
clothes. And our teacher said, Have you already said about this,
as in both states, the prophesy seven was teaching both types of
people. When he wore nice clothes, he was teaching the wealthy, that
there's nothing wrong with wearing nice clothes in and of itself. As
long as your intention is right and you're not doing it to boast
you're doing it to show the traces of blessing, the blessing of Allah
to add upon you to have this vignette and to not proclaim that
Allah's blessing upon you. And in Allah GeoMedia Hibiya Gemma, Allah
is beautiful and loves beauty. But it's also in his wearing nice
clothes, he was teaching the poor, that you can't have envy for
someone because of the fact that they wear nice clothes. Just
because they have nice clothes, that it doesn't mean that that
gives you have a license to want that to be removed from them
because you don't have it. And similarly, when the Prophet was
simple coding, he was teaching the poor is that there's nothing wrong
with wearing simple code. If this is the best of creation wearing
simple clothing, that you have to see this as that just part of the
story. And it's simultaneously teaching the wealthy is that you
can't judge someone by their clothes, just because someone has
nicer clothes. That's a social distinction. But that doesn't
affect someone's that relationship with Allah subhana wa Tada. So if
someone is in straightened circumstances, he's saying is that
this person is it when they approach the means, if they do so
with water and Taqwa, which he translates to here as that
scrupulousness And God fearing this, God might be mindful of
Allah subhanaw taala.
In other words, that they're still careful. Because if you're in
need, it's much easier for you to that take an opinion that you
shouldn't have taken or do something that you shouldn't have
done. And you can justify it in your mind, like I needed that I
had to do that. I had no other choice. So it's very easy to fall
into that. And so, not falling into that requires an immense
amount of patience. But as he says here, is that you have to have the
correct cognitive frame is that that is fuckload of our mood. It
is praiseworthy poverty, in other words, is that there's great merit
in that. And he says here that there are that many verses in the
Quran, and many Hadith of our prophets, I send them to attest to
that one too.
than that he quotes here. The poor who are patient are the Judas, the
companions of Allah, the Exalted on the Day of Judgment. In other
words, they have a special bounty that comes to them from Allah
subhanaw taala by virtue of their patients, he says, As for someone
else who neglects What are in Taqwa. And so taqwa in general is
piety. It's that staying within the boundaries. And what it really
is one of the higher degrees of Taqwa is this is the that one of
the higher degrees of Taqwa.
And that's where someone is still very careful. And increasingly, in
the time in which we live, it becomes more and more difficult
for us to be scrupulous. Because there's so many Shubo hat, there's
so many doubtful matters, in
a lot of the jobs that are out there, and means of our
livelihood. And so we have to be balanced in relation to this and
to do our best to find the most permissible thing possible. But
what he's really getting at here is that when you're in need, it's
much easier not to that be a person of taqwa, or to be a person
of water because of that need. So what he's saying here is, is that
if this person that neglects taqwa, and that ends up doing
something that they shouldn't have done, and becomes anguished, vexed
angry and envious of those people, this world who are enjoying it, he
is said to be a blameworthy, poor man, in other words, is that there
are a number of vices that could stem from that poverty. And this
is why our profits the lesson that he taught us carded vaako, in your
corner. COFRA is that poverty comes close to disbelief,
because of the things that people do when they're poor.
And this is why that our prophesy sent him that he sought refuge in
Allah subhanaw taala, from Dakar from poverty. And that is a
specific type of poverty. Although he ended up himself solicited and
chose not to have wealth, he actually gave out all of his
wealth every single day, which seems like something, how could
someone do that? His trust was completely in Allah subhanaw
taala. But he sought refuge in this type of poverty, that would
cause someone to do something that was that displeasing to Allah
subhanaw taala. And it doesn't mean that you don't have that
you're in a state that you can't get out of. But it does require
patience, if you have patients along with that state of
straightened circumstances or even poverty, and that you place your
trust in Allah.
Allah when you maintain your scruples, and you do your very
best to that only do what is permissible, Allah will assist
you. But it does require patience, it might not happen overnight,
Allah will assist you, and He will give you a way out. And sometimes
that way out, is giving you sufficiency at the heart level,
you might not necessarily get the job that you want to get.
But it's very possible that despite someone's circumstances,
outwardly, Allah gives you something internally, to make you
able to deal with your situation.
But you have to believe that Allah has called it adequately shake,
you have to believe he's all powerful. He can make anyone
adjust to any situation that they're in.
And particularly in relation to this particular thing, which is
that straight circumstances that relate to poverty and so forth. So
on those rare occasions when scholars spoke disparagingly of
poverty, it was no doubt to the latter kind that they referred,
But God in His Messenger know best.
Just take a little bit from man and universe and oh center.
So we've reached page 18.
Time as we know it is the succession of cyclical events in
space. The rotation of the Earth on its own axis, it's revolving
around the sun, and that of the moon around the earth as well as
the observable motion of the constellations allow us to measure
time and days, months, years, seasons and other smaller or
larger units, as may suit various purposes. This is terrestrial
time, which is one of the conditions of the material world,
another condition being space. So when we speak about matter, we
speak about existence. It's we're ultimately speaking about time and
space together.
And time is one of those things that has been discussed and
thought about for centuries upon centuries. At the basic level,
when you say what is time? Well, something Oh, that's obvious what
time is, what time is it? Oh, it's almost 1050 that we have different
ways that we speak about time and understand time. And at that most
basic level, it is fairly easy to understand. But if you look a
little bit deeper, what really is time?
It's actually a very profound question.
And at that level, it's really more about change. Time
ultimately, is change. So everything that you mentioned,
there are ways that we measure time, but because things are
changing.
So when we talk about night and day, ultimately, it's because that
we see light and then it gets dark, then we talk about a year,
it's because we go through the four seasons.
So those changes allow us to measure time. But it doesn't
really answer what is time.
It just a way that we come to understand how it works. So we're
speaking about here in this world terrestrial time. And then the
other thing is that when someone asks you about how old is the
world in which we live?
And somebody will tell you, Okay, it's roughly 14 billion years old.
How do we know that in the first 5 billion years, that the way time
was then is the way that it was for the next 5 billion years? The
way that it was for the 4 billion years after that?
Allahu Adam, no one ever knows. There's no way really way to
determine that.
So how do we know how time passed then? So how do we really know
these things? So it doesn't mean that we don't roughly estimate it
doesn't mean that we don't try to speak of these things. Well, we
also in that process, recognize our limitations. When we delimit
something sometimes that we think oh, we understand it, but we don't
really fully understand it, the way that we think we do.
Beyond the material world, time and space do not exist, Oh, gee.
Scholars have always made a distinction between time zone man
and duration Medad time being one of the modes of duration.
But again, time here as we understand it, duration is what
permits the successive unfolding of events in worlds other than
that contained within the terrestrial heaven.
duration has other indicators,
witnessed the Hadith stating that the people of the garden will meet
with their Lord face to face at a determined location every Friday.
Therefore, there must be in the garden, something that corresponds
with terrestrial time and space. Although this will differ from
terrestrial conditions, as much as the pure luminous para diesel
vehicle environment differs from the dense muddy terrestrial one.
So what's different is that there has to be something there to
enable this to happen, that we're using language to describe it.
But the way that will actually be is not like how the way that we
experienced it here in this world.
But without language, you wouldn't be able to describe it. So it has
to be pointed to so that we can know that there's something like
that. And that in our conception of time here in the world, we
could imagine what that would be like and imagine how great that
would be and as a result be motivated by it. Which is the
whole purpose of it here in this world as for what is really
experienced Hollis added to Libya Saudi I've prepared for my
righteous servants, Mala I not what was going on simulate wala
Hatha radical revision, that which no has seen, no ear has heard, or
that which has not even come to the heart of any human being.
This there's no way for us to only ultimately to that, understand,
but
one of the blessings of being with righteous people say to have you
almost certain line of poetry, more Sahaba terjadi that will
defy. Now Amen. Hold up the real finale. Is it by being with the
righteous is that there's something of that paradoxical
state that Allah to Adam brings forth here in this world.
And so he said, is that the companionship of ritual of true
spiritual men, that our people of fulfillment people have walked up,
now even holy, it is everlasting bliss, feed dotted fan I brought
forth in this perishing
world
and
that this comes from that the companionship of truly great
people. And it also comes from that the experiencing the great
pleasure in worshipping Allah subhanho wa taala. And these are
as close as we get to that, what's going to be the bliss that is
going to be there in the next world, but ultimately even that's
going to be much greater when we are Lord subhanho wa Taala and
that we reunite with the prophesy centum and the great Imams of this
Deen.
There must therefore be in the garden something that corresponds.
The successive unfolding of events with dirt within duration is
termed by Muslim scholars chronological succession to tablet
Zamani, there is another kind of succession which precedes the
creation of both duration and time. This is what the Quran
refers to as the six days in which the creation of the world took
place. This kind of succession is termed tabco ockley logical
succession. These events are conceived as is of a succession
for the sake of intelligibility. And because chronological
succession at lower levels corresponds to this higher mode of
succession. The real implication is, however, that there are stages
in the creation process that take place simultaneously. So we speak
up the six days, what do we mean by that?
We have to refer to it somehow. But it's not in this very
simplistic flat sense that only unintelligent people will put
forth. And these things have never been an issue for us in Islam
ever. We've had enormous amount of clarity, from the earliest years,
they've never been an issue.
So if someone asked about that, that what does it really mean? It
really means it refers to stages in creation. What are they?
Exactly, exactly? That's not always easy to point to. Not
everything that happened, do we actually know some things we only
know in a very general way, other things that we know in a very
detailed way. There's a lot that we don't know, we know what we
need to know. And we know that it's ultimately about stages. And
we know that the human being is ultimately the that crown of
creation, after the creation was prepared for him to come.
And
he says here, there is no common measure between earthly time and
duration. In the higher worlds. This is expressed in the Quran as
follows To him, the angels in the spirit ascend in a day the measure
of which is 50,000 years, he directs the affair from heaven to
earth, it then ascends to him in a day, the measure of which is as
1000 years of your counting, a day with your Lord as as 1000 years of
your counting. So there's, it's there's no common measure between
earthly time and duration. Again, these are just ways we, we think
of 1000 years, 50,000 years. This is a way for us to understand that
it's disproportionate to the way that we experience it here. There
is thus time which is outward and objective in the material
dimension, duration of different modes, and the other worlds inward
in subjective time, which is our waking perception of time not of
the dreamer. Our perception of time is far from uniform. hours of
pleasure pass lightly, and are perceived as minutes, while
minutes of suffering or even simple, but simply boredom past
like hours.
At the resurrection, the corrupt will ask how long they've remained
on earth and they will answer we have remained but a day or part of
a day. And they will be so convinced of the truth is that
they will add us than the numbers or the angels who keep count. The
day of judgment by itself will be experienced by the sincere
believers as no more than the time taken on Earth to pray to prayer
cycles, and by others, as progressively longer until for the
hypocrites in the worst disbelievers it will be
experienced as 50,000 years.
Time expands and contracts becoming lighter in the first
instance and denser in the second, the lighter it is, the more
buttkicker there is in it and the more that can be achieved in it,
whereas the denser it becomes the less Buttercup contains and the
more obstructive to achievement it becomes. The obvious example of an
occasion when time was greatly expanded, is the Night Journey of
the Prophet sallallaahu Salam. On that night he traveled from Mecca
to Jerusalem a lighting in various locations that Gabriel is bidding
to pray at the Jerusalem temple. He led the other prophets in
prayer, then ascended through the seven heavens to the throne the
low tree of the limit. In the meeting with his Lord. He met with
various prophets at each stage of the ascent and that detailed
visions of the garden the fire yet when he returned to America, the
bed he had left had
not had time to lose, it's worth
a shot I.
Think we'll stop there. And there's another page and a half,
which are will further this point, but we'll come back to that and
show notes.
But the point here is, is that it's, it's important for us to
understand that time is experienced differently by
different people.
And
that what we want is to have blessing in our time.
And there's two people that have an hour, but for one person, is
that
what they accomplish and receive and benefit from that hour? is
very different from the other person.
So in that sense, is it from 11 o'clock to 12? o'clock, it's all
going to pass on all of us. But how do we experience that hour?
What do we do in that hour? That what do we benefit from that our,
that's very, very different. And that, in this idea of it being
light and dense, is that the nature of the Spirit is that it's
light, the nature of the knifes, and the body is it it's clay, it's
dense. So to the degree that the spirit overcomes the physical
body,
and that is in control, and is dominating, will be to the degree
that we experienced time, that more lightly as opposed to more
densely. So the secret to blessing the time is that letting the
spirit take control and assume command which it should,
and having everything else outwardly, that fall in proper
place in relation to the spirit, not the opposite, that the more
that we let the enough's that control is that the more than the
spirit gets covered up in relation to its potential. And so this is
really what the essence of the spiritual path is, is all about.
And it has deep repercussions in relation to time. Time, is that
really all that we have? Is that the famous statement of hustle and
bustle you know, Adam in Newcomb, a yam, Oh, son of Adam, indeed,
that you are days, Kula Madhava, Yeoman, they have about look,
every time that a day goes, part of you goes,
we have a limited number of breaths, we have a limited number
of moments, limited number of days, a limited number of hours
and minutes and seconds that we will live.
And in the end is that what are we doing with all of those limited
moments? Collectively that makes up who we are, that's our reality
is how we relate to time. And what we do in time allotted give us
tofi Can last us in all our affairs.
Inshallah, we'll have
time management.
spiritual way you said
that this spirit takes over to be lighter and more tiny. But you
have to make some
in terms of your physical world, which is like maybe that's part of
the part of your work.
So the question was in relation to this, what was just mentioned
about the spirit taking over the physical body in his in how does
that relate to planning and so forth.
So
they're not mutually exclusive. In other words, that the idea of the
Spirit taking control does not mean that you don't plan.
It means it's that in the moment, the quality of how you experience
it, in other words, is that time management is of the utmost
important, and that there are certain things that we should do
at different times. And we there's nothing wrong, and in fact, it's a
praiseworthy thing to regiment your days and your weeks, and to
do certain things in those times. That whether it be studying
whether it be recitation of the Quran, whether it be working,
whether it be spending time with family, that to have a schedule is
actually considered to be a good thing. That the idea of having the
spirit overcome the Roar is that not letting yourself waste time
unnecessarily? Right.
Or let alone doing something that would that harm your spirit, but
then living in that particular moment, and giving it its due?
Right. So the idea of the Spirit overtaking the physical
audios is that if you're doing something in any given moment,
even if you're working is that what is your state of heart when
you're working? What is your intention in relation to that
work? That what is that the state of your heart in terms of that
person that you're helping before whatever it is that you are doing
at any given moment? Is that if you look at our religious
principles, is that in the locket of Edessa antiquity che Allah to
Allah wants us to do everything excellently. So you showing your
son in mastering your craft or your profession or your job?
is a sign that your spirit is that in control of your knifes is that
your enough's might say that, Oh,
you're a physician. So let's say that,
I understand that sometimes doctors will ask, what kind of
insurance does that person have? Okay, that person is tier one or
tier two insurance. Okay? Okay, just just give them this or that,
if they have a higher tier of insurance, there's more
motivation, there's a higher payout, if they're more motivated
by treating a patient, because there's gonna be a larger payout.
There's something wrong with that person.
Right? There's something that is something unethical about them,
that if they are really a physician, that according to our
principles, they should be about healing people. And they should be
willing to heal people even if they didn't have money. Ideally,
obviously, it's a system so it's not always that easy if you work
for other people and so forth. But the point is, is that your
motivation should be the same whether or not you're going to
make this from it or whether you're going to make that from it,
nothing right or any other any other type of thing, you have a
client that okay, you know, that even if you kind of put them off
as that your boss isn't going to get too mad at you. Right? Well,
what are you doing, what it is that you're doing, if you're doing
it for the right intentions, and you see it as a social service is
that you'll be able to combat that. So these are all examples of
the way that knifes can overtake you. So the idea of the Spirit is
one is that in how you manage your time is that that you that put
everything in its proper place and realize where you are and have
balance in terms of your schedule, but then in that moment, how are
you that galvanizing that that that particular moment getting the
maximum amount of benefit in it the the more control of the Spirit
that the more that you'll benefit from the moment?
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