Yahya Rhodus – The Spheres of Islam, Iman, Ihsan & Irfan #15
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Bismillah al Rahman al Rahim Al hamdu Lillahi Rabbil Alameen of
lado sadati will attend which are sitting at I see you dinner
Madonna Mohammed and why the ad he was so happy he was still image
remains of Hanukkah Ilana Ilana, I'm Tana. In the Content it would
Hakeem what a hula, what I call it in the villa Alia OLALIA Aldine.
So we've had a bit of a break, but we are still on the data Titania,
the second sphere. And this is the sphere of alien knowledge and
Vianne clarification. And at this juncture, he is going through a
few of the important Sciences of the sacred law
in summarizing what it is that we need to know about them. So he
started with the element acquired, which is transit, here's creed,
belief. And he moved to discuss the Edmund Philip jurisprudence,
law. In what it is that we want to hear, we have to understand our
approach to the study of filth. And we started taking his
discussion on a tussle Wolf, which is, of course, translated as
Sufism.
And what's important to realize is oftentimes,
that not known by a lot of members of our community,
there are certain aspects of the soul that are far behind their
individual obligations.
In to all to rid yourself of the vices and to adorn your heart with
the virtues is not something it's just optional. Sometimes we speak
of good character in a context of Oh, which is better, if you have
good character, and higher degrees of good character have certain
traits, yes, exemplifying certain good traits, yes, that's
considered to be an addition. But at the foundational level, certain
traits, ie, that once we need to rid ourselves of, or others that
we need to adorn ourselves with are not optional. They're things
that you simply have to have. So an example of that obviously isn't
like arrogance, kibow, it is an obligation to remove that from
your heart. And we have to learn whatever it is that we need to
learn to, that have that trait uprooted from our heart. And that
to not show it and normalize it, for instance, makes it
distinguished. Just he distinguishes between the traits
of kibra and the heart, and then to Kimball, which is the actual
act of carrying out that trait that's in your heart. And
sometimes just having that trait in your heart, even if you don't
carry it out. Because it's a disease of the heart and relates
to the heart, it's held on even if it doesn't manifest on your limbs.
So just feeling that sense of giver of arrogance in your heart
towards Elijah legendado, is sinful, even if we don't carry it
out and actually look down on another person or mistreat someone
in some form or something like that. Likewise, sincerity in terms
of the virtues, sincerity is not just one of those, oh, that's an
optional good trait that I need to have. Now, it's a requirement for
the acceptance of all of the righteous deeds that we do. So
this topic is of the utmost, utmost important. And as we've
been reiterating all along, that we have to have an approach to
Dean that places the heart at the center. And that places the state
of our heart, in the condition of our heart, at the center. And we
have to watch over our hearts, that many, many, many, many, many
more times over than the way that we watch over our health and our
physical heart. So everything that you're doing to take care of your
physical health is great, we should continue that. But the
concern that we have for our heart should be significantly
significantly significantly more than that. And we have to do
checkups. And we have to that sometimes take medicine, we have
to go through treatments. Sometimes we have to let go
through certain regimes in order to make sure that our heart is in
a good state. And this is of the utmost importance. Otherwise, if
we are placing more focus on our physical health than our spiritual
health, it's a sign that we lack of Masirah that we lack inner
sight. And it's a sign that our heart is actually not in a healthy
state. Now that's about a quarter out of us all with Kulu cinema.
Because in the end, this is what it's all about. In the minute
Allah, we've convinced him except he who comes to Allah with a sound
heart. That is the goal of religious practice, is after long
lives you returned to a lot and our culture is Sneem. And then
what Allah has in store for those of pure heart and of sound heart,
is that beyond our ability to put into words, so I believe that we
reached
the second paragraph. And one of the things that he was reminding
us of
Was that how there are people who make claims. So he says here,
there are many unworthy claimants to it. They confuse many due to
their delusion and ignorance. It can only be attained by a unique
individual at the hands of a master, a perfect shape. However,
the gifts of Allah unceasingly descend upon his people. And the
breezes of his generosity forever blow upon those who keep their
company and love them.
So what is he saying here is that, after that, this initial paragraph
where he that really, that speaks up to some of and most lofty of
ways, and about everything that is that we can attain, that if we
travelled this path, and we put everything in its proper place. He
does want to remind us I should be the case is that there are people
that make claims for camp endow, he says, a transistor here there
are many who but here this camp could be for tech, there are the
codes. It can be for here. It's actually for that it could be for
tech theater tougher, but come into our there are many people who
will make claims of the science, they similarly. But he is not from
the true people, the science will lead this a fee or the cathedral.
And what will happen is that they end up confusing many people. We
will jaggedy Harare, he will journey. And this stems from that
owns persons delusion and ignorance.
And just so we can understand that when we're talking about this type
of person, this is a high standard. But again, we understand
what it means to have high standards.
Sn is, this is the science of where the veil is lifted from the
heart where you have direct knowledge of Allah, this is
something lofty is something great.
This, you might go to a lot of people for a general checkup.
But if you have a complicated surgery, if you have a serious
condition, you are going to try to find the best physicians in the
world or at least that are available to you to treat your
particular condition. Depending upon how serious that condition
is, this is the nature of things. And likewise, when you're dealing
with real spiritual realities, we're talking about now wanting to
have your heart in the Divine Presence. This is not something
that any Zadar Allah can just do this is that someone as he says
here that is that excelled. And as he describes them, well, lionello
bill cast in good faith and neither. This is not for
everybody, that this is the only the most unique and great
individuals who what Allah Schiff, Al camel and Matt Hill. And now
here that has spent a significant amount of time at the hands of a
master and has been permitted to do whatever it is that they're
doing explicitly, not just in a dream or something, no, they have
a chain, they have been permitted to do this, they've been licensed
to do this, there is no ambiguity and the vast majority of them, run
away from it.
And do not assume the position of helping people in this area unless
they've been forced to do it.
Because of the danger that's involved in claims are very, very
serious.
The foundation of the spiritual path is Adam over Latin enough's,
which relates to claims, you're never content with yourself, you
always know that you can do better, you always know that you
can worship more sincerely, you always know that your heart can
become more pure. And you don't make any claims at all ever done.
Never.
And our teachers are such that. And I've actually seen instances
of this, where some of the students of this teacher make that
very minor claims. Like for instance, there might be an
introduction, that to a book that they wrote where they made kind of
like minor claims, or they actually spoke about even things
that are not really what should be in books in relation to your
teacher. Now holder would approach a biller and our teachers come
down hard on them.
And number there was a student of a teacher who that said something
in a public gathering that was supposed to be only in private
gatherings. And you didn't retract this statement and Subhanallah
the teacher almost was going to make a public statement condemning
what it is that this person said as a result of these things you
don't play with. These things are very, very serious. And the
foundation is one of just complete if Deckard before Allah, complete
impoverishment. We don't make any claims and we just
Hope for Allah's mercy. That's what we want. And how beautiful is
the line of the border in the very last chapter, the Alaba
Rahmatullah bahini oxy mula Tete de Allah. Allah Hassabis Yanni
fille que Sunni is a perhaps at the mercy of my Lord, when he
distributes it will be distributed according to the degree of
disobedience. In other words, that he's seen himself as that very
disobedience. And so he's because he's very disobedient, he needs
more Rama from Allah. So we hope that the more disobedient someone
is, the more Rama and mercy that they will receive from Allah Jalla
gelato.
And so this is one of the greatest criterions through which that we
can know someone who has that really have this way or not.
Do they have a broken unbroken chain back to the Prophet sai
center and that have their teachers put them in this
position.
And one of the most amazing things about the true people of this
affair, if you ask them, if they consider themselves to be teachers
of their students, they would always reject that, after the fact
you Rifai and he had 1000s of students. He used to say that if I
ever thought for one moment, that I was a shift to one of my
students. I fear that I will be raised with Corazon, one of the
great oppressors who stepped on the face of this earth is that I
fear that I will be raised, although they don't see themselves
as even the teachers of their students. It's not like that.
These are people that have completely suppressed their noose,
and that they have come they're in complete control of their whole
lot. And making sure that it is in accordance of what our Prophet
brought some of the idea I just have your Salam. Now he does not
hear that in the MO I have Allah London, Halina, Xena. The gifts of
Allah unceasingly descend upon his people wonder if I had to Judy
Idaman Sahiba, homage Addison Wahhabism, Abba, then how to law
and the breezes of his generosity forever below upon those who keep
their company and love them. So it doesn't mean that you can't
benefit from them. Of course you can, everyone can but reaching
that level where that now that you can train other people, that is
not a light thing. It is a very, very severe thing. And that not
something that is given to just anyone, but by being in their
presence, by having their their companionship with Java, sitting
with them, by loving them is that there's great ways that we can
benefit from them. And then he says, well, Motala Tokota behing
Momo Zakka Hawala Hema for the interior Jaquan Mojo Ramon, the
LLN for lube, law, Akbar, reading their books, and studying their
states and merits is a tried and tested antidote to the diseases of
the heart blow up. One more data set in Matok. This one would have
yet been why would we have we are starting now. Excuse me, most of
the elderly quarter was sad to tell but you will have Ron is the
nope and forgiven and a means for true repentance and forgiveness of
sins. So we want to read the books of the comb, the true people of
Allah.
And Allah has his people. There's a hadith about the Quran. It says
100 Quran who Allah Allah, Maha Soto, the people of the Quran,
they are the people of Allah, and his elect, the people, but that's
what the Hadith says waha Soto, they are his special people,
people of Quran. And so Allah has his people. He has people that are
affiliated to him, as apparently who went to other and reading
their books, and studying their states in talking about their
states. Medaka really here is
studying their states. Yes, you could translate like that. But
Medaka is also just talking about them mentioning their states. This
is very effective. What does it do is that it's like an antidote that
you take for a terrible disease that you can't find any other cure
for. Is it just hearing their stories, soften your heart, just
hearing their stories prepares the earth of your heart to be able to
become purified. And it is one of the greatest ways for us to make
Toba is one of the greatest benefits of being in front of the
people of Allah is that you are inspired to repent for your sins.
And you This is my job this is tested. There's something about
being before the true people of Allah with their hearts or with
Allah. You were just inspired to make Toba. You are just naturally
introspective. And think about your faults and what it is
as you can, how you can better your life. And this is one of the
great benefits of being around them. And this is why we should
visit them regularly. This is how we should spend our vacation time
is we should seek out the righteous wherever they might be.
And sometimes they're easily reachable. And other times that we
have to travel far and wide in order to find them. But they're
still there. And when we sit in their presence, that Subhanallah
it is it leads to the greatest good. And so he furthers this
discussion. Well, no, Java said to him, What tuxedo somebody would
have Did, did that be inviting? Well, actually, that'd be a
thought in my schema. And we'll get to that in Oxford or software
sort of fit off Neff data,
from OSHA data are you sitting with them, being guided by their
lights in following in their footsteps, whilst being truthful
with them in admitting one's deficiencies in misdeeds is a key
to openings and witnessing the unseen realm. He's laying
everything out for us. And this is why this book is packed with
meaning, every single word he chooses, is not just like,
sometimes how we write, I want it to sound a little bit better. So
I'm going to use this word or that word or add this. It's not how
this these people work.
That his craft of writing is a very different craft. His craft of
writing is a craft of someone who is writing with a heart is in the
Presence of Allah Jalla, Jalla. Everything that he says he means.
And there's an intention behind everything that he includes. And
all of these things are important. It's not just there to oh, that
sounds good to add to the list. Now, this is all Foundation, all
important. So that what we want is to that benefit from them when
we're sitting with them. But he mentioned some very key etiquettes
that we have to have, we have to one make the intention that we
want to follow them, and to do our best to put what is that we
learned when we're in their presence into practice. But also,
is it acidic, my own, we're sincere and truthful with them, we
have sick, and that relates to how we are the in relation to our love
for them. And in particular, when we sit before them, and we're in
their in their presence. But also this could apply to as well. You
have to be honest with your doctor if you're going to get the proper
treatment.
And so you have to be you have to tell your teachers about your
state's laws, how on earth are you going to get treated for them. And
sometimes people are so embarrassed to talk about their
state that they never actually get helped. And how on earth you're
going to get help. If you never tell anyone, what it is that
you're going through. And obviously there's a way of
presenting it there is that an etiquette that goes along with it,
of course, however, you have to your teachers are like physicians,
you have to describe to them your symptoms, that something is wrong
within you, so that they can then treat you. And like anything else.
There's different types of sicknesses and illnesses and
diseases. Some of them are very easy, curable, easily curable,
others take quite a bit of time, and some on your end, in addition
to whatever they're prescribing, you require a lot of self
restraint and require a lot of work. And so in order to really
reverse that condition, it's not something that's going to happen
in two days. It's something that could take a few years, and you
have to in those few years do your part. And if you fall short in
that, it might or might not get better depending on how short that
is that you fall. But you have to be honest with them. And then what
it said off me next that oh Soph you have to have the humility to
recognize your own deficiencies and misdeeds and what it is that
you need working on. Gotta have humility. That lack of humility is
one of the greatest traits that prevents us from learning. It's
not like to Allah man, two people never learn and went to Cambodia
when was
the arrogant one and no one who's too shy. If you're just too like
overly shy, you're never going to learn.
Nor you're going to learn if your area if you are don't have the
ability to swallow, and force yourself to swallow your ignorance
so that you can then learn.
But if we can fulfill these advocates, sitting with these
people, is a key to openings and witnessing the unseen realms
someone like him we have to remember Abdullah will forgive me.
He did not become who he became, except that he sat before great
people. We heard a little bit about it in the first session
about his teachers, and some of them for him was in his own
family. And also he was a student of Imam Abdullah. When Allah we
had that
and these dimensions by
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there was 40 people by the name of Omar alone.
That came to know Allah, the three of them had that. They mentioned
that in his touched by the name of Omar alone, let alone by other
names. And there are certain Imams that even after they returned to
Elijah, the Dorado is that there actually means for people coming
to know Allah even after they returned to the budget.
So loving these people is key to this Deen attaching your heart to
them reading their stories, being aware of their lives. This is very
key and extremely foundation foundational and so he How does he
in this that he says for home well calm Elias kabhi him Jalisa home
this is taken directly from a hadith they are a people that who
for such a folk that for they're such a folk that even the one who
really sits with them will be saved layer spa is that they will
never be dumbed they will not be from the dam they will not be from
the people of perdition.
Well I'm gonna have the hola Huckabee him and whoever loves
them will be united with them.
Walla
Walla haram and Baynham manhood What are you from mundane home men
home at home over his wisdom will not be deprived of receiving what
is it they receive? Somebody says in fell more fickle melasma Murata
the successful one is he who remains at the door, one mother
and father men and will have waiting to receive the bounty of
the Bestower become a bobble I'm an aside, or acted off my admin LT
fat in me here I'm going to he knocks at the door through
performing good deeds in drawing near without attributing any value
to his knowledge and works. Why? Another is a daddy Carota a co
borrower
for doing so leads to the biggest veil. So again,
he mentioned something very important here is that we have to
be people who, that we love them and we remain at the door. And
what a metaphor. If you're someone that you want to see someplace,
it's someone that you want to go into their home and to see them
and you knock and they don't answer. How do you feel you
weren't let in. But we just keep knocking people in dunya will get
annoyed with you. But the Door of Allah is that we have to keep
knocking. We have to keep knocking, we have to keep knocking
new laws and that tab, we remain at the door
waiting for the bounty of the will have the one who was gives gifts
subhanaw taala to those who are undeserving. And how do we
metaphorically knock at the door. But I'm going to solve that by
doing righteous deeds and trying to find any way we can to draw
near to Him Subhana wa Tada. But then he says without attributing
any value to his knowledge and works literally the word he uses
is adamant, ility fat, not even turning an empty fat is to turn
not even turning to our knowledge or deeds, meaning we don't regard
them for the city.
We don't regard them we don't notice them. Obviously you know
that you're doing them. But you don't you don't please focus on
them. You just keep moving
now, and then he says
Fila taco Allahumma Allahu de atone Maddock FET rady la he
Misbah
the slave servitude to Allah cannot be perfected as long as it
remains in him anything that is for other than Allah.
Okay, so he's setting a high standard here. We're not claiming
that this is us. We've got to know what the standard is. This is what
we have to work towards. Is that we're that everything that we do
is solely for Allah Jalla gelato and that we don't want anything to
keep us that focused on anything other than Him soprano who went to
either
and then Wallah is full a whole
minute to Sophie Shiva, Hatter Yahushua YAHUSHUA infc One Coolio
this Lawson was,
he will not be able to drink from the pure spring of Sufism until he
gives up his ego and any other master.
In other words, that
if you really want to be a person of the science is that this
requires complete dedication.
It's not something that can be attained overnight by just feeling
called in gossiping or just talking about the meanings it
requires that someone work hard
In order to attain it, and it requires immense self discipline,
and immense hard work. Now the blessing is, as we move closer and
closer into time, and the blessing of the HD hat and the hard work of
the shoe, is a lot that opens up doors for their students. By doing
less in later times, people had to do much more to attain an earlier
times. And so I remember that our teacher used to mention that in
relation to cutting back on our food intake, these monumental
feats of hunger that people before us that we go through, in order to
attain something the spiritual path, he said, is sufficient for
us to stop eating to bite short. So just when you want to take two
more bites, you stop.
And it's not going to harm your habit, it's not going to harm you,
you've taken your fill, you're fine. You're not going to die from
not taking two more bites, two more bytes, two bytes that you
want, when you want finish that point where you just want to take
two more bites you stop.
And we can attain in our time, by doing something small like that
consistently. What other people attained in previous times from
doing an immense amount more, and focus on aesthetics, and that
relates to everything is that we do unto other aspects of worship
and other Mujahid that other forms of spiritual struggle for in
Nevada Bible, la Yakata, or elaborative record with the raw
whether you've ever been with me in macabre it Allah who went or
downloaded at the car, the only way to knock on Allah's door is in
a state of impoverishment and desperate need. The door is only
opened by consistently acting upon knowledge that draws one closer to
Allah. And by remembering Allah constantly, he keeps repeating
this because it's so important. This is at the heart of this whole
affair. Absolutely feeling a feeling of absolute need of Allah,
we're absolutely in need of a line, every single breath
everything is that we do.
And to the extent that we've realized that to the extent that
we're aware of that in the moment is to the extent that there will
be Tofik from Allah enabling grace to do that very thing
and then he says what law yet Hello?
lol worry, man enough's with that. Oh, well hello Wolfie, Jimmy I
thought
he's in a constant
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The only person who enters is one who has freed himself from his
ego, and from pretension, and does not attribute any power or
strength to himself. felt fear Otto it Allah He l fear or so Flee
to Allah. Allah to Allah says in the Quran, fulfill you in Allah.
So Flee to Allah. And when he when his commentary on this verse,
he says there are a number of types of fit off.
Fit off.
That's gonna make a joke but all referring
to Pharaoh and ALLAH, so Flee to Allah. He says, first of all Flee
to Allah men and Cofer in an EMA
so free to flee to Allah from disbelief to believe. And then
another degree of meaning is the federal law federal IT Allah, Minh
and Mazziotti in a TA. So flee to a law firm disobedience to
obedience. And then he says,
the federal and Allah Flee to Allah from
and hafla in a Yakuza, Flee to Allah from heedlessness to
wakefulness,
and then, for federate Allah millall hessie in a manner
from the sensory to
meaning.
The vast majority of people, their reality is just sensory, all the
time sensory overload of this and that's just the realm of shout
desires, right to 90. Now you want meaning, that's a much higher
thing. And then there's other degrees of that as well. So he
says here, so Flee to Allah Flee to Allah. And he says,
For my Aqaba, Tonica the Saudi thing for a Buddha means Maskull
Jihad mean, Nasri LA, Huma Abedin. She had been Fatima
he says,
the path is extremely short for the truthful. So even though he
said all of these very lofty things and made it seem like it's
almost impossible to attain, the path is extreme.
In the short for the truthful that people have said,
and again to remind ourselves said is a higher degree than
effortless. Effortless is the second degree of sit with their
six stations of set of truthfulness. And it matches with
a philosophy the second level. So you could have a person who's
miraculous, but they're not Sadhak. But you're never you'll
never have a Sadhak was not miraculous. It's a higher degree.
But this is where we get into resolution. This is where we get
into truthfulness is where we get into making sure that we carry out
what it is that we've set out to do. And we give 100% of our effort
at all times in everything that is that we do, and we live in the
moment. So this person of sincerity of said, is that Allah
to Allah will make it easy for him. Certainly with true struggle
comes the help of Allah. So in other words, if you have six
because you had what's meant here is that spiritual struggle, if
you're sincere, and struggling, and working hard, there'll be NASA
from Allah, Allah will help you, but you have to put in effort and
that if you that do your part, by exerting yourself, this is how you
receive his opening. And he mentioned the verse, whether the
Josefina then at the end also banana when Allah manmohini those
who strive hard for our sake, we most most certainly guide them to
our ways. And most assuredly, Allah is with those who do good
and sort of ankle boots. So what was the first part when a teenager
who fina those who strive hard for our sake fina, not for other
things, fina for our sake, for him Subhana wa Tada if you do this
jihad, as you had enough input in the spiritual struggle, you will
receive the result learner the yen The Home symbol Anna, and it's
translates here is we've almost certainly guide them to our ways,
but this is emphatically expressed the learner the unknown. And with
the noona Tokita tequila, then at the end the home Subhanallah we
will certainly guide them to our ways
for saw Kibaki, they say this a lot.
The Giver of the drink never stops giving people to drink. So it's
the highest place to give someone drink. If you say some skinny man,
give me something to drink. And so that you pour them a drink, and
then they
and then they're refreshed as a result of the drink. And so that
the sock is one who gave you drink. And the drink that you take
is you've only drinking it because of the realm in the realm of means
because that person gave it to you. But here he's not referring
to an actual drinking of water or some type of beverage he's
returning he's referring to the idea of drinking spiritually. And
so the giver of drink never stops giving people to drink a sucky
Bucky Allah is Al Bapi is everlasting Subhana wa Tada. And
this is why the people of this science say that it's impossible
for there to be a part of Islam that can't be realized in this
time. All of the stations of e minus omineca sign will remain
until your camera they have to be and there will be people on the
face of this earth always in every time that are means to attain
them. Otherwise the Dean's incomplete. You're going to say
the stations that are out there that are someone can't attain
there's a part of the dean in the sand is 1/3 of the deen that okay,
you can only be a person if you men Islam. No, I was a builder, as
an art teacher simply said is that all of this has to remain because
Allah has preserved the deen and it's going to remain until the AMO
piano and it all ultimately stems from Allah yes a time I get hard
but a sucky Bucky Fuller two minute overloading. Luckily enough
I'm gonna laugh at Allah says about the Saba coin, the Mikado
bone, there are only if there's a multitude of earlier times and a
few from later times. He didn't say well, I had and there's a
multitude from earlier times and there's none and later times
through little minute a wedding. Luckily, you know, there's a few
minutes of the later people but they're still there latika Lata
Our Prophet said satellites and in my own life is like rain that you
don't know which is better the first part of the rain or the
latter part. And so you could have someone that comes with at the
end, but the reality is that they're like they're much better
than people that that preceded them by five, seven or even 900
years from the photo of Allah gelato and so then he says well as
when they lie well while I have no to morality, Ill coma and caffeine
no
no
despairs of Allah's bounty and mercy except people who disbelieve
in him so we can never despair. This is not an option to despair
ever, from the bounty of Allah and in fact, it's from the Kibera from
the major sense to despair from the mercy of Allah.
Kam
coming Robertson, Mohammed Ali him and Abdon Cassie, many other
slaves who were once remote and subsequently received divine gifts
and were brought near to him. And Mohammed Allah here these divine
gifts that He gives come comfortable, but there could be
someone who's distant and they're just brought close. And you meet
people like this all the time. You meet people like this all the
time. They weren't practicing the deen at all. And something
happened.
There's literally make a change very quickly.
And then they dedicate themselves to the day. This happens
regularly. How many people have we all met, they were like that their
life just changed, something happened in their life changed.
People that were so distant from religion in general. And then
something happens and a lot is blesses them with Islam and then
he comes to become Muslim. These things happen. And when Allah to
Allah manifest these great blessings upon people, this is the
result. Welcome and call that you have to enter into the body. I
mean that in my RC and he says,
Many of the deeds so deviant disobedient slaves have been saved
by the hand of divine providence, such that they attain the highest
of honors and surpassed their peers ossabaw phoca little Makoto
Marti when I was 18. Now, for my young Kirani amatola highly
valuable for the where you are the older who are Hello Illa my room.
No one denies Allah's blessing and a bounty upon his slaves and shows
enmity to his friends and people except one who is deprived. So we
should never ever deny Allah's Bounty upon someone.
Human beings might think that oh, that person doesn't deserve that.
But that's the problem and thinking that anyone deserves
anything.
What does anyone deserve? No one deserves anything. No one in
reality deserves anything even all but they worked really hard to
attain that.
Where did they get everything that they needed to work hard to attain
that thing? Everything's from Allah, even the blessings that are
called QSB that are we quote unquote, earn them
Where did you get everything that you need to do those things in the
first place? All blessings in reality from the standpoint of
topic are want me they're all from Allah Jalla Janata.
And when we do our part, yes, it's a means for us to attain something
but the reality is, everything is from Allah.
And so we can never ever deny Allah's blessings upon His
servants. And even if you think that someone doesn't deserve
something, we should check ourselves and remind ourselves
that we don't none of us deserve anything. And who are we to try to
intervene? With whom Allah subhanaw taala wants to give
blessings that Allah has a fair geology
and that the people that he takes us Oh, yeah, that is a fair
soprano Matata only hammer home. Someone who is deprived will do
this. Well, that it gets shut no shut no mental hollowbody it
hasn't well done them enough, sir. William isn't there even if he
can, but then when again.
This is the affair of one overcome by jealousy and one wrongs his own
soul. He is constantly in a constant state of suffering and
misfortune until he destroys himself with his own wrongdoing.
That's similar to how to sit down with him and give him the record
had like enough of his Alma woven hug, you get the mother room. And
in reality, he has only oppressed his own self.
What are your literal Massoud shaitan values eat alone for them
when you didn't win? Yeah, Maduro son of Allah, Allah, they got hurt
when gobert of Malindi I would welcome he does not harm the one
he envies in any way. Rather, Allah increases the one he envies
in merit and completes his favorite on him. This has always
been Allah's way of dealing with his profits, his friends and his
people. So somebody doesn't like you, they have envy towards you.
They want those buses to be taken from
the person who is envious. They're going to be the saddest of all
people. They're gonna have the most grief of all people. There
are constantly going to be in a state of grief, because Allah's
blessings are not going to stop and with relates to a particular
person, the more that that person receives, the more that person is
going to grieve. And it just keeps going on loss us and I'm gonna ask
you, Robert, do you want to be that someone like that?
When there's so much more, that there's such greater potential for
humankind. So this is what he says about to solve
And then he's going to talk now about the lumen Quran was sunnah
of our Prophet so I said, Well, no matter what iron or sunnah
assassin delicate low, what tuxedo?
So he says, As for the sciences of the Quran and Sunnah, they are the
foundation of the previously mentioned sciences, and the basis
for the realization of them not to kick you out of Syria. So it
actually has he met everybody that you can now no human involvement.
And he tells you that Oh, no matter if it fatherly, Ali out of
all silly him, but even men talk on the phone.
So he says someone who studies the other sciences, therefore needs
them, he needs to know the merits of the scholars of the sciences of
the Quran and the Sunnah. And their application of texts, which
are explicit and explicit
in and so what he really means here is we have to have a
knowledge of the Ulema of this religion, this is very important.
We need to have a general understanding of the historical
development of sciences, how the science of Hadith developed, how
the science of Tafseer developed, how the science of grammar, which
is an ancillary science, develop, how the science of fic developed,
and so forth and so on. It's very helpful to know this. And it's
very helpful to know many of the most important imams in the
different sciences. So we learned about the six great Imams of
Hadith, you learn about the four great Imams of the schools of
jurisprudence, you learn about some of the great scholars of
Tafseer and so forth and so on. It's good to have a general
knowledge that of these great scholars, so that we know where to
access the knowledge when detailed knowledge is needed.
And then he says
well, I'm going to be sufficient Eman was sort of headquarter
notice I didn't map ever to be why they had one cool little silo had
began when Shira has to do it with Devesa nor with Ravel to get a
villa with a for him but now Bernie will get it through so you
guys so much money was a curious hobby was very well hammer that he
didn't even care for homeless or at home when did the conditions
that Rachna was Sakina what actually Jimmy Well, l ve el
Medina
Medina
so he says here,
he then needs to act on the injunctions of the Quran on the
basis of sound faith. The scope of his knowledge then expands to the
sciences have been narrated by word and sound clarification. He
will attain illumination and tranquility of heart through
recitation of the book of Allah and understanding its context
content, reading the narrations of the Messenger of Allah Salah lies
and learning their meanings and studying the lives of the
companions in the followers standard bearers of the religion
and those that are loyal to the messenger. There are less pious
slaves upon mention of them mercy into includes He descends in one's
heart becomes fully focused on Allah with amazing wonder the name
So speaking about these people, just Vickery mentioning them,
talking about them, being reminded of them what happens 10s That are
Rama was Sakina mercy descends, tranquility descends with that
sauna, Gemini animal Vina and one's heart becomes fully focused
on Allah.
Jamia is singularity of focus, where we are focusing on our
relationship with Allah Jalla gerada Jamia can en Vina
mashallah,
so he doesn't go into too much detail about the aroma, the Quran
and Sunnah and there are many and there's a lot of details there. It
suffices at this stage for us to have a general knowledge of the
Quran, a general knowledge of the sunnah of our prophesy setting and
some of the main Imams. This is one of the first stages that we
want to achieve, have knowledge of the Quran and the Sunnah. And then
the details go on for many, many years, if you start getting into
the individual sciences, everything that is that you learn,
that all comes in his time, but his point here is to give us a
general overview of what it is that we want to how we want to
view, importance of the knowledge of the Quran, and the Sunnah.
And then
he ends his chapter on knowledge, talking about the Arabic language.
And he says he had the sciences of the Arabic language are necessary
tools for comprehending the speech of Allah and the speech of his
messenger.
Knowledge of them ensures that the speech remains in the way it was
revealed and conveyed without any errors or alterations. They are
excellent tools since by using them to successful attain the
object of their desire. So this is amazing. So these are called
Alert, alert literally, are tools added to it
Allah to our tools, the knowledge of the Arabic language and the
subsidiary sciences, the sciences that are associated with the
Arabic language sciences like Saudi morphology, grammar, law,
rhetoric, they're very important, because it is through them that we
can come to understand the words of Elijah Gerardo and the speech
of his messengers, Elijah, I just have your Southern and that also
by learning them is that we can maintain
the integrity of this deen and to make sure that it's transmitted
the way that it was transmitted to us. And so you start to see how
important the Arabic language is, as we've always emphasized in the
Arabic program, and in relation to the Arabic program, it is not just
oh, the Arabic language. It's not just like, Oh, they're just a
teacher of Arabic. Now that's a huge mistake. No, it's Arabic. It
is Arabic, Arabic is of the utmost importance. And we should set that
frame from the beginning of about how important it really is.
Otherwise, someone will think that they can, oh, just get a little
bit and that's it. And okay, I'm just gonna really get to the real
knowledge because it's so closely associated with the Quran, the
Sunnah itself and all of the different sciences that have
stemmed from the Quran, sunnah and develop historically, it's it
cannot just be considered to be Oh, it's just Arabic. It's that
important because without it, you can't understand.
So it's virtue is really attached to the virtue of these other
sciences themselves.
And
in this regard, that the more that we know of the Arabic language,
the more detailed meanings that will open up for us of Allah's
book, in the sunnah of our Prophet as I said, and the 1400 plus year,
summer scholarly tradition.
In summary, knowledge is part of the religion. As all the sciences
which are connected to the vision seeking knowledge of the sciences,
is among the best acts of obedience to the Lord of the
Worlds, Lord. So that what is he saying? That N? Would you hear
following all of the different sciences that are associated with
it?
Roger Illa Dean,
is that goal that are connected to the religion seeking knowledge of
the sciences among the best acts of obedience to the Lord of the
Worlds, someone with a keen understanding and abdomen for
knowledge just spent all his time seeking it, except for when he is
performing acts of worship, which are either obligatory or
recommended in fulfilling the rights of others which are either
compulsory or emphasized. Among these recommended acts of
assigning a portion of the Quran, reciting the prophetic invocation
specific times or situations in performing voluntary acts of
worship, whether it be parents or their acts, these recommended acts
complete and make up for any deficiencies in one's obligatory
acts and the lawgiver, urge people to perform them, and set times and
conditions for them. Although the merits of knowledge are commonly
known, these matters have a definite distinction. What is he
saying? If we were intelligent, all of our extra time would be
spent learning
if possible, because of the importance of knowledge, and along
with learning, of course, because teaching and you always will need
people in society.
home that is their focus these people that's their focus is to
spend their time learning and to teach other people what it is that
they come to know. This is of the utmost utmost importance.
The amount of knowledge is only attained by sincerity and
truthfulness with Allah in it. It is only attained if seeking it
reminds the seeker of Allah and he remembers Allah while seeking it,
and is not heedless of him while doing it. We said previously that
mentioned of Allah's rulings as part of the remembrance of Allah,
we warned against heedlessness of Allah while seeking it by engaging
idle talk in which debate and argumentation these things lead to
heedlessness and therefore to hardness of the heart, and then to
death of the heart and the confused mind which leads to air
and just order
law, heedlessness and into hardness of heart and then to
death of the heart and then a confused mind which leads to Aaron
disorder. That was quite a progression there.
So that if we are
that in a state of heedlessness and what the Arabic has been when
will roughly be any law but it's the whole bill field will call a
catheter so on what may not
find the delicacy in Osaka. So if we approach knowledge incorrectly,
with heedlessness, and that really we're only really worried about
hearsay or knowledge is of less importance and we don't approach
it with the proper etiquette and know how to ask or what to ask.
And we find ourselves getting in disputes
Emotions and argumentation and arguing is that this will put us
in a state of heedlessness. And the greater the state of Afula.
Then will lead to a state of Casa
and that there are hearts that become hard. And subhanAllah some
local search Google calm and Daddy Daddy.
Then their hearts became hard after that, for here collegiality
of a Shinto us,
like rocks are even harder. When them in a huge oddity, name it to
fit German and hard, as you have some rocks that springs pour forth
from. But if a human heart becomes hard, that's it. For us, the only
thing happens after that is death. So Afula, heedlessness to hardness
of heart to death, motel caliber, and then shuttle bad, where you're
just all over the place, you get pulled in every which direction.
And at the end of the Lollywood, how bad and this will ultimately
result in these very terrible start tech states of misguidance
and just air and disorder.
And this in turn, leads to access and seeking knowledge which
results in neglecting the wrong good deeds such as tying down
obligatory works and emphasize voluntary works, she start mixing
up your priorities.
This leads to a decrease in one's religion to disobedience of The
Lord of the worlds and what good is there a knows that leads to
decrease in disobedience? What is he saying here is that if you
don't put things in their proper place, if you don't have the right
conception, if you don't take from the right teachers, or you don't
study the right thing, and you try to do it yourself, you're gonna
get yourself in trouble, even with religious knowledge.
Or you could even say, of course, and especially with religious
knowledge, this is very serious. And so this is something that our
community in the United States of America and really wherever people
are, need to take very seriously.
Are we really investing?
Are we really, really investing in future scholars that are going to
lead our community? Because when we talk about leaders, we talk
about leaders in good
which I lean in with a cleaner environment and make me an imam
for the pious, in other words, make me a leader to all good. So
we do not have any concept of leadership that is detached from
righteous deeds, that is detached from piety that is detached from
taking people closer to Allah Jalla Juliana. That is the core
understanding that we have of leadership it's to help direct
people to Allah, gender Julianna. The one who fails to fulfill the
emphasize voluntary works will be left with deficiencies in its
obligatory works, whoever does not have a regular habit of reciting
the prophetic invocations of the litanies of the Sufi shifts will
not receive any gifts from Allah. So let's let's stop there.
And we will shall finish up this portion and start the third
sphere. The sphere there are seven other
tomorrow shall
I really don't know where time goes. I look down at my clock and
it's 715 the huddle records I really don't know what time goes
I thought it was like early in the
day
any quick questions
wrap it up for the day
it's pretty clear we need to do I think
you mentioned
themselves you should.
To the extent we can
see that specific people. So it depends on one's circumstances,
right. What it really means is that outside of everything that
you need for your deen, which is clear, and that's the five daily
prayers, the obligations that you have to fulfill and the most
importance in this okay. And meaning.
As soon as of having a portion of Quran that you recite daily,
praying some of the sooner records associated with the obligatory
prayers, the prophetic invocations and it was edited a while when you
dress we leave the
Home sector thinks outside of the obligations in the most important
service, and then everything
that you need
that you need in life. Okay, that's the third category. That's
the other category that is you add
in. So this is one of the challenges of our time is that
people
are so preoccupied with their worldly lives, that they just
simply have less time. And it's in many ways, in some ways, it's
easier, but in many, many ways, it's harder to just have a simple
livelihood. And it's not, you know, just if you look at the
challenge of just running a small business, in light of
multinational corporations, it was just, it was just easier back in
the day
was very easy. Borrow loving money, open the shop, for each
transaction, you make a few cents, is your good, take care of a
family. I'm totally serious, it was so much easier. And if you see
traditional societies, I've lived in them, it's like that, there
must have been. And it's only to the extent that they take on a
western lifestyle is to the extent that all of a sudden their cost
just rise is skyrocketing.
But the basic needs,
you know, they were fairly easy to come by. And so people naturally
had a lot more free time. And I've seen it like into the gym and in
Mauritania, and people just have more time there's all of the
builders, the construction workers and team take 40 days off. None of
them work in Ramadan, the entire 30 days of Ramadan. And then
they're eight. And then the six days of show all like the entire
city fastest six days of show almost the entire city fast the
16th of July. And then they have three days of family visits that
they call out that after that, like you're just visiting family.
Every eat that will specifically eat at Omaha, they take 40 days
off, none of them were before.
And they have arranged their affairs for the rest of the year
where that's just they can do that.
And so they have imagined your entire Ramadan is off. And anyone
that has a profession that is difficult, like the Baker's
because it's so hot working in a bakery, none of them work. So you
we used to have to buy like a month's supply of bread. Because
no one's baking bread. No one's baking in the whole city. No one's
making bread.
No one is making bread in this you cannot buy. But this is before
these two import like sandwich bread. Like they didn't have this
stuff. I literally was just you buy fresh bread daily, your house,
you don't have bread.
And this is how people were. And it's very common. I remember have
you more telling the story of someone that he met was an older
man. And he was someone who was shucks Adam, but father was an
important figure in the Battle of history. He was the one that
arranged the recitation of the Quran in before Fajr and after
fajr. And then after Morogoro, just to isha time, where they
finished the Quran once a week. And so many of the handwritten
copies of the Quran are in SBAC, any seven parts, and they
basically read one a day. And so that's how they they know they
gotta get through this today. And so common folk, common common folk
that, you know, barely know how to read and write, do Hutton's of the
Quran on a weekly basis. And so he would see someone is the story
that he mentioned. And he asked him or was a chef, how long have
you been doing this?
You set for 70 years. Imagine that 70 years of your life. Every day,
every single day. You're waking up at like 230 in the morning, 333
o'clock in the morning, and attach your time and after fajr and then
after mulgara Every single day of your life. You never leave the
machine between McGraw diminisher every single day.
And then we would we would hear we would hear the abbey always to
mention the story too. And this is not these are not like fables.
This is very real till recently. I remember being outside and only
happened to me once while I was outside between logarithm Asia.
And I was talking to a friend and have you Omar walked by and looked
at me.
And like what are you doing out here? Right because no student can
be caught between Maghrib and Isha. Doing anything January. Like
Mr. Hale like you you're not considered to be a student of
Donald stuff. If you're doing something Daniel
We dream organization, that is not a time to go to the store, eat or
drink. No, you are in your class or doing reading Quran or doing
something. Like it was almost like it was like from the Kabbalah.
And it's not what it was like it's to that degree this society. And
so a man that have you ever used to always mentioned the story,
there was a man who he was a businessman. And he lost, he lost
a large sum of money.
And his son found that money. And he's between Maghrib and Isha
reciting Quran, and it comes up to him.
And he says, Yeah, Dad was one let you know that I found that money.
And he looks at his son, he said,
You come to you're interrupting me. Between Maghrib and Isha. When
I'm reciting Quran is I don't want to see you for an entire year.
Obviously,
I'm being recorded. This is being live streamed. The police is
driving by. Right. These people are extreme. Right. But the point
is
that they had that level of scrupulousness.
Where that was his Tobia to his job. Don't you ever think that you
should bother me or something do Nui right between Margaret
Ameesha. And I'm sure that his son learned his lesson with his father
and talked to him for a year. Anyhow, I'm not saying that we do
that with our children that degree. But this is the way people
were. So we can, again, we can't do it like they did it. Well,
let's approximate, let's approximate our next door
neighbors and 20. Every single night without failing, you would
hear them reciting the dots, remember had the entire family.
All the kids are inside? Everyone together? No one's on a device. No
one's doing this. No one says I'm tired, I got homework or whatever.
No, that is time for about two.
Every single night. They did it together every single night. And
these people are very simple people, very simple people. I
don't even think my name knows how to read.
What? It doesn't matter. These people have Dean. So anyhow,
on that tangent,
what will we oh, so to the extent possible outside of our things
that we have to do to run our lives, we should make knowledge
the greatest priority.
And it is a little bit more complicated our societies, because
I do think there are quite a few things, few things, more things
that we have to do
for ourselves and our families and our children, just to kind of
smooth this process of passing on the danger next generation, I do
think a lot of those things in previous times would have be
considered to be almost like a waste of time. But in our time, I
would even go as far to say are very important.
And so that we have to be balanced. And that in light of all
of that, and and you know, with all of that, rather, we try to do
our best. And then people have different different degrees of how
we do this. But there's no doubt. Having said all of that, the more
the free time that we do have, the more that we can make it around
knowledge we should. So there's no excuse in our, in our community
here that at our Iftar is that our gardens we should all spend some
of the time together, reading books, everyone should have a book
with them at all times. We dissection, read a passage, read a
little bit, we should all customer ourselves to sing in a sheet and
things like that. So that the social time that we are spending
together, not that we become robotic, we become robotic,
mechanical, but we sprinkle it with knowledge and with the car
and that good reminders in good topics that we discuss. And that's
something that we all we can do. We can all be better at
without being heavy. That's the key. It's not where we start
founding and we're no we're very light hearted, very gentle, very
pleasant to be around. There's nothing wrong with joking and
things like that.
Talking about how the Warriors are going to win the championship.
So I know it's pretty late so we'll just