Yahya Rhodus – The Spheres of Islam, Iman, Ihsan & Irfan #16
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Worship, which are either obligatory or recommended and
fulfilling the rights of others, which are either compulsory or
emphasized. So that gets back into part of the question that you
asked Shawn, that's partially The answer lies right in
that sentence.
And really, this is what we want. We want to be people of knowledge,
who love knowledge, and bring life to knowledge. And you have these
sacred cities throughout the Muslim world.
And what made them special, one of the major factors that made them
special is that they were cities of knowledge.
And even in a place for instance, my experience is how hollow them
out in Yemen, and specifically the city of team, what really
distinguishes train from other cities. Yes, the concentrated
presence of Advait, of course, but knowledge and worship knowledge
and Olia knowledge and odema. And that's what differentiated from
other places. Throughout the centuries, there had been more
scholars in that particular city than there hasn't any other
neighboring city, and how the remote. And then at certain times,
though, you would have centers of knowledge develop in different
cities in how the remote that nothing like the center, which was
tidying, but you would have a blossoming of knowledge in a
particular place where there was a
disproportionate amount of scholars.
But it really, that gets back to people's desire to learn.
That desire is there. And that's a part of our culture. We want to
make that a staple part.
We want to make that a staple part of Muslim practice in the United
States of America. And really, wherever people are knowledge, we
realize its importance, and it's just something simply we do.
And all it has to do is be a change of mentality, where we make
it important. And then when we have that change of mentality,
you'll start to that then actually embark upon a path of learning.
And then once you start to receive the fruits of learning, then
nothing else will need to be said.
So, someone with a
so seeking knowledge, someone with a keen understanding aptitude for
knowledge should spend all their extra time
Among these recommended acts are reciting a portion of the Quran
reciting the prophetic invocation specific times of situations and
performing voluntary acts of worship, whether they be prayers
or other acts. So that really is the question there in terms of
like you were asking
about to what degree do we actually study? That's it it's
very it's understood the basic forms of worship, which are
the strongly emphasized as soon as of our proper size and so for
instance, when it comes to prayer, what are the Sunnah and waka when
it comes to the numbers that allotted the sooner the cost
associated with prayer and the Shafi school the tutor cost of
salted treasure to before the hook to after the heart to be after
certain logarithm to after salted, Isha.
Those are the emphasize sadness, we need that if we were going to
start praying other Sooners after the obligatory prayers, those are
the ones that we want to begin with and be consistent with those.
And then if you wanted to then add others so in the Shafi school in
additional to before and after Lahore, and then for before also
and then up to six After Maghrib and then up to four after South
Asia because it least once there's an amazing Hadith about these
other Sunnah prayers, even though they're not emphasized enough so
the Prophet said that may Allah have mercy upon someone who prays
for Africa as before salata, rasa, see in turn to the dua of the
Rasul by praying those is that there's a hadith that says,
Whoever prays for a cause after Siddhartha Isha as it is, if he is
prayed those records on later to the quarter
so it's multiple it's 1000 times right? That 1000 months, rather
than think about how many that freedom elfish and you it says if
you pray those forecasts and lands are hotter, so those that we do
from time to time we do to the according to our ability, but we
give precedence to the sun and waka we try to never to need
those, especially the
especially students who knowledge and there are other centers that
our teachers
were really strict on. One of them was being present for the initial
Allahu Akbar the textbook haram when the SATA GEMA starts. I mean,
I can you've probably heard we've probably heard Have you say this
hundreds of times that a student of knowledge that is not present
for the textbook or haram and you don't see them taking that being
present for the initial type of your seriously fun for the
document or for the laity had to distance yourself from the no good
is going to come to them. Nope, no good is going to come from them
rather. And meaning that the way we approach knowledge is very
different. If knowledge is not accompanied by piety, knowledge is
going to get someone in big trouble. It doesn't mean that you
don't still learn but it's ultimately about piety. It's about
the having a state with a ledger Ledger Nano so
the most important thing after the obligations which are clear is
that the Sunnah Maka data cause that we just mentioned that are
associated with the parents themselves. And then the prophetic
implications in the morning, in the evening so we're in a little
tiff and then known as what are known as the editor, why'd you
memorize what is in the fields and Michelle Rafa, the glorious
treasure, the different prayers that you need to know throughout
the day,
when you wear your clothing, when you hop in your car, whatever it
might be, and then a portion of recitation of the Quran that's it,
all students and now it should be doing those things as well. And
then that at times you add to that, so it's okay to have like a
weird of Sarawak upon the Prophet Celeste and you say at least three
to 500 times a day, that takes what five six Max 10 minutes it
doesn't take long. So little things like that are fine and then
outside of that you devote yourself to learning
now, so then he says, just by way of review, these recommended acts
complete and make up for any deficiencies in one's obligatory
acts and the law giver
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. But he's going to remind us and this
is pretty much um, snow will read this and then we'll go to next.
The merit of knowledge is only attained by sincerity and
truthfulness with a lot in it. It is only attained if seeking it
reminds the secret of Allah and he remembers Allah was seeking it and
is not heedless of him while doing so. We have previously said that
mentioned of Allah's rulings as part of the remembrance of Allah,
we warned against heedlessness of Allah was seeking seeking it
buying by engaging in idle talk
For much debate and argumentation, these things lead to heedlessness
and thereafter to hardness of heart, and then to death of the
heart, and a confused mind, which leads to air and disorder. This,
in turn leads to excess, and seeking knowledge, which results
in neglecting to perform good deeds such as time bound,
obligatory works and emphasize voluntary works. This leads to a
decrease in one's religion, and to disobedience of The Lord of the
worlds and what good is their knowledge that leads to decrease
in disobedience. So this is the problem with misguidance. One
thing leads to the other, and it just passes you on to something
else leads to something else, there's consequences of this, and
there's consequences of that. And then, as time passes Subhanallah,
that you realize that you've diverted well away from the past,
and then it's hard to get back. And we were talking, I think, when
when you have to figure out
how this doesn't happen all at once.
Very subtle things happen. And then over a prolonged period of
time, you don't realize where you were in the moment, but then you
realize, oh, my God, how far I am from where I actually really need
to be. And then it's harder to get back there. Because just as it
didn't happen overnight, for you to divert the way that you did.
Likewise, you can't just overnight,
put yourself right back to where you were to begin with. It takes
time, you have to make small little changes until you start to
get back to where it is that you were. And this is why all of us
are in need of recalibrating.
We all are. Even this app that I used to record here is it every
once in a while, as it says you have to recalibrate the auto
engine or whatever it says, and you have to recalibrate it and
then okay, it's ready to record again, everything has to
recalibrate, you means we have to recalibrate. There is a reason
that we take our cars to get oil changes and all kinds of things to
make sure that they're operating functioning properly. This is the
nature of life. Entropy is real, everything is moving towards a
state of disarray at every level of Allah to his creation. And
there's different ways that we have to fight this social entropy,
there's different ways you have to fight that physical entropy. And
of course, spiritual entropy is very real, we have to recalibrate.
And we have to recalibrate on a daily on a regular basis. And
there are mechanisms that we must set up in place where we
recalibrate on a daily, weekly, monthly and yearly basis. And then
time to time every so often basis every few years. And we have
natural mechanisms in the DNA in order to do this, well, then we
also have to find ways of doing it ourselves. And one of the things
that we have to bring back to life is it is our Fila visit each other
for the sake of Allah, that's one of the greatest ways we
recalibrate
is by visiting our brothers and sisters for the sake of Allah, our
teachers emphasizes so much, so much encourage us to visit each
other.
And this is there.
Some people that are good at that other people's that neglect it,
other people that neglect that, but it's so helpful. And there's
so much benefit of visiting your brothers, your colleagues, your
friends, people that you studied with from way back in the day, and
you remind yourself of so many different things. And it might be
that you started to shift a little bit this way. And then oh, I
forgot, thank you, you recalibrate. But again, if you do
it regularly, it's so much it's so easy just to get back.
And this is why it's so important as well that we visit our
teachers, and that we sit before them with humility. So we can
recalibrate.
And again, at every level, spiritually, and intellectually,
most importantly
different ideas, things that you just ask and think are good. And
you in your mind, maybe it's kind of your enough's that's really
inclining towards that, but you've convinced yourself that this is
what it is that you're doing. You have to recalibrate. And that's
the one thing about being around the people of truth people of
Huck,
the great that people have a lot is that they that burst the bubble
of your knifes.
So the house before them has that no effect upon it just they are
such people of truth and they're so sincere is that the individual
desires that might have caused you to see things in a certain way is
that they vanish in front of these people because of their states
with Elijah Elijah. So this is absolutely important for us to do
this. And so the one who fails to fulfill the emphasize voluntary
works we'll be left with deficiencies in this other story.
works. And this is really
where we left off was here. Whoever does not have a regular
weird of the prophetic invocations or the litanies of the great
shifts will not receive any gift from Allah a wadded. So woman law
with the law home and everybody that didn't never we met with her
Zubin Messiah, as Sophia phalaborwa. Read Allah.
So that's what they say, when they say Allah, who will fund Allah wa
did. So the words are that from the same root, what did I already
do that it needs to come. But specifically, it's to come to a
watering hole. And a motive is a place that animals and even people
come to drink water. And so that's where we get the word weird. It's
became to be a technical term that is associated with any act of
devotion that you do regularly.
And it's very important that we do acts of devotion regularly, we
have certain acts that we do regularly. And we know that this
is the secret for spiritual progression is consistency. Our
Prophet taught us and we all know this failed at 90 at Walmart when
I failed. The best of our actions Eduardo Hammond Dhawan, the
promise to do something continuously is to go on. And do
one more hustle, some tough deal is the most consistent, we're in
KL, even if they'd be a few. Consistency, consistency,
consistency, and it will breakthrough breakthrough
breakthrough breakthrough, until that leads to abundant good, and
this is what we want to get back to. In the end.
We can never progress spiritually, until we can overcome the monotony
of worship.
Where you just get bored.
It's very easy for people to get bored, is bored. That's a bad
sign. If religion has become boring to someone, it means
they're boring.
If religion becomes boring to someone, that means they're
boring.
If they really be playing video games, or watching YouTube videos,
or whatever, doing something, some form of entertainment, that means
they're boring, because they need to be constantly fed from the
outside and they're empty inside themselves.
Real people don't need anything else.
Real people when you're around them, you're never bored ever.
Because they're
constantly stimulated with their presence first and foremost. But
then the topics that they discussed analogies that they
have, and and you can travel with them to Subhanallah I mean, just
think about our teachers. If the lecturer comes to use Dr. Omar
Farooq Abdullah,
in a one hour conversation, if we were here in the gazebo city with
them, you are traveling throughout history, right, you're traversing
that hundreds, sometimes 1000s of years of history, and you're
traveling throughout the world, in different geographical locations
in different languages. And then you're talking about different
sciences, some of them with a more worldly nature. And then they also
that what they know from I mean, you're traveling all over the in
any given one hour conversation, those that have been in their
presence know exactly what I'm talking about. You're in what does
that you imagine if you had to physically go to all these places,
but you're sitting right there, and your mind, because it's
knowledge, it's as if you're going to all these places. And it's much
more pleasurable than tourism. I'm not saying that we don't go to
visit places and things like that, but it's much more so it is, of
all of the desires in the human being. The strongest desire of all
is the desire that we have to know.
But those desires, those a higher desires, if you will, don't
develop if we're trapped in the lower ones, once we unlock that
ability to taste the sweetness of knowledge. And we have the ability
to just start talking about ideas, and to be stimulated by
conversations that are talking about ideas and concepts and
meanings. That's nothing is more powerful. And nothing is more
stimulating for the human being than that.
Anyhow.
So that what he's saying here is something else. We went into a bit
of a tangent there, that in order for you to receive a wad which is
essentially its inspiration, its blessings that come to you from
Allah. And there's a number of ways that that manifests. But the
secret to that is the weird.
So being consistent in a set amount of devotions, prayers and
supplications and things that you do giving out charity, whatever it
is that you do, regularly, being consistent
And that opens up the door for you be able to receive divine gifts
from Elijah, Elijah. And then as you slowly increase your own rod,
then you start to receive more from Allah. And then you start
hearing the stories of people who came before us that had an amazing
amount of Iraq. It's like how do you do that? It's not possible
outwardly, these are people that have blessing in their time. And
if Allah Tada wanted to place blessing, and something called us,
he could make this next 30 minutes that we spend together, the
greater in the scales, then 1000 years, if you wanted to subhanaw
taala, he could put Baraka in 30 minutes, that which if you would
to live 1000 years into worship Allah everyday in house, you would
never be able to attain what you attained in that 30 minutes is
possible for him, some hands on went out and this is where we have
to rely upon him. So if we do not have a weird in these in this way
that he's mentioned for that allotted that we will not have
these gifts come to us from Allah. And that's a very general way of
translating water but I think this is good morning I read this
translation they've done a excellent job. A lot of these
expressions in these words are very difficult to translate. And I
think they've done a very good job rendering it in a way that is
makes sense in English.
So then he says, well then other than decorilla was over Quran
onesie Allah and Sahel Neff, Soho yellow tea. If someone turns away
from Allah's remembrance, and regular recitation of the Quran in
forgets Allah, Allah causes him to forget his own self.
And what
and what's your ad according to a Chapin and makes the devil his
comrade who's cutting is one who's always with him.
And in the conversation of
recalibrating
nothing is greater than the Quran, you're kidding.
Nothing has been in the Quran, virtually on every page of the
Quran that we recite, there is a discussion of the hereafter.
Virtually on every page of Allah as book, this is one of the
greatest if not the greatest, one of our publicize some of the he
was the person of the ACA, he was a person of the Hereafter. And the
more that you tune in, these are realities that a lot to add is
telling us the way things are.
And we should not shy away from hearing descriptions of both
heaven. And *, Jen is real. And the Gnar is real.
Even though it's uncomfortable for us to talk about and, you know,
sometimes we have to understand theologically, the concept of
eternal damnation. But after you get over that this is real. It's
not about what we want. This is the way hola todos created things.
It's not my choice or your choice. This is the way Allah has created
things. And it's his creation. He does whatever he wants, and you
can't say that he's unjust subhanho wa Taala you have to
hammer that into your heart. And so when you read a lot on his
book,
and you listen to what is being said about this, you just realize
how we are in a state of utter heedlessness
the other the other heedlessness.
And that if this was said about you know, the, the early people is
that were the true people that really put the Quran in practice
and no one with the Quran and practice like the companions of
the Serbian desolate center. No one gave the Quran Itzhak like the
companions of the resource on the license. They were devoted to
Allah's book, night in de by way of recitation, and we'll be
putting into practice no one was devoted to a lot to add his book,
like the blessing companions, a little salt, so the lie that is at
the center, but again, we want to bring this to life. We want to
have a Quran a house that the Quran is recited in it.
A House that the Quran has not recited in it is like an
abandoned, dilapidated, boarded up foreclosure. This is my two cents.
Political licensed house that's just empty, in dark and dirty.
We want to have Quran recited in our house, that all of our
children was raised them from now teach them from now. So by age 10,
that they've done the first cotton, it's totally possible.
Totally, totally possible. And actually very easy if we start
them young. And so all of our children here in this community
here, all of them should get right on it from the earliest age that
they're able to start learning to learn to identify the Arabic
letters and then to join them and then once you train them like
that, then
And subhanAllah, they're going to be amazing. By the time they're 10
or 12, or 13. And
in some cultures, they have these beautiful gatherings it's called
what they call it. And South Asian culture is it called when they do
their first Hatha.
I mean,
within some codes, they call it the fatter.
So they have different names that they give it, but they were they
celebrate the first time that the child does a Hutton, we should
totally do that here. We can call whatever we want to call it. But
we should totally do that here. Where we encourage that young
people to do a Hitomi Quran. And when they do, we celebrate.
And then encourages other children to also do the same thing. And
then the same thing, and what a blessing and Hamdulillah we have
all the resources we need, the only thing that we're lacking is
focus, and realize that this is of importance. So this is something
that shallow someone will take the initiative to, to do beneath it.
So the result of this person who is as turned away from Allah, is
it look at this Subhan Allah is that he has forgotten a lot. But
then the danger is Allah has caused him to forget his own self.
And this is based upon Nestle love and Sahel. And fusarium, they
forgot along Allah caused them to forget their own selves. That's a
very serious thing, if you've forgotten your own self, which is
you.
Just think about if you forget to do something at work, what
happens? Things go haywire, right? You forget to actually do a duty
that you're supposed to do that you forget to that prepare for a
procedure, whatever else Johnny, you forget something, something
goes wrong at work, if you forgotten your own self, is if
your self isn't there? How are you going to take care of yourself?
How are you going to take care of somebody that you've forgotten.
But the danger is, is that Allah made them to forget their own
selves, many that hurt us, because of what they've done, there's
repercussions.
And so you could go into a lot of detail here, and I'm switching I
don't know where that email was, it quotes this verse and towards
the beginning of the marvels of the heart, book 21 of the human
being.
And
he, it's a very important verse for the way that he presents the
danger
of not being aware of the human condition,
and of what he calls the marvels of the heart, the wonders of what
is really taking place inside of us.
He lives in confusion, and he will be resurrected blind as to how to
set up an idea on the Day of Judgment.
It's not fun to live in confusion. It's not a fun state to be in when
you're confused. And you don't know what it is to do or you
don't. And anyone who's interested to Assam and knows that feeling of
the lack of guidance. I remember that very clearly. That was one of
the main draws towards Islam. I remember very clearly as a
freshman in college in San Diego, California.
And I believed in God, but I didn't.
I didn't have guidance.
And
did I ever tell you about that book message. I'm
not the one who went on to walk them out. But anyhow, I wanted
guidance, but I didn't have it. Now remember, just being confused,
just confused, because you end up doing things outwardly that you
know you shouldn't do. And your heart wants God, but you don't
have guidance. You don't know what you know what it is that you
should do. So this is a terrible state to be in. But then if you
seek it, Allah will give it to you. And even if you don't really
know that you're really seeking it.
If you just don't close the door on yourself, you could even say,
Allah will open it up.
So then he says, We're husband Quran and it was you Beth and waka
reciting a daily portion of the Quran is an emphasized sunnah.
A necessary act is something we all have to have a connection to
Allah his book. Definitely. And one of the critiques which I think
is a valid critique, of quote unquote, traditional scholarship
and specifically here and these lands is that we have not
emphasized the Quran the way that we need to emphasize it. The Quran
must be emphasized this is the book of Allah, and emphasize in
terms of reciting it devotionally but also in learning it
and hopefully this is something that we can continue to do that as
as a group was to learn Allah subhanaw taala his book
It is also the duty of every reciter to be mindful of what he
has memorized For indeed, it is quick to escape
from in hockey could get caught in water, I'd have the final salute
in filat in our province. I said that he commended us in fact, I do
have the Quran
take great care to preserve this Quran to protect the Quran for
Wednesday Nuptse Mohammed Maria de la who I should do to fellow
terminal even if you awkwardly Ha, by the one and whose hand my soul
is, the Quran is as quick to be forgotten. And to literally to be
lost as the way how quick a camel is slipped out of its hobble so
that they are called is the port of call and it's a camel haba that
they used to put either in the front and back leg or the two
front legs to prevent the camel from going too far. And so it
would just kind of like move along like this. And that camels can get
out of them. And if they can get out of Hollis, then they can roam
far. And so the province is saying is that using this as a metaphor
to the defenders of the Quran, how quick we forget, in other words
that we have to have a TA hood and to offer this this idea of
consistently taking care of something and looking after it. So
we must look after the Quran that we have memorized. When this young
soldier attend well I am in Helpman out of on the sea yachts
and a sauce and I'm going to ask you for getting a chapter or
rather a verse is one of the greatest misdeeds
and there's a hadith and I will do it a tournament thing when the
color code anthem and ESEA who whoever recites the Quran and then
forgets what they memorized. Luckily, Allah azza wa jal will
esident Allah to add, he will meet Allah to Allah with leprosy, in
other words, that he won't be in a hole states plus lots of other
good cinema with avea. And some of them will have interpretated this
forgetfulness to mean that forgetting to put it into
practice, but that doesn't that shouldn't lighten the load upon us
as if we memorize portions of the book of law, we should keep it
when we need to, that recite it into recite it in prayer
as well, which really helps.
And that if we are have memorized significant portions of the Quran,
is that the word of Quran takes precedence over other ODOT. So
even if you fall a little bit short in reciting some of your
other litanies is that the word of Quran takes precedence, especially
for those that have memorized significant portions or they are
her fault.
So well who had the wanted Dean? The Koran is the reference book of
the religion. So Deewan is the word that came to us for poetry,
like a collection, a compilation of poems, but a Diwan is also like
a register, where you keep track it's
the amount of something as an administrative, that document that
lets you know how much stock that you have or whatever else you keep
registering track and record of things. So here, but I think this
is a good way of translating. It's the reference book of the dean
will aslo Cooley nor will hudon or elmen or Vianne in it is the
source of all light, guidance, knowledge and clarification.
I think I mentioned early on in this case, these sessions, the
statement of him or her dad, the muddied the one who was seeking
closest to Allah cannot be called a muddied and aspirant and I said
he finds in the Quran, everything for what you read everything that
he wants, everything is in the book of Allah. Everything is
there, but we need to become adept in extracting meanings in the
scene very carefully to a large book and that
learning the tools that we need to extract means from a lot a lot of
guys look
below your bedroom and send me a mail wondering if you follow me
first I had a few I'm gonna have him read with that analogy we have
can you help me with an email?
So the one we hear is what has been reported about the merit of
knowledge and strives to seek it should not be diluted into
omitting these important works by which His heart is rectified in
his faith, preserved
one min theta Hamid balada fell yesterday of zamana Whoa, la vida,
so I guess we should just start worshipping.
As for someone whose understanding is poor,
he should spend his time and acts of devotion. Oh, Haley honey
Murphy here.
Survival fee Survivor Benefit and Muslimeen will kill Michiana. Dean
well Albrecht is AB, Lima huajian, OMA newly minted as the beautiful,
he should spend his time in acts of devotion or in anything which
entails rewards such as benefiting the Muslims or serving the pupil
of religion, even by working in order to earn money to fulfill his
obligations, or for that, which is recommended. And so there are
degrees of professions, there's no doubt about that.
And I hope that a culture will develop in the United States of
America and wherever else is on the spreading, taking route,
where people think very carefully early on, about their career
track. And they try to do something that will genuinely
consider to be from the third key fire, they continue on vacations.
And they do so with a righteous intention that this is going to be
their individual way to serve.
This is an extremely empowering concept, if you had a critical
mass of young people serving, and they're working, but they're
getting a wage for that providing for themselves and for their
families, which they should, there's nothing wrong with earning
money. Of course, this is life, you do work, you get paid for
house. But you can also do a service for humanity.
And there are very few professions that can't be connected to service
of humanity. But we have to make conscious intentions to serve
humanity through. And then you have a long list of different
things that someone can do that in our context are usually and they
nonprofit spectrum, but they don't always have to be where there are
clear services that they're offering to people. And again,
they are getting a paycheck and their livelihood is taken care of
as a result. But there's a clear benefit. That is that being going
out to the communities in which we live. And there are enough I think
about from the time that I became Muslim in the mid 90s. Until now,
there has been an exponential increase of these types of
organizations. And there are a lot of very good organizations that
are doing great work in not only the Muslim king, but beyond the
Muslim community. And I hope that this will continue. There's plenty
of room for this to double and cheese efforts to double, triple
and quadruple and and beyond 10 times 10 fold. Because there's so
many needs, and there's so much that needs to be done. And I think
people need to be encouraged to have the courage to be able to
take this track, because you will take a pay cut. If you start going
this route, you will take a pay cut, you're not going to make what
you'd make if you're just a cog in the wheel of the system. But it's
rewarding in a number of other ways, in terms of your own self
and the work that is you're doing and in relation to what you will
receive from blessings from Allah, Allah, in this world in Nexus is a
huge topic. But I would like to really see
this idea taken much further, where a significant amount more
thought is put into this. We're now just instead of your kind of
typical career.
What are they called? career advisors? What do they call?
Yeah, like your career counselors, where you just kind of go to them,
and they're solely worried about the financial aspect of things or
the actual job that you have, or whatever, where we go a little bit
deeper than that, where we tie it into the dean. And there's always
going to be that practical dimension. But there's so much we
can do here. And so many young people can be inspired by this,
that and shot out, they take a particular track, and there's a
lot of good, that will simultaneously come from it. So
that's one of the meanings here. But he's really saying is that the
greatest way that we can spend our time and this is pretty much taken
from you that you didn't notice is learning. And after learning, the
next best thing that we can do learning such teaching, of course,
the next best thing that we can do is to be in a state of worship.
And then after being in a state of worship, the very next thing, best
thing that we can spend our time doing is having a HELOC good
character and doing things that are manifestations of good
character. And then that the
you can add to that what he says here is service and ideally, that
from fajr until law, we want to have aspects of all of those
things in our lives, even if it's only a small portion, knowledge,
worship, character in service. That's all it's all right there.
Knowledge, worship, character and service.
So from Fudger until the hot try to learn something, try to at
least pray
SATA Doha, she acknowledged you have that, and then character,
whatever it is that you're interacting with,
that you show and exemplify good character and then surface some
form of surface
and there will be immense blessings. Especially if we
combine between all of these things.
So then he says fairly yellow tournament Arkell
Joe hearted Joe Harada over the hill as he is, an intelligent
person should make the most of his precious life, which is like a
jewel in the Latin Minho, Raisa tone.
Indeed 1000 pearls cannot buy one atom of life,
a small speck of life, it cannot buy even the slightest bit
from random, you should get Assa T hibbett hair well yesterday enough
zoom eyelid in your journal remember that we build a daddy
with ashy you read and watch her well. That's enough so who was
shot or Sahara turnoffs have a shop where they have a mineral
vegetable Tada what Tony had to hide your money and money, our
hope it just be for the money or the light of week one was to and
so if somebody does not feel his time with goodness, and remain
patiently with those who call on their Lord morning and evening
seeking His countenance, his lower self will busy him with evil, his
life will pass by in idleness and negligence until death pounces
upon him. While he is in a state of procrastination and wishful
thinking, and everything Grace's from Allah and His help is sought.
This stems from a verse as you see in the translation there from with
with those who call in their load, Lord, the Bible says animals
commanded Wasp enough sucker Mileena yet another minute a daddy
with a god don't watch her. The Prophet was commanded to do this.
And some of the non Muslims from Koresh came to the Prophet
southern liason
when he was spending time with four people that were people that
were just rejected by society. The likes of Sohei, the likes of Amara
vinyasa, hubub, Sydenham villa,
they didn't have a place in society. And oftentimes, they
wouldn't have the best sense emit from them because they're living
on a sofa, some of them and they don't have the luxuries that other
people have in the facilities to change their clothes all the time
and to remain fresh and to take showers and to smell the way that
they should. And so some of the non Muslims of Kurdish came to the
Prophet Seisen and said, This scent of these people, right? This
their scent is so repulsive to us. If you would just get them out of
your presence, then we would come sit with you.
It was
mean they're trying to remove these people from the incident if
you remove these lowlifes, basically, I will come sit with
you.
And then this verse was revealed a lot as I said it was it was fun of
soccer ballerina. Yeah, do not
look at don't watch her. Love Akbar. Is that
remain patient make yourself be patient with those who call on
their Lord morning and evening. Seeking His countenance look at
that description. Look at these people. You do not watch. These
are people that these other people have done yet what do they want
from dunya? It's gonna all vanish. They want the watch of Allah
Subhan Allah, who Lucia and Harlequin Illawarra everything is
perishing, except His Countenance subhanho wa taala. They are
seeking the greatest of all things that can be so the noble
countenance of Allah, Jelena. Jelena. So, the prophet then went
out after this verse was revealed, and he sat with him. And he says
that from the Lahaina the, he says, All Praise be to Allah, that
he put people in one way nation that I've been commanded to that
patiently be with and this is how he was some liason is that he
loved people of all different backgrounds, but he especially
love the needy, and he felt very comfortable with them. And he
wasn't someone who thought that he was above them in any way. As he
sat like they sat, he sat, and he was with them, and he would listen
to them and he would spend time with them. Even though he was from
the normal subtribes subtle body. I just sent him this perfect
balance. And this is what we want, we want to have in our hearts, a
love for all human beings. And the criterion for how we judge them
should be one of Taqwa. Because people that are closer to talk,
what are the people that should we should incline more towards in our
hearts, not for any social distinction or any more
worldly consideration, you do not watch. This is the description
that we all want how many people have done you have high stature,
but the most distant people from that meaning you're doing a
lot. You're doing a watch.
It's amazing.
It's great people who came before us, in sha Allah will have more
people in our time that these
descriptions apply to them basically lie to Allah. And the
signs indicate that inshallah more and more people like them shall
not will flower and blossom shall not come to the surface. So with
that we finished the second sphere.
And now we're ready to move on to the third sphere.
The third sphere is not very long, we will Shala go through that with
the night added tomorrow. And then we get into the force sphere,
where the force sphere as well as well is not really that long. And
let's get it gets very esoteric, and it's really fun to read about.
So that we can come to love those people and hang on to their
coattails.
And then after that, we have the Hottinger
so inshallah Tada. We will continue on do the night Adam and
Matata give us dough peak. And bless this yacht, Hamid Amin. How
our team will Baraka shadow navies. Last days of Ramadan, be a
source of immense blessing for us. Omar Prophet Salalah is at the
center. And not our benefit is from Boko Haram. And a little bit
for the benefit as immensely from this great book was to be able to
understand it in us to be able to memorize it possible to put it
into practice within that data, and to be people who call to its
knees first and foremost, with our state before our words, and they'd
love to give us Tofik in all of our prayers, yada but I mean take
care of all of our needs, and to bring our hearts together you
may we be a source of mercy for our neighbors and for people in
these lands. And for people throughout the world, yada yada I
mean, they made a lot of other quotes other bless us and all of
our different affairs and we have high spiritual aspiration, and to
tread the path to journey into into political data. And in all of
our different states and the Accept us and may everything that
happens to us be a source, and a means for us to return back to him
to draw near to Him and to fleet to him Subhanallah data and all of
the meanings of fleeing May Allah Tada, Moses to be from the elect
of those who flee unto him subhanho wa Taala and all of our
different states inwardly and outwardly protect us and our
children and all of our offspring, and then we've seen in Muhammad
until the Omo piano ever unite us with him some of the Isetan and
the highest levels of Paradise after long life you'll be getting
some about to vote to honor and accept completely from his
overlook all of our sins yada but either mean within the first time
without an honor behave and move after the suicide fat How to
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