Yahya Rhodus – The Spheres of Islam, Iman, Ihsan & Irfan #4
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we're ascending.
So we've taken thus far,
the introduction of his work as long as a we briefly discussed the
biography of the rock man, but a little bit Fergie.
A lot to Allah have mercy upon his soul and benefit us through him.
And after his introduction, where he clarifies the scope of his
work, he then says we're about to proceed. Now he's going to
actually get into that, the book itself and that in particular,
that what led to its authoring
and so he says here for in one month early
and mobile Alena Fila, Allah happened Imani Italica Sani Allah
Allah year, wala Alia and earth god Allah will see it and jam tip
me need to corner the hilltop zero turn what at Kubota nephew, Dean.
So he says one of my brothers from the people of Allah, who
befriended me for his sake upon true faith, and the path of our
son implored me to provide him with a clear and comprehensive
counsel, that will be a source of insight, and a beneficial
reminder, and religion. So this is how it began. So if we look at the
Arabic about that one, right, one of my brothers, and he describes
this person as an ally law, he's from the people of Allah. So this
tells us a little bit about how scholars and righteous people
viewed one another.
If you think about one of your friends, in the spiritual path,
how many of them would you have the humility to ask to write a
piece of advice for you to write a treaties for you, or to that, give
you some pointers on what it is that you should do? These people
were humble, and that they saw the fallen for people other than their
own selves, is that they like to notice what was good in other
people and highlight it. And they like to downplay their own selves,
they would highlight the good and others and downplay the good that
is in their selves. And this person is from the animal why Lean
Fila and this is one of the greatest things of all while you
are Lee
is to be friends, someone for Allah sake, and to support someone
for Allah sake. And to that assist one for Allah sake. And while in
Fiddler.
And this is what we want, we will always want in addition to our
teachers, and they say that every student, every person, needs a
teacher and a friend, a teacher and a friend. Because when you're
around your teachers, there are certain things that you do and
certain things that you don't do. And that you need to have friends,
that will that assist you in the affairs that your teachers that
don't directly assist you in because there's certain things
that you're going to mention to your friends that you would never
ever mentioned to your teachers, and they're there to help you and
they're there to support you. So how was this Malala the support
this is befriending him. Allah Imani for delicate SN Allahu
Akbar, that who befriended me for his sake upon true faith in the
path of your son.
So this is how we described him.
Masha Allah Huckle Eman fie Sarika?
And he says here Allahu Allahu Allah, Allah, Allah. Is it so he
implored me and he asked me that time and time again to provide him
that with a clear and comprehensive counsel, so a we'll
see Yeah. is a way of counsel will see is also the word that we use
for like writing or will a will. But here it has this idea of
counsel. We'll see I jam Yeah.
So it's not just a council but its journey to being in and of itself
that it will be comprehensive
lead to, quote, an autopsy to attend kin and Fer and that how
will this council help me? Is it pub sitter with Kira? The club
Sara is he translates it here as
a source of income that will be a source of insight. In takia,
Nafisa, he translates here as a beneficial reminder. So the same
word topsail relates to the very word of this work that we're
studying fits through basalt, Juan,
okay, and that it will be a source of insight and at the same time, a
beneficial reminder beforehand in the religion.
And then he says further, that will follow over and Taccone
Sharmila 10 V. Walton, he will law heavy
and he requested it be inwardly and outwardly complete. This is a
big request. This is a big request that he wants to brief but at the
same time, inwardly and outwardly complete. I want you to Jarrett,
bein Academy Lula, and with Turkey will odia al Ali theme, love Akbar
and it be inwardly and outwardly complete. And then it'd be a
compilation of the words of the God fearing scholars who are
saints and knowers of Allah.
So what he's asking here is that he wants a piece of advice, that
is sound outwardly and deep inwardly. And this is ultimately
what is that we want to combine between the outward and inward, we
want to combine between the shittier outward practice of this
religion and between the inner path that you and I take to draw
near to Allah subhana wa Tada. So he requested that this treaties
join between that the aroma what they have to say, but not just any
item with the poor of item, and with joking, people of Taqwa. And
then also the Olia, the people of Allah, or the it Fein, the knowers
of Allah subhanho wa taala.
And I remember when I first arrived, to study him, and I asked
one of my teachers, you know about this matter, because I had been
exposed previously to a methodology where
there tended to be more focused upon outward notes before they
even embarked upon a study of inward knowledge. And I asked him
about this, and that he responded by saying is that the total, the
different ways that outward inward knowledge was studied,
traditionally, were three
is that you had those who that first studied outward knowledge
and then after reaching a certain degree of our knowledge, then
plunged into the depths of inner knowledge. That's a valid way. He
said, But also you have that different people that they would
study inward knowledge first,
to develop purity of heart before studying our knowledge.
He said, No, then you have that methodologies that join between
both. That just as you study our knowledge, you combine with that a
study of inner knowledge. He said, This is our way here. And so that
every book of filk, there was a corresponding book of the soul.
And that's really what we want, that we want to study physics, and
we want to study to solve we want to study physics, and we want to
study to solve together. And that both go hand in hand. But our
knowledge is extremely important. And as we will see that he's going
to mention fairly soon, is that outward, no, which is the gate to
inner knowledge, there is no that understanding of inner knowledge
without outward knowledge, it has to be from the gate of the
outward. And this is how we verify that it's valid and authentic.
And this is how we differentiate that true esoteric knowledge from
that false spurious esoteric knowledge. The likes of the ball
tonight said only focus upon the internal meaning, and that to the
extent that it might contradict even the outward meaning, and
that's rejected.
And so we want to join between both. And then he says, well,
Rafi, but Yuliya
FEMA I limped to who my daddy was about to who was the Who was your
Rhabdo? Who, an element where you're clean. And so he said, he
saw of me that which I have fully acquainted myself with, and that
which I've explored thoroughly and experienced through knowledge and
certainty. So another viable is to desire something. This is one of
the Arabic words
Depending upon the
particle that you use after it as it if you say lovely Buffy it's to
desire something, if you say really bad, and it's to the
inclined away to have an aversion towards something.
And so that, that our Prophet said sort of I sent him and Nick are
home in Suniti for man rod Lima rally by Anson knitty Felisa
Minda, that Nikka marriage is from my suno. So returns away from my
sunnah is not from us. So well another thing about LA, but here,
it's not used that fee or and it's ILA. And what this means is that
he had a desire in relation to me, he sought of me, what FEMA I
limped to him and Danica, so he's desiring what to know what I know
from this knowledge, so he wants that this treaties to be a source
of insight, he wants it to be a beneficial reminder. He wants it
to be comprehensive, and overarching, as an outward
dimension and an inward dimension. And it fuses both the knowledge of
the aroma outwardly and the knowledge of the outer thing
inwardly. SubhanAllah.
And at the same time that he wants to know about his experience, so
these three words that you see there, what,
what are the only thing I know to me that it will happen to us about
your job to all three roughly mean the same thing? That How about
here means relates to feabhra? What is that I know this word?
Subhadra? Yes, Butoh Oh, seborrhea smooth, both are valid.
permeations means something similar is to investigate
thoroughly. And then Joe ruptor. Who is that to try or to test
something out? So what I've experienced what I've investigated
myself, and what it is that I've tried,
min, Edelman europeen in relation to the knowledge that I have in
certainty. So he responded to him. And there are so many treaties
that this is how that they came about. Was it someone asked him
about a particular question, they asked him to do something for
them, they asked him to write a word for them. And then the author
was inspired to write, and ultimately, is that the inheritors
of the Prophet sallallahu sallam, they are the most humble of
people. And while oftentimes they will go out of their way to
benefit people, even if they're not as they will go out of their
way to teach people even when they do not ask is that they also see
that everything being from Allah. So when someone asks them, that
for something outwardly, is that they tend to see that everything
they see everything being from Allah, and they tend to see that
as a sign that is, they should actually do that thing that is
being requested of them.
So he says, whoa, call will be learned Tofik. So I say, and my
Tofik is from Allah. And he translates it here as in through
Allah is guidance, and enabling grace for a cool. So this is his
response to this brother of his in the path. And who asked for this
treaties, that was comprehensive, and all the ways that was just
mentioned, as well. So he's going to start, this is what He wants us
to know. And this is another very long text. So we were going slow
at the beginning, we're going to pick up the pace, don't worry,
eventually, but we want to get the foundation strong before it is
that we start moving a little bit more quickly.
So he says here now this is going to be I'm going to need everyone's
attention here. This is going to be a little bit deep. What he's
going to say. And the implications of these very short packed phrases
are many we're not going to go into too many of them but that you
know when you see someone speak like this, like you are in the
hands of a true expert
and he's going to very gently guide you along the way and give
you what it is that you need that at every step along that way.
And so he begins by saying
no, yeah.
And how the AMA that this matter no matter what matter this matter
of Deen this matter of the spiritual path this matter of what
it is that you are asking about
what Lobi diet all one kneehigh.
It has a beginning and an end. It has a beginning and an end.
Okay, whoa, whoa, what are here, a first and a last for Balton. We'll
go ahead and inner aspect and an outer aspect will also women or
photo roots and branches will fall soon. We'll do more how
ARPs in holes.
So I'm going to read the next sentence and we'll come back to
that
we'll add to the reco. Elaborate aquilini Hidayat, its utmost limit
can only be reached by implementing its guiding
principles. What I to not only hire to elaborate with it, it's in
point can only be reached from the correct starting point.
Well, I can rally or Woody 11 are here. The first is only complete
when the last is completed. What I also like about any lemon law
here, its inner aspect can only be reached through its outer aspect.
One atellica, Ada photo 11, also to hear its branches can only be
reached through its roots. What I typically imagine are here, let me
magnify it for slowly Li. And its whole can only be truly known by
knowing its parts. Allahu Akbar, that is absolutely amazing. He
basically just summarized the entire approach that we need to
have to the D.
There's a B diet, and there's any higher bid, it literally means
there's a beginning and the high is an end.
So there's a beginning of the path, and there's an end. And what
he's essentially saying here is, is that you have to know this, if
you're going to achieve what it is that you're seeking. And it's like
anything else, if you would want to put this gazebo together. And
you wanted to start by putting a piece that you can only put at the
end isn't going to help you know, you have to start in the proper
way. There's a process that you have to go through this direction
booklet. And the very first thing is we have these right to choose a
flat spot and we have this specific type of rocks that are
going to bear the weight of the gazebo. And then we build the
foundation and end of the until eventually that we can then have
this nice carpet in his nice pillows and then add everything
else that we need to live string and the seats that were sitting on
and cushions and so forth. But we're not going to bring cushions
in here if the roofs not on yet. The point is, it's no different in
terms of the deme. So just that in of itself eliminates this idea
that people think that they can just go online and find out their
Deen.
It's a huge fitna, huge fitna. And that
without going into too much detail, the fact that we have that
so many religious works available to so many people is also a fit.
And I'm not saying that you don't make religious works available.
But it is a fitna, this unmitigated access to an abundant
amount of information, that it's just too much for people to
process, as it's like train to that do a whole bunch of different
things and a computer that's very old and simply can't handle it.
And it just gets slows down because it can't process it that
quickly. And this is one of the biggest fits in of our time, is
that information overload.
And this is in general, but also in relation to Dean is that you
cannot take Dean from books, you have to take the Dean from living
representatives. And even the senator who came before so used to
say this about the science of hadith is that the science could
be a source of misguidance except for the OMA and Hadith su medulla
tone, il onomah. Now, this does not mean that we don't read books
like Riyadh, the Saudi Hain and Michiga Mesabi. And books of this
nature that are meant for common folk to read. But what it means is
if you just plunge into the depths of the books of Hadith, you could
become confused. And because you don't know what to take, and when
not to take from and so forth. And you have these examples of the
early Hadith scholars coming to the likes of Imam Malik, where
they studied so many Hadith that they started to get confused. And
then you know, Malik tells them that leave this hadith and to take
this hadith and to leave that and to understand this in this way,
and so forth and so on. Right so that, that you can put everything
in its proper place. The demons like this. Everybody has to have a
guy we know this and everything is that we do that we don't do
anything in life, except that we have a teacher. We go through
certain types of training, that we go to school for certain reasons.
And why do we think it's any different than the dean?
And then even if we're convinced that okay, I need teachers, that
why is that not our number one priority? This should be the
number one priority of any Muslim community anywhere.
Is to that train a generation of learned people, that can be us
that could be sources of guidance for the community. Like it's just,
it's actually beyond me, that you actually you hopefully don't have
to convince the Muslim community on this, this should be so obvious
is that the vast majority, or the greatest percentage of our
resources go into this. Because that what ends up happening is is
that it becomes full without substance. And if you look at the
description of our profit, is the Prophet said is that there are
going to be many on that day where the nations will gather together
and eat from the Ummah, the way that people eat from a plate.
And then I'm in it in your mind and your Rasul. Allah will be few
on that day on Messenger and no, you will be many, but you will be
like the foam on a flash flood, meaning you will be many a number,
but you lack substance. So for those of us living in the end of
time, that is the question that you and I want to ask ourselves,
How can we live a religious life such that we are we have
substance? And how does that relate to belief? How does that
relate to practice? How does that relate to spirituality, it's
coming.
But this is very, very important. And that if people are convinced
of this reality, and they that make strong intentions to do
something about it, and they do what they can to work towards it,
Allah will bring these people
he'll bring these people to us, and He will allow them to grow in
these lands and be embedded here, right in the societies in which we
live. It's not far fetched. This is our job. This is our task. This
is our duty. This is our mission, that this is the single most
important thing that all of that our scholars of this generation
that we know that converted from schicke no keler to Dr. Omar
Farooq, Abdullah to Sheikh Hamza Yusuf to Imams a chakra, and
Sheikh Abdel Hakim Murad, all of them recognizes this is what
they're all doing. This is what they're doing in their own ways.
Some of them are focusing more upon spiritual training, but
they're teaching the training. They're raising and nurturing a
whole generation.
And others are focusing more on that outward forms of learning,
combined with a general understanding of the spiritual
path. But they're all doing the same thing. Because they recognize
this is the way this is how the people before us did it. And this
is what we need to do.
And this is what's going to come back that often times very dry
feeling that you feel when you visit Muslim communities, in
places like the United States of America, where there's not a lot
of knowledge, where there's not a not a lot of focus on
spirituality,
and that this is the solution that we all have to work towards. So
there's a B Daya in any high it's very important. This is the first
thing he mentioned. There's a B die in any higher. And from here
we can reference the great book of human realizzati be dieted he
died.
And he died as guidance, the beginning of guidance. And one of
the things that was that he states in his work is, is that I'm going
to mention to you the beginning of guidance so you can test yourself.
Are you really sincere in this path or not? I'm just going to
mention to you that the basics. If you find yourself hasty wanting to
put them into practice, you're serious. And this is a sign that
Allah was good for you. But he said if you find yourself that
being lazy and postponing and procrastinating, he said, This is
a sign that she upon has overcome you and you think that you want
something that you don't really want in reality. And you don't
know the difference between he doesn't say this, I'm adding this
between Rajat and Timoney.
What's the difference between Rajat and too many I hear, you
should know this by now. That he just not here to demo. So I'm
calling him
is true.
That's how we transit in class. Reject is true hope to many is
false hope, Rajat is a hope that you actually work towards to
attain that, which is you hope for. Whereas too many is it's
false hope you want something you hope for something but you don't
put in the work to attain nothing. So there's true hope and there's
false hope. So there's a B data and any higher there's an O one
and an R here. There is a that first part and an N, there's a
first and a last. Meaning there's things that come in order. You
can't get into the more advanced steps. If you're still in the
beginning stages. There are certain things that take
precedence. And this is again why we need teachers. If we're left to
ourselves, you'll be in
disaster.
And I like to laugh at myself. When I remember one time when I
was in Mauritania, and, you know, you get exposed to the curriculum
there. And it's a long curriculum because they memorize everything.
I mean, it takes you, they don't have like a set, it's just, you
know, you just keep studying. But if you do even do the basics, it
takes you 10 plus years. Anyhow,
I remember staying up really late one night. And they have this, I
think, actually still have that binder.
And I was writing down all the books that I wanted to study
that's planning everything out. I will do this first. And this after
that. And I stayed up really late.
And one of the older students, I'm going over the house, his name was
SIBO. I love preserver. I still eat lunch with him almost daily.
And he was one of the great students. I'm going up with that
house. As that he noticed that my flashlight, they don't have lights
like this little lantern flashlight thing was on late. So
he asked me next day at lunch, like what were you doing up so
late? And I was like, I was planning out my studies for the
next 10 years.
And I was like, it's so important. I wanted to put, I want to just
plan everything that I need to do. And he looks at me, he just
laughed.
He just laughed at me. Right? Because I was like, this is
important. He just like he just laughed. He didn't even respond,
he just left, right. And then I didn't even read my law had that
day because I was so tired in the morning, or you end up sleeping in
night and then you up. You didn't even do that the work of the day.
So how are you going to attain what you need? How are you going
to reach what is it you want to attain in 10 years,
a basic level of planning is fine, but you focus on the moment. And
mastering what it is is before you the step that you are on. And
that's the sign of a senior person is that they're they know where
they're at. And they're not worried about where someone
else's. So if you think of being let's say, there's 100 steps, and
your friend or someone next to you, or whatever else still in
step 37, let's just say in your own 15, what does it matter where
they are, it doesn't matter where everyone else's, what matters is
where you are. What matters is if you're 13, you want to get to 14,
if you're at 14, you want to get to 15. So maturity is is that you
focus on your own self. And you don't try to act like other
people, you focus where you're, you do what you need to do. And if
there's things that you need to get at that stage, you get them.
And that's a sign that that person when he does reach 37, or he does
reach 50, or even beyond that is that they're going to do what it
is that they need to do in that moment. This requires maturity,
and they're not bothered by what other people are doing, we should
focus on our own self. And then there's a Balton of it in a law
here,
as whole affair has an inner aspect. And an outward aspect is
that this Dean has an outward dimension, and an inner dimension
we want to join between the two. Remember we mentioned those two
archetypes of how people go astray, laden with blue guiding
Well, darling, is it again, one is more of an outward, that going in
East and East exoteric way of going astray. And the other one is
a more inward and more esoteric way of going astray, what we want
is the perfect balance between the two.
And that, from the bursting of a lot of medical data, we find that
in our profits a little earlier I just sent him so there's a button
in the nozzle Vahagn. But then there's also and photo. And now he
started going into more scholarly terminology. It generally
translates here as roots and branches. But there's all soil in
this photo. And this could be understood in a number of
different ways. And you have in generally in general, you speak of
the science of soul. And then you speak of the science of FIP and
that the individual rulings of fic are derived from the principles of
basalt
and all of the right the guidance scholars that is that are valid
and an obligation for us to follow that they had no salt, they had a
methodology on how they extracted law from the keytab in the Sunnah.
And then that by way some of those who used analogical reasoning and
then also ajumma there was a way that they came to know what it is
that they know but then in a in a more general sense
is that there are the roots and branches. There are that certain
disciplines that that serve as the source for that other disciplines.
And
this is a very important topic and of itself. And there is a
hierarchy of knowledge. And there are many scholarly works that talk
about the
Various types of knowledge, the memo is that it goes into great
detail about this
in the Hannah Medina in the keytab n, where he talks about the
foundational sciences, and then what stems from that and lays it
out in a very clear way. And other scholars have done this as well.
But the whole point is, is that there's also an in there for is
that this Dean is massive. This Dean is something immense is it,
we have to know how to learn it, you cannot learn it overnight. In
the head that Dean Mateen, this Dean is something great, an
immense, it's monumental for oh, you will feel beautiful can enter
into it gently enter into the Dean gently and learn from the proper
sources. And that if you that learn traditionally,
and that you do, what is it you're supposed to do, you will reach
where it is that you need to go. All of the traditional chains that
still exist on the face of this earth, if you learn from them with
sincerity, and you put that knowledge into practice, it leads
to the same goal.
Don't mix and match at first, learn what it is that you need to
learn. And then once you reach a certain level, then you can go
somewhere else and learn something else, then you can add to that,
then you can add to that. And you can develop a level of maturity
where then you can study on your own. And it enhances you as
opposed to leading you astray. In the beginning, if you tried to
study too much on your own, is that you could make a lot of
mistakes, and sometimes severe mistakes, you have to have
teachers that helped unlock the meanings of this theme to you and
tell you what to do at what time.
So then he says then there's full zoom, and there's Joomla, there's
parts, and there's holes.
Okay, and that
it's not as easy as just understanding the whole, you have
to understand the part.
And if you understand that part, you can understand another part.
And then you combine the knowledge of those two, and then you
understand another part, and then you understand another part. And
sometimes you end up having to do that.
Is that understand individual parts? And then after that, you
start to put them together? This is how learning is? Is it if you
think about this in terms of learning tissues, if you don't
know how to read Arabic? Is it? Can you just start reading a word?
No, you have to that just recognize the letter in and of
itself. And then Oh no, the letter looks different. When it's in the
first part of the word, or it's in the middle, or it's at the end, I
hold on, I just I finally got the letter, but then it looks
different in different parts of the word. And then what is that
it's pronounced differently. If there's that little mark here are
there, then there's different marks. And then when you think you
got that, and then Oh, my God, then there's a thing called a
sukoon. And then it's a tab moto Bucha, whatever it is, but it's
pronounced like a hat. If you stop on it, then you start adding at
that point. And then only then are you going to be able to get to the
color color and the different types of modules and everything
else that you need in terms of Tajweed later, but you got to
learn those individual parts. And then eventually you put it
together as a whole but then you don't even stop there. And
sometimes people stop on the part of Tajweed which is the greater
whole of what what's the whole purpose of Tajweed
for hosting today the whole purpose of Tajweed is to
facilitate reflecting upon the meanings of the Quran
that's the purpose of tissues not that we become so preoccupied with
our attention read that that's what we're focusing on. No you
learn to read so you can recite the Quran properly. And then when
you're reciting with tears read that your focus is on the meanings
in recitation of tears with tears we enables you and facilitate for
you to understand the meanings in greater depth. So, these are
examples of parts and then how they relate to the whole okay.
And then
he has this he each one of the things that he mentioned
is that he says here that
will lead to direct hire to elaborate McQueeney hedaya to its
utmost limit, the higher the greatest thing that you are
seeking is that it can only be reached by implementing its
guiding principles. This is a good transition. I like how I like this
transition. Mashallah, because this is difficult to Queenie Hey,
Dieter COVID.
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literally means to
like uphold or to establish
and to rectify erect even he died to its but here I like how we put
this implementing its guiding principles you know this this is
that really what it means here is that you have to put it you have
to let because he died is about a path it's about a way it's about
that that that
that going that that on a path
no
and then he says that will add to not only hire to elaborate or
Sahibi data, its endpoint can only be reached from the correct
starting point you got to put everything in its proper place.
Without Kamali overly elaborate, Arkady, this is amazingly
beautiful. So let's come on, there's no perfection for its own
one, which is what you begin with. Okay. So the first is only
complete when the last is completed in lebih activity. What
does that mean? It means is that the Haqiqa is mecamylamine Alicia,
thereby experiencing spiritual realities, it helps you perfect
your implementation of the sacred law. In other words, is it you
know how to pray you learn a can legal rulings for prayer, you
learn that what needs to be there for your prayer to be valid, but
your heart might not be present. You can know all of the outward
rulings, but your heart's not present.
And so that it's only when you start experiencing spiritual
realities, you move to higher degrees of Sn. Then, before when
you study the Allahu Akbar in the Shafi school, and some of the
latest that the some of the works of the latest scholars, they
mentioned 16 up to 20 different conditions for saying Allahu
Akbar, when you enter into prayer.
You don't want to be thinking about those 20 conditions for
saying Allahu Akbar, all you want to do is just say, Allahu Akbar.
But the idea of the Haqiqa is were really in your heart, nothing is
echoed by that Allah, that you say, Allahu Akbar. And one of the
wisdoms of lifting the hands, right rough as your deen is, is
that you throw the entire dunya what's in it behind your back Alo,
where you throw the dunya behind your back, and you bring your
hands back down. And you tried to actualize in your heart that
meaning that Allah is greatest. This is an example. So you begin
by learning Oh, okay, I need to enter into my prayer by saying
Allahu Akbar. But the end is where like really in your heart, that
nothing is greater than Allah. And so that there's no perfection to
its own word, which is what you learn in the beginning, except is
what comes at the end.
Well, I will say it I bought any illumines are heating is that
there is that
its inner aspect can only be reached through its outer aspect.
And this is also very, very important. And that we learn in a
hadith of our Prophet slicin liquidly I attend of the verse,
every verse of the Quran has Allah Hold on while Balto noon. And
outward at me in an in room meaning will hug doing a limit
will look taller or Mattila and a vantage point or a rising point.
And that
this last meaning follow up is a if you translate it as a vantage
point that it's been in a particular area and gazing that
down then and a Mattila is arising point. And what that really means
here is,
is that there's no way for you to access the internal meanings
except from the outward. The Sherea is a shell that preserves
the inner meanings. It's like that oyster shell where then that
you're going to find that pearl
and you need that outward shell to protect the oyster or it's just
going to be that exposed to whatever. And so the Sharia is
there it's like gravity, it that grounds that our understandings of
the inner science and it is impossible for there to be a
contradiction between Sharia and Haqiqa. Impossible. There's never
a contradiction.
Sure
Yeah is in its place in hockey because in its place, and that the
shittier is always what we go back to. This is why that my, the
guidance, the recommendation of our teachers is, is that do not
learn from anyone, unless they're people have Shediac especially in
the spiritual path, do not learn from anyone in the spiritual path,
unless you know them to be a person of Shediac.
You know them to be a person who takes the sacred law seriously.
And if you see a teacher, not taking the sacred law CRC, that
respectfully distance yourself from him or heart, right, so that,
that you can protect yourself, because there is no contradiction
between the two is that there is no access, right? That to the
inner meanings of the sacred of the deen, except through the
outward dimension of the sacred law. And this is very, very
important. Its branches can only be reached through it's okay,
excuse me, it's interesting that can only be reached through its
outward aspect, when I tried to call ADA photo 11 are solely its
branches can only be reached through its roots. Oh, my God,
this is such an this is really profound. It really is profound.
Because
you see how people make mistakes, especially in the modern world,
when they don't take from traditional scholars, they make
major mistakes, and they don't realize what they're doing is that
they develop judgments of individual rulings of the sacred
law, bypassing completely and understanding No, no, there is no
soul.
That is the source of those rulings that you cannot bypass.
Right? That its branches can only be reached through its roots.
You cannot reach it any other way. And if you do, you could make
major mistakes. And it might think that you might think that oh my
god, I'm so intelligent, and I'm doing the right thing. And it
makes so much sense now. But you do not realize the door that you
open.
And you don't realize the consequences of that position that
you've taken.
And this is really, really serious. And there's so many
different examples of this, that we don't really want to go into
cover this because sometimes when you mentioned specific examples,
it becomes polarizing in the communities. And it hunted enough.
This is part of the reason why we came out here, just so we could do
what we want to do. And we don't want to bother anyone. And it's
absolutely important that we maintain good relationships with
all of the other centers in the stomach communities in masajid.
Locally, absolutely. But we need to and an unabashedly unwavering
sense, be firm on what it is that we're on. And we have the right to
do so. Right? That this is lands belong to Allah to Allah and
everyone's free to be wherever it is that they want to be. But this
is very important. Because there's a lot of confusion on this. In our
time, there is no way to reach the branches, except through the
roots.
And then he says will add to take up the imaginary end of humanity
pursuing its whole can only truly be known by knowing its parts.
And sometimes you have to focus on the parts before you bring it
together as the whole. Now he's going to say though, and this is
amazing, will couldn't know who Dino wha hid.
That everything that has been mentioned, mentioned constitutes
one religion. So these aren't like separate Dean's. It's one, the
dean is one.
And if you take it back to its origin,
this was the experience of the sahaba.
If you look at all of the individual disciplines that were
studied, and are studied now,
in those parts, that you have to get in order to bring together the
whole all of it was taken directly from the Prophet Salah license.
Can you think about Tafseer during the time of the Prophet slicin?
What anyone that speak about tafsir when you have Rasul Allah
Satellizer, before you, he's reciting the Quran to the
Companions, he's explaining the Companions, the Koran to the
Hadith, the whole science of Hadith, where the whole if you
said to us a hobby that this hadith is Sophia, like, What do
you mean? They don't know those technical terms. They're learning
it directly from nano solar Sierra. They're witnessing it
right before their eyes, the Arabic language, they're already
masters of it. They were masters of the Arabic language, and all of
the language all of the other sciences included in the Arabic
language, who will suit that again, is that the Prophet was the
legislator and you did
Have companions then that were then conveying the meanings what
they learned, learn from the resource? And yes, that you did
have companions that the prophets sent, like, what are the
mudgeeraba? Will you hear this? I have this amazing statement about
what it was that he was going to do that if you didn't find the
question that was presented on in the book of Allah, so the Prophet
was opening up the door for each Jihad amongst the companions. But
the point is, that was taken directly from him, all of the
knowledge that needs to be learned, he was the source of
everything. And he was the focal point. Some of it right here, some
of you said him. And this is why you cannot separate the prophet
from the Dean. I mean, it's so obvious that the fact that we even
have to emphasize that it's almost insane. Of course, you can't. He
did not just come to convey the message. And that's it. No, your
connection to him is your connection to the dean, your
connection to the dean is your connection to him.
They both go hand in hand. And your love of Him is directly
connected to your Eman in Allah and in the dean. It's directly
connected. And
do you even go further
is that one of the greatest sources of protection of our faith
is to believe in wrestling.
Because when you start to get into complicated theology, there's
certain things where you might just reach the point of like, I
just don't understand how I don't I'm confused by that particular
question or that issue.
But if you take it back to something simple, in the end of
the day, either Rasul Allah is telling the truth, or he's not
sure who that is not.
He can always ground us, no matter how in depth and complicated the
philosophical discussions become, I believe in Rasulullah. And that,
in of itself,
is the means for us to have the highest degree of ethical image of
realization of human
because, say no Bakr, Siddiq, that's how he became a Sandeep. It
was his belief in Rasul Allah. And this was a great test for some of
the believers, you mean to tell me this distance that we traveled, it
takes us a long time to get there that you went by night, right from
that Mecca to Jerusalem, and then you came back, and he ascended
into heaven. There were people around the prophet who were
telling him not to tell people about it. And we just read the
narrative not too long ago on the 27th. Tonight, I'm Raja
on the 27th of Roger but the point here is, is that when they came to
say no McKenna Siddiq, what did he say? His famous statement, and
Carla halfa could suck, if the prophet said it.
He is truthful, he's true, it is true, what us he has told the
truth if he said it, he has told the truth. In other words, if he
said it, that's what happened. And I affirm and it is to our belief
in the Prophet, that you and I could potentially become Shuhada
witnesses
for other prophets from previous nations.
Because we testify to the truth of the Prophet sallallahu Senem and
we learn about these prophets and their teachings in the book of
Allah Tada. And so we can actually testify right to the truth of our
teachings because we believe in Rasul allah sallallahu alayhi wa
sallam. This is fundamental, nothing is more dangerous, than to
try to separate the love and connection that the OMA has to
Rasulullah sallallahu Sena, this is very serious. And we must
preserve this in a balanced way, the way that the right guidance
scholars always have throughout the centuries. And we join between
love in metabo
is not just blind love, is love, and metabo we love Him and we
follow Him. We follow him and we love him. We join between the two.
And love is the foundation and letaba following leads towards
perfection.
The perfection of love is in metabo This is why the greatest
phrase that you can give someone to say is that they closely follow
the messenger of Allah Sunlen Lohar DO IT Savvy sudden. So
everything that has been mentioned is one Deen it constitutes one
religion. And it is what he says here. It is the set auto stocking
recruiting and why you don't want to recon Mr. Payne and
It is a straight path.
And then he says, Love hope manners.
Okay, Nasrallah that in Xero has number of meanings. One of them is
to travel, a Manziel. It's a house, yes. But it's also a
waystation. So you talk about the lunar mansions, that each night
that it's an additional 15 degrees further in the sky. And a Menzel
is if you're traveling somewhere, it's a waystation, someplace that
you stop, because you can't do it all at once. And then you travel
the next distance, and then you travel the next step. So the dean
is like that. There's a nozzle, you have to do this. And then you
do this. And then you do this. And then you do this. And if you
remember, what we discussed last year at the summer retreat, and I
don't know if anyone is able to attend those sessions or not. We
can give you the videos if you want. It's a very important topic
that we looked into the book of human animal walk about the
stations of religion, we talked about nine stations of religion.
Actually, I think we didn't do the last class. But, anyhow, that you
got to know where you're at.
Because you don't know you got to know where you need to go. And you
got to know how to get from where you're at, to where it is that you
need to go.
Okay?
No, so everything that has been mentioned constitutes one
religion, it has stations, okay, or waystations. And it has mana
Hill manhal. And he translates it here as springs, but a min * is
like a watering hole.
Okay, it has different places that you go to receive that your
portion firm.
And it also has delta jet. There's various degrees, or he translates
to here as grades. And then there's more on YouTube. And then
there's levels. So we have to know where we're at. And that the most
dangerous thing is to claim Well, we're not. So we'd have to know
where we're at, and then figure out where it is that we need to
go. And that equals versus would it couldn't Linda result. I mean,
I mean, you know, for all their rigs, according to their deeds,
Yoda for 11 million Airmen, I'm in cold weather in order in Medora
shots, Allah will raise those among you who believe, and those
who have been granted knowledge to higher ranks. And that even
ambassadors a famous statement is that the difference between the
degree of the common person and the scholar is 500, there's 500
degrees of difference. He said, each degree is like the difference
between the heavens and the earth.
And if you think about in this world, is that all of the ways
that different degrees just think about wealth?
Right, there's a significant percentage of humanity that are
surviving on $1 a day.
And then that we have that multibillionaires. And those
numbers are increasing, it's actually from the sign of the End
of Time that wealth will increase.
And the disparity between the riches of the rich in the poorest
of the poor, and how much the riches of the rich own from the
world's resources just in the country in which we live, that
were 5% of the world's population, and we consume that what 30 40% of
its resources or something, and a significant portion of the world's
resources disproportionate to our population. And the closer and
closer we get to the end of time, the more imbalanced is going to be
in the world. And that if we think about it, in the sense, though,
then when an athlete or two in the next world, there's going to be
that even more preference and even greater disparity.
Okay, and that, not that we see this disparity as good here in
this world. Okay, when we talk about the increasing gap between
the rich and the poor, that should bother us. And we, as Muslims
should be at the forefront of conversations to do something
about that. And many of these other very important
conversations, but the reality is, in the next world, there's going
to be that greater difference in degrees and ranks because it's the
Arcata. It's more expensive than this world. And that
the dunya in his expansiveness, compared to the aka is, like
someone experiencing the womb of their mother to the world.
We're like in this whole world in which we live, it's like a womb.
And what opens up into us is something that much, much greater
much
is much more expensive.
So head on shot, let's, let's stop there. You don't want to take too
much, and that we will slowly work through the introduction. And then
once we start getting to the
each sphere, we'll be able to move a lot quicker and be the night
data. Unless you don't have to give us your feet and give us an
understanding of this religion on the mythical Dean COVID-19 Well, I
didn't know we'll and to give us understanding of your book Yahama
I mean understanding of the Sunnah of your messenger, ya know, but I
mean, ALLAH SubhanA data always keep us at the doorstep of the
right the guy had skulls, who can train us and teach us this
religion, when we put everything in his proper place. And when we
regretted wisdom Yahama Ramin did everything in its time in a way
that is most pleasing to our Lord Subhana wa Tada. We live in that
upon this religion, we're not out to make us firm in it, we have a
high spiritual aspiration that which we cannot reach out of it. I
mean, through our HT hat and our hard work that we put in net which
we cannot reach by our actions that which we cannot reach from
the things that we want to do. And that's when we asked you how to
but I don't mean to versus to reach that through our intention.
And bless us to grant us the greatest of this world in the next
solely because we believe in you we know that you are the giver,
and when you give it no one can prevent what it is that you get
and a lot of other Qatada Busselton lives in his obedience
will sell a lot. I think Muhammad didn't want to address me Salam
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