Yahya Rhodus – The Spheres of Islam, Iman, Ihsan & Irfan #5

Yahya Rhodus
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The speakers discuss the importance of deeds and deeds in relation to one's spirituality and worship. They emphasize the need for clarification and understanding of words and actions in order to maximize one's benefits from everything. They also discuss the importance of understanding one's state of heart and the meaning of words and actions in relation to one's understanding of others. The speakers stress the importance of summarizing deeds and being a servant of Allah's teachings, emphasizing the need for preparation for events and the importance of knowing the spiritual path and de conversational interactions.
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Bismillah wa salatu salam ala Rasulillah

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while he was Sahabi he woman while

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we're reading from the spheres of s&m Eman, Sun fan by heavy Abdul

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Rahman and Abdullah Al Faqih what Allah the unknown of anime

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illuminated during Amin

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the author says May Allah Allah be pleased with him and benefit us

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through him.

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We'll call it water they'll be daddy Calcutta was soon Allah

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wooden Motorhead

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so that he's talking about this deen and how it has a beginning

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and it has an end and all of those details that we discussed last

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time, and how

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in reality, it's one thing

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and it's a straight path. But there are waystations there are

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watering holes, there are degrees there are levels.

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And then he's saying so I say in through so the book and Sunnah

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have reported this in unison.

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Okay. They're both in alignment with everything that was

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previously mentioned.

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For us, though, we thought he will forcibly Estelle them and Aquila

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be Barclay he was me.

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So therefore taking his branches necessitates taking its roots, and

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taking part of it necessitates taking the rest of it.

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So they go hand in hand. Yes, there's times where you have to

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focus on the parts and then put those parts together for the

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whole. But

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the opposite is also true, is that by taking his branches, by

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necessity, because they're connected to the routers, you're

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also taking the routes and also by taking a part of it in

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necessitates taking the rest of it because it's so interconnected.

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And then he says, what tech the will be about the tech the bone be

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equally

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denial of some of it is denial of all of it. Because it's all

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related, it's one thing

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and this is why there are certain things The Scholars say or maloom

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minute Diem with Dora are necessarily known to be a part of

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the religion.

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And if someone denies those things, it's very dangerous and it

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could take them outside the fold of Islam. May Allah subhanaw taala

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protect us and preserve us why because of this principle

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because that by denying part of it it's that like denying that all of

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it because it's all one dean

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and then he says

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well I locally multivitamin yet, hold on I'm in Cali, I attend will

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ta attend method and when as you go home, this is really, really

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profound. Because when you think about the implications of what

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he's saying, and the application of it, to each individual member

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of the Ummah, this is that very, very, that this is a very, very

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deep thing that he's saying. The people of each level,

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take from each Quranic verse, and act of devotion, for example,

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their particular station. So at first he was talking about the

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deen in general. And given all of the detailed the giving the

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detailed description of it now he's talking about how it relates

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to individuals, people.

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And so, every people of different degrees of different levels that

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have different understandings take according to their level

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respectively, that from each verse and each act of obedience,

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something that is specific to them, it relates to their Manasa

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and then he says, Well, you should have won a fee Munna Hallo whom

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they drink from their particular spring. Remember, we said this

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word min * is a word that we could translate as watering hole?

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In other words, that it's a source of spiritual irrigation.

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And what a beautiful way to think about our deen is that we have

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different Masada in different mana Hill, different sources that

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spiritually irrigate us. And one of the things our teachers used to

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mention is

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that if you find in your heart, a connection to a specific zip code

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or a particular name of Allah or a particular zip code, you might

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just incline towards St. SubhanAllah. You might just

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incline towards saying that hold over a quarter level and you feel

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a connection to that invocation in your heart. It's a sign that you

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have a special, that connection to it, and it's one it's your

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watering hole.

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And it's a means for you to attain that goodness from. And so in

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other words is that we should stick to that, if this is indeed

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what Allah to Allah has that opened up for us. So they drink

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from their particular spring couldn't don't mean whom Allah

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Kadri Tata.

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And each according to his capability Wakaba Lee at the

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academy, he was a man he will talk it what could be his heart's

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receptivity, his faith, obedience and worship.

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So meaning is that all believers are praying, they're fasting, that

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they're reading the Quran, but people are different.

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And that they're the same in one respect. They're reading the same

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Quran, they are that praying the same prayer, but it's different

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based upon that individual. So, depending upon their ability, and

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depending upon that these other that great aspects, the hearts

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receptivity possibility can be. So someone has a very hard heart,

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when mercy is pouring out, they're not going to receive that much. If

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someone has an extremely soft heart and a little bit of mercy,

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and no mercy is little is that raining down in the spiritual

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realm? They'll receive it and they'll capture it.

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So we have a copy of our bulb. And this is something that we should

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think about how and this is the real question, how can we that

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till the soil of our hearts to make them receptive? How can we do

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that? How can we increase our hearts receptivity and according

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to our Eman our faith, and according to that our TA our

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obedience, and according to that our quarterback and Corby which is

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our proximity to Allah subhanaw taala for in Aquila I attend were

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Hadith in what are often what a bad thing was the Quran, the whole

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law you don't well Boulting on what had done well mattala or

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mattala. For indeed, every Quranic verse, Prophetic narration act of

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obedience invocation and act of worship has an E soaked exoteric

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sense and an esoteric sense and a boundary and a starting point. It

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emalahleni hiut Allah

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in all of this is infinite.

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Okay, so what is he saying here that we mentioned the Hadith I

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believe it was yesterday, where there's a hadith of a prophesy son

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says liquidly, I attend, every verse has a la hora or baton, an

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outward meaning an inward meaning a HUD, which is a limit, and a

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mandala, which you would translate multiple as rising point. Or you

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could say, which is a vantage point. And the point is, is that

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there's multiple dimensions of every verse. And it doesn't mean

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that there's only four meanings to every verse, that you will find

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amazing things like in the commentary of normal majority,

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that they say that where he would say things like some of the

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Buddha, say that every verse has 60,000 meanings, anyhow, that the

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meanings of the Quran never cease. And, as no one will say, he says,

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the hammer and Cambodian body, he says that it has meanings like

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waves of an ocean than an incessantly coming, wave after

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wave, wave after wave, wave after wave. This is the book of Allah is

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like this, but you may have you heard that our mind is extending

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this not only to the Quran, but he's saying this also applies to

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the Hadith. This also applies to every ta act of obedience. This

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also applies to that every about every form of worship, and every

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vicar in every invocation, at all have an outward dimension and an

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inward dimension, they have a HUD, a limit, or he's translated here

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as a boundary. And they have a mantra or motto that either Milani

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hired Ella, and it never ends. Meaning is that you could be doing

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and this is always the question is that I remember a family members

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asking me like, do you say the same thing? Every time that you

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pray? They said that you do.

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Like, do you say the same thing every time you pray? And yeah,

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certainly, like there's a lot of things that are the exact same.

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And then obviously, the different chapters of the Quran that you

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recite, and maybe different doors that you make, Institute and so

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forth. But yes, it's the same thing. But when you understand

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this, every time that you say something new every time that you

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say it, there's a new mercy. There's new meanings. There's a

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new blessing, the

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There's no good and it never ends, you just keep repeating and the

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doors keep opening, the doors keep opening becomes more expensive,

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and your understanding gets greater, and the sweetness of it

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increases and so forth and so on. And it never ever ends.

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And so that this applies to all these different aspects of

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knowledge and different acts of devotion that we do. And the other

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my go into, they have a difference of opinion about what these four

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dimensions that are specifically mentioned, the Hadith are, and

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will not go into those details, but it's a point it's sufficient

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for us not to understand is that there's multiple dimensions of the

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meanings of the Quran the meanings of the Hadith and all acts of

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worship that we do in the key here really is how can you and I

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maximize our benefit from everything. And how can we that

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make the reps receptivity of our heart greater.

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So then he says,

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For Kulu Taliban Yahoo them in Kali Mata Ruben who know Cebu

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so I thought it was someone who's seeking something, and the motto

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was what they're seeking. So, every thought of this every seeker

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takes a portion is no see heap of what he seeks in accordance to his

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level, Allah has to be in accordance, this me that customer

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literally is to distribute is to a portion. So according to that,

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what has been decreed for them to receive and also according to what

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Allah has to be a customer, he will mobility for me he will be

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and according to his understanding and his knowledge so that he

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Atholl up here is normally the word that you use for students.

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But it's also that the thought of here has meant the one seeking

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closest to Allah, the seeker. So it takes a portion of what he

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seeks in accordance to his level and the extent of his

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understanding and knowledge. So the greater his level, the greater

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what has been a portion for him, the greater his knowledge, the

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greater his understanding, the greater his approach to whatever

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it is he's doing, you're going to get more out of it.

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And that to bring

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this close this is one of the emails the moment I roasted Akbar

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that he used to say

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is that Tula crowds from a scholar is better than 1000 because of a

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common lesson. Why? Because they know the Sunnah of the Prophet

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sallallahu sallam, they know how to get multiplied reward, they

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know different things that they can do in their prayer to get

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maximum benefit.

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And then he said that the prayer of one of the Righteous One of the

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Olia is better than 1000, because of the scholar, because not only

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do they do all of those outwardness now that their state

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of heart, their concentration, the inner etiquettes, all of these

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other matters, that are beyond the outward where everyone's the same.

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Do you do that? Or do you do that word, but then their heart is

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different.

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And he said, there's a group called the absolute heartbreaker

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to to heed the people of the reality of belief and the Divine

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unity. And he said, that one breath of these people is heavier

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in the scale than all of the actions of the incident the Jinn

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of the human kind in the gym kind for them to take one breath. And

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this is because of their state of heart. This is because of their

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showed their divine witnessing, at the heart of the heart. This is

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because of the quality of their worship. And it's hard for us to

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really understand that. Because we're geared especially in modern

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society, to focus on quantity.

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And that mass production in numbers and profit margins and all

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these other types of things. But we forget quality. We forget

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there's going to be prophets on Yom Okayama that might not have a

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single follower, or might have one or two or three or few followers,

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prophets of God, that the software, the elective is

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creation. And it never is a precondition for someone to reach

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the highest degrees of closeness to Allah, that people know him or

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that people know her or that he or she has a lot of followers or and

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so forth and so on. It's never a precondition.

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What matters is their state of heart. So what does this teach us?

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And why is Imam Abdullah

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bin Abdullah bin Abdullah before he introducing this, so the you

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and I can be very clear, what really matters is the quality of

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our worship. We take quantity into consideration to the degree that

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the Sharia that tells us that it's important beyond that is quality.

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And I remember one of my teachers and

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On ateneum, Robert atman third, one of the great students and one

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otash that I asked him one time about reciting the Quran with

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reflection, is it better to read a lot or to read a little with

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reflection? And he said to Debow, I attend, hated him and Kathy a

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minute automat, pondering deeply reflecting deeply upon one verse,

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is better than completing the Quran many times reflection, is

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that really, really important, your quality is what really,

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really matters. And so these people who move up to the higher

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degrees of closest to Allah, is it because of their state of heart,

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because the heart is in the Divine Presence, because there are people

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that have experiential certainty. These are people that believe in

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Allah and are witnessing the divine impact of one creation,

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when they say subhanallah it's not like someone else saying

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Subhanallah

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in the scales, is that there's no comparison.

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And as the statement of impairment I deduce like we're all of the

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acts of the incident agenda to be put together, were people that are

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trapped in a worldview of quantity of like, that's impossible. How

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that how could that be? No, is that that surprising, this is

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possible. And there's no limit to the degree that Allah subhanaw

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taala can cause someone to grow spiritually exponentially.

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And there's this beautiful story. The setup does is a double

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augments and weren't mentioned, he mentioned one of the great emails

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that came before one of the great, great, great emails.

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And when he was telling us that he this to a student, he turned like

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this.

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He said, In the time that it took for me to turn like this, he said,

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I ascended in degrees of courses to Allah, that were that Imam to

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have lived from his time until now that he wouldn't have achieved

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what I achieved. And that one, those few moments of turning.

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Now, what does that mean? It's hard for us because again, we

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don't consider the inner dimension of things.

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But when you understand that the inner dimensions that open up

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through worship, the people who know that then it makes sense to

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but we believe in these things, because we believe in the obedient

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we love the holy. Anyhow. So this is what he's laying down for us is

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that people have different levels, they have different outlooks, they

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have different degrees of understanding, they have different

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degrees of knowledge, and all of this is key. And the last thing

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that I want to mention this dua that one of our teachers recites,

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almost after almost every prayer Allah hum Jana le happy to do it.

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That's a dua that we should repeat regularly. Oh Allah make us from

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the people of the reality of Tawheed that move up to

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experiential degrees of divine witnessing, and that and strong

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levels of belief. So that he says and he's going to give us an

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example

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for free Kadima to Nicolas method n, when pronouncing the statement

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of Divine One oneness Kanuma to the last it's called and this is

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saying, the ILA in the law. It's referred to as the calamata,

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deathless, the that word of that if loss is sincerity, but you

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could also as he translated here as divine wasn't oneness the

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statement of Divine oneness for example

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allottee here, all slew hood, the Kennametal harasses what, it's the

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foundation of all foundations. It is that Kalamata EBA that will

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lead to other refers to in the Quran.

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And that likening it to a tree it's the Kenyatta Heba. It's the

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apostle also as the foundation of all foundations. Yoku, Allen Eman

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the people of iman faith, c'est la ilaha illa Allah.

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There is no God except Allah.

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And then he says, Well, my now home Lama Abu Illallah and their

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understanding is, there is no deity worthy of worship, other

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than Allah llama Abood, Abba, yah was to worship my Buddha's what is

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worshipped now Mahmoud, nothing is worshipped except Allah. There is

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no deity worthy of worship, other than Allah.

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And then

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some of the features you could say, but the understanding of

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those on the path of Sn is different, that it's that in more

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their understanding is landmark Zewde in Allah, nothing is sought,

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except Allah thila feedback he could add a fan, then that the

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understanding of those in realization of Irfan is Lambo Jude

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Ilala nothing, there's nothing

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in existence other than Allah. And when we learned this from our

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teachers, we learned that there's four degrees

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La ilaha illa. Love abode, Allah Allah. That's the most basic

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degree that nothing is worthy of worship except a loss. You learn

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that Buddha. You're negating that nothing. Right? Now I'm not what

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Illallah so that the kennemer To delete a saint Illa there is no

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God, and then it's affirming. So it's a negation than an

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affirmation in Lola.

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And then we're talking about now the meaning. So the most basic

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meaning is, Lama Abu illAllah. Nothing is worthy of worship

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except Allah, literally nothing is worship except Allah. And then

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there's a higher degree after that landmark suit. So if you think

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about that, le Mahmoud Allah, that this is at the level of belief,

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okay, you recognize, I don't believe anything, there's no only

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one God. But then, when we start talking about love, Maqsood, why

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does it relate to the path of our son because now this is the love

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of your intention? Imagine if everything that you did you were

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cognizant of the reality of law, a law law when it means lahmacun

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nothing is sought except a law that all of the diversions all of

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the the pole to that worship Allah to Allah for other reasons, would

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just completely vanish. Because you recognize in that moment, then

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that boot now, Maqsood Illa, that nothing is sought, literally,

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except Allah. And then the even higher degree of that, is that

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where someone is there's tacky and fun. This is a person who knows

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Allah. And again, we just talked about these things, we believe in

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them, and we hope that we die loving the people who have

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actualized them and perhaps that our Lord Tabata cortada will give

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us a glimpse, flash to perhaps to be a flash, perhaps there will be

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just a taste of what it's like to experience this video we're going

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to add and that the higher meaning is Lambo, dude it Allah, other

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things exist we exist, but our existence is not real existence.

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Our existence is contingent existence, our existence depends

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upon the existence of Allah. If Allah to Adam wanted to just

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completely erased from existence, he would do so instantaneously. So

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kind of our existence Yes, we exist from one standpoint but in

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reality, that our existence is not real true existence, Allah is the

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was a bit of a jute, he is the Necessarily Existent Subhan and

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what to add up. So we're negating that anything truly exists, other

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than Allah, no matter if that was your state, where you were with

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people, but everything that you saw you saw unreality, as it

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didn't have to exist us think about how much pain we cause

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ourselves.

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Because we think other people are really existing. Like, imagine if

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that was your state, and then someone criticized you. Or then

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someone smirked at you. Or then someone that mistreated you?

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Your Aslan to begin with, like you only you're not aware of their

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existence, yes, they're there but you realize is that they only

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exist because Allah allows them to exist and Allah subsisting them

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Subhana, WA Tada, you're not going to be bothered by the things that

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they say.

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Because you realize everything is from Allah.

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And you'll know how to deal with it.

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And that just think about the healing that is in this.

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And this is why you can only truly be healthy if you have these

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minions. Yes, you can outwardly be healthy and eat well and exercise

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and all that but you can only truly be healthy is that if you

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realize these meanings of the deen and then there's an even that

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loftier station, Lau mesh who did Allah nothing is witnessed, except

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Allah.

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In other words, is that when the veil is lifted, that everything

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ultimately points to the existence of a lot

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and every act in creation is his act Subhanallah data, which points

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to one of his attributes so Pano data, which points to his essence

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subhanho wa taala. And this is the goal of our religious life is to

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come to know that when you call someone and out of Billa what does

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that mean that witnessing divine impact on creation. They're

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witnessing the Theophany of the manifestation of the names and

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attributes of Allah to Allah all around. Whether it's majestic, or

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whether it's beautiful, there are constant in the state of

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witnessing everything reminds them of Allah they only see Allah on

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reality, and not with the eyes that are the physical eye with the

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eye of the heart. Love to other verses to

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love these people and to take a path where we follow in their

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footsteps where we try to resemble them yeah at home I mean from the

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blessing of this month of Ramadan Ramadan we asked you to give us a

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taste of what you have tasted you given them to taste Dr. Hamid Amin

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and then he's going to mention another example will fit it best

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Melati method and best Mala best Marie best minister to say Miss

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Meena he recommended working just as the Hamdallah as what

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and the how colors to say

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the Alim So, the Bessemer Bismillah Mandarin led here a lot

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of equally hard when pronouncing the specimen for example, which is

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the beginning point of every state people say and the name of Allah

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Okolona Bismillah Wilma now have a look the people of Eman

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the first level are attached to the meaning okay to unlock, to

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unlock to unlock who is to attach to something.

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And then within mother Tabitha Ania. It's at the HELOC whereas

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the people have said on the second level, internalize the meaning it

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becomes a part of their homework it becomes a part of how they are.

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So you have the HELOC which is your physical constitution you

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have your HELOC, which is your internal constitution.

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And the process of the HELOC is, for example, the trait of Rama.

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When there's the HELOC, then you become merciful. And you do

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merciful acts outwardly with your limbs. generosity, if there's a

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lack of generosity, you become generous internally in your heart,

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and it leads to your limbs doing acts of generosity. So when it

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comes to the best Mala is that not just having an attachment to it,

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not just devoting ourselves to seen it. Where then is that we

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become molded by it? We become shaped by it. And then fit the

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model Tabitha Tabitha, in the third degree is that the people of

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Arafat they truly realize the meaning what he calls here a book

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realisation.

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So there's three degrees to look to have a look into hawk. And

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everyone in my class that I'm sure is familiar with that from buzzard

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classes with Imam Amin. We mentioned this regularly. But this

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is very important to look to have a look into hawk and that

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translates as attachment

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internalization and realization.

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For us, locally multivitamin Halleen el Kenya moutain was a

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grain assurity faintness evohome the people of each level take

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their portion and drink their fill from these two noble statements

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according to the degree among the Indus degrees found in each level

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will surely be shored up a home.

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RFT laughy to verten Lani higher telehealth equally monitor button.

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And so he come on this instance together here, but we'll shut up

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shut up go home, which also means is that that they've that

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drinking, that their spiritual drink, again, that the according

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to their degrees, and according to the various levels.

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So the people of each level, take their portion and drink their fill

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from these two noble statements according to the degree among the

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endless degrees found at each level. So each level there's

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degree upon degree upon degree upon degree, the key for us is, is

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that we want to be ascending.

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We want to keep moving up and drawing closer and closer to a

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large energy load.

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And it might seem for a while that our spiritual progressions paused,

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or might seem that it stopped, or it might seem that we've gone

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backwards, these things happen. But we have to always remember the

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spiritual path is not linear. It doesn't happen like we want it to

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happen. It doesn't things don't come in the time that we want them

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to come. Sometimes we're prevented something when we want something

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new, we get something when we don't want something we want to

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turn away from something it comes and we want to turn towards

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something that is taken from us. And how can you never know what's

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going to happen at any time.

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But this is why the whole goal is to become apt to become a servant

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of Allah.

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And you accept what he gives you in every moment, happily, with

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utter submission, and contentment

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not just patients a spiritual path. Yes, patience is a part of

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the spiritual path, but beyond patients contentment, this is the

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divine decree and this is what he

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He singled out for you. And that's what's good for you.

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And that's the reality. And there's nothing else that you and

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I can do except to hammer that into our hearts and to remind

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ourselves of that on a regular basis.

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And again, we have to understand that in the proper way to

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understand that doesn't mean that if we're in Haram that we say

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okay, I'm just going to remain here No, if you're doing something

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that is displeased until you stop doing that thing,

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let in relation to other things that we don't necessarily have

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control over or we're doing our best but it's just going a certain

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way submission. It's the only way I

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know what to unlock the horses were a movie Mala that didn't know

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what it was some of if he couldn't walk Salman and I hadn't madam

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Marcus or daddy can I see? Well, that's a very packed statement.

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For example, the degrees of those at the first level correspond to

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their individual degree of attachment in worship, which

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differs in type and quality, according to what has been

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apportion to them. Such is the case at every level. Why alone No.

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And Allah subhanho wa Taala the metaphor but it'd be better to do

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so de Sade and Mohammed in Salalah eyes and auto ml Kelim know that

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when Allah exalted, graciously sent his messenger our Master

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Muhammad so I sent him in granted him comprehensive speech, Jamia

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Kalam was Salah deen and made the religion easy through him, while

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Rafa and Uma Devi Baraka DLSR and by His blessing lifted every

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hardship from his nation

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will we'll call it Assad, and every difficulty,

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every hardship and every difficulty and every burden, if

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that's I don't know, a dean, if that sort of Dean Kulu, we can

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imitatia had attain is that he summarized, encapsulated the

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entire religion in the two justifications.

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And that he says here that they are the Muqtada that edited Islam

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and Eman

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that in the two justifications which are the beginning of the

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spheres of Islam and Eman, Suma basato artifically died and also

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I'm gonna Boston Danny hietala. And then he created a series of

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endless the expanding concentric spheres. So what is he saying

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here?

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He's saying here is that, that Allah subhanaw taala bless the

00:32:23 --> 00:32:27

province of cinema join me and Callum, and he summarized for him

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that he was able to summarize the entire Deen succinctly in words

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and phrases that were packed in meaning that they were simple in

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terms of how they could be understood, but they were far from

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simplistic because the meanings were so expensive and so

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comprehensive. And it was through the province I sent him that he

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that made the religion easy. And it was through our prophesy sent

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him that he lifted the burden from us. And it was that he made

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difficult things easy. And so the entire Deen it can be summarized

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in his contained in the Shahada. So to say Allahu Allah, Muhammad

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Rasul Allah that contains the all of the meanings of the deen

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so all of the meanings of the deen that you learn Iman Islam, yes and

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in everything else are contained in La ilaha illAllah Muhammad

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Allah so Allah and there is a cosmic reality that to this, this

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is written on the throne. La ilaha illa Allah, Muhammad Rasul Allah,

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and where were you to go on and on until you'll know piano that for

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someone who received an opening explaining the meanings of Layla

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Hannah Muhammad, little salah, you would never it would never end.

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And as have your welcome and Abdullah had asked us to say where

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I to speak about a vanilla and Adams weight of the sciences of

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Eman law, just to catch up to dunya I would have incapacitated

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all of the scribes in the world.

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And there's no doubt that the irlam of Eman relate to the

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shahada relate to the justification of faith and this is

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why I love to animate it the way that we enter into the D what do

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we have to do? I should have Ada and Allah what I should do and

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proceed and Mohammed Abdo also enter into the D. So you say

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what's most important that which combines everything and then you

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slowly learn until the day that you die.

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And everything that is that you learn in the beginning, the middle

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and the end and everything in between is ultimately a further

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explanation of la ilaha IL Allah Muhammad Rasul Allah. So knowing

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that next time we actually say La ilaha IL Allah Muhammad Rasul

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Allah, that will have a greater sense of Talde of exaltation of

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heart four because it combines everything that is in the deen and

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it is the mcdata it is the beginning of

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The sphere, both the sphere of Islam, and the sphere of a man

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outward submission, and all of his various forms and in our belief,

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and then that there's concentric spheres after that. And what he

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says here is a law hasn't been done yet. And we're talking about

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karma Oklahoma to Dean ILAHA. Yet, and we are almost setting. And so

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each sphere is larger than the preceding one according to the

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degrees of the pious in the Stations of the religion up to the

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utmost degrees of the prophets and the messenger. So we have degrees

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from the weakest believer, and we actually know his name, you haina,

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the last one to enter into paradise, that will be Washington

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in 100. Hire the water of life. And then he will be given that all

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of the pleasures in the world 10 times over, and even the last

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person in Paradise will think that he's been given everything. So

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then what about people that receive more? What about people

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the Saudi thing? What about the great odia? What about the Siddiq

00:36:01 --> 00:36:05

King? What about the NBA and the Mursaleen? What does that have in

00:36:05 --> 00:36:10

store for them? So he says, For the hood of Islam and not to be

00:36:10 --> 00:36:14

shahada attain, therefore entry into cinema is by pronouncing the

00:36:14 --> 00:36:20

two justifications of faith. And so doing so to knock the delivery

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to do to la ha, that is that Islam? Well, the Eman therefore

00:36:24 --> 00:36:28

entry into Islam by pronouncing the two justifications of faith is

00:36:28 --> 00:36:33

like the central point of the sphere of Islam and Amen. Thermal

00:36:33 --> 00:36:38

Enma will began. It is also the central point of the spheres which

00:36:38 --> 00:36:43

come after it, ie the sphere of knowledge and Vianne clarification

00:36:43 --> 00:36:48

thumb that air Sano will mud at Fun, then the sphere of Ersan

00:36:48 --> 00:36:54

excellence in the sphere of Irfan Gnosis, thumb Illa, Milani hytta,

00:36:54 --> 00:36:58

lofi ha the Shan and so on in the sea. Fen know what they heard that

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he could be out about it. They were era will learn Mr. And we

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will clarify this in our discussion of this four spheres.

00:37:07 --> 00:37:12

And Allah's help is sought. The four spheres are as follows. And

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we'll read them now and then make a comment on the briefly tomorrow

00:37:16 --> 00:37:20

will be the law, that the first sphere the sphere of Islam,

00:37:20 --> 00:37:23

submission and EMA and faith in taking it from the roots and

00:37:23 --> 00:37:26

branches as a whole and in general, through conviction,

00:37:26 --> 00:37:30

obedience and submission. The second sphere, the sphere have

00:37:30 --> 00:37:33

been firmly rooted in the foundations knowing the details of

00:37:33 --> 00:37:37

this branches and parts and broadening of knowledge and began

00:37:37 --> 00:37:41

clarification. The third sphere, a sphere of reaching the inward

00:37:41 --> 00:37:44

aspect, through the outward aspect in attaining spiritual excellence

00:37:44 --> 00:37:48

from knowledge and proof, this is the path of excellent excellence

00:37:48 --> 00:37:51

the four sphere the last sphere in relation to the previous spheres,

00:37:52 --> 00:37:56

but the first in relation to the spheres that follow it, it is

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witnessing the reality and awareness of every boundary and

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starting point in everything that is apparent are hidden in the path

00:38:02 --> 00:38:07

of Gnosis May Allah subhanaw taala give us Tofik opened up the doors

00:38:07 --> 00:38:10

of mercy to us. So that we will suffice ourselves with that for

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today and inshallah continue on in our study tomorrow. And open up

00:38:14 --> 00:38:18

these meanings to us and bless us to that internalize them and to

00:38:18 --> 00:38:22

experience them and not a boss of as to how to look versus what the

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HELOC and versus with the hakab of all of the meanings of the senior

00:38:25 --> 00:38:28

ad hominem from the blessing of this Monty automata I mean,

00:38:28 --> 00:38:30

forgive us of all of our sins and to overlook everything that we've

00:38:30 --> 00:38:36

done all acts of disobedience all acts of sewage at all times that

00:38:36 --> 00:38:39

we've had a deal with you yada but I mean with your own Yeah. Or with

00:38:40 --> 00:38:42

that your prophets and messengers or with your own Yeah, with the

00:38:42 --> 00:38:45

family of your Prophet sallallahu Sallam yada but I mean, give us

00:38:45 --> 00:38:48

Tofik and all of our different affairs it was all to say we exit

00:38:48 --> 00:38:51

this world La Ilaha illa Allah Muhammad Rasul Allah company

00:38:51 --> 00:38:54

actualizing spinnings inward and outward live Salah Lourdes in

00:38:54 --> 00:38:57

Ramadan. When do you stop you cinnamon come to the layer of

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anatomy, visit us refer to how to Hello

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