Yahya Rhodus – The Spheres of Islam, Iman, Ihsan & Irfan #7
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And then the highest degree of SIDS, as well as called cynical
and
that's where you are sincere. And all of your different states in
here are well meaning that your religious states, so you're
truthful in your Toba, you're truthful in your Rajat. You're
truthful in your hope. You're truthful in your token, and then
all of the degrees of religion. Okay?
Whereas sent is sincerity is is that it gets back to what are you
intending? So if we're not receiving the fruit of our
actions, it could get back to one of these two things. And so we
need to look into our hearts. Am I sincere? Do I have ulterior
motives, what's happening? So he's given us a door, and a practical
way things to think about how we can remain introspective when it
seems that we're not getting the fruit of our actions. But the key
is, it doesn't mean that you stop acting, you have to keep moving
forward. You have to keep acting, you have to keep doing what it is
that you can do. And try to better yourself along the way.
And this is where shaytan will come to you and say, Look, you're
not getting the fruit for your action. So why are you doing it,
it tiring yourself out? You're doing it and you're not getting
the fruit of it. And that is one of the big plots of shit on that
you doing and even that half heartedly, even with that some
degree of insincerity is much better than you leaving it
altogether. And that's much more dangerous. So we still that move
forward. And this is the meaning of this statement that we always
call it one of the sides of CRO it Allah origin, OMA Cassia traveled
to Allah
paralyzed and with broken bones, how fast can someone move, if they
have a broken leg, if someone is paralyzed in some way, they're not
gonna be able to move, and like other people, but you still have
to go, you still have to inch forward, you still have to do what
it is that you can.
And now he's gonna go into something else, which is very
possible. And this is very, very important. Because this is now
this following paragraph is the window to teach us how to be
introspective, how we can start to see whether there's, this relates
to some type of disease in the heart that we have. So he says
here, oh, I that this deficiency and this lack of receiving the
fruit from actions could be from something else, oh, Lee Ellington,
mentally ill physical being or maybe due to a disease in his
heart.
fest that would be helpful if Salomon
which has corrupted it and corrupted the deed. So in ELA is
one of the words that can be used for muddled and unrolled Latin
meaning eyelid Jacobi in his heart. First lesson is to become
corrupt.
And that F Sadat is to corrupt.
And Allah to Allah says, No Quran, Allah, how to the facade of
Bollywood Habima cassava ad NAS, that corruption has appeared on
land and by sea, from that which hands have wrought.
And so that the sad that happens in the earth is comes from right,
that which hands have earned things that they've done.
And so it may be due to a disease in his heart, which has corrupted
it, and corrupted the deed. And so this is the thing is that the
outward effects, the inward the inward effects, the outward, as he
previously mentioned, as if there's a disease and our heart is
that it's going to taint the outward act that we do. So again,
back to the same meaning of the primacy of the heart the
importance of focusing on it.
Well, tilcon Karela, who NFCA so now he's going to start mentioning
some such diseases include him being pleased with himself,
although Adolfo and FCA his him just being content with
themselves, right? I'm fine. I've arrived, I know what I need to
know. I do what it is that I need to do. Everything's fine. I'm just
content with myself. And it's always amazing to me how when you
speak about this in a spiritual context, people get really weird
sometimes about this. But if you speak about it, in a very
different context, like a worldly context, people are totally fine
with it. This is the same thing that they say that anything that
you read about mastery, this is what they say is one of the
principles of mastery is that you're never content with what
you've reached. Whatever it is that you're doing, whether you're
a unicycle or whether you're a stamp collector, or whether you
write or whatever, whatever it is that you do. Is it any type of
mastery that you want to attain? It's a prerequisite that you're
not content with what you have
If otherwise, how you going to get better.
If you no matter how good that you've become, you can still be
better. You can master your craft, or your trade, or a skill, or even
a sport or something, you can get better. And you start to really,
really, really, really fine tune it. You know, and that when you
really think about that the it's these tiny little fine tunings
that really actually make all the difference in the world. And my
world of basketball, if you just think about
my world of basketball, when I enjoy that, you just think about
having like a quick release, how professionals that spend that an
enormous amount of time working, how just a fraction of a second
making all of the difference. And just in being able to get the shot
off and the amount of time and the changes that they make the subtle
changes in their shot, just to get the shot off that much quicker.
And it makes all the difference.
And that's the difference between a great player and an elite player
is that and they actually spend time working on that, and do a lot
all different types of weight training and calisthenics and
different things to get their muscles in a certain way. And just
tiny little that differences in the way that they move so that
they can get the shot off a fraction of a second earlier.
And then that you see the results. And that's something as
basketball, you're not gonna be asked when you die about why you
made that shot or not. Right, who cares? In the end, but what really
matters is that we do this in terms of Dean, we fine tune our
dean. And so that carried Aha, enough see, what can what can one
another he Illa Amelie he or him being impressed by his own deeds.
So another era, um, and he literally is that he that regards
his own actions highly, is that he looks at him and notices them and
thinks that something was great about them, as we mentioned
already, in this series of classes, is that the righteous is
that they do great deeds, but they deem them to be insignificant and
trivial, and that they only make minor mistakes, and they deem them
to be grave, and very serious.
So then he says, what a Jabby he or him been impressed with his own
disease deeds,
or what, what corroborated halco to aliqua him or being overly
concerned with what people think of him.
So it looks like this part was left out that so in the text, it
says, Well, it all enough see him being pleased with himself. Well,
now that Ada Amedy him noticing his own acts in regarding them
highly. And then we're a job B, which is jobs is a technical
order, the first two are job which has been impressed with himself
being impressed with his own ds. So it seems like it was something
was missed there.
And the translation is you can add that and like him well another
either Amedy him that noticing his acts are regarding his acts highly
and it relates to a job of course
we'll call it halco to ALEC being
or being overly concerned with what people think of him
and being attached to them as a disease of the heart overly
concerned. Yes, there is a degree of HYAH and modesty that we have
before people of course, but that really worrying about this is not
something that a believer does, one will law that the law home and
Mooji but Ilaria it will keep you it has to do with this you would
have gotten
this results and what that excessively caring about what they
think and excessive attachment to people. This results in Reott
ostentation Kibber arrogance has said jealousy or envy and wish to
see deceit hitted rancor so to the extent that we have that what came
before it did Haluk over years to literally it's to see Europe it's
to see right yeah.
And he talked about it and he lands in the crescent moon
but rotated hardcore to unlock having your heart be attached to
them. We said previously we want to have to look with the meanings
of the best manner and then we want to have to have a look and
then we want to have to hawk but your heart starts to have dialogue
with people yellow teeth, the stronger that that's there, your
hola all of these diseases start to arise.
Teacher from
Sure. So the clarification is in terms of some people, as opposed
to others this is. So in general, what is referred to is, is the
vast majority of people, there's definitely different people in our
lives. And that some of them, it's acceptable for us to care what
they think about us because it's an indication of our deen. And so
whenever that person is in a place where their opinion of us is an
indication of something, they're very sardine, then it's perfectly
fine, to want to be held in high regard by them, and to care what
they think because it's a religious care, it's a religious
concern that's going to help you in your deen. Right. And that's
there to help us that get along. And this is how we feel about our
teachers, we want to be in good standing with our teachers that we
want them to think of us highly. And when they do, and they say
nice things about us. It's a sign that we're doing something right.
So yes, it's definitely different with anyone who's in a position of
Dean. And sometimes that could be, it's also relates to our parents
in certain circumstances, and our mother or father and other people
in these positions. But the criterion is that that person,
we're really worried what we really want is the how it relates
to Dean dunya. When it comes to the world, that's when it becomes
negative.
So unfortunately, is that the more attachments we have to creation,
the more susceptible that we are, we are to these major diseases of
the heart. In this lesson I'm gonna ask you, these are what are
called moily, cat, destructive ISIS. And again, once you start to
realize, and you read about these things, as we did in Reham de la,
we're now in the retreats on the moon's yet, the saving virtues, we
spent quite a bit of time talking about the destructive ISIS, and
you start to read about them and like yellow teeth, you start to
realize how prevalent they are in the hearts of many of the children
of Adam, and how that we just like,
didn't know this, and didn't study this. And that didn't even follow
up with the door that was open to us to have a more in depth
knowledge of it. These things are very real, as why the scholars of
the science have said, as anyone who does not study, the science of
the heart will die persisting in major sins and not even know
if you don't ever study Quebec, and the causes of Quebec, and the
symptoms of Quebec out of arrogance, yellow teeth, that
could be ingrained in someone's heart, and we not even realize. So
again, this doesn't mean that we give up, we keep traveling the
path. And we tried to detach ourselves from people. But we're
aware that the more attachment we have to people, the more that we
will be exposed to these diseases. Now just think about social media,
and the role that it plays in this,
how that it makes so many of these things worse. And the thing is, is
that when you're looking at pictures on Instagram, and
people's posts, and so forth, if it's for her, it's for her to
know. But if you're just if you're concerned about how people look
and what they are wearing, and how they dress and all these types of
things, when you look at someone with a jab, and you're impressed
by them, the more that you're impressed by something, the more
that these attachments start to happen at the heart level. Be very
careful who you let your eye look at. Right? We should be impressed
with religious people and people that are going to take us to Allah
Jalla Jalla Allah, but if we look at that people that are full suck,
right, that are people that are corrupt people, and we're
impressed with them. And it can be by something that they're wearing
or a type of car that they drive in or the house that they live in
or something associated with them these attachments start to develop
and so, we need to be very very careful this and then he says it
gives another example what the solid enough set amount of a suit
was Did I did Colby may have a T shirt in most Emirati little
crosswalk
or it may be that he is overpowered by his lower self
enough set amount of a su which commenced to evil in his overcome
by his base desires istilah is to the process of overcoming the
heart is overcome by these basic desires that what that result in
hardness of heart. Okay, so that the more that the knifes that
amount of a suit, the knifes that commands to evil, this is the
lowest level
the three levels or you could even maybe expand it to seven it's the
lowest level unnecessary moderate, but so is that to extent that we
let let give it free rein and to the extent that the desires that
overcome our heart is to the extent is that we will fall short
in our actions and it will be
Eat a Hardness of heart. And then we'll admit hopefully wouldn't he
makeathon mousy and if it is
this results in hardness of the heart or he may have no fear of
Allah and being engrossed in disobedience woke up hope that
we're what I'm not going to share Tanima was supposed to do a horror
order or that he may have a filthy mind and as a seized by the devil
in his whisperings in deceit, so is the point when we hear this is
like, oh my god, this is how I am. I'm doomed. I'm terrible. I'm
gonna give up no, if that's the response, that's the response from
the knifes
or a response from the heart is the heart. This is my state.
I want closest to you. I'm reading this book to become purified. I'm
fasting in Ramadan because I want to draw near to you. And I'm not
going to let chef on or my own knifes get the best of me. I'm
going to strive until the day that I die. And even if I don't attain
what is I'm seeking I'm gonna die trying. I'm not giving up. This is
a response that has to be our response is that reading this is
not to MIT here to make us despair On the contrary, these are books
of purification. And this is why that he says here that fairly edge
towheaded ABD and more fuck we thought here he called me him and
her the head Keba l movie caught. Therefore, then let a servant who
has been granted Tofik divine success from Allah subhanho wa
Tada that strive to purify his heart from these destructive major
sins and fatal diseases.
This has to be our attitude
will be looked at him and I didn't have it when I'm Rod Malakut while
you Sean Murphy a large he was Salahi with Ischia diversity he
will fella
and that he should expend his efforts in treating rectifying and
purifying himself,
improving his conduct and attaining success for any club
either sorta, sorta had just said I'm going to go low with a facet
faceted OMO Kulu This is based upon a hadith of the prophets I
send them For indeed, if his heart is sound, his body and his entire
affair will be sound if it is corrupt, however, his entire life
is corrupt, not just as a heart because your heart affects
everything that is that we do. Everything that is that we do has
the thumbprint of the heart. Everything ultimately gets back to
the heart, in the state of a heart and the intention and our heart
and the traits of a heart. Everything in the hand gets back
to our heart. Everything all actions stemmed from the heart
ultimately
full Oh ALLAH will Inaya team and Umbra they just said Wolbachia to
Allah.
And he says that
diseases of the heart others more deserving of attention than
physical ailments
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to it is that absolutely amazing, unbelievable. Me money that tell
that the original brother God Elijah, we cleavage with Atala
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heated being. Well, you haven't had to move to Colorado, you're
moved to Colorado fella. Yeah, here we are to our levels of Dino
for the youth cinema.
He says it is unbelievable. It's absolutely amazing. Then when a
person has an ailment in his hand or leg, he expenses efforts in
treating it in every way possible. Yet, if his heart becomes ill, he
takes no care to treat it, and does not bother with its cure, he
neglects the matter until his heart dies, after which it will
never live again, it will be sealed, his religion will be gone,
and he will never attain Felicity. And we live in a time, the closer
and closer we get to the end of time, there's a whole system. And
a long list of things that that's the sole function of what these
things do is just destroy your heart. The vast majority of things
when you turn on the television,
and often the vast majority of programs, the vast majority of
what your watch on the screen will do nothing other than destroy your
heart. This is the reality.
And the amazing thing is is that we happily let it into our heart.
And we buy tickets for these things. And we go out of our way
to let it into my heart hair come on in. Let go that we love. We
sign up online to these services. Right where we watch movies, and
that we have these cable subscriptions and whoever else
dish in moderation all these other things and so that we can just
open up our hearts to receive filth
The other thing, we're measuring what my journey, we're insane.
We're totally insane.
It's completely insane.
Now, I'm not saying you go home and break it tonight, right? If
you've already had it in your house for some time.
But my point is Annie, we should slowly find replacements,
replacements. Once you taste the sweetness of Diem, and you taste
the sweetness of learning, there's nothing that any movie or any
program, or anything that you can watch, on any screen that can
bring about a greater sense of joy than that. And if you start
tasting the sweetness of the code, and the sweetness of solitude,
you're not gonna want to be around people, let alone that let that
garbage and filth into your heart. It's unbelievable. It's ugly, and
we call ourselves mo deeds and Salix relatif. We're not We're not
Moody's, we're Mulder, you. Right. We're not aspirants, we're sick.
We're sick. Let's just admit we're there for two Bhadrak. And we're
not serious in the spiritual path. We're there for the blessing of a
we're not serious, or not serious. If we really were serious, we do
things a lot differently. If we were really serious, we're not
serious, anywhere, still traveling to La paralyzed with broken bones.
And I'm not saying this to make us despair. It's just a reality check
that let's realize where we are. Because if we live in the world of
illusion and delusion, we think something that it really is, how
are we going to that help ourselves?
We really need to think about these things very carefully. And,
again, the difficulty of it is that it's so pervasive in our
societies. And many of us have children that we're trying to
raise them in a responsible way. And we're trying to protect them
from a lot of this stuff. And sometimes you got to expose them a
little bit to certain things responsibly, so there's not a
greater backlash later. But that's very different than just letting
the floodgates open and giving people unmitigated access.
And anyhow,
that's the law so now if you're Allah, forgive us have mercy on
us. And bless have a love of God will intercede for us yet also
lunch all the intercedes for us as well. This is a difficult time,
this is a difficult time, our Prophet told us a time was coming,
were holding on to the dean, would they call me onto a hot coal
Mesonet someone threw your hot cold, like, Whatever you do, don't
drop it, your dean, you can't drop it. But imagine that, look at the
metaphor.
Look at the metaphor. If you know, if you let that cold, it was in
the metadata that burned the carpet, we're all gonna die
because the house is gonna burn down. Okay, just hold it in your
hand.
Just imagine in your hand is.
Right, he's got to, nonetheless, you can do can't let go.
You're holding on. Right? That's how it is to hold on to our deen
and this time like that. That feeling of that excruciating pain
of a hot cold burning your flesh, right to the bone if you hold it
long enough. And if it's hot enough,
and you can't let go, if you let go, you lose and everyone else is.
Right. And that's how it is. And so a lot of these things are, you
know, we don't like to make things difficult on people. But, you
know, that's why we're here. We didn't come here. It wasn't a
prerequisite for the place. We moved by Devon nice shopping mall.
Or to have a lot of restaurants, or to have a lot of stores. We can
buy clothes, or whatever else. That's not why we moved here. We
moved here. I said we could focus on our deen, we moved here. So we
could free ourselves up from preoccupations of the dunya to
focus upon Deen. So we can study together so that we can worship
together so that we can be together. And let's take advantage
of it. Let's be serious in our deen. And there's something about
serious people you respect them?
And honestly, I would probably and again with a caveat
in some ways, that in some ways, not always, in some ways. I would
rather be around someone who's serious about their dunya
than someone who just doesn't really care about their deen the
kind of into the demon that really
if I put it in the context of him, I would probably rather be around
someone who has high him in dunya than low him spiritual aspiration
religion. Because you could still benefit from that you can still
inspire you to channel that into religion. Someone that's at least
into something. They're not in a state of Batala where they're just
idle, or in some not in every situation that doesn't always
apply. So don't quote me on that. But the point, I think is made
anyhow
This results in hardness of the heart or he may have no fear of
Allah and be engrossed in disobedience or he may have a
filthy mind and as the seized by the devil and his whisperings and
deceit therefore a slave shoe has been granted devices I should
strive to purify start from these destructive major sins or fatal
diseases. He should expend his efforts in treating rectifying in
purifying himself,
improving his conduct in attaining success.
It is amazing that when a person has an ailment, his hand or leg he
does this. But
yet if his heart becomes ill, he neglects the matter until his
heart dies, after which it will never live again, it will be
sealed, his religion will be gone, and he will never attain Felicity.
Now this is Huck, what he's saying is truth. Whether or not we act
upon it or not, that's something else entirely. And I'd like to
give us tofi To act upon this in a responsible way in a way that is
pleasing to Him somehow and who want to Allah and then he quotes
that from the Quran kettlebell Rana adda KHUDOBIN Meccano, Yuxi
womb, that Allah says No, indeed, what they have done is become like
rust upon the hearts Kela in a rubbing Yomi The NEMA Jawbone no
indeed, Assuredly, they will on that day be veiled from their
Lord.
So meaning is that the Quran that is in the heart is that it
prevents us the rust that comes to the heart from sin
that prevents us from that being in the presence of our Lord from
witnessing our Lord and this is not the Quran that Matthew Boone
that they will be veiled as a result.
And then Allah to unassessed Nestle law ha for Ansel and for
whom they forgot Allah, so Allah causes them to forget their own
souls who like of adversity account, they are the rebellious
ones for Bhima Napoli mythos. Atilla he will continue on with
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Allah Hobbico for him for an indica Lila. Due to the breaking
of the covenant of their covenant, we cursed them and made that hard
their hearts Allah has set a seal on their hearts because of their
disbelief. So they believe not except a few.
For K for a young fella often an ugly workability meme Taza al
Haiwan Ilya. So how can someone who possesses intellect be
neglectful of his intellect in his heart, when these are the only
things which distinguish him from animals?
When did he enter the MA for De La Cava Ellerbee? Saba and
how can you be neglectful of his religion? When it is only it is
the only thing which distinguishes him from the disbelievers. Allah
says to learn Newcomb.
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borrowed a lot of Aranda. caminhada dunya Rando calm, we
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Coleman hired a junior well over under Camila Hill Road and there's
a fella in the cinema competition here. So Allah says so do not let
this worldly life delude you or or is delusion and do not let the
arch deceiver delude you about Allah calling us into equity in
mode one number two, a phone or Drama Comedy finance officer and
neighborhood agenda agenda for converse, woman higher dunya
ilimitado every soul shit will taste death and you'll be paid in
full only on the Day of Resurrection. Whoever is kept away
from the fire and admitted to the garden will be will have
triumphed. The present world is only an illusory pleasure.
So we'll stop there and shadow Tada.
And
that
sometimes when we hear these verses going up, especially as
Muslim minorities and lands in which we live,
is that it's, we wonder about what about all the people around us and
and that what we should really be doing is saying it humbly Allah,
Allah subhanaw taala made us aware of this reality that 100 Allah
subhana data made us aware of this truth, because these are truths.
And we don't know what's going to be the state of other people and
how they're going to be just before Allah subhana wa Tada.
There will be people that didn't reach on the Dow they'll be people
who the Dow will reach to them in a distorted fashion. That's not
our concern, except to the extent that we can do something
To help them other than that's between them in a large and legit
shadow, we want to be concerned about is our own selves and our
state before our Lord and to thank him for making us aware of these
realities. Because the afterlife is real, the hereafter is real.
And we know that Jana is hot and not as Huck. And we know that the
hour is Hawk, and that the resurrection resurrection is Huck.
And our Prophet informed us of these things and they are going to
happen and that we don't want to be like the vast majority of
creation where we're in heedless, this about these matters. Rather,
that we want to prepare for them. We want to live lives that were by
witches that we seek the provision of Taqwa so that when we meet our
Lord Subhanallah Tada Is it our souls are taken easy, and that we
long for his meeting. We long for his presence, we long for reward
that comes directly from him Subhana wa Tada. And this is why
that we fast this is why that we do everything that is that we do.
So that when we take our last breath that we can receive the
bounty of Allah, Allah Jalla datamine lottomatica data, give us
Tofik and to bless us and all of our different affairs forgive us
of all of our sins all of our shortcomings out Hamid Amin and
everything that we know about those things we don't know about
Allah whom we asked you to villas into completely forgive us
inwardly and outwardly. Yeah, I mean, it was all with a
Coronavirus Nakajima or Sol Allah had I seen him whenever that was
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and God loves the good girl Khaled and