Bismillahir Rahmaanir Raheem,
[Surah 91: Verse 9-10]
[Surah 2: Verse 222]
Before I go on, there are some aadaab (etiquettes) of listening to these talks because it is not a lecture or any odd lesson, or a dunyawi (worldly) lesson where if you don't want to give attention, you don't. This is a deeni lesson. Insha Allaah if you listen carefully, who knows that Allah swt might make that a source of our salvation.Those people who do not respect, they do not gain anything. Respect is so important:
Those who respect the sha-aa'ir of Allah swt, then that is the piety of the heart.
[Surah 22: verse 32]
Since the talk of respect has come, I will elaborate: a person who takes a joke out of niqab, salah, a sunnah, those things which are connected with Allah swt, with sharee'ah, disrespecting masjids. Disrespecting Ulama - because they are knowledgeable people, because they have knowledge of the Qur'an and Hadeeth, if one disrespects them, disrespects Qur'an, disrespects sunnah, then that person firstly will face the consequence in this world, then the hereafter.
[Surah 20: Verse 124]
So one should try to respect these sorts of gatherings. If one is sitting and listening for the sake of pleasure, or talking, then that person will never benefit.
So first and foremost, insha Allaah, we make this firm intention that we have logged into this programme, insha Allaah we will first make our intention clear and insha Allah we will ask Allah swt to guide us & we'll ask Allah swt to give us the tawfeeq to respect this sort of programme and insha Allah we will benefit.
The ayah which I recited, Allah swt says:
Indeed Allah swt loves those who seek spiritual purity and loves those who seek physical purity
[Surah 2: Verse 222]
Tawwab means the one who seeks tawbah, who repents to Allah swt for all sins.
Mutatahhirreen are those who seek physical purity.
Spirituality is essential to our deen. It is attached with everything. Even if one reads Salah. If one does without spirituality, he will not gain that much reward and that much benefit out of it. Just take this ayah:
[Surah 2: Verse 222]
Spiritual purity i.e. purity from spiritual diseases. Try to make oneself pure from envy, from enmity, jealousy, hatred, arrogance, all those things.
A person who is impure physically, for example, he is in need of ghusl, he is in need of wudhu', he needs water, and if he doesn't, his salah will not be valid. He will not be called a pure person. Similarly, if one is impure spiritually, imagine, how will his salah be valid? If a person is fasting from dawn until dusk, if he doesn't eat and if he does not fulfill all the fiqhi rules of observing sawm, if you ask a Mufti, he will say your fast is done. But if you go and ask a Awliya, a wali of Allah swt who is into spirituality, if you ask him: Whilst committing sins whilst fasting, is my fast valid? He will say: you might have to keep it again because:
This is the Hadeeth regarding Ramadhan where Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa sallam says:
"Whoever does not leave falsehood, Allah is not in need of him that he should leave his food and his drink."
Just imagine, a person is keeping a fast but at the end of the day, with that fast he is committing major and minor sins, how will his sowm be valid? Obviously, we are not free from sins, we may commit sins, but with that we need to keep in mind that we need to do tawbah immediately. Allah swt says:
Indeed Allah swt loves those who seek spiritual purity
[Surah 2: Verse 222]
For physical purity one needs water and that water should be pure as well. Similarly, for spiritual purity, he needs water and that water should also be pure and that water is called tears from the eyes. Remorse and regret upon his sins, upon his spiritual diseases. Allah swt will forgive those sins and make him pure from those spiritual diseases. One cannot attain that easily. He has to work hard, and if he does work hard:
Whoever strives hard in Our path
[Surah 29: Verse 69]
Allah swt says, We will make it easy for them [with help of Allah swt]. We need to turn towards Allah swt.
So I was saying:
[Surah 2: Verse 222]
If a person seeks physical purity, Allah loves him, similarly, Allah loves those who seek spiritual purity.
In salah as well, Ulama say, in Salat al-Shar'ee that we read,there is also Salatut Tareeqah, which means tasawwuf salah (the spiritual salah) which is for the ritual prayer (the salah shar'ee). It has been prescribed by Allah swt. As Allah swt says:
Be careful to observe the ritual prayers
Then He says:
Especially the middle prayer
[Surah 2: Verse 238]
The ritual prayer consists of postures adopted by the outer members of the body. Similarly, the middle prayer. This means the prayer of the heart, prescribed everlasting by the Qur'anic verse. We have to observe the 5 times salah, as well as the prayer of the heart - constant remembrance of Allah swt and that is also a prayer. Likewise, there is ruku', sujood etc., similarly through our heart we have to bow in front of Allah swt. May Allah swt guide us and give us the tawfeeq. As Allah swt says:
Indeed Allah swt loves those who seek spiritual purity
[Surah 2: Verse 222]
Allah swt give us the tawfeeq to seek that spiritual purity. This is the main thing. Today, we listen, we do so much deeni work, we put so much effort into it but at the end of the day, the spirituality is not there. the roohaniyat as we say. The connection, the sincerity (ikhlaas). Insha Allah if we ask from Allah swt, He will give. I am not saying that everyone is like that but we seek that sincerity, we need to find that and we need to ask Allah swt to give us that tawfeeq to have that ikhlaas and to create that spirituality.
There are shuyookh out there who we should do bay'ah to (pledge allegiance) and keep contact with them as Allah swt says:
O believers! Fear Allah (swt)
How to fear Allah swt? Allah swt says:
Stay with the saadiqeen.
[Surah 9: Verse 119]
- Meaning ma'iyyat (stay in the company of those who are truthful, with those who are awliya of Allah swt,, those who are close to Allah swt).
Sadiqeen
- Stay with saadiqeen because the Nabis have gone. After nabis are siddeeq, the sadiqeen. And these are the darajaat of awliya e kiram.
May Allah swt give us the tawfeeq to seek purity from all spiritual diseases. For example, pride, arrogance, hatred, jealousy.
Pride
One of the diseases of the heart where Hadhrat Shaykh rahimahullah, he has written a book called Ummul Amraaz. “Mother of all [evil] diseases”. Because through pride, all other diseases come into existence.
Just imagine, Shaytan, regarding him, it has been mentioned that he is from jinn.
Shaytan was from jinn. [Allah (swt) says,] he went against His Lord’s hukm (order).
[Surah 19: Verse 50]
When Allah (swt) said that you have to perform sajdah:
He denied. He had takabbur.He was amongst those who denied
[Surah 2: verse 34]
Regarding him it is mentioned that he performed ibaadah in such a way that he did not leave any single place in the whole universe where he did not do sajdah. And because of that, Allah swt gave him the rank that because of his ibaadah, he was counted as amongst the angels.
When we study the Qur’an by ourselves (DIY) – many people study themselves. There is a hadeeth in which Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa sallam says:
Knowledge is with ta’alluq
- With being a student. If a person is a student, he is gaining from his teacher but if a person is only gaining knowledge from Mufti google only, or some other sources, he will not get any understanding of deen. Directly he just goes to pick a book up, he just picks up the translation of the Qur'an and he reads, now I ask him this question, that Allah swt says:
Remember the time when We said to the angels: Do sajdah to Adam (as). They all did but Iblees didn't [do sajdah].
[Surah 19: Verse 50]
So from here we can understand that Allaah swt is saying,
This means that iblees was from amongst the angels. On the other hand, Allah says in surah kahaf:
Iblees was from jinnaat, so now it contradicts! But ulama write, that he did so much ibadah that he had the rank of being counted amongst the angels that’s why Allah said:
Because of his 'ibaadah he was counted amongst the angels and When Allah swt asked all the angels, he was also asked to bow, to prostrate in front of Adam (as). But because he had that takabbur (pride), that arrogance, that how dare Adam (as) overcome me. He was created from soil. Logic says this.
In sharee'ah, the mas'alah says that one should wipe upon his leather socks but the logic says that one should wipe underneath the socks but no, we have to submit in front of of Allah swt. Similarly, Shaytan, in him, this takabbur, it came up and it is said:
He denied and he said
O Allah you created me from fire and you created him from soil, how can I do sajdah?
- Because logically, if you light a fire, its flame goes up and if you throw the soil up, it goes down. I am superior and he is inferior. How can a superior do sajdah in front of an inferior person? Allah swt didn’t like this. Allah swt said:
Go away
[Surah 15: verse 34]
Shaytan ruined his life by this.So it is takabbur, he did so much ibaadah but because of one single takabbur, one single moment of this pride came up, Allah swt said, you are away from my presence.
Allah swt says:
Pride is My sheet, whoever tries to snatch it away from Me, I will break his neck.
Here Allah swt is using this word because his head is too high. If his neck is broken, he has nothing to be boasting about. This means that Allah will not literally break his neck. Allah swt says, Allah will make him suffer in such a way that he will have this punishment int his world and int he hereafter. So may Allah swt give us the tawfeeq to seek the purity from all spiritual diseases and give us twfeeq to bring all good spiritual characteristics like shukr, sabr and so forth and may Allah give us tawfeeq to get rid of takabbur (pride), arrogance, envy, enmoty, jeaousy, hatred etc. And may Allah swt give us the understanding of deen. The ayah which I read at the beginning, Allah awt says:
One should be constant behind purifuing himself.. He should ask himself, I am purified or not? I fnit, he should keep trying util he dies.
May Allah swt give us the tawfeeq.
salam this was a fabulous event i listened to it wen it was live. can u do more with ad-deen? i thought we would hear you in ramadan and then once every month as u mentioned in bayan!
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