[Audiobook - Part 7] Lantern of the Path by Imam Jafar al Sadiq (AS)

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This is an Audiobook of Lantern of the Path - a collection of hadith by Imam Jafar al Sadiq (AS). The eBook can be found on al-islam.org and the translation is done by the efforts of Shaykh Fadhlalla Haeri, Aisha Abdar-Rahman al-Tarjumana, Muhsim Muzaffar, Asadullah adh-Dhakir Yate and Christopher Flint.

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[0:02][Music] Lantern of the path a collection of Hadith by IM ja

[0:11]part s section 60 purification if you seek purification and ablution then

[0:20]go to water as you would go to the mercy of Allah

[0:21]for he has made water the key to being near to him

[0:27]in intimate conversation and a guide to the domain of his service

[0:30]just just as the mercy of Allah purifies the wrong actions of

[0:35]his bondsmen so are outward impurities cleansed only by water as Allah

[0:40]said it is he who sends the winds as good news before

[0:42]his mercy and we sent down pure water out of heaven in

[0:48]chapter 25: 48 and elsewhere we have made of water everything living

[0:51]will they not then believe in chapter 21:30 as he gives life

[0:57]to every blessing in this world from water so by his Mercy

[0:59]mercy and overflowing favor he gives life to the heart into acts

[1:05]of obedience and to reflection in the purity of water its finess

[1:09]its cleanliness its blessing and the subtleness of how it mixes with

[1:12]everything through water he also gives life to the heart when you

[1:18]purify those limbs when you have been commanded by Allah to purify

[1:21]and which you use to Worship in your obligatory and customary prayers

[1:25]from each limb come many benefits when you treat the limbs with

[1:28]respect then their benefit will soon spring up for you deal with

[1:34]Allah's creation like water which mixes with things and gives everything it's

[1:38]due while not changing itself in essence this is expressed by the

[1:42]words of the messenger of Allah s Al the sincere believer is

[1:45]like water let your Purity with Allah and all your obedience be

[1:48]like the purity of water when he sent it down out of

[1:53]the heaven and called it pure purify your heart with precaution and

[1:56]certainty when you purify your limbs with water section 61 entering the

[2:01]mosque when you reach the door of the mosque know that you

[2:05]have come to the door of a mighty king only the purified

[2:07]tread on his carpet and only the true are allowed to sit

[2:12]with him so be alert in your approach of the court of

[2:16]the awesome King for you are in great danger if you're heedless

[2:18]know that he can do whatever he wishes in Justice and overflowing

[2:21]favor with you and by you if he inclines to you with

[2:26]his mercy and overflowing favor he has accepted a small amount of

[2:30]your OB obedience and has given you a great reward for it

[2:35]if he demands his due of truthfulness and sincerity by his Justice

[2:38]towards you he has veiled you and rejected your obedience even if

[2:42]you have had obedience in abundance he does what he Wills acknowledge

[2:47]your incapacity inadequacy fragility and poverty before him for you have turned

[2:53]yourself to worshiping him and being close to him turn to him

[2:57]and know that neither the secret nor the revealed part of any

[3:00]creature is hidden from him be like the poorest of his servants

[3:03]before him strip your heart of every occupation which might Veil you

[3:07]from your Lord for he only accepts the purest and most sincere

[3:12]look to see in which register your name will be written if

[3:15]you taste the sweetness of his intimate conversation and the pleasure of

[3:19]his addressing you and drink the cup of his mercy and those

[3:23]favors he has bestowed on you and those of your requests which

[3:26]he has accepted then you have served him properly and may therefore

[3:29]for enter the sphere of his permission and security if not then

[3:33]stand as one whose power and ability have been cut off and

[3:39]whose term has come to an end if Almighty Allah knows that

[3:41]in your heart you are sincerely seeking Refuge with him he will

[3:47]regard you with compassion mercy and kindness he will cause you to

[3:50]succeed in that which he loves and which is pleasing to him

[3:52]for he is generous he loves Noble generosity and the worship of

[3:57]those who need him and who are burning up at his door

[3:59]seek seeking his good pleasure Allah said who answers the distressed one

[4:04]when he calls upon him and removes the evil in chapter 27:

[4:10]62 section 62 supplication observe the courtesy of Supplication consider the one

[4:16]on whom you call how you call on him and why you

[4:17]call affirm the immensity and magnificence of Allah look with your heart

[4:22]at how he knows what is in your conscience how he sees

[4:26]your secret being and whatever has occurred and will occur in it

[4:30]both true and false learn the paths to your salvation and destruction

[4:34]so that you do not call upon Allah for something which perhaps

[4:38]contains your destruction but which you suppose to contain your salvation Allah

[4:43]said man prays for evil as he ought to pray for good

[4:46]and man is ever Hasty in chapter 17:1 reflect about what you

[4:52]ask for and why you're asking supplication should be a total response

[4:55]to the truth on your part and a melting of the heart

[4:59]in contemplation of its Lord it is to abandon all choices and

[5:03]to surrender all matters both outward and inward to Allah if the

[5:07]preconditions of the supplication are not meant then do not look for

[5:10]fulfillment for he knows what is secret and what is hidden you

[5:15]might ask him for something when he knows that you conceal the

[5:17]opposite of it one of the companions said to the others you

[5:22]are waiting for rain and I'm waiting for Stones know that if

[5:25]Allah had not commanded us to call on him he would nevertheless

[5:30]have favored us with answer immediately after we've finished the prayer how

[5:34]then is his favor given the fact that he has guaranteed that

[5:37]answer to whoever fulfills the conditions of the prayer the messenger of

[5:42]Allah s.

[5:44]was asked about the most powerful name of Allah he said every

[5:47]name of Allah is most powerful free your heart from all that

[5:50]is other than him and call on him by whatever name you

[5:54]like in reality Allah does not have one name rather than another

[5:58]he is Allah the one one the almighty the holy prophet sallallah

[6:03]said Allah does not answer the supplication of a heedless heart when

[6:07]one of you wants his Lord to give to him whatever he

[6:11]asks of him he should renounce all people putting his hope in

[6:14]Allah alone when Allah sees that in his heart he will give

[6:19]him whatever he asks when you have established the preconditions of Supplication

[6:23]which I have mentioned and have become sincere in your innermost being

[6:27]for his sake then rejoice in the good news that one of

[6:30]three things will happen either he will hasten to give you what

[6:35]you have asked for or he will store up something better for

[6:37]you or he will avert from you an Affliction which would have

[6:42]destroyed you had he sent it the holy prophet sallallah alai reported

[6:45]that Allah said if anyone is distracted from asking me by his

[6:49]own remembrance of me I will give him better than what I

[6:53]give to those who ask I called on Allah once and he

[6:55]answered me I forgot the need because of the fact that when

[7:00]he answers the supplication his bestow is far greater and more Sublime

[7:04]than what the bondsman desires from him even if it be the

[7:06]garden and its Eternal blessings this is understood only by lovers who

[7:13]act gnostics and the elite and the select of Allah section 63

[7:17]fasting the holy prophet sallallah alai said fasting is a protection from

[7:21]the calamities of this world and Avail from punishment of the next

[7:25]when you fast intend thereby to restrain yourself from fleshly appetite SES

[7:29]and to cut off those worldly desires arising from the ideas of

[7:34]Satan and His Kind put yourself in the position of a sick

[7:37]person who desires neither food nor drink expect recovery at any moment

[7:43]from the sickness of wrong actions purify your inner being of every

[7:48]lie turbidity heedlessness and darkness which might cut you off from the

[7:52]meaning of being sincere for the sake of Allah somebody said to

[7:55]one of the companions you're already weak fasting will weaken you further

[7:58]I am preparing that fast for the evil of a long day

[8:03]he said patience in obeying Allah is easier than patience in his

[8:06]punishment and the messenger of Allah sallallah alai once quoted Allah's words

[8:11]fasting is done for me and I am its reward fasting kills

[8:16]the desire of the self and the appetite of greed and from

[8:19]it comes purity of the heart purification of Limbs cultivation of the

[8:23]inner and outer being thankfulness for blessings charity to the poor increase

[8:28]of humble supplication humility weeping and most of the ways of seeking

[8:36]refuge in Allah and it is the reason for the breaking of

[8:38]aspiration the lightening of evil things and the redoubling of Good Deeds

[8:42]it contains benefits which cannot be counted it is enough that we

[8:48]mention some of them to the person who understands and is given

[8:51]success in making use of fasting if Allah Wills section 64 abstinence

[8:55]abstinence is the key to the door of the next World and

[8:58]freedom from the fire fire it consists of leaving everything which could

[9:02]distract you from Allah without regret nor feeling proud about leaving it

[9:08]nor waiting for relief from your renunciation nor seeking any praise for

[9:11]it indeed abstinence means a person considering such things to be of

[9:17]no avail to him he deems their passing him by as a

[9:19]relief and comfort for him and their presence as a misfortune for

[9:24]him thus he always flees from Misfortune and clings to what brings

[9:27]him ease and relief the man of abstinence is the one who

[9:30]chooses the next world he chooses a basement over might and this

[9:36]world striving over rest hunger over being full the well-being of what

[9:40]is to come later over immediate trials and Remembrance over heedlessness his

[9:45]self is in this world and his heart is in the next

[9:47]World the messenger of Allah Sall Al said love of this world

[9:53]is the Fountain of every error and elsewhere this world is a

[9:57]corpse whoever seeks it is like a dog do you not see

[10:01]how it loves what Allah hates what error is a greater crime

[10:04]than this one of the Holy prophets family said if all of

[10:09]this world were a morsal in a child's mouth we would have

[10:12]mercy on him what then is the state of someone who throws

[10:16]the limits set by Allah behind his back seeking and Desiring this

[10:19]world if the dwelling place of this world had been any good

[10:22]it would not have shown you Mercy nor answered you and would

[10:27]have bidden you farewell in departure the messenger of Allah sallai said

[10:33]when Almighty Allah created this world he commanded it to obey him

[10:37]and it obeyed its Lord he told it oppose the one who

[10:39]seeks you and give success to the one who opposes you it

[10:45]acts according to what Allah charged it to do and what he

[10:47]impressed upon its nature section 65 a description of this world this

[10:54]world is like a body whose head is pride whose eyes are

[10:57]avarice whose ears are greed whose tongue tongue is dissimulation whose hand

[11:02]is desire whose legs are vanity whose heart is heedlessness whose being

[11:06]is Annihilation and whose product is extinction it brings Pride to whoever

[11:11]loves it avarice to whoever prefers it greed to whoever seeks it

[11:17]and cloaks with hypocrisy whoever Praises it it gives vain power over

[11:22]whoever desires it it leads to heedlessness in the person who relies

[11:25]on it it seduces whoever admires its goods but those Goods do

[11:31]not last for him it Returns the person who gathers it and

[11:34]is miserly with it to its own Abode which is the fire

[11:39]section 66 reluctance to act a person who feels reluctant to act

[11:42]falls short of what is correct even if he does right while

[11:47]a person who acts voluntarily is correct even if he s The

[11:52]Reluctant one obtains only contempt in the end and weariness Toil and

[11:55]misery while he is carrying out the action the outer being being

[12:00]of a reluctant person is showing off and his inner being is

[12:03]hypocrisy they are the wings with which he flies The Reluctant person

[12:07]never has any of the qualities of the righteous nor any of

[12:12]the marks of the Believers wherever he is as Allah said to

[12:16]his Prophet sallai say I do not ask you for any reward

[12:19]for it nor am I of those who affect act with reluctance

[12:26]in chapter 38: 87 the holy prophet sallallah alai said we the

[12:30]company of prophets the fearfully aware the trusty we disavow The Reluctant

[12:35]so fear Allah and do away with reluctance and it will Mark

[12:41]you with a sign of belief do not be occupied with something

[12:43]whose garment is Affliction with food which in the end is emptiness

[12:46]with an abode whose end is ruin with wealth whose end is

[12:52]to be inherited by others with comrades whom in the end one

[12:55]must take leave of with Glory which in the end is a

[13:00]basement with loyalty which in the end is abandonment or with a

[13:04]life whose end is grief section 67 delusion a person who is

[13:08]deluded is wretched in this world and is duped in the next

[13:12]world because he has sold what is better for what is baser

[13:14]do not admire yourself sometimes you may be deceived by your property

[13:20]and your bodily Health into supposing that you will last forever sometimes

[13:24]you are deceived by your long life your children and your friends

[13:27]into thinking that you will be saved by them sometimes you're deceived

[13:31]by your beauty and the circumstances of your birth which bring you

[13:35]your hopes and desires so easily that you think that you're truthful

[13:38]and successful in achieving your goal sometimes you're deceived by the regret

[13:43]you show people for your shortcoming in worship but Allah knows the

[13:46]opposite of that is in your heart sometimes you make yourself Worship

[13:52]in a spirit of reluctance but Allah desire sincerity sometimes you imagine

[13:56]that you're calling on Allah when you're calling on another sometimes you

[14:00]imagine that you're giving Good Counsel to people while your real desire

[14:04]is that they bow to you sometimes you blame yourself when you

[14:08]are really praising yourself know that you will only emerge from the

[14:11]darkness of delusion and Desire by sincerely turning in Repentance to the

[14:15]almighty Allah and to whatever you know about him and to recognize

[14:21]the faults in yourself which are not consistent with your intellect and

[14:23]knowledge in which the faith the law and the customary practices of

[14:28]the holy prophet sallallah and the IMs of Guidance Do not tolerate

[14:33]if you're content with your present condition there's no one more wretched

[14:37]than you in knowledge and action nor anyone with a more wasted

[14:42]life you will inherit grief on the day of Resurrection section 68

[14:46]a description of the hypocrite the hypocrite is content to be far

[14:50]from the mercy of Allah because his outward actions appear to be

[14:55]in line with Islamic laws and yet he is heedless and ineffective

[14:59]mocking and transgressing its truthfulness in his heart the mark of hypocrisy

[15:05]is disregard for lies treachery insolence false claims insincerity foolishness error and

[15:10]lack of modesty making little of Acts of Disobedience Desiring Believers to

[15:17]lose faith and making light of misfortunes in the faith Pride praise

[15:22]praise of love love of Praise Envy preferring this world to the

[15:26]next and evil to good inciting slander love of amusement dealing with

[15:32]prevaricators helping aggressive people avoiding Good Deeds disparaging those who do good

[15:36]considering good the evil done by the hypocrite and recognizing as odious

[15:40]whatever good another person does and many other things like that Allah

[15:47]has described the Hypocrites in more than one place he said and

[15:50]among men is he who serves Allah standing on the verge so

[15:53]that if good befalls him he's satisfied therewith but if a trial

[15:57]afflicts him he turns back headlong he loses this world as well

[16:03]as the next that is a manifest loss in chap 22:1 in

[16:06]describing them Allah said there are some people who say we believe

[16:12]in Allah in the last day but they are not at all

[16:13]believers they desire to deceive Allah and those who believe but they

[16:18]deceive only themselves while they do not perceive there is a disease

[16:22]in their hearts so Allah added to their disease in chap 2:

[16:26]8-10 the holy prophet sallallahu alai said the hypocrite is he who

[16:33]having made a promise breaks it when he acts he does evil

[16:35]when he speaks he lies when he's trusted he betrays when he's

[16:41]given provision he's Reckless when it is withheld he makes much of

[16:45]his life he also said a person whose innermost being contradicts his

[16:49]public face is a hypocrite whoever he is wherever he is and

[16:53]in whatever time he lives and whatever rank he has section 69

[17:00]prop proper social transaction behave correctly with Almighty Allah's creation without Disobedience

[17:04]to him comes from Allah's increased favor to his bondsmen whoever is

[17:09]humble to Allah in his heart behaves well openly keep company with

[17:13]people for the sake of Allah not for your portion of something

[17:18]which belongs to this world or to seek position or for showing

[17:20]off or to increase your own reputation do not cross the limits

[17:25]of the law for the sake of eminence and fame they will

[17:27]not profit you at all and you will miss the next world

[17:32]without gaining any benefit

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