Month Of Sha'ban - Weekly Series - Sheikh Jafar Hammoud

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Join the Lebanese Youth Foundation - LYF weekly during the Month of Shaaban to engage in a series of interactive lectures with Q&A followed by Duaa Kumayl.

🎙️*Speaker:* Sheikh Jafar Hammoud (Canada)
📆*Date:* Every Thursday starting 18th March 2021
⏱️*Time:* London 19:00 | Detroit 14:00 | Beirut 21:00 | Sydney 04:00 +1 day
📡*Location:* Live on Facebook and Youtube channel

📜*Topic:* The month of the Prophet: Reconnecting With Allah
Session 1 (18th March) – Finding God Within
Session 2 (25th March) – The Genuine Love of God
Session 3 (1st April) – The Imam Of Our Time (AJF)
Session 4 (8th April) – Before the call to God: Final Preparations

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[0:33][Music] brothers and sisters i hope you are all doing well in

[1:11]the holy month of shaaban is accepting your prayers and your armor

[1:16]and your fasts please keep us in your dhara so we are

[1:22]back for the second session inshaallah second week of shaban with shah

[1:27]shafar khamood so we can continue our series uh just before i

[1:32]uh bring on the sheikh i just wanted to put in a

[1:37]couple of reminders um so as you know every thursday inshallah throughout

[1:42]the holy month of shaaban we will have shaksha for hamud who

[1:49]will be giving a series so make sure that you're tuning in

[1:51]every every thursday inshallah and every monday we have sister sahar jaiber

[1:56]who's giving uh on the topic of feminism or femininity rather sorry

[2:01]in in islam the timing of those will change from sunday onwards

[2:08]from the 28th of march when the clocks change in the uk

[2:12]um the thursday program inshallah will move forward to 8 30 p.m

[2:18]uk time i'll definitely post that on facebook and social media so

[2:22]you have that and uh the femininity uh workshop of sahaja yoga

[2:27]will change to 6 30 p.m uk time so inshallah i'll definitely

[2:30]post those on social media so you have those ready and to

[2:35]hand without further delay inshallah i want to bring on sheikh jafar

[2:42]assalam alaikum [Music] can you hear me hear you i think it

[3:05]might be a little bit delayed but i can hear you allah

[3:58]foreign in the name of allah the beneficent the merciful the gracious

[4:07]the almighty all praises be to allah creator of mankind master of

[4:13]the day of judgments my respected brothers and sisters of the lyf

[4:17]community may allah accept all of our ahmad in these blessed days

[4:26]and in these blessed nights of the holy month of shaman in

[4:34]sha allah insha allah we will continue on in our discussion lecture

[4:40]2.

[4:39]i would like to begin with a verse from the holy quran

[4:44]in surat al imran verse number 31 is telling us in this

[5:12]verse if you should love allah then follow me so allah will

[5:18]love you and forgive you for your sins this verse in the

[5:24]holy book was revealed about a group of people who were known

[5:30]as the christians of nazareth who used to say that we are

[5:36]the lovers of the lord they made the following claim so allah

[5:43]defines the followers of the apostle of allah subhanahu wa'ta'ala as the

[5:49]clear example of his love and he addresses his holy messenger and

[5:56]his holy prophet muhammad with the following o muhammad tell your people

[6:07]tell your nation tell the ummah the following say if you love

[6:15]allah then follow me then follow rasulullah if you are true in

[6:21]what you claim that you love allah subhanahu wa ta'ala then follow

[6:25]the apostle the assigned messenger of allah subhanahu wa this act of

[6:33]following the apostle of allah subhanahu wa'ta'ala which is the holy prophet

[6:37]is the same as obeying allah it is in this case that

[6:43]allah loves you and allah forgives you of your sins allah is

[6:53]the one who loves you and when you follow his apostle when

[7:00]you follow the holy prophet sallallahu alaihi well this is when you

[7:06]really and truly have the same feeling of love towards allah and

[7:11]this is when you take this feeling of love to another level

[7:15]insha allah in tonight's discussion brothers and sisters i would like to

[7:20]use this opportunity to speak about a topic which which isn't often

[7:27]given its due rights and that is because people undermine its importance

[7:33]in having an impact on how our relationship with allah subhanahu wa

[7:38]should be that which is the genuine love of god we will

[7:50]speak about this topic in a number of points the first in

[7:57]defining love the second love in its different levels the third is

[8:02]about love and its effect on one's personality when it comes to

[8:06]spiritual growth and lastly the highest levels of love of god why

[8:14]does allah use the word love in the verse we recited in

[8:18]the beginning and if we were to look at this verse and

[8:24]analyze it we will see that the word love or hob is

[8:27]used twice every word every letter allah subhanahu wa tahalah chooses to

[8:38]be in the holy book is for a specific reason is out

[8:43]of wisdom is out of philosophy this choice of words the structure

[8:50]of the sentence the way the context is presented is in a

[8:56]specific manner for a specific reason allah is the hakim we believe

[9:00]that he is the wise and out of his wisdom the quran

[9:05]is written in this way for a specific reason because he is

[9:11]the wise and this is one of the miracles of the quran

[9:12]is the structure of the quran is the literature of the quran

[9:16]is the eloquence of how the quran is presented and the context

[9:21]of how the quran is written now if we want to give

[9:30]a brief analyzation and reflection we can derive that love means something

[9:39]in the religion of islam there is a significance for the concept

[9:44]of love in our religion without going further in the tafsir of

[9:51]the verse and analyzing it words afterward from you know just reading

[9:54]any person who understands briefly the arabic language you can see that

[10:00]allah speaks about love twice in this verse and in different verses

[10:04]that means that this concept of love is important in the religion

[10:08]of islam in some way so let's start by defining what is

[10:12]love and what is the different levels of love what is love

[10:21]if someone were to ask you define love to me how will

[10:26]you answer many of us i'm sure will not be able to

[10:30]explain it and that by the way is completely normal because if

[10:36]you remember last week we said that love is one of those

[10:40]things which our knowledge is self present in it's it doesn't need

[10:47]no link no proof in order for me to have this image

[10:52]this understanding of the concept of love what love is how to

[10:56]love it's something in my innate nature allah created me in a

[11:02]system and part of the system uh i have feelings and emotions

[11:06]and desires and one of them is the feeling of uh love

[11:11]so it's in my innate nature i have this feeling and this

[11:13]emotion towards something that's why it might be hard to explain to

[11:19]someone as to why i love this individual or why do i

[11:23]love this thing whatever it may be it is because it is

[11:27]something present in the heart it is everyone feels it differently and

[11:32]looks at it differently and understands it differently it doesn't need no

[11:35]proof and evidence it's part of the faculties he gives us tools

[11:50]and resources in order to reach him in order to grow in

[11:53]order to accomplish our goals in order to reach the highest levels

[12:00]of spirituality if we were to summarize to fulfill our human potential

[12:06]and all of these four faculties they have different uh roles if

[12:11]used correctly in terms of application if used correctly then a person

[12:17]is able to elevate themselves to the highest levels of spirituality to

[12:23]the highest levels of a spiritual connection between him or her and

[12:28]the master of the universe and we have this in uh some

[12:33]of the traditions and some of the way we have from the

[12:38]bayt which state that if a person is able to take over

[12:43]this nephes of theirs and perform this jihad the nephes we briefly

[12:48]spoke about last week in the proper manner and is able to

[12:54]let the be the leading force within them then they are able

[12:57]to elevate themselves to a level which is higher than the malaika

[13:02]and in a narration specifically the malac the angel which is close

[13:08]so allah created us in this realm of existence gave us these

[13:14]tools these powers and resources in order to reach him and again

[13:17]this is out of the wisdom this is out of the love

[13:20]he has for us servants of his in order to reach him

[13:24]you know he didn't just uh bring us into this realm without

[13:29]giving us a pathway without giving us uh tools signs in order

[13:40]to fulfill the objective of uh the creation of us human beings

[13:44]and we have a role to play in this in this dunya

[13:48]there's a reason why allah brought us into this realm of existence

[13:50]he wants us to reach perfection and allah tells you about allah

[13:56]this is through these different ways different representations you are able to

[14:03]reach me and the most important of these ways we spoke about

[14:05]it briefly last week as well when we spoke about tanafis and

[14:09]this nephes of ours this soul this heart has four different faculties

[14:16]the first faculty is the faculty or the power of intellect the

[14:21]second faculty which is the power of desire the third the faculty

[14:28]of anger or the power of anger and the fourth is the

[14:31]power of imagination or they refer to it as the satanic power

[14:35]now obviously if we were to explain each and every one of

[14:37]these faculties in detail we need uh you know tens of different

[14:43]lectures to you know speak about them and to fully understand what

[14:48]they mean but i'd like to focus on the second one when

[14:50]we said the power of desire or the faculty of desire love

[14:54]is part of that faculty of desire of emotion so if we

[15:00]were to give a brief definition in the end as i said

[15:04]it's something that cannot really be defined but if you were to

[15:08]give a definition it means to deeply be connected and committed to

[15:16]someone or something it's that feeling inside that attraction that care you

[15:21]have towards someone i love this person for example that means my

[15:25]heart is attracted towards some so if there is any type of

[15:29]attraction any type of emotion towards a certain thing regardless if it's

[15:34]an object if it's something materialistic if it's a person a human

[15:41]being then this is what we call love and the one our

[15:47]love is directed towards is referred to as we have al hobd

[15:52]is the feeling is the emotion and the mahboob is the one

[15:57]whom your love is directed towards love has or can be divided

[16:08]into three different types number one we have the divine love number

[16:13]two is the humane love number three is the love of the

[16:20]desires and when you look at the holy quran and we reflect

[16:23]when we reflect in the words of allah subhana wa we are

[16:28]able to see that the quran speaks about the three different types

[16:33]of love in various verses the first type of love is the

[16:40]divine love from its name we're able to understand what it means

[16:44]the love directed towards the divine who is the divine it's allah

[16:50]the creator of the universe the master of the day of judgment

[16:53]that love an individual has towards the creator towards god towards allah

[17:01]the attraction one feels towards the creator towards the ultimate truth towards

[17:08]the absolute power towards the absolute perfection towards the real owner of

[17:14]the universe as we defined last week because he is the creator

[17:30]and this level or this category of love is mentioned in the

[17:35]quran for instance in one of the verses and yet among the

[17:45]people are those who take other than allah as equal to him

[17:50]they love them as they should love allah so we see they

[17:54]love them as they should love allah that means that the love

[17:59]of allah is different than the love these people have towards certain

[18:04]individuals who are below allah in another verse will bring forth in

[18:24]place of them people he will love them and who will love

[18:28]him who are humble towards the believers so this is the first

[18:33]type of love mentioned in the holy quran and we recited some

[18:35]of the verses which speak about it the second type is the

[18:39]humane love what do we mean what do we mean by that

[18:43]it is the love the feeling the emotion one has towards his

[18:48]brother or the sister towards her sister your brothers and sisters in

[18:57]faith the love the emotion one has towards his wife the emotion

[19:00]uh the woman has towards her husband the the emotion you have

[19:05]towards your child towards your parents towards your siblings this emotion this

[19:14]feeling which is without any benefit without nothing in return it's a

[19:17]genuine feeling of love when you love your uh wife or when

[19:22]the wife loves her husband it's not because of a certain reason

[19:27]or purpose she wants something from him and for that reason she

[19:30]loves him or he loves her no it should be a a

[19:34]genuine feeling of love a genuine feeling of attraction which is felt

[19:41]through the through the heart which uh can is able to connect

[19:45]these uh two individuals together and the quran mentions this type of

[19:51]love and made you peoples and tribes that you may know one

[20:11]another lita the sword of when i meet you this is because

[20:14]i have tendency i have this feeling this emotion to want to

[20:18]meet you to socialize to grow with other human beings to connect

[20:24]with other human beings the more i know about them the more

[20:27]i connect the more different civilizations get to know one another the

[20:30]more they learn from one another the more they are closer with

[20:32]one another the more they feel connected with one another and the

[20:38]more uh they have certain feelings and emotions to want to towards

[20:42]one another which obviously can be applied in a uh acceptable in

[20:45]a halal manner which is through marriage for example so this is

[20:49]a second type of love the third type is the loved one

[20:57]has of desire that love because of your shahwah because of uh

[21:03]the uh desire of yours the love which revolves around satisfying your

[21:08]desires within the worldly pleasures and the quran speaks about this as

[21:16]well bismuth is the love of that which they desire of woman

[21:26]and children of heaped up sums of gold and silver fine branded

[21:33]horses and cattle and tiled land and so on and so forth

[21:35]allah says this is the enjoyment of worldly love this type of

[21:40]love is the love toward the materialistic towards the this temporary life

[21:47]we live in which is fannia as the quran mentioned and as

[21:54]the in the end of the day whether we want to you

[21:55]know say it or not we are all going to leave this

[21:59]world and what is going to remain with us is our what

[22:04]we have done how we were able to take care of this

[22:11]nephes of ours because the soul is the only thing that will

[22:16]remain so these are the three different levels of love and the

[22:20]highest of them and the true level of them is the level

[22:23]of the divine when we search behind the essence of these three

[22:29]different types of law we ask what is the philosophy as to

[22:36]why allah divided them into three different categories and in order to

[22:45]understand that we obviously need to go back to the holy quran

[22:47]and reflect uh regarding some of the verses when we look at

[22:54]a number of verses and we put them together we realize that

[23:01]the holy quran talks about the existence of men we are all

[23:07]from the existence of allah's breathing into clay to form life as

[23:12]the verse is mentioned for instance when i proportioned him referring to

[23:26]men and breathed into him of my created soul and another verse

[23:34]and when he proportioned him and breathed into him from his created

[23:41]soul in another verse we therefore breathe into him a spirit from

[23:50]our self so if we were to um uh analyze uh these

[23:56]verses and to see what these verses are implying that the human

[24:03]being is a breath from the spirit of god what does that

[24:07]mean we need to reflect here brothers and sisters i want you

[24:11]to focus in order to understand this might be a bit too

[24:14]philosophical but insha allah i'll try to explain it to the best

[24:18]of my ability when allah created the human being and brought him

[24:24]into this realm of existence when allah bestowed upon man of his

[24:31]own existence he created the human being as a shadow of him

[24:36]in other words the creation of man of the insane of the

[24:42]human being is to speak about god is nothing but a manifestation

[24:48]of god's own existence so the human being is a picture created

[24:52]to articulate whom the creator which is allah when allah says in

[24:59]the verses we just recite that means that i made this human

[25:07]being i structured this human being in a way in a picture

[25:13]that articulates me i made him a manifestation of myself of my

[25:16]traits of my swift of my characteristics it is a manifestation of

[25:25]god's own uh existence so the human being is given life from

[25:28]the spirit of allah for that very reason that is the reality

[25:34]and that is the truth behind the existence of men that means

[25:40]we as human beings we are dependent on allah subhanahu wa ta'ala

[25:45]we are in need of existence we as in philosophy they use

[25:52]this terminology that uh we are we are poor how do we

[26:03]become rich we need existence this existence is given to us from

[26:08]the rich from el renee when al-ghani gives us this existence which

[26:13]is the the breath of the spirit of his in to us

[26:18]that is when we are brought into this realm of existence and

[26:23]when he desi decides to take it away then that is when

[26:26]we leave this realm of existence and that's why when we and

[26:29]this is when we uh transfer to the next life and will

[26:45]either choose to put us in the paradise or in the hell

[26:51]fire so for that very reason brothers and sisters the human being

[26:54]is created and in his or her in his or her instinct

[27:02]they love allah and they want to reach perfection why is that

[27:12]if you if you think of it if you realize you you

[27:17]can see that whenever we want to do anything in life whenever

[27:22]we want to study something whenever we want to buy something we

[27:27]always want the perfect version of it that we are capable of

[27:32]performing capable of buying capable of doing yeah and we study we

[27:38]want to become the best at what we do at the profession

[27:41]at the occupation i want to become the best doctor the best

[27:46]athlete the best lawyer whatever profession i choose to take and why

[27:52]is it that we always seek perfection that i want to be

[27:55]perfect i want this i'm capable to do this why is it

[27:58]there's a reason behind that and if we uh think uh about

[28:06]the reason we see that after i explained all of this to

[28:09]you and that we are from the uh the breath of the

[28:14]spirit of allah in us then we see that our source of

[28:23]creation is the absolute perfect is perfection if we are created from

[28:28]the source which is complete absolute perfection then we as a human

[28:36]beings tend to go back and refer back and to travel to

[28:40]that source of perfection which is allah subhanahu wa ta'ala for that

[28:45]reason we want to be perfect in every aspect in our life

[28:49]and this is the purpose behind the creation of us human beings

[28:53]allah wants us to reach perfection and because we are from the

[28:58]source of perfection in our nature we tend to become perfect in

[29:06]any act in any uh single movement we do the love of

[29:12]the human being towards allah because we tend to become perfect or

[29:22]to reach perfection become the best version of ourselves become perfect in

[29:29]the eyes of allah subhanahu wa tahara then we are able to

[29:35]see that this feeling that we have of love towards allah subhanahu

[29:40]wa ta'ala which is an innate feeling we spoke about it last

[29:45]week is the true level of love allah says the people are

[29:58]those who take others then allah as equals to him we recited

[30:03]this verse they love them as they love these group of individuals

[30:09]they take certain uh people and they think they imagine through this

[30:19]the as we said uh the the faculty of imagination they think

[30:25]in the back of their heads that this is the true love

[30:29]the true love lies with these uh group of people or with

[30:34]this house or car or whatever it may be while if we

[30:39]look at the uh the verse and uh the verse after it

[30:46]we see that allah says those groups or more than the love

[31:12]that group of people has towards certain individuals because they understand that

[31:17]true love lies with the divine and only with the divine and

[31:24]this is something which is if you think of it this is

[31:27]something which makes perfect sense it doesn't mean that i can't have

[31:34]love towards an individual towards my uh uh wife or towards uh

[31:40]my husband towards my siblings towards my parents no absolutely not we

[31:44]are required to love one another to take care of one another

[31:48]to treat one another with love and respect however it is important

[31:53]for us to understand that all this love is not the genuine

[32:00]level of love because the genuine level of love is the love

[32:03]towards the divine the love i have towards another human being or

[32:08]the love to chase my desires my feelings my emotions need it

[32:14]be intimacy ego this form of love is like a mirage and

[32:19]you all know what a mirage is when you're in the desert

[32:23]and you're thirsty you're searching for water from distance you see in

[32:27]front of you a pond or a river or a lake you

[32:33]can drink uh water but the closer you reach the closer you

[32:38]become you understand that what i saw is not the reality it's

[32:45]nothing but an illusion and our love towards anything other than allah

[32:52]is an illusion in this sense if it doesn't revolve around god

[32:57]it is not true love see even the uh relationship we have

[33:02]with our uh wives with our children should be to see closeness

[33:11]to allah in that individual through that individual that's why the main

[33:16]part of marriage is to complete one another to complete one another

[33:20]in what sense to complete your religion is to reach allah so

[33:24]that love that relationship of yours the way you treat one another

[33:28]the way you grow within one another is to become better as

[33:35]individuals together to reach that is when you complete your religion through

[33:44]marriage and this is how you love allah this is how your

[33:50]love with that individual with that wife or husband is genuine because

[33:54]it revolves around allah and by the way some of the and

[33:57]some of these scholars they mentioned this that when you want to

[34:02]even tell someone you love them that the correct way to do

[34:06]so is not to say i love you or a book it

[34:09]is to tell them i love you for allah for the sake

[34:15]of allah my love to you is a means or a way

[34:19]that i'm able to to become better to grow with you to

[34:22]learn from you and so on and so forth so this love

[34:27]revolves around god this is the genuine type of love with that

[34:33]being said it's clear and it's evident from the texts and from

[34:36]the quran and from the traditions of the salam that the highest

[34:42]levels of of being a servant to allah subhanahu wa'ta'ala is through

[34:49]the love of god and you see that itself is a high

[34:59]level for one to fully understand that he or she are nothing

[35:03]but a servant to allah that they have responsibilities towards allah allah

[35:12]has rights we need to perform certain obligations because we are servants

[35:19]of allah that's why some of the uh some of the acts

[35:26]of worship we perform we see that it's not always given to

[35:30]us the real reason or the wisdom the hell behind the hukum

[35:34]as to why we pray five times a day why is madhuba

[35:39]three recalls and we do not know we believe in this we

[35:42]pray in this way because because in the end we are abbied

[35:48]we are slaves we are servants of allah subhanahu wa'ta'ala and as

[35:54]servants we need to thank the creator the one who brought us

[36:00]into this realm of existence and the way to thank him and

[36:03]to respect him and to show uh our appreciation is through these

[36:08]acts of worship which have to be uh out of love to

[36:13]reach the highest levels of spirituality and as the commander of the

[36:20]faithful amir minin he says in one of the most beautiful of

[36:23]hadith he says that the best of people after the prophets and

[36:29]the imams in this entire world and in the hereafter are the

[36:36]ones who love allah subhanahu wa and the ones and those who

[36:41]what connects them together is the love of allah they are connected

[36:45]to one another through the love of allah subhanahu wa as the

[36:54]so the stronger this attraction becomes the stronger the desire becomes the

[36:59]deeper this feeling uh within becomes the harder it becomes to break

[37:04]that love the harder it becomes to break up with your beloved

[37:09]but what does it mean to really love allah to genuinely be

[37:18]in love with allah like we understand that the truth the highest

[37:24]levels of love and the genuine love is the love of god

[37:26]like how do i genuinely love allah subhana wa how uh what

[37:32]does it mean to genuinely love allah azzawajal and no better answer

[37:37]can be given to that other than the satisfaction of god this

[37:43]satisfaction or what they call an arabic rival can either be the

[37:50]meaning of the love of allah azzawajal or an apparent symbol for

[37:55]the love of allah in other words the genuine love of allah

[38:02]subhanahu wa is when i know and i am certain i might

[38:04]not be a hundred percent sure but i have some level of

[38:09]certainty some level of ultimate that i have performed everything in my

[38:17]hands within my uh limits uh with my capabilities in order to

[38:23]make allah satisfied in me in my actions and in my representation

[38:29]of him and of his religion that's when i know my love

[38:37]is genuine but another important question arises here is how can i

[38:45]of allah and we're speaking here when we speak about the love

[38:51]of allah in this sense you know we're speaking at a higher

[38:55]level we're speaking uh at a in-depth understanding as uh to how

[39:01]to have true maharifa of allah through the hub of allah and

[39:09]in order for us to fully understand how we can love allah

[39:18]it's important to explain that this divine love has three levels as

[39:23]well like there's three levels of love and this divine level or

[39:29]this divine uh category which is the highest level which is the

[39:32]divine love towards allah azzawajal there's three levels to it as well

[39:37]when we reach one of these levels then we know we're on

[39:43]the correct path in building that true relationship that true love between

[39:48]us and allah subhanahu wa and the higher of these levels we

[39:54]reach when we reach the third level if we're able to reach

[39:56]it then that is the highest levels and that is when we

[40:01]know that we have reached perfection the first of these levels is

[40:10]what our scholars and uh they refer to as the level of

[40:19]insurance says in a number of verses in the quran and did

[40:28]we not expand for you your hearts in another verse is expands

[40:40]his heart to accept islam he is given the light he has

[40:45]given the nur from the lord this person who feels his heart

[40:52]is expanding with allah azza expanding in love for allah when a

[40:59]person is called for worship with an open heart that individual does

[41:03]it happily gladly if god tells him to pray to pray we're

[41:09]not talking about here to pray a muslim to pray enough a

[41:14]recommended prayer that individual will do it without questioning if allah that

[41:23]individual will do it gladly without you know too much without forcing

[41:31]themselves to perform it we're talking here brothers and sisters about a

[41:36]higher level so we're not speaking about the uh obligatory acts of

[41:40]worship yeah when you want to reach this true love between the

[41:44]servant and allah and it's behind you've already are doing so you're

[41:51]supposedly doing your obligatory ashrams a lot and so yeah no you're

[41:55]trying to elevate your spirituality your connection with allah a higher of

[42:02]levels and when you are able to perform these musta in this

[42:05]sense or you know you don't mind performing them in that way

[42:10]because you know allah subhanahu wa allah will be happy if i

[42:14]do so and so without him asking you or ordering you because

[42:17]in the end these must-have aren't an order they're recommended if you

[42:20]do them allah loves it and allah will give you the for

[42:23]doing so if one really wants to understand and to test themselves

[42:28]and to see how allah and truly love god then see or

[42:38]look at the way they perform these do i do them because

[42:45]i love allah azzawajal or am i doing them because i am

[42:49]forced do i approach the salat of mine because i just want

[42:55]to get it done and over with i want to just get

[42:59]this burden or this feeling off my chest i can get back

[43:03]to work and you know continue normally in my life or is

[43:07]it because i need this a lot i want my heart to

[43:11]be connected with allah i need to speak to allah because salat

[43:15]is that form of connection it's the only perhaps the only form

[43:23]of worship or connection that one does on a daily basis to

[43:28]link themselves to link their hearts with allah so when i do

[43:33]so do i do it with love or not is my heart

[43:42]expanded has insulin in order to do it and to illuminate my

[43:46]heart uh with the uh salat or not it is something to

[43:52]think of brothers and sisters and to pounder upon and if we

[43:54]look at the history of the imams and if you read about

[44:00]their lives we see that the way they would approach worship in

[44:04]general the imam salaam alaihi one night time would come they would

[44:09]say welcome all night it is the time we meet our beloved

[44:14]how the imams they are waiting for this moment to connect with

[44:21]allah subhanahu this is the way this is the saluk this is

[44:26]the attitude of the awliya the representatives of allah subhanahu wa other

[44:32]than the imams because in the end we are representatives of allah

[44:35]subhanahu wa ta'ala that's why we need to be perfect examples of

[44:39]the religion of islam in always and the only way to be

[44:43]that is we have to reach perfection so we see that is

[44:49]the attitude of the scholars there's a nice story they mentioned about

[44:55]one of our great scholars and mystics who is uh buried in

[45:06]najaf near uh shrine he was a great mystic and it is

[45:08]said that he would stay up all night in ibada in worship

[45:14]until the sun rise and he would say his students or sometimes

[45:24]his son you would say that my father when the morning time

[45:29]would arrive he would say the morning has come and i have

[45:35]yet to fully enjoy my time with my beloved i am not

[45:42]fulfilled yet this is the real men who wants to use these

[45:48]moments to connect his heart or her heart with allah so ask

[45:53]your nuffish ask yourself when you reflect remember one of the steps

[45:58]we mentioned to something we need to do on a daily basis

[46:02]is reflection as imam al-qaeda says it's not from it's not from

[46:09]us it's not from the when i do so i need to

[46:14]ask myself how i approach this worship how do i view it

[46:16]how do i uh act upon it a person asks rasulallah just

[46:21]to show you that you know all of what i mentioned is

[46:24]not something made up or it's not something that our uh or

[46:30]the arafat just spoke about and it worked for them no rasulallah

[46:34]was once asked how do i know if allah subhanahu wa loves

[46:40]me and if i love him listen to the reply of rasulullah

[46:43]he says ask your heart does it miss salat or not and

[46:53]this is a lesson for us when we approach the salat once

[47:01]allah time comes am i eager to perform the salat in its

[47:08]moment not to postpone it for no reason to actually stand up

[47:11]once a lot time comes perform my wudu and stand in the

[47:17]hands of allah subhanahu wa because it says if you wait for

[47:23]that moment and you are looking forward for that meeting then that

[47:27]is when you are a true men and the same way how

[47:32]we said uh earlier in the previous discussion how there's a difference

[47:36]between in the same sense there is a difference between islam and

[47:43]iman islam is a person who recites the sahaba who says through

[47:49]the tongue and sometimes through the actions through the according to their

[47:54]appearance that this person is a muslim and he does the acts

[47:59]of the muslim he uh he or she they it's halal they

[48:02]are seen praying is that enough to be considered a mutman or

[48:07]not it's not iman is different iman is for the heart to

[48:16]recognize what it is doing yeah all of us pray insha'allah and

[48:19]when we stand on the prayer mount when we say alhamdulillah when

[48:28]i utter these words out of my mouth do i understand what

[48:34]i am saying or is it just words i'm reciting to get

[48:37]this washub off my chest when i am able to understand the

[48:44]meaning that they've seen understand what the reality of salat really and

[48:50]truly is understand why i am performing this actions as an act

[48:54]of worship as to show my true uh to allah it is

[49:06]to be sincere in the act that this action i am doing

[49:10]is for allah and strictly for allah this is the highest levels

[49:14]of islam so even in religion there's highest levels even in islam

[49:20]between islam and iman so the person who's just praised just so

[49:24]allah subhana wa tahala can save him and not punish him just

[49:30]because of that fear that they may have from the hell fire

[49:32]from the sins this salat even though it is accepted it's not

[49:41]the highest levels of salat and again this is from the mercy

[49:46]and from the love allah has towards his servant that he accepts

[49:52]this form of salat you want to pray you're praying out of

[49:56]fear for me the salat is accepted and i will you know

[50:00]give you the reward and you've done the wajib and this just

[50:05]shows how allah loves the servants that even whatever view you have

[50:10]towards this act of worship that if it's for me and if

[50:15]the main intention is for me then uh it's accepted if it's

[50:19]for fear if it's out of love whatever it is it's accepted

[50:22]this is from the rahmah of allah subhanahu wa but of course

[50:26]if i want to elevate this level or this spiritual connection this

[50:32]act has to be out of love out of hope out of

[50:36]true sincerity uh to and we all know that uh was the

[50:57]first the one the first one was given the honor to recite

[51:01]the adan the the call for prayer he will tell bilal bilal

[51:07]the stand up and relieve us with the call for prayer bilal

[51:12]it's time for prayer i need it we need it we miss

[51:19]it we need to connect with our beloved with our habib with

[51:25]our you see the people of the akhirah those who do not

[51:29]care about this dunya those who just look at things materialistically that

[51:35]even some some of us some of the muslims some of the

[51:39]shias whenever we hear about death or whenever we think about death

[51:42]we have this fear this worry oh we're thinking of what's going

[51:46]to happen in the grave how's the hada going to be how

[51:50]does munka and nakir look how is that moment going to be

[51:54]what's going to happen uh what are the different representations that are

[51:58]shown in the great and so on and so forth however in

[52:02]reality the people of the akhirah which are the baits and their

[52:07]true followers the true shia those who have true marijuana those who

[52:09]have true hub for allah and allah they treat death as it

[52:16]is a meeting with the one who loves you they are ready

[52:21]for it yeah the people of inshallah we ask allah to be

[52:25]from these people of we await that moment when allah subhanahu wa

[52:30]ta'ala takes us because we are ready hanas we know we've done

[52:32]our wajibat and stayed away from the muharram like the likes of

[52:36]salman and pharisee as an example the great companion is from us

[52:46]it is said that when salman was on his deathbed and the

[52:50]angel of death came to take his soul he welcomes the angel

[52:56]of death and he says greetings o angel of death the whom

[53:00]the the one whom i have been waiting for the one who

[53:05]will take me to meet my lord take my soul i am

[53:11]ready this is the sign of the true believer the the understanding

[53:15]the view of life that in the end when allah takes me

[53:20]from this realm to the next it is the time in where

[53:26]i have that meeting with allah subhanahu wa'ta'ala that's why anything i

[53:32]perform in my life should revolve around allah through this art of

[53:38]mine through the insurance the expanding of my heart in order to

[53:42]perform the worship with love and with sincere so this is the

[53:46]first level of um the first level of the divine love which

[53:53]is as we said and in shirah the expanding of the heart

[53:57]the second level and i'll try to uh mention this quickly we're

[54:00]running out of time the second level is an injidab and it

[54:05]is attraction this is when you progress in your relationship with allah

[54:09]you become a person who is in constant thought of allah you

[54:18]are attracted to allah in every minute in every hour and every

[54:23]second of your day and in inshallah we are going to recite

[54:26]it in a few minutes one of the lines of this dua

[54:31]which stands out the most is when imam ali alayhi salaam says

[54:36]fajr al-isani full of your love at all times how do what

[54:48]what level is that that's the level of injury when all i

[54:53]see is the uh presence of allah subhanahu wa'ta'ala any act i

[54:58]want to do any action i do not approach it if i

[55:00]know allah does not like it if allah subhanahu wa is happy

[55:05]in this act and the decision i will take then i go

[55:08]ahead and perform it if it is not in that way then

[55:13]i shouldn't uh aslan in the first place approach it because i

[55:18]have attraction to allah subhanahu wa and that this love that at

[55:24]an individual this level of in jidab if we want to give

[55:26]a practical example of it uh we look at the asahab of

[55:32]imam and hussain specifically you've all probably heard the story of abbas

[55:37]in the stories you hear on the mimbar in muharram uh that

[55:42]companion who was old who participated in the battle suffering by the

[55:45]way at the time of amir romanian salam and his tribe were

[55:52]praised for their bravery in the battle of suffering in the battle

[55:57]of karbala he takes off his armor and he approaches the enemy

[56:04]and they look at him the enemies of allah like abbas are

[56:08]you like did you lose it are you gone insane are you

[56:13]crazy what does abbas reply with the famous line so this love

[56:19]brothers and sisters this love can make a person go crazy can

[56:23]make a person go insane but if it's for towards the divine

[56:28]if it's for the imam of my time which through that imam

[56:31]of my time i can reach allah through that because they are

[56:34]the ropes they are the link of connection between the habit and

[56:40]the creator then that love is true and genuine love this is

[56:45]the level of in jiddab when i am attracted to allah and

[56:49]last but not least is the third level is the highest level

[56:55]which is the level of annihilation in islamic mysticism they call it

[57:02]darajit al-fanafillah and where the seeker annihilates himself or herself and where

[57:08]they do not think of themselves anymore yeah and basically your your

[57:12]body is still there you're moving you're looking you still have your

[57:15]senses however in reality the soul is not there all everything you

[57:23]do revolves around god yeah and you do not even think about

[57:25]your own emotions about your own feelings anymore anything this is after

[57:32]injury there's an interrelation between these three levels and this is the

[57:37]highest of levels this is the level in where uh say this

[57:45]you know she saw the tragedies that happened in front of her

[57:50]own eyes the death of her brother the martyrdom of hussain the

[57:57]horrific crimes that the enemies of allah subhanahu wa tahalah made and

[58:03]committed what did she say she accepted and she said her famous

[58:15]line in which became one of the most powerful lines and messages

[58:19]and coats of all time i see nothing but beauty why did

[58:26]zayn of salaam allah see beauty despite what was in front of

[58:31]her because her because her heart is annihilated it is uh in

[58:38]the level of for allah subhanahu wa'ta'ala we ask allah subhanahu wa

[58:43]ta'ala to give us the power and the strength insha allah to

[58:49]reach that level of love of annihilation and where we see nothing

[58:54]but allah azzawajal and may allah enlighten our hearts through the knowledge

[59:03]of salaam inaugural a very powerful and beautiful lecture on how to

[59:21]attain that level of love with allah through salat and all the

[59:26]various examples that you gave chala the the audience has benefited from

[59:32]that we didn't have any questions i think there was just a

[59:37]comment um i'm just going to bring it up on the screen

[59:38]and then maybe we'll just spend the uh a minute or two

[59:43]and then we can uh start the dua inshallah shouldn't we be

[59:48]careful not to be overly judgmental of others and their status within

[59:51]their journey since no one knows better what's in their heart of

[59:55]the believer except god himself and what about the famous narration of

[59:59]a prostitute who gave water to a thirsty dog from her shoe

[60:03]and all her sins are forgiven i fear sometimes others get discouraged

[60:05]because they lack a good idea or opinion of allah may god

[60:13]help us all so uh it's not exactly a question but maybe

[60:16]just shed a thought on on that comment just like just the

[60:31]comment the sister mentioned the reason i'm i'm saying this all of

[60:36]the examples i gave when i said allah created us with these

[60:40]faculties and with these powers deep within is to understand that allah

[60:45]loves us and we need to have this in the back of

[60:48]our head loves us as servants of his and allah wants us

[60:53]to reach perfection so we should have a positive image of allah

[60:56]subhana wa and there are so many narrations that speak about this

[60:58]i never had the the opportunity to speak about them but if

[61:02]we were to expand further and go more in depth we see

[61:05]the uh some of the narration say ana antonia abdul and in

[61:13]he's telling us that i am what my servant and my believer

[61:16]thinks of me if he thinks higher than it's higher and if

[61:21]he thinks that it and our is and the image we have

[61:27]towards allah it's not always uh we that we have to have

[61:31]fear from allah's panel it's both and not just fear and not

[61:36]just a hope that's why there's a very beautiful tradition which says

[61:43]that meant that the human being has two wings and the wing

[61:58]from the day of judgment fear from the hellfire fear from disobeying

[62:02]the creator of the universe and at the same time to have

[62:07]raja to have a hope in allah's mercy and have hope that

[62:10]allah subhanahu wa allah will look after me and through the shafa'a

[62:14]and the intercession of salam i am able to achieve eternal happiness

[62:20]and i am able to uh reach the paradise insha allah so

[62:24]our image you know we're not so well i'm not i never

[62:26]uh said to be judgmental about anyone it's just that we need

[62:32]to understand that if we want to elevate ourselves to the highest

[62:35]levels there are some certain standards that we need to reach we

[62:39]need to reach through iman even the idea when i perform my

[62:47]worship out of fear to allah out of uh worry it's totally

[62:51]fine in some people that's their relationship with allah it's a business

[62:55]relationship and that relationship you actually there's no problem with it it's

[63:00]accepted you've done your wah jab and allah you did your that's

[63:02]all what's needed but you want to elevate yourself we're talking about

[63:07]an in-depth discussion here yeah you want to grow stronger there are

[63:10]some certain standards you need to reach uh thank you very much

[63:19]uh for your time and for your lecture today on behalf of

[63:21]the brothers and sisters uh inshallah we will keep you in our

[63:25]heart may allah bless you and bless your family we look forward

[63:40]to the next sessions with you alaikum uh brothers and sisters inshaallah

[63:58]we're moving on to al-kumar with saiyad ahmad who's been waiting patiently

[64:03]he's come back from from work tahered um inshallah he'll be blessing

[64:09]us with his voice and recitation but just to remind you again

[64:13]uh next week's thursday program will start at 8 30 p.m due

[64:16]to the clock change and uh due to the salah timing as

[64:22]well hopefully the later timing will allow more people and accommodate more

[64:27]people to join us and benefit inshallah for them from the remaining

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[91:50]inshaallah when we're back with shakhtar and say lahmad for another beautiful

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