Lost Then Guided | Tahir Wyatt | Advice to a Friend Ep.02 | HD 2020

and inshallah we'll just do a quick overview of what we're going to cover today which is as you can see week number two the straight path and the need for guidance so we're going to be covering pages 18 to 23 vietnamese the uh we didn't finish what we intended to finish last week so inshallah we'll all be starting from page 16 today but we need to get to page 23 inshallah so that we don't fall behind so we're going to try our best we'd be glad to get to page 23 today and then next week we're going to start talking about four essentials for achieving imam and the and you'll see how that ties in to what we're covering today now before we get started we need to get the juices flowing so quickly we're going to do a review give a brief bio of ibn is not part of his name yeah what's his name uh and when was he born one was muhammad ibn abi bakker born the average lifespan of my um is between 60 and 70. uh some of his uh most famous most famous from the closest to him uh land the comptony uh maldon debbie died in 748. he died three years before uh i don't i don't think we mentioned him for most of students even after had yes who died uh several years before in okay but he died young he was he was younger than him uh why was his father why was he called ibn kaiyem el josiah and is it okay to say ibn al-qaeda el [Music] i josiah because uh his father is uh he's in charge of school right his father was in charge of the school because the superintendent of the it's it was actually uh more like a college of law right called al jazeera yeah the kim is the one that's in charge of the superintendent of that of that particular school and that school was named after who right that school was named after him because it was founded by his son okay talk briefly about the book we are studying what is the name of the book we're studying a heartfelt heartfelt advice to a friend thank you okay alhamdulillah and what can you tell me about this book why why is it important well i mean if if we go back and you and you look at some of the things that we're covering we're talking about we're talking about the straight path the need for guidance we're talking about how to become any man we're talking about six keys to happiness i mean he's covering so many things that each and every single muslim needs and it's and it's it really is heartfelt advice from a friend to a friend but who the advice comes from is very important and because and he had so much knowledge in so many different disciplines uh it allowed him to uh you know cover cover a wide variety of topics in terms of his advice what are the qualities oh why does ibn kayem talk about barakah why does evan okay um talk about butter can anytime you read a book i want you to ask yourself why did we go from this point to that point what is it that brought that on because it's going to help you connect the dots he started talking about vodka correct what does buttercan mean how do we translate that usually to be blessed but what does butterca actually mean to to to inc so so that it's stable and that it increases right that that's actually barakah so if you have baraka in something it is established for you and it and it increases right so and that and that i mean blessing is not a bad translation for that i don't i don't know that there's a better translation for it so why does it okay talk about this in the first place he wanted his uh his friend to have the same status of blessing well the the easy answer is because he made dua for allah to be blessed wherever he is right take taking from what isaiah said about himself and allah made me blessed mubarak wherever i may be so then he started talking about what does it mean to have barakah what does it mean to be blessed but why that that's why he first started talking about it is because he made that dua for his friend yes keep going yes because you have to understand how to be blessed in order to work for it so we don't just make dua and then don't act and don't try to do our best to get what it is that we're making do i for you right to do what you need to do what you can do to make that do i a reality right and so this is why he has to teach him what does it mean to be blessed so that you can seek to do that because then you will be blessed vietnamese so he's and then we go into the point well what are the qualities of the blessed and this was the um screen that we brought up the last time and the two at the top uh the four at the bottom of basically an explanation of the two at the top which is teaching beneficial knowledge wherever you are that's part of being blessed and we talked again about how it doesn't mean that you have to know everything right or that you have to be a scholar to teach what you can from the dean of allah subhanahu wa time and to advise those whom you with whom you congregate in other words be true to them we talked about messiah right obviously here's translated as advice but what we're talking about is being true to the people that you're with and and if you're true to them you want the best for them you want the best for them in this life and you want the best for them and then in the next life and so being true to them if you see them going on a path that's not good is to try to bring them back to back to the right path or to try to encourage them to be in those places where they're going to to benefit let's uh ask the questions for tonight what is the root cause of harm befalling people according to the author talk about ruffler and hawaii in light of the favorite ones mentioned in surah the author mentions three qualities of those who are favored by allah what are they and what relation does this have to the straight path the author highlights 10 ways for which we are always in need of guidance we call for allah subhanahu what the island says and make us an imam for the for the pirates what does that mean why does mention this ayah okay so notice at the end why does it mention this i again we need to try to look at how we are moving from point to point in any book that you read right but a lot of times and i know this just from from feedback people read books and they don't really realize the connection between the books it's like it's like it's like a totally different uh every time a page turns it's a totally different topic and they're not seeing how it's connected that connection is very important for us to make so inshallah we'll be going over that today tell you uh if you turn to page 16 in your books and i forgot my book subhanallah um let me just see real quick yeah turn to page 16 uh at the top of who has the book i was going to put it on the slides but it just was too much time um let's just start at this point and then we'll take over so he talks about those four qualities right and he says truly all of those qualities are from the barakah of a man i'm going to give you this back i'm going to give it back to you if a person lacks the said qualities not only is he devoid of barakah but also there will be no such balakan when meeting him or being with him so so be careful right in other words if if those four qualities that he talked about from the mubaraki if you don't have those qualities or if a person does not have those qualities not only do they not have barakah but congregating with those type of people being around them also makes that gathering devoid of barakah and we'll talk a little bit about more a little bit more about that as we go along in charlotte honestly the value of time further the absence of buttercup will extend to throw its shade on whomever whoever meets him or be in his company because such a person wastes his time talking about trivial current affairs and past events that caused the heart of his company to be ruined and clouded for it is the waste of time and the corruption of the heart facade that are the prime causes of all types of harm befalling people stop right there so the root cause of all harmful matters that befall people are what according to the offer author wasting time and and the corruption of of the heart wasting time and anything that corrupts the heart and wasting time is one of those things that corrupts the heart says in his book called he says that wasting time is worse than death he says wasting time is worse than death wasting time cuts you off from allah and the hereafter and death cuts you off from the dunya and its people so which one is worse wasting time wasting time subhanallah and there's there's a lot to be said about this particular issue of wasting time and and i i do i mean for the sake for the sake of time of this class we can't go into all of the problems with with wasting time but just know that the prophet isaiah salat was saddam has informed us that each and every person latazin each person will remain standing at two feet the two his legs will be standing until he's asked about four things i normally that's the first thing and his life span how was it spent how was it spent and the prophet isaiah was said that each one of you do that everybody goes out in the morning each one of you is a vendor of his own soul you go out to the marketplace the commodity is time you're either going to free your soul or you're going to leave it in its shackles it's going to be attached the shackles though those chains it is going to be enslaved to other than allah or is going to be free from all of those things but what's the commodity there the commodity is time it's how you use the time that person has 24 hours in a day and that person has 24 hours in a day how that one uses time how did this one use her time that's the difference the amount of time is the exact same subhanallah and that's your commodity and it is a an ever diminishing commodity every minute that goes by you will never ever be able to get that back but don't lose hope because the reality is and we're talking about this concept of barakah the reality is is that there are things that you can do to have barakah in your time to make up for lost time in other words if allah blesses your time he puts buttaka in your time you may get accomplished in a month what takes other people a year to get accomplished or get accomplished in a year what it takes other people five years to accomplish because the lives of y'all put barakah in your time and and that comes through so many different ways but our prophet ideas right that there are these two blessings that many people are cheated out of that they're cheated out of your health and free time spare time and the reality is you don't have time to spare that's how you get cheated out of it because you think that you actually have time to spare if if somebody was to come right now and he just put a half a million dollars right here on the floor and he burnt it what would you think majnoon right he's crazy like for real something is really wrong with him why why would you think that because he could have done something else with that because he obviously doesn't value the wealth that he has the resources that allah has given him right because he burned it what about a person who says i'm going to kill time i have some time to kill what's more valuable wealth as in material money or time time even even in english when we say time is money time is money how do you have time to kill how does a muslim who truly believes he's going to stand in front of a loss of hematite and be asked about his entire life and how he spent it how do we have time to kill we don't we really don't and it doesn't mean you have to you know you don't have to wait until you you you know you're older and you you start feeling like i don't have any time left and no no it's from a very early age the mid in fact in fact in that same hadith about a person being asked and some of the narration says he'll be asked about his youth and how he spent his youth right so it is very important that we don't waste time and subhanallah there's an article uh i was reading it recently it's it says sitting is the new smoking sitting is the new smoking in other words sitting down all day has very bad effects on your health right so there's another article that talks about how sitting for more than 30 minutes actually shuts down the muscles below your your waist right and then your metabolism slows down by like 90 some other stuff so so here's a recommendation if you set your timer for 30 minutes right set your timer on your phone and make it go off every 30 minutes all day do it for a week like next week when we come back and we talk about it you're going to start realizing how many how fast 30 minutes goes by and then start looking what did i get accomplished in those 30 minutes did i read anything from the quran that i remember allah did i pray did i do this or what did i spend that 30 minutes doing realize you don't those 30 minutes are a commodity that allah has blessed each and every one of us with the same amount of you get 30 minutes your minute is 60 seconds and my minute is 60 seconds right what are we doing with our time if we are more conscious about that then be ignited with less likely to waste it less likely to waste it the same way that a person who has cash is less likely to spend it in a certain way than a person who's using a card that's just the reality you won't feel it with that card you stick a card okay huh 100 head 200 whatever when you actually have to physically pull out cash and count it it's a different type of spending it's a different type of spending so and the the the point is we we we have to be very careful about our time and not wasting that time now does that mean that there is no time for relaxing our prophet salallahu said there's a time for this and there's a time for that the problem comes in when people you ever see somebody what exactly are you doing i'm just unwinding you've been unwinding for three hours he's only doing something for hour how do you unwind how does it take that long to unwind and what does that even mean right so like we have to be very a lot more a lot more stingy with our time now again there's a time for this and a time for that like the prophet is a lot to assume and then there's people who you can't you can't do that you don't do that to your parents you don't go around your parents and the timer goes off in 30 minutes like i gotta roll you know sorry your 30 minutes is up for now it's not not with your parents because it's santa and the prophet isaiah salat was saddam you know talked about a man playing with his wife he talked about swimming he talked about horseback riding there are other things from the sun of the prophet islamic but again those are the things that we should be doing for relaxation and recreation and so forth now so the root cause of all harmful matters wasting of time and the corruption of the heart those things and beware of those things that corrupt the heart no questions because we're live we're not going to get through anything llama style father not only does that make a person lose his share of reward but it will also lower his rank and stabs manzila in the sight of the law right so what's the result of wasting time in a corrupt heart that you your status is lowered in the sight of a law superhero with god and that is what we should be worried about well so many times we're worried about what another person thinks about us or trying to impress somebody else or not doing something so that they don't think that i'm like this or that i'm like that but what about what your status is with me wasting your time allah gives you that and then you waste it that lowers you in the sight of allah subhanallah nah it is for this reason some scholars advised beware of mixing with those whose company will waste your time and corrupt your heart less otherwise all your affairs all your affairs be ruined and you become among those whom allah subhanahu what the allah said in the quran we're going to get to the eye in a minute inshallah let you translate it but here is explaining to his friend that you have to be mindful of the company that you keep and the prophet is saddam said the example of the righteous companion the righteous jellis the one whom you sit with and the one who is not righteous is like the one who was selling misk the one who sells musk and the one who blows in the bellow the the blacksmith right what's going to happen from a person who sells musk they either going to what give you some or they'll sell you some and you can still smell good and at the very least you get from him what you get a nice smell you get a nice smell but the one who's a blacksmith what do they do is you're going to get nothing from them but burnt or the smoke or or bad foul odor coming from right and so being mindful of the company that you keep is very important right again this is another sensitive topic many of us have to work in corporate america and so on and so forth that's a totally different situation what we're talking about here and when and and what the prophet was saying for example the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam said right that a person is on the religion of the way of his khalil and and anybody if you study robudia then what is a khaleel your intimate friend that close friend which is which is crazy because sometimes somebody see you give salams to somebody or whatever they say be careful it's a totally different issue right that's not the same thing that's not your khalil somebody that you had dinner with somebody that you you know that's not your khaleel khalil is like the person you say your right hand man right that's that's a khalil man your main man okay fine you just told everybody how old you was so but but all in all you still have to be very careful of the company that you keep because if those people take you away from the remembrance of allah and that's what you look at and today and today the way that things go down a lot of people don't even have real like friends that they can touch everybody's like virtual cyber friends even that you have to be careful of that company because at the end of the day you're still spending time with them you're still spending time with them and they're either taking you bringing you closer to allah or pushing you further away from allah and the point is to find that company that is going to draw you closer to allah subhanahu wa ta'ala and avoid those things which take you away from allah and and those gatherings in which allah his name is not mentioned because the prophet isaiah salah was said there's not a people who gather without mentioning the name of allah except that they stand like like uh and himacha like the corpse of a the dead body of a donkey like they were just sitting around that what did you get from that there's nothing but regret right so being careful of the company one keeps and and making sure that those who are around you are helping you get closer to a loss mentality even even if they may not be as knowledgeable as you by you teaching them you're getting closer to allah by you serving as a good example for them you're getting closer to allah spending time at night father and the translation of that first translation of the meanings from sword to cath and do not obey one whose heart we have made heedless about remembrance and who follows his desire and whose affair is ever ever in neglect if you contemplate if you think about the state and conditions of this type of people you will find the heart of all of them all of them except maybe a few are in a state of heedlessness hence they observe not that which benefits their hearts and increases their righteousness but they engage in matters that not only bring them no benefit but also may cause them harm sooner or later it's going to happen allah exalted me he ordered his messenger not to obey this group thus the obedience of the prophet saw allah necessitated not to obey this group of people because they called for the following of desires and for neglecting the remembrance of the law now so here uh it starts to talk about heatlessness which is called of desires right and and uh i'll actually like the translation it will say being led by desires because it gives you that uh picture of the desires being in the front and you being and you being behind they are the leader and you follow you follow that that leader and you and that leader now is taking you down a path of destruction okay so the the elizabeth says and what is he being heedless of he's being heedless of the thicket of allah subhanallah he forgets allah and and that dicker obviously is both in the heart and on the tongue and that's why it's important allah sometimes the tongue reminds the heart and sometimes the heart encourages the tongue so sometimes a person may not really be be thinking about allah after after salah sometimes you just see people right subhanallah alhamdulillah okay and they they're not really thinking about it and then because they're saying it so much then they start thinking about what am i actually saying right oh i'm saying subhan alhamdulillah so it kind of reminds the heart and sometimes the heart in its remembrance of allah that remembers becomes so profound that they begin to say it off with their tongues and up until today there are still people who a second doesn't go by except that allah's name is on their tongue and that's something to strive for that's something to strive for that you are always in the remembrance of a loss of hanoi time and even some of our meshes you would feel funny asking them questions because they're saying it's a panel loss panel that's panel that's panama right and you're asking a question he's saying there's no way he can be like internalizing what i'm actually asking and he's doing of allah but sure enough they train their tongue so much that they remember allah and they can you know understand what you're saying and be able to answer your question and they remain in that state and that's something to strive for to never ever become heedless to never ever be in a state of ruffler where your heart is not attached to allah subhanahu wa ta'ala and then never being of those who are led simply by their desires but that you try at all times to be led by the instructions and the mandates of allah subhanahu wa'ta'ala he listens and desire if he listens the law and the hereafter is coupled with following one's own whims and desires then only only evil emanates from such a relation okay so here uh the translator opted to go for a um the the meaning which is which is correct but ibn okay actually is talking about marriage so he says either these two if they get married heedlessness then their child is every evil that's that's that's the way he says it so it's basically like they get married they consummate the marriage and then they have this ugly child it's just evil so if both of them are combined in a person then we have a big problem because every evil is going to emanate from the the marriage of those two forgetting about allah and then following your desires now it is often that both exist hand in hand and never and never are apart from each other if a person ponders on the corrupt state of the world in general and in particular one will understand that heedlessness heedlessness stands as a barrier between the servant of the law and understanding and knowing allah so here is it there's a translation issue here for those of you who have the book uh can you read that again as i forgot my book so so just read that last sentence where he said hebrews stands in the way of if a person ponders on the corrupt state of the world in general and in particular one will understand that heedlessness stands as a barrier between the servant of the law and understanding and knowing the lord between between the servant understanding and knowing the truth so al-haq and al-haq is from the names of allah subhanahu wa ta'ala so the translator translated al-haq as allah but here what ibn al-qayyam is actually talking about is ruffler being a barrier between you and the truth meaning from a from a knowledge knowledge perspective right because what we're going to see what we're going to see is that it all boils down to being on the straight path boils down to having knowledge of that path and having the willpower to act according to your knowledge so you know what you're supposed to do and you have the willpower to implement what you're supposed to do clear now obviously all of that has to come from allah but those two things are very important so what what is it again what beneficial knowledge and what and righteous actions beneficial knowledge it is that you know what you are supposed to be doing and know what you're not supposed to be doing and then the beneficial actions are the result of you having the willpower to implement what it is that you know you're supposed to do and to stay away from which you're supposed to refrain from so we're talking about here what ruffler heatlessness and it's following desires ruffler is what stands in between you and knowledge you're heedless you're negligent you just you're not even paying attention you don't care so that stands in front of you oh that stands in between you knowing what you're supposed to do or knowing what you're supposed to stay away from and then hawa is what stands in the way of what of your willpower because you might know what you're supposed to do but then you just desires take over so that comes in the way uh that stands in the way of what beneficial action you see why every evil right or the offspring of those two coming together heedlessness and the following of desires is going to be nothing but evil now it's because it's combined yeah well when it's combined then you don't have the knowledge and you don't have the willpower to implement it now following of whims and desires keep one away from searching for the truth and following it in the case of the former such a person becomes from those who are astray and indicate what's what's the form of what's the former in the case of the former la la read it again following of women's one and desires keep one away from searching for the truth and following it right but keep going in the case of the former such a person becomes from those who are astray right from those who are astray what do we say in the quran what are they called and sort of fatiha so when does a person become from the la lin yes following their whims and and desires let me see that excuse me where are we at okay so here he says if a person proud is gonna cry okay following of whims and desires keeps one away from searching for the truth so they don't what they don't have beneficial knowledge because they're not searching for the truth in the case of the former such a person becomes from those who are astray and in the case of of the latter which is not following the truth so the first one they're not what they're not searching for the truth they are from the they are the da lum okay and then there are those who don't follow the truth they know what it is but they don't follow the truth they are the madub alaihim they are the ones who have uh it says in the case of the latter he becomes amongst those upon whom allah evoked his anger they earned allah's anger because they know what the truth is and they don't follow it okay i know imam hanif has talked about some of this and sort of telefatty in his explanation of sort of tying that in pay attention because the repetition is important and it's very important also as you'll see to realize that fatiha is a dua that when you are reciting soda to fatiha you are actively asking allah subhanahu wa ta'ala to give you beneficial knowledge and to give you the willpower to do righteous actions you're asking for that every single time you recite sort of fatiha right but you have to internalize that because it will change your prayer right tell your fathership now the favorite ones and cry in contrast notice he says in contrast in contrast to who i am in contrast to those who have earned the law's anger and from those who have gone astray we have the ones who are favored what are we what are they called those whom you have favored who are they those whom allah confers his favor upon are those that are those whom he has guided to acquire knowledge about him so they acquire knowledge about him so they know the truth they know the truth right go ahead and submit to him and they submit to him subhanallah so they what they follow the truth yes and prefer him to allah over everything else truly those are the ones who embarked upon the path of safety while the rest are walking on the road of doom it is for this reason allah ordered us to recite every day and every night for a number of times during the salah it did so what they do what do they do every day and every night they ask allah for his guidance they ask allah for his guidance and there is no other statement in islam that we are required to say there is no other prayer that we're required to say multiple times a day other than guide us to the straight path and what you will see as well is that when you're asking allah for guidance to the straight path because some people might say look i'm already muslim i'm following the sunnah i'm dean right like they say here so i'm already on the straight path what does it mean guide me to the straight path what does that mean to keep you on it okay and to increase me in guidance to keep me on that straight path good and show me how to finish it completely thank you bismillah and and to allow me to do what to accede right to actually complete th that that journey on that path and we'll talk about that inshallah i don't know when we get there we're going to get there soon inshallah and i think wrestling wants to know the best of the fight yeah you think everybody knows it here masha'allah so the favorite ones are those who what know the truth follow the truth and ask for allah's guidance now to be among those whom are guided by a law to the right path the servant of the law is in great need to know all that which will benefit stop right there real quick real quick so if they know the truth then they are not from who from the darlene and if they follow the truth they're not from thee so the so the the the favorite ones are those whom are saved from rafa and it's and that's that's what middle class is trying to get across to us here so when people are saved from heedlessness and they save from following their desires then they are from amongst thee the favorite ones all right bismillah nah so the seventh we'll go back go back to the straight path to be among those who are guided by a law to the right path that is the straight path the servant of the law is in that this servant of allah is in great need to know all that which will benefit him in this life and the hereafter to be inclined to favor that which will benefit him over anything else and to avoid all that which harms him in this life and the hereafter all right so we see those three right there knowledge of what's beneficial you give preference to what is beneficial you prefer that over everything else even when your desires may want to take you somewhere else you give you suppress that you give preference to what is beneficial and avoiding that which is harmful if however one overlooks knowledge they will then be embarking upon a path of those who are astray and if one deviates does not comply nor submit to allah one will then be trading on the path of those whom allah is angry with whom allah is angry by this elucidation explanation by this elucidation it becomes clear to us that the high status and significance of this supplication and prayer and the great need of people to have it fulfilled in their lives as the happiness of a person in this life and the hereafter depends upon it depends upon what what is it happiness read that last sentence he said because happiness in this life by this elucidation it becomes clear that the high status and significant of the high status and significance of this supplication in prayer of what supplication and prayer of that of surah so when you realize that then you understand how important sort of fatiha really is in making that do i keep going the intense need for it these sermons by this solicitation it becomes clear to us the high status and significance of this supplication in prayer and the great need of people to have it fulfilled in their lives as the happiness of a person in this life and the hereafter depends on it depends on that guidance from allah subhanahu wa'ta'ala right and so you in order for true success in this life and the next the knowledge has to be intact and the cust that will power has to be intact and facade is called a shubha and the corruption of knowledge is called a shubha a lot of times we translate it as a doubt right and and corruption of the intention is from the shower or lusts and whims and desires right and so a person has to avoid shubohet and shahawat because they affect or as we talked about here heatlessness and tibet all right so to to wrap that up to really understand what you're asking when you're asking for guidance when you're asking for a law to make you from the favored ones you're asking the law to bless you with beneficial knowledge and with the willpower to implement that knowledge and therefore turns into righteous action so you're asking for beneficial knowledge and righteous actions the seventh need of the law for guidance is always persistent in all affairs that's english and i see with every breath one takes every moment one lives and the need for having this supplication be answered manifests itself in every affair be that in all that one receives or all that one leaves yeah um here ibm okay is about to transition all right so so he's talking about what the importance of of guidance okay right so that's that's why i mentioned how important sora tell fatiha is and and that's why we ask that is the dua that we make to allah multiple times every day a bare minimum of 17 times right which is more than you eat it's more than you drink it's more than and when you look at subhanallah elizabeth decrees things based on need right so everything that you need there's always or as a as human beings we always have more of it right so what's more important breathing or drinking is there more air or water more air right what's more important eating or drinking drinking drinking and what's there more of water or food water okay that that's as it relates to just our physical beings we look at the deen the most important thing is guidance which is why allah has decreed for us to ask for more than anything else understand so now everyone claim wants to go and elucidate for what was that what was the translation of elusive explain he wants to he wants to explain to us he really wants to show us why you really need guidance because a lot of times we might say yeah you know but we don't really realize how how important guidance is at every single step of your life every single thing you do so he says at the at the beginning there something along the lines of the servant needing guidance at every moment and every nephes any every single breath you take you need guidance from allah subhanahu wa'ta'ala and this is as the prophet sallallahu alaihi who has solemn taught his daughter radhiallahu ta'ala and her fatima to say in the morning and in the evening he would say to her he taught her to make this dua yeah yeah esther asleep and we know that these are two of allah's greatest names right oh ever living the one who is self-sustaining and sustaining of everything else right the self-subsistent and the sustainer of everything else by your rahma by your mercy estherith does anybody know what estherith means what's it's when you're it's you're seeking relief because there's a dire need for something right right i'm seeking your aid and your relief by your mercy [Music] fix for me my affair all of it everything i because i'm broken i need to be fixed i have affairs that need to be fixed fixed for me everything asleep chattani and don't leave me to myself for the blink of an eye not for the blink of an eye which is actually quicker than your breath don't leave me to myself for even that small period of time don't don't leave me to my own caprice translate that get whims in your desires don't leave me to that but but be you be there for me at all times right well that's so this is the need that we have for allah and his guidance at that which you do and that which you don't do you need a loss of heaven to have his guidance and that part is interesting because and and uh the the author did a decent job i mean the translator did a decent job there i think he said something like um what you what you do and what you leave or something like that you have to understand that because what you leave consciously also needs to have a loss of habit out of his guidance and this is why we make salatin the prophet salallahu will teach his companions like jabbed the lesson would teach us the way that he would teach us a what a slaughter from the quran say it this way like a sort of you don't get a chance you don't get to you know mix up a word here no no you don't get to do that with the quran likewise this is how the prophet saw his son would teach them because the reality is is that we may believe something is good but we don't actually know what the outcome of that thing is going to be right we we don't have that kind of eye into the future and sometimes the reality is is we're not really good at weighing the pros and the kinds of every situation and we may think we have it figured out but a allah told the prophet i didn't was about the companions allah he told the prophet some seek advice from or seek the the consult the companions he's the prophet he's getting what revelation and on but still with that allah is teaching him no you you need to consult your campaigns none of them are as knowledgeable as the prophet ideas right consult them share with them and then if you are determined to do that thing then put your trust in allah subhanahu and this is why many of the say that you make that you do is before you do is in other words that you seek the consultation of the people whom you know have your best interests who have knowledge of a particular affair right and then you make istikhara and then you make istikha you put your trust in allah subhanahu whatever happens happens right but but that is what you do and what you don't do because what you don't do should also be a choice people may try to bait you into doing something trying to get you to say something trying to get you to be involved in some fitness or something no and you choose you say no no i'm way in this situation i have more knowledge about the details of it or whatever like that so therefore i am going to decide either to get involved or not get involved and whatever that decision is put your trust in the laws of hematology and seek his guidance so again even what you do and what you don't do should be based on guidance from allah subhanahu wa ta'ala into 10 different uh scenarios if you will that require guidance from allah to show us that we need it in every single aspect of our lives nine number one a person whose ignorance made him to believe in matters or to perform actions that contravene go against the guidance of islam can't he needs to seek a law's guidance about these matters in other words he's doing things just out of ignorance he doesn't he doesn't have knowledge right so a person may just do something right and have no knowledge and therefore they need what they need a loss of heritage guidance so that they can have the proper knowledge of that particular thing not two a person who is aware of the guidance of islam about some matters but nevertheless he intentionally goes against him contravenes it hence he needs to repent from it that is the sin right so this person he knows what he's supposed to do but he intentionally does not do what he's supposed to do and therefore he needs allah's guidance to do what to repent he needs a lost guidance so that he can repent from that a person three a person who lacks guidance on particular matters at both levels knowledge and action therefore he fails to acquire the knowledge and to act upon its purpose accordingly according to the right way right so just imagine for example somebody accepts islam yesterday and they heard that there's five daily prayers right and then they see you praying at eight o'clock in the morning they say what's this guy doing he said that's called salat he never heard of it right and so he's he's not going to pray it so he doesn't have he doesn't act according to it because he doesn't have the knowledge in the first place this is what number three is talking about so a person who doesn't have knowledge and therefore cannot act according to it so he needs both he needs the knowledge and he needs guidance for the knowledge and guidance to act according to it clear all right number four a person whose guidance on some matters is incomplete it s is what that he stands for that is he is guided only to some aspects of a matter hence he needs to perfect and complete his guidance right and so for example this may a a prime example of this may be the salat itself so you know that's a lot of doors for rakais you know what you're supposed to do in a salah but maybe you don't know about certain aspects of hoshua and how to get hoshua in the salat so you have some knowledge but not but not perfect knowledge of a particular thing just use an example of salah to help chella now five a person whose guidance does not extend to cover the details of the matter he is guided to hence he needs guidance on these details right so the difference between number four and five is very minut okay but four is talking about you you have the knowledge to be able to do a particular thing right but but your knowledge is incomplete number five he's talking about a person who just has the foundational knowledge and doesn't have enough to complete that act so for example he may know that you're supposed to pray five times a day but he doesn't know when and he doesn't know how how many rock hats each one is he just has that general knowledge like a lot of people who when they first accept the slam for example six sits a person who is guided to find the directions to the right path but that requires him to have guidance again let pay attention to number six pay attention to number six because i want you to tell me the dua that you learned earlier that relates to number six now read number six again start over a person who is guided to find the directions to the right path but that requires him to have guidance again after he embarks upon it so there's guidance i don't know that translation is is accurate but what abnormal actually says is that there's guidance to the path and there's guidance on the path this guide is to the path and there's guidance on the path right go ahead because to be guided that is to find the right path is one thing and to be guided after proceeding in the path is another thing okay so how do we get to new york from here huh just go up 95 huh okay fine go up 95. yellow that's that's the path so you can somebody can show you okay this is how you get the 95 and from 95 is how you get to new york boom perfect but then there's guidance on the path guidance on the path is well if i don't have enough gas how do i know where the next rest stop is huh do i know for example if i'm trying to speed do i know where the speed traps are nobody should speed nah um is is this path is it dangerous at certain times of the day is it very crowded at certain times of the day so i want to avoid those times all of that is knowledge what on the path it's different than being guided to to the path huh so what do i did you learn it kind of sounds like that allah mahdini was said didn't he allah was said didn't he that's what imam hanif was talking about earlier today right which is oh allah guide me and give me sadat so guidance is like you know what the path is right and so that is being able to complete it and hit your target and hit your target okay now and that and subhanallah you know when you think about when you think about what was said earlier about sedan right which is that there's that arc of motion where you you really aren't still and just being off just a little bit can take you off a long way and therefore you know that you need a loss from him to all his guidance at all times and it doesn't stop at getting you to the path you have to have guidance on the path and that's part of as well right it's being guided to the path and being guided on the path and that's why we have to repeat it at all times for example as the imam said a person may know the directions to a particular town but he cannot travel the journey because to do that he needs to have guidance on how to make the journey such as knowing the best time for traveling knowing the quantity of water needed for the trip and knowing where to breast knowing the quantity of water you need for that trip that's that's guidance on the path i mean this was something that they had to take into consideration especially those traveling through the desert etc if the latter guidance is not acquired the traveler may suffer or die during the trip seven right i mean imagine how many brothers have a tesla here tesla's nobody's testing am i in tesla tesla you got to plug it in so if you don't know where your stations are on the way ain't no gas that's the that's the point so you got you have to even know on your way where to plug in but i mean it's i just was thinking about it because when that that's kind of how it is when they have to know how much water to take with them because you can't just carry an unlimited quantity of water it's it's it's impossible right so you got to know what's going to get you to the next place now number seven a person who needs to have future guidance on some matters just as he had guidance on such matters in the past right so so subhanallah just like you you know you did something so penalty it felt like your man was sky high in the past and you need that again in the future so the same way that lost pants out has guided you in the past you need that guidance to continue to the future please forgive me the email was sky high in the past amen yes amen eight a person who holds no view on some matters so he neither believes them to be false nor true hence he needs to be guided to the right belief about them right so he doesn't really know he's uh maybe he's confused or he just he's not really sure so he doesn't know what to believe and this is like the prophet salallahu will make that dua at night time before his night prayer uh and guide me to that which they have differed over or what that which has been differed over guide me to the truth and that which has been differed over be ethnic with your permission right so it's a longer dua that the prophet saw would make at night but the point is asking allah to guide you and those fears where where people have differed number nine a person who believes he is guided in some matters while in fact he is astray without realizing it hence he needs to change his position which cannot be done except by the guidance of the law right so he needs to change his position now what's the difference between number nine and number one what's number one say so he's just doing stuff he's ignorant and he's just doing things what's the difference between that number nine number nine isn't he ignorant ah that's the difference number nine is he is ignorant but he thinks he knows he he thinks he knows in fact he's just you know this is just the way our machete taught us right tell you so this is this is very common for people who just follow culture or tradition or whatever and then that they haven't actually learned all right but they really believe that this is the truth and a lot of times is how false beliefs and innovations happen so what's the difference between eight and three uh num number number three he doesn't even know about his existence at all remember he like we like we gave the example of salah to doha whereas with number eight there's there's a position out there but he doesn't know which one is the truth or or not all right so he doesn't really have a belief but he needs to have one nine number ten a person who has gotten to some matters and yet also needs guiding advising and directing others to that which he was guided to for this will maintain his guidance ah this will maintain his guidance doing what taking the guidance that allah has blessed you with and what and taking that to others and sharing that with others right and they mutually advise one another with the truth and encourage one another to practice the truth and they mutually advise one another with with endurance and patience in that path right okay so keep going otherwise he may be deprived from it this is because as the known proverb states like the false like the punishment that is as a person guides and teaches others a law will guide him and teach him to become a rightly guided person who guides others to none so so actually the the statement here it says like the fault like the punishment that the the arabic says the closest idiomatic phrase that we have in english is probably you reap what you sow but that's usually uh used in a negative uh context and so a an exact or a word for word translation is the recompense is of the same genus as the deed in other words the reward will be of the same type as the deed so if your deed is you helping to guide others then your reward from allah is that what that he guides you you get back what you put in okay that is as a person guides and teaches others below guide him and teach him to become a rightly guided person who guides others right right this is a rank that was narrated in the supplication of the prophet salam who said building lazy of allah adorn us with the beauty of the man make us rightly guided who guide others do not let us go astray or lead others astray let us be peaceful with your supporters and belligerent with your enemies make us love those whom you love for they love you and let us show enmity against those who disobey your command now that hadith that that dua um as is narrated is uh is not authentic but there is a the first part of the dua there's another narration that that supports that and it is sahih the first part which is um allah make us from the guided who guide others that part is authentically reported from the prophet ideas a lot to us we have to stop there because i'm eight minutes over time um but we did hamdi la we we made it pretty good so let's let's go over this quickly what is the root cause of harm befalling people according to ibn okay wasting time in and a corrupted heart and those things that corrupt the heart okay so this is the root cause of harm befalling people talk about ruffler and hawa in light of the favorite ones mentioned in surah al fatiha the favorite ones are those who what huh let's go let's go to number three and then we'll go back to number two the author mentions three qualities of those who are favored by law what are they they know the truth they follow the truth and and they ask allah for for guidance right so what relation does this have to the straight path how is this connected to the straight path right because the right is for those who have those qualities and who avoid what those things are number two ruffler and heedlessness because rafla or or excuse me ruffle and hoe because heedlessness takes you away from beneficial knowledge and hawaii takes you away from beneficial or righteous actions tell you the author highlights ten ways for which we are always in need of guidance recall four i'll let you do that with a partner inshallah ta'ala because we have to stop with allah muhammad subhanahu

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Published: Fri Sep 25 2020