WEBVTT 00:00:10.260 --> 00:00:21.080 A reminder for myself before we start the talk somebody had emailed that question that, 00:00:21.080 --> 00:00:29.560 ‘For my understanding, am I to understand that we can't get anywhere without the shaykh?’ 00:00:29.560 --> 00:00:30.990 And astaghfirullah, no. 00:00:30.990 --> 00:00:35.770 That's completely incorrect understanding. 00:00:35.770 --> 00:00:41.630 You can do many things on your own and everyone is capable and we're talking about the rule 00:00:41.630 --> 00:00:43.920 and not the exception. 00:00:43.920 --> 00:00:48.710 In dealing with Allah (AJ) can do anything Allah (AJ) wants to do. 00:00:48.710 --> 00:00:50.440 No one can limit that. 00:00:50.440 --> 00:00:59.230 But the rule is if you want to be a doctor, you study medicine and you study medicine 00:00:59.230 --> 00:01:04.629 from a doctor, not from a mechanic. 00:01:04.629 --> 00:01:10.790 And if you want to learn about being a mechanic, you study from a mechanic. 00:01:10.790 --> 00:01:15.159 It's not something you pick up in a book - being a doctor. 00:01:15.159 --> 00:01:17.500 So, it requires studying. 00:01:17.500 --> 00:01:21.990 So, we understand that in dunya (material world) and it seems to be very well understood 00:01:21.990 --> 00:01:23.820 in dunya. 00:01:23.820 --> 00:01:27.450 Nobody has conflict in their mind and shaitan (satan) doesn't play with them. 00:01:27.450 --> 00:01:33.450 Shaitan actually encourages them, ‘Oh you know go after your dunya and be a big doctor 00:01:33.450 --> 00:01:39.520 and go to this university,’ and without a doubt they quickly enroll, find the best 00:01:39.520 --> 00:01:45.490 professors, which university puts out the best medical degree so that one day you can 00:01:45.490 --> 00:01:49.760 capitalize on that degree and people will come to you. 00:01:49.760 --> 00:01:52.320 That's a given. 00:01:52.320 --> 00:01:58.860 So, it must be understood and make commonsense that do you think the way to Allah (AJ) is 00:01:58.860 --> 00:02:02.420 easier or harder? 00:02:02.420 --> 00:02:09.160 And the tricks of the nafs (ego) and the self and is that something that can be done alone 00:02:09.160 --> 00:02:10.840 by a person? 00:02:10.840 --> 00:02:13.430 “Wa kono ma’as sadiqeen”. 00:02:13.430 --> 00:02:18.670 When Allah (AJ)... that's why when we teach, if you write what we teach and then you go 00:02:18.670 --> 00:02:24.590 back later and the article comes out and you take the article, print it and study it, it 00:02:24.590 --> 00:02:29.910 gives the entire reference to the Qur'an, quotes the Qur'an, quotes the Hadith so that 00:02:29.910 --> 00:02:34.230 you understand and you understand how the Qur'an is teaching us. 00:02:34.230 --> 00:02:40.890 That we’re not making just khater and thoughts and putting thoughts together but Allah (AJ) 00:02:40.890 --> 00:02:49.310 inspiring to the heart of Prophet ﷺ and Prophet ﷺ inspiring to his guides and they 00:02:49.310 --> 00:02:52.470 inspire to their students. 00:02:52.470 --> 00:02:56.450 That the Qur'an, Holy Qur'an is a guidance for mankind. 00:02:56.450 --> 00:02:57.580 “Hudanal muttaqeen”. 00:02:57.580 --> 00:03:00.990 As salaamu alaykum warahmatullahi wa barakatuh. 00:03:00.990 --> 00:03:02.690 It’s Shaykh Nurjan. 00:03:02.690 --> 00:03:06.000 Thank you for watching the video that you’re watching. 00:03:06.000 --> 00:03:11.300 InshaAllah if you’re happy with the content and happy with these programs please support 00:03:11.300 --> 00:03:12.750 the button below. 00:03:12.750 --> 00:03:17.930 The programs that we have for our orphanage repairs, our water well – give the gift 00:03:17.930 --> 00:03:18.930 of life. 00:03:18.930 --> 00:03:28.209 Our mobile food vans, we have now 5 vans – Vancouver, Chicago, Los Angeles, Pakistan and many programs 00:03:28.209 --> 00:03:35.480 that reach thousands of people and rescue foods and give those supplies to people in 00:03:35.480 --> 00:03:36.480 need. 00:03:36.480 --> 00:03:37.980 Your support is greatly appreciated. 00:03:37.980 --> 00:03:43.610 Also be so kind as to leave a loving comments and please share the stream. 00:03:43.610 --> 00:03:45.990 Every bit counts. 00:03:45.990 --> 00:03:51.780 As salaamu alaykum warahmatullahi wa barakatuh. 00:03:51.780 --> 00:03:55.280 And when Allah (AJ), “A’uzu Billahir Minash Shaitanir Rajeem. 00:03:55.280 --> 00:03:56.450 Bismillahir Rahmanir Raheem. 00:03:56.450 --> 00:03:57.610 Ittaqollah wa allimukumullah. 00:03:57.610 --> 00:04:01.580 Ittaqollah wa kono ma’as sadiqeen”. 00:04:01.580 --> 00:04:09.110 That everything has to do with a taqwa and consciousness and Allah (AJ) throughout Qur'an 00:04:09.110 --> 00:04:12.990 is asking, ‘Accompany truthful servants.’ 00:04:12.990 --> 00:04:19.840 Not that they say they’re truthful but truthful through their deeds and their actions. 00:04:19.840 --> 00:04:25.910 We said before the proof is in the pudding. 00:04:25.910 --> 00:04:31.160 That your faith in action, their deeds and actions are truthful, their Maqamul Ihsan 00:04:31.160 --> 00:04:35.370 (Station of Moral Excellence) should speak for itself. 00:04:35.370 --> 00:04:41.540 They don't have to show their degree to anyone and they don't have to validate themselves 00:04:41.540 --> 00:04:47.530 but the proof is what's coming out from their knowledges and from actions. 00:04:47.530 --> 00:04:54.780 As a result, that becomes a university and that becomes then a Shaykh I want to accompany 00:04:54.780 --> 00:04:59.380 because of the knowledges and the actions that I see. 00:04:59.380 --> 00:05:05.840 Those knowledges, I want them so I will enroll with him. 00:05:05.840 --> 00:05:16.500 Those actions, I also want to activate within my life, I want the love of Prophet ﷺ, I 00:05:16.500 --> 00:05:24.479 want to follow them, I want to look like the love of Prophet ﷺ, I want the knowledges 00:05:24.479 --> 00:05:31.620 of the love of Sayyidina Muhammad ﷺ and I follow them. 00:05:31.620 --> 00:05:35.449 And that becomes the university of the heavens. 00:05:35.449 --> 00:05:40.230 Now can you do that by yourself? 00:05:40.230 --> 00:05:41.340 That's exception. 00:05:41.340 --> 00:05:46.590 There are people whom Allah (AJ) are murad (the one whom is sought), Allah (AJ) calls 00:05:46.590 --> 00:05:52.169 them, guides them, dresses them however Allah (AJ) wants to. 00:05:52.169 --> 00:05:58.970 And the common is mureed (devoted disciple) in which Allah (AJ) wants the student to reach 00:05:58.970 --> 00:06:01.060 these realities. 00:06:01.060 --> 00:06:08.630 It's not kindergarten so it won't be in every masjid, it's very advanced realities so they 00:06:08.630 --> 00:06:11.740 require advanced teachers. 00:06:11.740 --> 00:06:18.729 Not the teacher of a book because you have external teaching and internal teaching. 00:06:18.729 --> 00:06:22.789 Somebody asked on another email: ‘What is the zahiri (external understanding) mean?’ 00:06:22.789 --> 00:06:26.400 Exactly what it says – external teachers. 00:06:26.400 --> 00:06:31.050 Means they read the shari’ah (Divine law), they read the Hadith and they teach that. 00:06:31.050 --> 00:06:38.310 They are the translators of Arabic to English or Urdu or any other language. 00:06:38.310 --> 00:06:41.889 They don't teach about its reality. 00:06:41.889 --> 00:06:50.240 And somebody posted a Hadith of Imam Ali (as) that in the time of his being the khalifa 00:06:50.240 --> 00:06:56.810 (representative) he went around to all the masjids to hear who was teaching what and 00:06:56.810 --> 00:07:00.950 after he went from every masjid hearing what they teach, what they teach, he shut them 00:07:00.950 --> 00:07:08.410 all down except for two and he said, ‘Those they don't know what even they're saying, 00:07:08.410 --> 00:07:16.360 they're basically repeating back what they read but these two they know the reality of 00:07:16.360 --> 00:07:18.110 what they're saying. 00:07:18.110 --> 00:07:21.790 Is best that you sit with them’. 00:07:21.790 --> 00:07:30.350 Means the external scholar is one whom well-read but doesn't necessarily know the reality and 00:07:30.350 --> 00:07:37.039 the depth of what's being said but he can tell you all of its verses and footnotes and 00:07:37.039 --> 00:07:42.210 who said to who said to who said to who said, but it doesn't mean he has any knowledge of 00:07:42.210 --> 00:07:48.099 what was being said and the reality and the substance of what was being said. 00:07:48.099 --> 00:07:53.901 So, those are external scholars and those whom their hearts are attracted to that, they 00:07:53.901 --> 00:07:54.901 move towards that. 00:07:54.901 --> 00:07:56.460 They don't want inner realities. 00:07:56.460 --> 00:08:03.680 They want to memorize the isnad and the Chain of Authorities and that's appealing to them 00:08:03.680 --> 00:08:06.830 and their heart is drawn to that. 00:08:06.830 --> 00:08:12.490 But again someone who wants to reach to realities, it's commonsense how are they going to reach 00:08:12.490 --> 00:08:15.919 their own – on their own? 00:08:15.919 --> 00:08:21.640 So then they enlist into a school and a shaykh and say, ‘I want the shaykh from what he's 00:08:21.640 --> 00:08:23.849 teaching’. 00:08:23.849 --> 00:08:31.030 So you go to find the doctor whom you feel is the most credible doctor with the realities 00:08:31.030 --> 00:08:33.460 that you want. 00:08:33.460 --> 00:08:40.540 And as a result, you accompany him and you learn from him his realities and from the 00:08:40.540 --> 00:08:45.790 realities he teaches, he teaches a way in which to achieve it because that's how he 00:08:45.790 --> 00:08:46.890 achieved it. 00:08:46.890 --> 00:08:52.430 But it... can it be something done on our own? 00:08:52.430 --> 00:08:57.010 No, these are called ‘Upliftings.’ 00:08:57.010 --> 00:09:02.820 That these realities, this accompanying a guide, loving them, opening your heart to 00:09:02.820 --> 00:09:10.880 that reality, supporting them, living a life of khidmat (service), everything that been 00:09:10.880 --> 00:09:18.899 described, documenting the knowledges, documenting the realities, it's a ‘Uplifting’ because 00:09:18.899 --> 00:09:26.600 your soul will lock onto their soul through the good manners and good character. 00:09:26.600 --> 00:09:34.649 And as a result of that locking, their soul is uplifting the students because the soul 00:09:34.649 --> 00:09:38.779 is in a continuous mi'raj (ascension). 00:09:38.779 --> 00:09:44.041 And Allah (AJ) describes them because these are all from the realities of the heart, these 00:09:44.041 --> 00:09:48.329 come from Surat Al-YaSeen, “Fulkil mashhoon. 00:09:48.329 --> 00:09:53.519 Wa hamalna dhurriyyatahum fil fulkil mashhoon”. 00:09:53.519 --> 00:09:57.350 That their souls are like loaded ships, loaded. 00:09:57.350 --> 00:10:03.060 “Mashhoon” – like energies Mawlana (Q) would describe. 00:10:03.060 --> 00:10:10.910 And “Hamalna” they carry within their loaded energies the souls of those whom come 00:10:10.910 --> 00:10:16.510 into their company because the soul is not a stagnant creature. 00:10:16.510 --> 00:10:18.700 It doesn't just sit there. 00:10:18.700 --> 00:10:26.579 It's an energy, a vibration that is in a continuous flux of movement and energy. 00:10:26.579 --> 00:10:32.380 The only thing that just sits there is that which came from dunya – your physicality. 00:10:32.380 --> 00:10:33.570 Right? 00:10:33.570 --> 00:10:39.830 Your physicality is of a dunya material matter but your spirituality and your soul is in 00:10:39.830 --> 00:10:43.339 a continuous movement and wave. 00:10:43.339 --> 00:10:47.190 Its beginning and its end is not understood. 00:10:47.190 --> 00:10:53.420 Where your light is coming, how much of it's connected and to where is it connected. 00:10:53.420 --> 00:11:01.240 And those whom operate from the realm of light in which Allah (AJ) open their light and they 00:11:01.240 --> 00:11:07.950 have a governance over their light, they use and operate their being with their light, 00:11:07.950 --> 00:11:11.320 they are like ships. 00:11:11.320 --> 00:11:17.430 Anyone who comes into their vicinity, immediately comes on board. 00:11:17.430 --> 00:11:22.430 Those whom lock on with their heart, with their deeds and with their actions, because 00:11:22.430 --> 00:11:26.209 this is how Allah (AJ) wants His servant. 00:11:26.209 --> 00:11:29.510 “Wa kono ma’as sadiqeen”. 00:11:29.510 --> 00:11:35.060 So he's teaching the student – you have to also be sadiqeen (truthful) as you're requiring 00:11:35.060 --> 00:11:37.830 the shaykh to be because you're looking for sadiqeen. 00:11:37.830 --> 00:11:38.830 Right? 00:11:38.830 --> 00:11:45.089 You're looking for a shaykh who has knowledges of realities and the actions of realities, 00:11:45.089 --> 00:11:49.360 all the deeds and everything that they're doing is by their deeds and their actions 00:11:49.360 --> 00:11:56.810 are matching the Muhammadan haqqaiqs (realities) then they train, ‘You come on their ship 00:11:56.810 --> 00:11:58.980 and you act the same’. 00:11:58.980 --> 00:12:01.160 That's why they tell you contribute. 00:12:01.160 --> 00:12:08.100 Don't, don't just think you're going to take it and take the realities and one day run 00:12:08.100 --> 00:12:09.100 away. 00:12:09.100 --> 00:12:11.330 But be a truthful servant. 00:12:11.330 --> 00:12:19.510 What you took, you owe, of the realities you owe and of all of these stations Allah (AJ) 00:12:19.510 --> 00:12:24.550 is granting, Prophet ﷺ wants for us a khidmat. 00:12:24.550 --> 00:12:27.959 ‘Go now and serve humanity’. 00:12:27.959 --> 00:12:33.800 That show your loyalty, put everything of your faith within action. 00:12:33.800 --> 00:12:35.710 It's not something that I keep hidden. 00:12:35.710 --> 00:12:39.680 My faith is something that I continuously put into action. 00:12:39.680 --> 00:12:45.600 So means then the students of the shaykh they're continuously showing their faith, showing 00:12:45.600 --> 00:12:52.220 their love, showing their respect and showing their khidmat and service. 00:12:52.220 --> 00:12:53.220 Why? 00:12:53.220 --> 00:12:56.910 Because they're truthful in their deeds and in their actions. 00:12:56.910 --> 00:13:01.779 They're not hidden silent people, we don't even know what they believe because their 00:13:01.779 --> 00:13:04.410 deeds are not known to anyone. 00:13:04.410 --> 00:13:10.510 These deeds have to be known, the love has to be shown and the actions and the khidmat 00:13:10.510 --> 00:13:16.639 has to be visible to the help and to the benefit of people. 00:13:16.639 --> 00:13:23.510 And as a result, that becomes the tariqah (spiritual path) in which - I want to accompany 00:13:23.510 --> 00:13:24.510 them. 00:13:24.510 --> 00:13:29.430 The realities they have they're not regular teachings. 00:13:29.430 --> 00:13:34.389 And as a result of accompanying them, loving them, being of service in the ways that they've 00:13:34.389 --> 00:13:42.851 taught, my soul is locked on with them and wherever they go, they take me with them because 00:13:42.851 --> 00:13:50.029 a ship doesn't throw its passengers off every time it goes into a beatific location. 00:13:50.029 --> 00:13:55.240 Means as the ship is moving through these tajallis (manifestations), everyone on board 00:13:55.240 --> 00:14:01.060 is being dressed by those tajallis and that becomes the beatific dress and the faiz (downpouring 00:14:01.060 --> 00:14:06.310 blessings) that people talk about and emanations that Sufis are known for. 00:14:06.310 --> 00:14:13.400 Means that as they're being dressed, everyone on their ship will be dressed by its realities. 00:14:13.400 --> 00:14:21.290 So we want a ship that talks and teaches about immense ishq and love for Sayyidina Muhammad 00:14:21.290 --> 00:14:25.050 ﷺ because those are the tajallis we want. 00:14:25.050 --> 00:14:31.120 If you're interested in a ship that talks about fire and then you find that type of 00:14:31.120 --> 00:14:35.610 ship and when it goes through that fire, you can feel the burning of jahannam (hellfire) 00:14:35.610 --> 00:14:40.270 and if that's pleasurable for you then best of luck. 00:14:40.270 --> 00:14:45.730 Means that which you are attracted to then you look to board that ship. 00:14:45.730 --> 00:14:50.420 And as a result, to be dressed and to be blessed by it. 00:14:50.420 --> 00:14:56.649 Alhamdulillah for the month of Hajj (pilgrimage) and the immense realities. 00:14:56.649 --> 00:15:04.220 At the beginning phase, the student reads Surat Al-Yusuf because now we come to the 00:15:04.220 --> 00:15:12.560 12th month which is our pilgrimage and completion of this journey but not an end because every 00:15:12.560 --> 00:15:14.370 journey is a circle. 00:15:14.370 --> 00:15:22.290 At one point, one point it stops and then it continues on an infinite rotation and that 00:15:22.290 --> 00:15:25.700 becomes the opening of Muharram. 00:15:25.700 --> 00:15:34.149 But the beginning journey it’s understood by Surat Al-Yusuf in which Allah (AJ) gives 00:15:34.149 --> 00:15:40.459 to awliyaullah (saints) and to everyone that, ‘This is a beatific surah (chapter)’. 00:15:40.459 --> 00:15:45.140 Now this because these knowledges come to the heart of awliyaullah, they're describing 00:15:45.140 --> 00:15:53.079 for us that its beauty and the reality why Allah (AJ) is saying that, ‘This is a beatific 00:15:53.079 --> 00:15:57.579 story, this is a beautiful story.’ 00:15:57.579 --> 00:16:05.779 Because the people of ma’rifah (Gnosticism) know that the dress of the 12th month is the 00:16:05.779 --> 00:16:06.779 pilgrimage. 00:16:06.779 --> 00:16:14.820 And what Allah (AJ) wants for His servant is that every year you’re a pilgrim and 00:16:14.820 --> 00:16:20.520 every year you are in a continuous movement towards Divinely Presence. 00:16:20.520 --> 00:16:24.410 Otherwise, you have no purpose on this Earth. 00:16:24.410 --> 00:16:31.910 If your purpose on Earth was to eat, drink and use the facilities, it's a wasted creation. 00:16:31.910 --> 00:16:40.270 And what Allah (AJ) wanted for this creation was to reach towards beatific realities. 00:16:40.270 --> 00:16:48.269 So the entry level, beginning level and those whom are coming new then read Surat Al-Yusuf 00:16:48.269 --> 00:16:54.070 and describes how Allah (AJ) says, ‘This is a beatific story we're about to tell you’. 00:16:54.070 --> 00:16:55.070 Why? 00:16:55.070 --> 00:17:02.079 Because Allah (AJ) wants the beatific dress of Sayyidina Yusuf (as) upon the servant. 00:17:02.079 --> 00:17:07.510 And the only way to achieve this beatific dress are through the turuqs (spiritual paths) 00:17:07.510 --> 00:17:08.510 and tariqahs. 00:17:08.510 --> 00:17:09.510 Why? 00:17:09.510 --> 00:17:15.010 Because they are the paths of the Muhammadan light. 00:17:15.010 --> 00:17:19.699 They're not kindergarten, they're not regular classes. 00:17:19.699 --> 00:17:27.799 These are for the khawas (elite) and the souls in which Allah (AJ) has destined for them 00:17:27.799 --> 00:17:29.330 to reach to realities. 00:17:29.330 --> 00:17:32.920 That's why we said in the beginning – if they don't have that interest, they're not 00:17:32.920 --> 00:17:34.549 interested at all. 00:17:34.549 --> 00:17:38.150 Means Allah (AJ) didn't put that interest within them. 00:17:38.150 --> 00:17:39.860 It's not their cleverness. 00:17:39.860 --> 00:17:46.539 It's when Allah (AJ) loves that servant and wants them to achieve these beatific realities, 00:17:46.539 --> 00:17:49.720 Allah (AJ) has to put that desire within. 00:17:49.720 --> 00:17:54.679 We say even, ‘Hayya ‘alas Salah (Hasten to the prayer), Hayya ‘alas Salah, Hayya 00:17:54.679 --> 00:17:57.919 ‘alal Falah (Hasten to Salvation), Hayya ‘alal Falah, laa hawla wa la quwwata illa 00:17:57.919 --> 00:17:58.919 billah’. 00:17:58.919 --> 00:18:04.669 Means even for prayer you have no power and might or help to even get up and pray if Allah 00:18:04.669 --> 00:18:06.539 (AJ) doesn't want you to pray. 00:18:06.539 --> 00:18:10.049 You can hear the ‘azaan (call to prayer) all day long and people don't even move, they 00:18:10.049 --> 00:18:11.830 don't even feel like they have to move. 00:18:11.830 --> 00:18:17.799 Hawla (support) and quwwah (power) have to reach to the servant. 00:18:17.799 --> 00:18:25.429 That the help and power has to come from Allah (AJ) that, ‘I want you to pray to Me,’ 00:18:25.429 --> 00:18:32.419 and they’re “Sam’ina wa ata’na” and the soul's command overrides the sickness 00:18:32.419 --> 00:18:37.120 of the nafs (ego) and commands the being to go and to pray. 00:18:37.120 --> 00:18:45.929 So means everything we do is by the grace of Allah (AJ) Almighty. 00:18:45.929 --> 00:18:54.811 To reach the beatific dress of Sayyidina Yusuf (as) then we read Surat Al-Yusuf and understand 00:18:54.811 --> 00:19:00.270 what makes the servant to be so beatific in Allah's (AJ) eyes. 00:19:00.270 --> 00:19:09.659 In which the understanding of the women that were chasing Sayyidina Yusuf (as) means ‘Dunya’ 00:19:09.659 --> 00:19:16.280 in which the dress of the servant becomes so beatific upon them that all of dunya will 00:19:16.280 --> 00:19:20.559 cut itself to give to that reality. 00:19:20.559 --> 00:19:23.900 And that's what Allah (AJ) wants for the servant. 00:19:23.900 --> 00:19:30.320 Is to take a beatific dress, take these dress of realities and lights. 00:19:30.320 --> 00:19:37.220 And as a result, your path upon dunya was a means in which to achieve beatific lights 00:19:37.220 --> 00:19:39.990 for your akhirah (hereafter) destination. 00:19:39.990 --> 00:19:45.440 Your path on dunya was not your path on dunya where you thought, ‘Oh it's just going to 00:19:45.440 --> 00:19:50.340 be my... whatever I want to do for dunya is dunya and akhirah is separate. 00:19:50.340 --> 00:19:52.450 Church and state are separate’. 00:19:52.450 --> 00:19:54.140 Allah (AJ): no. 00:19:54.140 --> 00:20:01.159 He want for us that, ‘Use your dunya to achieve your lofty stations in paradise,’ 00:20:01.159 --> 00:20:06.289 and Surah Yusuf represents that reality. 00:20:06.289 --> 00:20:16.580 That given a dream, is a Prophet (as) with 11 Brothers whom are very high stations, we 00:20:16.580 --> 00:20:21.409 believe them to be the Prophets (as) of Bani Israel (children of Israel) and the 12 tribes 00:20:21.409 --> 00:20:30.860 of Bani Israel and he relates to his father who is a Prophet (as) that, ‘I see the 11 00:20:30.860 --> 00:20:39.580 planets, the sun and the moon bowing down for me,’ and telling that, ‘Don't tell 00:20:39.580 --> 00:20:44.360 your brothers that what you've seen of your dream’. 00:20:44.360 --> 00:20:49.549 Means that the seeker, every step of this ayatul kareem (the generous verse of Holy 00:20:49.549 --> 00:20:55.240 Qur’an) and Qur'an, this holy surah (chapter) is a description for the path. 00:20:55.240 --> 00:21:02.159 That this path that you're going to partake on it’s not going to be similar to anyone 00:21:02.159 --> 00:21:03.740 in your family. 00:21:03.740 --> 00:21:08.440 No matter what the darajat (station) of your father or your brother or anyone in your family. 00:21:08.440 --> 00:21:12.500 Many come and say, ‘My father is such and such. 00:21:12.500 --> 00:21:17.210 Oh my family are all Chishtiya and all this and all that’. 00:21:17.210 --> 00:21:22.980 And Allah (AJ) give into the surah first when you come through the door, they don't care 00:21:22.980 --> 00:21:25.440 what you think your station is. 00:21:25.440 --> 00:21:30.870 Your station may be uniquely different than your father's and that became the reality 00:21:30.870 --> 00:21:33.210 for Sayyidina Yusuf (as). 00:21:33.210 --> 00:21:41.470 The whole path of dealing with jealousy from the brotherhood, not from outside people. 00:21:41.470 --> 00:21:49.000 The brotherhood and its jealousy that when they saw the beatific light upon Sayyidina 00:21:49.000 --> 00:21:56.630 Yusuf (as), they became jealous of that and the danger of jealousy we described in nights 00:21:56.630 --> 00:22:05.700 before, before we left for the beginning of the month that jealousy is the greatest danger 00:22:05.700 --> 00:22:11.580 on the way of tariqah because it blocks every miracle. 00:22:11.580 --> 00:22:18.720 When someone has a jealousy within their heart, immediately the miracles begin to be blocked 00:22:18.720 --> 00:22:23.750 and they see nothing of the path, they see nothing of its signs. 00:22:23.750 --> 00:22:30.309 And Allah (AJ) gives the beginning of the surah as a whole understanding for service. 00:22:30.309 --> 00:22:37.510 Means that read it very slow and meditate on each verse that Allah (AJ) is giving. 00:22:37.510 --> 00:22:43.360 He’s starting with a description of a very high station. 00:22:43.360 --> 00:22:51.850 Can there be a servant in which the sun and the moon and all 11 planets are bowing to 00:22:51.850 --> 00:22:54.220 him? 00:22:54.220 --> 00:22:59.541 One – means that are their servants that have an immense authority in Allah's (AJ) 00:22:59.541 --> 00:23:03.360 Presence in which Allah (AJ) is describing, ‘This is a beautiful surah,’ drawing our 00:23:03.360 --> 00:23:11.120 attention and then starting it with the dream of Sayyidina Yusuf (as) that, ‘The sun and 00:23:11.120 --> 00:23:17.909 the moon under my command and 11 planets making sujood (prostration) and bowing to me’. 00:23:17.909 --> 00:23:24.429 One – establishing this path and this beatific reality is very high. 00:23:24.429 --> 00:23:27.559 Its potential is very high. 00:23:27.559 --> 00:23:34.429 And as a result of its immense realities, it’s based on manners. 00:23:34.429 --> 00:23:38.760 How can you reach any of these on your own? 00:23:38.760 --> 00:23:42.080 It's not! 00:23:42.080 --> 00:23:45.730 Can you achieve it as an inheritance from your father? 00:23:45.730 --> 00:23:46.730 No. 00:23:46.730 --> 00:23:53.690 Sayyidina Yaqub (as) was not able to give his secret to Sayyidina Yusuf (as) because 00:23:53.690 --> 00:24:00.029 Sayyidina Yusuf (as) had a completely different reality to achieve. 00:24:00.029 --> 00:24:07.299 So this lofty station and the first danger of this path is jealousy. 00:24:07.299 --> 00:24:12.850 That what you're about to embark on, even your brothers if they hear it, they're going 00:24:12.850 --> 00:24:15.250 to try to harm you. 00:24:15.250 --> 00:24:19.529 So, then everyone sitting at home wondering, ‘Should I tell my cousin? 00:24:19.529 --> 00:24:22.450 Should I tell my this, should I tell my story?’ 00:24:22.450 --> 00:24:29.230 No, don't tell your dreams, don't tell your path, don't tell what you think you've achieved 00:24:29.230 --> 00:24:34.710 and what abilities you're beginning to have within your heart because Allah (AJ) is giving 00:24:34.710 --> 00:24:41.440 a warning that those whom closest to you if they become jealous, they can begin to try 00:24:41.440 --> 00:24:42.440 to harm you. 00:24:42.440 --> 00:24:47.020 This is a Prophet (as) of Allah (AJ) and what the brothers did? 00:24:47.020 --> 00:24:51.220 They threw him in a well. 00:24:51.220 --> 00:24:55.480 We're going to go fast through the surah because we’re for many years we're going over this, 00:24:55.480 --> 00:24:56.480 at this reality. 00:24:56.480 --> 00:25:02.140 We will go fastly through it so to encapsulate its understanding. 00:25:02.140 --> 00:25:07.309 So Sayyidina Yusuf (as) is thrown into a well. 00:25:07.309 --> 00:25:13.909 One – you're now going to be thrown into a well when you enter in the tariqah. 00:25:13.909 --> 00:25:20.149 So, first say the shaykh, ‘Oh all my friends they left me, all the people I knew they don't 00:25:20.149 --> 00:25:27.200 want to talk to me, even relatives and close associates have all gone,’ and this is your 00:25:27.200 --> 00:25:28.760 well. 00:25:28.760 --> 00:25:32.440 Everyone on this path has a well. 00:25:32.440 --> 00:25:37.230 The life they knew before and they think, ‘Oh I don't know why I'm on this path? 00:25:37.230 --> 00:25:44.600 And as soon as I got on this path I lost all these things, I lost the connection to everything’. 00:25:44.600 --> 00:25:50.720 Many people have immense sacrifices and they question all the time in their mind, ‘Was 00:25:50.720 --> 00:25:53.570 it... was it correct to choose that?’ 00:25:53.570 --> 00:26:03.150 And Allah (AJ) is showing, if Allah (AJ) chooses you, He isolates you and that's your sign. 00:26:03.150 --> 00:26:10.740 Isolation means you're in your own chaah - your own well. 00:26:10.740 --> 00:26:18.289 It's the very isolation that, that opens the door to the path of the way because the greatest 00:26:18.289 --> 00:26:19.850 danger are people. 00:26:19.850 --> 00:26:27.490 You know the people around you they don't just say, ‘Oh you're embarking on a spiritual 00:26:27.490 --> 00:26:28.850 path, great. 00:26:28.850 --> 00:26:30.890 How can I help you?’ 00:26:30.890 --> 00:26:34.840 They'll take you down in a second and say, ‘Are you crazy? 00:26:34.840 --> 00:26:36.549 Why would you want to do these things? 00:26:36.549 --> 00:26:37.909 Why, what's going on? 00:26:37.909 --> 00:26:40.210 Come with us to where we're going, come. 00:26:40.210 --> 00:26:42.700 We usually always go here, we go there’. 00:26:42.700 --> 00:26:49.560 So Allah (AJ) is giving to us all those whom are coming new and understanding, Allah (AJ) 00:26:49.560 --> 00:26:57.210 is giving to us: no He has to isolate the servant and the isolation is forced upon the 00:26:57.210 --> 00:26:58.799 servant this time. 00:26:58.799 --> 00:27:02.440 Later Sayyidina Yusuf (as) will ask for isolation. 00:27:02.440 --> 00:27:08.990 This isolation, Allah (AJ) takes and throws the servant in a condition in which to isolate 00:27:08.990 --> 00:27:11.520 them. 00:27:11.520 --> 00:27:23.990 And as a result of being isolated, he is distressed and a trading caravan begins to approach. 00:27:23.990 --> 00:27:31.200 And as a result, this caravan looked into the well and said, ‘Oh look there's a servant 00:27:31.200 --> 00:27:32.309 in here. 00:27:32.309 --> 00:27:40.670 Maybe we take him and it will be a blessing for us or some money for us,’ and they brought 00:27:40.670 --> 00:27:44.890 him out and enslaved him. 00:27:44.890 --> 00:27:48.789 Meaning what? 00:27:48.789 --> 00:27:53.919 Your free will will be taken away. 00:27:53.919 --> 00:28:02.990 If you're trying to use your will in tariqah then how are you really going to be ‘asir 00:28:02.990 --> 00:28:04.850 (captive)? 00:28:04.850 --> 00:28:06.720 Right? 00:28:06.720 --> 00:28:11.299 To achieve these beatific lights Allah (AJ) isolates you. 00:28:11.299 --> 00:28:17.850 Then He says that, ‘You're not going to be so isolated because guides are coming’. 00:28:17.850 --> 00:28:25.840 They're going to come and pull you out but they're going to teach you because it's voluntary 00:28:25.840 --> 00:28:35.019 that to lose your will, lose your concept and your mind of always trying to think what 00:28:35.019 --> 00:28:38.270 your path is going to be. 00:28:38.270 --> 00:28:45.590 Try to be ‘asir in which you're a ‘Captive,’ you've been ‘Captivated’ by Allah's (AJ) 00:28:45.590 --> 00:28:46.590 Divinely love. 00:28:46.590 --> 00:28:49.110 Think of it in a nice way. 00:28:49.110 --> 00:28:55.299 That, ‘Ya Rabbi all my life I've been choosing and they all seem to be wrong. 00:28:55.299 --> 00:29:03.110 So I surrender myself to your will,’ and this is what taslim (submission) and Islam 00:29:03.110 --> 00:29:10.710 mean – is surrendering our will to the Will of Allah (AJ) to reach these immense realities 00:29:10.710 --> 00:29:13.240 and immense lights. 00:29:13.240 --> 00:29:21.299 As a result of that, they understood when this caravan comes in our life, the very caravan 00:29:21.299 --> 00:29:27.730 and the tariqah that we enter, the shaykh that we draw near to, it's like a rope that 00:29:27.730 --> 00:29:29.190 been tied to us. 00:29:29.190 --> 00:29:37.170 Allah (AJ) has destined, ‘This Shaykh will take you now out of that darkness and into 00:29:37.170 --> 00:29:40.450 the light and to the path of light’. 00:29:40.450 --> 00:29:49.370 And as a result, the caravan is taking Sayyidina Yusuf (as) to Malik ul Aziz (The Almighty 00:29:49.370 --> 00:29:54.970 King), to a kingdom, to a king, a noble king. 00:29:54.970 --> 00:29:55.970 Why? 00:29:55.970 --> 00:30:00.640 Because this is a path towards the heavenly kingdom of Allah (AJ). 00:30:00.640 --> 00:30:09.090 ‘Aziz (The All Mighty) and why Malik ul Aziz because the sifat (attribute) of ‘Aziz 00:30:09.090 --> 00:30:13.929 means that nothing can be taken from it. 00:30:13.929 --> 00:30:20.510 When Allah (AJ) decrees upon a servant whatever He decrees to come upon that servant under 00:30:20.510 --> 00:30:23.039 sifat al-’Aziz nobody can stop it. 00:30:23.039 --> 00:30:28.830 And whatever Allah (AJ) wants to withhold from the servant, nobody can stop it or bring 00:30:28.830 --> 00:30:31.030 to it. 00:30:31.030 --> 00:30:38.130 Means that name alone is very important in that reality and that that king means that 00:30:38.130 --> 00:30:44.580 they're bringing this caravan and this servant to the heavenly kingdom because everything 00:30:44.580 --> 00:30:51.659 is an analogy to reach to these realities because every surah is alive right now. 00:30:51.659 --> 00:30:55.669 We don't read it like a story for the past, it's right now. 00:30:55.669 --> 00:30:58.640 What does Allah (AJ) want from us? 00:30:58.640 --> 00:31:03.270 That we're going to be isolated in life and every choice you made that you feel that you're 00:31:03.270 --> 00:31:08.010 isolated because of those choices – that was the right choice. 00:31:08.010 --> 00:31:12.350 It's only through isolation that you can reach to the reality. 00:31:12.350 --> 00:31:19.019 And when the caravan came and it took you and it traded you without your will and your 00:31:19.019 --> 00:31:24.610 whole path now is based on surrendering your will, surrendering your will. 00:31:24.610 --> 00:31:32.139 ‘I know not what you want from me my Lord but I submit to You entirely of myself’. 00:31:32.139 --> 00:31:37.590 And admit that you don't know what Allah (AJ) wants and as a result of not knowing what 00:31:37.590 --> 00:31:41.669 Allah (AJ) wants, you become taslim and submit, submit. 00:31:41.669 --> 00:31:43.940 ‘Ya Rabbi I'm submitting. 00:31:43.940 --> 00:31:46.640 Only You know what You want for me and I know not. 00:31:46.640 --> 00:31:51.289 I know that when I want something, it's most likely incorrect. 00:31:51.289 --> 00:31:58.529 But what You want for me is the best,’ and their whole struggle in life becomes that 00:31:58.529 --> 00:32:04.980 submission and their submission of their will to the Will of Allah (AJ) and to enter into 00:32:04.980 --> 00:32:12.370 the kingdom of Sayyidina Malik ul Aziz – the kingdom of Sayyidina Muhammad ﷺ. 00:32:12.370 --> 00:32:19.090 That is our life goal is to enter into that kingdom and to enter into the kingdom without 00:32:19.090 --> 00:32:20.510 will. 00:32:20.510 --> 00:32:25.140 That's why Allah (AJ) gives us the analogy that you come in captive. 00:32:25.140 --> 00:32:26.140 Right? 00:32:26.140 --> 00:32:29.769 He didn't come walking into the kingdom and meet the king and say, ‘Hello,’ because 00:32:29.769 --> 00:32:33.830 Allah (AJ) says, ‘There's an adab (manner) for this beatific dress’. 00:32:33.830 --> 00:32:39.080 If you're coming in with your own will and think that you'll sort of lay your path and 00:32:39.080 --> 00:32:44.870 you'll design the path that you want and one day you'll present yourself to Prophet ﷺ, 00:32:44.870 --> 00:32:51.549 Allah (AJ) says, ‘No, that majesty and height, that reality is so high nobody enters in in 00:32:51.549 --> 00:32:59.350 that reality,’ and they enter in ‘asir – captive that they have no will and perchance 00:32:59.350 --> 00:33:06.490 the king will look at them and take them into his servanthood and this is the highest level 00:33:06.490 --> 00:33:09.019 of khidmat and service. 00:33:09.019 --> 00:33:18.950 This was the way that Sayyidina Salman al-Farsi (as) entered that he sold himself into captivity 00:33:18.950 --> 00:33:23.181 and slavery and he entered into Madinatul Munawwara (luminous city of Prophet ﷺ) as 00:33:23.181 --> 00:33:27.700 a slave and somebody owning him. 00:33:27.700 --> 00:33:34.320 As a result, this is a symbol of how to approach the reality of Prophet ﷺ. 00:33:34.320 --> 00:33:40.040 That how can we be a slave in this day and age? 00:33:40.040 --> 00:33:48.840 It's not possible but the system of taslim and surrendering ourself, continuously taking 00:33:48.840 --> 00:33:55.159 down our nafs and bad character and bad desires and asking Prophet ﷺ that, ‘Accept me 00:33:55.159 --> 00:34:01.299 as your ghulam (servant), accept me as your servant to be of service to your kingdom and 00:34:01.299 --> 00:34:07.889 to your nation,’ and this is the highest reality and the highest achievement – is 00:34:07.889 --> 00:34:12.070 to live a life in service to Sayyidina Muhammad ﷺ. 00:34:12.070 --> 00:34:18.720 And the word ‘Slavery’ for us and to be a ‘Slave’ is an immense honor for the 00:34:18.720 --> 00:34:25.530 kingdom because ‘Abd’ is not the same word in English as it is in Arabic. 00:34:25.530 --> 00:34:33.089 Abd is one whom Allah (AJ) when He grants the servant this reality of abd, they're granted 00:34:33.089 --> 00:34:36.280 an ancient knowledge. 00:34:36.280 --> 00:34:42.609 Means these servants are custodians of Allah's (AJ) ancient ‘Alim, ‘ilm (knowledge). 00:34:42.609 --> 00:34:49.960 That they inherit from that ayn and they inherit from the immense realities of knowledges and 00:34:49.960 --> 00:34:50.960 realities. 00:34:50.960 --> 00:34:55.099 Means servanthood in Allah's (AJ) way is the highest honor. 00:34:55.099 --> 00:35:00.110 And that's why Prophet ﷺ described that, ‘Nothing made me more happy than when Allah 00:35:00.110 --> 00:35:03.130 (AJ) called me Abdullah’ (servant of Allah (AJ)). 00:35:03.130 --> 00:35:09.140 Means the… that servant – abd that reached the highest ‘uloom and knowledges of Allah 00:35:09.140 --> 00:35:10.140 (AJ). 00:35:10.140 --> 00:35:16.869 We pray that Allah (AJ) grant us an understanding of the immensity of this holy month and the 00:35:16.869 --> 00:35:19.900 beatific lights to dress us. 00:35:19.900 --> 00:35:25.730 That with that qurban taking difficulties and badness away then the beatific lights 00:35:25.730 --> 00:35:31.270 upon the soul that Allah (AJ) complete His ni’mat and His blessings upon our souls 00:35:31.270 --> 00:35:34.200 for the sake of the love of Sayyidina Muhammad ﷺ. 00:35:34.200 --> 00:35:39.210 Subhana rabbika rabbal ‘izzati ‘amma yasifoon, wa salaamun ‘alal mursaleen, walhamdulillahi 00:35:39.210 --> 00:35:40.210 rabbil ‘aalameen. 00:35:40.210 --> 00:35:44.210 Bi hurmati Muhammad 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