And always a reminder for myself ana abdukal ‘ajeezu, dayeefu, miskinu, zhalim, wa jahl
and but for the grace of Allah (AJ) that are still in existence.
Alhamdulillah, alhamdulillah inshaAllah if we have any questions and answers for tonight.
We knocked out the power last night so alhamdulillah, inshaAllah.
What did we talk about last night?
Being an orphan?
InshaAllah what did we talk about last night?
[Audience responds] InshaAllah from Surat Al-Balad.
That the condition has to be within us and by means of that condition inshaAllah it attracts
the outside.
And that if we keep ourself in a condition of yateem (orphan) in our spiritual path then
alhamdulillah you should have a significant concern for yateem.
So one is a spiritual to understand our own condition and we feel that we’re cut off
and that we’re practicing and nobody’s understanding and similar to the example through
Surat Al-Yusuf that coming now on the 12th month for Dhul Hajj.
And that’s one of the secrets for tariqah, that to be taken by one whom will be guiding
us and to be cut off from everything and to feel that we’re cut off, that we don’t
fit in everywhere and that’s a condition in which Allah (AJ) is describing in Surat
Al-Balad that, ‘The one whom freed the slave.’
And the magnitude in which people don’t understand oppression.
So everyone’s worried about external oppression.
[People say] ‘Oh look that one’s oppressed.’
The funniest is the bunch of white men in suits worrying about Muslim women being oppressed.
Everyone’s worried about the external oppression.
And the most dangerous and the most concerning to Allah (AJ) is oppressing what Allah (AJ)
finds dear and it’s not the physicality but it’s the soul and that nobody contemplating
that.
So when Allah’s (AJ) saying, ‘Free the slave,’ the condition must be so bad, it’s
slavery.
That there’s a soul within us that Allah (AJ) has wished for it to be empowered and
wished for the soul to be controlling insan – humanity or the humans.
But instead they came to earth, they were horribly kidnapped and held ransom by a body
and an ego.
Which the body, the ego they team up with the devil and that becomes the sharik – that
becomes the partnership.
There is no partnership with Allah (AJ).
There’s no way to reach to Allah (AJ).
The ‘La sharik’ (no partnership) is that you’re making a partnership with your nafs
(ego) and shaitan (satan) against what’s dear to Allah (AJ) which is the soul, which
is the world of light and which is that which is eternal.
And 99 percent of people don’t think there’s any oppression so they don’t understand
there verses of Qur’an.
They don’t understand even the conditions.
So imagine then how to find submission, how to find Allah’s (AJ) rida and satisfaction
if we don’t even know the first step.
So they don’t think their actions are bad.
They say, ‘Oh I…
I’m not really doing anything bad.’
No, you are doing everything bad because if you haven’t freed the soul then it’s being
held captive and that captivity is what Allah (AJ) is describing that, ‘They verily they
oppress themselves.’
And when you’ve oppressed yourself you have to run.
“Jaooka fastaghfaro Allah wastaghfara lakum Rasol.”
“Jaooka” mean – go to the presence of Sayyidina Muhammad ﷺ and ask for Allah’s
(AJ) forgiveness for those whom oppress themselves and been oppressed.
So the first step in oppression is to recognize – what oppression.
And that’s the soul.
The soul is the only thing that Allah (AJ) is caring for.
Why Allah (AJ) to care about the physicality.
We said before, it’s like a tomato, it’s like a piece of fruit.
It’s just another creation that rots but that which does not rot is that which is eternal
and that’s the soul.
And Allah’s (AJ) concern is for the soul.
So the one whom frees it, the one whom feeds it, the one whom nourishes it, gains everything
in life and that becomes the dichotomy or the reality of the binary code.
The one whom is on YouTube thinking that his jogging and eating, organic broccoli’s and
healing his whole body is but an illusion.
And what Allah (AJ) want from us is take care of yourself but feed your soul.
Free your soul and that’s your true healing and that’s your true blessing.
Go out and feed other people is your shifa (healing), go out and do good works – that
is your healing.
Those are the elements that they empower and nourish the soul and those whom are of a heavenly
reality they understood that, ‘My power first is to my soul.
If my soul is empowered, my soul is good, my soul is connected, everything else in life
will fall in place.
Every guidance comes, every blessing comes, every shortness is corrected, every difficult…
every difficulty and crookedness will be straightened if the individual focuses on the soul but
we’re surrounded in a complete immersion of dunya (material world) people that quickly
you forget.
It’s a matter of minutes.
You watch something and the person is saying, ‘Eat this, he does like this, we do like
this, everything, you’re going to live longer.’
And the reality is there’s no focus of the soul anymore and these teachings are to free
the slave, to free the soul and empower that which Allah (AJ) wants and that which Allah
(AJ) is concerned for, that which takes us through all of eternity.
We pray that Allah (AJ) give us an understanding and we contemplate the reality and the immensity
of that.
So anyone whom sick, their focus should be on the soul.
That’s why zakah (charity), that’s why sadaqah because people don’t understand
what’s the correlation.
Because it’s a purification.
It’s not only that when you become sick you quickly seek out medical and medicine
and pills – those alhamdulillah, those are one condition but the true reality is that
the soul has to have a power.
So the feeding of others, the giving of charity, the doing of good works and selfless actions
– that brings “Ismuhu dawas wa zikruhu shafas.”
That brings the power of Allah (AJ), the lights and the blessings upon the soul.
As a result Allah (AJ) gives a permission for a shifa and a healing upon the physicality,
inshaAllah.
We pray that Allah (AJ) give us more and more understanding of the depth of that reality
and to contemplate how much shaitan is tricking this dunya into forgetting about that which
is most important.
And when people are not walking through the door, “La ilaha illa anta Subhanaka, innee
kuntu minazh zhalimeen.”
That they don’t understand.
[People say] ‘Why?
I’m not an oppressor.’
No, you are the greatest oppressor because you have not freed the slave.
It’s not that you jog and eat broccoli and you go to organic grocery store but you have
not freed the slave and you don’t know how much that slave is under oppression of the
nafs and the bad character and bad desires.
Subhana rabbika rabbal ‘izzati ‘amma yasifoon, wa salaamun ‘alal mursaleen, walhamdulillahi
rabbil ‘aalameen.
Bi hurmati Muhammad al-Mustafa wa bi siri Surat al-Fatiha.