 One of the great blessings for humanity is the blessing of guidance Because what our guidance we wouldn't know what is true and what is falsehood and One of the nature of shaitan is that he sets up false targets because we are all aiming for the bullseye everybody has their arrow of Intention arrow of their actions that comes from their heart and we all aim it and Sometimes we hit the bullseye But the sad tragedy is many people hit the wrong Target because shaitan sets up false targets everywhere and enough sets up false targets everywhere So how do we know? That the target is real. How do we know that? What we are doing our actions are actions that Allah will accept and in the yawm al qiyamah That's what guidance comes from Guidance comes in in order to show us What is real and what is fake? It is like a light that comes in and disperse all of the darknesses so you can see exactly How things are what they ask about from one of the great saints who died in 330 He was amongst with the Shibli one of the great Sufi saints Abdullah his Abahari They said what is what is knowledge? He said all of it is haqiqa. It's all truth So they say what is the truth? He said all of it is knowledge So Knowledge real knowledge shows you the real bullseye That's the that's the nature of real knowledge Everything else melts away and this is when you know Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala Maulana said he said I Once had a thousand desires All these targets I once had a thousand desires But when one desire to know you all else melted away Because when that knowledge is for Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala when that guidance comes in you see the truth Exactly in the form that it is. This is why our prophet made the dua. Allahumma aareen ya'll haqiqa haqiqa wa razuqna ittiba'a Ya Allah show me the truth and its true form in other words I don't want to see false targets and hit the false target then I realize oh my god I did I hit the bullseye, but I hit the false target, so Allah says down's messengers and prophets in order to show us was true and they give us guidance in nasiha Throughout history from Adam aley salam to our prophet salallahu alayhi wasalam of the lalansari who wrote a beautiful commentary on the Quran He mentions a Story in an advice from our prophet salallahu alayhi wasalam to say na'ali in the prophet tell say na'ali ya'ali If you see people that they are busy with fadail If you see people that they are busy with fadail fadail are those virtuous action good action. They're virtuous Right, but they're fadail. They're not mandatory They're not mandatory. They're fadail they're good things to do He said if you see people Pre-occupied with fadail then preoccupy yourself with faraid Then go ahead and busy yourself with the those things that Allah has told you to do With the commandment of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala and this is why Sheikh Ahmad Sir Hindi what they call him the greatest Sufi In the history of Islam. He's the mujadid of the first millennium in Serhain buried in Serhain, India He said in his book al-maqtubad He said on the yawmul qiyamah Allah will not ask you about your tasawwuf. He will ask you about Sharia He will ask you about did you pray did you fast? did you Give your zakat all of the things that are faraid on us This is why far the ayin is so important in our religion that we learn those basics of our deal What is mandatory for us to learn by Allah's the commandment of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala because you will be asked Saadi rahmatullah alaihi they ask him they say about day of judgment because people get worried anxiety of day of judgment When we rise in that day, what is Allah going to do with us? He said the ruzamah sharki jangudahs buat Awalin pursesha as namaz buat He said on the day of judgment when everybody's in fear when everybody's trembling The first question that Allah will ask you did you pray? It's about five daily prayer That is far That is far that we have to do that So what is the Prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam teaching to say the Ali? Priority What to put where you do your fart first then you do your faraid then you do your Nawafil and you do your other actions that which is mandatory you get it done you pay your zakat Once you're done, then you pay charity then you pay Sadaqa. You don't pay Sadaqa and you don't pay your zakat Because the Sadaqa Allah will ask you did you give the Sadaqa? Did you give that extra charity? But he will ask you did you give your zakat? This is why we this is the light of guidance This is the Prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam teaching Say the Ali So the next one then he said if you see people that are busy with the dunya Then busy yourself with uqba with the hereafter at the time that people are busy with the dunya Preoccupy yourself with the hereafter because dunya Baltoo, they're on al-hayat at dunya. Well, I'll get it. Oh, I'll go up Inna hada lefis sohra fil ula sohra ibraheema wa musa the Quran says They prefer would you per they you prefer we prefer the dunya over here after Even though you know that the dunya is ephemeral and they hear after is eternal. It's bulky. It's forever and Allah says we not just telling you to the Prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam and to tell your umma We have told the ummas before reminded him to ibraheem in the sohraf of ibraheem in musa as an example That don't seek the dunya seek akhara because the nature of nafs is that he wants to seek the dunya That's nature of shaitan is he wants to preoccupy us with the dunya. There's nothing wrong with having the dunya There's nothing wrong with having the dunya. It's part of life But what is the Prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam teaching here? When everybody is seeking the dunya, we need a balance There are people need to seek akhara because my grandfather used to tell my dad Who used to say that the Dean the dunya? The dunya is the dog of the Dean The dunya is the dog of the Dean go after the Dean and the dunya will come after you Because the nature of people of Dean is that they have what do they have? What do people of Dean have? Qinaa They're content That's what Sayyidina Ali said He said if you have Qinaa You have contentment You are the richest man on the planet. You are the richest woman on the planet Because you have everything Al Qinaa kanzun la yafna, the Prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam says That contentment is an inexhaustible treasure house Be content This is what it takes you, Dean This is why our Prophet is giving these advice in order to balance us In order to balance us Because people lose balance And once you lose balance Then you lose haiya Then you lose the Dean And everything goes one after another One of the wise men once said He said if you look at the human being We come into this world with nothing And we go out of this world with nothing In the interval between these two We fight for the things of this dunya that we can't even take with us That is a summary of the dunya And everyone that we know once they get to this older age and they come to a recognition They say they want to give everything up. They want to donate things, right? Why? Because they realize you can't take anything with you The Prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam also narrated a beautiful tradition from Sayyidina Ali At dunya qantara Fa'buruha wa la ta'muruha This dunya is like a bridge Cross over it and don't build on the bridge That's how our whole lifespan will be like At the end of our life. It will be like we just crossed a bridge And the next one that he said He said when you see people that are trying to please Humanity Then you go and please your lord because No matter what you do, you can't please people, right? If you invite them to do your house and you do a grand dinner They say look at these guys are wasting all this food. They do so much food They don't understand. They don't they see their Muslim in there And then if you don't give them, you know, just a simple food look at them They insulted us. They didn't give us enough food That's how human beings are He said there are people who try to Please the creation He said you oh Ali try to please the creator Because Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala is the one who has given us all these blessings He's the one who's given us all these blessings And if we are not if we don't please if our actions are not for Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala In the hadith that the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam mentioned about the three people the martyr The qadi the judge and the scholar. These are the three highest rank People and in the religion the first person that judges a martyr. Allah says what did you do? I give you all these blessings and Allah start mentioning his ni'ma wa in ta'udu ni'matullahi la tuqsuha If you try to count the blessings of Allah, you won't be able to count it. All of these blessing is given us You can't He says what did you do for me in the message? I give you my life. You're Allah. I give you my life I went to jihad and I died for you. Allah says I do Allah you're lying your enemy of Allah. You're a liar You did it so the young woman in the in the man of your village say oh, what a great warrior he is That's what you did that was your indication to please the people of your village so they can see you're a great warrior Jazan we faqa You got they said it. They said you're a great warrior and you got it. So what do you want from me drag him to hell? Drag him to hell and then the next one the qadi. What did you do? I don't know this knowledge become a qadi Because you said Because your prophet said I did all of that I seek knowledge that become a qadi Say no, no, no, you didn't do that for me you did so people can say who look at this qadi in order to please people Go to hell the island the same thing Right. I seek knowledge for you. No this is the tragedy of our time is that we are in a state of pleasing people we live our lives most people live their lives based on what people think they dress like The way that oh what is so-and-so think about me dressing this way They buy cars that other people are impressed they buy homes that other people are impressed They don't live for themselves. They're worried about their standard of living with with the creation Rather than being worried about their standard with the living without hi what Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala Hi, because this is you know one of the beautiful they went to one of the great There's a lot of people from Pakistan here. So this is for you Just came to my head Bulla Shah Baba one of the great Punjabi poet they went to him and they were talking about these great people the scholars in the Hujjaj in the the warriors and Then so they said this and then so he remembered that hadith about the three people who go to hell Because they didn't do it for he said par par kitaba ilm dia to nam rakh liya qadi Hot witch par kital war nam rakh liya ghazi Maki maddeni goom ayate nam rakh liya haji Obul liya hasel ke kitaji to rabna kitarazi He said you read all these books Well, I These people were another level just their love in their vision He said you read all these books and then he said oh, I'm a qadi. I'm a judge For what you please your community everybody in the community knows the judge and then you picked up the sword I'm going to jihad and I'm a victorious warrior You please the community now the society and then he went to hajj and he came back. I'm a haji. Call me a haji Then you're placing pleasing now all of the world from communal to society to the world. He said what benefit? What benefit when everyone is pleased and I lost not pleased with you that is a bankrupt That is a man who's bankrupt a woman who's bankrupt when everybody's pleased if Allah is not pleased You're a loser. Oh laika humul khasirun The Qur'an said they are the losers They are the losers it has to be for Allah and it has to be through The light of guidance that the prophets they bring for us and if we Try to please people you would never please them But if you please Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala Trust me all of the creation the scene in answer the angels from here to the seven heaven They will praise you Hafid said Taqudab and the Nawaz asked Mika Shamnaz yakey to Abahaban naus kuna You know, I I'm just going to worship Allah and I'm going to live like a champ Because everything in a creation they will bow down to me That's what Allah did the entire creation Fasajidu illa Iblis all of them bow down except Iblis Why? Because he's a Khalifa because he worshiped Allah subhanahu and ta'ala Allah Alhamdulillah These advices that the Sayyidna our prophet salallahu alayhi wasallam gave to Sayyidna Ali Our priceless that at the time The people are busy with fada'il with virtuous action occupy yourself With farah with those things that are mandatory. Do the farah. That's what Allah is asking you to do those things That the sharia has incumbent upon upon you At the time that people are seeking the dunya seek akhira Seek the hereafter that leave that which is ephemeral for that which is eternal at a time And the reason why these are important because this will make you a balanced human being and happiness is when you're balanced Extreme is not happiness. This is something that Aristotle The Greek metaphysicians came up with that the balance is where happiness is the balance is where perfection is the balance And this is why if you look at our prophet salallahu alayhi wasallam everything about him was balanced He was not too tall nor too short Just perfect. He was not too Too obvious too white pale white. He was white with a rosy complexion It was not too dark His hair was not straight nor was it curly. It was wavy Everything about him was in the middle Everything about him and that was that's the perfect human being salallahu alayhi wasallam so The last thing that he said he said when you see people Seeking faults of other people occupy yourself with seeking your own fault because just like You have eyes to see other people's fault They also have eyes and they can see yours And the reason why we see other people's fault is because we have the same fault in us And if you don't have it you don't see it And that's why awliya. They don't see faults in anybody They never backbite. They never say oh so-and-so is this so-and-so is that no they always see beauty And this is in the tradition of isa alayhi salam when he passed by and he saw a donkey with all the hawariyun in hawariyun Or like his sahaba. They're like the perfect People around they're around isa alayhi salam. I mean these are not ordinary people These are and even they so so how there's a there was a donkey that was dead and it's gone Bad really bad They say oh my god how how bad it smells the other one said oh my god How horrible the intestines are out everybody said something negative Al-Tar Nishapuri the great Persian poet put this hadith in his story beautiful story But I read just one line he said Everybody said something negative about this donkey They were all right They were not wrong It was ugly It smelled bad. They were all right. He said chun basokhan nubata isa arasi Aibraha kardo bama anorasi When it was time for jesus to speak he abandoned Aib deficiency and he looked at the meaning And then he said Ma'abi Adi Asnana How white are his teeth Even in a dead donkey He found something beautiful Even in a dead donkey Jesus found something beautiful in maulana rumi said Each and every one of you are like married and you have a jesus inside of you Go out and give birth to your jesus and see meaning In this form and see beauty in our last creation And that's what's lacking now We're lacking people of meaning People of mercy people who see the beauty in things not the ugliness too many people see ugliness There's ugliness in the world In maulana said the reason why a lot created ugliness in the world is in order to show you that he can do that I can create ugliness. I can create beauty But your job is to see the beauty And if you see the beauty The world Will become beautiful. This is the nature of The human heart that we turn our heart into a rose garden a place Where beauty resides and we see beauty and happiness in generosity and all of these virtuous action Insha'Allah may Allah make us amongst the people that would see beauty and not ugliness and now Alhamdulillah in Ahmed who One of the