 بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم الحمد لله رب العربين وصلاة وسلام وعلى سيرنا ومولانا محمد معالي وصحبي وسلم اللهم إني تعود بك أن أزل أو أزل أو أضل أو أضل أو أجهل أو يجهل عليا يقول المصنف الرعوي الإمام يحيا إن شرف النواوي رحمة الله عليه ونفعن الله وبيعلومه وبيكم آمي الباب التاسع باب التفكور أو باب التفكور في عظيم مخلوقات الله تعالى The chapter of contemplating the greatness of the creation of Allah The exalted The ephemeral is What's ephemeral? Something that is a ephemeral Temporary Temporary It's not going to last long We'll come to an end وَأَحْوَالُ الْأَحِرَةَ And the terrors of the hereafter And the rest of its affairs And the shortcomings of the ego And its rarification or refinement And conditioning it to be upright This chapter has a number of verses and one hadith only So he brings the verses from Allah And he said And he said And he said الله تعالى إِنَّ مَا أَعِذُكُمْ بِوَا حِدَةٍ أنتَ قُوموا للهِ مَثْنَا وَفُرَادًا ثُمَّا تَتَفَكَّرُوا I don't So literally You could say ذَرَلِيْ I إِنَّ مَانَشْيُوْ with one thing Or I advise you But إِنَّ مَا كَرِيْ is also the connotation I don't advise you with anything but one thing That you stand for Allah In twos And individually And then You contemplate So you pray And you contemplate The creation of Allah So contemplating the creation as creation And the creation as a reminder Of The greatness of Allah And the beauty of Allah And the sublimity of Allah And the goodness of Allah Is in itself an عبادة With that niyah And in our essay The metaphysical dimensions of Islamic environmental Something or other Right We talk There's some elements in there That help with the tefakkur Contemplating the greatness of Allah's creation إن في خلق السماوات والأرض واختلاف الليل والنهار لآيات لقول الباب Indeed In the creation of the heavens and the earth And the changing of night and day Are signs Signs for who? Signs for everyone? Not everyone Signs for People of intellect People of substance People of core That's not everyone Right At the end of a long day You know That's not everyone اللهم جعلنا منه اللهم ألحقنا بهم الذين يذكرون الله قياما وقعودا وعلى جنوبهم Those who remember Allah Standing and sitting and on their sides One time there was a sister From the west In Damascus Who was complaining about The Hadrah Majlis where they don't Yajlis Where they make zikr standing up And said Why do they do that I could see if they were sitting down But standing up That doesn't make sense Someone said قرون الله قياما وقعودا And she said Well he said قياما and standing and sitting and on their side So when are they going to make the zikr Standing on their side Laying on their side So they're going to do that too That's not how the Quran works That's not what's intended by the ayah The ayah doesn't necessarily intend Standing or sitting or on your side It means In all of their moments In all of their states Not just these three states We're not literalists Why are we not literalists Because we're not stupid We're educated people And we can appreciate language Just like In Northern India and Pakistan People have a rich and deep appreciation Of Urdu and Urdu poetry And Persian poetry Also here in the United States There are people who have an appreciation for language English and so on Every civilization has its appreciation of language And one of the most famous civilizations For the appreciation of language Is that Arabic and Islamic civilization But where do all those folks go Maybe it will be us We could make a revival of Arabic language In this country Other people have done it شالوبيين did it in Spain And to this day You'll never see شالوبيين's name mentioned In the beginner books of Arabic By only the advanced books of Arabic A scholar of Arabic from Spain In the books of Ibn Isham Ashmoni on the Al Fiat Ibn Malik So these people Who remember Allah And think about Allah ويتفكرونه in all of their moments They contemplate and meditate on The creation of the heaven and the earth The contemplation Allah سبحانه وتعالى Says سيروا في الأرض فنظروا كيف بدأ الخلق Travel in the earth And look Investigate how he began creation Part of the contemplation of the heavens and earth Is not the wonders of its beauty And who is the source Or what is the source of all of that beauty Of course that's there and that's tremendous But there's so many dimensions of contemplation Part of it starts from the very beginning The creation has a starting point Which means that it's in need And when you realize that it's in need You realize that it has a start You realize that the Transfiring of the presence Of the earth and the universe Is an event And an event is an effect And you can't have an effect without a cause And look at the beauty That tells you something about the cause It's a plan There's so much going on there And then they say Our Lord you have not Created this in falsehood But what does falsehood mean here عبثان In فالي For no reason The heavens, the earth Everything in the heavens and the earth And all that transpires Right In the times and the days And the nights of the heavens and the earth All of the events are the creation Of Allah سبحانه وتعالى And none of it is باتئ None of it is عبث In فالي Wasting time Or just playing All of it Is for a purpose and a reason And a حكمة And then if you extend out from that Or you abstract out from that And you see that every single aspect Every single event Is مخلوق الله According to the design of Allah And not in فالي Sometimes we have a sense The more we learn about Allah سبحانه وتعالى The more we are enabled with the ability To figure out What Allah is trying to tell us The more we're attuned to the subtleties Of Allah سبحانه وتعالى And what he's doing actively in our moments The more we understand that Allah is Sending messages In every moment كل يوم و في شد Every day he's about some new affair But day, does it have to be 24 hours? Right مفاستيرون will say every moment Every instance Allah سبحانه وتعالى Is up to something But do we understand him? The more we learn about Allah سبحانه وتعالى And the deen of Allah The more we're better to understand Able to understand what's going on In our moments What's going on in the phases of our life What Allah might be preparing us for And عند الضني عبد بي I am as my slave thinks me to be And in one narration فالي الضنبي خيرا So that can think good of me In the next verse he says أفلا ينظرون إلى الإبدي كيف خدفت وإلى السماء كيف رفعت Do they not look ينظرون نظر نظر is to look with the eyes But in Islamic rational theology The word نظر Is a technical term Which means If you say if you want someone To look at someone Right? What do you say? نظر Or you just say شو Right? What do you say? نظر From نظر To look with the eyes But in rational theology And here we're looking at Theological aspects of the Qur'an نظر is a technical term Which means rational investigation And it's defined as تبتيبو أمرين معلوماني بحيثوا يتوصّلوا بهما إذا أمرين مجهور مجهورون سادقان ر架ها أعبامه سيישون شعور أن تصوير قد تخوية And it allows you To reach a third conclusion That was previously unknown to you And another definition of نظر And a law says نظرون أو إشتراك أو إشتراك أو إشتراك. إشتراك. إشتراك. هل يجب أن تتعرف كامل والمثال التي تجعلها. كامل. وكامل. وكامل. وكامل. أو إشتراك. يجب أن تكون أكثر من 100 فتا. أكثر من 1.000 فتا. وما تجب؟ كامل. من the genus of animals. right? هل يجب أن تتكلم عن الشخص؟ هناك سلسلة أسلال من الشخص هناك, you can be looking at a stray cat. هل يجب أن تتكلم عن الشخص؟ كيف ي لديه مخاطئ؟ هل يجب أن تكون لديه من الشخص؟ لأنه كامل. هل يجب أن يقم بهم؟ well it might be necessary if you are an Arab in the middle of the desert and the Qur'an is inviting you to be the first nation to accept محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم ليس من العرب العرب ليس من العرب المستعربة ليس من الناس who are originally Arab from the original Arab tribes ليس من those who were not Arab but started to live among the Arabs because some poor kids' father just left them in the middle of the desert with his mom and then it all started and how do we know that? because his lineage goes back to Isma'il and Isma'il's father is Ibrahim but both the names Isma'il and Ibrahim are من العرب المستعرب they don't take photashrif and there has to be two reasons for a word or a name not to take photashrif and in this instance it's because it's a proper name combined with the fact that it's عجاني, not an error and therefore you say جاء اسمعيل وأعطيته إلى اسمعيلة ورأيت اسمعيلة you never say اسمعيلي or إبراهيمي the other اسمعيلي that's another discussion you mean something else and it's not spelled the same way it's like yeah and this way so you can extend it out and it doesn't have to just be or abstract it out really and it doesn't have to be just the camel وإلى السماع إكي فروفي عدس and the heavens as they've been lifted up وإلى الجبال إكي فنصيبات and the mountains as they've been ربط up or stood up straight وإلى العرب إكي فصوتي حات and the earth as it's been extended out flat for that kill so think remember إِنَّمَا أَنْ تَمُدَكِرْ because you are someone who reminds now I'm so remind them excuse me that kill right so remind them of these facts and what these facts mean what these observations entail because you are nothing but one who reminds others of what ultimately what is رسول الله عليه وسلم here to remind us of ultimate there's a lot of things he can he reminds us of but what is he here to tell us or reminds cause us to remember something that we forgot يَوْمَا أَلَسْتُ بِرَبْبِكُمْ the day of am I not your lord وقالوا بَلَا and they said indeed it's really what he's here to remind us about something that our souls already know because recognizing the speech of Allah is in our DNA it's just that some people become so sick and so pushed away from the center of humanity that they're almost damaged we have to get to people before they get damaged and we have to get to our own souls before they get damaged وقال تعالى أَفَدًا يَسِيرُوا فَلْأَرْضِ فَيَانْذُرُوا and here's Imam An-Nauwi Imam An-Nauwi was not able to he wasn't a rational theologian even though of course he studied and mastered rational theology but that wasn't the primary discipline that he's known for but in his commentary on the Sahih of Muslim in other places he spoke about the importance of rational theology so when he puts this verse do they not travel through the earth and investigate he knows exactly what he's doing when he says that and finally the one hadith in this chapter الكَيْسُ مَنْدَانَ نَفْسَهُ right in the continuation of it the intelligent person is the one who doesn't get an over inflated ego he's not arrogant he's not so prideful that it needs him or her to forget about truth and forget about overlook rights because pride will always bring a person down pride is different than dignity everybody is supposed to walk and comport themselves with a degree of وقار dignity but not to the point where it causes them to think themselves above another or overlook the rights of others overlook or be prideful in that way there's a difference between وقار and سكبور so this person دَانَ نَفْسَهُ the intelligent person is the one who puts limits on his or her ego his intelligence the intelligent person and works for what comes after death وَا أُمَا هَوْبَسَهُ because at the end of the day our biggest problem we have a lot of problems but the biggest problem is our own egos and it will always be and there will never be a time when our ego is not a problem just like there will never be a time when we are not beholding to the شريع of Allah SWT الباب العاشر the 10th chapter باب المبادرة I looked at the time and I didn't even register what it said to me you gotta look and you gotta think باب المبادرة ودارته إلى الخيرات the chapter of racing to good works وحثوا وحثوا وحثوا من توجه لخير وحثوا من توجه لخير وعلي من غير وعلي وعلي وعلي وعلي وعلي وعلي وعلي وعلي وعلي وعلي وعلي وعلي وعلي وعلي وعلي وعلي وعلي وعلي وعلي وعلي وعلي وعلي وعلي يجب أن نفتح لشيء روحي ينبقى من فتحكي كما يفعلون جيد الإجابة حتى يذهب وفعلون جيد الإجابة ما شاء الله و to be all about getting good stuff done not to one another and especially not that type of destructive competition لن نذهب ونفتح one another and get jealous of one another ونكون جميعاً عن أن نكون the first one to be seen doing someone else's idea ونقوم بعمل شخص أخرين's أفرق and hijacking things ونأخذ and say, I'm supposed to compete with good, I won this one ونقوم بعمل شخص أخرين's أفرق ونقوم بعمل شخص أخرين's أفرق ونقوم بعمل شخص أخرين ونعرف, doesn't really any target going on in the United States ونعرف, because that's bidah ونسخط with a bunch of egos ونخطأ their egos and beating everyone over the head with it سبحانه وتعالى أمساء just become like looney bins where the patients have taken over the hospital وصارع ونقوم بعمل شخص أخرين's أفرق ونقوم بعمل شخص أخرين's أفرق إن there's an atmosphere of people doing good, then go with that flow Be a part of that, help out with that vibe People are all doing this so race Right along with them, volunteer to help out and get it accomplished Don't go set up the exact same thing just to block away You know, stop being silly There's too much silliness باستبببو الخيرات الشافعي بدأ with a lot of knuckleheads in his life he says that I benefit from the صوفية huh two things one time is like a sword if you don't cut it it will cut you why because it has a double edge right and the ego in them تشبولها بالخيري شغلتك بالشب the ego if you don't preoccupy it with good it will preoccupy you with evil but we have a lot of egos with a lot of free time right or no مقاصد no أحداء right no strategic goals or objectives or purposes right just running around beating each other with a head الله سبحانه وتعالى says وسارعه إلا مغفرة من ربكم وجنة عرضها السماوات والأرض وعدت المتطين and race or rush to forgiveness from your Lord and a garden its expanse is that of the heavens and the earth prepared for those who have consciousness of Allah ask Allah to give us that type of consciousness that gets us to do the right thing when it's time to do the right thing and not be bystanders the first حديث of the chapter يسأل صلى الله عليه وسلم بادر بالأعمال الصالحة فتكون فتن قب قد ع الليل المظلم يصبح الرجل مؤمن ويمسيك عفرة رش race to do righteous deeds and actions because there will be fitness there will be crises and chaos like a piece of pitch dark night a man will wake up in the morning a believer and go to bed at night to kafir a disbeliever والعيال وميلا ويمسي مؤمن ويصبح كافير and another will go to sleep at night a believer and wake up in the morning a disbeliever والعيال وميلا يبيروا دينه وبيعروا دين من الدنيا and how does that happen so the next sentence actually there's no wow to separate it so the next sentence جملة is بيانية it's clarifying what that means for one person to wake up one way and go to bed in a wrong way to go to bed at night in a good way and wake up in a wrong way why? because he sold his deen for some trinkets of the dunya in the pursuit of حب الدنيا in the pursuit of love of the faniya love of the temporary and what is that? رطسوه the love he sells his deen he does he avoids or she avoids doing what he or she knows to be the right choice in order to get some little benefit when it comes to the muslim community those who undermine their brothers and sisters for the sake of getting some trinkets of fame, power and money in the dunya are cowards wow it's like they say you only hurt the ones you love you hurt the ones who are nearest to you you hurt the ones who are in your family you hurt the ones who are your friends why? because the people who do that are cowards if you gotta hurt someone go hurt someone over there but not our own people not our own family bunch of cowards and how about this? let's not hurt anyone right? that might be a good idea so how to love because really it takes a little bit of courage to avoid going for the easy opportunity when it's right there that thing that your soul desires or you're convinced that you need but you know already that it will hurt another person to go for it but it's within easy reach or you're not willing to compete on a level playing field with those in that arena to earn what it is that you think you want this is just cowardice abuse of other human beings comes from one of two things the first, a dead soul you're not dealing with the human being at this point I remember in Damascus I was riding with one of the Oedema and one of his close advisers was a very influential person in the society who had just had a meeting with someone well connected with the secret whatever you call it the intelligent services and I learned the concept of Junji Timsa so what is what does it mean to have an alligator skin right? there's no sensitivity no empathy whatsoever doesn't care about the suffering of others so first, a person's soul is dead no longer a human being you're dealing with an animal that's what philosophy means second, cause of abuse or driver of the abuse of other people and the more likely one is fear fear ultimately cowardice and thinking that the goodness of Allah is a limited thing and there's not enough to go around or I have a right to what actually is in the possession of others and this is a coward because it takes a brave person and a courageous person to be judicious to be ethical we need to start raising brave and courageous people what does that mean? people who are content with Allah and have stronger hearts و يومسي مؤمنين و يسبحوا كافيرا طيب, we looked at that one و الحمد لله the second hadith in the chapter اقوة بالحارث says رضي الله و عنه صليته و رأى النبي بالمدينة العسرة فسلمة I prayed behind the prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم in Medina the prayer of Asr and then he made Taslim ثم قام مصري عن فتخ فتخطى رقاب الناس إلى بعضي هجره سائه and then he stood quickly and even waded his way through the shoulders of the people so he stepped over the the necks of the people to get out before even people stood up okay we all know that's not the sunnah of Rasulina صلى الله عليه وسلم and we're going to see why he did that and we're going to learn a lesson but in this is also the kareena that we're talking about at some point where are we discussing kareena maybe in the lighthouse the other day in the Balaha class what is a kareena they were asking here's a kareena there's some company evidence that shows you that the original is not in its default right legal obligation but not to do that's how we know that it's not but so here he is doing something that is not his custom which is alarming to the Sahaba and brings us back to what we're trying to learn here that's a little bit of how legal theory works now so he is making his way to the rooms of his women فالثازي عَنَّاسُ مِنْ سُرْعَاتِهِ and the people were startled by his rush تَخَرَجَ عَلَيْهِمْ so later he came back out to them فَرَاءَ اَنَّهُمْ قَدَ عَجِبُ مِنْ سُرْعَاتِهِ he came out to them and saw that they were bewildered by his how quickly he exited and he said ذَكَرْتُ شَيْئَنْ مِنْ تِبْرِنْ عَنَّا فَكَرَهْتُ عَيْهِهِ يَحْبِسَانِ فَأَمَرْتُهِ يَتْلَسْمَتِهِ I had just remembered something of silver that we had in our possession and I didn't like the idea that I might be delayed from distributing it so I went and I told them to distribute it out to the people so pardon me why because once صدق our money is put in your possession for distribution or you have put it aside for distribution or Zakat is in your possession in your bank account especially if it reaches if it crosses that boundary where the two conditions of Zakat payable obtains with regard to this amount of money or it's been put in your possession for distribution you no longer own it it doesn't belong to you anymore it belongs to the first person who shows up conditions for receiving Zakat and the شريعة has its own philosophy for whom it's those conditions has its own philosophy and its own approach for how these things are distributed what we've got to do is we've got to realize that and we've got to be afraid like رسولينا صلى الله عليه وسلم is afraid and not see Zakat money that is there to be distributed as something that we possess in a way to make my ego feel superior to someone in this world because I'm so humiliated at work and they don't treat me with respect so on the weekends I get to go out and act like I'm king of the Malapoli board or something like that these are real people's lives just because I'm a weekend warrior and I've got my weekend hobby running the show and doing all of this stuff that's not someone else's problem and it's not someone else's life اللهم إلا except if this dean is just the game we play if the dean is just the game we play to make ourselves feel better and divert like a diversion to pass the time then maybe we should take up jet ski squirrel hunting اللهم الحمد لله رب العالمين ايديكم الله بصال الله على سيد محمد وعلى آلي وصفر