 بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم الحمد لله رب العالمين والصلاة والسلام على سيد المرسلين وعلى آله وصحب جميعين عوذ بكلمات الله يتهماتي مشارمة خلق بسم الله اللي دي لا يضره مع اسمي شيان في الأرض ولا في السماء وهو السم العالي ولا حولة ولا قولة إلا باللهي العالي العديم الحمد لله جزاك الله خير لكل من who's here شكرا لكم في مجتمع المفتاح لما يحدث هذا جزاك الله خير للمسجر من كل أخي وخير أخي مفتي عبد الوحب وعلى الله بلس all of you and protect you and increase you نحن في الثالث في الثالث السنة السعدي which is a book of wisdom and reality a book of teaching of the great persian mastic master of kalam and also he was known as word smith because he had such an eloquence in his language very precise and meaningful and beautiful at the same time so one of the thing about words are that a lot of time when people speak it goes through our ears and we hear things and we listen to them but sometimes when people speak it actually goes straight to our hearts and those are the words that has meaning in our lives and when somebody says something and it affects you spiritually not just through your ear but it affects you spiritually and you get this awakening through these words because the words that rise from the heart enters the heart the words that comes from the mouth it doesn't pass the ears and these people if you look at their lives they were like the honeybee it takes so long for it but once they are ready it just comes out and everything comes out from the heart of the human being and goes into the hand and into the pan and for some it doesn't even go to the hand in the pan it just comes out from the tongue and other people write it because they're already in a state of complete love and just love of Allah and a messenger that they don't even have the ability and those moments are write it like مولانا جلال رومي who didn't write anything of the Musnari except the first 18 lines the 26,000 lines of the Musnari was written by students as he eloquently just said those lines proclaimed them and just recited those lines so he صحدي رحمة الله علي his words are in reality words from his heart and he one of the thing that words that comes from the heart it's not fake it's not phony it's not a lecture you prepare and say I want to say this in order there are signs of speech where you learn that you know exactly when people are going to clap you know exactly when people and they say those lines and they have a pause in that moment because they know the clap is going to come next it's an art and anybody if you have the time and people want to do that they can learn that sign which is a waste of time because again you're doing it you're doing it for the clap and this is one I think in our religion is جزاء وفاقاء on the day of judgment whatever you do for whatever intention you did that for that's what you get so I give an example if you donated money in order for people to say oh what a rich man and generous man he has you just donated a lot of money on the day of judgment when you won your reward from Allah Allah says now you don't need it for me you don't need it for the people who can they would say oh what a generous person he or she is and they said that about you so what do you want from me you got your reward because you wanted so the same thing with a person who goes to the battle for the مجاهد he says I'm going to go to the battle for you so they can say what a great warrior I am so on the day of judgment he says Allah I give him my life you didn't give me you didn't give me your life you give you a life for this act that everybody says what a warrior that man is so everybody said what a warrior that man is so what do you want from me you got your reward already from the people so they didn't write their books to be best sellers but Allah makes things best sellers right so every hadith scholar they write a book called the Arabic the 40 hadith there's so many Arabic 40 hadith that's been written in the history of Islam there's a hadith that the Prophet SAW whoever learned 40 hadith and practices that he'll be with me in paradise it's a beautiful thing to memorize 40 hadith and practice those hadith so that's one of the reasons why a lot of scholars write the 40 hadith now if you look at the history of Islam with probably hundreds if not thousands of Arabic was written 40 hadith there's only one Arabic of Imam Nawawi that just goes generation after generation after generation it gets translated into like Persian and Urdu and French and German and English and Russian all these languages and it still keeps going right when you say we say Arabic say Arabic and Nawawi Imam Nawawi is 40 hadith why is that there's a Kabul in that he didn't do it to be the best seller but Allah made it the best seller because his intention was for Allah I want to do this for Allah and for the love of Allah and his messenger so these people when they wrote their poetry they actually wrote it in order to because they had so much love and you can see that love in the poetry there's a man a beautiful man he was not a Muslim in Punjab and he as you all know in India was modern day Pakistan in India they used to study Saadiz Gulistan in Bustan as a text book not as a book of poetry and this is one of the the tragedies of our time that we study these as poems but they study as a poem they study it as a book of philosophy they study it as books of politics they study it as books of and ethics because all of those are in these books they're trying to teach lessons through their stories and inshallah when we get to some stories today from the Gulistan but this man was reading he was not a Muslim was a Hindu and he was reading the Bustan of Saadiz and the Bustan of Saadiz starts with the beautiful praise of Allah and his messenger so he's reading this and this is his biography and I have an amazing man and then his I think his great-granddaughter that's the one that I got a copy from their library that has his note on the book a photocopy of it one of the beautiful people in Pakistan they saw that they send it to me but anyways he reads this poem and so he's studying this book so he reads the Gulistan he comes to this line on the praise of the Prophet ﷺ and he keeps reading and reading and he said when I got to this one line my tongue keep repeating the same line over and over again when I got to this one line it's like you know when the CDs get stuck and they just keep repeating they go in a loop he said my tongue went in a loop and I couldn't go to the next line I couldn't move to the next line and I keep repeating this and I keep repeating this and this is the line where Saadiz says مهولا سعدي كراه صفار صوان داف جوز بار بي مصطفار he says Saadiz and he says to himself and this is one of the things that when the poet give an example and they use their own name أقبال ده صوت all the time you know حافز does that سعدي does that مولانا رومي does that all of the poets they use their own name right so he says او سعدي right in other words I'm giving this advice to myself it's the greatest advice so take it if it was bad I wouldn't give it to myself he says او سعدي it is impossible to be on the path that is pure it's impossible to be on a path that is pure because the path that is pure would lead you to a place that is pure الجنة المظيف the paradise is pure it's clean and pure and you have to have this path of purity to get there you can't be on the path of خبث of Phil and expect to be in paradise no each one has a road paradise has a road and hellfire has a road so he sings سعدي sings if you want to go to this perfect place right a place of beauty and perfection it is impossible to go except to walk in the footsteps of محمد المصطفة that's impossible to get to paradise to be with Allah to be on the path of purity it's impossible محالة سعدي it's impossible سعدي no way that you will find this path except you walk in the footsteps of محمد المصطفة صلى الله عليه وسلم so this man said my tongue it started to get into a loop and I couldn't go to the next line and I keep saying this line keep saying and he breaks down and this is أشدون لا إله إلا الله أشدون محمد رسول الله so he becomes a Muslim and then he becomes he goes on the path of learning in spirituality and his name is now his name was بابا شامي he has a big shrine in Punjab and thousands hundreds of thousands of people go visit his shrine and he had thousands of students and become a big big scholar he has a book the مكتوبة he has letters beautiful book so become a big big scholar and a spiritual master as well but that was all from this one line of Sa'adi's so people have been affected we talked about لزار كارنات in the first session about this French man who reads the Gollistan of Sa'adi in the 1600s and he he names his son Sa'adi Karnat and then his son pass away at age 25 he names another son Sa'adi Karnat who becomes the president of France and you know in the history of France they have a president named Sa'adi Karnat and Sa'adi he says name after the famous Persian poet and spiritual master so Alhamdulillah these people had an effect because these words were not simply written to be famous or written to be get an award but they were written because they had immense love for Allah in his messenger صلى الله عليه وسلم Sa'adi for the sake of time we will start the Gollistan on the first Bob Bob is a chapter and they say Bob Awal that is Seerah the poet the first Bob the first chapter Seerah is obviously it's the same word would be useful like Seerah the number we you know when we have books of life of the prophet it's so he's talking about the Seerah of the king so he's going to give us what should be the Akhlaq of the king this is this is a formula for how to be a leader because each person is a king but they're unaware of it we are the king of our home if you're a father you're the king of your home and everybody's your citizen you're your wife and your children and your so you have to take care of him so how do you do that if you're a minister you're a king if you're a governor you're the king of that that state right you're if you're a mayor you're the king of that city so there's there's level so his advice is not just for the king as a Patshah or Batshah or a real king or a president but it it goes from the top all the way to the bottom all of them how to deal with with this situation that will come to you so he starts with the Hikaya number one will start for the Baraka will start the first story from the Gulistan in chapter one on the the characteristics of the kings بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم بات شايرا شنيدا كبكوشنان أسيري إشاراتك this is he said until your story I heard about this king who had a someone who asir is a prisoner we talked about it in the first session so he the the kings just you know ishara is indication so a lot of the they say go ahead and kill him go ahead and put him in prison they just have symbol these go like that right so he does the ishara and then like that get rid of him so he's whatever he did I don't know maybe he was guilty he was the treason so there was something that he did that right the king بيشارة درون حالة نومي دي ملكرا دشنوم دودان غريف وصاقت غفتان this bichara obviously bichara is the universal word he knows this devastated poor man in this hall this is in this hall of hopelessness right so here's a man who's standing there the king says kill him okay end of my life he's just hopeless there is no hope hope is what makes us gives us sanity hope is what makes us go forward hope is what makes us eloquent hope is what makes us beautiful because you have hope that things will change right but now he has no hope it's done the king already commanded that he should be killed so at this point became hopeless he started cussing out the king he just started saying foul word whatever he came out of his mouth he just said it to the king كي غفتان حركة دس أس جون بشويات حركة در دورات وغوية and Saddi says there's a famous proverb everybody all these wise men said whoever's life is over whatever's in their heart comes on their tongue they can't be a monophic at this time to say oh thank you king you're amazing no I'm just going to say you're horrible you're this you're that whatever comes out you're going to kill me so why should I be nice to you right in my heart I hate you and I'm going to say I hate you so then he writes a poem to explain this further that was a prose and this is the poem that's called نسر مسجا a prose that actually has some type of rhyme and beauty in it وكتزرورتشنمون اتجوريز دهس بغيرت سر شمشير تيز at the time of Daroura and Daroura is when in necessity so we have Daroura in like for example if you're starving to death right and there's no food it becomes Daroura like okay and then there's things that are حرام for you to eat becomes Halal because your life is more important right the preservation of life is the first thing right to preserve life مقصد الشريع one of the five مقصد one is the preservation of life so in that time you can eat pork which is حرام but you don't eat to say to the fullest you eat enough that you keep yourself alive right until you get to real food so this is Daroura so he's saying so this is the time of when it becomes Daroura time like it's essential just desperation time he said your hand will catch the swords if it comes towards you so if somebody's coming with a sword on your head you will catch it with your hand because you'd rather lose your hand than lose your head right so that's what he's saying إذا يأس الإنسان وطال الإسانه كسره this is the there should be a كسره on that نادة فتحة يأس النوري مغلوب يصولوا على الكلب so that should be a كسره سودي said it's a كسره so I trust him more because he's a كسره but the other books they have it as a فتحة so this Arabic line he says when people become they have يأس they become hopeless he said their tongue becomes long he said just like a cat when he comes face to face with a dog and there's nowhere to run and hide and it's like okay this dog is going to eat me the cat start fighting the dog the cat knows he's going to lose there's no way but it's not throwing okay I'm just going to go I'm not going to go out like this I'm going to go out with a bang ملك فرسي the king asks what is this man saying what is he shouting about so obviously the king is sitting on the top and then there's all this and then there's the people standing on the floor so they don't have access to the king that close he can't hear the man and I think that's one of the reason why the king didn't raise his voice because he wouldn't be able to hear it this is before there's microphones stuff like that he just went like that يكس وزراء محزر غوف one of the وزراء the wazir is a minister it's someone who is next to the king and he's he's a good wazir he's a man of good character and good character and he's a خداوان خداوان here doesn't mean God it means master خداوان خداوان the God they use it in Persian poetry it doesn't mean God itself خداوان is God so he said oh this he's saying وَالْكَارْضِ مِنَ الْخَيْثِ وَالْعَافِينَ حَنِ النَّسِ so in reference to our Imran there's a beautiful verse about that he's saying that you know those who people who stifle their their anger literally they eat their anger when they're angry they just they just suffocate their anger and they forgive people ملك رحماتا the king had mercy man I just told him to kill him and he's saying you know those amazing people what are they that they have you know when they're angry they you know they take their anger down right this is the sinner and then and they forgive people they have you know forgiveness so the king had رحمة وَأَسَرَخُونَ أُوْدَرْغُزَا so he said you know don't kill him let him go he's free to go وَزِرِ دِيْغَرْكَ زِدْ أُوْبُوادْ go there's another wazir another minister and he he doesn't like this wazir he's the opposite like there's an ethical one there's another so one is a democrat and one is a republican right so it's like in our country that would be the style عبنو ايجن سمور عبنو ايجن سمور وَنَشَوْ يَدَّرْ هَزِرَاتَ بَوْدْ شَوْهَانَ جُسْ بَرَوْسْتِيْسُ خَنْغُفْتَانَ people like us in other words we are the wuzara we are the right hand and left hand of the king we are the people who are supposed to you know represent to the king the cases in its true form we shouldn't be lying about this like we shouldn't lie to the king about this issue we should only speak the truth to the master to our king اين ملك ردش نام داد وناصر صغف this man just cussed at our king and he said foul stuff about him ملك روي عزيز صخان درحمه ورد he said the face of the king kind of like he started frowning with this word that he said وغفت and he said اندرو غوائد بسندي درحمه ورد زين راست كتغفتي the lie of this was he I actually liked it more than the truth you just spoke his lie was more beloved to my heart I liked it than the truth you just spoke كروي عن در مسلحة بود وبنوي ان درخوب سي because his lie had benefit his lie had benefit but your truth the foundation of your truth was dirty in this culture he said that was just dirty that's exactly what he said you were just dirty today that was a dirty game he just played here's a man save this lie he's going to change too because now the king forgive him and so the thing is that also about these stories one of the thing that some of the lies that are permissible is that when two people are fighting right families feud and community feud but if you're all I'm going to talk to him again ever he said and then you're trying to make peace with him he said you know what I was with so and so and he said something he was like man I miss so and so he's such a good man we used to do barbeque together it was so funny I miss his presence he never said that he said really I miss him too man I don't know what happened we just started fighting and got separated because yeah that guy said he missed you they start he's taking the good news between them and they become friends again that is what's permissible because you're you're trying to put hearts together right but unfortunately most people do the opposite now you know they make in stories about people and one thing about the people has to be careful because a lot of people our culture they're unaware of is different from lying is different is when you make something up that never happened right you say oh I went to so and so and he said da da da da da da da about you he never said that you just made that up right or you say hey oh I saw your your daughter in a club you know you know stuck for the law when I saw your son drinking a beer right he never did so here's here's the the the sinfulness of that is absolutely it's horrible it's one of the most horrible things human being can do and only people whose heart has turned black spiritually and they're completely fouled they do that filled with hatred on the day of judgment Allah will ask you remember that story you said that that boy was drinking alcohol because you can't lie on that day right your tongue will say it Allah said okay where's that I want you to make that happen make that a truth because certainly it wasn't I didn't create that I didn't it didn't happen it wasn't part of the divine plan that manifested so now what I want you to do is go ahead we have time the judgment is long and this person is the humiliation of everybody looking and watching and seeing that way they did because on the day of judgment one of the reason why the day of judgment is 50,000 years 100,000 years in narration is because you have to watch the movie of your life your entire movie you have to watch it and not only that thousands of people that you know everybody they watch the movie of your life everything that you have done everything that we have done we will see it and better than HD and 4K right because angels are recording this is one of the things and it's not out of hatred it's out of love how many pictures of our children we take how many videos of our kids we have on our phones because we love them Allah has so much love for us that He has angels recording us 24 7 but then what do we do in return shameful acts but they will all be on the big screen and everybody will see it the prophets will see it your teachers will see it your parents will see it your grandparents will see it everything everybody will see these movies of your life and then you have to oh you made this about this person and the person doesn't know and they are standing here I thought you were my friend right the humiliation just by itself just by itself you know one of the prophets said شبها يدراز بإبادات چي كنم طب أم بغنه كرد عادات چي كنم he said these beautiful long nights what am I going to do with this night if I don't worship Allah I don't worship Allah in these beautiful those long nights for worship he said because my top my tabi'a my nature is just used to become habitual like Aristotle said if you do something it becomes habitual right you do it until it becomes habitual people who are habitual sinners I am a sinner by a habit what can I do and then he said that they say that he is kareem this is what I heard he is kareem he is generous وغنه مي بخشات and he forgives sins that's what Allah is kareem they say غنه مي بخشات وغنه مي بخشات وغنه مي بخشات is it even if Allah forgives I am going to deal with the humiliation of that day just everybody watching me and seeing what I have done and this is one of the things that sheikh Hamza said that I think it was a game changer for me it was paradigm shift like literally this if this doesn't change your life I don't know what well because we are all sinners كله ابن عدم خطاون every son and daughter of Adam they make mistakes they sin we are not angels he said that Allah gives you an opportunity to edit your own movie of your life the editing suite is in your hand you can edit and cut any scene you don't like in your life you know I don't want that scene I don't want anybody to see that scene you can edit it by making Toba Toba is the editing suite of the movie of your life and if you make Toba from something there were people who I know a person in this community who was an alcoholic and he changed his life he abandoned alcohol and he became a person every time I would see him I would go to him I would say I am a sinner you know you make the offer me I said make the offer me because a thousand of my draw is not even one of your draw because I know you edited you cut it he hates alcohol he hates the name of it he has a hard time going to a liquor store he can't even walk on the aisle in the grocery store they have alcohol because he made sincere Toba so on the day of judgment nobody will see his drinking because he made Toba sincere Toba to Allah and that's what they are trying to teach us in this so if you make up a story you have to make that come true on that day so yeah so a lie that is there is benefit in it is better than the truth that has so he says خرد من دون غفتان people of kharat people of knowledge and intellect and wisdom they have said دروغ مسلحة عميز بيك رسطفة عميز this is again another proverb from the Gulestan of Saadi that a lie that has benefit is better than the truth that has fitna that brings fitna in the community alright so you have to be careful and then he has a poem هارك شو ان كناتك او غياد هيف باشتك جوز نكو غياد whoever is in that possession and their people this is the possession of not just the king again the possession of being near your father right the one that's close to the father and their siblings right and then you you want to you want to say good things about them right the person who is in a company you're close to the CEO the person who works at the at the masjid right and then they have people so if you're close to the one who makes the decision maker right if you're close to the king he said he said it would be very unfortunate if they speak anything other than beauty they should they should just speak beautifully and say beautiful things and elevate people and not put people down so then he has بارطاق ايوانا فريدون نبشتبو and the talk is and فريدون was the great king of Persia a lot of people think that my father named me after that because a lot of the فريدون's in Persia their name after him but he didn't name me after the king he named me after فريدون مشيري who was one of the last great poet of Iran one of my favorite poets so he named me after him this beautiful poet he died I think maybe 20 years ago so 20-some years ago anyways so he said it's written on this king's palace جهون ايبرو درنامون ادبكاس دلان در جهون او فريدون باندباس so جهون this world oh my brother is not going to remain for anyone in other word one of the thing that the great master of spirituality of بلخ he was a prince of بلخ and he he let go and we went on the path of asceticism we talked about it about his story and he he got to this place and this man was living in this really a big mansion and he said wow who's houses he said he said who's caravan Sarai is this caravan Sarai used to be like the hotels back then if he used to go and spend the night and then traveling go to the next destination so they have the hotel system like we have now they had the Zawiyas for the spiritual path and then they had the caravan Sarai so who's caravan Sarai I said are you stupid or something this is our house really we lived here before before that my grandfather used to live here what happened because he died and we were living here before that because my grandfather bought it from the head of the Qabila he sold it he used to live here he said what happened he said yeah and then he died and he left so he said he said I'm telling you to caravan Sarai everybody come spend a few days here and then they leave so that's the reality of the world so he's saying oh my brother this world has no wafa it's not nobody can take anything with them right you only go with your shroud of death دلان دار جهن أوفرين بان دباس connect your heart to the one who has created the jihad the world so instead of putting putting the junior in your heart no this you can't put the junior in your heart put the creator of the junior in your heart مَكُنْ تَكِيَ بَرْ مُلْكِ دُنْ يَا وَاَبُورِشْ كَبِسْ يَا عَرْ كَسْجُنْ تُوْ بَرْ وَرْ دَكُشْ don't lean in this world the world goes this one chill you have a long time it's alright just enjoy your life do us that wealth this is the new alistar crawly the crawly out in like jay-z has the t-shirt do us that wealth do whatever you want you know you only live once yeah you live live once but it should be a life of meaning but this is not the life out of the five lives that we have this is the shortest life of all the five lives we have the the pre-creation the pre-world which is your souls in front of Allah He created our souls that's one life that's a long life we were there Allah knows millennia right and then we had the life of the life of the junior right and then we have the life of the barzakh that when we die we go into grave and there's a life in the barzakh people you know in the barzakh since then all of the his children have been in the barzakh till now whoever dies we go in the barzakh it's an interspace between this world and the next and then the day of judgment 50,000 years 100,000 years just a day of judgment right that's another life and then the the next life the final about paradise inshallah for all of us or those who need to be purified in the fire right so all this junior is the shortest 60, 70 years right that's what the professor said that the average of my umma is between 60 to 70 years so he'll live 100 years it still is nothing so he's saying don't lean in this world because it's not it's not long this is not long you know Sa'adi talked about the first session if you remember he said don't lean in the junior because it has no pillar because it just falls you always have to be vigilant and when you think about animals they're always vigilant right this is they ask him they ask him how did you learn مراقب like so he was mentioning one of his teachers he said they said the people of spirituality most of them they learn مراقبة from cats and مراقبة is like to be just instead of awareness you know your focus is one and that focuses الله سبحانه وتعالى obviously right but he said we learned he said I learned it from a cat he said how do you learn مراقبة from a cat he said there was a mouse hole and I saw a cat waiting for the mouse to come out and just and just take the mouse he said this cat the eyes were not swirl focus on this and ready to attack the moment I said if a cat can do that for a mouse I can't do that for Allah I can't have مراقبة for Allah and that's how they came and everything is an example in the creation of الله سبحانه وتعالى so he says don't just don't just chill and relax in the world because this world has given has brought you know has given you know raised so many people like you before and killed so many people and ate it this is the nature of the world it raised you know you get raised in this world you eat the food of the world you know the food of the world the water all of these stuff and then it raised you and then boom and then it kills you and then it eats you back so this is the nature of this this world because if you go to heaven what will they kill you what will they kill you when it's time for you to go the melody of death comes it's a beautiful word the melody of death comes he said does it matter if you die on the concrete or on the dirt or on a or on a five star bed you're gonna die you're gonna die it wouldn't make a difference so don't be deluded by the things of this world now these stories generally the way I because it's the live stream is is on the other side of the the U.S. generally I get the feedback from the attendees to see what they think but we'll we'll continue so if anybody has feedback on these they can they can send an email to me Insha'Allah and I would love to look at it and see your take on these so again advice to the kings to the leaders to the head of the household all of them you can apply these teachings so we'll go to um I just want to be on time but you're a man I don't think you can finish this I'll do one more um he says again we are in Bob our first Bob is Siraka Pachahon on the characteristics of the kings Hekaya number 12 so he says one of the one of the one of the one of the is what he's talking about is a king a leader that is oppressor he's an oppressive king that that is doing that oppressing his people He is someone who is a person a man of Allah someone who is detached from the from the and connected to Allah as as he said which of the of worship Allah it has the most preference with Allah about amongst all of the about all of the all of the worship so this this king who is an oppressive and oppressive horrible king he is asking which is the best about for him to do from this Zahid go off he replied تورا خوب نيم روس تضرون يقنفاس خارق رو نا يوزر he said for you the best worship is you know this afternoon nap in the sun to do an afternoon nap you don't have to do it it's really he said so people are free from your oppression for a few minutes when you're sleeping and and there are some people you know it's like man I wish you sleep more right because when they're awake they're just like having on the world so in any case so this is his trying to teach us now a Malik that is that is an oppressive bad Malik you know how do you deal with that ظالمرا خفت دي دم نيم روس قفتم ان فتناس خوا باش مردبي he said I saw a a person of an oppressor and he was sleeping in the early afternoon because the sun to sleep out in the early afternoon it's a sleep it's a sleep it's a sleep it's a sleep it's a sleep it's a sleep it's a sleep it's a sleep it's a sleep it's a sleep it's a sleep it's a sleep it's a sleep obviously we don't need that to know how because our professor everything that he did there is wisdom in it as well you get the reward of a Sunda and you get the benefit of good health if you can he said I saw this opressor sleeping in the middle of the day I said this man is a man of fit toast of travel and affiliation and better that he keeps sleeping and one who can just come as 12 goes to من ي sleep is better than a state of awakening من ي sleep is better than his awakened state اونشانون بادزين ديغوني موردوبي A life like that, a bad life like that is better to be dead than to be alive So the poets they say There's two people that they say That death is better than their life One is the one who's oppressor Because with their life they just keep oppressing people And the other one Those people who have no benefit for themselves and for others They just have no benefit for anybody For anybody He said اونشانون بادزين ديغوني موردوبي A tree that is dead, barren and dry With no leaf, nothing He said it's better to use that for fireworks At least you can use it And start a fire and cook something with it Then have this tree that is dead There's no benefit in it And people like that tree It's not a curse But it's a thing This is another nice one I like it It's still the first chapter هيكاية No. 29 ياكاية وزرور بيشه زونون ميسيرا One of the وزرور One of the وزير The minister went to زونون الميسيري He was a spiritual master A scholar And a man of the heart And a wise man وهمتخوز كروز الشب بخدمة السلطان مشغولة And he asked for advice That's what مهمتخوز means here That he said That listen Day and night I'm busy with the خدمة Of the Sultan of the king He's a wazir He's a minister He's the right hand man of the Sultan He said Day and night I'm just occupied With the service of the Sultan وَبَخَيْرَشْ أُمِدْ وَرَبِ And I've always hoped That he would give me good That he would, you know Good will come out from him To me And he would do good And everything that's good That would happen from the king وَأَقُبَتَشْ تَرْسَونَ أَقُبَ means that When you get punished For a sin Right? If you do something wrong And they punish you as أَقُبَتِ And then he said That I'm afraid That he might If I make a mistake He will punish me for my sin For my disobedience And I'm just Fear that a lot But I'm hopeful Always that He would show goodness And beauty زنون Bigger is to go زنون and mystery This wise man Start crying And he said أَقَرْمَنْ خُدَائِرَ عَزَّا وَجَالْ شَنِينْ فَرَسْتِي دَمِي كِتُو سُلْتَانْ رَا أَزْجُمْلَي سَبِّيْخَانْ بِيرَا If I worship الله سبحانه وتعالى In the way That you're serving Your Sultan I would be amongst The Siddiqs Amongst the elite Of the world And This is one thing That people Really need to take into Consideration Sometime We actually do more For people Than we do for Allah Like literally People do that Have more fear Of their boss Than they have of Allah They have more hope And And science Than they have And healing from Allah Our first thing The first door that we go Because Allah has closed All the doors There's only one door That's open Door of Allah You go to Allah And after that Everything else That you do If you're sick When you go To a doctor You know That he's That's a suburb Allah is the one Who heals Allah has You have to go To this doctor It's part of How Allah created it But you have to believe That this This is from Allah The medicine When you take for healing That medicine Allah is Putting the healing In the medicine He can heal you Without the medicine as well But the sunnah of Allah Is that you have to use The asbab You have to use the asbab This is This is the way He made the world Right But he can heal you Without medicine Simple as that He can do that But he says No Take the medicine I'll heal you Through that medicine This is how Allah created We don't believe Medicine heals You can't say I have a headache The Tylenol is going to fix me The Tylenol is going to fix me Isn't it Allah Allah is going to fix Through this Tylenol He is the one Who heals And he put the healing In that Right So he said I will be amongst the siddiqu If I worship Allah The way you are Honoring your king Now Siddiqu Is why didn't he use I'll be a wali Right Why siddiqu Why not a martyr A wali There's four categories of people The Quran mentions Right And that's the four categories Allah says Be amongst these four categories Like if you're You know Love them Try to be them There's one that you can't It's closed Already the door So So So Amongst the who This is about the day of judgment Be amongst With the prophets We would like to be around The prophets We can't be prophets Right But we should strive to be With the prophets And then Siddiquin The truthful That's why أبو باك A siddiqu has the highest مقام خيل الخلق إلا He is the best of Allah's creation After the prophets أبو باك A siddiqu He is the best He is a siddiqu Is a highest مقام Right Now عومة ربن خطاب Is a Shahid He is Shahid of Mehrab He is the martyr of Mehrab وصديقين وشوحدة وصالحين سالحين are the righteous people so a Prophet has a Siddique inside of him has a Shahid inside of him and has a Saleh inside of him so all of those are in a Prophet a Prophet is a Siddique a Shahid is a Saleh all of them A Siddique has a rank of a Shahid and a Saleh and a Shahid has a rank of a Saleh but a Saleh is not a Shahid a Saleh is not a Siddique so that's in a Siddique is not a Prophet so he said I'll be amongst a Siddique because those are the people who have the highest مقام where Allah Subhanahu و تعالى okay so so the first one is Malik the second one is Malak what is with the Kasra one is the second one is with the Fatah Malik means the king Malak means the angel so he said if the Wazeer had the same feeling towards Allah as he had towards the king he would become an angel he would become an angel okay so we'll do one more it's 355 and we'll close sorry maybe we can finish these on the next session the next one so the next one is the Bob of Darwishan and the Akhlaq of Darwish the reason why he does that he starts with the kings then he goes to the citizens the relationship between the two the powerful and the powerless how to deal with each other Yakeh as Buzorgon Gov Parsaira one of the the people the head of the tribes a learned man he went to a Parsair he saw a Zahed he went to him a person who was detached from the world he said he said he says he talks about the Law of Adam he says what do you say about this worshipper this ordinary worshipper like that about him so he says so-and-so about so-and-so that people are saying really bad things about him what do you say about him he said بر ظاهر أش عيب نمي بينام ودار بوطن أش غيب نمي دانا. He said, I don't see any deficiency in this outward. And I don't know anything about his inward. I can't see his heart. Allah has told us to judge people by the outward. Not by the inward. Because we don't know the state of the inward. If somebody is a monothek but they are praying in the Masjid. We should just assume they are good people and they are praying in the Masjid. Always have a good opinion of people. A lot of people think he is not a Muslim. Why is he not a Muslim? Well, he is white. Or he is black. Is that the criteria now that we can say? Everybody that you meet, you should just think they are Muslim. Honestly you should. I was shocked to see some people in one of the guys at the store. Some Muslim guys, it's a true story. On the night of Ramadan, they were trying to flirt with this girl. And a Muslim in a suit store trying to buy a suit. And a beautiful white American girl. And blond eyes, blue hair. And he was doing that. And then there is a conversation between him and his friend. And he said, Isn't it tomorrow Ramadan? And the girl said, Are you guys Muslim? And he said, yes. Yes, we are. What is Ramadan? Is it tomorrow or the day after? And they said, it's tomorrow. Oh, Subhan Allah. I'm looking forward. And the guy said, Wait a second. And the Muslim said, Yes, I'm from Bosnia. And she was like, Arabic was sort of like. So you should always assume people are Muslim. Unless they, They tell you they're not a Muslim. So this is a really, You know, we should have good opinion of people. So he's saying, I have a good opinion of his outward. Because I didn't see anything wrong with it. And I can't see his inward. Our law is not allowing us to see the inward of the people. We are not judging by the inward. So be in it. So he says, Whoever has the clothing of a Zahid. In other words, their outward looks good. Just assume that they're good. And that's it. And you don't know what's inside of it. And this is a very beautiful word in Arabic. And it's like in Persian. Motosib is the person who is the religious police. Especially in Ramadan, they have it traditionally in the Muslim country. They would go make sure people are fasting. And they don't eat on the streets. So, But he says, A Motosib, the religious police, He has no ruling inside your house. So if you're, If you're not fasting inside your house, That religious police cannot come in. Into your house. They don't have the right. Since you're private, That's protected. So he's saying that This is the house of a man inside their heart. Leave them to Allah. Allah will judge them. That they didn't ask us to judge them. And خلاص. Just go by the outward. And one of the things with this society Is that a lot of the things That needs to be in the house Is becoming public domain now. That those things that are in the house Is like, you know, In this language, In this culture, They have a problem. They say, Don't bring out your dirty laundry Out in front of others, right? Don't bring your dirty laundry. Don't talk about stuff That is supposed to be in the house. One of the scary hadith Is about the Prophet, I'm telling the Sahaba That don't, you know, Shouldn't fornicate on the street corner. Like on the, And they were like, How could somebody do that? He said, Don't talk about what you did In the bedroom on the street. Is as though you have done it. Right? This whole concept of sexuality Remains in the bedroom. And it doesn't come out. Whatever people do In the bedroom Is nobody's business. But they shouldn't bring it out. Now, unfortunately, It's a culture that everybody, Whatever, They have to come out and proclaim that. And all these young Muslim youths They're confused. They think that this is the norm. It wasn't like that. When I went to high school, You're going to talk about these stuff Because if you did, You'll be attacked. You'll be beaten up. Right? But it has changed Over the past 20, you know, Quarter of a century. A lot of this stuff has changed. But for Muslims, We shouldn't even be talking about these things. If somebody wants to talk about it, Say, listen, whatever you are, Whatever you do, Between you and your Lord and yourself, Hey, I don't want to talk about it. So those are the things Those are the things That's what He's saying That we should just judge By the outward And not by the inward Insha'Allah, it's 401 And we respect the time. There's a couple more in here In the last page I will do this Insha'Allah, next time. This is actually one of my favorite ones The Sufi Sheikh And the Thief story. So we'll do that next time And Insha'Allah, we'll do A couple of other From another chapter There's different chapters In the Gholasana As we talked about And we will try to do At least like one from each chapter So you get a taste Of what Sa'adi is talking about What is his advice So the chapter on love Is really amazing Old age love Which in this country They call it midlife crisis Which actually is a bad name It should be end of life crisis Because people ruin their life You know I know somebody In our community that came in I said Where's uncle? You know So on and so on I mean he's pretty old Because I call him uncle And I'm pretty old You know So he said Oh uncle left And he got married And he's wearing shorts And on the beach And this country Da da da da I'm like Uncle has He's a grandchildren Yeah The grandchildren are in high school I'm like Uncle is in the late 60s At least Right Yeah But I don't know It's a midlife crisis Da didn't know midlife crisis That's end of life crisis Like How long do you expect to live Right So if You know The thing with these Unfortunately with this culture You're never safe Right It's always like People can Don't ever Don't ever say Oh Nothing's gonna happen to me I'm fine My email is strong And Those are the people That will lose it All of those people They're so arrogant About it Just be humble So you know Allah help me You know You saw Allah I'm doing my best And try to stay away From people That will take you The worst thing in life For the young people I know there's a lot Of youngster with Miftah The worst thing In your life Is Number one Your friends Either the best Or the worst Your friend can take you to hell Or literally be a partner To take you out of the hell And put you in paradise If you have good friends If you're bad friends You're a bad But As more about You know You know That A bad friend Is worse Than a poisonous snake And that's the reality Because a poisonous snake Obviously It hurts your body But he said The bad friend It hurts your body And your fate And your religion So So The Prophet Is in the religion Of his friend So that's number one thing And number two Is this Is these gadgets If you can control this Don't let it control you If you can control this You're a successful person You're amongst The people of Sa'ada But if it's controlling you It's kind of like You know The person they say That That That The horse Takes in any direction It wants the sleepy rider If you're a sleepy rider It's the horse that takes you in directions But if you're a visual rider It's you That's controlling the horse If you can control this horse Then you're in good shape You know Where it's not controlling you Other than that You know Insha'Allah You'll be fine But those are the two main things Insha'Allah These lessons are just for life Reflect on them See what it means to you What it means in your life What it means in your mosque What it means in your household What it means in your society Most of the problems Of the Muslim world This Gulestan of Sa'adi Used to be on the table For every president in France As a gift When they took office After Sa'adi came out They had that for A century That was a gift Everyone who came in that To be the Gulestan The chapter Not only just the chapter On the king But the chapter on the Darwish As well On the citizen And on the poor people Of the country And that's why they used this And then We have another way We have John Stuart Mills We have other style Of governing You know The Machiavelli style As well And we are seeing that This is what Bashar al-Assad is doing in Syria That's under the style They pick up those styles They don't pick up this This style Of teaching Which is founded In wisdom and mercy In wisdom and mercy And this is one of the stories In the Gulestan And he talks about Anoushi Rwana Adil Anoushi Rwana Was one of the kings of Persia And he was famous For the Adil For the just king He said that one day He went hunting And they hunted a deer And they brought it They slaughtered it And they barbequed it As they grew grilling it And they said They realized They didn't bring any salt And food without salt There's no taste in it Right You have to have salt So Anoushi Rwana Sent One of the The commander told He said Go get some salt From one of the stores In the city So he was getting On his horse To go get salt Anoushi Rwana called him And he said Make sure that you Pay for the salt When you get it From the store And the soldier said Oh my master Oh the king What is that What is a little bit of salt That I take from them And bring for the king If I don't pay for it And he said The foundation Anoushi Rwana Tells the soldier And he's a beautiful example And you would see How And just look at Pakistan Look at Afghanistan Look at All of the Muslim countries Just look at them And you would see That how Through this example He said All oppressions Start very small And they keep building And they keep building And they keep building He said If Saadi Then comes And he goes Saadi says If a soldier Anoushi Rwana Gets an egg From his store The lieutenant Will get the chicken And then The commander Will get the lamb And then He said By the time The commander In chief He would Take the entire village Apart And take everybody's Well Food and everything But it all Start with salt Just a little bit Worthless salt Right So he says No Pay for it So we don't We don't Put the Foundational Break-up oppression We don't want to Put that And unfortunately In many of our countries Not the foundational Is there But the walls Have been built And And taken And reversing this Is only one way It's only one way It's through Knowledge It's through education And people Once they come See This book was taught In a lot of the Muslim countries Non-Muslim countries Hindu Sikhs I met Sikhs That have more Gulestan Memorized than I do Literally They were like Five, six years old They memorized it And they implemented it In their lives So If we implement these things We can change We can bring a revolution Of Of character That's what's needed There's too many revolutions Around the world Every Muslim Everywhere you go Is destroyed Like you can't We don't even have A vacation spot For Muslims Everywhere you go Is like You know You want to go And you want to see Is just We need A You know There's a miracle That is That if there's a revolution Within yourself If there's an internal revolution The revolution Of the heart An ethical revolution It is then That your surrounding Will change You can't change Your surrounding By force But you can Change it With love If love Exists amongst people Then who needs justice You really Don't need justice If there's love Justice is needed In absence of love And we're living in society That there's no love People have no love Their most support Goes to Pakistan And Afghanistan From Immigrants Who live in America And in UK And in Europe Than the people there And those people Are much wealthier Than the people Who are sending from here Much wealthier They have more money But they don't Help their own people They see them Suffer They don't care And that's what We need to change We need to have An internal revolution Of the heart An ethical revolution That will change And bring these teachings To life And we will see Within a generation You can change Our societies Insha'Allah In the next week Is the last session Insha'Allah And we will close This chapter On The Golden Star