 بسم الله الرحمن الرحيمة الحمد لله رب العالمين والصلاة والسلام على سيد المرسلين وعلى آله وصحبه أجمعين عوذ بكلمات الله تامة مشارمة خلق بسم الله الذي لا يدره مع اسمي شن في الأرض ولا في السماء وهو اسم العالم ولا حول ولا قوية الله بالله لله العظيم وهو كان really an amazing scholar. He was a spiritual master. He also had hundreds of thousands of lines of poetry memorized in Persian and Arabic. He was a gifted young man who became one of the greatest scholar of his time. His lineage goes back to Abu Yubal Ansari the companion of the beloved Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم that we know the story of Abu Yubal Ansari who the Prophet lived at his house when he migrated to Medina for the first six months. خجب دلانساري in one of his books a book of councils he says there are 10 characteristics in خصائص these are these are habits of the people of success of the junior and in other words if you practice these things you will be successful in junior you will live an ethical life a life of beauty of and you will be successful in the hereafter. The first one he said your relationship with God has to be a relationship founded on truthfulness be truthful to Allah what he's trying to teach us here is the nature of relationships see politicians they have a relationship with people politics is ground for compromise and that's the nature of politics it's a place when you enter you have to compromise but what he's teaching us that the relationship that you have with your Lord it has to be a relationship it has to be a relationship based on principle and that principle is truthfulness that you're truthful with your Lord because مولانا رومي said something very interesting he said that this relationship that I have with my Lord how could I not be truthful because he it's the only relationship that the other knows more about me than I know about the one in other words every relationship you try to get to know the person so the relationship you have with your wife the relationship with your friends and your parents and your students and your teachers and your children they're all you know with your coworkers these are all the relationship that we have the human life is about relationships but he's saying this is the only relationship that the one you're having a relationship with he knows you better than you know yourself so how could you be anything but truthful and this is why the Quran says when they're closer to you than your jugular vein that Allah is closer to us than our own consciousness so how could we be anything but truthful to him and the Quran is very clear about this in the beginning of the Quran الله سبحانه وتعالى says ومن الناس من يقولوا أمانا بالله و باليوم الآخر وما هم يؤمنون يخاديون الله و الذين آمنوا و لا يخضون إلا أنفسهم ثم هناك الناس who would say that we believe in Allah we believe in Allah last day we are the believers but Allah says no they are lying they're not believers they're trying to trick God they're not tricking anyone except themselves they're fooling themselves because when we try to play God we're only playing ourselves because Allah will not be played because he knows your thoughts he knows what's in your mind he knows what's in your heart he knows your intentions even the angels don't know your intentions even the angels don't have access to your heart but Allah سبحانه وتعالى has access to your heart so Abdullah Ansari is saying when you go to have a relationship with Allah go uncensored go without any filters go without any makeup any makeup of the real makeup we're talking about spiritual makeup where we cover ourselves go without the spiritual mask go to Allah as you are go to Allah as you are come come again المولانا رومي says بازا بازا حران شهستي بازا come come again whoever you are come again and come as you are that's how Allah loves the people and this is a very high مقام the Quran says there are four categories of people and it's encouraging us to be amongst these to join these groups or be the lover of these groups the first category obviously is the prophet من النبيين والصديقين والشهدائي والصالحين amongst the prophets amongst the truthful and amongst the martyrs and amongst the righteous but the highest level after the prophets because the prophet the doors of prophecy is closed there's no more prophet after our beloved prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم so after the prophet the highest station is what is صديق someone who has a truthful relationship someone who is a sadaq and who is amongst our Ummah it's Abu Bakr a صديق and this is why he got that مقام that the best of Allah's creation after the prophets is Abu Bakr a صديق رضي الله عنه why because this relationship of being a صديق being truthful being straight forward your inward your inward reality and your outward manifestation is exactly the same that which is hidden inside of you and that which is out is the same there's no hypocrisy in you and in us this will take us to the مقام of sins and truthfulness and this is why he has that highest مقام that on the night of when the prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم migrated from Mecca to Medina of all of the people who did he choose to be his companion it was Abu Bakr a صديق رضي الله عنه and he was a companion and would say to Omar one day he would say to Abu Bakr he said يا أبو بكر I will give you all of the good deeds I've done in the past all of the good deeds I'm going to do in the future and every good deed I've ever done in the past present and future all of them I'll give it to you and return just give me the reward of those days you spend with our prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم in the غار هرا in the غار ثور when you are migrating from Mecca to Medina when you are in the cave of Thor with our prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم just that reward I'll give you everything and this is Sayyidina Omar this is Sayyidina Omar the second of Allah's best of Allah's creation after the prophets and then he said to Abu Bakr the يا أبو بكر wallahi if you make this transaction you will be the loser and I'll be the winner this is the Meqam of Siddq of truthfulness this is the Meqam of Sayyidina Omar it's a high Meqam but during Ramadan it's much easier to work towards this station because our tongues are more under our control our eyes are under our control insha'Allah our ears are under our control so we can be walk on this path and reach that Meqam of Siddq and when you reach the Meqam of Siddq this is this is when when people see you they fall in love with Allah سبحانه وتعالى this is the annihilation of the ego because you become a person that truthful servant of Allah سبحانه وتعالى one of the great Urdu poet said فَنَا إِتْنَا هُجَاهُ مَيْتِرِ زَادْ مِإِيَا اللَّهِ جُمُجِ دِكْلِ أُسِهِ تُتْسِ مُحبَّت هُجَايِ that I will become annihilated in your love to the degree that when people see me they fall in love with you and this is the station of people of Siddq when they are Siddik and they are truthful that when you see them you see the love of Allah in their heart you see the sincerity in their heart and in their it is manifested in their limbs and may Allah make us in these days in these nights blessed nights of Ramadan amongst the people who are on the path of Siddq إن شاء الله وتعالى and may Allah accept our Ibadah during this time جزاك الله خيرا tomorrow night إن شاء الله we will go through the next إن شاء الله we will try to cover all 10 of them in the next 5 nights جزاك الله خيرا بسلام عليكم ورحمة الله