The first Juma - A sighting of Ya Jameelo - The One Most Beautiful
While wondering why my relationships are always in a sense of faltering, knowing from the Quran that it is also the nature of all stories that they start and stop...
وعن عبد الله بن مسعود رضي الله عنه عن النبى صلى الله عليه وسلم قال:
“لا يدخل الجنة من كان في قلبه مثقال ذرة من كبر
” فقال رجل” إن الرجل يحب أن يكون ثوبه حسناً ونعله حسناً؟
قال: “إن الله جميل يحب الجمال الكبر بطر الحق وغمط الناس”
((رواه مسلم))
'Abdullah bin Mas'ud (May Allah be pleased with him) reported:
The Prophet (ﷺ) said, "He who has, in his heart, an ant's weight of arrogance will not enter Jannah."
Someone said: "A man likes to wear beautiful clothes and shoes?"
The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) said, "Allah is Beautiful, He loves beauty. Arrogance means pride and ungratefulness towards Al Haqq and it is dealing with people with contempt."
[Muslim].
Excerpt from a lecture on:
Nature and Etiquettes of a Relationship
...“The relationship with Allah is not confined to obedience and it does not end at obedience. Obedience itself is a waseela, a means, to a greater goal. That greater, singular, goal is fulfilling the ettiquettes of a ta’luq, relationship, with Allah with truthfulness.
There is a natural order for this: In all relationships one element is necessary for there to even be a relationship. If it is present, there is a relationship, if it is absent, then there is a delusion of a relationship.
That element is emotion in the relationship – ehsaas e ta’luq - which will come from and be founded upon these states either, muhabbat, love, or shafqat, affection, or ehtaram, respect or khair khawahi, being a well wisher.
Again, what is common between these states is that they are all emotions and if they are absent, then the relationship does not exist either except as an illusion. If the basis of my relationship is love i.e. I have accepted the relationship on the basis that it is rooted in muhabbat. If that ehsaas, the realization of the emotion, is absent then the relationship cannot have stability, it cannot be steadfast. It will constantly waiver.
The emotion then, say muhabbat - love, has certain forms of appearance. The muhabbat will be demonstrated according to the status of the other person in one's heart or one's mind. Whatever that rank and status is, the emotion, for example love, will demonstrate that status.
With an elder person the love will appear as service and ehtaram, respect. With the young, that relationship is of shafqat, affection.
With the same age or so, the muhabbat is such that it creates takmeel, fulfillment, for each other and it is expressed and demonstrated without formality.
With an elder, the jewel in my fitrat, (my original nature as opposed to the secondary one I acquire through my habits and influences), that will appear is the jauhar e haqq shanasi which is the jewel of identifying or recognizing the truth.
With the young, the jewel in my fitrat that makes its appearance is khair, goodness.
With my contemporary, the jewel in my nature that makes an appearance in muhabbat, love, is the jauhar e jamal, beauty. And it is that beauty that comes into practice.
If my fitrat is included and in the driving seat of all these three kinds of relationships, it is active. It dominates all my emotions and my heart and my mind making them passive and my knowing and being will come into a state of wahdat, union.
There will not be a distinction between my being, wujood and my knowing something, sha’oor. The two will become identical, they cannot be separate. This is how the Auliya Allah, the Friends of God, exist at all times.
Fitrat is working on the principle of wujood, my presence and the source of the marrow of my knowing, sha’oor, and it only becomes activated by the bounty of the acceptance of obedience. It only becomes activated by the recognition of truth.
So if I refuse to be obedient and do not consider it important and have no inclination towards it and don’t consider it my greatest need, then my fitrat will remain mu'attal, suspended. It will only remain animalistic. My fitrat e insaani, which is the spirit Allah blew inside me according to the Quran, will remain deferred and it will remain inactive....
and repeat:
...The relationship with Allah is not confined to obedience and it does not end at obedience. Obedience itself is a waseela, a means, to a greater goal. That greater, singular, goal is fulfilling the ettiquettes of a ta’luq, relationship, with Allah with truthfulness...
Allah's Name Al Jameel does not appear in the Quran. The Loving One is Al Wadood in it. The following are three verses which explain what love means as its existence in The Divine
232. Ask forgiveness, turn in repentance. Allah is Raheem-un, Wadood, Most Forgiving, Most Loving
وَٱسْتَغْفِرُوا۟ رَبَّكُمْ ثُمَّ تُوبُوٓا۟ إِلَيْهِ ۚ
إِنَّ رَبِّى رَحِيمٌۭ وَدُودٌۭ
And ask forgiveness (of) your Lord, then turn in repentance to Him.
Indeed, my Lord (is) Most Merciful, Most Loving."
Surah Al Hud, Verse 90
Tafseer e Jilani
Wa: O my nation (from the Prophet Hud (as))…
Istaghfiru Rabbakum: ask forgiveness of your Lord, who brought you into appearance from nothing-ness, from all of your excesses…
Summa toubu alayhi: turn in regret towards Him i.e. be sincere in your repentance before Him and your turning towards Him and after the sincerity of your repentance, don’t let your offenses overcome you (in the future).
Inna Rabbi Rahim-un: Indeed, Allah Subhanahu who raises you, is Merciful. He accepts your repentance and forgives you for the mistakes which happened from you…
Wadood-un: (He is) The Loving One, He loves you and is Merciful upon you and bestows His Bounty on you.
Qari Sahib emphasized the three qualities of the one who is wadood: loving, merciful, bestowing favours upon the other.
233. Allah is Ghafoor ul Wadood, The Most Forgiving, The Most Loving
وَهُوَ ٱلْغَفُورُ ٱلْوَدُودُ
And He is Oft-Forgiving, the Most Loving,
Surah Al Burooj, Verse 14
Tafseer e Jilani
Wa huwa: And, He, Allah Subhanahu, in accordance with His Expansive Generosity and Mercy…
Al Ghafoor: is Forgiving, Al Sattar, The Coverer (from every one), Al Ma’hhaa lid Dunoob, The Eraser of sins for the one who repents and returns towards Him, sincere, regretful and althought they may be major and although many in number because, indeed, His Mercy is more vast then that sin and is most prevailing.
Al Wadood: (He is) The Loving One, He is Al Muhib li Ikhlas al Mudnibeen
The One who loves the sincerity of the sinners
and He loves the tauba tal Mustaghfireen, the repentance of the askers of forgiveness
and He loves the dara’at al Khaifeen al Mukhbiteena, the beseeching of the ones afraid of Him, who are humble before him,
and He loves the al Mustahihyeena, the ones who feel shy before Him,
and He loves the an Nadimeena, the ones who regret that which occurred from them in the time of ghaflat, forgetfulness and ghuroor, deceit.
And He loves and He loves and He loves...
234. Allah loves those who turn in repentance and He loves those who purify themselves
إِنَّ ٱللَّهَ يُحِبُّ ٱلتَّوَّبِينَ وَيُحِبُّ ٱلْمُتَطَهِّرِينَ
Indeed, Allah loves those who turn in repentance and loves those who purify themselves.
Surah Al Baqarah, Verse 222
Tafseer e Jilani
Innallah yubbil Tawwabeen: Indeed, Allah loves the repenters who repent from the inclination towards going against that which Allah has commanded…
Wa yubbul Muttatahirreen: and He loves the ones who purify themselves from their impurities, overt as well as inner.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ud1IF2OcYK0
The first Juma - A sighting of Ya Jameelo - The One Most Beautiful
While wondering why my relationships are always in a sense of faltering, knowing from the Quran that it is also the nature of all stories that they start and stop...
وعن عبد الله بن مسعود رضي الله عنه عن النبى صلى الله عليه وسلم قال:
“لا يدخل الجنة من كان في قلبه مثقال ذرة من كبر
” فقال رجل” إن الرجل يحب أن يكون ثوبه حسناً ونعله حسناً؟
قال: “إن الله جميل يحب الجمال الكبر بطر الحق وغمط الناس”
((رواه مسلم))
'Abdullah bin Mas'ud (May Allah be pleased with him) reported:
The Prophet (ﷺ) said, "He who has, in his heart, an ant's weight of arrogance will not enter Jannah."
Someone said: "A man likes to wear beautiful clothes and shoes?"
The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) said, "Allah is Beautiful, He loves beauty. Arrogance means pride and ungratefulness towards Al Haqq and it is dealing with people with contempt."
[Muslim].
Excerpt from a lecture on:
Nature and Etiquettes of a Relationship
...“The relationship with Allah is not confined to obedience and it does not end at obedience. Obedience itself is a waseela, a means, to a greater goal. That greater, singular, goal is fulfilling the ettiquettes of a ta’luq, relationship, with Allah with truthfulness.
There is a natural order for this: In all relationships one element is necessary for there to even be a relationship. If it is present, there is a relationship, if it is absent, then there is a delusion of a relationship.
That element is emotion in the relationship – ehsaas e ta’luq - which will come from and be founded upon these states either, muhabbat, love, or shafqat, affection, or ehtaram, respect or khair khawahi, being a well wisher.
Again, what is common between these states is that they are all emotions and if they are absent, then the relationship does not exist either except as an illusion. If the basis of my relationship is love i.e. I have accepted the relationship on the basis that it is rooted in muhabbat. If that ehsaas, the realization of the emotion, is absent then the relationship cannot have stability, it cannot be steadfast. It will constantly waiver.
The emotion then, say muhabbat - love, has certain forms of appearance. The muhabbat will be demonstrated according to the status of the other person in one's heart or one's mind. Whatever that rank and status is, the emotion, for example love, will demonstrate that status.
With an elder person the love will appear as service and ehtaram, respect. With the young, that relationship is of shafqat, affection.
With the same age or so, the muhabbat is such that it creates takmeel, fulfillment, for each other and it is expressed and demonstrated without formality.
With an elder, the jewel in my fitrat, (my original nature as opposed to the secondary one I acquire through my habits and influences), that will appear is the jauhar e haqq shanasi which is the jewel of identifying or recognizing the truth.
With the young, the jewel in my fitrat that makes its appearance is khair, goodness.
With my contemporary, the jewel in my nature that makes an appearance in muhabbat, love, is the jauhar e jamal, beauty. And it is that beauty that comes into practice.
If my fitrat is included and in the driving seat of all these three kinds of relationships, it is active. It dominates all my emotions and my heart and my mind making them passive and my knowing and being will come into a state of wahdat, union.
There will not be a distinction between my being, wujood and my knowing something, sha’oor. The two will become identical, they cannot be separate. This is how the Auliya Allah, the Friends of God, exist at all times.
Fitrat is working on the principle of wujood, my presence and the source of the marrow of my knowing, sha’oor, and it only becomes activated by the bounty of the acceptance of obedience. It only becomes activated by the recognition of truth.
So if I refuse to be obedient and do not consider it important and have no inclination towards it and don’t consider it my greatest need, then my fitrat will remain mu'attal, suspended. It will only remain animalistic. My fitrat e insaani, which is the spirit Allah blew inside me according to the Quran, will remain deferred and it will remain inactive....
and repeat:
...The relationship with Allah is not confined to obedience and it does not end at obedience. Obedience itself is a waseela, a means, to a greater goal. That greater, singular, goal is fulfilling the ettiquettes of a ta’luq, relationship, with Allah with truthfulness...
Allah's Name Al Jameel does not appear in the Quran. The Loving One is Al Wadood in it. The following are three verses which explain what love means as its existence in The Divine
232. Ask forgiveness, turn in repentance. Allah is Raheem-un, Wadood, Most Forgiving, Most Loving
وَٱسْتَغْفِرُوا۟ رَبَّكُمْ ثُمَّ تُوبُوٓا۟ إِلَيْهِ ۚ
إِنَّ رَبِّى رَحِيمٌۭ وَدُودٌۭ
And ask forgiveness (of) your Lord, then turn in repentance to Him.
Indeed, my Lord (is) Most Merciful, Most Loving."
Surah Al Hud, Verse 90
Tafseer e Jilani
Wa: O my nation (from the Prophet Hud (as))…
Istaghfiru Rabbakum: ask forgiveness of your Lord, who brought you into appearance from nothing-ness, from all of your excesses…
Summa toubu alayhi: turn in regret towards Him i.e. be sincere in your repentance before Him and your turning towards Him and after the sincerity of your repentance, don’t let your offenses overcome you (in the future).
Inna Rabbi Rahim-un: Indeed, Allah Subhanahu who raises you, is Merciful. He accepts your repentance and forgives you for the mistakes which happened from you…
Wadood-un: (He is) The Loving One, He loves you and is Merciful upon you and bestows His Bounty on you.
Qari Sahib emphasized the three qualities of the one who is wadood: loving, merciful, bestowing favours upon the other.
233. Allah is Ghafoor ul Wadood, The Most Forgiving, The Most Loving
وَهُوَ ٱلْغَفُورُ ٱلْوَدُودُ
And He is Oft-Forgiving, the Most Loving,
Surah Al Burooj, Verse 14
Tafseer e Jilani
Wa huwa: And, He, Allah Subhanahu, in accordance with His Expansive Generosity and Mercy…
Al Ghafoor: is Forgiving, Al Sattar, The Coverer (from every one), Al Ma’hhaa lid Dunoob, The Eraser of sins for the one who repents and returns towards Him, sincere, regretful and althought they may be major and although many in number because, indeed, His Mercy is more vast then that sin and is most prevailing.
Al Wadood: (He is) The Loving One, He is Al Muhib li Ikhlas al Mudnibeen
The One who loves the sincerity of the sinners
and He loves the tauba tal Mustaghfireen, the repentance of the askers of forgiveness
and He loves the dara’at al Khaifeen al Mukhbiteena, the beseeching of the ones afraid of Him, who are humble before him,
and He loves the al Mustahihyeena, the ones who feel shy before Him,
and He loves the an Nadimeena, the ones who regret that which occurred from them in the time of ghaflat, forgetfulness and ghuroor, deceit.
And He loves and He loves and He loves...
234. Allah loves those who turn in repentance and He loves those who purify themselves
إِنَّ ٱللَّهَ يُحِبُّ ٱلتَّوَّبِينَ وَيُحِبُّ ٱلْمُتَطَهِّرِينَ
Indeed, Allah loves those who turn in repentance and loves those who purify themselves.
Surah Al Baqarah, Verse 222
Tafseer e Jilani
Innallah yubbil Tawwabeen: Indeed, Allah loves the repenters who repent from the inclination towards going against that which Allah has commanded…
Wa yubbul Muttatahirreen: and He loves the ones who purify themselves from their impurities, overt as well as inner.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ud1IF2OcYK0