Asalamu-Alaykum, I think the topic that I was given was about the heart or the
illnesses of the heart and how to deal
with that and from what I heard it was
covered by sheriff Dollard Reese before
and I'm sure he could do a better job
about it than I can but and also I'd
like to say that any talk for me about
these matters is certainly tatiana or
reminder for myself as well because i'm
certainly by no means where i would like
to be in terms of the nature of the
heart and its state the the hadith that
Imam and Noah all day long on who
relates in his are Bahrain which is
really a hadith that is a summation of
the Islamic teaching and it was a hadith
that the prophet Elijah them is
questioned by gibreel and all of you are
familiar with the hadith but the last
section of the hadith deals with an
issue about which really is the realm of
the interior or the realm of the heart
and that is the idea of SN and
interestingly enough in the Islamic
tradition the the sciences of the heart
were really a science that was studied
alongside the other sciences so in other
words a student of the Islamic teaching
would not simply study filk which is
concerned with the rules of the Sharia
in how to perform the world or in how to
buy and sell and the activities of daily
life this is the arena of filk or the
science of jurisprudence the science of
the doctrine or the dogmatic aspects of
iman is some call it Kalam or sulla Dean
which is the the principles
and they're really intellectual
principles upon which the al-qaeda is
based and that is the realm of what's
generally known as as Eman but then
there's a third aspect of the Islamic
teaching which goes under the category
of Exxon and this has been called by
various scholars different things the
early scholars called it the Animus eluc
or the idea of being Salak and the book
that even a layman Josie about Leland
wrote called Madonna to sateen deals
mainly with this whole idea of what is
Sulu and unfortunately I think in many
ways because of what are known as the
whole Otto Sophia or the some extreme
groups of people that have been turned
Sophia or better term promoter saweeza
have in many ways maligned the sciences
of Exxon and people like the English
have a proverb say don't throw the baby
out with the bathwater as a kind of
reaction to maybe some of these
superstitious or folkloric
manifestations of Islam have tended to
ignore the extremely rich intellectual
tradition that exists in the psychology
of the nafs and in the psychology of the
human heart and how the diseases of the
heart are nurtured and and made well and
so I think really it's it's very
revelant in our relevant in our time
that the muslims once again begin to
examine this rich literature and
really start thinking about these things
because it's an element that in many
ways does does not exist in a lot of the
current movements Islamic movements
although the idea of test Kia and
therapy is certainly a concern the
emphasis is sometimes often not given
the degree of importance that I think is
absolutely necessary for it because what
my own study has revealed to me is it
basically every Islamic revivalist
movement and by the nature of Islam it
is a Dean that revives itself
the Prophet Elias Adam said that this
Dean would be renewed by renewal and
this happens continuously and it has in
the past and will continue to do so in
the future but what I have noted in the
little research that I've done
personally and heard from others who
have done more extensive research is
that really every Islamic movement of
any word that has had some
sustainability in the history of Islam
was based on on really - two
foundational principles the first one is
the revival of the knowledge of Islam
which has to do with the outward
Sciences ya Illuma dean which is
interesting that Mohammed Atta's Ali
probably who many in fact is almost
really by the admire at the Ummah he is
considered to be to be the mujaddid of
the 6th century of Islam and this is
without argumentation and extraordinary
figure who had a massive impact on the
Muslims during his own lifetime and
after that
and really myriad scholars have
benefitted extensity from his work and i
know that recently there has been
criticism allah wa hamid al-ghazali and
certainly from the area of hadith and
people saying that he's weak in hadith
and I think it's a grave disservice to
the Imam because while every book other
than the Book of Allah has mistakes in
it and this is something completely
accepted by all of the scholars of Islam
there is not a single book on the earth
that does not contain mistakes in it
except the Book of Allah subhanAllah
Donna and Allah would not allow any book
other than his book to be perfect
because Allah alone is perfect when
commodity that and so any scholar who
writes a book ultimately will have
mistakes in that book and it doesn't
matter how great that scholar is and so
to focus on the mistakes of the Imam and
to not benefit from the extraordinary
reveal vacation of the Islamic teaching
that he gave to this Ummah is really a
great disservice and I know like Sheikh
Mohammed er Kobe was telling me
yesterday who actually did his PhD on Oh
Muhammad Allah's Adi that the the Muslim
camp tends to be on two extremes one
people that say that Imam can do no
wrong and the other is people that
criticize him and really the position is
always the middle position in Islam that
we take from our scholars what is
beneficial and then from the scholars
that came later and rectified the
mistakes that those Imams made then
those mistakes are taken into
consideration and this is the nature of
the Islamic teaching so abu hamid
al-ghazali called the alanna wrote his
book or the medina and really it's based
on again these two aspects the revival
of the islamic intellectual legacy and
the revival of the idea of takea or
Tavia tuneups and this is why the fifth
book of the Imams work deals almost
specifically with the states of the self
and the rectification purification of
the self and of the heart and he was a
master of this area and it wasn't
something that he understood
intellectually but he was actually
somebody who was a practitioner of the
of this readö or this nastya and a
beautiful book which is
almost a concise summation of his whole
work is the book I you Hal dwelleth in
which he wrote to one of his students
who was a scholar of his own right and
really told him what was important about
the Dean and one of the things that he
emphasized in that book was that if you
learn knowledge and you just acquire all
of this information but you never act
upon it then ultimately you are like
Allah subhana WA Ta'ala says in the
Quran
Masaru ladina melody Nia Madonna Tora
Medina tourism malaria her committee
Mary yeah me too as far a bit submitted
home that first you clean up so Allah
subhana WA Ta'ala says that the likeness
of those who are were given the Torah as
a it's heavy it's away dicen okay a lake
opponent tequila
we will thrust upon you a heavy word and
homily indicates that it's a barren you
have to bear the word and so Allah says
the likeness of those who were given the
Torah to bear in other words in action
but they don't really carry it in other
words they don't act according to it
then they're like donkeys that carry
books in other words the information is
just on the back because it's not being
lived it's not being experienced and
it's not the responsibility of it isn't
being taken upon the individual to act
according to it and so this knowledge is
really of no benefit if no Raja Abraham
buddy or at the Aloha and who says in
his in his commentary on the hadith man
Soraka peripheral Timmy Sufi here Elma
Saahil Allah who devoted a final agenda
that the one who sets out seeking
knowledge that that Allah will make easy
for him the path to Jenna he says in
that that there are four types of
scholars or people of knowledge and this
is a very important distinction that he
makes the first he says is an imam
billahi wa ana Mundi hoja Tila this is
the the one who knows Allah and knows
the proofs of Allah and he said that
that this man is safe in his own self
and he is
haja over a lost creation and then the
next one he says is a honeymoon villa he
would yeah he don't be her JD Leahy you
feel do enough sir who allow you field
over a ho a scholar who is a scholar a
knower of allah super Hannah with Donna
but does not know the Barra he nor the
frigate the proofs that Allah has sent
down he benefits himself and he doesn't
benefit other people and then he said
well what a demoon be a huge Idol a well
well yeah he don't be laughs one who
knows the proofs of Allah and this one
is somebody who has all the rules but
yet he doesn't know Allah subhana WA
Ta'ala and he said yo ruin observe oh
well you feed oh hey oho he harms his
own self and he benefits others and then
so so this this categorization and this
the possibilities here is that the the
Imam is telling us that there are
individuals who know a logic behind
ratan and what he said that means is you
bash you to to bash you room I referred
to who belaying al babu that his
awareness of allah is something that
impacting his heart and it might not be
somebody who knows very much outward
knowledge and this is very important
because many of the Sahaba were of this
ilk in other words many of the Sahaba
were not scholars they were actually
very simple people who but because their
Eman was so strong in their knowledge of
Allah was so powerful that they were
ulema of this deep knowledge of allah
subhana wa to anna and yet they were not
people of fatwa they were not people of
even memorizing the whole Quran or
knowing many Hadees many of the Sahaba
the actual people that gave fatwa from
the Sahaba are less than 10 I mean this
is a historical fact they were only a
handful of the Sahaba that were really
giving fatwa and most of them really
didn't want to because they had such
taqwa of Allah subhanAllah Diana so I I
really think it's important that we
don't envision that you know if you're
not a scholar that that's it you're cut
off from on the contrary there are many
very simple Muslims that their Eman is
so
these people are in a much better state
than people that know many rewire and
all of these words and things like that
and in the end of the day really they it
doesn't benefit them now the best one
and the highest one according to you in
Rajab is the one who knows Allah and who
knows the Sharia of Allah super Hanna
with the honor because the Prophet SAW
Allah I am loved that things were
beneficial that you know in a logical
movement at OE what a moment ago we have
o it allahi min and movement of ieave
the the strong movement is more beloved
to Allah than the weak movement was
equal in hell but in all of them is good
so the the strong movement is the one
who in in terms intellectually has a lot
of knowledge and also benefits other
people but he is also being benefited by
his knowledge and so a weaker movement
would be somebody who maybe has less
knowledge and these type of things but
still in both of them is good now in
terms of the so this this whole aspect
of learning these outer knowledge is is
extremely important but at the same time
it should not be at the neglect of this
path Kia that should be taking place and
traditionally what would happen is
because people were studying with people
that really had had a lot of
purification themselves that this would
affect these people in a very profound
and deep way and through the process of
spending time with these people they
would literally themselves become people
of tehse Kia and unfortunately in our
Islamic Ummah are the teachers and the
scholars of Islam were really so
tortured and and and attacked and
opposed especially during the colonial
period that I mean you can read in I
read in in Turkey that in 1923 there
were 17 shoes that were hung in one
village you know the the what took place
in Morocco under governor Lutie this
fanatical French governor who literally
went and killed many many teachers of
Islam
and this was happening all over the
Muslim Ummah and then the next thing
that took place was the dismantling of
the Islamic madrasah and university
system which would they these systems
were producing human beings of great
caliber well those things were literally
dismantled so we find ourselves in a
very precarious situation because not
only do we have very few people that are
really well established and well
grounded in the Islamic scientists but
also we have very few people that have
gone through this serious training in
which they can lead they can take you
know positions of piada
Omar Omar banana pavel delong I said to
fuck ahupua'a pseudo that you should be
people of understanding before you get
into positions of authority and what
happens in many situations is many of us
are put into positions of authority
really before we're prepared for that
and I would certainly you know put
myself and many other people in in that
category because this is a tragedy in
the Islamic Ummah so in these two
aspects of the Islamic movement which is
one the riveted vacation or revival of
the Islamic Sciences and knowledge now
the Islamic science is really are very
well known they're categorized and
they're classified and they're
classified between what are called
feride Keith ayah for the line or
individual responsibilities collective
responsibility there's an obligation on
all of us to learn the I mean all of us
have this individual responsibility and
these things really are not learned on a
weekend seminar there are things that
take serious study by all of us and
unfortunately if we did not get it as
children then we must learn it as adults
I mean the best and ideal situation is
that a parent will give the child what
it needs in terms of the prerequisite
knowledge --is of Islam but if they're
not given these knowledge --is and they
reach into adulthood and they find that
they're in a state of ignorance it
becomes incumbent upon them as a
mockolate as somebody who's responsible
to seek that knowledge and we know also
that knowledge according to Islam is
from the cradle to the grave
it literally is you know man
the lady from the cradle to the grave
and we have many traditions of
scholarship and use of the alarm
everyone is death met bed was learning
some massage capilla and it wasn't
because he needed them in this life he
literally wanted to increase his
knowledge because Allah your Farrell
Edina amanu when Latino ultra shot a lot
raises up those who believe and those
who have been given knowledge by degrees
so the more knowledge the more Eman one
has the higher their degrees with Allah
subhana WA Ta'ala and this is how these
people look they were learning knowledge
not for their own selves not for
self-aggrandizement not to display their
knowledge not to be impressive in front
of people not so that to shadow alayhi
but van an like they say like people
pointing and oh look at that one and
what knowledge he had this is all
illusion like Khalil even is happy when
he the hadith document about the Allah
who was who wrote the science of our old
which is prosody and really a brilliant
scholar and grammarian somebody saw him
after he died in a dream and he said
where were all those knowledge is that
because he Khalil asked a lot to give
him and now as nobody else had before
him and he was inspired to put down the
science of the metric versification in
poetry the what are called the Abha in
arabic of lines of poetry and he did
this and so this man asked him in his
dream what did allah subhana wa that i
do with all those knowledge is how did
they