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Longing for Allah

Etiquettes of learning

1. You should be collecting your heart on certainty of belief regarding news about what

you hear about Allah and judgment day. You need to believe on it without any doubt.

We all different on level of our faith, calamities and thus the whisper differs according

to that; so therefor, it is very important you should fight back the whisper of shaitan and

ask Allah for certainty.

2. Understanding what you hear, especially the matters about the unseen. Don’t measure

the unseen matters with your logical understanding.

E.g. Prophet Muhammad صلى هللا عليه وسلم said “when a person dies and he is put in his grave,

and as soon as the people leave and two angel comes and they make the dead person to sit

in the grave”; but you know that grave is a hole and there are bricks to close the hole, so

you don’t measure it with your logical mind thinking how they make the person sit in the

grave and turn. We can’t imagine it, we only know the description of it. You have to

understand the hadith or the verse very well. If incase a question comes into your heart,

you have to wait for the information and it gives you full picture. Search more, and read

tafseer books, and ask the scholars. Sister don’t measure duniya with akhirah, they are both

very different.

The above mentioned is all about during learning, what should you do after learning.

Review the information you learned. You should not come to the class unless you

reviewed the information of previous class, as it is connected and it will make the whole

picture clear.

Share with others, for example you learned that whoever loves meeting with Allah,

Allah loves meeting with them; share with your closed ones and you will never forget

this knowledge. As you are the first hearer to your talk, therefore, you will never forget

it.

Don’t say halal and haram, or talk about Allah on your own unless you have knowledge.

As Allah warned in the surah Araf about saying about Allah that which you don’t know.

It is more serious than shirk. There are people who say easily about halal and haram,

who are we to say on behalf of Allah. You are responsible about yourself, how come

when you are drunk, you will save others who are drunk. It is a long journey to learn,

therefore save yourself first. Therefore, focus on teaching of aqeedah especially and

start it with your children. And if you have doubt regarding knowledge, remain silent.

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Longing to meet Allah

Continuation about description of those who love to meet Allah:

3. They look at the action of Allah, they look at day and night and sun and moon. They see

the perfection behind it and wisdom. They see how Allah beautified everything. They

really love Allah, they thank Allah for concealing their faults. They increase in love for

Allah, every day. You go through financial crisis and ask everyone for help and they don’t

help by not giving, and you turn to Allah and ask the Ar-razaq and He will give from

places you won’t even imagine. You get hurt and speak about it to your friend and they

say it’s your fault but if you go to Allah al-Jabbar, He will comfort your heart. This will

make you love Allah more. Mushtaq always have eyes on the actions of Allah. You just

need to rely on Allah and belief on Him, He shows us signs us every day, no-one deserve

our love more than Allah. Allah is Samad, He is perfect and all the favours are from Him;

even the natural love, never conflict it with Allah. Even Prophet Muhammad صلى هللا عليه

he loved Ayesha radi Allahu anha the most among his wives and among men, he ,وسلم

loved abu bakr radi Allahu anhu. The mushatq even direct their natural love to Allah,

when they look at their children and parents, they thank Allah and praise Him for it. The

believer look at the blessings and favors of Allah and love Him more, they don’t let these

blessings cut their love for Allah.

4. How did mushrikeen commit shirk with their love of Allah? They loved their awliya more

than Allah. They committed shirk in their feelings with Allah.

They attributed perfection to them.

Their heart got attached to it and they venerated them more than Allah. Their

heart would tremble hearing their voices and they sought their love for them

only, so they committed shirk in this regard. Their love exceeded their natural

love.

Some people might not love people or false gods, they may love materialistic

things, money. They may stand in their salah and think about these things only.

When you commit shirk or make partner with Allah, He will leave you, Allah

doesn’t want to share His love with anyone.

Types of love:

I. There might be certain love but it will not be shirk, for example, love for the sake of

Allah. It means to love the messenger, angels and righteous people, to love haj , fasting,

charity. Allah loves these acts of worship, so I also love it.

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II. There is another kind of love, love of pity and compassion. To love miskeen, orphans

and old people. This is not ibadah.

III. Love of respect, it is to when you respect your father and teacher, it is also not

blameworthy. Does it conflict with your ibadah? No

5. To love Prophet Muhammad صلى هللا عليه وسلم. Prophet Muhammad said صلى هللا عليه وسلم “

whoever possess three characteristics will taste the sweetness of faith,

I. to whom Allah and His messenger صلى هللا عليه وسلم is more beloved than anyone

else,

II. to love a person for the sake of Allah alone (to love someone because they are

obedient to Allah or they are modest, the love you have for the one who are of

your nationality or family whether they are obedient to Allah or not, this is not

for the sake of Allah)

III. The person who hates to revert to disbelief as to be thrown in the hell-fire.

We will focus on the first category:

“no ne of you have complete faith, until he loves me more than anyone else” . He loves prophet

Muammad صلى هللا عليه وسلم more than his family, friends. This hadith emphasized very important

fact, it is said that you don’t have perfect faith, it means to have a perfect faith you need to love

him more than anyone else. It is for those who faith but yet didn’t perfect it. Why should we

love prophet muhmmad صلى هللا عليه وسلم? Because Allah chose him to guide us, he was perfect in

his manners. We don’t love him because he is muhmmad ibn Abdullah, we don’t love him

because he is human. When he became the prophet and messenger, we love him, and we love

him for noble conduct, and he was worshipping Allah and conveying His message to people, He

sacrificed his life to make the word of Allah superior. We love him because he guided us to

what benefited us, he is our teacher. A jewish man said to the companion, your prophet صلى هللا

even taught you manners to go to bathroom, he said yes. He saved his dua and shifa for عليه وسلم

us for the day of judgment. He was so patient on the harm, he received to spread the message

of Allah.

Accordingly, what should be our duty towards him?

“Prophet Muhammad صلى هللا عليه وسلم was holding the hand of umar radi allahu andhu and Umar

said you are dearer to me than everyone except myself, prophet Muhammad صلى هللا عليه وسلم

said, “you have won’t have perfect until I am dearer to your more than yourself.” And umar

said, “ now, o prophet! You are dearer to me than myself”. He صلى هللا عليه وسلم said now your

faith is perfect.

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When you desire something that opposes the sunnah of prophet صلى هللا عليه وسلم, here

you choose guidance and sunnah over your desire. Will you prefer what he said on what

your heart desire? THIS IS OBLIGATORY, to place his love over your parents, children and

friends. Especially advising children, for example for boys the thighs are aurah and it is

forbidden to wear shorts, so the mothers don’t want to break the heart of their

children. Prophet said it is haram, but you choose otherwise. Allah is testing everyday

our love for Him and his prophet, so we should love him more than anyone else.

We should be supporting and defending his sunnah. We have to spend from our time,

money to spread his sunnah and to fight back the biddah. This is how you revive the

sunnah.

(Surah noor 47)

“Those who say we love Allah and His messenger, party of them turn away.” They are

told to judge on quran and sunnah, to judge inheritance on the basis of that, but they

turn away and choose custom over it. They don’t have perfect faith.

The ulemah said regarding the verse in surah kausar ayah 3.

They said this is the one who hates you o messenger, he will be cut off. The scholar said

anybody who hates messenger and his legislation and sharia, he will be cut off from

every good in this duniya and hereafter.

To proceed his statement over anyone else. This is very important, it means even to

proceed his statement over the imams, like imam Abu hanifa, imam Humbl and Shafi.

Now a days, when you tell people, whatever you are doing is wrong, they will say we are

following the madhab of imam hanifa and shafi. Some people in wudhu while wiping

head, they take water and throw it on their head, and if you say them what you are

doing is not right, they said we are following shafi.

For your information, imam Abu hanifa appeared before the compilation of hadith of

bukhari and he based many opinion on weak hadiths. Imam abu hanifa said “if you come

across authentic hadith, that is my madhab”

Imam malik said “I warn you, I may mistake and I may be right. Look at my opinion,

whatever goes with quran and sunnah take it and whatever contradicts it leave it.”

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Shafi said “ if you find in my book contradicting the sunnah then take the sunnah and

leave my opinion”

So those people who say we are following the above imams, they don’t have

knowledge. And this how we defend the sunnah of prophet, if we don’t show the people

correct way of wudhu and salah, they won’t know.

We have to follow and obey Allah’s messenger. If you find an authentic hadith

contradicting another hadith, then go to the scholar and judge on your own. The

scholars know how to combine the hadiths, there is no contradiction in religion, so be

careful.

Anyway, the love of prophet is the part of love of Allah. One stage isn’t complete other

the other isn’t complete.

6. They love for the sake of Allah, hate for His sake, withhold, give, and make allies for His

sake. “If anyone loves, hate, withhold and give for Allah’s sake, they have perfected

their faith”. It means if you see someone doing sins, then you hate him because Allah

hates that sin, you don’t hate for your personal grudges. Giving for the sake of Allah is

when you see someone in a situation, you give them for Allah’s sake. In shaa Allah, we

will elaborate more on this. There are people who make friendship for the sake of

duniya, because they go out together all the time. It is not for the sake of Allah

Some sister say is it fine if we wish for the husband like Prophet Muhammad صلى هللا عليه وسلم?

You went far away from the whole point, there is no one like him. You should follow his sunnah,

Sunnah for today

If you join salah late in the congregation, put sutrah in front. So if they finish so they may not

break your salah. And if you forgot to put sutrah, then you can move on the side to the wall or

anyone who is praying.

During the prophet muhamad صلى هللا عليه وسلم, once he was praying near to the wall, suddenly

the flock of sheep came in front of him, he moved closer to the wall and the sheep walked

behind him.

If anyone prays they should take a sutrah. So therefore it is obligatory to put it, and if someone

walks between you and sutrah, then you stop them, if they fight you, then he is shaitan or with

him is the shaitan. If someone passes between you and sutrah, it breaks your salah. The

woman, donkey and black dog, they break your salah. If the man passes then it doesn’t break

your salah, it diminishes the reward of your salah. Prophet muhmmad صلى هللا عليه وسلم took

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camel as sutrah, even in the house he was praying to the bed and Ayesha was sleeping on the

bed.