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جنتی وہ ہے جس نے میری اطاعت کی - درس ۷
Urdu Bayan, 34 mins
15th June, 2020

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اللہ کی سر تا بقدم شان ہیں یہ
ان سا نہیں انسان وہ انسان ہیں یہ
قرآن تو ایمان بتاتا ہے انہیں
ایمان یہ کہتا ہے مِری جان ہیں یہ
29th Jun, 2020
DARS 7

{ يُخَـٰدِعُونَ ٱللَّهَ وَٱلَّذِينَ ءَامَنُواْ وَمَا يَخۡدَعُونَ إِلَّآ أَنفُسَهُمۡ وَمَا يَشۡعُرُونَ (٩) فِى قُلُوبِهِم مَّرَضٌ۬ فَزَادَهُمُ ٱللَّهُ مَرَضً۬ا‌ۖ وَلَهُمۡ عَذَابٌ أَلِيمُۢ بِمَا كَانُواْ يَكۡذِبُونَ (١٠) وَإِذَا قِيلَ لَهُمۡ لَا تُفۡسِدُواْ فِى ٱلۡأَرۡضِ قَالُوٓاْ إِنَّمَا نَحۡنُ مُصۡلِحُونَ (١١) }
First are those people who have straightforwardly rejected Allah – they don’t believe in Allah, and they don’t believe in Allah’s Prophet sallallahu alayhi wasallam. Then there’s the other group, those who have clearly said they they believe in Allah, and we believe in Allah’s Prophet sallallahu alayhi wasallam. In other words, the first group reject, plainly and simply – ‘We don’t believe in Allah and we don’t accept His Rasool and whatever He has revealed and given to him.’ Then, the other group are those who, plain and simple, one hundred percent, believe in Allah; they listen to and obey everything has come from Allah, and they believe in Rasoolullah sallallahu alayhi wasallam, and everything that Allah has given in the form of the Qur’an and the Shari’ah and Sunnah. And the third group are those who have said that they believe, but they reject, and in their heart they say ‘We do not believe.’ In other words, they accept verbally, and they also reject . They accept in a way that everybody knows, outwardly; so they accept and say that they believe in Allah and in His Rasool sallallahu alayhi wasallam, and everyone will treat them as a people who believe, but internally, they have rejected – they have shunned. Internally, they reject, and have not accepted proper belief in Allah.
Allah says that the first group are those who do not believe - the people who have no Iman, no faith. They've been given that title. Secondly, there are those who are the Mu’mins. And thirdly, there is the grouping of the hypocrites, the Munafiqs. The third group is the group of the hypocrites. They are not disbelievers, nor are they Mu’mins, but they have a separate title - the Munafiqs. As I mentioned yesterday, they will be given a punishment in hell fire that has been prepared separately by Allah - the Munafiqs have a separate punishment.
Now, what is the difference? The Mu’min believes and the hypocrite says ‘I believe’, so what is the difference between the believer and a hypocrite? The believer says he believes and the hypocrite says he believes - he says ‘I believe.’ Obviously, if someone says he believes, you can't say he doesn't believe. He doesn't just say he believes, rather his whole lifestyle, you could say, is one of a person who accepts - praying, fasting, Hajj, Zakah, Sadaqah, charity, everything. He does actions one on top of the other. And you could say they have the most bookings for Umrah. In Ramadan there is no space - all of the seats have been booked! In Hajj, in Arafat, in Mina, these people are there. They say ‘We believe!’ They pray Salah, they keep fast, they do Hajj, they give Zakah, everything. People of insight, who have understanding, then they understand, but those of low understanding think they have reached the heights. They go on Hajj every year, and before the plane lands on the return flight this year, they have booked the seats for next year. They have 6-month visas, 1-year visas, coming and going, coming and going, Mecca, Madina. People are impressed; people say ‘Oh, he has come back with the dates, he has come back with the water, he's done this, and he’s done that.’ For example, people look up to them - they are in agreement with them, and they love them, and they say they are very pious, pious men, pious women. ‘Oh, she's always got a Tasbeeh in her hands - don't ask, she’s so pious!’ Or ‘The Qur’an is always in his hand - don’t ask!’ So this is their proof, namely that these people are extremely pious - they pray Salah, they worship. And when they see these people, they say that they are very pious, they are very righteous, and they're very upright.

Allah subhana wa ta’ala says
{ يَقُولُ ءَامَنَّا بِٱللَّهِ وَبِٱلۡيَوۡمِ ٱلۡأَخِرِ وَمَا هُم بِمُؤۡمِنِينَ}
Allah declares who these people are. Allah says that when you see their prayer, their Hajj, and their Salah, and their actions, and their Zaakah, their charity - they are controlling the Masjids – then don't consider that they are Mu’mins. They are not Mu’mins, not just by their saying so. Rather, what are they? { يُخَـٰدِعُونَ ٱللَّهَ } - they are the biggest deceivers. They betray people. Their Yaqeen is that they trick people. They think they are tricking Allah - they are praying, ‘I'm doing this action, I am doing that action.’ Allah says this has no status! These people who deceive, they trick, they think they are tricking Allah, deceiving Allah.
Why? Why is it Allah is saying { يُخَـٰدِعُونَ ٱللَّهَ }? They think to deceive Allah, to beguile Allah and those who believe, but they trick none, save themselves. Normal people think, ‘Oh he’s pious, he’s good’, and in their minds they even think they are tricking Allah! They are playing games. Their belief is that Allah is not all Hearing, all Knowing, that He is not aware of what is inside people. It is clear that this has become their Aqeedah, their belief, that Allah does not know about their games and the cunning plans that they have made. So these people are liars and they deceive.
Don't look at the external aspect of those men and women who you think are pious and upright. Allah has defined Islam clearly. The Zaahiri, outward, aspect is not Islam. Obviously, we can't categorise or define a person, but Allah is all-Seeing, comprehensively Informed, so He knows. We salute and we acclaim, but Allah says ‘Don't go near these people. I will tell you the signs of these people, those people that you respect who pray Salah, those people you respect who do Hajj, the Hajjis, those you respect who do Tawaf, those people you respect a lot who pray Tahajjud, who give Sadaqah and charity - I will tell you who are the good men, the righteous people. These aren't those people. I will tell you the difference, and who is of those people.’
So then, what is the difference between the Mu’min and the Munafiq? The Mu’min accepts, so what is it that the Munafiq doesn't accept? He doesn't accept one thing - that is where the difference arises. Allah says that he doesn't accept one specific thing, due to which the difference arises, the line is drawn, and the split occurs between believing and not believing.
{وَٱلَّذِينَ يُؤۡمِنُونَ}
Allah ta’ala says. {وَٱلَّذِينَ يُؤۡمِنُونَ} What is the difference? Outwardly, the person says he believes, but inside? Allah ta’ala has made the rules of Shari’ah that {وَٱلَّذِينَ يُؤۡمِنُونَ بِمَآ أُنزِلَ إِلَيۡكَ} Internally, he hates this acceptance of the Deen - for him, he doesn't even like to hear the name of that practice, and this is where the difference is drawn, where the line is drawn, at the Holy Prophet sallallahu alayhi wasallam. He does not even want to hear the name of the Sunnah, of this practice. He says ‘Oh, these people's practices are backward and extreme, fundamentalist, ignorant, downtrodden - they don't know how to live. They don't have manners, they don't have the etiquettes of how to eat, they don't have the manners of meeting people, they have no Adab about how they should live in the world, about the etiquettes of the world. We know - we know better.’ They are extremely opposed to the Shari’ah and Sunnah of Nabi-al-Kareem sallallahu alayhi wasalam. When you speak about Sunnah and Shari’ah in front of them, their faces become red. They have made their own style, their own mannerisms, their own methodology. Allah ta’ala says ‘You should live your life in this way, according to the Sunnah and the Shari’ah, according to those principles and rules’, but they have nothing to do with that. Never mind having a link with it, they dislike it, and they criticize the way of Rasoolullah sallallahu alayhi wasallam. So this is the difference between the Munafiq and the Mu’min. This is Nifaq, hypocrisy.

Rasoolullah sallallahu alayhi wasallam has announced that ‘All of my Ummah will go into Jannah’ - this is a Hadith. Now a person can make a mistake, commit sins, obviously, and the punishment will be given for that, but the person of Iman will definitely go into Jannah - remember this. The person with Iman will definitely go into Jannah, yes. Allah has defined those people whose Iman is accepted as Mu’mins. Those who are not Muslims cannot go, can they? They are Munafiqs. Rasoolullah sallallahu alayhi wasallam has stated ‘My whole Ummah will go into Jannah.’ Allah has clearly stated - on which basis? Those who keep fast, do Hajj and Umrah? No, no, no - this is not the definition. The Qur’an has stated it is not correct that those people who say they were going to Paradise due to those actions will do so. Rasoolullah sallallahu alayhi wasallam has said ‘Don't go on their piety, on their Umrah, on their worship, on their Hajj and pilgrimage.’ Rasool Allah sallallahu alayhi wasallam did not give this as the defining line, as the criterion about who would go to Paradise.
Rasoolullah sallallahu alayhi wasallam has cleared up the matter. “ إِلاَّ مَنْ أَبَى” Allahu Akbar! ‘Except those who refused!’ Everyone will go into Paradise ‘except those who refused’. This is a Sahih Hadith. So it is guaranteed that everybody will go into Paradise, every Mu’min will arrive. But the person who doesn't believe - those “ إِلاَّ مَنْ أَبَى” - those people won't go. So they refused. They have been detached from the Mu’mins, even though they include themselves amongst the Ummah. They practice physically, and they take the benefits of the name of Islam. They are big-headed, they arrange big functions and programs, and make money and wealth in the name of Islam, they have groups and organisations in the Dunya, and they deceive, they have parties, this party, that party - in Ramadan, and after - and they run after other people who don't know about the Deen. And those people who don't have Iman, say ‘Oh maybe this is Islam.’
Rasoolullah sallallahu alayhi wasallam said ‘Everyone in my Ummah will enter Paradise ‘illa man abaa’ – except those who refuse. Now the Sahaba Ikram radhiAllahu anhum were present, and they would ask and clarify the points - and Allah ta’ala put these points into their minds so that they could understand and learn the reality of the path, so that we can see and realise what the truth is. So those referred to will be from amongst the Ummah - ‘illa man abaa’ - but totally, they won't be able to go into Paradise. What is the standard? What is the criterion? Who will not go? ‘Illa man abaa’ - who? Not a person who doesn't pray Salah by mistake, or doesn't fast, or who’s lazy or negligent, and then does Tawbah - Allah ta’ala forgives that person. There are people like that, but this is not ‘abaa’. This is making mistakes and errors. No, they say ‘Where is it written? Why is this necessary? Tell me - why is this necessary? What Islam is this you are following? What sort of Islam is this that you are following? A girl cannot go out to work? A woman cannot work? We can't do this! We can't earn - what sort of Deen is this? What sort of Islam is this that you have created?’ This is ‘Illa man abaa’. It is stated that everybody will go into Paradise ‘illa man abaa’ - those who rejected and refused.
So the Sahaba asked ‘Ya Rasoolullah sallallahu alayhi wasallam, who are these people who cannot go, who have refused to go?’ They pray Salah, fast, Zakah, Hajj, but they cannot go. “ إِلاَّ مَنْ أَبَى” - who are these people? “قَالَ ‏"‏ مَنْ أَطَاعَنِي دَخَلَ الْجَنَّةَ،” - SubhanAllah! Rasool Allah sallallahu alayhi wasallam replied ‘Only those people from my Ummah will go into Paradise, those who were in accord with my Deen, with my orders, with my Sunnah - those who obeyed it, and implemented it.’ Say SubhanAllah ! Who is saying this? The one who brought the Deen, not some Moulana Sahib, no Mufti Sahib, no Peer Sahib. The one who brought the Deen is saying sallallahu alayhi wasallam, the one who gave the Deen to us, due to whom we recognised Allah. So should we reject this as well? ‘Oh no leave this - we don't want to learn this and practice this Hadith. We want to earn the Dunya, to do something, to get somewhere, achieve something.’
Nobody will go into Paradise through Rasool Allah sallallahu alayhi wasallam, nobody will go, except those “مَنْ أَطَاعَنِ” people – they will go into Paradise.
Here is another point from what Rasoolullah sallallahu alayhi wasallam said. It is not stated that the one who has not obeyed Allah will not go into Paradise, no. Rasoolullah sallallahu alayhi wasallam did not say whoever has disobeyed Allah cannot go into Paradise, those who have not obeyed Allah’s instructions, no. He spoke about himself and stated, ‘Whoever obeys me’ – “مَنْ أَطَاعَنِ”. So what we realise is that to believe in Nabi al-Kareem sallallahu alayhi wasallam, in his qualities, his characteristics, his education, his Shari’ah, his teachings, his Sunnah - if a person does not accept and implement this, then he doesn't believe in Allah. SubhanAllah. So Rasool Allah sallallahu alayhi wasallam said ‘ataani’, he didn’t say ‘ataa Allah’; he said ‘ataani’ - ‘whoever obeys me.’ Nabi sallallahu alayhi wasallam said this clearly because in order to recognise the knowledge, the Ma’arifat, of the Holy Prophet sallallahu alayhi wasalam that has been given to us, his greatness and his qualities, first and foremost we have to have belief in him. We have to have sincerity in our belief in him, and we have to have respect and honour for his Sunnah and Tariqa; we have to consider it as essential. If we don't think it's essential for us, then how can we obey Allah? How can we reach Allah and attain his Nearness? So we learn that we can only please Allah and attain His nearness by the imitation of Nabi al-Kareem sallallahu alayhi wasallam, and by following his Sunnah. So in the same way, that is why Rasoolullah sallallahu alayhi wasallam said clearly that to obey him and imitate him is compulsory if you want to get to Allah’s nearness.

If someone says ‘Where is it written?’ - he is a Munafiq. He mentioned the person who refuses, and the Sahaba said ‘Ya Rasool Allah sallallahu alayhi wasallam, who has refused?’ and Rasool Allah sallallahu alayhi wasallam said ‘Whoever has obeyed me, only those people will enter Paradise.’ “قَالَ ‏"‏ مَنْ أَطَاعَنِي دَخَلَ الْجَنَّةَ، وَمَنْ عَصَانِي فَقَدْ أَبَى ‏"‏‏.‏”. SubhanAllah, subhanAllah. ‘And he who has disobeyed me’ - not disobeyed Allah - ‘disobeyed me, shunned me, rejected my Shari’ah, has not accepted my Sunnah, has not adopted my Tariqah’. Such as he who prays Salah, goes on Hajj, gives Zakah and fasts, and when it is said to him ‘Make the form and appearance of the Sunnah, and correct your appearance and your actions’, he won’t because he likes to imitate strangers - half a partridge, half a quail, half of this, half of that, one leg here and one leg there.
Every action is strange, but just to show externally, they are controlling the Masjids, going to the Ka’abah, here and there in control, in leadership and management. Allah’s Nabi Allah sallallahu alayhi wasallam has revealed all of it – this is a clear definition of the Mu’min; Allah has cleared it up. ‘So how can you listen to their statements?’, Allah says. These people aren’t people of belief - {يُخَـٰدِعُونَ ٱللَّهَ } Allah says ‘These are the deceivers, they play games and tricks. Their Aqeedah is that ‘We are deceiving Allah as well. Allah does not know what is inside us’ - they think! ‘When we do Hajj, Allah is happy with us, when we do Hajj and Umrah.’ But Allah’s Nabi sallallahu alayhi wasallam has said, ‘No!’ It is compulsory – “مَنْ عَصَانِي فَقَدْ أَبَ”. ‘You have to obey me, and if you don’t obey me, you are a rejecter; you are refusing.’ Such a person is one who is rejecting, shunning.
So Allah ta’ala has clearly defined obedience, imitation, following. Those others think ‘Oh no, our worship is enough – this will be enough for us.’ No, brothers, Allah ta’ala has defined ‘man ataani’ – ‘My obedience, my following, my imitation. If there is disobedience, that person has rejected me and he has, thereby, refused Paradise.’ If a person of Iman wants to be defined as a Mu’min in the Court of Allah, it is compulsory for him to obey and follow Rasoolullah sallallahu alayhi wasallam’s Sunnah and Shari’ah – it is compulsory to have this belief, this Aqeedah. To do Amal on this is a part of Iman. Don’t say ‘No, no, how can this be?’ There should be no objection, no belittling, no refusing. Everything that Rasoolullah sallallahu alayhi wasallam has ordered, his Shari’ah, his Tariqah, his Sunnah – without this there is no prayer, no fasting, no Hajj, nothing. Everything is a drama – all actions without Sunnah are a drama. If he rejects, what is the value of this? Nothing, nothing! SubhanAllah.
What a great point of the Qur’an for us to understand here, my friends. Look how the Qur’an beautifully, clearly, says who is a believer, who is a person who doesn’t have faith, and who is Munafiq, and how these three groups are made. First are those who don’t believe in Allah and His Rasool sallallahu alayhi wasallam; the Mu’min believes in both Allah and His Rasool sallallahu alayhi wasallam; and the third group, group C, the Munafiqs, say they believe, but inside they have hatred and enmity with Rasoolullah sallallahu alayhi wasallam’s Shari’ah and his Sunnah. They have total opposition, though he says ‘I am an Ashiq, I am a lover’; he will do everything – but he does not want to accept the practicalities. They call themselves Ashiqs, lovers, totally immersed, but the Qur’an teaches us one thing clearly here. ‘Wa man asaani, fa qad abaa’. So if you want to see whether someone is pious, and you want to define whether a person is a good man or a pious woman, then don’t look at the physical practice of Zakah and fasting and prayer, rather, look at Shari’ah. How much does he implement Shari’ah and Sunnah, in his home, in his household, outside, in his life? How high is the rank and status of Shari’ah and Sunnah for him? Is there practice on the Deen?
Obviously, when he follows Shari’ah and Sunnah, automatically he will have the practices of Salah, fasting, Zakah and Hajj – he will pray five times Salah in congregation, he will fast, he will give Zakah. But on top of that, in addition, he should have the feeling inside that he wants to follow every Tariqah of who? Every action will be according to Shari’ah and Sunnah. So if a person’s Tariqa and methodology is in accordance with Shari’ah and Sunnah, then obviously his Amal and deeds will be totally correct. They will be fine, totally in line. So it is stated, don’t look at Zaahir, external actions – ‘Oh he’s pious, she a pious woman’ – no, no. Piety and righteousness is defined by Shari’ah, according to whether a person’s life is accordance to the Shari’ah and the Sunnah. An Ashiq, lover is that person who, even if he doesn’t cry, or listen to Nashids, or keep extra fasts, or make pilgrimages, even if he doesn’t do lengthy, voluntary prayers or recitation, or attend gatherings, but that person’s Tariqa and methodology is in accordance with the Shari’ah and Sunnah, and he is a lover of Allah’s Kitab and His Rasool sallallahu alayhi wasallam. This is a lover of Allah and His Rasool sallallahu alayhi wasallam.
Look at our homes, our families, our life conditions – we hide! This is Nifaq – never do this action of Nifaq in your lives, remember this. Me and you are afraid of practising – ‘What will the people of the world say if I do this, or don’t do that. People will put a title on me, Peer Sahib will find out if I don’t do this.’ No! Fear Allah! Don’t worry about what people will say. This is Nifaq if you are worried about what people will say, about what a man will say about your practice. No, fear Allah, and then implement. Think, ‘What will Allah say if I lie, what will Allah say if I consume interest, what will Allah say if I listen to music and singing etc, what will Allah say if I do this wrong action?’ This is how our mindset needs to be. This is the quality of the Mu’min.
The rest? Obviously, a Mu’min makes mistakes, he can err and sin, and then he can do Astaghfar. There is a way, and then Allah ta’ala forgives. Allah forgives! Ups and downs occur in life, so Allah ta’ala has given the Tariqa: ‘Immediately, when you make a mistake, ask Me for forgiveness, and accept your mistake.’ Going against Shari’ah and Sunnah is not a mere mistake, it is a major issue, but if you commit a sin of the eyes or say something wrong, these things can occur. That’s why the Qur’an has told us the definition in a beautiful way, that externally, physically, they look and practise like Mu’mins, but what are they inside? It is a storm! One thing is a person who rejects faith and says ‘We do not believe’ – ok, we know who that is. But the Munafiq says ‘I am a believer, I believe in Allah, I believe in the Hereafter, I believe in the Rasool’, but if they believe, then how did they become Munafiqs? What’s the reason? After Iman, how did they earn Nifaq? How did they come towards hypocrisy? Allah ta’ala in a beautiful way has explained this:
{ فِى قُلُوبِهِم مَّرَضٌ۬ فَزَادَهُمُ ٱللَّهُ مَرَضً۬ا‌ۖ وَلَهُمۡ عَذَابٌ أَلِيمُۢ بِمَا كَانُواْ يَكۡذِبُونَ}
SubhanAllah! { بِمَا كَانُواْ يَكۡذِبُونَ} They are fraudsters, liars, deceivers, Allah says. { يَكۡذِبُونَ} They lie, and they are fraudsters – they are incorrect. Allah says ‘In their hearts is a disease, and Allah increases their disease; and a painful doom is theirs’ because they lie.
What is the reason for this? I will give you an example: one person has land, and a second person has land. One person with land wants to farm the land. But the second person doesn’t look after the land he has, and he doesn’t farm it. What’s the difference? If a person has no land in the first place, he will get nothing – end of story. This is the example of those with no faith and Iman, so there is no question that they will not get anything. A person with land, who has Iman, belief, and who wants to farm, to implement and practise, what does he do? He looks after that land. He looks after it, he nurtures it, he doesn’t want any wild weeds or roots to invade it, and he spreads fertilisers and weed-killers accordingly, and he plants crops and vegetables which grow, so he reaps a good harvest. This is the example of a Mu’min. The third group, they have land, they say ‘We have Iman, and we are Muslims’, but they do not look after their land; they do not protect their land. They wanted to farm, but they didn’t protect the land and look after it. And when you don’t look after land, wild plants will take root and multiply until you cannot farm that land; you cannot grow anything beneficial there. So that’s the example of the Munafiqs. Those who don’t believe have no land. The Mu’min has land and he looks after it, and he nourishes it and purifies it, and then takes the fruits of Iman, alhamdulillah. He practises Shari’ah and Sunnah. And then the third person says ‘I have Iman’, and he reads and recites everything - outwardly, it looks as if he has Iman. He has land, but he has not looked after his heart. And because he does not look after his heart, the wild plants and weeds grow.
Allah says { فِى قُلُوبِهِم مَّرَضٌ۬} SubhanAllah! All of the deficiencies of Nifaq arise in the heart, due to a person not looking after his heart. Today, Allah ta’ala has given Iman to me, and to you, and to Zaid, and to Bakr, and along with this, we need to look after our hearts. If we don’t look after our hearts and protect them, shayateen, Jinnaat and the Nafs will control our heart, and then Nifaq will grow. Hypocrisy will grow and make that person so weak that he will not be able to practise Shari’ah and Sunnah. So the Qur’an has announced this and given clarity - and also the cure! If you want to be saved from Nifaq, from hypocrisy, and to be saved from becoming a person of the third group, to become a person of Iman, then it is compulsory for you to do what? It is compulsory for you to protect your heart.
Allah says { فِى قُلُوبِهِم مَّرَضٌ۬ فَزَادَهُمُ ٱللَّهُ مَرَضً۬ا} In the hearts is a disease, and if we don’t look after them, Allah increases that disease! You know Corona, this disease that has come? People say ‘Be cautious, stay indoors etc’ because it is increasing and spreading. It spreads if we are not cautious. For example, if a person gets this disease and is not cautious, then everybody in his home will get it. In the same way with Nifaq, this is a disease, and Allah ta’ala has said that it can come into a person’s heart. If a person has Iman and he looks after his heart, then his Iman will be protected, and he will follow Shari’ah and Sunnah. He will love the Iman of Shari’ah and Sunnah.
So today, when we hear this verse of the Qur’an – and we have Iman, we possess Iman – then we should analyze and compare ourselves, thinking ‘How much is Shari’ah and Sunnah lacking from my life? Do I consider myself a Muslim, a believer? And do I think I have achieved and I’ll attain Paradise due to my Salah and my piety?’ We need to see first of all, is my life in accordance to Nabi al-Kareem sallallahu alayhi wasallam’s Sunnah and Shari’ah? Does my Iman believe in this and accept this? In our eating, drinking, standing, sitting, relationships, Akhlaq – everything – is it according to Rasoolullah sallallahu alayhi wasallam’s Sunnah and Shari’ah? If it isn’t, then consider that our heart is dirty, impure. Immediately, start to protect your heart. Allah ta’ala has given a Tariqa, a method, of how to look after the heart – there are many ways. InshaAllah, we will speak about this tomorrow, for this is a very important topic. A person who has protected his heart, alhamdulillah, can never be a Munafiq. Hypocrisy can never enter his heart; he is a solid, 100% clean, pure Muslim who has protected and looked after his heart. The method of looking after the heart is Tazkiyya – this is Sufism, the subject of Islam. Allah ta’ala has mentioned this in the Qur’an.
Allah ta’ala says { وَيُعَلِّمُهُمُ ٱلۡكِتَـٰبَ وَٱلۡحِكۡمَةَ وَيُزَكِّيہِمۡ‌ۚ}. Allah says the Qur’an is revealed and also Hikma - two things - and thirdly, Allah has said that you can only attain these two things if alongside, in parallel, you protect your heart, otherwise hypocrisy will come, and then you will leave both these things. So the value of the Qur’an attained at that time. You will understand and feel the value of the Qur’an and the orders of Allah – the Hikma – when you have cleaned and purified your heart, when you have done Tazkiyya, purification. Look how important this is. Today, Nifaq has spread across the Ummah, and there are more people in a state of hypocrisy, because we have stopped doing Tazkiyya. Tazkiyya has become a joke. ‘Oh, Sufism, Peeri-mureedi!’ - this has become just a tradition, a cultural, traditional thing. ‘Come, come, become Bai’ah. How many Mureeds do you have?’ ‘Oh, I have this many!’ ‘Oh, this Sheikh is coming, I have a link with him.’ ‘I am going to give such and such Khilafa, he will become my deputy.’
We have forgotten the real path of Islah, of rectification. We go to a pious person for rectification. What is Islah? Is it to correct the eyes, or the nose? What is Islah? It is to start practising Shari’ah and Sunnah - the basic foundation of our life should be Shari’ah and Sunnah. This is Islah. A person who doesn’t do Islah follows his whims and desires and choices, but the person who has done Islah follows the principles and choices of the Shari’ah. He leaves his desires, and he goes to a WaliAllah in order to learn to follow the path of Shari’ah. There is no other reason to go to a Sheikh, to a Friend of Allah. If after going, you do Bai’ah, and then still you are like a monkey or an ape, and your house is the same, taking a little and leaving a little, then that person is a Munafiq. They are big Munafiqs. All they are doing is that are trying to please Allah and the people of Iman, but they are deceiving themselves. Allah ta’ala says that the Qur’an sends curses on that person; Allah ta’ala calls them Kaadhib, a liar. { يَكۡذِبُونَ} Allah says that they are liars, trying to trick Allah. They lie to their Sheikh, to their teacher, to their Ustadh – they try to deceive. { فِى قُلُوبِهِم مَّرَضٌ۬ فَزَادَهُمُ ٱللَّهُ مَرَضً۬ا} The person who looks after his heart after having Iman and belief, then he is not a Munafiq as long as he continues to try to protect the heart. If we don’t protect the heart, then we become Munafiqs.
InshaAllah, we shall see tomorrow how Allah ta’ala has taught us to protect our hearts, what He has stated – this is a very important topic. { وَيُعَلِّمُهُمُ ٱلۡكِتَـٰبَ وَٱلۡحِكۡمَةَ وَيُزَكِّيہِمۡ‌ۚ} We shall go towards { وَيُزَكِّيہِمۡ}. So Rasoolullah sallallahu alayhi wasallam brought three things to the world. { ٱلۡكِتَـٰبَ }At least grab the Qur’an! { وَٱلۡحِكۡمَةَ }And the Instructions. And then Tazkiyya is the third thing. Now if two wheels are punctured, how will a car drive? So obviously, our car is not driving at the moment - our vehicle is not moving. So if there is hypocrisy in our society, the reason is that we have left Tazkiyya.
May Allah ta’ala have Mercy on all of us; may Allah ta’ala allow us to follow His choices; and may Allah ta’ala allow us to follow the Sunnah and Shari’ah of Rasoolullah sallallahu alayhi wasallam – and this is the true and real path of Deen.
وَءَاخِرُ دَعۡوَٮٰهُمۡ أَنِ ٱلۡحَمۡدُ لِلَّهِ رَبِّ ٱلۡعَـٰلَمِينَ
22nd Jun, 2020
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