Sheikh Nuh notes
Salaam,
17/2/06 - from Iqad ul-Himma by Imam AtaÂullah Sikandari:
The basis of Allah's all conquering power is He himself. Nothing can withstand Allah as He is maintaining us and the and the whole universe. He is all encompassing and Everlasting - these ensure that everything has to exist "through" him.
Everything is from Allah - even ones own closeness to Allah is through the blessing of Allah, not because we "deserve" it through our own efforts.
The all encompassing power exists with Allah alone otherwise why don't we choose not to die? or not to fall ill?
Spiritual experience happens to people, even if these people don't want it as this experience is coming from Him, the All conquering, from whom which nothing can be resisted. With a divine experiencee things which cannot be seen, heard etc to others are opened up. One who is close to Allah can see his "hand" at work.
Nafs are like children - if you let them get away with something, they'll come back wanting the same thing if not more. With nafs, if you let them have their way, they'll push you further and further beyond what ispermissiblee before you've lost track of where you actually are
20/2/06 - from "Mutual Reminding & Good Manners" by Imam Al-haddad:
Always believe in the best of your lord - you get what youexpect from him. You turn completely to Allah, He will turn completely to you
He who claims to be a servant of Him but has even One desire apart from Him is a liar. The true slave is one who has eliminated all desires except than those which are to do with Him
Imam Shadili: 9/10 of the spiritual path is to gaze at the tremendous generosity ofAllahh
Having and not having is like the night and the day - they come and go. Everything perishes except the being of Allah. The sufi is the one who sticks with Allah, the one who will Never perish. Why try and do things on your own or be sycophantic towards people who have limited ownership of things in this world when you can be with Allah who owns everything.
If you have the following four, you enter the circle of having the possibility of being accepted by Allah:
1) Grateful for the blessing of Allah when you have
2) Be content when youdon'tt have
3) Spend excess wealth on the poor
4) For all actions, ask what's in this for Allah?" All actions should haveIslamic benefit to it.
Being unscurpulous is like a disease, worsened by the fact that this person ignores it as he thinks there are others worse than him so its OK.
One who is on the path to Allah should always give the "benefit of doubt" to Allah - even if on the face of things look bad, trust in Allah should remain, Allah's mercy opens to these people.
Hadith Qudsi: Allah will be to the servant how the servant is to Allah
Tawakkul means both sides have responsibility; servant does action and Allah responds to this. Therefore never start thinking "its not working" even if things are going bad, Allah is in control, He will not forget you and He knows better whats good for you than yourself. Allah even provides for those who don't believe so don't you think he will provide for the believers...? for those who are grateful...?
Nothing wrong with wanting a good job, good grades etc but the heart should stay quiet i.e. not stress too much over these things as this shows that the heart has gone astray from Allah and being concerned about ones deen onto these other things. Sign of a wrecked heart is stressing about things in the future with respect to rizq and also thinking if x runs out what am i going to do, if y happenss what will i do..? Mark of yakeen is one who doesn't stress about the things which aren't in his hands. The more one who relies on Allah even though it seems things are happening as a result of his own hard work, the more Allah is pleased.
Salaam
17/2/06 - from Iqad ul-Himma by Imam AtaÂullah Sikandari:
The basis of Allah's all conquering power is He himself. Nothing can withstand Allah as He is maintaining us and the and the whole universe. He is all encompassing and Everlasting - these ensure that everything has to exist "through" him.
Everything is from Allah - even ones own closeness to Allah is through the blessing of Allah, not because we "deserve" it through our own efforts.
The all encompassing power exists with Allah alone otherwise why don't we choose not to die? or not to fall ill?
Spiritual experience happens to people, even if these people don't want it as this experience is coming from Him, the All conquering, from whom which nothing can be resisted. With a divine experiencee things which cannot be seen, heard etc to others are opened up. One who is close to Allah can see his "hand" at work.
Nafs are like children - if you let them get away with something, they'll come back wanting the same thing if not more. With nafs, if you let them have their way, they'll push you further and further beyond what ispermissiblee before you've lost track of where you actually are
20/2/06 - from "Mutual Reminding & Good Manners" by Imam Al-haddad:
Always believe in the best of your lord - you get what youexpect from him. You turn completely to Allah, He will turn completely to you
He who claims to be a servant of Him but has even One desire apart from Him is a liar. The true slave is one who has eliminated all desires except than those which are to do with Him
Imam Shadili: 9/10 of the spiritual path is to gaze at the tremendous generosity ofAllahh
Having and not having is like the night and the day - they come and go. Everything perishes except the being of Allah. The sufi is the one who sticks with Allah, the one who will Never perish. Why try and do things on your own or be sycophantic towards people who have limited ownership of things in this world when you can be with Allah who owns everything.
If you have the following four, you enter the circle of having the possibility of being accepted by Allah:
1) Grateful for the blessing of Allah when you have
2) Be content when youdon'tt have
3) Spend excess wealth on the poor
4) For all actions, ask what's in this for Allah?" All actions should haveIslamic benefit to it.
Being unscurpulous is like a disease, worsened by the fact that this person ignores it as he thinks there are others worse than him so its OK.
One who is on the path to Allah should always give the "benefit of doubt" to Allah - even if on the face of things look bad, trust in Allah should remain, Allah's mercy opens to these people.
Hadith Qudsi: Allah will be to the servant how the servant is to Allah
Tawakkul means both sides have responsibility; servant does action and Allah responds to this. Therefore never start thinking "its not working" even if things are going bad, Allah is in control, He will not forget you and He knows better whats good for you than yourself. Allah even provides for those who don't believe so don't you think he will provide for the believers...? for those who are grateful...?
Nothing wrong with wanting a good job, good grades etc but the heart should stay quiet i.e. not stress too much over these things as this shows that the heart has gone astray from Allah and being concerned about ones deen onto these other things. Sign of a wrecked heart is stressing about things in the future with respect to rizq and also thinking if x runs out what am i going to do, if y happenss what will i do..? Mark of yakeen is one who doesn't stress about the things which aren't in his hands. The more one who relies on Allah even though it seems things are happening as a result of his own hard work, the more Allah is pleased.
Salaam
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1 Comments:
jzk for these...their of huge benefit for those of us who cant be there with sheikh nuh
salaam
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