12 January 2013 Fenton Zawiya, Michigan
Suhbah after Maghrib
A`oodhu billahi min ash-Shaytaani 'r-rajeem. Bismillahi 'r-Rahmaani 'r-Raheem.
Nawaytu 'l-arba`een, nawaytu 'l-`itikaaf, nawaytu 'l-khalwah, nawaytu 'l-`uzlah,
nawaytu 'r-riyaadah, nawaytu 's-sulook, lillahi ta`alaa fee haadha 'l-masjid.
We are still in the series of the du`a and what cures you. What harms the body is al-ma`aasiyya, the sins, like if you give an injection to a sick person and give him poison on top of that, he will die immediately. Sins are like an injection to a weak body, so when you get an injection of poisonous sins it will affect your body. So Allah (swt) has revealed the cure for that when He revealed:
قُلْ يَا عِبَادِيَ الَّذِينَ أَسْرَفُوا عَلَى أَنفُسِهِمْ لَا تَقْنَطُوا مِن رَّحْمَةِ اللَّهِ إِنَّ اللَّهَ يَغْفِرُ الذُّنُوبَ جَمِيعًا إِنَّهُ هُوَ الْغَفُورُ الرَّحِيمُ
Qul yaa `ibadiya alladheena asrafoo `alaa anfusihim laa taqnatoo min rahmatillaahi inna Allaaha yaghfiru ’dh-dhunooba jamee`an innahu huwa ’l-ghafooru ‘r-raheem.
Say, "O my Servants who have transgressed against their souls! Despair not of the Mercy of Allah, for Allah forgives all sins for He is Oft-Forgiving, Most Merciful.” (Surat al-Zumar, 39:53)
Forgiveness is the way Allah (swt) has put on Himself to help His servants; that’s why He said:
وَلَوْ أَنَّهُمْ إِذ ظَّلَمُواْ أَنفُسَهُمْ جَآؤُوكَ فَاسْتَغْفَرُواْ اللّهَ وَاسْتَغْفَرَ لَهُمُ الرَّسُولُ لَوَجَدُواْ اللّهَ تَوَّابًا رَّحِيمًا
Wa law annahum idh zhalamoo anfusahum ja’ooka f ’astaghfaroollaaha w ’astaghfara lahumu ‘r-rasoolu la-wajadoo ’Llaaha tawwaaba ‘r-raheema.
If they had only, when they were unjust to themselves, come to you and asked Allah's forgiveness, and the Messenger had asked forgiveness for them, they would have found Allah indeed Oft-Returning, Most Merciful. (Surat an-Nisa, 4:64)
“Yaa Muhammad! Say to My servants that they have gone so far in ma`aasiyy, sins, that laa taqnatoo min rahmatillah, don’t lose hope of Allah’s Mercy!” If Allah is putting this on Himself, what is our duty? To also forgive those who did bad to us, because when we forgive them Allah will cure us from our sicknesses. When you forgive Allah forgives, and when you forgive someone Allah forgives you! And our duty is to ask forgiveness from Allah (swt).
So, ma`aasiyy, sins, worried many Sahaabah (r) and scholars. I will quote Abu Darda (r) (from Al-Jawaab al-kaafee liman sa'ala `ala ad-daw`a ish-shaafee, The Sufficient Answers for Those Who Asked about the Healing Medicine by Ibn Qayyima al-Jawziyya), who said:
وَهَذَا أَبُو الدَّرْدَاءِ كَانَ يَقُولُ : إِنَّ أَشَدَّ مَا أَخَافُ عَلَى نَفْسِي يَوْمَ الْقِيَامَةِ أَنْ يُقَالَ لِي : يَا أَبَا الدَّرْدَاءِ ، قَدْ عَلِمْتَ ، فَكَيْفَ عَمِلْتَ فِيمَا عَلِمْتَ ؟ وَكَانَ يَقُولُ : لَوْ تَعْلَمُونَ مَا أَنْتُمْ لَاقُونَ بَعْدَ الْمَوْتِ لَمَا أَكَلْتُمْ طَعَامًا عَلَى شَهْوَةٍ ، وَلَا شَرِبْتُمْ شَرَابًا عَلَى شَهْوَةٍ ، وَلَا دَخَلْتُمْ بَيْتًا تَسْتَظِلُّونَ فِيهِ ، وَلَخَرَجْتُمْ إِلَى الصُّعُدَاتِ تَضْرِبُونَ صُدُورَكُمْ ، وَتَبْكُونَ عَلَى أَنْفُسِكُمْ ، وَلَوَدِدْتُ أَنِّي شَجَرَةٌ تُعْضَدُ ثُمَّ تُؤْكَلُ .
Inna ashaddu maa akhaafu idhaa wuqifta `alaa ’l-hisaabi an yuqaala lee: Qad `alimta fa kayfa `amilta fee maa `alimta. Wa kaana yaqool: law ta`alamoona maa antum laaqoona ba`d al-mawti lamaa akaltum ta`aman `alaa shahwatin wa laa sharibtum sharaaban `alaa shahwatin wa laa dakhaltam baytan tastazhiloona feehi wa la-kharajtum ila ‘s-su`udaati tadriboona sudoorakum wa tabkoona `alaa anfusikum wa la-wadidtu annee shajaratun tu`dadu thumma too’kal.
Ashaddu maa akhaaf, “The thing I get afraid from most on Judgment Day.” Who is not afraid on that day? I don’t know, I think we are not afraid as we are still falling into sins, meaning that we are not learning our lesson. But we say, “Yaa Rabbee! We are weak servants, forgive us!” We cannot be like Sahaabah (r) who know how to address their du`as! He says, “The thing I fear most is that I will be called on Judgment Day, ‘Yaa Abu Darda! You learned everything; the Prophet (s) taught you everything! You are a scholar, a Sahaabi, a wali, a star in dark nights for people to follow. You knew ahadith of the Prophet (s) and you were raised by the Prophet (s). Fa kayfa `amilta fee maa `alimta, what have you done through what you learned? You learned everything and so you must act on what you learned. Did you act on what you learned?’”
All of us are learning to make istighfaar. Are we making istighfaar? All of us have been ordered to obey Allah (swt) and His Prophet (s). Are we obeying Allah and His Prophet (s)? This is a Sahaabi (r), a Companion of the Prophet (s) who is worried. He is worried that he will be asked, “Did you do what you have learned?”
Abu Darda (r) used to say, law ta`alamoona maa antum laaqoona ba`ad al-mawti lamaa akaltum ta`amaa `alaa shahwa, “If you knew what you are going to see when you die, you will never eat the food you desire.”
Allahu Akbar! Today, we were checking our ego and our desire yesterday. These people in the masjid wanted to offer us food and they did offer us food and they gave us a package. Where is that package? It disappeared. They offered to feed us at the mosque, but all of us said, “How are we going to eat here like this!” One said, “Kebab!” and the other said, “Kebab!” Out of love they wanted to offer something. What is the difference between the kebab that they offer in the restaurant and the rice offered in the masjid? The rice has barakah and the kebab has no barakah because it is in an open house while the other is in a masjid.
With kebab you only taste the food you desire, but after five minutes it is gone as the taste is from the beginning of the tongue to end of the tongue, no further; after that it goes to the esophagus. It is the same, like people who get food through the tube, is there any taste? But they survive. Is it different? So now when you eat kebab, who is eating? Say! Who is eating when you eat kebab? Your desires are the ones eating! So he is saying that if they know what they are going to meet after death, they would never eat from their desires. That means they eat whatever they find, if they like it or not. When Prophet (s) didn’t find food at home he put vinegar, olive oil, dry bread and mixed it and ate, or dates--it’s a famous hadith--and he was tying his stomach with stones from hunger. Are we doing this? We never slept a day in hunger! Alhamdulillah, every day we have the best food.
So what did Abu Darda (r) say? Inna ashadda maa akhaafa `alaa nafsee yawm al-qiyaamah an yuqaala lee yaa Aba Darda: Qad `alimta fa kayfa `amilta fee maa `alimta.Wa kaana yaqool: law ta`alamoona ma antum laaqoona ba`ad al-mawti lamaa akaltum ta`amaa `alaa shahwa. Finished! It means you cannot eat any desirable food that you like. Eat what you are offered and don’t praise or raise your ego by saying, “I don’t eat this!” If you go to a Muslim or mu’min’s house after a prayer and he offers you food, even if you have high blood pressure and there is a lot of salt, if you eat it, it will be a cure from disease. Or sugar, people say, “I can’t touch sugar!” No, eat it! That’s barakah. You didn’t ask for it, Allah gave it to you so you must eat it.
Wa laa sharibtum sharaaban `alaa shahwa, “And you will never drink anything according to your desires.” What is this “smoothie?” I never heard anything of this except in this place. What is a smoothie? Ice. You are eating ice! They color it and give you water to drink and charge you for a smoothie. “We have to go to Starbucks!” to pay $5 or $4. Is it not better to drink coffee in your home, which has barakah on it, and to take the money spent at Starbucks and give it as sadaqah to spend on poor people? Allahu Akbar! What can we do?
Wa laa dakhaltam baytan tastazhiloona feehi, “And will never try to enter a place in order to get shade from the sun!” Remember that on Judgment Day, the sun will be ordered by Allah to come down over people’s heads until the brain will boil. Ask to be under the shade there! Who will be under shade then? Sabiyyun aw waladun nashaa `alaa ta`tillah, “Someone (young) who was raised in obedience to Allah.”That is one of seven, as the Prophet said:
عَنْ أَبِي هُرَيْرَةَ عَنْ النَّبِيِّ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ قَالَ سَبْعَةٌ يُظِلُّهُمْ اللَّهُ فِي ظِلِّهِ يَوْمَ لَا ظِلَّ إِلَّا ظِلُّهُ الْإِمَامُ الْعَادِلُ وَشَابٌّ نَشَأَ بِعِبَادَةِ اللَّهِ وَرَجُلٌ قَلْبُهُ مُعَلَّقٌ فِي الْمَسَاجِدِ وَرَجُلَانِ تَحَابَّا فِي اللَّهِ اجْتَمَعَا عَلَيْهِ وَتَفَرَّقَا عَلَيْهِ وَرَجُلٌ دَعَتْهُ امْرَأَةٌ ذَاتُ مَنْصِبٍ وَجَمَالٍ فَقَالَ إِنِّي أَخَافُ اللَّهَ وَرَجُلٌ تَصَدَّقَ بِصَدَقَةٍ فَأَخْفَاهَا حَتَّى لَا تَعْلَمَ يَمِينُهُ مَا تُنْفِقُ شِمَالُهُ وَرَجُلٌ ذَكَرَ اللَّهَ خَالِيًا فَفَاضَتْ عَيْنَاهُ
`An an-nabiyy (s) qaala saba`tun yuzhillahum allahu fee zhillihi yawma laa zhilla illah zhillahu: al-imaamu ’l-`adil wa shaabun nashaa bi-`ibaadatillahi wa rajulun qalbuhu mu`allaqun fi ’l- masaajidi wa rajulaani tahaabbaa fillahi ’jtma`an `alayhi ‘jmtama`an `alayhi wa tafarraqaa `alayhi wa rajulun da`t-hu’mraatun dhaatu mansibin wa jamaalin fa-qaala innee akhaafullaha wa rajulun tasaddaqa bi-sadaqatin fa-akhfaahaa hattaa laa ta`lama yameenuhu maatunfiqu shimaaluhu wa rajulun dhakara’Llaha khaaliyan fa-faadat `aynaahu.
There are seven persons whom Allah will shade on a Day when there is no shade but His: a just ruler; a young person who grew up in the worship of Allah; a person whose heart is attached to the mosques; two persons who love each other, meet and depart from each other for the sake of Allah;
a man whom a beautiful woman of high status seduces, but he rejects by saying, “I fear Allah”;
a person who spends in charity and conceals it such that his right hand does not know what his left hand has given; and, a person who remembered Allah in private and he wept.
(Sahih Muslim, Book 5, Number 2248)
There, ask for shade! Here, if there is sun or no sun, no problem. What do we do here when we see the sun? They put sunsilk? [Sunscreen.] How do you know? [The children in the school.] Why are you putting sunscreen? To be sure you don’t get burned. What do you think of the punishment of burning? If Abu Darda (r) cannot guarantee Paradise, how can you guarantee Paradise?
Wa la-kharajtum ila ‘s-su`udaati tadriboona sudoorakum wa tabkoona `alaa anfusikum, “And you will run out, not looking for a house to shade yourself from the sun, but go running out seeking a place for yourself, (‘as-sa`eed’ means “something that is high”) a high place, beating your chest and crying over yourself!”
This is a Sahaabi (r) of the Prophet (s) saying this! What do we have to say about ourselves? And he finished: wa la-wadidtu annee shajaratun tu`dadu thumma too’kal, “I wish I were a tree that people eat like grass and then it is disappeared, no longer existing.” Like what Sayyidina `Uthmaan (r) said, “On the Day of Judgment when I am in front of Allah (swt) and He is either sending me to Hellfire or to Heaven, in that position I wish I were ashes, not existing! Not to enter punishment, not to enter Paradise, because if I enter punishment, who can take the punishment?”
Sometimes you burn your finger by mistake even by a candle. What happens then? You cannot touch it for 2-3 days. In Hellfire’s punishment, the fire is burning more than any sun. It is mentioned, as we explained before in the hadith, that the heat of Hellfire is more than 70,000 suns. And Professor, how many degrees is the temperature in the center of the sun? That means you are not reading the suhbah.
I mentioned it two or three times, do you remember? You? [50 million degrees.] 50 million degrees Centigrade is the heat of the sun in the center. What is 50 million? At 2,000-3,000 Centigrade iron melts and at -90 Centigrade, iron will break into powder! If you heat iron at 2,000 or 3,000 degrees it melts and at -90 degrees, below freezing, iron or metal will disappear! So what will happen to us? He said, “I wish I were grass to be eaten, to disappear.”
What did Sayyidina Imam Bukhari (q) say? Baabu khawfi ‘l-mu’min an yahbit `amala wa huwa laa yash-hur. “The door that you fear most for your imaan is to lose your action as it becomes spoiled, without feeling that you are doing sins.” Without feeling it, your actions are thrown in your face as Allah might turn it, as Allah (swt) said that in the Holy Qur'an:
وَقَدِمْنَا إِلَى مَا عَمِلُوا مِنْ عَمَلٍ فَجَعَلْنَاهُ هَبَاء مَّنثُورًا
Wa qadimnaa ilaa maa `amiloo min `amalin faja`alnaahu habaa’an manthoora.
And We shall turn to whatever deeds they did (in this life) and We shall make such deeds as floating dust scattered about. (Surat al-Furqan, 25:23)
“We come to what they did and we throw it in their faces!” What did Prophet (s) say? This is a good place to put that hadith:
عَنْ أَبِي هُرَيْرَةَ أَنَّ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ قَالَ أَتَدْرُونَ مَا الْمُفْلِسُ قَالُوا الْمُفْلِسُ فِينَا يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ مَنْ لَا دِرْهَمَ لَهُ وَلَا مَتَاعَ قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ الْمُفْلِسُ مِنْ أُمَّتِي مَنْ يَأْتِي يَوْمَ الْقِيَامَةِ بِصَلَاتِهِ وَصِيَامِهِ وَزَكَاتِهِ وَيَأْتِي قَدْ شَتَمَ هَذَا وَقَذَفَ هَذَا وَأَكَلَ مَالَ هَذَا وَسَفَكَ دَمَ هَذَا وَضَرَبَ هَذَا فَيَقْعُدُ فَيَقْتَصُّ هَذَا مِنْ حَسَنَاتِهِ وَهَذَا مِنْ حَسَنَاتِهِ فَإِنْ فَنِيَتْ حَسَنَاتُهُ قَبْلَ أَنْ يُقْتَصَّ مَا عَلَيْهِ مِنْ الْخَطَايَا أُخِذَ مِنْ خَطَايَاهُمْ فَطُرِحَ عَلَيْهِ ثُمَّ طُرِحَ فِي النَّارِ . رواه مسلم والترمذي
`an Abi Hurayrah (r) anna rasoolullahi (s) qaala atradoona maa al-muflis? Qaaloo al-muflis feenaa man laa dirham lahu wa laa mataa`. Faqaala inna’l-muflis min ummatee man yaatee yawm al-qiyamati bi-salaatin wa siyaamin wa zakaatin wa yaatee wa qad shatama hadhaa wa qadhafa hadhaa wa akala maala hadhaa wa safaka dam hadhaa wa daraba hadhaa fa-yu`tee hadhaa min hasanaatihi fa in fanayta hasanaatahu qabl an yuqdaa maa `alayhi aakhadha min khataayaahum faturihat `alayhi thumma turiha fi ’n-naar.
The Prophet (s) said:
Do you know who the muflis (bankrupt one) is? The muflis from my Ummah is one who comes on the Day of Judgment having performed prayer, fasting, and giving zakaat. However, along with all of this, he abused this person and slandered that person, ate the wealth of this person and unlawfully spilled the blood of that person. These people will take from his good deeds. If, however, his good deeds become exhausted, then their sins will be put upon him and he will be thrown into the Fire. (Muslim and Tirmidhi)
The Prophet (s) asked the Sahaabah (r), mani ’l-muflis, “Who is the bankrupt one?” They said, “Yaa Rasoolullah! The one with no money,” and he said, balaa laa `amala lahu, “No, the one with no (good) deeds.” And they asked, wa in saama wa in sallaa? “Even if he prayed or fasted?” and the Prophet (s) said, wa in saama wa in sallaa, “Yes, even if he prayed and fasted!”
Because of your bad `amal, the rewards of your praying and fasting will disappear and you will end up a bankrupt one in front of Allah (swt). What will He do? Either Allah sends him to Paradise through His Rahmah or through the shafa`ah of Prophet (s), or (may Allah protect us, I cannot say it, but) to punishment. May Allah forgive us and protect us from falling into Judgment! Don’t say, “I am this, I am that.” No, even if you were the king of Earth, if all Earth’s countries were united--167 countries or more now--and they come under one leadership and you are that leader, don’t think you are safe. Allah will bring you down when He wants. “We come to what they do and We throw it in their faces!”
So we have to be very careful in understanding how Sahaabah (r) lived their lives. In every moment of their lives they were busy polishing their souls from the bad influence of their egos. Who is higher? We said if a king were leading the Earth, it does not mean anything as Allah will throw him away. What about the one whom Allah raised his name with His Name, Sayyidina Muhammad (s)? Allah raised him and created him first and he was a prophet when Adam (a) was between clay and water, or between soul and body:
كنت نبي و ادم بين الماء و الطين
Kuntu Nabiyyin wa adamu bayna 'l-maa'i wa 't-teen.
I was a prophet when Adam was between water and clay.
كنت نبيا وآدم بين الروح والجسد
Kuntu nabiyyan wa adam bayna ar-roohi wa ’l-jasad.
I was a prophet while Adam was between soul and body.
“And the first thing Allah created from His Light was the light of your prophet, yaa Jaabir.”
رواه عبد الرزاق بسنده عن جابر بن عبد الله بلفظ قال قلت: يا رسول الله، بأبي أنت وأمي، أخبرني عن أول شيء خلقه الله قبل الأشياء. قال: يا جابر، إن الله تعالى خلق قبل الأشياء نور نبيك من نوره،...
`An Jaabir ibn `AbdAllah qaala: qultu yaa Rasoolullah, bi-abee anta wa ummee, akhbirnee `an awwala shayin khalaqahu ’Llaaha qabla’l-ashyaa? Qaala: yaa Jaabir, inn Allaha ta`ala khalaqa qabla al-ashyaa noora nabiyyika min noorih...
When Jaabir (r) asked, “Let my father and mother be sacrificed for you, O Prophet of Allah! What is the first thing that Allah (swt) created?” the Prophet (s) said, “The first thing that Allah (swt) created is the Light of your Prophet from His Light, O Jaabir.” (Musannaf `Abdu ’r-Razzaq)
He was a prophet before Adam (a) had been created. Prophet (s) was before Adam (a), which means he is what? He is the Highest Prophet!
أنا سيد ولد آدم ولا فخر
Ana sayyidu waladu Adaam wa laa fakhr.
I am the Master of the Children of Adam and I say this with no pride. (Tirmidhi)
And what did he say?
اللهم لاتكلني الى نفسي طرفة عين ولا أقل من ذلك
Allahumma laa takilnee ila nafsee tarfat `aynin wa laa aqala min dhalika.
O Allah! Don't leave me to my ego for the blink of an eye or less.
Don’t leave me to my ego for the blink of an eye or less! How many blinks are there in a minute? Seven or eight, which means you blink every eight seconds. Every eight seconds that you blink, and he said, wa laa aqala min dhaalik, “and less than that, don’t leave me to myself.” He is the Seal of Messengers (s) and the Beginning of Prophets (s), and today what are we saying, “I, I, me, me.”
The Prophet (s) said:
لا يؤمن أحدكم حتى يحب لأخيه ما يحب لنفسه
Laa yu'minu ahadukum hatta yuhibba li-akheehi maa yuhibbu li-nafsihi.
None of you will truly believe until he loves for his brother what he loves for his own self.
(Bukhari, Muslim)
No one is considered a mu’min until he loves for his brother what he loves for himself. Who loves each other? Brothers are eating each other! The first to do that are brothers and then brothers and sisters, then husbands and wives. But friends, they might or might not not eat each other, but brothers eat brothers. So what do you need to do? Be patient. If you are patient, you are saved. If you are not patient, you will not be saved. Leave it to Allah (swt).
Ibrahim at-Teemi said, maa `aradtu qawlee `alaa `amalee illaa khashaytu an akoona mukadhdhiban, “If I compare between my words and my actions, I will become worried that for sure I have become a liar, because what I say is not equal to what I do: I say something and do something else, munaafiq.” That is nifaaq, hypocrisy, when you say something to people, like many scholars today and many people who are leading Muslims around the world say something and they do something else.
“You said to follow this way, but you are following that way?”
“I am a scholar; I can manage this, but you cannot manage, so follow what I tell you! Sheep follow what they are told and we scholars can do as we like.”
This is nifaaq: they guide you but they are misguiding you because they are not on Haqq. This is what we see today. Look at the Muslim world, what do we have? What are they doing? Allah (swt) said in the Holy Qur'an:
كُلَّمَا دَخَلَتْ أُمَّةٌ لَّعَنَتْ أُخْتَهَا حَتَّى إِذَا ادَّارَكُواْ فِيهَاجَمِيعًا
Kullamaa jaa’at ummatun la`anat ukhtahaa.
Every time a new people enters it curses its sister-people (that went before). (Surat al-`Araf, 7:38)
Whenever a new leadership comes, they curse the one who came before and the next one that comes, curses the one before. That is how it is always. Do we believe in Allah’s Words or do we believe what these politicians in the Arab world are doing? If you say, “Allah....” I was watching something two days ago, someone was sitting, saying, “Laa ilaaha illa-Llah,” and a man came and kicked him on the head and said something which I don’t want to repeat, and he continued to say, “I am not accepting except to say, ‘Laa ilaaha illa-Llah.’” They shot him in front of the camera, in the head. What is this? We are shooting each other without knowing! We are shooting them with rumors, with backbiting, with bad rumors, fitna, jealousy and hatred! We are not trying to help each other. And Islam is built on what? To help each other.
The Prophet (s) said:
انما بعثت لاتمم مكارم الاخلاق
Innamaa bu`ithtu li utammimu makaarim al-akhlaaq.
I have been sent to perfect the best of conduct (your behavior and character). (Bazzaar)
“I was not sent except to complete the best of manners, the best of behaviors. That is why I have been sent.” Is it not? That’s what the Prophet (s) is saying: “I am sent for that!” He confirmed it: innamaa bui`ithtu, “For sure I have been sent to complete your manners.” Can you eat with your right hand or your left hand? Right. I don’t see too many people eating with their right, as the makaarim al-akhlaaq of dunya tell you to eat with Shaytan. That is why most people when invited or to teach protocol, they say to eat with the fork in the left hand, because Shaytan is eating with the left hand! The Prophet (s)
said, “Don’t eat with the left, eat with the right.” So what are people doing? Muslims! Muslims are proud to eat with the left!
Of whom are you afraid? I was invited many times to eat with presidents and they eat with their left hand, I eat with my right hand. Protocol! You cannot... you have to sit the same way as everyone else. And I cut what needed to be cut with the knife in my right hand, holding it steady with the fork in my left hand, and everyone was looking, and then I put the fork back in my right hand to eat what was cut. So Muslims! Prophet (s) prohibited us to eat with the left hand, so when he says, “I have been sent to complete or perfect your manners,” that is a quick example of the hidden manners, the bad manners we have that take us to follow wrong ways and make us fall into ma`aasiyy, and when we fall into a sin we are infected with the poison of that sin that has been injected into the body!
Every hasanaat is multiplied by ten. You will be injected ten times with reward; you will be given ten rewards that will fix your body. That’s why people with less sins have less sickness, but we have too many sins, so we are injected by Shaytan with poison! Instead of asking, “Yaa Rabbee, reward us!”
“On what do I have to reward you? On disobeying Me? You want a reward on disobedience? Obey Me, I reward you.” Say, “Astaghfirullah” and Allah will forgive, as He said:
ادْعُونِي أَسْتَجِبْ لَكُمْ
Id`oonee astajib lakum.
Supplicate to Me and I will give you! (Surat al-Mu’min, 40:60)
“Call on Me, I will respond, I will forgive!” So, yaa Rabbee, we are calling on You! O Allah! Forgive us. So awliya and scholars are teaching us how to be like that. Narjullah `azza wa jalla yaghfir lanaa dhunoobanaa wa yassir umooranaa wa ’shfi mardaanaa wa mardaa ’l-muslimeen.
Wa min Allahi 't-tawfeeq, bi hurmati 'l-Habeeb bi hurmati ‘l-Fatihah.
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