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Tazkiyya before Ta’aleem

Tazkiyya before Ta’aleem

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 Auto-generated transcript:Khilal Ramadan Rahim, Alhamdulillah, Rabbil Alameen, Wasalatu Wasalamu Alayhi Sharifil Abiyyil Mursaleen, Muhammad Rasulullah Sallallahu Alaihi Wa'ala Alihi Wasallam, Tasleeman Kaseeran Kaseera, Faman Badu. My brother and sister, it's very, very important to think about the purification of the heart, tasiyat al-nafs, for learning Islam. People come to me and say, I want to become a great speaker. And I say, that's absolutely the worst place to start. because before you become a great speaker, you have to become a great worker, like a person who does amal, who lives by Islam. This desire to speak and the desire to tell people what to do, this is a huge trap. Sahal bin Abdullah, he says, it is not lawful, it is not possible for light, for the nur of knowledge to enter a heart in which there is something that Allah dislikes. Just think about this. These are things which are so critically important that we need to reflect on them. He says, I repeat his words, it is not lawful, it is not possible for light, for the nur of the knowledge of Islam to enter a heart in which there is something that Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala dislikes. And he says, the source of this, this statement is the statement of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala in Surah Al-A'raf, Allah said, I will turn away from the verses which are arrogant in the earth without truth. And if they see every verse they do not believe in it, and if they see the way of the right path, they do not take it as a way. And if they see the way of the wrong, they take it as a way. That is because they have denied our verses and they were not the way. And in the verse of the verse, Allah says, He says, I will turn away from my signs those who act unjustly with arrogance in the land. Allah is saying, I will turn them away from my signs so that they will not get to that. And even if they were to see, even if they were to see every sign, they still would not believe in them. If they see the right path, they will not take it. But if they see a crooked path, they will follow it. This is because they denied Allah's, our signs and were heedless of them. May Allah Ta'ala protect us from being people like that. Sufyan bin Ureena in his tafsir, he says Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala will deprive them from understanding the Quran. SubhanAllah, we see how, what is the wages of arrogance, how arrogance will destroy you if you are arrogant. May Allah have mercy on us. Arrogance is the first trap of the ulama and the umara, of the rulers and people with authority and of people who are people of knowledge as in they know the theory but they are, you know, their hearts are sealed because they have arrogance in them. So when they become... Ulama, when they graduate from this or that darurum, they start considering themselves to be great scholars and they spend their time criticizing other people without looking at themselves and Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala is saying such people, I will prevent them from seeing. Right? Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala is saying, I will prevent them from seeing. Muhammad Yusuf al-Firyabi, rahmatullah alayhi salam, he said, Allah is saying that we should not be afraid of the people who are not in the right direction. He said, Allah is saying that He will deprive them from reflecting on the Quran and taking lessons from it. Ibn Kathir, rahmatullah alayhi salam, in his tafsir of this ayah, he said, Allah punished them with a terrible punishment of ignorance because they were arrogant. So whoever allows, now we talk about the taskiyatul nafs, we talk about purification of the soul. I remind myself anew that all of these talks of purification of soul are worthless if we do not actually go and purify ourselves. For example, imagine. Imagine that you have just come back from a run, you are sweating, you are stinking, your body is full of sweat and dust and muck and God knows what, right? And you are watching this absolutely passionate speech about the benefits of bathing,
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