Hazrat Moulana Dawood Seedat Saheb Madrasah Isha'atul Haq · Albert Falls Albert Falls, KwaZulu-Natal
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Midday Programme Part 2 | Hazrat Moulana Dawood Seedat Saheb
Midday Programme Part 2 Hazrat Moulana Dawood Seedat Saheb
Hijri date 4 Rabi'ul Aakhir 1439
Date 22 December 2017
Duration 55:07
Venue Masjid Taqwa Summary Main Topic
Spiritual purification of the heart (Tazkiyah), safeguarding one's faith against subtle worldly temptations (Fitnah), and the importance of righteous company and guidance.
Key Lessons
Tazkiyah and Akhlaq: The essence of Tasawwuf is purifying the heart by eliminating evil inner traits (Akhlaq-e-Razilah)—such as envy, bad assumptions (bad-gumani ), and malice—and replacing them with praised characteristics (Akhlaq-e-Hamidah ).Purity of Intention (Niyyat ): All efforts and speech must be solely for Allah's pleasure. Hazrat Thanwi Rahimahullah refrained from rebuking innovators when they unexpectedly attended his lecture to ensure his speech remained purely for Allah rather than personal victory or pride.Avoiding Environments of Heedlessness (Ghaflah ): Permissible leisure activities become harmful when conducted in inappropriate company or places that lead to negligence, missed prayers, and spiritual darkness.Objective Guidance (Mashwarah ): Personal involvement and emotion cloud judgment during trials. Consulting pious elders or a spiritual guide ensures objective, Deen-centered decisions.
Quranic/Hadith References
Quranic allusion: Innama amwalukum wa awladukum fitnah ("Your wealth and your children are but a trial").
Hadith: Man ra'a minkum munkaran falyughayyirhu biyadih... ("Whoever of you sees an evil, let him change it with his hand; if he cannot, then with his tongue; if he cannot, then with his heart...").
Hadith: Al-Dinu An-Nasiha ("Religion is sincere advice/well-wishing").
Practical Advice
Guarding the Gaze: Actively avoid places of open fitnah (such as crowded beaches or vanity-driven markets) where guarding the eyes becomes nearly impossible.Select Righteous Companions: Ensure outings, travel, and recreational activities are spent with good company who maintain Salah in congregation and engage in Dhikr .Strategic Wisdom at Home: Handle domestic issues with patience and tact—gently redirect family away from questionable places through alternate outings or off-peak times rather than causing abrupt marital disputes. Transcript Machine-generated, so it will contain mistakes — the audio is the reference. Tap any line to play from that moment.
0:01 This must be our near. 0:03 Now this morning, my son-in-law was here. 0:06 They came home late last night. 0:08 They must have reached home about half past eleven or something. 0:11 And then the granddaughter was awake. 0:13 So now, innama ambalukum wa uladukum fitna. 0:19 And now she came away by me. 0:20 She don't want to go down. 0:22 Now she's playing and whatever. 0:26 So now, this morning I opened the besties of earth. 0:30 And what you mentioned there, travelling on time, not travelling late. 0:35 Now I'm thinking, my son-in-law mustn't think now. 0:38 I chose this topic here. 0:41 I chose this topic for him now. 0:44 Because he came late last night. 0:46 I didn't choose. 0:49 That was the point that was coming next. 0:50 The mafia is there. 0:52 So, it's Allah's system. 0:55 Allah's system. 0:58 Allah's work. 0:59 You just carry on. 1:02 Allah Ta'ala will make what's beneficial for whom, at what time, whatever. 1:07 Allah Ta'ala will make that be spoken. 1:10 Allah Ta'ala will make it a means of hidayah. 1:15 So, see, one time I think it was Hazrat Tharwi Rahmatullahi Ali. 1:21 He was called to one place to give a bayan. 1:26 Hazrat Tharwi Rahmatullahi Ali 1:29 He was very firm against Bida'at and all that. 1:31 Because prior to that in his life, he himself, he was involved. 1:35 Then after that, he came out of all of that. 1:37 So now he knew that part of it. 1:39 You see, the Ahlul Bida'at, why they so much grudge him compared to all? 1:45 Why they so much? 1:48 It's because he was from inside and he came out and he's telling you what you're doing is wrong. 1:53 So it's like your own who came out and he's telling you what you're doing is wrong. 1:59 And then he was vocal about it. 2:03 So, there was a big, like a, you know, in India there used to be big, big programs. 2:08 10,000, 20,000, sometimes go up to 100,000 people attending programs. 2:14 So, there was a big jalsa or something. 2:17 And in that particular place, there were certain people who would have come for that program. 2:24 And they were like the main people 2:28 Who were starting the wrong in that village, in that particular town. 2:33 So the people invited Hazrat Tanvi Rahmatullah Ali, especially, so he must knock these people, you know. 2:40 Must knock them. 2:42 Right? 2:45 So Hazrat Tanvi Rahmatullah Ali, when he started his bayan, then he started speaking about these innovations and whatever. 2:57 After a little while these people came. 2:59 They were not there in the beginning. 3:01 After a little while they came. 3:04 When they came and said, he changed the whole topic. 3:09 He changed the whole topic. 3:10 These are the general things. 3:14 So one, two of the organizers now, they signaling him like, hey, now is the mocha. 3:20 Now these people are here. 3:22 Now is the time you are supposed to drill now. 3:25 Hmm. 3:26 But he never mentioned anything. 3:29 After that, when the program finished, all the time, the main time when you were supposed to knock it, now that time, he said, on purpose I didn't do it. 3:39 Because then my intention would have been wrong. 3:43 My intention would have been, now I'm just knocking. 3:46 I'm not speaking for Allah's pleasure. 3:47 Now I'm speaking to prove a point to these people. 3:49 And to put these people in their place. 3:51 So that is not 3:54 Our Maqsaj. 3:55 Our Niyat. 3:57 We must just continue with our work. 4:01 And whatever Allah Ta'ala wants to happen, it will happen. 4:07 Jeeb. 4:12 So we are explaining Aamal-e-Zahira is the Aamal you do outwardly. 4:19 Baatin is the actions of the heart. 4:26 So Aamal-e Zahira. 4:28 Kastati Zikr. 4:30 Must be made in abundance with the tongue. 4:32 It's an outward Amal. 4:34 Right? 4:35 And Aamal-e Baatina. 4:37 What we have to do is eradicate Akhlaq-e Razila. 4:41 We have to get rid of the evil qualities within us. 4:46 The evil characteristics within us. 4:48 And we have to establish Akhlaq-e Hameeda. 4:51 This is this whole Tasawwuf. 4:54 Whole Tasawwuf is this. 4:57 Ikhlas. 5:01 Eradicate akhlaq-e-razina. 5:03 Bring in akhlaq-e-hamida. 5:06 That is what it's about. 5:09 Be conscious of Allah. 5:12 That is the soul. 5:15 There's no... People have funny, funny ideas of what this soul is all about. 5:23 First thing, first thing. 5:24 What was zikr? 5:25 I must make. 5:26 What was zikr? 5:28 Zikr, you make that. 5:29 Maistikfar. 5:29 Durut Sharif. 5:30 Carry on. 5:32 Read Quran Sharif. 5:35 No problem. 5:36 You don't have to read so many hundred la ilaha illallah. 5:39 So much this, so much that. 5:42 But, to get rid of the razai. 5:46 Evil, evil qualities within us. 5:49 We are harboring enmity, animosity, jealousy, 5:53 We got daggers out for that one. 5:55 We got suspicions about this one. 5:57 No, this one is doing that because he got that. 6:01 He got this in his mind. 6:02 That one is doing that. 6:03 Why can't we just be clean? 6:05 Have husna zan. 6:07 Carry on. 6:07 If that person got a dagger out for you, Allah is watching your back. 6:11 What are you worried about? 6:14 Allah is watching your back. 6:16 Whatever is gonna happen is gonna happen. 6:21 Whatever is to happen, 6:22 It will... 6:23 It must take place. 6:27 And whatever happens is only for our betterment. 6:32 Whether we can understand it, whether we can't understand it, is for our betterment. 6:36 I'm not saying we must become foolish and stupid. 6:40 That is, allow people to take advantage of us. 6:42 No. 6:43 We must be intelligent. 6:46 We must have our finger on the pulse. 6:49 We must know what we are doing. 6:51 But there is a limit to what we can worry about. 6:54 More than that, leave it in Allah's hands. 6:58 Allah Ta'ala is watchful over His servants. 7:04 I hand over my matters to my Allah. 7:07 Allah is watchful over His bandas. 7:09 So if that person is trying to harm me, that person in my mind is trying to do this, trying to do that. 7:15 Whether it's true or not true, I don't even know. 7:17 It's an assumption. 7:19 It's a suspicion. 7:20 It's a bad gumani. 7:25 So by me harboring those thoughts, I am sinful. 7:29 And that person may be innocent. 7:32 That person may be innocent. 7:33 That person doesn't have any of those thoughts in his or her mind. 7:38 So rather just be neutral. 7:41 Be neutral. 7:42 Yes. 7:44 If we are afraid that look, this person 7:49 He's trying to offer this type of a favour, but he's got certain strings attached. 7:56 Then don't accept the favour. 8:00 This person is giving a hadiah, but he's trying to trap me in something else. 8:05 Then don't. 8:06 This person wants me to become part of this organisation. 8:09 I don't really trust the people on that organisation. 8:13 Don't get involved. 8:15 Or if you are involved, resign. 8:16 Come out of it. 8:21 Come out of it once you see things are not going in the way one organization was in its infancy stage with regards to Hajj and all of that. 8:31 You have to make Hajj affordable and everything. 8:34 So we said well this is a very very good initiative. 8:38 So we got involved. 8:39 We did lot of work in the early days. 8:44 Then when I saw how this organization is going 8:50 And I had a very senior post in the organization. 8:54 Where like once that organization was to be launched, I would have been the Amir of KZN. 9:01 Whole KZN. 9:02 I would have been Amir of that organization. 9:06 So Cape Town they had one Amir. 9:08 Joburg they had one Amir. 9:09 Free State. 9:10 Bichala. 9:11 They don't exist. 9:13 Now there's so many other provinces. 9:14 I don't know about that. 9:16 But KwaZulu-Natal is still same size. 9:19 So 9:20 They said, no, you are Ameer. 9:21 KZN Ameer. 9:24 I felt, you know what, I don't really like the way this thing is. 9:29 I don't say the objectives are wrong, but the manner of working is not how I would like. 9:36 I resigned. 9:37 So much they said, oh, come back. 9:40 JazakAllah. 9:42 I don't work like that. 9:43 So I'm not saying what you're doing is wrong, but I'm going to frustrate myself. 9:49 So I came out of it. 9:51 Shortly thereafter, in one of the meetings, there was a big fight that took place. 10:00 Ended up in fisticuffs. 10:03 There was an alim in Lanesia who was assaulted in that meeting. 10:09 Very, very badly. 10:11 Because he was voicing the very same sentiments that we were worried about. 10:16 Although I had never spoken to him or whatever. 10:19 But he was an alim of deen. 10:20 So definitely his mind went there. 10:22 We went to go and visit him there after that assault one time. 10:25 I went to Jowak. 10:27 It was close after that this thing. 10:29 We went to go and visit him also. 10:32 They beat him up. 10:32 He was bruised up and whatever. 10:36 So now you got so much of fikr for the hujjaj. 10:40 But you behaved like a hooligan in your meeting. 10:43 Where is your biradri then? 10:45 Where is your ad-dinu nasiha? 10:48 Al-Muslimu. 10:48 Akhul Muslim is that. 10:50 Alim also not your brother. 10:52 So, what type of mentality do you have? 10:55 This is my argument. 10:56 So, when I saw that this thing is not being run the way I would, you know, like it, in my opinion, from what we have learned from our Akabiri and our elders, how things are supposed to be run. 11:10 So, then we stepped out of it. 11:12 So, you step out of it. 11:14 No problem. 11:15 Leave things in Allah's hands. 11:16 Allah will do what is khair, what is best. 11:25 In the category of zikr, tilawat of Quran Sharif is included and also all those askar besides tilawat of Quran Sharif. 11:37 At times zikr is direct and at times zikr is indirect. 11:43 If we were to include the direct forms of zikr also as zikr itself, then we can say that there should be permanence in zikr as well. 11:53 We have to take all the indirect forms of zikr. 11:55 See one brother. 11:58 One brother is going on holiday. 12:03 Generally holiday time brings with it ghaflat. 12:13 Now you find so many people also, person is got taluk, whatever. 12:19 Then they decide to go on a fishing trip. 12:23 With few friends. 12:24 There is nothing wrong. 12:26 Few friends now they decided to go maybe two nights or something fishing. 12:31 But when we go on the fishing trip, then we go into a total ghaflat. 12:37 We start talking with heavy slangs. 12:40 Sometimes swearing words come about. 12:43 Sometime one, two filthy subjects also come about. 12:47 Now we take it like, now we're friends, man. 12:50 It's alright. 12:51 We're just enjoying ourselves. 12:55 But this thing generates such a darkness within us that when we come back home, now we're oversleeping for Fajr. 13:07 Our mamulat, we can't get it right. 13:12 Lot of darkness has come. 13:14 For example, some brothers in Durban. 13:19 So because they live there by the seaside. 13:22 So some of them want to do some body boarding. 13:24 Some want to do some spear fishing. 13:28 Some want to do some surfing. 13:30 Some want to do some swimming. 13:32 All these different kind of things people want to do. 13:36 So generally the place is quiet. 13:39 So they choose a quiet beach. 13:41 They choose a quiet time and they go and do whatever sport they want to do and they come away. 13:47 Now I'm not talking from a high level of taqwa point of view. 13:51 Obviously from a high level of taqwa point of view you shouldn't be doing these things in any case. 13:57 Right? 13:57 But now people got shocked. 13:58 They want to do this little bit sport. 14:00 Keep fit with this or keep fit with that. 14:03 So here they go and do it. 14:04 Right? 14:05 But if a person is not going to be careful and if he is not going to choose his times right. 14:12 Now he say, no, I go every morning for a walk on the golden mile. 14:18 Now in December time also he decides to go for a walk on the golden mile. 14:23 Well, his heart is not going to be golden anymore. 14:25 Because there is so much of fitna around him. 14:28 So that those are not places to go anywhere near. 14:33 Those are not places to go anywhere near in this days where so much of fitna and prasad 14:41 Do something and stay at home and jog on the spot. 14:44 If you really want to keep fit, you can stay at home, jog on the spot, do some press-ups, push-ups, everything, and keep fit. 14:52 No problem. 14:54 But don't go and do that activity at that time. 14:58 A person says, no, I like my fishing. 15:02 He must choose his company correctly. 15:05 He got his fishing buddies. 15:09 From before he started making Islam. 15:13 He got his fishing friends from before he started making Islam. 15:17 And now when they used to go on the fishing, now everything is like a relaxed mode and you know. 15:23 But now he started making Islam. 15:26 Now he realizes, you know, this thing is causing a darkness. 15:30 So he must change his company. 15:33 He must change his fishing company. 15:35 If he really wants to go fishing, he likes his fish. 15:38 Rahman. 15:39 Tariya. 15:41 So, change the company. 15:45 Or go yourself. 15:48 Go yourself. 15:49 No problem. 15:51 But why go with that company which breeds ghaflat? 15:56 I take that company with you which breeds ghaflat. 16:00 Right? 16:03 Myself. 16:04 I like to go. 16:06 Outdoors. 16:06 The mountains. 16:07 Little bit. 16:09 Now and again. 16:10 To make some shikar. 16:12 Hunting will go. 16:15 Sometime. 16:17 We go into the transcribe. 16:20 But. 16:23 The people. 16:24 That I go with. 16:25 Alhamdulillah. 16:26 All. 16:27 Decent people. 16:29 Clean cut. 16:31 Every morning. 16:32 We wake up. 16:33 Some of them wake up for Tahajjud. 16:37 If not Tahajjud, at least Fajr Namaz. 16:40 After Fajr, Zikr Majlis. 16:42 After Zikr Majlis, we'll have some Taanim. 16:48 Some short program. 16:52 Generally, that is a good fishing time. 16:55 But we'll have one short Taanim. 16:57 Then slowly, some of them make one cup tea. 16:58 Then we get ready, go and do some fishing. 17:02 Come back. 17:03 Right? 17:04 Namaz is all on time with Jamaat. 17:07 Everybody will read Salah. 17:08 And in between we have some good discussions. 17:13 Right? 17:15 So then it's a bit of a break also. 17:18 It's a change of environment. 17:21 But at the same time you are not now moving away from your Muamalat and moving away from your Namaz with Jamaat and all those things and starting to talk nonsense and 17:32 Not to say we see this all the time. 17:34 Yes, there's a little bit of laughter. 17:35 There's a little bit of joking, etc. 17:38 That is there amongst friends. 17:40 But everything, there is a limit to it. 17:44 There is a cut-off point. 17:45 There is a limit. 17:47 Right? 17:48 So if you have that type of company, then well and good. 17:51 Alhamdulillah. 17:53 Right? 17:54 But if you don't have that type of company, then don't go with evil company. 17:58 Solitude is better than the evil company. 18:02 Solitude. 18:02 It's better than the evil company. 18:03 Rather be with your wife and children, it's safer. 18:06 It's better with your wife and children. 18:09 You just want a change of scenery, right? 18:11 Change of environment. 18:13 So go away to the berg somewhere and take a walk with your wife and children. 18:19 You don't have to go with friends here and there. 18:23 Now, because we went few times there, whatever, now we see in that place that, you know what, 18:32 There's no deen here, you know. 18:34 There's no... 18:38 Some of these people, maybe they never heard Allah's name in their life. 18:41 Because all poor people, they're doing this right in the sticks, as they say, you know. 18:47 No electricity, water, or... 18:50 In the bush it is. 18:52 Half places there's no signal, telephone signal, nothing. 18:58 So now we made some niyyat that look... 19:02 Now next time we go, we're going to go and meet the chief of that area. 19:06 Allah made it that somebody that we know, he knows that chief also very personally. 19:12 But it's just happening now. 19:13 Since we made that intention, we're not ending up going. 19:17 Because your objective in life is not fishing. 19:20 It's a by the way thing. 19:25 Sometime now if it works out, now you'll go away. 19:29 It's not like objective in life. 19:30 We have to go. 19:32 Have to plan one weekend now. 19:33 We have to go so many times in the year. 19:35 We must go and all. 19:36 It's not like that. 19:37 It's a by the way thing. 19:38 If it happens, it happens. 19:39 If it don't happen, it don't happen. 19:41 Sometimes the boys are off. 19:43 Whatever. 19:43 Now you feel they are rather getting involved in this kind activities than getting involved in other types of things. 19:52 So if it happens like that, it works out well and good. 19:55 If it don't work out, do other things. 19:58 Some people now, they take on to a hobby. 20:02 Then they forget their duties to their wife, their children, Allah Paak, everything. 20:08 Come with me. 20:09 Friday night I'm gone. 20:10 Indo soccer. 20:12 Now whether the wife is sick, whether the children need something, whether that night is some family function or whatever. 20:19 No, no, no. 20:19 Friday night, you all know, Friday night is my Indo soccer time. 20:22 It don't work there. 20:23 Indo soccer is for us. 20:25 Fishing is it for us? 20:27 Hunting is it for us? 20:30 These things are not for us. 20:31 These are just things people do on occasional. 20:34 They just want a little bit of a break. 20:36 Whatever. 20:39 So it mustn't be something that now we so steadfast on. 20:42 Every morning I must go for my surfing. 20:44 Every morning I must go for my swim. 20:45 Every morning I must do my walk. 20:47 No. 20:48 Where I can fit it in, I put it in. 20:49 If I can't fit it in, it's fine. 20:51 I do something else. 20:52 If there is too much fitna there, I must move away from it. 20:55 I must ask myself that all of a sudden now there are so many female surfers. 21:01 Right? 21:02 So now, can I really make ifazat of my eyes there? 21:07 Now somebody put an argument forward. 21:09 They say, but you go to the mall. 21:10 Then what you gonna do? 21:11 There also, there's woman in front. 21:13 Must stop going mall also. 21:15 You don't know why. 21:16 Understand the difference. 21:19 Understand the difference. 21:21 If you going to the mall, because you got a maksat. 21:26 You're going to do your grocery shopping. 21:28 You're going to buy one shoe. 21:30 Your wife needed something. 21:31 Your child needed something. 21:33 You're going for a need. 21:34 Right? 21:36 So, you entered there. 21:38 You read your Fort Karimah. 21:39 You got your intention made already. 21:40 I'm going to make you fast out of my eyes. 21:43 You go there. 21:44 You do your work. 21:45 And you come out. 21:46 Now, in that time, when you go to do your work, yes, you may get 21:52 My eyes may go away there. 21:53 Astaghfirullah. 21:54 You move your eyes away. 21:55 Some music may be playing there. 21:57 Something may be happening there. 21:59 Right? 22:02 But you went for a reason. 22:03 So when you come out, you make tawbah, you make istighfar. 22:08 On the day of Qiyamah, you got an excuse that you went there for a reason. 22:14 But if you went surfing, 22:16 Oh, body boarding. 22:17 Oh, body standing now. 22:18 What they got? 22:19 What's another one they got now? 22:20 They're standing on the board and paddling. 22:23 Stand up paddle now. 22:25 So they show the whole satar properly. 22:27 Other time when they were lying down on the surfing board, you can't see the satar. 22:31 Covered with the water sometime with the wave. 22:33 Now they're standing up. 22:34 Now must see the whole satar properly, advertising the whole satar properly. 22:38 They're standing up on the stand up paddle. 22:42 One day I told one friend, 22:46 When we were small, they gave us paddle pop. 22:53 Then we got little bit bigger. 22:55 They put us in a paddling boat. 22:59 Then we got little bigger. 23:02 Now there is one thing for fishing. 23:07 Paddle tail. 23:08 Paddle tail. 23:09 Then they gave paddle tail. 23:11 When we were small, they gave paddle pop. 23:13 You are a little bit bigger they put you in a paddling boat. 23:15 You got a little bit bigger they made you fish with a paddling paddle tail. 23:20 If you had rather joined the pedal jamaat you would have been safe. 23:24 Join the pedal jamaat you would have been safe. 23:26 Otherwise you will carry on paddling your way to Jannah. 23:32 So we must ask ourselves that have I become so spiritually strong now that I can go there 23:40 There can be a woman surfing there. 23:42 There can be a woman bathing there. 23:44 As I'm walking up and down, one lady is changing by the car. 23:47 One man is changing here. 23:49 One lady... Can I make a deposit of my eyes in that type of a environment? 23:58 Am I coming out from there totally unscathed? 24:03 No bruises on my spirituality. 24:08 If not, then why must I subject myself to this on a daily basis or on a weekly basis? 24:14 I know every week I'm going there. 24:15 This is happening to me. 24:16 Why must I do it all the time? 24:19 On and off. 24:21 We went away somewhere. 24:23 I was in Johannesburg some time back. 24:26 Not this trip. 24:27 Last trip. 24:29 So, was with my daughter and both my daughters and all. 24:34 Now they say no. 24:35 They want to buy something. 24:37 In one place. 24:39 Must take them there. 24:41 I said, where is this place now? 24:42 They say, no, this place is called the zone. 24:47 What they want? 24:49 Something. 24:50 One of the daughters want to buy for their husband or something. 24:53 He likes the thing. 24:54 I said, alright, child. 24:56 Let's go. 24:57 What do we know? 25:00 Now you go there. 25:01 You see the place. 25:03 You put yourself in the soup. 25:05 Right? 25:06 Then you catch your ears. 25:09 Do your calm out. 25:10 Right? 25:11 Then you catch your ears. 25:12 Don't go again now. 25:14 You went one time. 25:16 You saw what this thing is. 25:17 Don't go again. 25:18 You didn't know what the setup is there. 25:21 Right? 25:22 You went one time. 25:23 You saw the setup, what it is. 25:24 Don't go again. 25:25 Finish. 25:26 You got no zarurat. 25:28 There's no necessity to be there. 25:32 Right? 25:32 No necessity for you to be there. 25:34 So, stay away now. 25:37 You must know that that zone is a danger zone. 25:41 Out of zone. 25:42 Zone. 25:44 It's a danger zone. 25:45 Don't enter the danger zone. 25:47 Go somewhere else. 25:49 Last time I was in Johannesburg. 25:52 Morning or Saturday. 25:54 I told him you need to get one two things and he told me see. 25:59 You google this place here. 26:02 It's one mall right out of the way. 26:06 They got all the shops there. 26:08 But it's out of the way. 26:09 Very quiet place. 26:10 You go away that side. 26:13 And Waqee it was like that. 26:15 And in December too. 26:17 Now we had to drive for a while. 26:20 But inconvenient now. 26:21 You're going out of your road and whatever. 26:24 But we went away there like a ghost town. 26:28 Like a ghost town. 26:31 Hardly any people. 26:32 Nothing. 26:35 Can just get your things, whatever you need and whatever, and come out from there quietly. 26:42 So we as believers, see one is, we have to work towards a very high level of Taqwa, right? 26:52 We have to work towards a very high level of Taqwa. 26:56 The reality of the situation is that we are not there yet. 26:58 We are not there yet. 27:01 But we need to work towards it. 27:03 But we are weak people. 27:04 Sometime now we want to go somewhere. 27:06 We want to do something. 27:09 But choose our venues intelligently. 27:15 Choose our venues intelligently. 27:16 For example, now in this December time, you can't go into all these places where there is so much of people and 27:30 All the entertainment areas. 27:33 You can't go there. 27:34 Finish. 27:34 Just forget about it. 27:38 Just stay away from it. 27:39 Stay far away from it. 27:41 You can't go there. 27:42 Finish. 27:44 Because if you go there, you cannot avoid the sun. 27:50 If you have to go to Durban, when it's not holiday, it's not weekend, nothing. 27:57 You go away to Durban, it's quiet. 28:01 You'll count the amount of people walking around there, whatever. 28:06 There's no like holiday goers and beach goers and all that. 28:10 It's a working day. 28:11 People are working. 28:12 One person here, one person there. 28:14 Now you wanted to take a walk little bit. 28:17 You went, fine. 28:20 You're seeing the ocean little bit. 28:22 You wanted to sit little bit, see the ocean. 28:24 You can make ifazat of your life. 28:26 I don't say there'll be nobody, nobody. 28:29 But you can choose a quiet spot. 28:30 You can go somewhere. 28:31 You can walk a little bit. 28:33 Keep your gaze low. 28:34 But when it is packed up, choked up like that, how do you make a positive? 28:39 If you look this side, you got a problem. 28:40 You look up, you got a problem. 28:42 You look down, you got a problem. 28:43 Any which way you look, you got a problem. 28:46 If you're walking this way, you say, oh let me turn around. 28:48 You turn around, it's worse. 28:51 Any which way, it's a problem. 28:54 So then why must we go into the danger zone? 28:57 That is not a danger zone. 28:59 That is a kill zone. 29:02 You are walking straight into the kill zone. 29:08 One brother sent me an email yesterday. 29:14 He is from Johannesburg side. 29:17 Never met him in my life but he always sends email. 29:21 So he says, Mauna, now I am going to the south coast for holiday. 29:27 With my family and whatever. 29:29 But my mother is insisting she wants to go to the souk. 29:35 Right? 29:35 So is it a safe place to go to? 29:39 I am thinking in my head. 29:42 Look at the kilabi taqwa now. 29:46 It's kilabi taqwa, right? 29:48 You are going to the south coast for a holiday. 29:52 You are going to be on the beach. 29:54 The fitna on that beach is going to be ten times more than the fitna in the sukh. 29:59 Right? 30:00 But now, because your mother now wants to go to the sukh, now you became very pious about that part of it. 30:06 Now, you know what? 30:08 It's okay. 30:08 It's that safe place to go. 30:11 Salah, that whole coast is not safe. 30:12 What job do you have there in the first place? 30:16 Why do you leave Joburg so far away to come here to go in the south coast? 30:19 For what? 30:23 You have no job to come here now. 30:27 But all of a sudden, now you became very pious to worry about, can I go to the souk or not? 30:32 Yes, mustn't go to the souk. 30:33 That too, scorpion bite or python bite, both is bad bites. 30:38 Both is poisonous. 30:40 So maybe the beach front is a python, the souk is a scorpion, but both are bad. 30:44 And the bad part about that scorpion is that that particular scorpion, the way it is dressed, that you think is not a scorpion. 30:53 That is the Python. 30:55 You'll know that that is the Python there. 30:57 But the scorpion, the way they camouflage it, you don't even know the scorpion is there. 31:03 That's why soup and scorpion start as... You go to the soup, you end up in the soup. 31:13 They are just duping the people that this is some Islamic... Just read the advert by magician, something, this, something, what and what. 31:23 Like a carnival type of an atmosphere. 31:25 But you market it like it is an Islamic type of a thing. 31:29 Saving the people from the streets. 31:31 What you saving the people from the streets? 31:35 This is all places of fitna. 31:37 Fasad. 31:38 Then you get our lady say. 31:40 But you know. 31:43 You only get those bargains in the souk. 31:48 And maybe waki it is like that. 31:51 Maybe it is like that. 31:52 I never ever went there. 31:54 My family has never been there. 31:56 But they say, no, you get the bargains there. 32:00 The main bargains. 32:01 What you never get in the shops, you get the bargains there. 32:04 So, getting a bargain is that so much of a perk in life? 32:12 If you paid 50 rand more somewhere else and you protected your gaze, protected yourself, isn't that better? 32:21 So what if you have to pay a 50 rand more? 32:24 Whole life is not just about a bargain and a bargain. 32:28 We have to worry about our Iman. 32:30 About our Ruhaniyat. 32:32 That is more important. 32:34 It's not just about a bargain. 32:36 You know the cloaks are cheap over there. 32:38 You get a certain item there. 32:40 You get a certain thing there. 32:41 If we can't get it, we can't get it. 32:43 One of those things. 32:46 Do without it. 32:47 Stay without it. 32:48 You can't have it. 32:49 You can't have it. 32:50 But why... 32:50 Subject ourself and especially Udama must never ever be there. 32:55 Never ever be there because people they look for an excuse. 33:01 Morana was there. 33:02 Morana may have been 9 o'clock in the morning. 33:05 When all the fitna makers are still sleeping because they were there till 12 o'clock last night. 33:10 So they which are still sleeping. 33:12 So Modisab said no my wife she wants some cloak and captain and something. 33:16 So never mind. 33:17 You be ready. 33:18 9 o'clock in the morning. 33:19 Early. 33:21 Soon as the stalls open, we will go away, buy our stuff and we are out. 33:28 That is how we should think. 33:30 You need to go to the mall, you need to go to the flea market, whatever. 33:34 Let's choose a time, early time, go and get our things before the crowd comes in and we are out. 33:43 But when it comes to a place like the souk and all that, we mustn't even do that. 33:50 Because these people are justifying fitna in the name of Islam. 33:57 You rather go to an ordinary free market. 34:01 Right? 34:01 You treat it as a bazaar. 34:03 But these people are trying to like they are promoting deen. 34:07 Right? 34:07 They are promoting a fitna but they are camouflaging it with the name of deen. 34:12 So that you must never be a part of. 34:15 That you must never be a part of. 34:16 Now if you go even if you go 9 o'clock in the morning 34:20 Right? 34:22 That stall owner who saw you. 34:24 Right? 34:27 Now, 10 o'clock in the night, 11 o'clock in the night, when some other people, you know, you know, Maha Zakaria was there. 34:33 You know Maha Zakaria from British. 34:35 Yeah, Maha Zakaria was there. 34:37 He bought, he bought the same kind cloak. 34:40 He bought the same captain, everything. 34:41 He too said, it's very good, you know. 34:42 Yeah. 34:45 Now, those people don't know you came 9 o'clock in the morning and all that. 34:50 Oh, then it's alright. 34:51 If our Maulana comes, our Imam Sahib, he comes, then we're not in a bad place. 34:56 It's alright. 34:57 We read that article of Maulana Yusuf Patel. 35:00 But if Maulana Zakaria is coming, then maybe the sukh has changed a little bit. 35:07 From the time when Maulana Yusuf Patel was alive and now, maybe it has changed a little bit. 35:11 That's why Maulana Zakaria is coming. 35:15 So people just look for an excuse. 35:17 But when Maha Zakirah is going for Fajr Namaz, then they don't say, Hey, Maha Zakirah is going for Fajr Namaz, we must also go for Fajr Namaz. 35:25 That part they won't follow. 35:26 But where the nafs, where they can find a justification for the nafs, then they'll use the Ma'ana as a proof. 35:36 Ma'ana went, so we must go. 35:38 That man got taluk with that Sheikh, so he must have asked his Sheikh. 35:42 This is another point. 35:44 Last point we will mention. 35:48 I was in one town, you know, went for some program. 35:59 So one person, a good friend of mine, but he got taluk with another sheikh, right? 36:10 Senior sheikh of our country, he got taluk with. 36:15 But we are good friends. 36:19 So he was making some mashwarah with me about something. 36:25 So I asked him, Did you ask Hazrat? 36:30 Have you made mashwarah with Hazrat? 36:31 Is Hazrat okay with that? 36:36 So the job he gave me was, I didn't make mashwarah personally with Hazrat. 36:43 But, another friend, another friend of ours, 36:48 Who is also got taluk with the same Sheikh. 36:52 So he says, you see that person, he doesn't ever do anything without making mashara with Hazrat. 36:59 His wife and him. 37:01 Both. 37:02 They will never do anything without making mashara with Hazrat. 37:07 So they have done this. 37:10 So it means Hazrat has approved of it. 37:17 Right? 37:18 If they have done this, Hazrat has approved of it. 37:22 Because they don't ever do anything without making mashara on Hazrat. 37:27 Right? 37:29 It could be they slipped up in that one thing. 37:32 Isn't it? 37:33 It could be they slipped up to make mashara in that one thing. 37:38 And you are taking it now as a tacit approval. 37:41 Because they doing it. 37:43 They got talaq with the Sheikh. 37:45 So we too can do it. 37:47 Right? 37:48 That's one. 37:49 Maybe they didn't make MashaAllah. 37:52 Second situation. 37:57 They may have made MashaAllah with the Sheikh. 38:01 The Sheikh may have permitted them. 38:04 Okay. 38:06 It's fine. 38:07 Do this. 38:08 However, when you're going to do this, then make sure you do this, that and that. 38:16 So that, 38:17 You save yourself from the fitna. 38:21 You see a person, he is going to go into a place to take the honey from the beehive. 38:36 But he knows that when I go into that place, he has been educated. 38:41 You are going to go into that place, you have to wear the suit. 38:46 So he puts the suit on. 38:50 His face is covered. 38:51 His hands are, everything is covered. 38:53 And then he goes to take out the honey. 38:55 The bees are stinging him. 38:57 But he's not getting stung because he got the suit on. 39:01 Right? 39:05 You didn't know he's supposed to wear the suit. 39:09 You just heard, Oh, he went and took out honey from there. 39:15 He went to take out honey. 39:16 So that means you can go take out honey, isn't it? 39:18 Alright, let me also go take out honey. 39:21 Next thing, you are a candidate for the cabaret stand by. 39:26 Or you are a candidate for the hospital. 39:27 Right? 39:30 But he went. 39:31 He went, but he was taught the precautions. 39:36 He was taught the precautions. 39:39 He wore the precautionary gear. 39:42 And he went. 39:42 The protector. 39:43 Where? 39:44 He went. 39:45 He was getting stung. 39:47 But the sting couldn't penetrate. 39:49 You didn't do that. 39:52 You didn't do that. 39:55 You just heard. 39:56 Oh he went. 39:56 So I'm also going. 39:59 So we mustn't do that in the soul. 40:06 You got to share. 40:09 You make this. 40:11 MashaAllah. 40:13 With your Sheikh. 40:15 About your situation. 40:19 For example now. 40:22 If Yusuf is married. 40:24 Right. 40:25 He is newly married now. 40:29 Make dua. 40:29 He get married now. 40:30 He must settle down. 40:30 MashaAllah. 40:32 So. 40:32 If he is newly married now. 40:35 So he is telling me. 40:37 You know what man. 40:39 Let's say he got married. 40:41 One month ago. 40:44 My wife, she wants to go to the souk. 40:50 What I must do? 40:51 Every year her father is taking her to the souk. 40:55 What I must do? 40:57 So I may tell him. 40:59 Let's see. 40:59 So what you do? 41:02 Don't make a fight now. 41:03 You just got married now. 41:05 You don't want to create a problem. 41:07 Zain is not made still. 41:09 She hasn't been exposed to all these teachings and everything. 41:13 Never mind. 41:14 Nine o'clock first thing in the morning. 41:16 Take her quickly. 41:17 Go and do this thing. 41:18 Whatever bank she wants to do. 41:19 By ten, eleven o'clock be out of there. 41:21 Finish. 41:26 Now you see that. 41:29 Yusuf. 41:29 Yusuf is very close with Maana. 41:31 He comes all the way from escort. 41:33 Comes all the majlis. 41:36 Overnight program he is there. 41:38 Other program we had also he was there. 41:41 Always making mashwara. 41:42 And he is 41:43 Parents too making mashwarah and everything. 41:45 His brother also comes with him. 41:47 So he must be making mashwarah about everything. 41:52 Now, you meet him also, you tease him. 41:55 Hey, you went soup. 41:57 You spoke to us. 41:58 Hazar knows you went soup. 41:59 Yeah, I know. 42:00 Hazar knows. 42:02 Hazar knows. 42:03 Right? 42:06 But if you have to ask, you're not going to get the same job. 42:10 Hmm? 42:10 You the monisahab. 42:11 You the principal of the madrasah. 42:14 You an elder person. 42:15 You married for so many years now. 42:17 If you tell your wife you're not taking a souk, you're going to make for a chicken soup. 42:21 She'll say, alright, let's stay at home. 42:22 You'll make for me chicken soup. 42:23 Very happy she is. 42:25 That man is newly married now. 42:26 You don't want to start rocking the boat in the early days. 42:29 You're going to make a zain. 42:30 Now he knows that this is a problem, this souk thing. 42:33 Okay, we just got married now two weeks ago. 42:35 Now I don't rock the boat here. 42:37 Let's now take our champals and phone our father and say, come pick me up. 42:40 You want to make a whole problem? 42:42 Alright. 42:42 Never mind. 42:43 Indulge her. 42:44 But just take her this time. 42:45 Come out. 42:46 Not in the time. 42:47 Very busy time. 42:47 Fitna time. 42:50 Now you know you got the rest of the year to start making hazeen. 42:55 So you got to choose your seedy well. 42:58 When you traveling to take her to a majlis house. 43:00 Say alright. 43:00 Can we listen to this one majlis on the way? 43:03 Now you know that that one got the story about the sukh. 43:05 Hazrat Rahmatullah Ali was knocking it and whatever. 43:08 Put it inside. 43:09 Before you read dua, make dua to Allah. 43:11 Fajr. 43:11 Allah. 43:12 Let her listen to this and let her also. 43:15 Now maybe she'll listen to that. 43:16 Hey, I don't know. 43:17 It's like this. 43:19 Hey, next year. 43:20 Why you never tell me all this? 43:22 Next year we're not going there. 43:23 We're not going. 43:25 Kaam ban gaye hain. 43:28 Right? 43:28 Sort it out. 43:30 If that never work, see, man raa min kum mun karan fal yughayir hubi yadi. 43:38 Fa illam yastati'a fabi nisani. 43:40 Wa illam yastati'a fabi qalbi. 43:42 Wa zalika adhafun iman. 43:44 Something wrong, stop it with your hands. 43:47 If you can't, then with your tongue. 43:49 If you can't, then with your mind. 43:51 With your heart. 43:52 What is meant stopping it with your heart? 43:54 How are you going to stop it with your heart? 43:57 So one interpretation is you think bad of the action. 43:59 But a Muslim, he's a proactive person. 44:02 He don't just sit and think bad and go in depression. 44:05 He's a proactive person. 44:06 What it means, think bad of it in your heart is, I must sit and devise a plan to see how I can come on to the next level to stop it with my tongue and how I can go to the next level to stop it with my hand. 44:21 Not I must just stay away here and utter full Iman. 44:25 Right? 44:26 So now, for example, you tried the CD, you tried the this, you tried that. 44:34 Nothing really 44:35 Sorting the problem out, you know. 44:38 She's not taking the cue. 44:43 So never mind, she's not taking the cue. 44:46 Now, you say, right, why she wants to go there? 44:50 She says the captains are very cheap, nice, good bargains. 44:56 The cloaks are very nice selection, good bargains in the cloaks and all that. 45:03 Alright, no problem. 45:05 Next year what I'm going to do, that Sukh comes this time. 45:10 I'm going to plan one holiday in Drakensberg. 45:16 So we won't be there. 45:17 Sukh time. 45:19 Now if she misses the Sukh one, two time, now that Tartib of going to the Sukh every year is broken, finished. 45:29 Another way you can devise, alright. 45:32 See in November, let me take her on one shopping spree. 45:37 Go buy clothes. 45:38 Go buy captain. 45:39 Everything. 45:41 Now December time comes. 45:44 We just bought the husband now. 45:46 So many clothes, captain. 45:47 What are you going to do there now? 45:50 So different ways the man will have to devise. 45:53 Different ways to see how to solve the problem. 46:00 One husband and wife they were having argument because the wife wants to do something the husband feels it's not necessary to do. 46:06 Now they have big kamasha. 46:08 Husband send me a message. 46:10 Wife send me long, long message. 46:14 Explaining the whole history, geography, science. 46:19 Right? 46:19 Whole thing. 46:22 After all explanation. 46:23 See, just want to get all the frustration out. 46:28 Whole story. 46:30 So in the end, I just wrote there. 46:33 Then, 46:35 In which way can I help? 46:39 In which way can I help? 46:44 Only your duas are requested. 46:47 Dua. 46:48 Dua are requested. 46:54 So make dua. 46:56 Then the person asks, but Mona, am I right in my thinking? 47:00 See, now is time for you to talk. 47:04 Now is time for you to talk. 47:05 Stage is set now to talk. 47:09 So then I explain to her. 47:10 See. 47:11 This is where your thinking is going a little bit wrong. 47:14 This is where you are having a problem. 47:18 JazakAllah. 47:18 Finish. 47:20 Kisah hatam. 47:23 So we have to think. 47:25 Now you see. 47:26 I may be able to do that with a case. 47:31 I may fail to do it when I am in the case. 47:35 Because you see when you are involved yourself, now your emotions get the better of you. 47:42 The circumstances get the better of you. 47:44 You'll be able to give the next person the most expert advice. 47:48 But you won't be able to do it yourself. 47:50 That's why you too need a guide. 47:54 So when you are in the situation, you can ask. 47:57 Now what I must do here? 48:00 Because when you see even in the detective world, 48:05 Even in the legal field. 48:06 Right? 48:07 If a case comes to you. 48:10 Right? 48:10 If you are a lawyer now. 48:11 Criminal lawyer or something. 48:13 The case comes to you but it's too close to home. 48:16 Then there's a term they use. 48:21 Forget all these terms now. 48:22 But they use one term to say that, you know, a conflict of interest. 48:27 That's the term. 48:28 That is conflict of interest. 48:30 I can't take on this case. 48:32 Right? 48:32 It's conflict of interest. 48:34 Because your emotions are going to cloud your judgments in this case. 48:38 So, conflict of interest. 48:42 Then you get like, for example, in an investigation. 48:48 Now, say for example, it's a murder. 48:50 But this detective, this is the murder of his own son. 48:55 They take him off the case. 48:58 Or the suspect is a close family of his or a close friend. 49:02 They take him off the case. 49:04 Why? 49:05 His emotions, his friendship, his love for the person, is all going to cloud him. 49:12 It's going to cloud him. 49:14 You see, Hazrat Mufti Shafiq Sahib Rahmatullah Ali, both his sons, Mufti Taki Osmani Sahib, Maulana Rafiq Osmani Sahib, they wanted to take bayat to him. 49:30 Now, what a great personality he was. 49:32 The sons wanted to take bayat to him. 49:36 So he said to them, let's see. 49:39 Father and son relationship is different. 49:43 It's a more casual relationship. 49:46 And I want to maintain that relationship with you all. 49:51 So it will be very hard for me to be a Sheikh and a father. 49:56 So let me just play the role of a father. 49:59 And you all go take taluk somewhere else. 50:01 Make your taluk. 50:02 So that Sheikh, now that will be your Isra'i taluk will be there. 50:07 With me, it will be a father-son relationship. 50:13 Some Aqabireen, they have given their own sons bayat and given them khilafat also and everything. 50:20 So I'm not saying it's wrong, but I'm saying how he felt about it. 50:23 That look, you rather go there. 50:27 That taluk is different. 50:29 Father-son relationship, that's a different relationship. 50:33 Right? 50:34 So many a time, 50:37 We will be able to advise the next person. 50:39 Right? 50:41 But when we are in the situation ourself, our judgment will be clouded. 50:46 Our anger will get the better of us. 50:48 Our emotion will get the better of us. 50:50 Somebody else in the same thing, what you making a big fuss about this thing for? 50:55 But when we in the same problem, we too make a mistake. 51:01 That is why guidance is so important. 51:04 To make mashara with the elders. 51:06 Take mashwara. 51:07 Listen to advice. 51:09 Follow the directions. 51:13 Then we will remain thinking straight. 51:17 Otherwise, our emotions, our emotions just get the better of us and we allow the emotions to override our better judgment. 51:28 Allow the emotions to override the better judgment. 51:33 Now, for example, a father upset with the child, right? 51:37 Why is he disappointed and upset with the child? 51:42 Because of the child's wrongdoings. 51:47 So now he is mad. 51:48 Upset. 51:49 Say, you, out of the house. 51:51 I disown you. 51:53 Right? 51:55 Now, if he chases the son out of the house, he disowns the son. 52:00 Has he cut off the biological link between 52:03 Between him and his son. 52:05 No. 52:06 Anybody. 52:06 Now the son becomes a drunkard. 52:08 He goes in the gutters. 52:12 He is a beggar on the street. 52:14 Whatever. 52:16 Protect our Ulaan. 52:17 When the person becomes like that. 52:19 Anybody who sees him on the street. 52:23 You know whose son this is. 52:26 He is still. 52:27 The father was embarrassed. 52:30 At the actions of his son. 52:32 So he wants to distance the sun from him. 52:33 You are disowned. 52:35 But you can't cut off the biological link. 52:38 By throwing him out of the home, you have allowed your emotions to get the better of you and you've thrown him out of the home. 52:46 But in actual fact, the very same thing you were worried about, the zillat, is only going to get worse. 52:52 Because now when you throw him out of the home, he's going to get even worse. 52:56 He's not thinking straight. 52:57 And by the time he starts thinking straight, sometime it's beyond repair. 53:03 Now he's gone too far. 53:04 Gone beyond repair. 53:06 Point of no return. 53:08 You can't bring the person back. 53:12 But if you endured it at this point in time and kept him with you, slowly, slowly, maybe, he would have got rid of his evil. 53:20 You spoke to him nicely. 53:22 Made his tarweer. 53:22 Took him for some daily programs, etc. 53:25 Slowly, slowly, he would come right. 53:27 And then, maybe, in five years' time, ten years' time, he is 53:32 A good example of a good Muslim. 53:34 Right? 53:35 Now people... You know whose son that is, man? 53:40 Father is so fortunate to have a son like that. 53:44 The little older people, they'll talk... 53:50 When he was small, he was so naughty. 53:51 But look at him today. 53:52 What a boy. 53:54 Now it will bring happiness, isn't it? 53:57 Izzat and happiness to the heart of that father. 54:00 But when we allow our emotions to override our intellect, then sometimes it overrides our better judgment. 54:08 This is why all the time we require guidance, right? 54:11 We require mashwara. 54:14 We require advice to keep us... Not to say we don't know. 54:19 We know. 54:21 If we have to advise somebody else, we'll give the right advice. 54:25 But when we have to advise ourselves, we've got a problem. 54:28 Because our emotions... 54:30 Cloud of a better judgment. 54:32 Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala give us tawfiq. 54:36 Allah Ta'ala accept your coming. 54:38 Allah Ta'ala make it a means of my hidayah, your hidayah, hidayah of entire mankind. 54:44 Allah Ta'ala overlook our faults, our shortcomings, our weaknesses. 54:48 Allah Ta'ala be pleased. 54:52 So you can make dayari for Jummah. 54:54 InshaAllah. 54:56 SubhanAllah. 54:56 Alhamdulillah. 54:58 Alhamdulillah. 54:59 Assalamu alaikum wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuh. Seek Spiritual Consultation:
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