Lessons from Hatim Al Asamm – 2

Auto-generated transcript:In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful.
All praise is due to Allah, Lord of the worlds.
And peace and blessings be upon the honour of the prophets and messengers.
Muhammad, the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, and upon his family and companions.
Peace and blessings be upon him, and upon his family and companions.
And after that, we continue with the Hikaiyat, the teachings and the advice of Hatim al-Assam, may Allah have mercy on him.
And inshaAllah, may Allah Ta'ala guide us and give us hidayah and give us the wisdom to follow these beautiful Hikaiyat for our own benefit, inshaAllah.
So the second piece of advice that he gave the people and gave us, he said,
I have read in the Quran that
Allah said,
وَأَمَّا مَنْ خَافَ مَقَامَ رَبِّهِ وَنَهَى النَّفْسَ عَنِ الْهَوَةِ فَإِنَّ الْجَنَّةَ هِيَ الْمَأْوَةِ
He said that, Allah said in Surah Al-Naziat,
But as for the one who feared the standing before his Rabb,
and stopped himself from evil desires,
certainly Jannah will be his abode.
Now see the beauty of this ayah,
وَنَهَى النَّفْسَ عَنِ الْهَوَةِ
He stopped his nafs from the desire.
We are not talking about evil actions.
We are talking about the desire itself.
So obviously there is first a desire,
then there is a thought process of how to fulfill this desire,
and then only will you come to the action.
So we are not talking about the action.
I'm saying right in the beginning, desire itself, cut it.
وَنَهَى النَّفْسَ عَنِ الْهَوَةِ فَإِنَّ الْكَوَاسِ فَإِنَّ الْهَوَةِ
Meaning stop nafs, his own nafs,
عَنِ الْهَوَةِ
About the desire, from the desire.
desire, from the desire.
And so, Hathim al-Hassan says, I know that whatever Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala says is
true, therefore I have restrained myself from worldly desires and I have become steadfast
in my devotion to Allah.
See, the thing which occurs to me always whenever I read these things, I read about the Sahaja
and I read about these people, is the focus on the action.
It's not what they know.
We also know this, don't we know that evil desire is bad, we should not have any evil
desire?
No, this is not, you know, some special knowledge that is given only to some people.
We also know this.
But does it make us stop ourselves from those desires?
That is the question.
The question is, does it make us stop from those desires?
Right?
We know that sitting in a halaqa, sitting in the masjid when the khatira is going on,
and sitting in the back with your face in the phone is a bad thing.
Right?
But we do that, we don't do that.
Coming up, coming in front and sitting in front here is a good thing.
Do we do that?
We don't do that.
Right?
So, alhamdulillah, some people when they are reminded, they do it.
May Allah bless them.
May Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala raise their darajat.
May Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala take the adhesive on the bottoms of the others, which is making
them stick to the chairs.
Alhamdulillah, the adhesive of two came out.
Third one is still there.
I know your names.
You want me to call you by name?
Good.
Come without being called.
Alhamdulillah.
Alhamdulillah.
Alhamdulillah.
Alhamdulillah.
Alhamdulillah.
Come and sit and listen because this is beneficial for you.
Wallahi, I'm not saying because I'm saying it.
Forget me.
Remove me from the picture.
If I'm telling you my story, don't listen to it.
Go home.
But when I'm telling you about the kalam of Allah, when I'm telling you about the teachings
of Rasulullah , this is beneficial for you.
It's good for me also.
I don't, as far as I'm concerned, if nobody listens also, it's fine.
I will still say it.
But what's the point?
I'm here.
I'm sitting.
I don't know.
I'm listening.
I don't know.
I don't know.
So, come and listen.
Alhamdulillah.
JazakAllah khair, you came.
May Allah bless you.
May Allah subhanAllah raise your darjahat.
May Allah subhanAllah protect you from all the evil that you know and you don't know,
inshaAllah.
Right?