The Disputations

Part forty three

1. Recite ayah Al kursi with intention of protection when scared or generally

2. There was a student who was punished because he did not accept a local teacher. So he was unable to find anyone to study with...
Respect the teacher or lose out big time!

3. The best syllabus in the world means naught without a teacher to teach it

4. Every Murid of the shadhali order will see the benefit of the use of the plural form in imam Shadhalis duas

5. Re death of a wali
People often do not recognise awliya because they are different to them. This can cause hate or mistrust, of course without basis.
We are losing more awliya day by day and the scary thing is; that they are not being replaced.
People often ask about the awliya and how one can reach Allah. Problem is that people cannot benefit from seen knowledge, so how can they benefit from unseen knowledge? So this is the reason their hearts, awliya, are taken because we do not recognise them and cannot benefit from them.

6. Don't take knowledge from unsocial media

7. I have come to the conclusion that we are heading towards the end of time, where ignorance not knowledge spreads. So people recognise clothing and feelings not knowledge. So ignorant 'speakers' are promoted and the knowledgeable are discarded. This is a sign of ignorance that someone is more famous because someone with knowledge is misunderstood. Also people can relate to ignorance and feeling but not knowledge, so beware fame being the basis for their scholarship!

8. One of the students of sh Muhammad Al hashim r was asked what he learnt, he said, 'in all things there is goodness'

9. The prophetic standard was to encourage sinners and people towards good action and change. Not to make them feel guilty

10. You really are one of the sheep when you do not question the errors of your leader

11. Smart parents don't give their kids smart phones

12. Think about all the times that your needs were fulfilled without dua. Grateful

13. It's an act of hypocrisy to honour a foreign ahl al bayt from your people when you won't even open your front door to those that live locally

14. Being proud about being part of any spiritual path is like being proud of taking a course of medicine or being proud that you go to a particular hospital. The proud are stuck unable to make any progress. You amply the nafs by proud of anything even your murshid.

15. Many years ago, my friends and I visited a teacher. We sat down on the floor and asked him for advice. He lowered his head and said he had no advice to give. At the time I thought wow how humble he is but I don't think that now. When a teacher is asked for something, he has to give it. I was a critical juncture of my learning so I needed it at the time. I did not need his fake humbleness. He knew nothing so could not say anything. Beware because there are more fake teachers than real ones...

16. A fake teacher gives you opinions not knowledge

17. Two types of day of judgment

1. When creation will be judged by God   2. Your death

18. Part of good parenting is sometimes saying no to things that will harm your child

19. Most students need to learn how to be students rather than dream about being a scholar

20. There are two ways that events can be understood and our reactions to them.
The worldly and other worldly
When a murder of a child occurs we understand two things
1. We have to bring him to justice and if that does not occur then the murdered child will get justice on the day of judgment
2. The child dies and has no reckoning so in sha Allah they will enter paradise
One side is evil that is in the world but the afterlife is good.

21. Do not look forward to a future in the past - move on

The Disputations

Part forty two

1. Virtue is vice and vice is virtue but do you have the skills to see thru lies?

2. He (may Allah bestow peace and blessings upon him) said, "do not busy your hearts by remembering the world." Bayhaqi

3. What others have is the decree of Allah for them so do not dislike the decree of Allah the Exalted.

4. A seekers sincerity is tested by being tried in what distracts them from Allah; until they overcome it, will they progress.

5. Don't sell me your evil; I am not buying

6. Parents who buy bikes for their kids should also buy helmets and protection. Unless you and the kids already have brain damage!?!?

7. The abused becomes the abuser, if they stay long enough

8. If the religious person does not try harder in Ramadan then they have not benefited from it.

9. When you backbite or slander someone online the sin is there until deleted. something you said could be still earning sin years on.

10. A person's faith or disbelief is not your choice, it's theirs

11. Shoving anything down people throats never works. Give people options let them decide for themselves. In faith and action

12. Remember that the world is a prison, wretched and awful. So your heart does not become attached to it. Remember that there has to be injustice in the world for the innocent to have recourse on the day of judgment

13. Unless you see actual filth then you cannot assume that there is filth everywhere. Just wash your hands after you have used public transport and chill

14. Its haram for blokes to wear tight fitted clothes too.

15. What's a wabunni ? It's a sunni who teaches books that he has no ijaza in. Wahabi style!!!

16. Moon sighting have two opinions: global = hanafi, local = shafi. A third opinion which is outside these two, what are those guys over there doing? So the third opinion is outside the four madhabs, and please note morroco is NOT the closest muslim country, Albania is. Albania is in Europe okay! Follow the local masjid that follows the local sighting because global is not reliable.

17. Sidi Ali Al Jamal (May Allah show him mercy) said, "the reward is commensurate to the difficulty."

18. I'm sorry to say this but I am really against this over sexualising of hijabi women. It goes against what it stands for. And yes ladies hijab is not just a head covering, so if you have a face-full of make up, that's not hijab either!

19. People serve their groups and interests when they should serving Allah and His deen

20. There is reward found in struggle like pearls in the ocean. They are not found easily...

21. Check things out before reacting means acting in measured manner to avoid hastiness

The Disputations

Part forty one

1. Imam al-Haddad said, "rituals [acts of worship] absent from hudur [presence] are like dust in the wind." P.37 setting out

2. About the misunderstanding that the Imam should have a fist length beard : Nur Al idah, maraqi Al falah, Hidayah, tuhfat al-muluk, ikhtiyar, it's commentary including the hashiyah of nur Al idah. All do not mention that having a beard is part of imamah. The first three points are knowledge, valid tajweed and piety.
The description of fasiq is someone who has no care for his religion at all. Not someone without a beard.
Nuff said

3. You are asked twice about your earnings: how you earned and how you spent it. Make sure it's lawful.

4. Nine types of people are cursed because of their involvement in wine. The same applies for illegal drugs. Yes it does.

5. "A person who speeds in a fast car in built up areas. Has a sin for each person he disturbs. 1000s of sins. Plot lost"

6. The reason why pak girls are doing better in education and work than boys: girls have responsibilities and work at home so it easy for them to study, work hard and achieve academic excellence when outside the home. The boys are treated like kings at home and everything is handed to them on a plate. So when they go into education and the work place they expect the same and cannot handle it when they don't get it. So do not achieve their potential.
Lesson: don't spoil your kids because you ruin their lives. Parents have a lot of responsibility to make boys realise they are not kings.

7. Learning to deal with loss is the lesson you need to learn to survive

8. In one of the books imam al-Ghazali someone asked a belligerent child why he was not obeying his parents, he said, "because they don't fear Allah."
 This paints quite a picture about the parents complaining about their kids. Do they fear Allah? If they don't then their kids will not.

9. A sign one is cursed is blaming others for your sins when you are well aware you are wrong

10. It's a full time 24-7 to correct the incorrect information about Islam on the Internet so don't take your religion from it. Take it from real teachers not updates!

11. General rule about kids: tire them out or they will tire you out.

12. When Sidi Abu Madyan (r) went to fez in 11th century, he only found one teacher he connected to, Sidi Ali Hirzihim (r). So this was at the height of knowledge. So do you really think our times are better? Real teachers are rare and even rarer now.

13. Seems like there are a lot of parents who don't know how to bring up children.

14. Ibn Ajibah (r) said, "Ones tasawwaf is like a tree without fruit when you do not perfect one's character."

15. The blossom of a weed and the blossom of a flower are totally different but to some they seem the same?!

16. What's the point crying over the death of a scholar who you did not study with, during his life?

17. Parents who complaint about their kids being spoilt should look in the mirror and blame the person staring back!

18. Ali كرم الله وجهwas asked about the world, he said, "the lawful of it is accountable and prohibited is punishable." Ihya

19. What wajib can a woman not do without sin? Not replying to a greeting from a man she does not know or fears harm

20. "False hopes are more dangerous than fears." J R r Tolkien

21. The Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم said, "Allah will torture those who tortured people in the world." Muslim

The Disputations

Part Forty

1. Truth spreads slow and lies spread quickly

2. It's very sad to know that people use libraries for the computers and meet people. Borrowing books seems to be the least thing that people do in libraries.

3. Most people who say that they are waiting for mehdi is a cop out. It's because they are too lazy to do anything and are using it as an excuse

4. A great sign of the Mahdi is that the world is filled with oppression

5. Allah looks at the heart and people look at clothes

6. dont be upset about what you cannot change

7. supplication is the recourse of the weak

8. Film making is the art of convincing you that something is happening when actually it is not. Its an art of deception that manipulates and stimulates your emotions into feeling something that does not actually exist. None of it is real but yet we are obsessed about them.

9. True sincerity is that one performs an action for Allah, not for anything or anyone and not for recognition even if it works out or does not. Thats sincerity.

10. The Quran is a proof for you or a proof against you.
Proof for you if you read it and a proof against you if you don't

11. Ibn Ata Allah said he studied with Abu al Abbas al mursi (ra) and in thirteen years never found him opposing the sacred law once.
 Abu al Abbas main teacher was who? Sidi Abu al Hassan as shadhali (r)
True tasawwaf

12. Each scholar is like a container of water: some are purer than others, some are poisonous, some are intoxicating in a bad and others in a good way. But most of all be careful where and what you drink...

13. Imam Al-Ghazali said, "worship is not valid until you know who you are worshipping."

14. Whatever we do its always about the afterlife..

15. Some men, like bats or owls, have better eyes for the darkness than for the light.

Charles dickins

16. يا غنيا بالدنانير محب الله اغني

O rich one by gold coins [know] the lovers of Allah are richer. [a poet]

17. If satan wants to attack you then he can do it by other people. So you become distracted by the attack and you miss out on doing acts of worship. So direct yourself even more to Allah then the attack will cease

18. The distance of the spiritual path is the time it takes to clean ones heart

19. Those who are anti knowledge; don't have any!!

20. The state someone cooks is transferred to the person who eats the food

21. The world would be a better place without social media