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                                                                 SG  General Assembly- Sh. Faraz Rabbani                                                  
General Assembly notes
Shaykh Faraz
Imam Zarmuji- Talim mualim
–it is befitting for the one who is learning to intend through their  seeking of knowledge, the pleasure of Allah (over arching intention) and  the next Abode, (dar al-akhira), and to remove ignorance from oneself,  (wa izana jahil nafisihi) and also to life ignorance from those who have  no knowledge and revive the deen, (ihya ad-din) and (ibqa al-islam)  preserve the religion of Islam. For the foundation of Islam is upon  knowledge.
Piety is not possible without knowledge
Knowledge is only sought to act upon it. And acting is to leave what  is temporary for what is eternal.  -Imam Abu Hanifa
CLARITY
PRIORITY
laan tanil ilmun…
-My dear friend you will not attain knowledge except with 6 matters:  intelligence, avidness, resolute patience, provision, guidance of a  teacher and a long time
intelligence: good knowledge habits is how its acquired
Abu Hanifa to Hasan: You were dull and we made you sharp!
hirs (avidness): ihris al-yanfa’u, be avid for all that benefits,  submit yourself and help others, and bring Sunnah into your life
when you are on the path of knowledge, the angels lowers their wings  for you to wake upon, they glorify you in the heavens, birds sing your  praises and fish in the sea make dua to Allah for you–all of creation  was created for Allah SWT to be worshipped, and knowledge is the way to  path of Allah.
istibar (resolute patience) Ale Imran: 200, ya ayuhaladhinia…isbiru,  (be comitted to patience)
great virtue of Islam is to negate your own will, for the will of  Allah.
I hope you had a good weekend, I was too busy to worry about that?
Feelings are like the weather, can’t do anything about it.
3 excuses: extreme sickness, travel and death
bulgha (provision); financial commitments
irshadu ustaadh (instruction of a teacher):
knowledge if conjoined with awe is for you, otherwise against you
-ibn ata’illah
See: Imam Haddad’s article on the SG website on seeking knowledge
Value of Time, Shaykh Abdul Fatta Ghuddah http://www.islamicbookstore.com/b8223.html
Ma’ariful Quran by Mufti Shafi Usmani http://www.islamibayanaat.com/EMQ.htm
 
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                                         Cultivating  Love for the Prophet salallahu alayhi wasalam                                                  
Shaykh Faraz talk
http://seekersguidance.org/blog/2010/03/cultivating-love-for-the-prophet-and-thinking-of-him-in-prayer-faraz-rabbani-seekersguidance/
0:50-  ahibullah bima yardukum bihi min nai’mi, wa ahibuni bi hubillah
love Allah out of what he bestows upon you of His blessings, and love me  out of love of Allah
-hadith
1:50-  laqad man Allaha ala al-muminin idh ba atha fi him Rasullul min  anfusihum, yatulu alayhim ayatihi wa yuzakihim wa yu alimuhumu al kitaba  wa hikmata wa in kanu min qablu la fi dhalalun mubeen
Allah has indeed blessed the believers when He sent them a Messenger  from amongst themselves, reciting Allah’s verses, purifying them,  explaining to them the Book and the Wisdom, though before this they were  in manifest misguidance. -Quran
5:25-sallu  kama ra aytu muni usuli; pray as you have seen me pray
-hadith
                                                 
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wa an ajibtu amilu khayr
“I’m amazed about the affair of my believer it is all good”
-hadith
“God bears witness that there is no God but Him”, wa malaikatu wa ulu  al-ilm
-Quran
angels and the people of knowledge are witness this too and believe  in this, (ulu al-ilm) the people of knowledge is stemming from a divine  manifestation as the hearts perceive this,
“I knew my Lord through my  Lord.”
Everything done for Allah will continue. Anything that is done for other  than the sake of Allah will be cut off and disconnected.
kitab al-ilm of ihya ulum din: all volumes are based on knowledge, we  are blessed to still have the true religios epistemology on the face of  this Earth through the blessing of Muhammad salallahu alayhi wasalam
Nabi salallahu alayhi wasalam used to make dua: “Oh Allah, show me  things as they really are.“
Muadh bin Jabal: sometimes attributed to Prophet salallahu alayhi  wasalam Narration comprehensive statement on the virtue of ilm:
“Merit of talim and teaching, talum al-ilm and ta’lum, learn  knowledge inna talimu lillahi khashya when you learn it for Allah, it  is khashya (fear or beyond fear, reverential awe). And seeking  knowledge is ibadah (wa talabuhu ibada)
yaghshallaha min ibadihi ulema- only the learned who have khashya  (35:28)
-Quran
Muadh bin Jabal, r.a: “Learn ‘ILM – For learning  increases Khashya of Allah swt; Seeking it is ‘ibaadah; Discussing it is  Tasbeeh; striving in searching for it is Jihaad; Teaching it to those  who do not know is Sadaqah; Serving the scholars brings closeness to  Allah, swt; It is a solace in solitude and a companion in seclusion”
To Sayydiuna Umar: Be in the dunya as if he was a stranger or  wayfarer, if you enter into the morning don’t expect to live into the  evening, don’t wait into the evening.
–puts everything into perspective; and make everything difficult easy  for you, realigns with everything in its proper perspective
itna la yashfan, talib al-ilm wa talib ud-dunya
Two people will never become satiated: seeker of dunya and seeker of ilm
Anyone who set out on a Path  of knowledge God will make easy for them a path to Paradise
-hadith (you can’t do it on yourself, you will be slammed and you will  have despair, so alhamdulillah we have a Lord who guides us)–do it  regularly
Everything should keep a notebook, because Allah is going to give you  everything for your provision, write down and use notebooks, write down  insights and questions…notebooks of fada’il, important for you  in particular
Imam Ghazali and brigands story led to him memorizing everything  down. “What knowledge do you truly possess?”
Take notes as if you will teach it after.
Whoever has death come to  him, when he is actively seeking knowledge of Islam, between him and the  Prophet salallahu alayhi wasalam will be one degree. -hadith
(actively seeking knowledge, and intention is to bring light to Islam)
Allahu alladhi khalaqa saba samawatin wa minal ardhi mithlahunna  yatanazzalu al al amru baynahunna li tala’mu innalla al kulli shayin  qadir wa innallaha qad ahata bi kulli shayin ‘ilma
–God created the 7 heavens and the like of the earths…in order that you  may know, lima ta’lamu, bi kulli shay’in ilma. -Quran 65:12
(65:12) It is Allah Who has created seven heavens and of the earth the  like thereof (i.e. seven). His Command descends between them (heavens  and earth), that you may know that Allah has power over all things, and  that Allah surrounds (comprehends) all things in (His) Knowledge.
Make knowledge an excuse for other things
And do not make other things, an excuse for knowledge
And know that through knowledge and worship by certainty they are the  means to felicity
And that is what remains for you in the next world so purify it and  stick to it before you die
-Ahmad Zain al-Habashi  1 2
Ahmad Zain al-Habashi (maqam qutbiya): At age of 70: wallahi la  yastahi al-ilm the only desire I have is for knowledge
In dream: “My soul was taken by the angel of death and I didn’t even  know it because I was preoccupied with an issue” better to do tawaf on a  camel or not.” To meet Allah knowing this knowledge is more beloved to  me than anything else!
Ba-alawi tradition: teacher was in pangs of death, studying with  students, on chapter on menstruation, asked them to research it, he then  lost consciousness and woke and asked if they found out the answer and  they said no we are
you never leave the (lahad) inkwell until the time you are born until  you die (maqbara)
and reviewing it with one another is tasbih, researching ilm is jihad
man kharaja bi baytihi fahu  fisabilillah
whoever goes out of the house seeking knowledge they are in the path of  Allah
-hadith, death of martyr
teaching is sadaqa, and giving to people who are deserving it is a  qurba (offering, means of drawing close to Allah)
reading is a means through Unsbillah ( intimacy with Allah(swt) )  Subhan Allah
friend when alone, and companion in seclusion,
(you can be all by yourself, is like your intimate partner)
guide (dalil) in the deen, and musabir(helps you have sabr) in  times of ease and difficulty
…your relative literally, and lighthouse to the path to paradise (manar)
through knowledge Allah will raise people (hasan al-basri was a freed  slave (muwali), ata ibn rabi’ were freed slave, and bilal stood ontop of  the kaaba and gave adhan), makes people’s leaders and guides, people  follow them and they lead to good, people follow their footprints/traces  and people watch closely to what they do, even the angels desire to be  close to them and from them, they touch them with their wings,
Sahabas said: We  tried with defeat we were able to be patient, we were tried with victory  and we weren’t able to be patient
hadith: innal malaika  lati’dha ajnihata li talibul ilm ridan bima yasna angels lowers their  wings out of contentment for what they are doing; (meaning: will  help them, walking on their wings, and sign of humility to the pursuit  of knowledge)
Imam az-Zabidi: a story of a few hadith scholars walking and some  fool laughed at them, and said, “Be careful how you walk don’t break the  wings of the angels!” He froze and feet became like concrete and feel  over.
In biography of Imam Haddad: in a mosque he ascended to sidratul  muntaha, in his ruh, and described it.
“Just as a flash flood will be an enemy of a high place, likewise,  knowledge is an enemy to an ignorant person”
every mt and dry things seek forgiveness for them, even the  creatures in sea and ocean, the predatory beast, camels, the goats, as  well as heaven and the stars
knowledge is the light of the heart from blindness and the lightness  of our inner sight from shadows and darkness and the strength of our  body from weakness, through this knowledge the servant will attain rank  of righteous…studying with one another is like standing in prayer,  through knowledge God is obedied, through it worshipped, and through it  His divine unity declared, and through it one gains scrupulousness and  through it family links are connected and through it knows the halal and  haram
The most knowledge of are knowledge of halal and haram is Muadh bin  Jabal
su’ada–the felicitous are inspired by it, the wretched are prevented  from it.
And we ask Allah for feliciting grace. Closing duas.
Subhana kallahumma wa bihamdika ash-haduana la illaha illala ant  astaghfiruka wa atubu ilayk, ameen.