Recap of session 3/28/2009

Salam to all,

As we mentioned, our meeting EVERY TWO WEEKS will be more just to have a small face to face gathering and the bulk of our discussion should be tried to taken forth on line.

We began by starting up khotbe qase'eh, below are the notes I took. Enjoy for now, i'll insha... post more opinions and stuff later in the week, but below just shows all that we talked about this past session:

Qa-se-eh has two meanings:

1) To a camel is eating's gag reflex and IMam Ali was on that type of camel when he gave this khotbe.

2) Something that is belittling or degrading. Imam Ali is making small the jahelee stuff. I enjoy school right now, money, i think these are my everything. cultures, the more lower we go we value things that are more worthless. My dad has such and such position, or i have such and such degree, etc...

Allah is the only one who is Kebriya. This being good depends on what you install it towards. If it's something along the lines of arrogance. Even if you think it's good, it's not a good thing. If you are doing it for the cause of Allah like someone is putting down religion and u have to come front to say who you are. We may think we are better than others, but that's just us.

So we praise the Allah the one that is Great and he has chosen these qualities for himself. He didn't choose it for you to become motakabber, and if you against his will u get in trouble.

This is the line of separation between Him and us. Everyone else can't be motakabber because we depend on Him. How can u be motakabber when u have all these shortcomings. And whosoever wants to gain those things, Allah has CURSED THEM!!!! And so Allah has chosen takabbor to be for himself and no one else, and this is the testing points that he tested the Angels with. Are they going to be motakabber or motawaze'.

mozmaratul quloob - the hidden things (mozmarat), which your qalb/rooh/nafs is also hidden. this is the hidden of the hidden. There exists things that we don't even know they are there. We will realize that they are there when situation is right for them to come out. That shortcoming will be shown once the time is right. In one step we can go fro +inf to -inf. sometimes we develop something unconsciously, and once the moment is right it shows itself. how do u know if u were pres, or even around at time of shemr (he was a commander at time of seffeyn and he almost became SHAHEED) who then turns around and cuts Imam hussein's head. he was given a choice, he wanted a rule, and so

moqaddas aradabeelee - super pious person. what would u do if u were alone w/ young lady. he said i pray that will never happen because this won't happen to me. but it comes around and gets you.

now some use this opportunity to realize what's wrong with them to be more careful. Allah loves his creations, if he did not show you that shortcoming, at time of death it could show there and then u would have no time to fix it. but now through sin He has given u an opportunity to fix yourself, that's why jahannam. nothing is absolutely good or absolutely evil. namaz could be the worse thing for someone if that makes you proud of yourself. nothing in this donya completely good or bad.

so Allah knows what's hidden. so he tests angels with takabbor. so what's the point of test? to help you realize who you are. every sin a person commits are wake up calls. he's not trying to trick u. if u dont want to wake up that's ur choice, many wake up but others don't.

dont we say all angels are good. but that's a misconception. are all malaeke good or are there some who make wrong choice. if they don't have free will, what's the point of test? free will makes test, makes knowledge making, makes rising, understanding, all make sense.

we know iblis was a jinn made of fire. he didn't do sajdeh. iblis was also a malak though (we will come to this). one exception enough to break the stereotype of angels names above.

iblish showed asabiyyat. i'm better than him. he's from a simple dust that everyone steps on. if u have dirt, that dirt has some value. if u put water in it, u can't plant it anymore. if you have mud and then u put that mud in heat, it loses all it's nutrients. physical creation has absolutely no value for Allah. it's only a means to achieve something else. that styrofoam doesn't have any value for chelow kabab. take care of body because we want to fulfill our duties. so he was prejudice (vanity) he had something deep inside his heart. he didn't know of it. point of this was to bring this out of sheytan. but he didn't fix himself. he wasn't cursed immideatly, he chose to become an outcast. Allah's knowledge doesn't take choice away from you. He knows what you will do in next second, but that doesn't take choice away from you.