Thursday, April 16, 2009

Summary of Session on 4/11/2009

There exists a differences in opinions in of the definition of a ma'soom. 1) They can make a silly mistake. 2)But other side says not even that.

From this khotbe we realize Sheytan was a malak, therefore a malak can make mistakes. Some of them have free will. A test only makes sense if you have free will. Imam Ali says Allah tested the angels, which means at least one of them had free will. Sheytan failed the test because he said you created this Adam from something that stinks.

If Allah would have wanted he could have made Adam very good and very beautiful. He could have done so much to make the bowing obvious. But he didn't, he kept it constant. But Allah tests his creatures with things that they don't have knowledge in. Things like gheybat we know the analogy of eating the dead brother's meat. we want the bad and good to be separated. the masoom know the essence of it so they are able to stay away from it. We know as well, but our "knowing" is different from there's.

Majority of people do not get this opportunity to turn around once they commit a sin. Probability of u-turning is less as you keep going on. In anything you want to do approach it with caution.

He wants to remove kebr and arrogance away from them. Now you will know you are very vulnerable. There is nothing to stop you, get rid of this self satisfaction, remove the takabbor, Le Ayyel Omoore llayka ashkoo, to which of these actions should i come and give shekayat (complain). I can do so much with nothing stopping me.

People learn from what happened to sheytan. What should we learn? Because all of his efforts and hard work for many thousands of years got destroyed with one second. Just like vice versa works. 6k years of worship and it's not obvious if it was regular years or hereafter years. one day in akherat is like 1k years (this is ayah quran).

Who is safe from this act now. When we sin we mean I don't need you (Allah). At some level we are doing takabbor.

Allah will not allow a human to enter heaven with the same action when another person was exiled because of it. There are signs for Kebr, find them, remove them. And his command on skies and ground is the same. There is no special guidlines, it doesn't matter who you are.
Kebr - think to yourself if you are better than others, that's kebr. stay away from people because you think that you're better than them, that's kebr. Kebr grows as you become more knowledgable.

No single action can be absolutely good or absolutely bad, it all depends on intention. like salat for salat or salat for riya.

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