Qatal - Un - Nafs / psychological killing by mohammad shaikh - 01 - English - 2009

All these ayaats there are many aspects, I will not discuss the other aspect, you should not associate any one with Allah. Then you should be good with your parents, I have delivered a lecture on what the Quran says over parent children relationship. Do no associate anything with Allah, do good to your parents, do not kill your children out of poverty. We provide them. Then again the fahisha lecture has been delivered. So our topic is Arabic you cannot kill the nafs, the soul, the psyche, except with the truth. So 3 or 4 ayaats I have read to establish this that no one is allowed to kill except with the truth. Yourself and the other fellow, if you have killed already your self then only you can kill other person. If I have not killed my self with the truth how can I kill other person. That is very important. You see you can never ever kill any other person if you have not killed yourself with the truth. So we will se how we have to kill our self first. Now in this ayah you will come to know how to kill yourself, how to kill, how to fight and kill, and get killed. You see the business or the deal we have in the world is basically we try our level best to our own standards to sell off things and once we have done and expect the people to come and buy from that shop and suppose you sit there every day trying your lavel best that some costumers will come and buy whatever I am going to sell, they buy, they don’t buy it. So that means you have not sell anything. In this ayah Allah is telling us that Allah has purchased that he you want to sell your soul, the psyche. You have to sell your soul, the psyche means complete submission to Allah’s orders the do’s and the dont’s, the ones I recited and all the do’s and dont’s as mentioned in the Quran. Once you sell the soul, the self, the resultant, you are left with what, nothing, except his will, it does not belong to you. Your eye becomes his eye, what he says because it is he owns the property, you don’t have your own ego then. Once you have your ego that means Allah will not purchase you, you have your standards in the nearness of Allah. If you are there with all the beautiful garb you wear it or all the beautiful personality you try to make that may be Allah will like it, no. He has given you the do’s and the don’ts and specific orders which you want to sell, and he will purchase those believers. If he does not purchase, it means there is something wrong in you. So this killing is not easy matter. Killing you ego or your self the resultant. So Allah says Arabic surely Allah has purchased from the believers Arabic their soul, psyche, Arabic and their wealth. Arabic In return he will get garden. So if you want the garden you have to sell and Allah has to purchase your soul. When you have sold yourself then there is no such thing as you. You are representing him then. In all your life till you are alive. That is the concept, the most important concept to understand how you kill yourself, how you will kill. Until Allah purchase you, you are no more yourself, meaning you will go whatever Allah will you are submitting to that all the time in all aspects. Not in one or two, all aspects, then only he purchases you, the believers. So the question is if you want the garden that is our final destination, we want the garden and we have to sell off so that Allah purchases us, our souls and our wealth and if he has not purchased you, you are not a believer in the nearness of Allah. We are not believers in the nearness of Allah. That means we have to be real true to ourselves so that Allah purchase you, your soul, the self. Once it is being sold out you don’t exist, you exist, the life is there, the soul is there, but you are always submitting to the ayaats all the time, not once in a time total submission that means Muslim, or Momin, total submission is Muslim. And then he explains how Arabic they fight in the way of Allah. To who, to whom he is fighting. Self. In the way of Allah means whatever Allah is showing us, the direction, the do’s and the don’ts they are fighting to achieve that, they are fighting or you can say jihad in other word that time the word jihad is being used or they fight their own soul. They fight their own soul self. Another time the jihad is that you struggle to achieve Allah’s good pleasure. There is no other person involved in this ayah. Arabic They fight in the way of Allah against their own souls. Arabic They kill their souls. They kill. How they kill? They kill the wrong doings of their own. They kill them. Arabic And they are killed. Physically or psychologically. That is one life you get in the world. I am alive. Where is my second life because we have two lives and two deaths. I have already read before. You understand what I am saying. There are two lives and two deaths. So when I struggle or I fight in the way of Allah, the do’s and the don’ts I follow in its true aspect and Allah when purchased me then I will kill and I will get killed. And once I am killed in the way of Allah, Allah says don’t call them dead, they are alive. Physically alive and psychologically alive. It is not that you were going outside and some truck came on you and you were dead and you are shaheed or what you are alive. No, you have to struggle, you have to fight your self, the psyche to get the garden, the jannah, you have to kill, fight in the way of Allah so that you kill and you get killed. There are two types of killing in the world. Nafs, I am talking about nafs. One person is killing, you will see the ayaats I am just explaining you right now. One person is killing mean he is killing his soul, the self in the wrong direction. What Allah says he does not do. He is killing himself. He is dead. Any person who is killing in the wrong direction he is also killing his soul continuously he is killing. So one person is killing in the way of Allah he is becoming alive. That is the life Allah gives and to that person Allah says do not call them dead, they are alive. Because if you read further Arabic and who can fulfill with this promise than Allah then rejoice because you are alive, Allah has purchased you and you are alive and rejoice with the deal you have bargained with him. So people are taking this verse and killing other people thinking they are already alive. They are basically dead. They are dead in the nearness of Allah. They are killing on the wrong direction others because this judgment is laid down in the Quran for those people is the deen of Allah, is the judgment of Allah, you are not God that you take some body’s life. If you do so then you have to give Qasas or other things. This is mentioned in the Quran you have to kill your own self psychologically in the way of Allah in the struggling in the way of Allah, you fight in the way of Allah your own self psyche and you kill your soul and get killed meaning I had the wrong concept, I have fought it, I killed it and I am killed. Once I kill that concept it does not re-occur. Remember this once you kill any thought, if it re-occurs that means it is not dead. In the true sense when you have killed a concept in the nearness of Allah in the way of Allah, it should not re-occur. It is dead. Then you are alive. You can never be alive if you are in between. If you say I was gambling now I have left it. I was involved in drugs, I have left it. You see and if it re-occurs that means you did not kill. That means Allah did not purchase you, that means you did not strive or kill in the way of Allah in the true sense. Once you kill, it is killed in your psyche, it will not re-occur because dead people do not come back from the dead. You cannot come back from the dead. Similarly, psychologically killing is also the same. Once you have killed the wrong act or once you establish the right act, you are killing yourself. And once you have killed yourself, you are alive. This is how two lives and two deaths are mentioned in the Quran. One is the physical life as I am physically alive but am I alive in the nearness of Allah, or I am dead in the nearness of Allah. If I am killing in the wrong direction that means I am dead in the nearness of Allah. I am alive only when I struggle in the way of Allah and I do not let it come back I really killed, I fight and I kill and get killed. And once my psyche is killed I am alive. That is the promise on Allah in the Torah, the law, Injeel – the good news and Quran – the reading. This is the law. This is how you are alive in this world and if you go to surah Now what kind of a person is that Allah says Arabic he was dead, who was dead. Is he coming from the grave, no the same person alive is dead in the nearness of Allah. He did not strive and once he has strived or he is fighting in the way of Allah and killing and getting killed. Then Allah says Arabic we gave him life. Arabic And we made for him light, light of what, the spirit, the essence of the Quranic ayaats. How the light comes. The rooh, the spirit of the essence of Allah’s ayaats is the light. So it says Arabic and we have made for him light for him and that light I am telling you, it is the Quranic ayaat understanding in it’s essence, not the translation. It is the spirit, the essence. You walk with it with the spirit or the essence and that you can a walk in light. He walks with people, is he an example of him who is in darkness and can never come out, likewise for the rejector being decorated what they are doing. The people who are in darkness, those do not have the understanding the essence of the Quranic message. They are living in darkness. They are dead. They can be alive only if they fight in the way of Allah and kill and get killed, their psyche. Now in this ayah Allah says o you who believe, give the response or answer for Allah and for the messenger when he calls to you Arabic he will give you life, alive, you will be alive if you follow Allah and his messenger. If you give response or you answer back to ayaats, essence because this is the kalaam of Allah, the word of Allah and it is the qaul-e-rasoon-e-kareem, the messenger’s saying. So if you respond to it, if you answer back to Allah and his messenger, he will give, Allah will give you life, again you are alive. I am reciting those ayaats by dying how are you being alive. Arabic And know that that Allah comes between the man and his heart and surely you are gathered towards him. Once you are alive, shaitaan is there and your soul is also giving whispers. So Allah says once you are alive and if something like whispering of the shaitaan or your own soul whispers, Allah comes in between. Your heart Allah comes in between your heart and the man, the man who is getting whispers. If I am getting whispers after being alive by Allah, after responding to Allah’s messenger, I am alive in the nearness of God. So what happens know that that Allah will come in between, in the surroundings between his heart because heart is where the emotions and feelins are generated. So he will become a barrier because you know the Allah’s ayaat essence, he will not let you do the wrong, it will become a barrier. It will become in between the man and his heart and surely you are gathered towards him. This is how safeguards once you are alive in nearness of Allah. He himself safeguards because he does not want you to die again. So when the messenger and Allah calls you, you respond to them before ayaat when Allah and his messenger is calling you, you respond to them now here it says Allah responded. Their Lord responded or answered them, surely I do not waste doers works from you male or a female. Have you ever seen females fighting in wars, killing men. Because if it is physical qatal the woman will also qatal, this is order for both. How many females you see in wars? If it is the physical killing why women are not doing this act? So Allah says male and a female, so in nafs in psychology so I do not waste doers work from you male or female Arabic anyone some of you are from some those who migrated in belief, they migrated in belief and drive out from there circles and got hurt in my way, in the way of Allah and they fought and they were being killed. They fought what? They fought whom? Their own selves and they were being killed because they struggled in the way of Allah. I will cover their weaknesses. I will cover their means hurts, weaknesses, ills, and I will definitely enter them in Garden where rivers flow beneath, reward for the nearness of Allah and the beautiful reward is near Allah. So both male and a female are killing themselves they are fighting in the way of Allah, they are killing themselves and Allah is benefiting them making them alive. It is not for only men physically fighting, it is for both sexes. So how a male or a female can attain that psychological warfare, it is not warfare, psychological fighting in the way of Allah they will fight in the way of Allah, they will kill and kill themselves and once they are killed Allah said don’t call them dead they are alive and further in surah he says Now in this ayat it is very categorically clear male or a female who do correct deeds, the correct, meaning they came to know the do’s and the don’ts and once they correct Arabic means may be a male or a female, Allah is not making any distinction between a male and a female in the works of doings, both are killing, fighting, killing and getting killed and they are Momin, believers. Arabic We will give them life, good life, tayyab, in this world. This is the second life I am talking about. One life you are alive, but we are dead and once you work for Allah you fight for Allah psychologically you kill yourself, you do good works, you become a believer in the nearness of Allah, whether a male or a female, Allah says Arabic and that life is good in this world. That is why we say Arabic O our Lord give us good in this world and good in the hereafter. If you are tortured and wrongly your mind is wrong all the time, you are fighting against the will of God you will be in a miserable life and the fire is for you. You must have in this world, a good life in this world, then only you can get Garden. That is the law of nature. You have to be alive in this world and I am telling you how to be alive in this world. If Allah will not purchase you, you will be a sufferer and all the time will be cribbing and doing malamat, blaming someone or blaming others because the nafs is always telling you bad things, it is always ordering you to do wrong. Always, so you have to be very careful. Shaitaan has done his job, once he has inspired you or stir you up then he is out. Then you do it yourself. Then your nafs becomes like that, the soul, the self. It operates like that, it orders you to do bad. So this is the ayah that you must understand it is for both sexes, it is not for male go and fight and kill, it is for both sexes how to kill your soul or the self. And it tells you that you are a believer and Allah will give you wages which is good, Arabic what they were doing. Amal means good doers, they are not killing somebody else, they are becoming good doers. That is why Allah made them alive and the life that was given was tayyab means good. Tayyab, life that is good in this world. That is why in surah and still today up till now today people are befooled by this that they think that people are to fight physically kill somebody else and then they are alive or if you are dead in the war. That is why Allah says Arabic you are not aware of it, you don’t have how you become alive in this world. There are two lives and two deaths, you have to be alive in this world to get the Garden, you have to sell you psyche and Allah is to purchase the psyche of the believers then only you can become alive and there you are admitting that Allah you gave us two lives and two deaths we wasted that with full of sins. That is why Allah says Arabic and you do not say to people those who are dead being killed in the way of Allah They are not dead but they are alive and you are not aware of it, you are not conscious of it, shaoor, you understand shaoor what is in Urdu also. Shaoor means you don’t have that awareness of it or you are not conscious of it that how you are alive in this world physical alive and alive.