Before We Move On To Surah al Ahqaf....Dr Umar Faruq Abdullah on "The Beautiful Soul..."

friends, dato and tansri

I have not met Dr Umar Faruq Abdullah in real life but I have benefited a lot from his ilm and wisdom from just listening to his lectures  in the net.

For instance I used to pray solat hajat a lot, oftentimes almost on a daily basis, in my life for everyday life things, work related and non-work related, problems and anxieties, which mostly crops up on and off; things that other people would consider as trivialities not befiting a hajat prayer.....i am a keen believer in prayer power and in my personal and professional life, hajat prayers work all the time!!

if my wish did not materialise, and we have to contend that not all our wishes are appropriate, acceptance come easy after one have gone thru the motions of connecting to HIM.

if parameters on the ground do not change, parameters in our qalb changes.
the soft landing and cushion come easily......HE is after all 'ya mukalibal qulub', the one who changes hearts!

back to the good shaykh!

A year back I got advised by the shaykh to use asma al husna in its zikr form  zikr, namely "ya salam" [ x400 ] and "ya latif" [ x400 ],  as akin to hajat doa or prayer. i did just that for a year now.....and this is as good, if not better than, my hajat prayer.

And why not!? Such beautiful names, and a lot more hard work!!

This lecture on the "beautiful soul..traversing the end of times." is fairly long. Do listen and derive benefit from the good shaykh, as I have done personally with his other advisories.

the shyakh is a graduate from three established universities in america, has a phd, and yet has the humility to learn the 'ugama', 'knees to knees' with some of the greatest teachers and tok gurus of our times.

insyaallah, alhamdullillah!

the good shaykh ends his discourse with a very short poem  attributed to the late muhammad ali, a most beautiful soul!

get out of my way!
i am black and i am proud.
say it loud!
i am black and i am proud!

at the very end of his discourse, he added one important advice for our  souls to be beautiful,that in this age of fitna:
"if you cannot say anything good then silence is golden".

which reminded me of one town hall meeting of sayyedina othman with his people.
he entered the town hall, and stood there in front of the crowd.
no speeches, no admonition , just silence.
that town hall meeting carried more weight than many others before that.

we need leaders who are active and 'walk the talk', not one given to 'mumbo jumbo' and empty slogans and promises and lies!!

these seems to be the order of these days.....these days towards the end of time.


yours sincerely,
dr nik isahak wan abdullah

[   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oh34TYefIYg  ]

[ sorry the audio is awful, except towards the end half hour ...]





https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-1v7_qsKMzg

what is happening in sham...?
' not everyone who has a beard and a large turban is pious...'

[ this audio is better...the discourse shorter  ]





https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pvY663Xm2Ns

..on malcolm x, trinity, racism, equality etc and etc






in an unrelated subject to the above, dr umar faruq was asked to comment on the 'hijab'
[  http://www.altmuslimah.com/2015/12/dr-_umar_faruq_abd-allah_on_hijabs_and_headscarves/   ]