By Allah, if time permits your nearness *** and I settle among you in the lowly place, I will rub my cheek with the earth in gratitude *** and I will kohl my eyelids with your dust (A note on this
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The Shaykh :"By Allah, if time permits your nearness *** and I settle among you in the lowly place
I will rub my cheek with the earth in gratitude *** and I will kohl my eyelids with your dust"
This is a very great exaggeration, but perhaps it is reported as the saying of someone else who says:
"By Allah, if time permits your nearness" means if it is facilitated for me to draw near to you, "and I settle among you in the lowly place" which is their dwellings.
"I will rub my cheek with the earth in gratitude" "with the earth" is connected to "rub," meaning I will rub my cheek with the dust in gratitude for reaching your places.
"And I will kohl my eyelids with your dust" instead of kohl with antimony, he kohls with dust, and this is an exaggeration without doubt. You do not have a statement from this to anyone other than Ibn 'Isa.
The student: An explanation of the verses.
The Shaykh : And al-Harass? Yes, what does he say?
The student: He says: "And the author (may Allah have mercy on him) has exaggerated in these verses. We do not approve of this exaggeration, even though we know that he did not intend by it anything of what the grave-worshippers do... their sheikhs... the shrines... and the blessings".
The Shaykh : No, no, he did not intend this, without doubt he did not intend the issue of shirk (associating partners with Allah), but this is what the lovers of the first era say. Love kills a person, he dies from love. He loves his beloved, for example, and if she said to him, "Prostrate to me," he would prostrate to her. They exaggerate in describing what is in their hearts of love for meeting and longing for her. Yes, but our Shaykh (may Allah have mercy on him), Ibn Sa'di, says: "The love of images has passed, but the love of this world has come, the love of wealth". So what do you think if it had remained until this time? It would be more severe. People now, we ask Allah for safety, have preferred the world over the Hereafter. Therefore, they do not care about halal and haram, riba (usury or interest), deception, and lying. We ask Allah for safety.
It appears, and Allah knows best, that these verses were said before him, they were said before him. If he is the one who said them, we ask Allah for his forgiveness. Without doubt, this is an exaggeration, but it does not point to the issue of the grave-worshippers who come to the graves and rub their cheeks, because he said: "I will rub my cheek in gratitude", and the grave-worshippers rub them in reverence and worship. Yes.
The student: ... .
The Shaykh : Yes
The student: ... .
The Shaykh : It is an exaggeration, even if he did not intend the sense, but this is an exaggeration... yes.
The student: ... he intends prostration to Allah...
The Shaykh : How is the prostration? Where is the prostration?
I will rub my cheek with the earth in gratitude *** and I will kohl my eyelids with your dust"
This is a very great exaggeration, but perhaps it is reported as the saying of someone else who says:
"By Allah, if time permits your nearness" means if it is facilitated for me to draw near to you, "and I settle among you in the lowly place" which is their dwellings.
"I will rub my cheek with the earth in gratitude" "with the earth" is connected to "rub," meaning I will rub my cheek with the dust in gratitude for reaching your places.
"And I will kohl my eyelids with your dust" instead of kohl with antimony, he kohls with dust, and this is an exaggeration without doubt. You do not have a statement from this to anyone other than Ibn 'Isa.
The student: An explanation of the verses.
The Shaykh : And al-Harass? Yes, what does he say?
The student: He says: "And the author (may Allah have mercy on him) has exaggerated in these verses. We do not approve of this exaggeration, even though we know that he did not intend by it anything of what the grave-worshippers do... their sheikhs... the shrines... and the blessings".
The Shaykh : No, no, he did not intend this, without doubt he did not intend the issue of shirk (associating partners with Allah), but this is what the lovers of the first era say. Love kills a person, he dies from love. He loves his beloved, for example, and if she said to him, "Prostrate to me," he would prostrate to her. They exaggerate in describing what is in their hearts of love for meeting and longing for her. Yes, but our Shaykh (may Allah have mercy on him), Ibn Sa'di, says: "The love of images has passed, but the love of this world has come, the love of wealth". So what do you think if it had remained until this time? It would be more severe. People now, we ask Allah for safety, have preferred the world over the Hereafter. Therefore, they do not care about halal and haram, riba (usury or interest), deception, and lying. We ask Allah for safety.
It appears, and Allah knows best, that these verses were said before him, they were said before him. If he is the one who said them, we ask Allah for his forgiveness. Without doubt, this is an exaggeration, but it does not point to the issue of the grave-worshippers who come to the graves and rub their cheeks, because he said: "I will rub my cheek in gratitude", and the grave-worshippers rub them in reverence and worship. Yes.
The student: ... .
The Shaykh : Yes
The student: ... .
The Shaykh : It is an exaggeration, even if he did not intend the sense, but this is an exaggeration... yes.
The student: ... he intends prostration to Allah...
The Shaykh : How is the prostration? Where is the prostration?